skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question: Can you point me to the law about foreign agents (that RT is subject to)? I want to read more about it.

Update: I found it https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara/legal-authority

But FARA is for from the National Security Law in HK. No immediate seizure of all assets as in the case of HK Apple Daily. And US has a robust legal system for disputes, unlike the NSL court in HK that is tightly controlled by the CCP. You cannot discuss just the specific law without discussing the legal system as a whole.
Generally speaking, this decision should not alter decisions in the district courts. Today's decision concerns filings in a specific agency court (the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_Trial_and_Appeal_Board) created in 2012 as part of the American Invents Act.

Also, the Western District of Texas and Delaware have more filings these days than the Eastern District of Texas. The case-filing numbers for 2020/2021 collectively are WDTX (~30%), DDE (~26%), and EDTX (~14%). There are a few things behind that change, but the biggest is probably a Supreme Court decision in 2017 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC_Heartland_LLC_v._Kraft_Food...).
This mixed with the widening gap between the haves and have nots, and a potential giant economic correction are signs of a great disaster.
I'd trust it to stick around more than a few years, that's for sure.
I've had an indoor avocado for about 6 years now, at about 6' tall. I chopped the first leaves and waited until new ones took hold. It seems to put up with a lot of abuse. I've had it completely dry out once and lose all its leaves only to bounce back even stronger. I water it quite often but gave up on trying to humidify it after hard water left dust on the leaves.
You're closer than I was. A maximum-load launch consumes 121 megajoules, which is 121 megawatt-seconds. Catapult launches take about 2s, so they need 60MW or so.
Imo, our capitalism has reached a kind of saturation point, a hyper efficient local maximum. The depression, despair and anxiety in social media simply reflects the conditions of the bottom half of the population. Capitalism can't get itself unstuck from this state and its usual solution is a big war. I think we'll see this at the next recession in 10 years.
Anything new on this from when it was shared 2-8 years ago?
I experienced and autolanding in Brussels once, due to fog.
The crew seemed pretty nervous, and came around double checking we were all buckled up and enforced the no-devices in use while landing policy strictly. The landing itself was unremarkable, except that we had no visual clues at all from the ground approaching out of the window.
The whole preparation showed me though how everyone on the plane thinks the autolanding deserves actually way more attention and preparation than a usual manual landing.
> then become illegal after a Judge issues a ruling.

No actually. It would mean that it was already illegal. Thats why the judge would rule it that way.

Judges interpret the law. So yes, if the judge rules this way, then this means that you were wrong to claim that Apple's actions were not illegal.

And I look forward to coming back to this post when this happens, so that I can show you the explanation of why the actions were illegal on some fronts.

> Right now, what Apple is doing is legal.

Well if the judge says otherwise, on some fronts, we will be able to look back on this post, and re-evaluate then, won't we?

> become illegal in future.

No, becoming illegal would be if a legislator changed the law. Instead, this case is about interpreting existing law. So if the judge rules this way, then it means that Apple's actions were illegal. They did not become illegal. They were always illegal.

But, of course, I can already see people making up excuses, to ignore the judge, if the judge disagrees with then. If the judge disagrees with them, and she says that the actions were illegal, they have already made up an excuse as for why the judge is wrong.

Personally, I trust the opinion of the legal system. And that means that if the judge rules that some of the actions were always illegal, then that means that the judge is probably right, and you were wrong.

> it was clear that the Judge was repeatedly seeking some sort of bone to throw Epic's way

Ah, so then you agree that some of Apple's actions are illegal, and you take back your previous statement. Got it.

Glad you agree that the judge will likely rule that some of Apple's actions were always illegal.
Kind of questionable perhaps, but a good place to do these studies would be on prisoners. You could potentially do it by simply monitoring their intake and not actually changing anything in the offering. It should be fairly reasonable to get a reliable intake report.
If you only have one or two people in a house, doing dishes isn't a big deal. If you had a family of five, yes.
It seems you want science. Sorry, the world seems to want headlines and diet fad debate.

We do desperately need actual research. I think the obesity crisis is far worse than most anyone realizes. I can think of a dozen reasons for people to actively ignore it.
I read somewhere that this was how Chevrolet came up with the Volt concept. They were working on an electric car prototype, and to save charging time at the track, they threw a gas generator in the trunk. They were surprised to find it worked reasonably well. I don't know whether this story is true, though; tonight I couldn't find a source.
Google's perf tools used to support stack ranking and layering. I used to love it...because it was completely open ended. You could stack rank on any dimension you wanted to, and you didn't even have to say what the dimension was. You could stack rack anybody, over arbitrary sets. AFAIK the results were only ever used in aggregate -- without the dimensions there really wasn't any other way to use it.

