skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, but Pharaohs couldn't shoot a car into space.
> Even then out past a thousand light years even a multi-terawatt (EIRP) signal would be difficult to detect.

Not necessarily. Gravitational lensing may enable directed communication at much lower power levels : https://storkpaulo.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/gravitational-le...
The very idea of corporations deciding on what is correct thought should shake people to the core regardless of ideology. Some might come up with hair-splitting justifications but this will come back to bite all of us and we let it happen. I'd bet the bank on it.
It's worth noting that childcare is an especially huge issue right now... because there aren't enough workers. And raising wages is a Catch-22 because it directly affects childcare costs.
”Maximum security prison” - which is rather the regular security jail where he had been taken off suicide watch, and whose camera system, which was covering his corridor, was out of order. Plus the guards didn’t really seem to pay much attention.
I technically assume I know why you are asking this question, but I will respond in good faith.

No.

Money is power and too much power gathered in too few hands is a recipe for a disaster. You may consider me as something of a radical since if I had any real power to implement policy, there would be an upper bound to what you can own ( say 3 Hawaian islands ).

I do not consider some poor sap trying to decide whether it is a better thing for him to get $cheap_food as a result of unemployment or minimum wage job an issue of the same magnitude. In fact, their only nexus is that they happen to involve money.
Why pretend that there hasn't been loads of fake harmful covid misinformation over the last year? The conspiracy theorists have not been vindicated, or are you taking hydroxychloroquine?
I suspect the FCC regulations around spread spectrum, bitrate, and encryption were more about espionage.

https://hackaday.com/2018/11/26/fcc-gets-complaint-proposed-...

Furthermore, the encryption ban is not specific to ham radio. The guvmin't just wants to be able to listen in, and do so easily.
US society is designed so that a significant percentage of people will live in cages, far more than any other society on Earth currently. I guess this helps make that happen? I personally don't think this is right or beneficial, but it's something the US works very hard to accomplish and seems incapable of dialing back.
That's a good point. It's pretty easy to construct and maintain fission reactors without fossil fuels. I bet enriching uranium was a snap in the 18th century, too. It will be even easier even getting to the enrichment phase in the future, with accessible ores about 30% as rich as they were when the nuclear age began.

Looking forward to the fleet of electric concrete trucks carrying electrically-manufactured concrete loaded with batteries that were produced with lithium carbonate dug out of the ground by electric excavation rigs.

All of this construction work will also not be disrupted by any social unrest resulting from 3 billion people starving to death because the Haber process no longer has enough cheap feedstock to sustain modern agricultural processes.

Thanks for educating me.
Sundar needs to step the fuck down.
> Stage 4 of the CDA outline can be critiqued on several grounds. The ﬁrst is that if we have all the numbers in [0,1] in our table a priori, then using the diagonal process to create a number that is not in the original set does precisely that: It creates a number that is not in [0,1]. So why does the constructed anti-diagonal number seem to have a form that puts it within [0,1]? Could it be that ignoring the zero ahead of the decimal point is a bit sneaky?

You wrote all this and you don't seem to understand how proof by contradiction works?

> If, instead, we construct the anti-diagonal number by counting down the table by positions before each digit selection we find that any anti-diagonal number constructed (from the rectangle) is now within the set we have counted through, and therefore not outside the counted set. This Stretched Diagonal counterargument remains true as d→ ∞, irrespective of any ordering of number representations in the table.

This is not how anything works. You can't take a proof where they create an example that leads to contradictions and say, well, if you choose a different example, it doesn't lead to contradictions, so the proof doesn't work.

Your "proof" in Appendix B is also just gibberish from a mathematical perspective. The infinity and cardinalities aren't numbers - this isn't a mathematically rigorous statement: lim(n -> inf) log(n) = inf = aleph_0 - it's nonsense. What you're saying here is that as n increases without bound, 2^n also increases without bound. That doesn't prove anything about the cardinality of infinite sets.

