skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a bit of schooling in that kind of educational system (Asia) before continuing schooling in North America. I'd say that you there is no free lunch. You're always giving up something for something else.

I had a job 10 years ago doing in-person training at a company trying to digitize their paper-based office for the first time. They were in a commodity distribution business, so while the math isn't hard, there is a lot of day-to-day arithmetic (conversion between unit of measure and price/unit vs total price) for all the employees from the warehouse guy to the sales staff.

The system introduced a change in their workflow. Before in their old manual paper system, people just kind of put things on a truck and figure out later how much got shipped and how much to invoice a customer. The whole can be very hand-wavy. There was no live inventory system either.

Digitization meant that sales have to write sales orders that had precise units to be sold. Based on inventory, they know how much they will actually ship and they know that down to the dollar. Everybody suddenly had to start being aware of the math involved in their work.

It was kind of funny to see a bunch of blue-collar, ex-con, high school dropouts learning faster than all the college-education office workers. The college-educated guys were too drill-orientated and approached the work like the math worksheets that everybody is talking about. The ex-cons had a working relationship with the numbers on the screen and the things that are hanging off their forklifts. Many of the white-collar clerks had been getting by memorizing formulas. They had no idea what any of those formulas mean.
Analysis: How well have climate models projected global warming? (2017)
This is much more akin to a criminal breaking into your house, ripping into your walls, and shorting the wires to cause a fire.
He does not claim that his domain is shadow banned. Is this a deliberate misrepresentation, or did you have trouble understanding what he wrote?
> are willing to take equity in the beginning without being paid

I find it difficult to grasp how this is always casually thrown like the majority of people could but choosing not to. What's the thinking behind this? Would not there be lots of people who would love to do this if their basic necessities were somehow met?
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For me at least, at a large public university with a highly-rated engineering department, it mostly came down to math courses being taught by TAs/new faculty who were not primarily interested in teaching.

When I had actual engineering dept courses on these topics (frequency domain comes to mind), I grok'ed it pretty quickly. But the math lectures were basically spent doing practice problems from the book, without any sort of insight or practical application.

I just wanted to build shit in college.
> The newest building on the block should look like the oldest. In the case of Texas, this means the town will be built to a Mission, Spanish-colonial, or German-colonial style

Pretty amusing to leave whatever the correct word for "Anglo-American-colonial" is out of this list.

> It should look like it was founded and laid down in 1667 or 1746, not 2022.

Large parts of West Texas were not settled until after the Civil War (with gridded streets of course), making "historical authenticity" a bit of a challenge. But building a "new" horse-compatible late 19th century Texas town with wide streets and big lots would be hard enough already, so I definitely respect the gusto here.
Pentagon cancels $10bn 'Jedi' cloud contract
There is evidence pointing in that direction [0]:

> Of 23 samples that came from Wuhan, only three were type A, the rest were type B, a version two mutations from A. But in other parts of China, Forster says, initially A was the predominant strain. For instance, of nine genome samples in Guangdong, some 600 miles south of Wuhan, five were A types.

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-05-...
Might as well post this here, even though it's not software:

I'm starting a green hydrogen midstream company. Amazing team, product, promise. Pre-funding; working on site control for first project. We are still fleshing out the founding team. Feel free to say hi!

https://phoenixhydrogen.com/

sdrost@gmail.com
Cryengine is not very good so we'll see. Also it seems that they don't have the backing from any major studio.
Interesting -- for the equity-only co-founder you're working with, were they explicitly looking for a co-founder position before you approached them or were they looking for a normal job and changed their mind as a result of seeing your ad?
Fair enough, let's leave the rest of the world aside:

I am disputing the notion that in USA, Washington Post is "far left".

I can understand that for any given person any given media outlet may feel central, a little, or far to the left or right of their position.

But if we are to create any kind of external scale, with whatever measurement (relative based on how far axis go, or by some thresholds of specific criteria), I would doubt Washington Post fits on the "far left" of that scale.

(in for a penny, in for a pound addendum: I understand that in USA there's also an effort/inclination to label ANYthing "left" as extreme, far left, antifa, socialist, pinkie, commie, fake news, etc; terms that are implicitly meant to be derogatory; but that effort does not need to be engaged with in a rational discourse. To rephrase: Just because Glen Beck or Bill O'Reilly et cetera may call Washington Post "Far Left", doesn't make it so - in those cases it's a label meant to paint & incite and cater to an "in crowd", not be a part of meaningful engagement and honest wide-ranging discussion)

[Addendum to addendum: there was nothing in original post that said "Washington Post is Far Left in USA term "; it was a open claim posted to an international site, many of whom read or access Washington Post as a globally-relevant newspaper, so I don't feel assuming a global perspective is "whining". Or to put it in your preferred terms: Why do some USA people whine where perspective is brought in :-]
Thanks! Seems like I’m not the only person to get it.