You could stack rank how nice you thought people were, making two layers -- like "really nice" and "mostly nice" (of course, there were no labels in the tool). Or you could use it to highlight two particular team-mates who really stood out by making a layer for them, and then a layer for everyone else.

It could also be used to stack-rank the entire management chain, which was fun.
This looks awesome. Probably really good for a financial dashboard. I'm trying to use Plotly Dash to mimic an invoice that'll have a few line items for our products. My data is updated monthly.
> I consider it borderline immoral, given the type of affect this could have on people's behaviors, to assert a conclusion based on such poorly conducted research.

Eating more vegetables?
Sure, but skepticism should decrease if there are a community of experts are saying the same thing. As an example, anti-vaxxers often claim skepticism and that they have done their own research. The reason we don't trust them is because we think doctors have a greater expertise in the subject than them (it is, either way, trusting someone). Unless you're a virologist you probably don't actually have the expertise to actually verify vaccine claims.

So sure, you are right, but in the context of this discussion you're implying that the vast majority of ML researchers (myself included) are charlatans. I'm not sure what the meaningful difference here is. We're publishing results, people are actively reproducing them, and then some person on the internet that doesn't understand the subject comes along and says "you're full of shit." We can even disprove the claims being made (e.g. I've explained why the network can't be memorizing the game in another comment). That is literally happening in this thread (GAN Theft Auto is in fact a replication/extension effort). Is that meaningfully different from the anti-vaxxers?
Can you explain why the first part is “nonsense”? China decided that part of this past agreement is no longer in force. If so, then why should any of it be valid? It’s like a breach of contract from my perspective - it invalidates the whole.
I recently moved to Texas and as an avid outdoorsman was looking at some of the diseases that ticks carried. Was surprised that there was a relatively low occurrence of Lyme in the states ticks and thought I was in the clear… guess that may not be the case. The irony of this disease is pretty unreal - acquiring an allergy to red meat. How un-Texan!
> problem is that n-tit-for-tat behavior in humans is moderated by testosterone levels, which have been declining precipitously

sorry, what?
That doesn't make much sense in areas where the market is really moving, though. Most people when they upgrade houses don't sell their house for x and buy another one for x. They sell for x which is well above what they paid, which gives them a fat down payment on a mortgage with record low rates which allows them to get quite a bit of property for not a bad monthly payment.
Hi roc, just FYI we started Brave in 2015 based on Gecko, using the Graphene multiprocess/sandboxing code from that era's FirefoxOS. We switched late in the year after listing all the problems to solve (DRM was one, many others) in order to compete with Chrome. Mozilla or my departure was not an issue.
I’m not sure it did. What the west coast has is a new money investor class which seeks profits from equity growth rather than out of annual cash flow and that’s Silicon Valley’s advantage.

The equity growth priority allows SV to hire talent from around the world before achieving profitability.

There’s a lot of tech talent in east coast finance. But it’s just the hired help for old money. And there is lots and lots in the defense sector, but it doesn’t seek publicity.
They forgot about Inbox!

After following this nonsense product timeline for 16 years from the original Google Talk days, my last chat thread still using Hangouts moved to Facebook Messenger. chat.google.com is just aggressively worse in far too many ways, and will surely be killed circa 2024.
Yeah, the ethics would be tough, but essentially to really do nutrition research, you MUST control the food intake. Control for age, weight, calories and activity, and vary only the dietary makeup to varying degrees, etc.
I believe I understand your perspective, but there's a few things being conflated here.

Regarding the example you provided wherein the professor was fired from her job:

- You're entitled to your own opinion, you're welcome to publish it, etc.

- Your opinion can be bad and others may dislike you for it. That's fair. You are not free from repercussions.

- A tenured professor is a representative of their university, an employee. They are a face of the school, they teach classes, etc. As far as I'm concerned, no employer should be subjected to bad PR solely because of your shitty opinion. If they want you gone, tough, that's what you signed up for.

- It sounds like the university took this seriously and launched an investigation. Seems like the right thing to me. No one should be subjected to an environment where they do not feel safe or comfortable, let alone paying university students. How should an Aboriginal student feel?

Next, the fact that you see very little difference between opinions on racism and corruption in this example is pretty concerning. For one, race is a protected class, but like birth gender, sexual orientation, etc. affects everyone. It's an intrinsic part of the individual, the identity. A more apt comparison might be "Canada is NOT sexist" which I don't think would receive a response surprising to anyone.

I don't think any individual stance on corruption, at least in North America, could be considered remotely controversial. Except, maybe, to people who have been personally impacted by corruption, which I imagine is a small cohort, but the same would apply for practically any topic.