Also, since you seem to accept that |R| is equivalent 2^|N|, it's also not hard to prove that 2^|S| > |S| for any S. 2^|S| < |S| is trivially untrue and if |S| = 2^|S], there must be at least one bijection F such that F: S => P(S) and inverse F^-1: P(S) => S

Now define S' to be a subset of S such that s is in S if & only if it's in S, but not in F(s). Now, consider F^-1(S') - it must be in S, due to how it's defined. Let's consider whether it's also in S':

1. If F^-1(S') is not in S' (= F(F^-1(S')), by definition, it must be in S'

2. If F^-1(S') is in S', by definition it must not be in S'

Since both these lead to contradictions, the assumption that there must be a bijection between P(S) and S mut be false.

On the whole, you seem to be generally confused - R is not a real thing - it's a mathematical abstraction.
I think people are alarmed, but solutions to these problems are enormously costly and largely fictional. The techniques we have for living in space (or transiting through it) would not sustain us if we lost earth. They are enormously costly[1], which is fine for what we are doing, but we need multiple orders-of-magnitude improvement to be practically interstellar.

On balance, I think we could spend more, but I also think diminishing returns is very real. Giving the wright brothers 100,000 workers to build copies of their planes would not have gotten us to the space shuttle much faster. Ironically, it could have slowed us down because of sunk cost fallacies.

[1] https://twitter.com/sim_kern/status/1411304471934685184
>A vial of analog insulin costs something like $6-7 to produce, probably less at Walmart scale

Where are you getting the $6-7 figure from? Artisan insulin makers? Feels like every insulin maker out there operates at walmart's scale, if not bigger. If that's where we're getting the $6-7 figure from, then it's not reasonable to expect it to drop any further.
Uhh wait are you actually complaining about having kids and a job? Wasn't that all your choice?! Didn't a $300 tax break per child just get sent out directly to you? Isn't that paid for by everyone even people without kids? Aren't you getting a free lunch? I demand you send me your $$ or stop your whining
Google Drive blocks vaccination document
No, it was a theory that millions of people thought was the most likely possibility. Those people were silenced on Youtube/Twitter etc.
Instructions for a Banach-Tarski theorem demo:

1. Find any solid object.

2. Divide that object in infinite, dimensionless fragments.

3. Make as many copies as you want with the infinite fragments.

4. Reform the original object with the remaining fragments.

... I still have fragments please help.
Okay, but the interesting thing is what you can do now that the data is out there. Can you adjust your in-game specs to align? Or is that a problem?
But, aren't human police bound by/to human constructs?

I've always wondered why the "Him", "He", turns "Cap H Christians" do it out of respect, not grammar. I've been reading about Haile Selassie, often referred to as "HIM" or His Imperial Majesty.
Brine, if it's actually brine, is safe to dump into the sea, too. Kinda cool if waste dumping ends up being adding more seawater to seawater.
So is google cloud going to do that on people's servers and databases as well? Delete the (lawful) content Google deems "misleading content"?

Can someone from GCP comment here on record?
They might not be producing, but they are consuming, which I would argue is more important. The amount of labor it takes to produce a product has gone down orders of magnitude with modern technology, the efficiency of capitalism is eliminating human labor as fast as it can.
Uh "good intentions"? I think you mean "ruling class lackeys"
Totally agree. Some shitty prosecutor will 1000% make some Americans life miserable just to add a conviction to their belt. The risk is probably not worth the reward.
NDAs and trade secrets are difficult to enforce in practice for many types of ip that can't go in a patent, like market and product strategy.
Backwards incompatible changes will eventually be required by the business - at least once that business is oriented such that technical concerns do not overrule all other concerns.
Again, it was implemented and it didn't do any good, on purpose as soon as users tried to actually use it.

