skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A circle has a center which is a point in that circle such that the distance(s) from the center to every point on the boundary of the circle is the same. The center is within the space of the circle but not on the boundary.

A sphere has a center which is in that sphere but not on the surface (boundary) of the sphere.

A 4-sphere has a center which is in that hypersphere but not in the volume boundary of the hypersphere.

...

It is entirely possible that the universe is a 3s1t shape which is part of the boundary of an NsNt shape, and there is a center to it which is not usefully accessible -- or even discoverable -- from anywhere in the universe.
IF!?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Enforcement_Officers%27_Bi...

The LEOBR detailed by the Grand Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police as follows:[4]

Law enforcement officers, except when on duty or acting in an official capacity, have the right to engage in political activity or run for elective office.
Law enforcement officers shall, if disciplinary action is expected, be notified of the investigation, the nature of the alleged violation, and be notified of the outcome of the investigation and the recommendations made to superiors by the investigators.
Questioning of a law enforcement officer should be conducted for a reasonable length of time and preferably while the officer is on duty unless exigent circumstances apply.
Questioning of the law enforcement officer should take place at the offices of those conducting the investigation or at the place where the officer reports to work, unless the officer consents to another location.
Law enforcement officers will be questioned by a single investigator, and he or she shall be informed of the name, rank, and command of the officer conducting the investigation.
Law enforcement officers under investigation are entitled to have counsel or any other individual of their choice present at the interrogation.
Law enforcement officers cannot be threatened, harassed, or promised rewards to induce the answering of any question.
Law enforcement officers are entitled to a hearing, with notification in advance of the date, access to transcripts, and other relevant documents and evidence generated by the hearing and to representation by counsel or another non-attorney representative at the hearing.
Law enforcement officers shall have the opportunity to comment in writing on any adverse materials placed in his or her personnel file.
Law enforcement officers cannot be subject to retaliation for the exercise of these or any other rights under Federal, or State.
No!

You need a place to live, money for a potential future time when you can't work, and other basic necessities. Investing is about balancing risk tolerance with reward potential. There is a massive risk associated with investing basically everything you have in a startup when relatively very few become successful. It's extremely likely that you will lose it all.
>> but change doesn't come quickly from within unless forced

Yes. In Britain (and I suppose in mainland Europe too) the jolt came at the end of World War II.

Society in general - and returning service-people in particular - refused to accept the status quo ante.

Supported by our American friends' economic largesse / self-interest, there emerged a social and geo-political revolution.

In that moment, amongst many other societal improvements, the NHS and decolonisation became firmly established.
Fewer children are coerced into false confessions?
Ah, Louisiana, the state that pioneered the right to a jury trial for misdemeanors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_v._Louisiana
hedge against*
Considering Hubble was an old NRO design that they donated, I bet there are more backup parts than are publically known to be available.
So you found a flaw in Cantor's diagonal argument?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument
I think the only layer that we can fix these kinds of issues is in court.

Juries should only be allowed to hear objective facts. No character testimonies, no eye witnesses, no confessions after a 12 hour interrogation. Objective facts only.

This would likely mean guilty people don't get convicted, but I think that is a worthy tradeoff for a more fair justice system. An innocent person going to jail is much more egregious than a guilty person going free.
Yep, already walked that path with invoice numbers.

The only thing you can say for sure about a sequence is the next number will be greater, which is not good enough for many kinds of identifiers.
What requirements are attached to using the PBM replacements? My understanding is that you go to a pharmacy that accepts them and give them a number to put into the computer.

Or does using them disqualify people from other programs?
Ask HN: Should I tell the HR that I am already working with a company
So this month I officially started working with a US based company. Just before joining I started another interview process with a German based company who are willing to sponsor visa if they give an offer. I didn't tell them that I recently got an offer and going to start working with them in a few days.

Now I have completed their interview process and waiting for the decision from their end. Yesterday the HR emailed me stating that they need some time to sort some things on their end and she asked whether I am in other recruiting process or not?

I am not sure what to tell her, I know they are asking this to be sure they don't loose me. Should I lie to them that I am in other recruiting process or should I just say that i am not.
I don't think, or rather I hope there are civilization that as a part of their evolution had cooperation, sharing, exploration and innovation embedded as main and prevalent strategies of survival and thriving. I would like to think that there is as in magic fairy tails of old, civilization where good prevails. Where leaders (or what ever mechanism of decision they have) and those in power - are not easily corrupted as here.
If true, that ends up meaning that alien civilizations are short-lived, right? That doesn't bode well for us.
The Fermi question is a lot closer to "how come Earth wasn't colonized before we even appear?" than "how come we can't see anybody?".
You just need enough light to do spectroscopy. I’m not really aware of a limit other than being in our light cone.
That's just a design choice: single tenancy vs multitenancy. I agree that multitenant databases tend to be more pleasant to work with as a developer of dependent services, but there are plenty of reasons (data isolation; resource allocation guarantees) one might want a single tenant db.
It really shows how confused folks are when stuff like my comment is downvoted. Oh well, you can't really do much about it.
Hui, does that really matter? or lets ask other: Is JWT able to make another but more crazy deep field image?