Looping back around, I dislike the notion that "it's right to cancel" anyone. We're not executing people without trial. People aren't (usually) going to jail or dying. In your first example, it seems the professor chose this hill to die on, instead of apologizing or attempting to show some empathy. Their choice.

The mistake you and others here frequently make is that people are not logicians in isolated environments. People are emotional, have vastly different experiences and varying degrees of education, and a variety of communication skills. Life, or Twitter, isn't a structured debate, even if you'd like it to be. If you piss a lot of people off, you're going to have a bad time. The very connected world in which we live changes things. If you have a controversial opinion that might piss people off, maybe don't share it somewhere easily discovered by said people. Or better still, maybe consider why they might be pissed off and reflect on your choices.
Before Github, many OSS are hosted at Sourceforge. but IIRC, you need Sourceforge's approve to open a new project. Unlike Github, which you can open a public repository by yourself.

Then Ruby (and ruby gems?) is hosted at Github, as Ruby/RoR gets more attention, Github and Git become popular too.
>retarded dead-end boondoggle of a device

Zune music player?
The 11 minute mark is terrifying:

1) The car fails to accelerate to beat the truck as it merges (the safest option given the scenario, even with the yield sign)

2) The car almost collides with the trailer of the truck and it stops with its nose sticking out into the merge lane

3) The car sits there with its nose in the merge lane as other cars go by

4) When the car finally has an opportunity to merge after having done everything wrong up to this point, it sheepishly merges and takes forever to get up to speed. This is basically the least safe thing it can do when yield-merging into a high speed lane.

LOL. This is the best the autonomous driving world has to offer? 80% of this driving is an immediate failure for a teenage driver taking their road course. I think I can take pretty much any random 2 minute sample from that video and find more than a few inputs/maneuvers that would lead to failure in a driver's license test. Why would ANYONE with a brain put their life into the hands of this system?

OH, and do you want to know a little industry secret about these "unedited" long videos? Yes, the video is uncut. But guess what? They drove that route hundreds of times and only showed the best run. And they got laser-HD maps of the route that they won't have globally. This is what Zoox did for their infamous demo that got them bought out by Amazon. And it's what Tesla did for their "Full Self-Driving" video on YouTube that shows driving ability that their cars cannot match even today. Shhh, you didn't hear it from me.
You can come hike in Denmark. Over the last decade it has apparently become more efficient to keeps the dairy cows inside and harvest the grass for them. Feels completely wrong, and I never figured out what changes in rules or technology triggered this.

Then you just need a TBE-vaccine and a daily tick-check to make sure you don't get lyme -- and you are good to go exploring our great nation which includes e.g. the one and only "Sky Mountain" [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmelbjerget
As a former Amazon manager, I don’t like how this characterizes management as a mustache twirling Machiavellian. I don’t know what they saw, but I totally believe they predict a third of people on pips to fail. I’m actually surprised it’s that low of a percentage. It’s been my experience from more than Amazon that pip failure is higher than that. I was never encouraged to do anything that would contribute to something that looked like stack ranking. However, maybe this practice was not in place with engineers. I don’t really know, but it wasn’t my experience.

However, I absolutely believe Amazon comp structure is designed to encourage people to leave. Most of your comp is wrapped up in stock. If management wants you gone, they simply stop giving you more stock. You’re guaranteed to be out within four years. I remember being told that’s why the comp was structured with such low salaries. The person who told me was quite proud of that fact at the time.
You advocate breaking the first link in the chain of security.

If anyone can install any OS they want on any device in their possession, even if it’s a device they stole from me, then that reduces my security.

I prefer to keep all the links in the chain of security as unbroken and undamaged as possible, and if the only way to do that is to have a company like Apple run a closed walled garden, then I’m okay with that.

Give me an alternative that doesn’t require the Apple solution but still actually works, and I’ll be happy to take a look at it. But so far, the market hasn’t come up with anything that can compare or compete.
That was 2007, or 14 years ago. I imagine the Navy has long corrected whatever error allowed that to happen, particularly given that China is now seen as a geopolitical adversary by a majority of Americans across the political spectrum.

Even if China did get extremely lucky and took out a couple of carriers in the opening shots of any conflict, there'd be several more on their doorstep within weeks at a far higher state of readiness.
Any advice for indie developers to avoid these trolls? (At least something they can do to make it harder for the trollers)
WTF is with FB web client lately?
Go to Facebook logged in, the and post or comment and you end up rerouted to the equivalent of a 404 with a message implying posting exceeded some chapter limits.

I hold on to FB due to a historical group. But as a software engineer I’d love to publically challenge Zuck to fixing this level of idiotic bullshit fb has brought on.

