skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slowly growing cancer still sounds bad enough to get some of that "unnecessary" intervention. I'm no doctor, but my understanding is that the aggressive cancers typically get discovered due to a symptom of sorts and thereabout is your 6 month countdown. Again, from a layman's perspective and understanding, those cancers need to start somewhere. What's the harm in catching them as early as possible? If a blood test leads to a scan and the scan turns up negative, what's the issue?
"Key Performance Indicator". I believe the implication here is that some people from Huawei are sending useless patches just to pad their performance values and look better inside the company.
All the power to them!

I think society has to invent new kinds of work* or introduce UBI. There's too many people toiling away in low wage jobs which will never escape and will have to work until 68.

You would have thought that a job that nobody wants to do would pay more than one that is cushy.

* Getting rid of manufacturing has gotten rid of a huge amount of jobs that provided stability to our economies. Now all our economies are service economies. We can't all be shopkeepers. What are people meant to do with their lives?

Life is more important than work. I'd like to see labour have more leverage over capital.
I thought so too in the past, I was ridiculing Star Citizen, I've called it a scam, now I'm happy that someone is not releasing another space game - Elite works - but tries to do something very very ambitious, something beyond everyone else. We'll see if they can generate money for the next 10 years, I hope they can.

PS: I've bought Elite but not Star Citizen ;-)

PPS: I've also bought Elite in 1984 and was blown away.
That’s rather nihilistic.

How exactly are academic researchers supposed to guarantee that their research will be applied for the good of humanity?

Government is you and me and everyone else.

If you want government to care about it, write to them and tell them to care about it.

They probably aren’t going to care about random comments on HN.

Research on ethical machines has been taking place since the dawn of the drone age and has already guided military policy. You can find the supporting evidence of that for yourself if you search for it.
> a slug-hunting robot powered by fermented slugs

Isn’t that called a duck?
> non-binary individuals

I would saw we are all "non-binary". We fall somewhere on the spectrum of gender. Some men are "alpha-males", whilst others are more "camp" [0], etc. Also see "tom-boys". I find the whole non-binary thing to be unhelpful and meaningless.

[0] hopefully these aren't offensive terms.
NYC to set aside parking spots for electric vehicle charging
I got a 403 from that link, but found this other source:

https://www.orovel.net/insights/li-on-battery-gigafactories-...

edit: found OP https://twitter.com/zennroland/status/1353821694411026434
Without any context it looks like someone overreacted. It's essentially saying anybody else than Huawei sending cleanup patches is welcome but Huawei is not. Then they try to backtrack that statement by putting out a long list of things which aren't comparable in complexity to the original topic.

Without more context I bet this thread is going to go off-topic.
This exact attitude is why public opinion is turning against privately-owned drones.
The oft-suppressed elephant in the room is 'what if the bias is correct?'. It's an uninteresting bug in the system up until that time.
I get automatic watering, especially in arid climates, but planting and weed plucking is excessive imo.
What’s Going on with Amazon’s “High-Tech” Warehouse Robots?
A good OS has sandboxing and permissions implemented in software not in a human or automated review. Exactly like a website an app would not be able to access the camera unless you allow it.

I understand that we could say that native apps are more dangerous because iOS is fulled of bugs and zero days so you want daddy Apple to be able to "intimidate" bad developers with a review.
I find the environmental impact argument here to be very dubious. Even if a Linux-like alternative were available for this hard drive, the vast majority of people would be unaware of that or not willing/capable of figuring out how to work it and would throw the device away and replace it anyway. And even if they did save the hard drive, they might just use the money they saved by not replacing it to upgrade their computer or phone a little sooner instead.

Hard drives are a particularly bad example too because the risk of failure goes up as the device ages, so people probably should replace them after a few years of heavy use regardless of software support.

We live in a rich society, electronics are relatively cheap, and people like having shiny new things. We will inevitably continue having more and more electronic waste. Right to repair type laws are great for consumers for many other reasons, but I don’t think they’ll make any kind of meaningful dent in the reduction of electronic waste.
I have often worked remotely for years, but...I'm a contractor/consultant, and a programmer. I am unemployed several months out of the year, typically, and I am always intentionally short-to-medium term where I work.

I fear that many of the people demanding remote work now, will be surprised when (not if) the first layoffs come, and they find out that the person who's in the office every day is more awkward to fire than the remote person. Me, I'm always temporary, so I know this and am ok with it. I fear many of the people looking for remote work now think it will be just like office work, except they get to work at home. It's not. It's a much more tenuous relationship with your employer, and you have to always assume (e.g. in your budget) that you can/will lose your paycheck with little or no notice. If you're ok with that kind of perpetual instability, great, but I'm not sure most of the people looking for remote work now are aware of this tradeoff.
Mozilla Rally Gives Control of Personal Data Back to Users
> Presumably, the users will be well-endowed and tax-advantaged institutions who could have just bought the information from data-aggregators anyway.