I think i have to read up on it :D
Ask HN: What do companies use to generate and mail 1099 form to their users?
Companies are required to send 1099 forms to their users meeting certain criteria.

For example:

- Uber: https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/tax-information/tax-documents/
- Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.ca/help/article/414/should-i-expect-to-receive-a-tax-form-from-airbnb
- Etsy: https://help.etsy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000336447-Will-I-Receive-a-1099-K-Tax-Form-From-Etsy-?segment=selling
- Square: https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/5048-1099-k-overview

What do companies use to generate and mail 1099s? Do they mail themselves, or do they contract out to tax compliance agencies? What are some modern tax compliance agencies offering this service?
Technically they don't have that right. Detainment without reasonable suspicion, and arrest without probable cause, are crimes called Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law. It is a felony punishable by up to ten years in prison. Funnily enough, if you've ever heard a cop say a variant of the phrase "you can beat the rap but not the ride", that is essentially admission of such criminal action by the cop...if they think that the evidence is sparse enough that you won't be charged with a crime, then they do not have probable cause grounds to arrest you, and by continuing with the arrest, they commit a felony.

Unfortunately, we can probably count the number of cops charged with that crime on zero hands. I'm increasingly convinced that our entire police problem in the US boils down to our incentives that we give to prosecutors which make them avoid any attempt to hold cops accountable for their crimes. I'm not sure what the solution is, but having independent prosecutors for police crimes might be a good start.

With regards to your point about cooperating until the cop starts acting adversarial, I think that advice applies to someone who is intelligent and informed about the law enough to understand when a cop is actually trying to coerce an admission. It might be good advice for you, but it might actually be terrible advice for someone else.
I saw something before that said something like 80% of cops thought they had never arrested an innocent person. From that, it is likely that they believe these people are the criminals but the crafty villains won't admit it without being tricked.

It's slightly less disturbing to think that the cops legitimately think they're doing a good job over the alternative of intentionally ignoring their responsibility. Still troubling to think they could be that deluded.
What if wrongful convictions based on police officers lying in interrogations penalized the police officer doing interrogations? Do you think the interrogators would still continue using these methods?

Eg the police officer that interrogated Terrill Swift will now be held criminally responsible for inducing a false confession.
You do realize that has been the standard response of the "experts" to industries the Elon starts to enter. And then "experts" find there are details they overlooked because they knew they were right.

Can Elon be wrong? YES. But can the experts be wrong? Happens all the time.
This is how it worked for all of the capsule-based missions— the entire cabin space is the airlock.
The robot fails to perform the task or fails reaching orbit,etc?

Send up another [improved] robot. These missions are less costly than human missions. We get to iterate more often
But the UK isn't the US, and staying silent wouldn't be beneficial to us, in fact it would probably make it worse.
Long Covid defies understanding as sufferers despair
I see your point, but you could also argue that worst case scenario for atomic bomb malfunction is much more awful than worst case for JWST
Startups Inevitably Are Forced to Become the Evil That They Disrupted
Those actions do affect your (living) family and friends. I would find it appalling if a relative or friend died and suddenly new works came out with "them" speaking via DeepFake/etc.

We could just dump corpses in an abyss and clean it up every so often, but we don't, for various reasons.
Your post is jumping all over the place but I want to comment on two points:

1. You're responding to a post that said "most people who argue for defunding the police have never lived in a place without police where they had to live in fear of crime". In your response, you confirmed that you're such a person. You never lived in a dangerous/violent place but somehow you take your safety for granted and see police as extraneous.

2. You asked for a citation of the fact that the recent spike in crime has taken more black lives than the police? To be frank your lack of awareness of the numbers (ie the actual crux of the matter) is pretty damning. If you don't have the command of the numbers and the scale of the issue, you're not in good position to suggest policy.

I can dig up the data if you don't believe me but from memory: the number of unarmed people shot to death by police in the US is a double-digit number across all races, with about 2/3rd of them being white. So if we said "30 unarmed black people were shot to death by police in the US in 2020" that would be an upper bound. (to be clear this number includes unarmed people who were nonetheless violent, but its ok)

In contrast, there were 7,484 Black homicide victims per year in 2019, which is before the latest spike in crime.

