skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is not more outspoken than “other Americans”. It’s a common sentiment for our past mistakes. Why? Because we don’t hide from them and pretend they didn’t happen. Our mistakes are recorded in literature even school textbooks, TV shows, and movies for all to see. Why? So there’s a much higher chance that we don’t repeat our mistakes, and we can be proactive at fixing issues that arise from them. This is a key feature of a democracy, though there are exceptions like Japan.

I think mainland Chinese people have a hard time separating the US government from the US population because of the forced conformity that the CCP demands of them, or they would realize that a large contingent of the US population on both political spectrums has wanted to pull back our military presence for a long time now. The US population and the US government are a lot less aligned than you think.

For the record, I’m a Chinese American so I’m not ignorant of what’s going on in mainland China.
But still cost 2-3 times more energy, and energy costs money.
If you read up on it, the NRO gave a shell for a Keyhole something to do NASA. It had no optics and no sensor AFAIK, that was on NASA to build.
The next big social network trend? Shortform audio
So how can we solve that problem, besides the extreme of not going to work?
To a point, but you can also create a negative stigma associated with the activity through conditioning using this sort of consequential-based motivation unfortunately.

Sometimes when you do something out of fear of a negative consequence it ends up becoming an activity that, while you might become more proficient at it, you might also grow to dislike the activity. (How many children were forced to learn a musical instrument by their parents and as a result hate it)
The video is specifically about the 5th amendment to the US constitution and has nothing to do with the UK legal system.
"anyone who works full time should be able to afford necessities like safe housing and adequate food" sounds great.

A minimum wage is a lot like having your health care tied to your employer. With employer-sponsored health care, employers pay the lion's share of the cost, and workers are left out to dry if they leave their jobs.

Minimum wage is the same concept except for at a grander scale. Your employer provides the lion's share of the resources for your food, housing, transportation, etc.

With health care the liberal agenda is focusing on shifting it away from the employer, so you're not stuck in the rat trap of needing a job to go to the doctor.

Maybe we need a similar thing for other basics.
It's too bad you couldn't just leave a space shuttle in orbit, and then fly to it to use its arm when needed. Or build something like a repair "truck" that once launched, never comes back. You just load it with fuel and whatever you need, and drive it to where it's needed.
Love that quote: "If ever we meet aliens they'll be cavemen or gods."
For those interested in the topic, see also https://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/2/7/maze-generation-algori... and https://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/algrithm.htm .
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I agree with your other critisising points but I think presumptions (2) and (3) make sense somewhat.

It's safe to assume that for any self-replicating life evolution takes place, universally. The genes (no matter on their biological implementation) are always evaluated by one fitness function only – whether they succeed in spreading around.

Life isn't optimised for surviving per se, but it is optimised for replicating.

The same in a way applies for civilisations. The ones that are bad at expanding are massively outexpanded/outnumbered by the ones that are good at expanding. Unless expanding fundamentally always leads to civilisation's downfall (but I don't see how it would?)
That would have the same effect, but is slightly nicer.
Looks like the only consequence is "The presumption of inadmissibility" for evidence gained that way. It does not appear to make it a crime or provide any consequence for any individual police officer.

The text of the bill is here: https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&Sessi...
Automattic buys podcast app Pocket Casts
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Seeking the wisdom of the HN crowd:

Does RSS, with the full article content in each item's description, avoid the "problem" of GDPR compliance?

Maybe it'll become "cheaper" for global content creators to go back to old-fashioned content-targeted ads, which can be distributed through RSS [1], among other domains.

Placing the ads will be more expensive [2] (no more than it used to be), but it might be cheaper than guaranteeing GDPR compliance with the adware they've grown cozy with recently, and it opens up the EU as an available market.

[1]: for one example of this already working, podcasts are distributed via RSS, and have a rapidly growing advertising market around them: https://www.emarketer.com/content/us-podcast-ad-spending-sur....