Interestingly this post appears to have been removed from HN. Not sure if I did something incorrectly.
> I hate to break it to you, but that's normal in the vast majority of companies.

We're talking tech here—the Digital Service—and I've never worked at a company that drug tested their programmers. Not once, since the 90s, during the full-swing War on Drugs.

Anyway, the marijuana test isn't the only antiquated, sclerotic thing about the USDS (and Federal employment in general). But it's certainly a representative example.
Yes:

> The second is defined as being equal to the time duration of 9,19,26,31,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the fundamental unperturbed ground-state of the caesium-133 atom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second

Unless the laws of physics aren't constant over very long time periods for some reason, we could (if we were around to do it) measure time 10^18 years from now just the same as we do today.
Unless I recal incorrectly, LCP will finish when changes to that area are finished. So a placeholder is used, it will be pointless.

loading=lazy can actually negatively impact LCP
We fixed this and it was that the dind version wasn't getting upgraded even though we mention 'docker:latest' in our config.

After upgrading to dind 20.x, our build resumed.
UNC is not alone. Many of these concerns or criticisms could be applied to many other universities in the US.

I say this not to be dismissive, but to suggest that there is a national trend that is part of a larger set of problems. Some of it reflects party-line politics, but some of it does not, and party has become somewhat of a scapegoat, or a slightly misguided source of blame.

The heightened susceptibility of public universities to some problems follows from their nature as governmental institutions. However, I do think a lot of similar problems are playing out in some private institutions, due to the fact that many similar phenomena are manifesting at the federal level, through policy and funding leverage, and trickle down effects through private donor patterns.
There's no reason why a correct statement can't be flamebait. Frequently they are.

The problem here isn't that the GP posted opinion rather than fact, or something like that; it's that the comment was a dramatic swerve into generic flamewar territory. More explanation if it helps: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....
That is how the system works, conflicts of interest are presumed on both sides. The prosection wants people to say they're guilty, the defense wants people who say they aren't guilty.

The balance of evidence is against the prosecution now, and they can find their own expert witness if they disagree.

That being said, blatantly lying here would be a deathknell for the firm. Every case where they get involved will mean someone brings it up as a way to dismiss their testimony. It would take a staggering payment for most firms to even debate doing something like this intentionally. If it were my firm and I gave up all my morals, I would charge more than I could sell the firm for. I'm giving up basically all future revenue and tarnishing my own name; it wouldn't be something I casually did.
They had been working on a very similar startup for ~6mo on their own steam, looking for cofounders. Not interested in a job.
No, I've never seen this. Except maybe in rare cases when the joke is really idiomatic and the translator screwed up the job by explaining joke rather than translating it.
Could a new engine really catch up with Unreal Engine and Unity? They have decades of a head-start here...
I've got an adblocker and no 'feeds', but here you are acting like my money doesn't spend.
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"get doors with locks in them" is better metaphor for most cases.

There is no reason to blame corporate victims if they show that they have locked things up properly and follow good practices.

Governments should also be blamed, of course. Promoting infrastructure with backdoor's and weaknesses because "think of the children and terrorists" rhetoric is not helpful.
Xbox gaming needs hardware level security to run in Windows. Big money. That's reason alone to do this.

Android support needed linux. This is part of the reason for WSL. That and lessening the need for enterprises to gain experience with bare metal linux to get access to the open source goodies.

Finally, mandating hardware security is a breaking upgrade in this case. Everyone expects these major changes to require a version bump. The confusion around windows 10 if there were two significant varieties would be incredibly fragmenting, not to mention, just frustrating.

Somewhere in there is the real reason.
Ask HN: How to find attorney or legal org for public/open opinion letter?
Throwaway for anonymity.

In a recent thread, it was discussed sending bitcoin donations to Alexandra Elbakyan (the founder of Sci Hub). This made me curious around the legality of donating to them as well as prominent figures such as Edward Snowden (especially if crypto is used, and permanent public records of the transfers are created in the donation process). I reached out to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (who I thought would be at the intersection of freedom of speech and technology) inquiring if they'd provide a public opinion on donating to Snowden specifically, and I was told this would not be a matter they would be interested in providing representation on (I did offer to pay for the services, if that matters). They did offer to refer my request to their Cooperating Attorneys mailing list, which I appreciated, but felt it doesn't carry the same weight as the EFF taking a public position on the matter.

