skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the mindset at the time, the worst case scenario for the atomic bomb would have been it not going off in anyway way, and then they just handed their greatest enemy dud version if a top secret weapon.

Since it likely would have just blown up (fizzle) even if it didn’t fully detonate that is a pretty remote possibility.

Second worst would be it went off on a base somewhere and nuked a US base. Considering the location of these bases and the nature of the war at that point, it would have been a footnote causality wise, but embarrassing.
But disregarding witness testimonies puts us on even more dangerous path: in order to know "objective facts" you need to put surveilance cameras and microphones everywhere so there is a video footage of every crime.
Yeah I think that's the problem.
> Also, it does not follow that anyone would pay lower salaries.

Bullshit. If you could fuck off to any of a dozen companies doing similar work, your employee would have to pay you well and give you raises and treat you well in order to compel you to stay, otherwise you would leave.

If employers had a magic button they could press to make it so that those dozen employers are too scared to hire you, or to make it so that you're worried about getting sued if you leave, then you will be more likely to stay at your employee, even if they treat you poorly and never give you a raise.

The non-compete agreement is that button, and making you feel like you're captive and can't do anything about it is the real reason why companies like to mash it. They like being able to mistreat you with impunity.
Yep I was expecting green on dark green.
You've been downvoted, but if we had always just let forest fires burn, we'd be in a lot less trouble. Instead we put out fires to protect homes and infrastructure, resulting in a build up of several feet of combustible duff. When this does eventually burn, it burns hot, causing older trees that would have survived otherwise to go up in flames. Forests have pretty much evolved to handle forest fires.

BTW, I'm not dismissing climate change as a major factor here for the prevalence and seriousness of seasonal fires. It's just that the idea of forest management as a remedy to these issues is a nonsense. Forests have managed themselves for millions of years, if we left them to it, they'd probably do alright now.
> could also be other human factors

The cause for the failures have been unprecedented rainfall. There are a million possible factors that can influence the situation, climate change is the leading one. Let's fix it instead of discussing if climate change represents a 90% of the problem or just a 78%.

Let's also spend trillions adding more safety for a worsening and more hostile climate. We could have saved that by taking action earlier, now we need to pay to keep ourselves safe. Let's act before it costs more money and more lives.
Apologies, I meant 2020. will edit nkwt
This is a tangent, but it's funny to think that in the event of something like Jeff Bezos not surviving the flight, it would trigger a parallel event of some people living in a reality where they believed the accident was staged and Jeff would still be alive in some island, it would all be an hoax he could easily afford.
SSDs can (and do) fail before their write endurance levels.

IMHO, it's probably firmware bugs, but it's hard to tell what happened when the SSD is in a datacenter and it just disappears off the data bus. Could easily be component failure, poor assembly leading to solder failure, tin whiskers, etc.
30fps gives longer battery life.

IGN clarified 2 tflops "in the ballpark of xbox one or ps4".
They're probably at a "local optimum" (maybe even global) in their careers. Peak salary, peak expertise match, etc.

Though probably a "different world". It would be hard to retrain to do react development, for example.
I think he is (somewhat confusingly) talking about global dimming, i.e. particulate pollution, masking warming effect of CO2. But we can't really do much about that if we want to stop global warming at all. And it's not even completely clear whether that theory (of dimming) is valid or not, clouds can have a varying effect on temperature.
3. Same-sex couples who want biological children. This is particularly exciting now that artificial wombs are in the horizon [0].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jun/27/parents...
> "BRB I'm gonna ask for VC funding (just joking)"

I dunno … Mebbe you should run do that right now, before someone else does … Get that price down by around half and most every gamer everywhere can afford your shiny new "modern game genie"; Once everyone can cheat, the original cheaters have nowhere left to hide. They're on even footing with everyone else.

Cheater problem solved! ;)
> how many murders and rapists are going to go free.

How many murderers and rapists are minors? Probably not many.
Kidnappings (and pretty much any crime imaginable) would happen a lot more if everyone listened to the advise of never talking to the police.

People can protect themselves from police oversteps without listening to extreme advise from someone suggesting we pretend we don't live in a society.

I'd think any reasonable advise would consider the probability that talking to police in any particular scenario would lead to bad outcomes vs good outcomes, but maybe that's not catchy enough to be retweeted on social networks.
This reads like a stream of loosely connected thoughts. Maybe there's an essay in there but it hasn't really been written yet.

My best guess is that what they're trying to say is, most of the time that we talk about "likelihood", we're talking about things that aren't really determined by random variables, and so therefore probability theory is not a useful model. So, for example, "how likely am I to have a sandwich for lunch?" is not really a question of probability.