[2]: apparently, most podcast ads are placed with a human in the loop (only 8% are placed programmatically). there might be a product idea here, in building a "static, content-targeted ad" exchange.
It's ridiculous that police can lie to you but you can't lie to them.
It's ridiculous that police can lie to you but you cant lie to them.
Tell that to the species we've eradicated while pursuing our goals.
...because of enforcement on cheap Chinese etc goods.
I believe Robotnaut is back on earth as of sometime in 2018, but it was briefly at the ISS and even ran ROS— there was an official NASA-supplied Gazebo simulator for it: https://www.slashgear.com/nasa-robonaut-2-simulator-stack-no...
i have been archiving cool or interesting sites with this tool for about a year now. fantastic. can't say enough good things about it.
Do you think there is a "real" (>1% over the next century) risk for humanity to wipe itself out, or just that the hostile-alien risk is way beyond negligible in comparison?

Because all current climate doom-erism notwithstanding--
humanity extinction seems impossible to achieve to me via climate change or nuclear war; rogue autonomous self-replicating systems might be a danger, but are too far beyound current tech to estimate risk IMO...

Very curious if/how/why you disagree on this!
Does that work? Over time insulin flocculates and becomes inactive. I suppose my info is ~10 years old from when I worked on insulin biophysics, it's possible contemporary formulations are more effective at maintaining stability.
"I'm curious if there on consensus on what the solution _should_ be -- if politics were not a problem."

"And it should be 'realistic'."

These seem to conflict. Unless you have a worldwide totalitarian regime, you need politics to convince and coordinate tha various groups of people (and even then you will have groups that disobey the majority, eg crime).

The main issue is consumption, which is driven by a modern consumerism based lifestyle and economy. Population is a major constraint related to that consumption which is more likely to be controllable, necessary to control even with other restrictions, and lead to a bigger impact than the individual consumption choices. Not to mention that we don't even know if our current population can be supported via sustainable means (likely not). The main issue is that people do not agree on population control and our current economy would likely collapse under it.
time dependent; i try and spend an hour pre-interview skimming any projects/papers in prep. "Why did you do X?" even when it's a high level/simple question gets the person talking well I think.
Do you have a handy link to Zunger's criticism of Transparent Society? Sorry, my search-fu is weak this morning. Based on the quality of Zunger's other writings, I'm open to what he has to say.
C is worse.
Left-Wing/Right-Wing/Center-Beak
This wouldn’t work, because a person’s intent matters for many crimes.
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Keep in mind its an orbiting Infrared Observatory so not an alternative to Hubble. Of course it will be an amazing scientific instrument and we should hope that nothing happens during launch.
What do you mean? I thought we were able to run programs on these processors already.
The lack of smell and explosiveness of hydrogen gas/air mixture is pretty terrifying. Consider an underground garage full of (possibly ageing) cars with hydrogen on board. There might be ways of storing hydrogen more safely than a pressure tube, but I encourage hydrogen enthusiasts to experience what the air/gas mixture smells like and how it burns.
>they view its value not in some metaphysical notion of truth but in utility.

Isn’t this a philosophical perspective?
Also swarms of telescopes that can collectively take higher resolution, broad spectrum photos.
I agree with your overall point, but wanted to clarify one topic.

> with Innodb, if you don't have a numeric id as a PK, it will assign an invisible one for internal use anyway.

There's no requirement that your PK be numeric with InnoDB. A monotonically increasing numeric ID will have the best performance, yes. But even a small-ish varchar PK may perform better than relying on InnoDB's internal invisible one, depending on the workload.

InnoDB will only use an invisible numeric PK if you have no explicit PK defined, and you either have no UNIQUE KEYs at all either, or all of your UNIQUE KEYs have nullable columns. The column type of your PK is irrelevant though.