It's not a good faith agreement if "we agree to do this only so long as the setting to enable it is in the sub-sub-basement of the browser locked in a closet marked 'Beware of Leopard'". If it wasn't "oh no a browser enabled it by default" it would have been "oh no a tutorial went viral on social media telling people how there isn't really a leopard and that everyone should just open that closet and click the button", because again the excuse doesn't matter why they stopped supporting it they never planned to support it for more than the theory of it. There's always some other excuse. It was only ever a "heisenberg feature": it can either not be used or it could just not exist. I'm saying it's not possible at all to design a "heisenberg feature" like that in any possible definition of "good faith". If it wasn't designed to be used by even a paltry 5% of users at the time they balked and stopped supporting it, it wasn't designed in good faith. There's no way to look at that and think they meant anything about any of their promises when they said they'd support it.
seems unlikely that Biden knows who Andrew Lee is or what freenode is...
No. It's about fascism and pushing a politicol agenda that has destroyed millions of people's jobs, livelihoods, out-right MURDERED people all to take out orange man.

Stop being a fucking tool.
WhatsApp blocks 2M India users over 'spam message abuses'
Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann on SoftBank: “We’re Taking Toxic Money”
I’ve been running an AFP one on my NAS for a few years now and it has been a regular headache as Apple breaks it with OS updates periodically.

Even worse is that Apples diagnostics are woefully inadequate with missing/useless error messages which makes it much harder to get working again.
I'll be cancelling and migrating away from Google as soon as I have a free weekend to identify alternatives and get it done.

Now to find a vanity email domain... My last name is taken, so brainstorming something that is professional and individualized could take longer than the migration...
As I read this, there is not one link to an alternative to Google Drive in the comments.

Any suggestions? Distributed solutions (or self managed) preferred.
Startup Hiring and Recruiting Tips
I wrote up a bunch of tips for hiring and recruiting within startups:

- how to make hiring faster
- create a hiring strategy
- improve careers page
- make posts more equitable
- using a candidate packet
- mining your network
- effective review mtg
- bundled hiring
I would imagine that if a game developer has access to a classified document, that actual enemies already own that document and the real harm has been done long ago.
Not to mention that the person making the assurances -- hiring manager, or even worse, recruiter (who may not even be an employee!) -- is not likely the person who makes the decision to enforce the clause.
Issue still being the money was gated through academia, which bugs a lot of the people involved in this discussion.
"rigid-minded corporate types finding ways to rationalize their defeatism"

A bit of hyperbole there. I personally am nothing close to a rigid-minded corporate type but give me one good reason to feel good about crypto right now other than trying to get rich quick. Give me a good practical reason.
Even tetra-chromatic humans exist, although it's pretty rare. The fourth cone tends to peak between green and red though.
Interesting... so I wrote a wrote an article on gun violence

https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/

Guess it contradicts the official position of the current administration (not reality). So will my drive content be removed?

Similarly, I have been monitoring the CDC change the covid19 deaths rate over time.

https://austingwalters.com/changes-in-the-cdc-counts-of-deat...

It appears the CDC had been inaccurately portraying the deaths rate(s) (I assume unintentionally). Particularly, it appears there's a significant number of unexplained deaths. That could be "misleading?" because I regularly collaborate with and we update the data.

"misleading" does not mean not inaccurate. Often the context matters and how is Google going to take this into account? We have multiple theories and discuss them, find more information and put it together.
Just because you didn’t hear anything doesn’t mean they aren’t saying it. That’s just weak sauce argument and insults on your part.

Lose the agenda.
> and there's very little political activity at all

How do you know?
I just wanted to respond.

Gain of function isn't a conspiracy. It's research methodology.

We still don't know for a fact what happened. Lab leak seems incredibly plausible, but we need more data to understand.

If lab leak is what happened, then this is likely a case of best intentions that went horribly awry. Your response is far too extreme and discounts the failure modes that may have been more likely.

Researchers in the US wanted to conduct gain of function research but couldn't due to the legislative environment.

China has a ton of novel coronaviruses in local wildlife reservoirs that do cause disease and can evolve to impact humans. These are worth studying.