In short, where would one seek out an attorney for such an endeavor (case law research and public attestation to the legality of donating to the individuals mentioned above)?

Thanks as always HN.
> The law likely didn't consider disconnected power plants, as why would such a thing exist?

I think the point is that why would the law make the distinction anyway? Like why would it say "power plants connected to a power grid pay X tax"? Why wouldn't it just say "power plants pay X tax"?

A sibling comment points out a reasonable explanation for why non-connected power plants might be exempt from tax, though.
A 600 person town isn't remotely self-sufficient in the modern developed world. You could in principle build something walkable that, given sufficiently pleasant surroundings, some people would be willing to trade against walking to do most of their errands or hopping in a car to go anywhere.

But you'd need the public transit links and I'm guessing many would still want to own a car on the outskirts (as in a college/corporate campus) and provide access of some sort for the disabled, etc.
Very few users over a long period of time means very few are working to keep the language up to date.

Too long of this pattern and it becomes much more trouble than it's worth to use on a business level.
> You also play a flat rate for the semester and complete as many classes as you want at a time.

Oooh, I did not know that. So you could figure out what classes you want, study for them on your own, then pay for one semester and pass all the tests? If you've got the discipline to study with no feedback for a year or two, that could be a really inexpensive way to get a degree...
I am actually not being sarcastic. It is a life goal for me to have most policy organized to serve me or people like me (along whatever genetic/social/cultural/economic grouping is most likely to benefit me). i.e. I encourage communities not like me to refuse participation in medical research, forcing participants to be in my ethnic group; I encourage stringent data sharing norms and a culture of fear around what is done with health data in socio-economic and ethnic groups that are not mine; I encourage organizations to have strict opt-in requirements, in general, which I have no problem meeting, so that tools are built to be best used by me and adequate for others.

My dream is that everything is above the adequacy threshold for everyone else so that they don't build their own equivalent tool but that everything is also past my pleasantness threshold. I think the most effective means of doing this is to focus existing products into being past my pleasantness threshold while ignoring others since high switching costs keep most people on the same path they were before, and because things like medical research they don't really get to re-optimize.

I understand that this sounds sarcastic, but it is not.
I've normally seen "oort" capitalized, so here is some background if others have the same question as me.

The Oort cloud (/ɔːrt, ʊərt/),[1] sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud,[2] first described in 1950 by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort,[3] is a theoretical[4] concept of a cloud of predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 au (0.03 to 3.2 light-years).[note 1][5] It is divided into two regions: a disc-shaped inner Oort cloud (or Hills cloud) and a spherical outer Oort cloud. Both regions lie beyond the heliosphere and in interstellar space.[5][6] The Kuiper belt and the scattered disc, the other two reservoirs of trans-Neptunian objects, are less than one thousandth as far from the Sun as the Oort cloud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud
> increase liability of parties involved.

To include the liability of the attackers, which I think will ultimately be more scalable and effective than punishing the victims. Not saying there aren't incentives for the victims to "do better", but I think that will only get us so far.

History paints a picture of societies evaluating the effectiveness of better walls vs. owning the landscape, and deciding on the latter as being a more beneficial approach. It's how we get the saying that "Rome conquered the world in self-defense". I would bet that's where this ends up after enough material losses.
> Many of Dreyfuss' and other similar arguments reduce do dualism when you start digging into them. I don't have the time to dig into the specific article, but here's some immediate questions:

To me it sounds dualist if intelligence is disembodied. If the substrate doesn't matter, only the functionality, then that sounds like there's something additional to the world than just the physical constintuents. But of course, embodied versions of intelligence need to answer the sort of questions you posed. It should be noticed that Dreyfuss wrote his objections in the 50s and 60s during the period of classical AI. I don't know whether he addressed the question of robot children, or simulated childhoods. We don't have the sort of thing even today, and we also don't have AGI. Some of his objections still stand, although machine learning and robotics research has made inroads.

> Math? Me, I'm a formalist. It's all a game that we've made up the rules to.

So why is physics so heavily reliant on mathematics? Quite a few physicists think the world has a mathematical structure.

> For example, "...there is always consciousness, information and math...": without a tight, and very technical, definition of consciousness, that seems to be assuming the conclusion.