The invisible numeric PK is terrible because it uses a system-wide lock (or at least it did prior to 8.0, not sure if this has been fixed). So if you're inserting at any real volume to multiple tables like this, performance suffers badly. Worse still, the lock it uses is the dict_sys mutex, which other code paths (e.g. DROP TABLE) also hit.
To extend @bradleyjg's point, businesses often do try and "do the right thing" but don't always get the "voters" support. For instance, you could have no ads or tracking on your site, and just charge people to view the content. And of course the vast majority of people will simply not view it, go find a "free" version that has ads instead. Most companies could go 100% green today and do so by charging 2-10x more for their products -- do you think people in general would pay for it? It works on some scale, but not in general. So its not as simple as the business doing the right thing and business owners paying the costs. Its about forcing all business to adhere to some regulation, and pass the same cost on to customers in the same way, to achieve some hopefully laudable goal. And that's totally fine in my opinion, but it breaks down when people assume there are no costs passed on to customers, and (again to @bradleyjg's ponit) that you can merely make owners pay it without any knock on effect. Recognizing the costs and how policy works helps voters to push for the right ones IMHO.
Another example on how learning the language along the way gets to unexpected results, memory leaks in event handlers, or how HTTPClient doesn't really handle connection pool the way it should in the .NET Framework variant.
I think police should be able to lie, but any response to a lie should be presumed a lie by the justice system. So, a lie can be used to get an undercover cop out of trouble, but a lie cannot help an interrogation.

Essentially, an officer of the law deciding to lie should invalidate all evidence gained after the lie.
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The problem is that things get worse if you mandate the other side - that officers are prohibited from lying in any interrogation. If that's the case it becomes trivial for a guilty suspect to get information out of the officer because they know that if the officer lies [s]he'll get in trouble. So you end up with this weird area where you want them to be able to lie if necessary, but in general prefer that they didn't. There's not an easy answer.
I’m glad to see this. Pocket Casts just needs an arrangement where they can work on the app without worrying too much about the bills or being pulled into other audio projects. Automattic can provide this environment.
Just to clarify: Hubble was not an NRO donation, although it bears some similarity to the KH-11, an NRO satellite from the 70s. It is not confirmed whether the two actually share parts, as the KH-11 is still classified.

The NRO did donate two unlaunched telescopes to NASA in 2012 (with optics present but sans electronics), which still have not yet been retrofitted and launched.
Let me guess. You're the kind of person who thinks that refusing to 'take the knee' is the worst kind of fascism imagineable. But drawing attention to multiple [and documented] gang rapes of children, disabled people and the elderly by Afghan asylum seekers is "hand wringing"
The part OP didn't say was they don't believe "poor" people should have homes, children, and especially not more than one bedroom. Utterly disgusted at the thread as a whole, and I'm taking a dimmer and dimmer view of HN generally. Seems so full of nastiness these days.
Anyone outright understand differences and/or similarities this and

https://newatlas.com/materials/kaust-lithium-phosphate-llto-...

(HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27444976)
Yes they are trying to dismantle free speech rights by forcing private companies to provide platforms to publish content they do not want to.

There's a reasonable threat in 24 that if the election is close state legislatures will override the will of the people and submit a different set of electoral votes. This was attempted in 2020 but thankfully failed.

Edit: 2016->2020
A better question might be “what happened to IBM?” Most ascribe competition and cloud to their decline, and those are primary factors, but the main reason for their inability to effectively compete was an incompetent CEO.

If you ever heard Ginni Rometty speak at an interview or conference, it’s clear she was in way over her head. She had no real understanding of anything AI or cloud, only that she needed to have AI and cloud and a ready offering for any new buzzword: blockchain, quantum computing, etc.

