skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Colonize Venus?

Create a bigger space station than the ISS?
Here's a video of an "infinite scroll" depiction of a poem using this technology: https://twitter.com/mewo2/status/1414649438581268486

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbn1aJuarIU
You can buy drugs in any state in the union if you're cool enough
The article does mention more than 50 people being fired for it between 2014 and Aug 2015
Not really. They could have slapped a `margin: 0 auto` on that div they decided to set a `max-width` on and called it a day.
BlackRock CEO Fink does not see inflation as transitory
That's rather the opposite of this XKCD What-If on draining the oceans:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/

> And after 2000 years of trying to hold back the sea, the Netherlands are finally high and dry. No longer living with the constant threat of a cataclysmic flood, they're free to turn their energies toward outward expansion. They immediately spread out and claim the newly-exposed land.
> And no electron.

I bought this app years ago - I have a feeling it might even predate electron?

It's awesome for embedding simple diagrams.
The world became big and complicated while the older generation was already fat on their success. It's very hard for a 55 year old manager of a small town bank to understand his daughter literally will not have the same opportunities he had as globalization eats all of the small town opportunities.

She'll almost certainly have to move to a city and probably utilize computers all day, get a serious education in an engineering field. The fact that the parent was so absorbed in their own life this doesn't occur to them until literally their child exiles them from their life for being toxic is just wild.
A guide to network lifecycle management
Can someone more versed in this explain what the concept is? As far as I'm concerned the Euro is already digital, based on banks' ledgers. I haven't used a physical bank note in years.
There is 0% chance this article is correct. No employees at facebook had access to passwords for obvious reasons. Someone is trying to sell a book.
I read this book a couple of years ago and also reviewed it[0]. I consider it an excellent (if now out of date) roundup of the crypto industry.

Like the author, I think crypto is doomed to be outside of the main financial system unless they manage to shed the idiocy and outright scams that surround it. Unfortunately, the scams and idiotic ideals are really what draws people to the field so I don't see it happening anytime soon.

Like I said in my blog post, I realize that some people have made money investing in crypto. Good luck to them but I think in general it is a negative sum game.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2019/12/book_-_attack_of_the_50_foot_blo...
As others have mentioned, the energy density is a big deal because those planes' fuel accounts for A LOT of their take-off weight. To both illustrate this and point out another potential problem: when a fully fueled heavy, long-haul / high-capacity airliner needs to make an emergency landing shortly after take-off, one of the first things they do is start dumping fuel to reduce the weight (make it more maneuverable) and reduce the fire risk of a crash. Not sure what a comparable procedure for batteries might look like.
A: I'm Elon Musk, send me some bitcoins and I'll double them!

(A was not Elon Musk)
Does anyone remember Uber's "god view". That has privacy violations written all over it, I wonder what happened to it.
Yea but I think almost by definition the software will find a person that looks very similar to the actual perp. So then subsequent humans are more likely to make the mistake.

I don't see how this is much different than artist's sketches or just using the video itself, other than cops might put more undue stock in the software, and the obvious potential for mass surveillance.
I don’t have proof, but we were told that every access of sensitive data was actively audited. It’s very rare to need to do this for your job, so I don’t imagine it’s a huge volume of events to be audited.
https://hbr.org/2018/03/the-most-common-type-of-incompetent-...

^ I have encountered the above most frequently before, aka "absentee leadership". Basically, managers who don't do anything at all.

Then the above coupled w/ micro-managing, to the point of sitting behind the team and watching their screens (as evidenced by randomly incorrectly noting "you forgot an if statement there), logging bathroom breaks (hilarious because it happened in an IT org full of senior devs), solving petty personal problems through management power (thankfully not directed at me, but very obvious).

Also, useless meetings.

In combination with absentee leadership, PRETENDING to do something by having a 2hr meeting with the team, to give a 15 minute brief pretending to be on top of the situation.
That's for Kiwi employees, open source content is in the other tab
> I would be interested to know how often Facebook analyzes this data and actually fires people for improper usage.