Is there more to what he's saying than that?
I’m under the impression the media (and social media) caused it but I’m open to other ideas.
He said, "It kinda feels a little like the common law doctrine of Promissary Estoppel".
But a non-compete doesn't mean that you have to take that time off. It means that you can't work for a competitor.
Who’s theory?

JWST costs upwards to 9 billion USD. An Ariane 5 launch maybe 200 million.

Just because the launch is cheaper doesn’t make the rest of the project less complicated and costly.
Which domain? bizworklife.com? It's up and running. EDIT: Certain countries may have difficulty accessing it, though.
Honestly out of Western countries, the US seems the least concerned about it.
I don’t think crypto bros are at the top of Western World awards matrix.
Intelligence startup closes $4.5M to predict grocery items shoppers will buy
To be generous to the OP’s point, public unions have been growing while private union membership has been shrinking over the past decades.

The majority of construction work is also generally done by private companies, even the project is funded with tax dollars.
One other advantage: High-speed printing.

In the early 90's I worked at a chemical company in a department that sometimes printed labels for sample-size drums of chemicals. We had an enormous tractor-feed laser printer that printed on giant drum-sized stickers. I was told that tractor feed was used because of the speed at which the labels were printed. If you remember the 90's, mechanical handling of individual sheets of paper wasn't very good. Piles of labels was worse.

I have no idea what the tech stack was behind the scenes, but I did each label run with a green screen Wang terminal.

(Fun fact: The administration offices were on one side of a very large, steeply-sloped, man-made hill, and the lab was on the other side. If bad things happened, the sales and administration staff was safe.)
Ask HN: Recommendations for interesting (HN-like) print news sources?
I'm tired of being sucked into other things on the internet so I'm wondering if there's something like Hacker News or Javascript Weekly but in print form. Any other print resources (daily, weekly, or other) you can recommend are welcome.
I’m getting tired of reading these articles that portray Amazon warehouse employees as being too dumb to make their own decisions. We need to admit that the people who made these decisions are capable adults who can decide for themselves what they want to do.

These opinion pieces that imply that Amazon workers were brainwashed or were simply wrong are distasteful. Let’s start having an honest conversation about why these people chose what they chose and stop pretending that they’re too dumb to have considered other options.
It's good old procedural programming. Systems (procedures) are mutating state (components) grouped by a common ID (entity).
Climate change is very real and worth addressing, but it's extremely unlikely to wipe out human civilization. It's just going to be costly and kill millions, not billions.
Why? There's a difference between selling knowledge of software and using it to commit a crime.
The very existence of a non-compete will also scare off some employers. I worked for a very small company for a number of years and we basically wouldn't even talk to anyone who had a non-compete even if it seemed low risk. Just wasn't worth it--especially if they were from a client.
It doesn't matter if they have a significant level of intelligence or desire to better their country. That's the beauty of the system. If you have a large enough sample and a well-designed deliberative structure, even a group of average, self-interested individuals will be able to perform well.

The deliberative structure used is based on research into group decision-making, and is usually some form of system where people split into small discussion groups that engage in structured discussion, then present something to the broader group, then discuss again, then shuffle into different groups and repeat the process.

The fact that people are self-interested also doesn't pose a problem, so long as the sample is large enough. You probably want at least 100 for good measure, depending on the population being represented. Because it's a representative random sample (ideally it's not fully random, but weighted to represent population demographics), you get a broad slice of the population and therefore many competing interests. An individual may wish to further their own interests, but this would conflict with the interests of everyone else. Overall, the group's incentive is to do a good job, because they live in society and their decisions will affect them.
Weed Eating Goats Return to New York to Fend Off Invasive Plant Species
Of course it could be. The problem is that there's no proof that "dry vegetation and bad weather" can only be caused by climate change, or that the cause of these events is climate change. There has been bad weather before humans walked this planet according to scientists, and dry vegetation also.
The axioms of ZF set theory don't let you say "Just choose one at random from each of these uncountable many sets." To simply "choose one at random" you need an axiom to say that you are allowed to do that.

If it's only finitely many sets, finitely many choices, people are usually pretty happy with: "Well, choose one, then another, then another, and in a finite amount of time you'll be done, so that's OK."

If it's countably many sets then many people are happy saying: "Well, choose your first one in an hour, then the next one in 1/2 an hour, then the next in 1/4 of an hour, and so on, and after 2 hours you'll have made all your choices, so that's OK."

But with uncountably many sets neither of those works, and so you need an axiom to tell you that this is a permitted operation.

BTW, it's a separate issue, but in your first line, the part in parentheses does not imply, and is not an explanation of, the first part. These statements:

A: The reals are uncountably infinite;

B: There's an infinite number of real numbers between any two random real numbers.