Qualia would be the philosophical term for subjective experiences of color, sound, pain, etc. Reducing those to their material correlations has been notoriously difficult, and there is still no agreement on what that entails.

As for information, some scientists have been exploring the idea that chemical space leads to the emergence of information as an additional thing to physics which needs to be incorporated into our scientific understanding of the world. That we can't really explain biology without it.
For the record, this was what was written that got two people arrested:

> Erendro wrote on his Facebook wall: “The cure for Corona is not cow dung & cow urine. The cure is science & commons sense. Professor ji RIP”

and

> Wangkhem wrote: “Santhi Sanyung na yadrabo, oh!!! RIP #Rashikang_Kangyet Hayeng nga chaani.” (Rough translation: Cow dung cow urine didn’t work. Groundless argument. Tomorrow I will eat fish.)
Their locomotion speed isn't limited. We've planted various plants the globe over. It may be naturally limited, but it isn't limited any more.
That's information people want to know after reading a story like this from an outlet like CNBC.
That change came from the GCC steering committee, not the FSF.
Getting a loan on DeFi is a real use case.
> One of those tools was subverted on Friday, allowing the hackers to paralyze hundreds of businesses on all five continents.

Aren't there 7 continents? I get ignoring Antarctica in this context, but it's still wrong to say "All 5" here. What weird phrasing.
Kernel and Statespace partner to bring BCIs to eSports
This might just end up doing the same thing with extra steps but for me the most effective has been holding breath until it starts to become slightly uncomfortable and then start drinking a full glass of water while allowing myself to take short breaths of air as necessary between swallows. Something about the swallowing motion combined with short breaths seems to "reset" the diaphragm like a champ for me. Breathe slow and relaxed for the minute after to ensure it's really gone :)
Last year a Monte Carlo approach to estimate the solution quickly was discovered. It works somewhat similar to diffusion curves.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/MonteCarloGeometryP...
Proof-of-Waste (PoW) is quite accurate.
This reads like an apologia for state fabricating evidence to jail social workers.

Labeling social workers or human rights activists Maoists, naxals, antinationals, planting evidence and jailing them without trial for years is the regime's modus operandi.

I take it that you are fine with social workers being imprisoned via fabricated evidence.
A karma score of -180 throws doubt on the good faith argument.
With 600 people paying $1,000 in taxes per month, the city would only net $7 million/year. This is less a plan and more a pipe dream.

Cities are built where there are demands for cities to be built. They grow around nexus points of travel, gold rushes, or other places that invite entrepreneurs to build them.

Entrepreneurs might create the need for the city, but there has to be some means of sustenance for the city not to become what is called a "Ghost Town".
In my eyes, the best thing we could do, to help plants "migrate" is to take whole pieces of eco-systems and transplant them, with the ability to escape. Like a greenhouse, that is artificially cooled or heated, but a trapdoor that allows plant off-spring to "escape" if the conditions are good enough.

The idea, that we can protect the world from change is misguided.All that we can do, is save a maximum of Eco-diversity, by offering it transport from closing niche to opening niche - or storage, if all niches should vanish.
What Are Startup Cities For?
That's not the take I got from reading the write up. There was logic in the decision to increase the size that was not difficult to understand. I'm not familiar with what Lighthouse is/does/why/etc, but they described the situation enough for this to make total sense on why it worked. Maybe they are lucky to have people working for them that can work the problem?? That's me stretching to accept lucky in the least as the reasoning.
Combine that with the sick lab researchers, with the work performed at BSL-2 instead of BSL-4, with the main researcher being a world leading expert on gain of function research, with a WIV database of genomes surprisingly taken offline, with inconsistent sequencing dates reported by WIV researchers, with huge conflicts of interest from several of the main researchers supporting the natural origin theory (Daszak), etc, etc, etc.

I'm about 80/20 on a lab leak.
This just seems like a ridiculous position to hold: data-driven computer models can’t predict anything with any reliability?! Pretty much all predictions about the future rely on data-driven models! Yes models are not perfect, but the answer’s not to close your eyes and hope!
One of the interesting consequences of interstellar colonization in a universe without FTL travel or communication (which, by all indications, appears to be our universe) is the sheer amount of cultural diversity it would create. Even adjacent systems would have communications round-trip times on the order of single-digit years, and depending how far apart desirable systems for colonization are it could even conceivably be decades of round-trip comms lag to the nearest inhabited system. Centralization becomes impossible, and star systems would have only very weak cultural impact on their neighbors.