Nope. This is an important point: the type of crowdsourced science that Rally enables is something that researchers couldn't do before. (With the exception of a very small number of teams who made massive investments in building single-purpose crowdsourcing infrastructure from the ground up.)
The thread is on the left, up to Jun 22.
> with green energy hubs like Finland and Norway

In which way is Finland a green energy hub?

If I look at [1] and [2] I see that in 2019 Finland's energy use was 55% fossil based. Sweden's was 31%. Coal was 5.10% for Finland, 0.20% for Sweden.

ps. I see there's worse... Germany 77.42% fossils, coal 17.53%. Still, I never had an impression Finland is a green energy hub (no waterfalls, no sun in winter). It is a green hub though.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/finland
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/sweden
The fact that you link to that and apparently do not understand it combined with a personal attack is enough to disregard your comment for me.

But let me stress this in case it wasn't clear to you: screening and early diagnosis are not the same thing.

If you screen a large population for cancer you will turn up a lot of cancers that may never become a problem, or that may even end up being re-absorbed without the need for intervention, as well as a large number of false positives.

Early diagnosis means that there are already symptoms.

Please don't confuse the two.
I've been loving following the Star Citizen project as they've just been throwing intense amount of money and work at really hard problems, due to an almost unbridled scope at the beginning. I think most game projects would have been reigned in by publishers or ran out of money by now.

Whether someone believes the project will succeed or not is an interesting question, but you can't deny that they've made great progress at the fringes of a lot of game mechanics.
I tend to alternate between my default search set to DDG or Google. Seems like about once a month I switch.

For me, the fraction of time spent with DDG as default keeps increasing because there are so fewer 'spammy' search results.
A very good paper.
> English is already a counterexample.

I meant counterexample in the sense of "language that does at least ostensibly have a central authority (the Duden) still in the end having to bow to the will of the language-using public". English isn't a counterexample of that, since it doesn't even remotely claim to be governed by any central authority.

> ...languages are primarily spoken. An orthography reform won't ever change how people speak, so whether the German one was successful or not is irrelevant

"Primarily" is not the same as "only". You haven't heard a word I've said, have you? And yet here we are, talking to each other...
Thank you arkitaip
>Chances that the average user's phone is compromised is very high.

How do you know? Android and iOS apps are much better sandboxed than desktop applications (which usually aren't really sandboxed at all). I would guess the chance of phones getting compromised is much lower than for the average desktop.
That's not true, and there are OEM modifications for Model 3s. And even, I hear, software mods. It'll probably do something terrible to your warranty but you can do aftermarket mods. I found some stores online by accident when searching something unrelated, and I've seen Model 3's that looked modded.

My point above was that talk to any BMW owner about maintenance costs and see if it's any better than the rent seeking concern around software above.

I'll give you a strike against Tesla if you want one, though. If I wreck my car or get it replaced, I lose Acceleration Boost because it's not tied to my account in any way.
Because there's no way the private enterprises will simply keep prices the same and pocket the difference.
Purchasing member data from data brokers. I can’t stand it. There’s almost never a legitimate business reason to do it. It’s invasive, aggressive, useless, expensive…anyway I make new enemies every week when I push back (less and less respectfully every time.) but it’s something that I feel strongly about, and if my bosses want blind loyalty they can fire me and get a dog
It's a significantly different beast, but No Man's Sky started development in 2013, and I've considered it basically feature complete from the time of the Atlas Rises update (2017). Since then, there have been nine additional free updates, making it much more fleshed out than most games out there.

It's hard to look at all that and think what RSI is doing still makes sense at this point. It seems like someone is being a bit of a perfectionist. I can relate, which is why I agree with other comments that a Project Manager who can pull Roberts back from this tendency would be a huge improvement and probably make him less stressed as well.
> most of the other Googlers

How much of that is because of productivity, how much is for social (i.e. non-task-oriented) interaction, and how much is getting away from the place where you also have to do your own cooking and cleaning and possibly deal with kids? I'm guessing productivity is the least of these reasons, for most FAANGers. After all, they self-selected to be in such environments.
They're on the 5th(or 6th?) iteration now, and the flight model still feels like crap. Part of that is that they have to rebalance every ship with every Iteration, and they keep making more ships...

Also, the large size of the world kind of destroys any kind of balance, given that ships need to travel at 1000+ m/s to make travel possible, but combat at those speeds is basically a dps fest where you click on a small icon in the distance, with no dodging or outflying the other pilot. They've tried to adress this in like 3 different ways at this point, and nothing has worked.