Under her watch, IBM acquired a cast of companies and tried to assemble a cloud computing arm with little time to do it. While some of Watson’s core tech was born in house much was bolt on acquisitions and hodgepodge marketing to push the narrative of a cohesive whole. The developers gave it a chance, and it mostly sucked. It wasn’t aimed at them after all—-it was aimed at their managers.
Japan Breaks Internet Speed Record at 319 Terabits per Second
There is something similar to this: `Spotify granted patent to use mic to infer emotional state, age, gender, and accent`[0]. Not surprising, given how data hungry most tech companies are now. Without data, they are dead. But how much is really needed to serve ADs? Do we really need to be doing creepy things like 'sentiment analysis' or peering inside the brain? How much access is too much access? I think we are slowly learning the threshold piece by piece.

[0] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/spotify-granted-p...
I am talking about the HTTP requests.
To summarize, it's hypocrisy and cronyism.
Is there a missing "deterministically" in the axiom of choice statement?

I can imagine the common-sense "Of course you can choose one element" assumption breaks down if we add the constraint that you need to in some way be able to have another actor choose the same element. Because for an uncountably-infinite-sized set of uncountably-infinite-sized sets, perhaps there is no way to label individual elements such that if I choose A, someone else can also choose A (how will we know they're the same A?).
His advice probably works well for himself. It is easy to tell for anyone who pulls him over from the way he talks that he is a lawyer. And a decent lawyer can make a lot of inconvenient paperwork for the police department when he's working "for free".
Yes, that's a cleaner way to put it.
Reading your comment got me thinking about evolution and speciation - when are two different specimens different species? That's when you realize Nature knows nothing about species, those are labels applied by man and those labels require a discrete set. Nature doesn't work in discrete sets but works in gradual changes. Based off your comment it would seem to me that civilizations are much the same. Civilizations don't typically "collapse" in a dramatic, extinction-level fashion, they gradually morph and change and keep going. It's our desire for labels that gets in the way.
If the TOS has been violated is irrelevant to the question if github has a license to the code. They may be able to take action against the uploader for damages, but ff the uploader does not have the rights to give them the license, they don't have a license.
One look at the Aducanumab coverage is sufficient to show that journalists have no problem reporting negative news about big companies. Ivermectin isn’t getting positive coverage because there isn’t good evidence that it works. Contrast with the cheap steroids which uncontroversially became a standard treatment because the science showed efficacy.
I may have slightly overstated the case above (and have now edited my language to be softer) because frankly, a lot of stuff said in this thread is extremely upsetting to me. (Not you, you are one of the more reasonable people here.) I don't actually know what the numbers are, strictly speaking. In my experience, a lot of things around this sound reasonable until you actually have to come into contact with the bureaucracy surrounding them, and they end up being much more onerous in practice.

But yes, if you click on the green button, you'll see a list of restrictions. One of those is that if you're participating in any other state or federally funded programs, yes.

The "I have been prescribed this drug" bit is also pernicious; you don't get a prescription for "insulin," you get one for Humalog or Novolog or Levemir. You are at the whim of your doctor. Used one kind for years, but suddenly lose your job, which means a change in health insurance and a change of doctor, who decides that you need to change your brand for whatever reason? You can't use this discount to help keep continuity. (Additionally I am not sure what the "or am a caregiver" requirement is legally, but should really look that one up so that I know exactly what those requirements are, so thank you for giving me something to do today...)
Tried it last week to see what APIs are used to communicate with home appliance. Couldn't get it to work.
Who attempted this? Biden shot down Pramila Jayapal objecting to the certification then.
"People we don't agree with, often representing views we don't like, often get into power! Democracy has failed us"

And yet the logical conclusion never seems to be embracing a small limited government. The power base keeps expanding then everyone gets surprised when their side loses an election.
It even uses some obscure CMS I've never heard of, just like old times.
Sounds like you need a meta-hobby; Collecting collections...

Personally, my meta-hobby is collecting hobbies.
Yep. At least for simracing, it is only enjoyable with the same people race after race.