From the article: Facebook fired 52 people from 2014 to August 2015 for abusing access to user data
After seeing this, I thought here goes another programmer in the jail for pirating.

But you disappointed.

Jokes apart, looks cool and fast.
The federal budget is higher than tax revenue. It has been this way for decades with few exceptions. If taxes dont cover the budget then the budget should be cut to fit revenue. But, that isnt what has been happening. The budget grows every year and the govenment borrows more money to cover it instead of cutting the budget or raising taxes.

We are running the government on maxed out credit. But dont worry, congress will just increase the credit limit so we can borrrow more.

The real solutions are political suicide. So, we will get the most shitty option of borrowing and printing more money.
There's a certain trend in most companies that every bureaucratic rule can be traced back to a specific event where someone caused a problem by doing what the rule was written to forbid - so it's possible that you were indirectly told about four incidents.
Or they have become emboldened because there has been a vacuum in global moral leadership the past 4 years
Spotify’s Top Lawyer Has Spent Years Making Apple the Bad Guy
Atrocities are committed but my sense is a photo mismatch won’t be the catalyst. I’d go further and say it happens less often then you might think.

Did you know CBP agents are trained to get you emotional, piss you off, and treat you like shit? It’s an effective and quick way to get someone on edge and maybe reveal something to be investigated. Nervous behavior. CBP officers go through therapy to deal with this.

Fight fire with fire. I would make it clear (respectfully) the situation is ridiculous and push for resolution in my favor.

I was once asked for a second photo ID at the border and I didn’t have one. The officer found this very suspicious. I did get kind of pissed and asked him what kind of idiot takes every photo id they have abroad. What if it’s lost or stolen? I was waived through.
In a sane world this would be a company-ending event, or at least seriously impact their stock and C level execs.

The idea that:

a) User data access is not just allowed but normal (or at least that it was at one point)

b) That it's allowed at all so widely

c) That (a) and (b) are true despite repeated abuse

is absolutely insane. "Nearly every month" is insane. It should be criminal, but it isn't.

Sadly, it's all too common for engineers to have way more access than is necessary, though this seems extreme. I see no reason why any engineer, outside of extreme circumstances that should set off alarm bells, should have access to sensitive user data like passwords. It should generally not be the case that direct access of data is needed at all.
And it really depends on the chemistry. Some chemistries can last 10,000-100,000 cycles and so the battery may never need to be replaced in the life of the airframe.
One thing short haul electric aircraft have going for them is the regulatory requirement to have a 45 minute reserve. That essentially means that the battery will never be cycled to anywhere close to 0% but probably maintain at least 20% almost all the time. Combined with most routes probably using just 80% of the max charge, and the batteries could last an extremely long time.

Also battery prices continue to fall. Some industry analysts still use battery cost estimates from five or 10 years ago for something that will happen in 30 years (battery replacement).

Edit: looks like they’re using extremely high costs for battery replacement, comparable to costs about a decade ago and about 2-4 times current costs for mass produced batteries, let alone 5-20 years from now: “ The cost of replacing such a battery can be projected to reach around $400 to $500 per kWh mid-decade.”

Compare this to estimates/goals by the Department of Energy that say $60-80/kWh is feasible by 2030:
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/12/22/doe-offers-an-energy-...
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I would be shocked if modern turbofan engines don't have at least as much software in them as electric engines. Maybe more.
I used to work like this with virtualbox Ubuntu on Windows host for front end dev. It worked great. Even had a AHK script that makes the vm fullscreen borderless, bar the win 10 taskbar below, clean and super usable.

The issue is I got an M1 mini mac for development, and I’d rather have the superior fonts and gui of Sublime, MacVim, etc. Granted they look pretty good already on Ubuntu.