Regardless, I will never understand why they didn't just massively reduce weapon ranges and copy ED's flight model, given that it is pretty much the best in the "WW2 dogfights in space" business, and has been out for over 8 years now.
Can you elaborate on this? Is it different from "detecting if WebGL/WebGPU is supported"? Because I'm pretty sure you can detect that, according to all the answers on this thread:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11871077/proper-way-to-d...
Wow, so completely trivial to get root RCE on any of these devices, brutal, all you need is an IP address. That’s as bad as vulnerabilities get.

Insane that this has been known since 2018, and not patched - these devices are from ~2011-2015, far from ancient. I’ll personally never, ever buy anything from Western Digital again.
Depends on your age, genetic disposition and many other factors besides. Once you have symptoms your oncologist would be the only person qualified to determine what for you in particular is the best course forward.

In some cases that 6 months might be very generous, in other cases you are better off to do nothing (especially if you are advanced in age and the cancer is growing slowly). It all depends.
Totally agree. I think a lot of the "evil" that happens in business is done by well-intended people who make incremental decisions while trying to compete. Some of them probably make decisions they don't like, but because if they don't their competitors will eat their lunch, they have to.

In my experience, honest business folks don't mind honest regulations. It keeps the playing field level.
That's exactly what I have and I'm telling you, it's still impractical. One, my greenhouse is a 24x13' footprint (which is pretty much the minimum useable with for a walk-in), with 3 bed rows 16' long, 2 or 4' wide. So I'd need 3 robot setups. Beds are long and skinny to facilitate human ergonomics. The shown examples are way too wide for raised beds, unless they are the walk-on type. So I'd still benefit from a robot which could straddle the bed and be easy to move from one bed to another.
All these stations are owned by the Sinclair Group, a right-wing broadcasting corporation that is eroding the editorial independence of local stations in order to run segments like these or the "terrorism alert desk" [1]. John Oliver had a great video on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc

Also, the following quote is just utter BS, trying to draw a distinction where there is none:

> Reminder: "While it is extremely dangerous to our democracy..." the US is actually a Constitutional Republic.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ3hb6LhPGo
Seems like the fix here is to limit the types of investments that can be made in a RothIRA. Just allow publicly traded instruments.

The unfairness here is that Thiel was able to buy his founder shares using Roth dollars and that’s subject to abuse, since founder share costs can be set arbitrarily.
How long until they start doing this for vanlifers?
Blue Label at 10: A Lookback at Our First Decade
Look up the term "iatrogenics" or check out oncologist Vinay Prasad's podcast called Plenary Session where he often talks about the dangers of over screening.
Any carbon tax scheme includes tariffs and rebates to avoid the transfer of emissions to other countries. The economists proposing these taxes are not stupid.
These "This Study Will Collect" and "How We Protect You" sections are really good. It probably wouldn't convince me personally to sign up, but it's as comprehensive as I would expect. It's a shame that these comments didn't make it into the blog post.
weeding and pest control is where the real utility for a farm robot would come in.
I'd definitely recommend having taken a college level Calculus course before and you'll get more out of it if you are basically comfortable with Abstract Algebra (know what sets, groups, rings, and fields are, and be able to think fairly abstractly about operations on those kinds of objects). That said, I think you could get through the first one with just high school level pre-calc although I think it would be hard to motivate yourself if you don't know enough calculus to see where it's heading. It does an absolutely brilliant job of starting with Peano's axioms to define the natural numbers, using those to define integers, using integers to define the rationals, introducing Cauchy sequences and using them to define the Reals, then introducing limits, continuity, etc. and Riemann integrals. That whole part is pretty much self contained with each concept rigorously (but clearly) built out of the previous ones. Some basic algebra and the ability to follow a mathematical argument are pretty much all you need. As it gets into the second volume, it expects some familiarity with logarithms and starts building into more advanced Calculus. It's still fairly self-contained but you might struggle if you don't remember, eg, what integration by parts looks like.
A bad “fact” helped the lab-leak hypothesis go viral
Is that your experience with US companies hiring at the moment?

I never considered this type of roles before because it was sort of a given in my head that they would want US based candidates for taxation reasons.

Have you seen a big change regarding this, from US based companies?
Consider what will eventually happen to European auto suppliers.

Electric cars use significantly less parts. There are less things that need to be made, and they require significantly less people to make them.

Electrification will take longer than people believe, but once it comes there will be adjustment period.
Unless there's a technological mitigator. And maybe a pandemic of human wisdom.
Yeah, I usually choose whatever venue makes sense for my level of commitment.

Meetups are pretty informal and usually eager for talks & speakers. There's not a high bar.

Conferences (depending on the conference) feel a bit like a bigger deal, and I'll commit to them if I feel I can have a bit more polish.