An arrangement could have been made to study these viruses with research objectives laid out by Western scientists. That's not bioweapons research. That's basic science.

The Wuhan lab may not have been equipped with the same safety protocols, enabling the virus to escape. Here's something we'd still need to find out.

What we need to look at is the cause of failure and prevent it from happening again. If rules were broken, then a handful of individuals may be responsible for unleashing this. (Overzealous Western researchers and Chinese lab personnel.)

This is geopolitically complicated and all parties involved are trying to save face. China and the US included. Not to mention every government that was slow to act in stopping the spread.

This is maybe human error. Lots of human error. If this is the case, it's historically notable as probably one of the greatest mistakes in human history. It cost millions of lives.

Through the same lens, it's also interesting to see all of the positive changes. RNA vaccines, remote work, supply chain discoveries, etc.
While worrisome, I'm surprised HN has essentially nothing negative to say about people spreading vaccine misinformation, peddling The Big Lie, or other conspiratorial zeitgeist stuff from the last 5ish years.
Keep in mind that large segments of US citizens believe both poverty and ill-health are moral judgements.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27858491

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27858456
Not a lawyer, but Canada's system differs in a few ways from the US. There's no right to have a lawyer present, only to speak to a lawyer (usually by phone). So you're on your own in the interrogation room.

If you're not being charged with anything, you're not required to voluntarily show up for an interrogation. If you're detained, you can always ask "Am I free to leave?" and, if they answer yes, just walk out.

Police are permitted to keep asking you the same question even if you repeatedly say "My lawyer has instructed me not to answer questions", but obviously there's a line where it will start to look abusive on the tape and where the interrogator will just get frustrated and end the interview.

You can't be compelled to testify against yourself, but others can potentially be compelled to testify against you (on the condition that their testimony can't be used to incriminate them in the future).
If we need merge conflicts that must be manually resolved, how can this product being discussed exist?

If merge conflicts can be automatically resolved, why aren't we using a system that does operates like that under the hood rather than needing a product like this bolted on?
That's not how it works, before Batista's coup, the president was Prios Socarras, that had no beef with the US, I would say the opposite. Batista's coup, was an inside job. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista#Military_cou...
Let's learn Kubernetes – Coming soon
"Free markets" require a perfect knowledge of all things about those products that is constantly kept up to date. As soon as a company is bought out, some brand decides to change their ingredients, or any number of other events, then you're back at square one.

Ethical consumerism is a constant treadmill. Even knowing which brands are owned by which corporations is an absolutely exhausting affair.

You honestly expect people to keep up with this? It's as bad as a software dependency chart.

https://i.imgur.com/pnMMj.jpg
Ridiculous distinction.

I can own content. I can print it or burn it to a DVD and give it to a friend. But I can't just send him a link?

Ridiculous.
I wish the article was more about the mysticism angle. E.g. the alchemy combining intention, attention, and aspiration, into prediction, then tempering it in the clear fluid of dominionist faith and a benevolent g-d.
good points. sounds like there need to be some controls added where you choose how you'd like to specify those values.
No, to say that climate change is a factor, you just need a non-zero correlation between climate change and any of these events (i.e. even if it only causes a 0.1% increase in weather variability and that contributes to an increase of only 5M galons of water in a flood, it is still a factor). And peer reviewed studies are plenty and they do support the idea that a strong correlation does exist across many types of extreme weather events.

If you want to argue that carbon offsets don't have as much direct impact on specific problems (floods, fires, whatever), sure, that's a valid question about resource prioritization, but the theme I keep hearing is that these things keep getting worse year after year and that in a lot of cases it's no longer at a scale small enough for infrastructure projects to even be feasible anymore.
No. That appeal to some notion of free speech is bunk.

They can “stay neutral” by limiting the ability to share widely. Free speech doesn’t mean that you are entitled to a billboard, radio station, or global content delivery network.

