skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you'd be surprised. At a former job (in IT in academia)...

me: I think we can build something in-house here better than what the vendor will provide, I think the vendor's solution is likely to be a failure for us.

them: Yeah, but if do it in-house and it fails, it's our fault. If the vendor's solution fails, it's their fault -- plenty of very prestigious universities are using this vendor, nobody's going to blame us for choosing them. [Ie, "nobody got fired for picking IBM" basically].
I myself had a couple of bricks when messing with grub. Nothing that a live boot and a mkinitcpio didn't solve.
second this...I've been thinking of 'degooglefying' my life for a bit, as convenient as some of the products are this concerns and worries me
Unfortunately, I am well aware that I don't know when they're trying to coerce an admission. One of the things I'm most terrified of is being asked "Do you know why I pulled you over?", and I can't think of any answer that doesn't have the potential to land me in a lot of trouble.

I feel like that question is going to be hostile no matter what. I've been told by police that they don't use it, but didn't rule out the notion that others might.

I've never had an encounter with the police worse than a basic traffic stop, so I've never really had to apply the "don't talk" advice. I hope I never do. Because I'm quite certain I'll do the wrong thing, regardless of what I do.
Just some of us, meanwhile the wealthy ones will live in semi-closed environments free of most damage made by climate change and other environmental issues.
me too. If anything, emojis seem to reduce emotional misunderstanding of intent
Actually, no. You can take more snapshots, but that's just an added feature.
> Or might this imply that the electrons are actually distinguishable in some way?

I mean... they're not in exactly the same position and state at exactly the same time, no? That would seem to distinguish them.
This is the sound you would hear when you press print:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5kG3E5Jolg
Ask HN: Do you think Amazon's “Customer Centric” approach is declining?
Thanks for asking! We priced it to ensure that it's affordable for small teams and is only charging based on who uses it for larger teams. Would you have preferred a different plan.
Over enough time and space, probabilities other than 0 and 1 become rare; i.e., things that are not impossible become inevitable.

Bracewell-von Neumann self-replicating interstellar probes are not impossible. I think we're not too far away from being able to create and launch them ourselves, if we survive.

Has any technical civilization in galactic history launched a BvN probe? It only takes one launch of a BvN probe to saturate the galaxy for all time afterwards, esp. if they can mutate and compete. But we don't see any such probe activity, and I think that we would, if they were busily mining asteroids and frantically manufacturing copies of themselves. So I think we can tentatively assume that nobody has launched one yet in our galaxy; and explaining that possibility leads to some unsettling consequences.
Yet another reason to avoid using cloud (i.e., someone else's computer that you don't control) products.
This, of course, was not the reason for the eventual problems, but to illustrate that this kind of thing was understood.

For some reason I had thought this (gravity stuff) was the problem. What was the actual problem?
How do they purchase it?

What if they buy a new computer?

What OSes do you support?
username checks out :D

It's true though, making a detailed plan requires detailed inputs. Are there any specific areas in the funnel that you would recommend cutting out or altering?
tbh we've found it's just easier for many of our customers that way. However, we do offer custom pricing plans (annual contracts etc), so do let us know if you have a different preference!
Very much so, this is my second and I've had it for a year now: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2020/04/04/2310
They will support this as long as the government in place is one that aligns with their own views. That's pretty obvious, right? Given the explicit mention of banning the discussion of voter fraud - something the Democrats have done before, but is now "illegal".
Thanks @timtamboy63, now we know you you are :)
Not surprised to learn. Approx. 5 years ago we talked to the team at IBM to see if they are able to replicate and improve historical results we had achieved in trading our quantitative algorithm using our proprietary data set. Not only could they not improve it, they couldn't even come close replicating the real results. They became so desperate that they were willing to send an entire team from the West Coast to the East Coast at their expense in order to identify the reason.
Print Shop changed my life in several ways. First, it introduced me to fonts at a time when the only fonts available were fixed-width raster fonts. I have loved fonts since then, although pretty much between 1989 to 2001 I stuck with fixed-width fonts for performance and compatibility reasons (linux had terrible font support at the time). I later found out about the font wars (adobe/microsoft/apple) and how the end result was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType

Second, it made me learn bit math so I could render fonts onscreen in high res. That played a huge role in me becoming a better programming (scripter-> coder).
That's the accusation which emboldens irrational hate, yes. Where's the proof?
This feels like it starts to get to the heart of the matter. If you want to compel someone's activities, especially if it involves restricting their employment, seems pretty fair to compensate them throughout the period in which it applies.
Don't worry, one day we all end up working for Amazon and they provide Amazon Healthcare at their Amazon Hospitals (wait times decreased to see a doctor based on PPH [picks per hour] minus TOT [time off task]). On your way back to work, don't forget to grab your prescription at the Amazon Pharmacy, where you can buy some Amazon Drugs (side effects might include decreased productivity, please use sparingly).
Note that this is a cooperation with Novo Nordisk, which is one of the "bad guys" in the insulin story.
I know, right? THINKING was the most curious thing for 5th grade me.
THINKING
PRINTING
THINKING
PRINTING
The Democrats are also talking about packing the Supreme Court, and about ending the filibuster so that they can get their agenda passed.
I am testing it. Died on me when applying the desktop config, but I haven't been able to toy with it for long.

It is very, very promising. It spits a JSON that can be used for reproducible installs. It is also very flexible in which you can use the API with custom python install scripts. Very impressive and ergonomic.
I can't believe we give a company such power in exchange for so little.
> These people literally put their lives on the line for public safety.

This is true. It is also true that they don't need to lie to do their jobs.

For the record, I think they're pretty good at their jobs, and 99.999% of the time, they act justly. But they still don't need to lie.
Knots in a Cubic Lattice [pdf]
What. The. Hell.

I suppose limiting sharing might be justified. But limiting access and/or deleting own files is outrageous.

For that matter, collections of misleading content can have legitimate purposes. Such as research.

Now I'm seriously considering dropping my Drive subscription.

Update: I got a lot of upvotes, but tbh I may have misunderstood the new policy, which does seem to (maybe?) only be limited to distribution of misleading content. I do think Google has a legitimate interest in regulating use of it's services as means of distributing information. I'm not sure where the line is, though. For example, if I sent an email to a friend in which I said something that isn't true, I think I would rightly be upset if Google refused to deliver the email. OTOH, if I was sending this to large numbers of people regularly, as part of some kind of misinformation operation, then maybe blocking me would be a legitimate. Complicated.
California uses something on the order of 1 GWh/day. If they have the ability to store up hundreds of GWh in a reservoir, then the exact amount becomes largely irrelevant. They have enough, and the limiting factor is power rather than energy.
It is when the disagreement can be eliminated by reducing a vote's consequences.
This is the result of prohibition. Many other people wish to manufacture and sell cheaper insulin, it is just illegal to do so.

This is a government problem, not a healthcare system problem.
Probably because you haven't read the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Federalist Papers.
The doc in question (https://archive.org/details/frontline-workers-testimonies-va...) contains anecdotes mixed with blatant lies about vaccine side effects.

I totally agree that moderation can be overreaching, but this is not one of those cases.

(Edit: context from the submitter here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27858045)
I can agree with this assessment. But i can also understand someone advocating for change the overarching system to avoid that lesser-of-two-evils scenario while simultaneously hedging within the current system by voting locally against something like unionization. Whether those two approaches can coexist long term, I don’t know.
Could you please link to that video?
The lifetime plan is already a one-time payment option. Are you saying you feel it's priced too steeply for intermittent use?
Consultant/freelancers frequently deal with:

Client: "you can't work with competitors"

Consultant: "ok, how do you define competitor?"

Client: "Anyone that might compete with a line-of-business we have or plan to have"

Consultant: "ok, can you list those lines of businesses?"

Client: "no... some are in R&D phases... many won't even work out"

Consultant: "can you just give us a list of competitors?"

Client: "not really, because who knows what kind of company we'll be in 3 years!"
You're looking at a picture of a woman who gave birth to a child and saying that because the woman has a mustache and plays baseball, that she's a man. Would you also say that a man who stabbed an innocent victim to death isn't a murderer because he volunteers at a soup kitchen, is well-groomed, and identifies as virtuous?
Why exactly do we have internet lines to enemy countries that were at war with by proxy? We can block their routing with the flick of a switch. The harm done by countries were at war with far outweighs the benefits.
I use a small moleskin pocket ("cashiers"?) journal and Zebra F-402 pen.

It's not obnoxious to pull out and jot something down as it would be to take out a digital device would be. I have a record that's easy to look through. I line-out items that I don't need anymore. If it's a large block of text or picture that I've transfered to somewhere else, I 'X' through the whole thing. It looks neat and clean.
Ahh Hell No!

I mean - Who gets to define 'misleading and/or confusing'? Google? A court case?

If they (Google) want to impose restrictions such as "Do not distribute content that deceives, misleads, or confuses users" - Might I suggest that they apply those very same standards to their own behavior.

* But who can watch the watchmen? *

I am grateful that I have a symmetric ftth connection. Information (correct or incorrect) needs to be free - as in Free to be expressed; Free to be ridiculed; Free to be disseminated; Free to be discussed; Free to be exposed to the light of day.