I feel like Docker container is the middle way here, you can keep the host clean from complex installs, and you can use evetything on the host to edit your code, since it’s so easy to map folders with Docker.

I don’t really see a downside, although it is super convenient as well with a graphical vm, that you can archive and backup your entire vm, along with all your os preferences, editor settings, terminal settings etc.

edit:

I guess I could also use Macvim etc. on the host with shared folders but those shared folders are slower and have all kind of permission issues afaik, I think Docker mapped folders work better.

Last time I heard Docker on Mac uses virtualization under the hood so it’s about the same as virtualbox (unlike os supported "containers" on linux host), but I don’t know if that is still true for M1?
NFT Operating System
Pretty inexcusable by 2015. FB was hardly a new company at that point.

Every Googler gets the message that you keep your mitts off private information in logs (or get terminated) drilled into them in their first week of training. Logs access is a) restricted b) audited c) tiered and d) enforced. That was the case in 2011 when I started and it's the case now.

Not saying Google is perfect, but it's not like companies like FB didn't have a template for privacy standards that they could have followed.

All that said, but back then I just personally assumed that this is how FB was operating :-( I am hoping they've improved since.
>They were completely unnecessary for a LOT of people.

Totally agree here. They were unnecessary for me and a lot of people I know. But if we're talking about stimulus checks as a whole, I think they were beneficial to a lot of people out there who were out of jobs or had their hours cut drastically.
"Should be" is the operative part of your statement - I totally agree there, and that the salesmanship requirement indicates a systemic failure. I'd say it goes much further than just the educational institution being at fault - they are responsible for playing the game, but funding sources do nothing to drive them more towards academic integrity.
Consumer price inflation won't rise unless a relevant proportion of consumers get more money to spend. There should be enough slack behind all goods in the cpi basket that disruptions won't permanently affect the price of milk, bread, toilet paper, flat panel TVs and so on.

It is true that there is exploding inflation in asset prices brought by central bank credit, but it won't affect the price of milk and bread.
This would probably make a great Christmas gift for some analyst you know. Even if they don't use Excel now, it'll make them feel like their professional career is coming around full circle.
> pushed

:)
He’s a smart, gifted orator, who fancies himself a misunderstood academic. Yet, this self-proclaimed outsider status is still just a chip on his shoulder. He has the resources and reach to bankroll his own research and get even with his old physics department, He _could_ put his money where his mouth is. But doesn’t. Why?

The answer is because he’s ten times the businessman than public intellectual. Playing Mr. Schizo on normie podcasts with the rest of the Dark Web Gang, is better business than actually trying to solve anything you’re bitching about. There is nothing outsider or punk rock about running in the same circles as Peter Thiel, no matter how much DMT you smoke.

The amount of acronyms for arcane theories and processes he “coined” himself reminds me of when Michael Scott declares bankruptcy out of a window. And his “audio essays” where he practically interviews himself reminds me of those gibberish podcasts designed to help listeners go to bed.

Weinstein is neither complicated or important. He’s been dancing on the knifes edge of quack pottery / People Who Should Be Taken Seriously™ for a while now. At some point in the future, another Epstein-tier banana peel will settle this once and for all.
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Those policies will only catch someone after the fact. Firing someone is the bare minimum, it prevents a single repeat offender, but they could already do damage.

None of this should even be possible.
I think this is why a lot of routines tapper down how much deadlifting you do as you get stronger, sometimes to once a week or once a month.

Professional football players don't deadlift, for instance. They do a lot power cleans and variations. Deadlifting can be very taxing (although it is one of my favorite exercises).
I wish UI designers would stop re-inventing things for no reason.
The main reason this keyboard's keycaps are ~R1 / ~R2 is because of RGB and consequently north-facing switches. This trades a more pleasant typing experience for aesthetics. Wouldn't be my first choice over the JNAO, which is a solderable compatible alternative.
Not uncommon in early-stage startups. I've learned to build these sorts of things with access control and auditing up-front, but certainly have built my share of attractive nuisances over time.