By aligning global distribution with easy content marketing, Google, Facebook, etc created a monstrosity that encourages the worst content and systematically evicerates high quality content.

That fundamental lack of understanding by naive engineers drives a lot of the problems we have.
I agree, though stockpiling for months is over the top. He lives in a place where it's reasonable to expect the government to mount a successful rescue for some major crisis (extended blackout, amazingly bad winter storm, nuclear attack on DC/NYC, etc). One of the states that handled the pandemic pretty reasonably.

If things are so bad that you need six months' of supplies....well presumably the crisis will be longer than six months.

As for guns, as I said my buddy has good opsec -- he never talks about this, so unless you're the kind of friend who would end up in his basement for some reason you'd never know. But the preppers I casually run into (mostly at shooting ranges) always seem to be the types whose homes would be worth invading if there were a crisis and you needed firearms!
Hacker News was cool maybe 10 years ago. Now it's just one gigantic liberal toolshed.
The moderation on HackerNews has gotten worse over the last five years. Reflexive downvoting for simple disagreement without the effort of a written response is the go-to short circuited brain-dead, ideological response I came to HN to avoid. Now down vote this as off-topic.
That's certainly a lot of what I do as an actor. The words mean what I want them to mean. Or rather, what my director tells me they want them to mean. Whatever tells the story they want to tell.

It helps that I tend to work with classic texts, written with a minimum of commentary from the writer. Writers today tend to add a lot of extra stuff to their scripts telling me that they want the words to mean, and controlling every motion as if I were a puppet. Personally, I find that less interesting.
Not really, the weapon does not need to slow down. If its just a big enough chunk of rock that is aimed at a planet and it speeds up the whole way reaching some impressive fraction of the speed of light before impact, the only hard part is the math to aim it. We are reasonably close now to being able to strap some engines on an chunk of rock and send it on its way randomly in one direction. We are very far away from being able to start a seed colony in another solar system.
There's an optometry place in my neighborhood with a back-lit sign with big, blue block letters. And every time I walk by at night I note how fuzzy it looks.

I'm convinced this is an intentional troll. This optometrist knowingly picked a sign to make people momentarily question their vision.
This is a valuable comment that is also a pun. Tesla having a patent on a process does not mean that it's necessarily what they're going to do, simply an option they're exploring. Hence, take this article with a grain of salt.
A lot of the jobs in question don't care about resume gaps (especially during a pandemic) and are not outsourceable. For instance, restaurant, customer service, and retail is hard-hit right now. (I am in this line of work). You cant hire someone in Bangladesh to work those jobs, and you don't care if they were unemployed last year.

But it's also impossible to pay them $10k a month. It's literally not mathematically possible. It's not a case of greed. The profit margins simply aren't fat enough. Around me, they're paying $15 to $16 an hour which is pretty generous and about what I'm making right now.

At the end of the day, there is a huge shortage of labor. We know this because the workforce participation rate is at multidecade record lows. You can tell employers just to pay more, but it's not going to solve the fundamental issue. That's like trying to resolve the housing crisis by telling home shoppers to simply pay more and then wringing your hands of it.
Apparently not related to the story, but the headline reminded me I recently considered if humanity was ever wiped out and the Earth went through a similar cycle that generated intelligent life again a million years from now, the first archaeologist to find a human time capsule is going to shit.
That doesn't really answer the question. There's a lot of subsidies going around, but how much difference does it make to foods at the checkout? Does [junk food item] being 10% more expensive cause a meaningful drop in consumption?
I can't believe the shuttle chased down a satellite to fix it in five spacewalks. How many satellites have had service missions like this?
>...but one should be honest about their likelihood.

I agree, but I don't trust any central authority (especially the government!) to do that for me.

Educating people & empowering them to make this call is a much more ethical, and fruitful, endeavor.

To loosely paraphrase Mark Twain (I believe?): Just because a toddler can't use a sharp knife doesn't mean that I have to use a butter knife to cut my steak.