These are largely unconnected. If you think otherwise then you might want to be a bit more careful and precise in your thinking. You might, of course, have simply mis-spoken yourself, in which case it's not a big deal.

(To start you off, the second statement is true of the rationals, and of the algebraics, both of which are countable).
Awadallah will land on his feet, but what signal does this send to other holders of hateful ideologies? To me, the signal is: “You can’t change. Not really. If you ever held a heterodox view, ever expressed that view in any medium at any time in you life, or were caught in our surveillance capitalist nightmare systems doing so, you’re dead to us.”

How does that inspire anyone to change their view?
This is the type of change we need to celebrate in people not further scrutinize!

As a Jew I would love to create dialogue with a person who realized the past hate was unjust, to hear why the hate existed and more importantly to understand what opened their eyes.

It is that process that will help eliminate hate across the board. Today as a society we approach discrimination through censorship and cancel culture which unfortunately will not solve deep rooted hate.
For the life of me I can't remember the Simpson's episode on this very topic. But there is one and it was super accurate as always.
>My personal laptop's CPU is Intel i7-9750H. I always run it with turbo boost disabled for predictable, sustained performance. Turbo boost is weird as in it can lead to a sub-par user experience (lag) when your processor throttles.

Does your laptop have such atrocious cooling that it can't sustain frequencies higher than base? When my laptop undergoes thermal throttling (ie. hits 95C), the frequency is still above the base frequency, so I'm still getting more performance than if turbo was disabled.

edit: tested with cinebench. On my laptop with intel cpu the sustained all-core turbo frequency is 45% higher than the base frequency. This is with throttlestop enabled, otherwise TDP/tau throttling kicks in first rather than thermal throttling.
Don't forget to monetize that CAPTCHA with an ad banner and a popover streaming video ad for a different game you can "[Install Now!]"
> In a lot of states (including Il), you can't vote while in prison.

Not just while in prison, but afterwards in many states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_t...
> any chance maybe that big ol’ government which owns all the land, and takes all my money could do their job?

I completely agree on that. The government needs money to affront this challenges. In the 40s tax was around 90% to pay for all the needed infrastructure and other projects. It is time that the USA stop thinking that everything comes for free and start getting money to survive to the new century challenges. I see an Asian future otherwise were Western countries are under funded and lack infrastructure.
In theory Yes. In fact, making money and more importantly: financial Freedom is one of the biggest motivations for starting your own business.

However, I personally am not sure if you can just do a business only for money. Because in practice, you would have to deal with customers, employees/contractors, product, sales, marketing, support tickets, servers going down and a lot of other things that comes as part of running a SAAS business. If you are not learning on a daily basis and investing in knowledge which requires some level of interest in things, you at some point would most likely crash and burn.

So my advice is to be very motivated by money. Nothing wrong with that. But be motivated with other things as well as building a successful business is a journey and a career and that requires a lot of other motivations. For example, building something that you really like. Solving problems that you can help your customers tremendously. Those things can add a lot more to your ability to make lot more money.

I run my own SAAS business and I am not just motivated by money even though it is probably the biggest factor for sure and I am not going to sugarcoat it. But if you look at it, I am running the business because other than financial freedom, I also wanted to create something of my own, put a few people together providing a good product to customers (it really excites me) and many other motivations. I don't know if I can wake up every day and just be excited that I am making money. At some point, you need other things to motivate you.
> Over in Germany, where they had massive flooding due to a ton of rain in a short period, everything about it is pinned on climate change, to the exclusion of discussing any other problems that can lead to disaster.

Germany has had "once in century" floods every decade for a while now. It's a densely populated country, meaning people can't just move somewhere else and there are not large swaths of unpopulated/unused lands that could be repurposed for massive flood control systems.

It's also not like we are talking about towns that have been built recently in risk-areas, we are talking about towns that have been in those places for centuries, sometimes over a millennia, which is a testament to how out of the ordinary these floods are.
I don't smoke at all. I cannot see how that is healthy for any part of pulmonary health.
Routine maintenance on EVs does tend to be less, but non-routine damage tends to be much more expensive. That leads to insurance being 40% higher than comparably priced ICE cars. Essentially the median cost is a little lower but the mean cost is much higher.

Here's a interesting Tesla specific take: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/insurance/tesla-insurance

Personally I prefer predictable slightly high costs vs random potential for exorbitantly high costs.
Posted this before here. Maybe worthwhile to post again...

Fig 5-10 is the Data Management Subsystem

https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/sm3a/downloads/sm3a_media_...

Concerning the computers:

- First they had a DF-224 flight computer and a

- Science Instrument Control and Data Handling (SI C&DH)

Initially DF-224 between missions got installed a coprocessor:

https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/hubble/a_pdf/news/facts/Co...