My advice is stub something out up front, before you go to production. You don't have time to do it right, but you do have time to establish the norm. Even if your audit trail is just a two-minute DB trigger that records that Worker Bob changed Customer Alice's password yesterday at 11, make it clear that there needs to be an articulable reason at hand for having used mechanisms that may violate users' trust.
The US ended gold convertibility in 1971, not 1973.[a] The precipitating factor was actually OPEC's oil embargo from 1973 to 1974.[b] At the time, conventional economic wisdom was that there was a trade-off between employment and inflation, according to the Phillips Curve.[c] So, as higher inflation (and inflation expectations) started getting more and more embedded into the economy (e.g., stipulated in rent contracts), everyone could see what was happening, but everyone sort of kept waiting and hoping for things eventually to "go back to normal," so no one did anything... until Volcker came along and fought the establishment, causing a lot of pain, to get inflation under control.

[a] https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2017/november/why-us-n... -- also, see tastyfreeze's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27833523

[b] https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/oil-shock-of-19...

[c] https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2020/january/what-is-p...
I have mixed experience publishing in math and statistics. I've had some of the best and worst experiences there compared to more applied fields. There's just been much more variability.

The comments and feedback, handled by the right editor, have been some of the most thoughtful, logical, and rigorous I've had of all my papers. The sort that, even when I disagree, think are very good questions to ask of the submission. Those that catch errors, and those that improve the paper in new, thoughtful directions.

At the same time, my worst peer review experiences have also been in more "pure" math and statistics. When they're bad, they're bad. The worst corruption and obvious jealousy have been in publishing in these areas, so convoluted that it would almost take an entire blog post series to explain. Reviewers can get really caught up on missing the forest for the trees and not understand the applied utility of something, even if it's technically correct, if it's not part of standard procedure. Othertimes it's been obvious (in the sense that if I published the entire review publicly I'm confident public opinion would come to that conclusion) reviewers have been jealous, and have tanked submissions in journals by piling up small criticisms that have nothing to do with the primary theses being argued. Usually in these cases, the failure ultimately comes down to an editor not wanting to ruffle the feathers of someone prominent.

These things all happen in applied fields too, but it seems like there, there's a softening around the edges of sorts, so the problematic behaviors aren't as extreme or obvious, and people sort of expect that fuzziness, so everything is taken with a grain of salt. I think the rigorousness of things like pure math can cut both ways, in that when it's correct, and everyone is behaving rationally, and the process is working with integrity, it produces very rigorous, solid work at the end. However, when it's incorrectly applied, and people are behaving irrationally (these are humans, it is inevitable), and the process is tainted, it can stifle novel work, or lead to really misleading conclusions.

I suspect that, if it's not already happening, I think one of the next phases in documentation of the reproducibility crisis and academic problems is in the areas of math, stats, and computer science. These fields have a veneer of rigor which can be true, but can also lead to false assumptions about the process that produces results. I think you're already seeing this a bit on HN with posts about reproducibility of AI findings, and with things like Taleb's criticism of academic models (FWIW Taleb has his own problems, but I think as a public figure he's correct to point out these things), but there's a lot more going on behind the curtain.
> these people just dont want to see something they missed out on succeed

Missed out on what profit? I've just started reading about Ethrereum and its still a baby. No one really knows what its going to grow into. But it reads much bugger than coins / NFTs when you start peeling back the layers. But people love blood and theres a lot of it in the coin / NFT space.
how is general relativity related to any prior experience of the 1920s?
Well, yeah, it's not obvious to me.
Because everyone will need a (possibly misconfigured) AWS IAM account just to log into any Linux server.. this increases complexity and reduces isolation, compartmentalization, separation of concerns, least privilege, etc.

I was mentioning that particular misfeature because it was a personal annoyance of mine. Oh well, I suppose everything is about customer lock-in these days.