Random drivers are just too stupid/reckless.
Not "knowledge required to do well" on the y-axis?
Carl Sagan thought this, though he lived during the cold war so it's not surprising he did.
> I've noticed the attempt to shift the focus to some nice-sounding ideas [of real communism]

Man, i just typed "communism definition" for the first sentence, and i've read Marx (And Hegel, and Adam Smith) for my interpretation of Marxism. And that's true that i pass over the revolutionnary talking points, class war, and violence against property as a mean of expression. I do think they are good points, even if i disagree with Marx interpretation of the French revolution in particular (he constructed is opinion on an already constructed, "false" history), and more generally Marx vision of revolutions is romantic and written within his time. I don't think someone deconstructed Marx yet, but he should be.

> neither of them turned workers into shareholders

So how to you read "the workers should own their means of production" in the modern time? Do you think it is Fascism?

Fascism: https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism

Nothing to do with workers. "Far-right" ideologies in the 19th/20th century all worked around the same set of idea:

* Our nation/ our folks are better than the others (more clever, more hardworking, better history...)
* But we're not the best nation/folks in the world
* Hence, there is a cabal against us, lead by (the Jews, the French, the colonials powers... )
* To fight them, we need a strong man/leadership.

Difference between them are how they are organized. Fascism believe in a strong, central power and a strong hierarchy, strong and hard judiciary system, whereas nazism have a more decentralized vision and liked competition between actors, with less rigid rules. Japan had a bit of both, or rather, was a fascist nation with a stronger separation between civil and military power.

Also, you can be fascist and have productive communism.

> There is no such thing, communist system necessitates a totalitarian state.

Yeah, no. Read Proudhon first, then Bakounine maybe? I think Kropotkin have strong words against Bolcheviks, and someone told me it was a great critic of Bakounine (did not read him yet, i'm into the 1730-1850, especially now that university historians are published and easily accessible)
That's an example of what I meant by problems that "are specifically contrived to show quantum supremacy". Scott Aaronson explains this quite well:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317

> So, tl;dr, the quantum computer is simply asked to apply a random (but known) sequence of quantum operations—not because we intrinsically care about the result, but because we’re trying to prove that it can beat a classical computer at some well-defined task.
>For the very rich – Gates and Musk and Bezos and their ilk – all the money in the world can't buy privacy.

There are much more billionaires and multimillionaires that are utterly invisible yet they rule over us. Only the couple that want to do publicly visible things, are.
Yeah it's really hard though these days to sniff traffic from Android because most apps choose not to trust user-added root CAs anymore :(
That seems obvious once you point it out, but yeah, I never really considered how tough it would be if a natural disaster knocked out the fridge for a few days for temperature-sensitive medicine.

Like in Texas earlier this year. (Though I suppose it was cold enough you could stash stuff outside…). I wonder if there any teeny little thermoelectric coolers that you could keep for an emergency and run off a bunch of batteries…
I'm not convinced by the argument that it's okay to deepfake someone's voice because you're "just" reading their own words. A vocal performance is not the same as text: give me the clearest, most innocuous paragraph you can write, and I can easily change the entire meaning of it by delivering the same words with different emphasis, speed, tone, and so on.

This can happen on purpose or by accident. It happens in documentaries all the time, with actors reading primary sources. But, the difference is that using a facsimile of Bourdain's voice makes it seem like a legitimate historical record, and not the creation of the director, which is what it is.
"Same goes for forest fires which is burning trees that had been absorbing carbon."

This actually isn't true. They say they burning of trees requires such a long cycle time that the release of CO2 does contribute to global warming.

My main point was that this distinction isn't something that people commonly think about. Usually think mercury, sulfur, etc, which are not things we naturally emit.
Bjarne has the vote of 1 person at ISO, Rich gets to decide how Clojure looks like, it is not the same.
The example of equivalence classes of sequences from the article (in the problem with hats) is very demonstrative. If I give you a class somehow – how are you gonna pick an element from it?
Provider and Consumer personas co-operating on K8s