During another servicing mission they replaced it with something called the
Advanced Computer with Intel 80486:

https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/hubble/a_pdf/news/facts/FS...

There are some 50,000 lines of code in the C and Assembly programming languages.
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/327688main_09_SM4_Media_Guide_rev1....

They also have a Help Desk...

"Welcome to the Hubble Space Telescope Help Desk"

https://stsci.service-now.com/hst?id=hst_index
The illustration in the article doesn't start with the whole set of all real numbers, but with just "a" set containing an uncountable number of reals, so there is no contradiction in that sense.

I'm assuming there's some unmentioned technical condition on which sets you are allowed to choose in order for the procedure to work, otherwise the argument would indeed seem to lead to a contradiction when choosing the set of all real numbers.
Yep, websockets are coming later this year, but it's not done yet I'm afraid.

Tracked here: https://github.com/httptoolkit/httptoolkit/issues/36. You can subscribe to the GH issue for updates if you're interested.
All of the risks you just described exists in every home with electrical outlets.
AMD's revenue is half of Intel's profit. Nvidia's market cap is double intel's even though intel's profit is 4 times as high.

Intel still has a long way to fall. Unless ARM becomes dominant to the level x86 is I think they'll recover.
> It's not reasonable for them to also claim ownership over everything you do in your personal life

Yes, that’s what I’m talking about. I agree it’s not reasonable, but just try negotiating your employment agreement terms with a $1T company, and let me know how it goes!
From the TOS[1]:

> If you upload Content that already comes with a license granting GitHub the permissions we need to run our Service, no additional license is required.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...
If it is bad forestry management, we can fix that and it's much easier to hold the people responsible for that job because it's a defined role that they failed at. Compared to how much climate change will supposedly cost us to fix and that it's much more arguable who is responsible for what...
There was another awful case recently in Illinois that would be prevented by something like this. I'm glad Pritzker passed it.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs...

TLDR: A high-school student made a recording of a sexual encounter and word got out. Kid is called to the principal's office where the resource officer (literally a cop that stays on campus) threatened the kid with being put on the sex offender registry among other actions. Kid slips away while staff is waiting for the mom to arrive and jumps off a parking garage, killing himself. School and police deny any wrong doing and "only meant to scare the kid".
Or, you take a year to:

- Get a Master's degree

- Travel and see the world

- Do consulting

- Take a job in Indonasia

- Teach

- Develop a new open source project

- Etc.

The resume gap / career stagnation is a choice. It's rare that you can have a gap year like this. I totally don't feel bad about paid non-competes.
Difference is, I play both sides, while retail only knows "buy buy buy" when the prices were rising.
If personal anecdotes are irrelevant, then what are you basing your opinions on?

Presumably, you work at FB otherwise you wouldn't know this ;)
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leave it where it is. Great for soil health and forest rejuvenation.
It was written very lazily and quickly, by someone who knows that getting an article out first is going to be one of the most important things to driving clicks.
I remember doing something rather stupid in grade school, to the extent that the police were brought in to question me about it. The "crime" itself was really nothing more than unauthorized access to the district's private FTP server, but the officers questioning me started saying some really odd stuff: they were trying to get me to admit culpability to things that I didn't understand, some of which I was very skeptical of. As scared as I was, I recalled my mom telling me to ask for a lawyer when I was younger, so I did. This seemed to disgruntle everyone in the room, but it also ended the whole ordeal pretty quickly.

I later learned that these cops had our school's security company on the line, who was flabbergasted by the idea that unsecured FTP could be accessed by wisecracking students. Suffice to say, I'm all for legislation like this.
1. Take it gradually. Perhaps first jot down some thoughts in a notes app or on paper. Also, think about your reply in terms of drafts - you don't have to send the 1st draft anywhere. Write the 1st draft down somewhere just to get the main ideas out of your head, and then perhaps do a round or 2 of revision. But the 1st draft is just for you, to clarify your thoughts.

2. Take a walk to figure out what you want to say. 20 min walk in nature (or a park) boosts concentration, and helps you figure out what you want to say. A walk before a difficult task clarifies your thinking, so that when you sit down, you know what to do or say.

Hope that helps.
To your first point: Cops have "meme-like" thoughts and sayings as well ("9 out of 10 times, the spouse did it", etc.) that would prove the attorney's point: by involving the cops, you're going to get investigated to some degree. The more serious the crime, the more likely this is.

It's not cynical for a defense attorney to have the goal of "the people I represent never go to jail". It's literally his job. The fact that he then takes that advice out of his office and onto YouTube as part of his advertising his practice also seems reasonable.

IDK if you murder-raped 100,000 people. Due process is due process. The worse the charge the higher the level of effort I'm expecting from the cops. If they can't get charges to stick, what are they even there for?
Saved for when I get round to it