Some conferences/meetups also have shorter time slots if you don't want to commit to the classic 45 minute talk.
I don't live on the West Coast, I've only visited. But we did have an F3 tornado touch down within 6 miles of my house earlier this week. Rendered about 30 homes unlivable, and completely obliterated one, although thankfully no deaths. Pretty rare for the area, last one of any significant size was in the 1970s. I agree hurricanes they've gotten stupid good at predicting where they'll be.

Tornadoes don't have that luxury. I did prepare a bit ahead of time since I saw a lot of dark red on the radar, but so often the worst of it skirts around us and we never had tornados since I moved here so I wasn't super concerned. Passed out and woke up to tornado sirens and if it was 6 miles further south could have woken up to a tree crashing into my living room or my house being smashed to a pulp.

Part of the reason climate messaging comes across as poor is because it's hard to predict the future with total precision. The predictions are most likely relatively correct in aggregate but any single prediction will undoubtably be wrong, including the degree in which it will get bad (are we going to heat up by 2 degrees, 4 degrees, 8 degrees by 2100?) and the precise timeline (is it going to happen by 2100? 2050? some even say 2030).

So if things don't play out exactly the way it's predicted, people use that as an excuse to claim that it's not a concern and go back to doing the easy thing of whatever the hell they want and letting corporations do as much bad shit to the environment as they want.

Another issue is things like wildfires and earthquakes and hurricanes have other causes besides climate change, and there's been freak weather throughout history, so is it just a freak weather incident like in history or did climate change contribute? Climate change messaging just claims that the overall frequency and intensity of incidents will increase, not that it caused any given one. So that's easy for people to handwave away also for years and decades also, as 'well maybe we're just going through something that was going to naturally occur anyway, like an Ice Age'.

I agree that most people don't spend too much time thinking about existential risks (nor should they necessarily, that's one way to not live much of a life at all). My concern isn't for my personal life, I'm much more likely to die from health or old age before this gets really bad. I'm more concerned about not wanting to contribute to a mass extinction event any more than I already am, and try to get better while still living a full and productive life.
Not the worst idea, though IIRC that style of robot needs a fair amount of tension in the wires in order to minimize droop.
Given all the prep work HL:Alyx did, I wouldn't be surprised if there eventually was a HL3, it's just going to take another decade or so until enough people have a VR headset(or future disruptive equivalent) to make it worth it.
> I often encounter documentation where the user is always referred to as just "she"

As far as I know, no man has ever complained about this. Whenever I read "she" I don't feel excluded as the documentation is just giving an example. Why are the pronoun-warriors so focused on these issues?
New Google Meet: Zoom Has a Competition
Again with the troll patterns. This is embarrassing.
Did you email hn@ycombinator.com? Link is in the footer. I AM seeing your post (in new), and I (wasn't) logged in.
Bud Tribble (original Mac and NeXT software manager) on computer history [video]
We Raised $50 million - some facts & some pain
We raised $50 million.

This is our first institutional funding and values ShipHero at $225 million. The money came from one firm, Riverwood Capital.

I got no tips for y'all, but I'll share some facts and some pain.

Every offer we got was from a firm that contacted us first.

There were some bumps along the road. My worst VC call by far was a warm intro to A16Z, and the awkwardness was on me.

Almost everyone I spoke to prior had sought out ShipHero. When I got on the call with A16Z I expected they knew who we were and I jumped right in... and totally lost them. I think they were scrolling our website during the call to figure out what we do.

Second worst was Battery.

We had a whole bunch of calls over 2 weeks, then they said they wanted to make an offer.

The partner wanted to be on the call, but the only time he had available was after business hours on Friday night, a time I usually spend with my family.

I agreed to the Friday night call. I logged on along with our VP Finance. 2 people from Battery were on and we spent 5 minutes of awkward waiting on the Zoom for the partner that of course never joined, his (very nice) underling let us know they decided not to make the offer.

They had spoken to an expert who had negative things to say about ShipHero, 3 things specifically (and I could be confusing the list with another investor because 2 investors had overlapping feedback from I the assume the same expert) 1: Our tech was weak.

2: A certain top 5 customer was going to churn. I'll stop there. That was frustrating. The customer in question is a huge advocate & offered to do investor calls whenever I needed.

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John McAfee explains how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus (2013)
This is the correct take, but, to do that is more difficult and "overall less markateable" to the public

These areas where child labor is still a thing, they are generally backwaters where there is no sanitation let alone large schools with "high" quality housing and food for orphanages

A non-trivial amount of these kids have nowhere else to go, or they must work to assist with family income and this is the highest income they can get

So yes, this is very much a black market issue, "at best" the areas where the cobalt is could be liased to large international companies like RioTinto, but then that would mean that the children would just move to working in other sources of income

But again, these topics are not easily marketable for the general western public