That's a ratio of ~250/1 using the most conservative assumptions (it's more like 400/1 probably)
I am not so cynical as to think it would be a bad idea or "against self interest", in most cases, to report a crime to the police.

I am cynical enough to think that a defense attorney might act like a paperclip maximizer and optimize for "nobody goes to jail, ever, whatever the consequences to society" when giving advise on a Youtube video.

One might also suspect the reason that video is so often cited is because it is so extreme, and people are biased to repost wacky "meme-like" catch phrases like "don't talk to the police" instead of more even-minded advise.
sort of true and sort of not.

If you are on some 'plan' then you are mostly likely not paying list. Your insurance company usually has cut some sort of deal with the distribution company. Usually that 'deal' includes not telling you about their deal and showing you only list price.

If you are not on a plan. Sometimes you can ask 'hey is there a no plan version' and sometimes they do have it. That can be hit or miss depending on who is working the register that day.

If you are not on a plan and they say 'nope thats the price' then you end up in that category.
Sure, it worked. But at great, great cost. The government has never been great at doing things cheaply. See: US defense budget.
We're on a steady path to extinction, no doubt.
"Featherwing" is a bit more unambiguous to google than "Wingfeather"[0] at this point.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wingfeather_Saga
> That doesn't matter at all to me if the result looks good.

well, lucky you, to me they stick out like a sore thumb ; likewise with the weird lightning on the plants around the tracks.
Likewise when looking at this video https://youtu.be/fQESQueSMLI?t=1418 I can't help but have my eyes linger on the super static blue / orange exhaust at the back of the vehicle, be angered at the very cheap splish splash here: https://youtu.be/fQESQueSMLI?t=1445 or the smoke sprites suddenly disappearing here https://youtu.be/fQESQueSMLI?t=1495 ; it'd definitely break my immersion while playing and make it an unenjoyable experience. And don't get me started on the aliasing...
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27725286

My thoughts on this are that we could do with a better CPU usage measurement, which the author of this article found to be cycles.
YIKES.
The DoD probably wouldn't even have to get the FTC involved (directly), they have enough leverage in CFIUS to stop it there due to fabs being Critical Technology.
Minors might not know that yet (and plenty of adults still don't), so I support this protection.
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That tracks with my gut feeling: many jobs (possibly a majority, but I’m not confident that it’s that many) exist as a fig leaf for the government to say “see, these people aren’t on the dole. Look how close we are to full employment.”
What is "this"? The artwork in the book? The title in HN? The design of the blog post?

I'd love to know this :D
When is it time to choose an e-Commerce fulfillment center?
Startup makes alloy of recycled polyethelyne and polypropylene
I am absolutely not a climate scientist but my understanding is c02 from the likes of us isn't a problem as we are naturally part of a cyclical process. Same goes for forest fires which is burning trees that had been absorbing carbon.

However we are releasing an excess amount that had been trapped and removed from that cyclical process, adding more energy into the system than its natural equilibrium usually takes.
It's a common proposed solution to the Great Filter idea.
QA Testing vs. UAT: What’s the Difference
I'm aware of that workaround but there shouldn't be any need for a workaround in the first place. Valve shouldn't get to freeze my entire library when I want to share a single game with a family member or friend.
Generalization. Would be interesting discussion with details. Pop is growing. What's your concern - global warming, fertility rates, pollution, nuclear arsenal, running out of resources? Doesn't seem like we are doing that badly and that pop can't drop if get below renewable resource level or adjust to new ways of making energy/food, etc.

Does seem likely that on an extremely long time scale, we need to get multi-planetary, which is "realistic" if we give a reasonable time frame of, say, 10,000 years.

As far as the sun dying, that's beyond even parent point's timeline. This is very things start to get questionable if we never get to even .1 of c (e.g. Project Orion "realistic" estimates). Alpha Centauri is relative close at 4.something ly, but other "potentially habitable/useful" star systems are way out there.
To channel my money towards anything I have to make money. To make money I have to sell things to customers.

The world prior to 20 years ago was a very different one in terms of the scale and reach companies could achieve. Pretending as though the situation now is comparable is just naive on your part.

And honestly, the drama of calling it a cancer is just silly and dramatic. If you think this is all so terrible, go live in a commune instead of posting on a message board that is run by an organization that is deeply connected to big tech and all the things you're complaining about. I guess you probably can't see that connection all the way up there on your high horse, though.
> They might play a significant role in bringing about space tourism, but that's yet to be seen.