Sorry you want to track every keystroke but at least keep up with us and context. Fuck zuck and the whole fb web client team - they are doing this to push people to the app.
That particular behavioral change likely wouldn't be bad itself, but that was more a rant on these sorts of studies overall. Poor research has real world consequences in this case (nutrition research), and we really need sound insight into what diet works best for the individual.
Every time I open Event Viewer I'm amazed at how many things are in there, and how exactly zero help with the problem I'm having.
I have Alexa, Siri, and Google Home in the house. Like you Google’s voice assistant blew me away, so much that I decided to switch to the Google / Nest ecosystem as in buying everything Google like their security system. Fast forward one month and Google cancels their Nest security system, and that’s also when I realized I could never depend on a company as flaky and unreliable as Google to buy hardware from.

I’m hoping that Apple steps up their game, but it’s been 8 years already, and only now are they release a less expensive version of the HomePod. I don’t feel that Apple knows what people want anymore which leaves Amazon to take continue dominating the space with their cheap products. In Amazon’s defense, not all their smart home products are bad cheap and no one is still close to really touching them in that space.
Depends on how you view transactions. I like term "non negotiable" for exactly this clarification.

It can be simple: thing that person is selling they personally value at X. If person buying wants to pay X, they get it.

If I can afford not to do some weird social negotiation dance - I won't. I do realise though that sometimes I really want the transaction to go ahead so I have to do the dance.

So while I am not about to endorse screaming "Did I fucking stutter!?" I can absolutely understand a person saying they want more now because you are making this process harder than it needs to be.
80 million people died in WW2 so I dont think we can say there was reduced world conflict in the 40's

For the second half when it did reduce I'd say that is more because nations were exhausted from WW2, countries saw the horror of war more than ever before and started with increasing commitment to United Nations and nuclear weapons.

Maybe Ive misread what your were trying to say...
Proposal and other issues aside, I’m not sure you rely on food served to be food consumed. Prisons in most places still buy food at commissary.

But I’ll agree that you might be able to quantitative compare prison A vs prison B if you can get a control prison and account for differences. Just a diet of 20% more carbs between A/B would be interesting.

I imagine someone has “done science” on prisons in other areas already. Way more ethical than the typical proposals I see for prisoners/prisons on the internet.
I suspect 2020s will be the decade when a lot of people will leave America and live in cheaper countries in LATAM or SE Asia. Who doesn't want to live a life among happy faces and with dignity?
A poignant set of memories that ends with some very good advice: don't wait to thank the folks who have made a difference in your life and tell them how much you love them or how much they matter to you.
So they steal the device from me, lock it in a Faraday cage for a few days, and suddenly now it becomes their rightful property with which to do whatever they want?

There’s something wrong with that model.
HPE Acquires Determined AI
>The studies and real world data thus far show a reduction in _all_ infections

>Whereas the vaccinated person never becomes an asymptomatic carrier in the first place.

I'd like to see which studies those are.

"A reduction in infections" is also not the same as "the vaccinated never become asymptomatic carriers".
Yea honestly I think a reasonable fear (at least I can relate). I have been van-life the past year and have seen my fair share of ticks.

Just general advice that has been effective for me (I’m sure you can probably find this online)

Before any hike, deet or other repellant on your skin and clothes/shoes. Know where they hang out and try not to go into deep grass. After a hike, shed all your clothes and shoes carefully and wash it all. Take a shower and either have someone check you out or do a self inspection.

Some places, like desert climates, I have never seen any. One of the worst hikes I’ve encountered I was in Idaho by a river and must have seen 100. I literally turned around and stopped the hike. I usually start by looking at the tips of grass blades hanging over the trail. As you walk you kinda just scan and after a while you might see them just hanging on the very end with their arms extended. If you don’t see any, there probably isn’t much to worry about.

Ive avoided a bite so far but I also obsess…
Yeah, it bugs me deeply that this passes as science (and other such "research"). I realize it's difficult to conduct meaningful science in this area, given how different the biochemistry of every person is, but it's something I believe we can do. Given how important our health is, it's something I feel we really need to do.
HK has a NSL court tightly controlled by the CCP. Not comparable to the US legal system.

And NSL has immediate seizure of all assets, forcing Apple Daily to close immediately. Anything like that in the US?
https://archive.is/tRvbW
The argument is akin to saying you are working for a company that sells cigarette quitting kits but also sells cigarettes because "different people want different things".

And the content creator argument has long been debunked as smoke screen planted by companies in the ad business (and Brave qualifies as one), because monetizing any content through ads is the least efficient way to monetize creative work. What this model actually does though is incentivizes the creation of large quantities of low quality content.