It is for the people themselves to decide what they do or do not believe.

Do I want Google to decide what is or is not misleading or confusing? Eh??? Say Whhaaatttt!!! Ever read a contracts terms and conditions? They can be as confusing AF… so uhhmm Yep – Let’s Ban ‘em! Woot!

Google, Eat Your Own Dogfood.
Pressure by Chinese government, maybe?
A good portion of the world is raised in an environment that promotes the hating of other religions, but apparently acknowledging this is unacceptable.

> On one hand, I’m grateful that you no longer hate my children. On the other, this has made my job as one of your colleagues much harder.

Now that's an attention seeking diva!
> The problem with Russian hackers is the law there doesn't give a damn, so they're untouchable.

Is it not the case that no Russian criminal offence has taken place?

Not that I’m saying that’s great, but that might be the excuse needed to look the other way whilst carnage ensues ?
Looking at the Suzanne demo - https://google.github.io/filament/webgl/suzanne.html, you can see some objects being reflected on the back of the head. Is it raytracing?
Great information to share.

I wish more people knew about Walmart's $25/vial regular insulin. Like you said, it's available without a prescription at any Walmart (except in Indiana). Dosing needs to be adjusted relative to insulin analogs, but it's a viable option for anyone in a money pinch who hasn't yet gone through the process of signing up for patient assistance programs for their analog.
Self control is irrelevant when your financial situation prevents you from having the opportunity to make choices.
If there's one thing the history of authoritarianism has taught us, it's that the invasion of privacy will not be contained. Invasion of Privacy breaks free, it expands to new territories, and crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh, well, there it is. ...

Authoritarianism will find away.

- Ian Malcolm after they raided his house for publishing the memoires of his stay at Jurassic Park to Google Docs
> this rando user had the document

They’re a Challenger instructor. Who else do you think the document is for?
It's less stupid than it sounds. The biggest part of it is a ban on encryption for hams and language making true spread spectrum difficult. These are the two biggest components to making radio resistant to interference by the state (eavesdropping and jamming).
> One aspect of this culture which bothers me in particular is the idea that learning programming languages is unconditionally good.

Stated exactly like that, yes, that's probably not a good idea.

Stated like "learning new programming languages that are significantly different than the ones you already know is unconditionally good" - that's very close to truth.

The languages you named are Objective-C, C++, Java, C#, and Python. From my perspective, those languages are so similar as to be almost the same.

Learning Red, Io, (a) Lisp, Prolog, Smalltalk, Curry, TLA+, Coq/Lean (or any other theorem prover, actually), Erlang, or (a) FORTH will actually give you an experience that's significantly different than anything else you've used before, with accompanying new ways of thinking that you can apply to your other languages and projects.
I updated the title, thanks.
> Obviously, if I work as a developer making a stock trading app, I shouldn't be making a competing stock trading app after hours.

For rank-and-file employees, I don't think this is so obvious. It presents a potential conflict of interest, sure, but if I'm fulfilling my job responsibilities and not holding anything back or stealing nonpublic info/trade secrets/whatever then what's the problem? It shouldn't be the mere possibility of competition--we like competition, remember?

In America we default to the corporation's rights taking precedence over the individual's rights. We say the mere risk that an employee's side projects might step on their employer's (poorly defined) rights in some way is enough to preemptively assign ownership of all the employee's work to their employer, just in case. From the viewpoint of the corporate masters and the lifelong-conditioned wage-slave masses, that seems good and right; in a vacuum, IMO, it seems completely backwards. We should be trying to nucleate innovation, not stifle it. Why should an employee with a good idea, who is not paid to have ideas in that scope, jump through whatever hoops it takes to get their employer to notice it--probably at the cost of their own time, uncompensated--and let said employer reap the lion's share of the rewards?

Even for employees who are literally paid to generate ideas, for product design or strategy or whatever else, the onus should be on the employer to provide a good value proposition for employees to share their ideas (the original contents of their own minds) rather than hold onto them. In reality I see plenty of cases where this does happen, so while the "shower idea" argument is compelling enough, I don't think it's an effect that stands to substantially threaten corporate success regardless of whatever rote legalese appears in employment agreements.

At the very least, even if (the general) you don't agree with me, you should take a step back and consider whether your personal ethic of capitalism is giving employers more moral weight than they are really due.
Quite a lot of people do lack self control and it’s controversial to state this. Also, it is time consuming to read every single label on food that one buys. The labels on the front are often misleading.

I frequently work at state fairs & arts and crafts festivals on the east coast. The amount of very overweight and obese people is simply astounding.

About half of one coke is the average adult’s recommended sugar intake. I know more people than I’d like who have at least one soda every day, and some who have multiple every day.

Nearly everything in our supermarkets has a lot of sugar. Including common things like bread and pasta sauce. Last time I checked at publix, I only found -one- type of bread that didn’t have a lot of sugar in it. Finding a protein bar without tons of sugar was rather difficult. Etc.

Combine this with sitting all day + driving everywhere and we’ve got a huge problem.
They shouldn’t be used period. They typically harm the peons much more than the people in power. Sometimes you hear the argument that will cause the peons to rise up and throw off their leaders, but if it hasn’t happened in 60 years, I’m guessing it never will.
Drive is a storage service.. I don't expect Google to moderate any of my content, as long as it is legal.
I agree with that as well, but even if cops were held accountable, it still leaves the scenario where lower income people lose much needed jobs and have precious time stolen from them with no recourse, just an "oops, guess we couldn't pin anything on ya! Now get lost!" The German/Austrian criminal justice system is vastly superior to the US one more than anything else.
Cool post. Sounds like it has a lot of cool features, looking forward to messing with it over the weekend.
Mornington Crescent!
It just got too hard with workplace drug testing - urine testing that tests for a metabolite, rather than the intoxicant, and can show +ve up to six weeks after.
Someone exaggerating the importance of the area they're responsible for is a definite concern in any bureaucracy. No program lead is ever going to say "you know what, I dont think we're needed anymore, let's scale back or close down". Same idea for other forms of making work for themselves as you say.

But to me this problem is actually likely to be reduced when the responsible person is more established and renowned, because they are more likely to have legit new opportunities to move on to, and are not invented to milk an position for all they can. In the balance, I think it's always better to have someone objectively good and experienced, including the inevitable relationships they already have that could look like conflict, than to have some unheard of person who may want to use this as their personal ticket to importance (not saying that would be the case here, but I would guess the risk is higher)
Backblaze's $6/mo unlimited cloud backup is a much better option for most users than a local hard disk.

Time Machine backups, even to a working hard disk, are notoriously unreliable.
Data science or financial literacy apps for kids?
This might be a long shot. I run a PreK-12 free math tutoring company (it's a non-profit to help close the learning gap). Our approach, which we've found quite effective is to combine kids working on the best digital learning apps with the support of one-on-one tutoring. (Basically kids bring an app and get support from tutors as needed). I want to expand our horizons and am wondering if anyone has tried out any fantastic data science or financial literacy apps? We are pretty good on the math and coding fronts, but could use more good suggestions for data science and financial literacy. Thanks so much for suggestions! We are also open to testing out new products people are developing. Thanks!
yes, and with that, precision falling as well

Customers are fully acquired, its profit time baby
Maybe you're not very familiar with the details of the Epstein case, but "whoring around" doesn't even begin to capture the level of sociopathic harm that Epstein and his pedophile ring inflicted on the children it abused. If Gates was capable of partaking in that sort of arch predatory behavior, why in the world would anyone continue to trust him when it comes to any other matter? Even the ostensibly good stuff with no apparent harms or ill will could just be some kind of cover in service of a longer con.
Oh, no, sorry, it's the same for everyone.
I meant a year is how long they think one needs to use medication to avoid repetition of a heart attack, that was just an example. If one needs further help, one will get it.
IANAL but my understanding is that there are specific criteria for what is admissible and what isn't. For example, there are very specific heuristics for determining whether something is hearsay. What I'm saying is that there should be a clear cut list of criteria regarding which circumstances are admissible (e.g. was the confession made freely or was there coercion/promises/negotiations/etc involved, was the conversation recorded/unadulterated, etc) and that this list should be properly followed to disqualify potential foul play, just as is done w/ hearsay.
Yeah HN down votes seem totally random to me. On reddit I can usually guess why I was down voted (advocating a viewpoint that goes against that subreddit's bias), but on HN I have no idea. I've been upvoted on things I would expect to get downvoted on and vice versa. It's so random I just ignore it as noise.
why consider it when you can do it? Behavior can only change when there's a massive drop in MAU and revenue, then the product team will consider backtracking
> The inventors of insulin gave away the patents to specifically not profit off of a life saving drug

This is an insulin analog, which is a more modern patented drug.

Regular insulin is available for $25/vial at Walmart already. Could be cheaper, yes, but at that price it's already approaching their costs of production, distribution, and sales.

I hope the price of this insulin analog trends downward toward the $25 price of regular insulin.
Why so hostile? What does that bring to the table?