I hope so. SpaceX is launching a private spaceflight soon, for which each passenger is paying $55 million.[1] That's not really game changing, though, because Russia has been selling seats for similar prices for years, and it's space tourism only for billionaires. SpaceX is working on big, expensive rockets and talking about Mars.

Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic seem to be our best hope of seeing space tourism for the masses. They both talk about selling short suborbital trips for less than $1 million soon, and if that is popular, efficiency of scale should lead to further price decreases.

1: https://apnews.com/article/1st-private-space-crew-pay-55m-ea...
Google parts with Cloud VP over his manifesto renouncing his antisemitism
Wow, I had always believed this about him, and it turns out to be true:

> I probably look less at languages than you’d think. I look at what I think is interesting, I try them out but what I really do is to look at what problems do my colleagues and students have and how do I solve them.

He ignores prior research, and keeps piling disjointed ideas on top of each other in the hopes that some will stick.

Completely opposite to someone like Rich Hickey, who picks up all the years of research and tries to put it all together in a coherent whole.

I tend to appreciate the latter approach a lot more.
Read more about the Great Filter, it's probable it's ahead of us.
I agree in a more general sense: space is a natural domain for robots, not humans, and we should be designing out space flight capability with that in mind. We have some almost 50 year old robots advising us on the heliopause right now.

The general problem of repairing Hubble robotically is unlikely to be solvable within the lifetime of the telescope, but future devices could be designed with that in mind.
If the Starship program succeeds in reaching the moon in the next few years then I think that is comparable to Apollo. Ofc it is easier to do things the second time than the first but safety standards are higher and this time it will have been done at an enormously reduced price.
This doesn't address the GP question. It's also not accurate: The GP directly addresses some of those concerns, but it's point was to ask a question, not answer them.

> I want to raise my children in a community of my choosing, surrounded by close friends and family

It's a free country; you can do that right now. If you want to work for your current employer, you'll need to find an arrangement they find valuable or they have no reason to work with you.

> SFBA, which I have no connection to and frankly hate

> gossiping with my coworkers about office politics

You hate the community, your co-workers are no more interesting, important, or valuable to you than office gossip .... work from home isn't the issue.
Well, there were the Egyptian Pyramids, Great Wall of China, Roman Aqueducts and a whole bunch of Great Projects in the past and I certainly hope there will be lots more in our future.
mitmproxy does lookup the upstream certificate by default, but at the moment we only transfer common name, subject alternative names and (new) organization name. The good news is that with version 7 it's very easy to add more here, I'd be more than happy to accept contributions. :)
>Subsidizing people’s moves doesn’t make sure they have access to housing. It just shuffles them to another area where it’s someone else’s long term problem, even if you secured them temporary housing as you moved them.

We're not shuffling people around for the sake of getting them out of the area. we're shuffling people around so they can move to an area that has a better job market relative to local rents. This is supposed to address the "they can't move to find a better job because they can't afford the cost of moving" objection a few comments up.

>We have more empty houses than homeless in the US.

A sibling comment has addressed this so I won't go into this further.

>We aren’t productive enough as a society to be able to give everyone pleasure constantly but we are certainly productive enough to guarantee basic physical needs for survival

Because it's a political problem (ie. NIMBY), not a economic one.
Police in Latin America are turning activists’ phones against them
Tesla's approach, however, kills people. Waymo's has not as of yet.
Isn't the difference that Intel is actually protecting its chip IP, whereas TSMC just fabs other peoples' chips and isn't in the business themselves?
This "feature" bothers me a lot. When my girlfriend tries to play Planet Coaster from my account via the family sharing feature, sometimes she kicked off even though I'm not even playing a game at all! I think this is a big reason cloud based services like Steam are a step down from physical games with no reliance on internet connectivity. Truth be told my friends and I were doing fine before Steam existed, even if it meant sometimes needing to get friend's IP addresses and troubleshoot firewall issues to play multiplayer games.
How to Make Remote Work More Productive
Genius. Man everything about this excites me for the first time in a long time, about anything
> I think the state of the art for all this is still pretty far away, which is why the instinct is to assume we're talking about something specialized.

Yes, that's exactly what I thought. If we are talking about AGI + human level robotic dexterity, then the use of "simply" becomes even funnier.
> why we should push for the stable world (SW) scenario

Alternatively, a push for antifragility acknowledges human's scale of environmental control and the tendency for unexpected things to happen simply because they are possible.

Ergodicity expresses the idea that a point of a moving system, either a dynamical system or a stochastic process, will eventually visit all parts of the space that the system moves in, in a uniform and random sense. [0]

Antifragility is a property of systems in which they increase in capability to thrive as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures. [1]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragility