skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a person stands on a street corner handing out pamphlets falsely claiming that some individual, let's say a public figure, is a child molester, I understand the libel and liability. If, instead, that person handed out pamphlets saying that the Pfizer vaccine was experimental "gene therapy" that will result in "infertility," what happens then? I ask because the second seems closer to the liability you allege than cases of libel.

In practical terms, the effect of this bill would be the government flagging "misinformation," the social media companies rushing to take it down (and likely being proactive to take down "misinformation"), and then the person or group allegedly wronged by the take-down having to fight it all out in court. The first amendment is fundamentally about protecting political speech. Curbing speech because of "public health emergencies" is — I will assert — a sly attempt at getting around that. What we're talking about is political speech by another name. Isn't this the "chilling effect" we hear so much about?
Unrelated to the article, but as a young SWE (finished undergrad in December 2020) who’s always had a side-interest in physics, how do I end up working at a QC company like DWave? Right now I’m working in embedded systems programming at a semiconductor manufacturing equipment company, and I assume at a company like DWave that also makes hardware the possible SW roles are somewhat similar (embedded, metrology, monitoring, algorithms, etc.). Do you look for physics knowledge in your SWE applicants?
This says more about OCR than Perl...

But any language that detects random string as a valid program is under suspicion of allowing more bugs than valid programs.
"He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone."
Fittingly, the author of SQLite proposed an alternative to Zip files based on SQLite database files: https://www.sqlite.org/sqlar.html ; https://sqlite.org/sqlar/doc/trunk/README.md
God I love this thing. Now I know all the birds in my yard by sight and sound and which SOB is the one that starts the racket 1/2 hour before sunrise (looking at you Catbird)
The "Stephenson doesn't do endings" meme again. Sigh. Yes, the novel ends and it's obvious that the characters' lives keep going. Lots of authors do that. Real life often doesn't have endings or clear resolutions.
If this article had been written about the "controversy over naming a space telescope over a bureaucrat rather than a scientist", every comment here would be advocating for the name change. The framing is everything, which is why people click on stuff like this.
> The Bitcoin people generally don't trust the fed and they have, strictly speaking, ended up in a much better position to participate in the economy.

Some people here seem think that "guns and laws" will be able to stop them (and other forms and cryptocurrencies in general) from participating in the economy, esp without describing how that will actually work in practice (or without acknowledgement how "guns and laws" have largely failed in practice for the past ~13 years wrt to proliferation of cryptocurrencies esp compared to some of its predecessors in the 90's that were quickly stomped out)…
Refraining from honoring someone is not the same as erasing them.
No, the "best people" weren't responsible for slavery. Any rich guy can write a book or do math especially if they live off slave labor.

There were plenty of people who opposed slavery. Those were the best people, even if they're not remembered in a culture that worships slavemasters.
But aren’t there exceptions for transports (drivers), people in important positions (nurses etc) who cross for work and so on?
I would pay good money for a search engine where each result had a button next to it that would add that domain to my personal blacklist for future searches. (goodbye pinterest)
Global water crises unleash tsunami of watertech
>but I bet there'd be people who'd be affected by your absence.

On the other hand there'd be billions that wouldn't.
Thank you for the correction! That is indeed correct.
There's no environment in space, so displacing heavy industry on Earth (which does have an environment) with industry in space would theoretically be a good thing. This depends on exactly where in space you do this, though, and the number of rocket launches on Earth required to support heavy industry in space could have a significant impact on the environment.
I have a couple of hacks I use that, once developed as a habit, have been enormously helpful for me.

1) I never look at a general feed. (Which I means I just never use Twitter as that's kind of all it has) I open FB on my message url, which shows me the three things I want: messages, event notifications, and a search box to go to the four or five dedicated topic areas I use where off-topic posts aren't tolerated. Basically all the "designed to be addictive" shit is on the feed page.

2) I use Stylebot on Chrome, which allows you to add custom css overrides for every page. It's awesome. You can just turn every thing that clamours for your attention or has "suggestions" into empty whitespace.

3) I don't use any of their apps. You can't control the apps the same way.

hth
Engineers tuning the most complicated spaceborne deployment system ever built are not being retasked to investigate a petition about the namesake of the vehicle.
Thanks! Yeah the first 'Syntax Intro' module is free
If we give literally everything on the world a UUID, despite the best intentions of it being "UU" I think we'll start seeing collisions and will again need to be renaming things
Think about what your interview process would look like if it was a normal day at work.

You show up out of the blue with a task that isn't connected to anything the org does and with all the decisions made already. I cannot search the internet, but you do not explain why. You sit down across from me and stare.
Yeah been trying to work that one out for years.

I've read of other HN'ers doing this successfully (syncing git repos between machines) but I just seem to get a lot of issues - git repos often broken temporarily, conflicts etc.
This whole thread feels like a glorious exercise of Poe's Law.

I can't tell what's what, but man is it funny, to me it reads as deadpan humor by peterep with no insult intended, but obviously others read it differently.

Perspective is amazing and this has made my day from all the smiles and laughs XD
There is a big difference between erasing someone from history and not naming something in someone's honor. It isn't like nasa is now going to scrub all the history books of the name James Webb or outlaw mentioning his name. I would think there are enough people worth naming a telescope after after.
Define success.

Jeff can define success however he wants. He can define it in terms of making money, or in terms of successful launches. Making money is hard - there is only so much demand for things in space, and some competition - making it questionable if the investment will pay off. However launching isn't as hard, and he can define metrics in that way and be successful for his purposes.

How is launching things into space any different from paying composers to write much, or painters to paint pictures - two things that rich people regularly did 300 years ago.
This must be some kind of installer error because if they can be picked up and removed something will do that.
> How/why do you not promote the growth of denser, middle class inner city neighborhoods with a diverse profile? Is there a positive reason to not encourage it?

1) The US is really big. Seriously. Our population density is 1/3 that of the EUs with a similar (but now smaller) total population. Only Sweden and Latvia are less dense as EU member states. Add to that most of the US is more temperate than most of Europe and therefore we have even more desirable land (Barcelona is north of New York City).

That is to say, we have less need for it. Houston and Phoenix, our 4th and 5th biggest cities, just keep expanding out as opposed to up. This has long term costs, but certainly is cheaper.

1a) Gas is also a lot cheaper in the US than the EU. Two car families are plentiful. So spreading out costs less. And all our infrastructure (outside NYC, DC and maybe Boston/Chicago) is based around cars, not mass transit, so you need a spot to park your cars.

2) Local taxes are (in general) done based on the value of a house. If new houses in less desirable places are cheaper to originally buy, they are often also cheaper to hold. They have fewer established tax costs as well for maintenance of public transit or school because those come later (or not at all). What he's talking about is greenfield on the other side of a legal boundary, so there are different (usually fewer) governments to levy taxes. In the US, you may pay taxes to your city, county, state and the country (a lot of caveats there I'm skipping). If you buy a house outside the city, that's one fewer entity that can tax you.

3) There's a huge anti-urban political component. Literally, there are people who want rural areas to thrive and cities to fail. In some states (see Texas and Arizona, where Houston and Phoenix are), these people control the state.

4) Amazingly, for some reason (possibly holding offshore dollars), it's far more profitable to use the same square footage for luxury condos that sell out right away compared to many smaller cheaper houses/apartments in desirable cities.

5) It's literally been sold to generations of Americans that owing a lawn is a sign of having succeeded. That's where the "white picket fence" comes in. There is a huge market demand for suburbs.
>Be careful with this one. If you see a house/apartment where lights are repeatedly being turned on/off that’s generally considered a signal that they are in distress

because of the supernatural events taking place inside!
> I think going down the route of trying to identify fields of maths with specific “things that can be stated in category theoretical language” is a bit wrong and bordering on hubris - sure, all group representations can be stated as some kind of functor between categories ….

I missed this point in my earlier reply, and it's too late to edit. I certainly agree that it's easy to be misled about the utility or appropriateness of a category-theoretic taxonomy, but I wasn't attempting that here. Rather, I was just looking for a way to capture the intuition I have about the different way in which representation theory looks at what are, in some sense, the same kinds of objects as those considered in abstract linear algebra.

(Come to that, I was specifically avoiding looking at group representations as functors; not that it much matters, since, again, the category theory was just a way to try to formalise intuition rather than an attempt to prove anything, but I was actually going the other way by regarding the representations as objects.)
Can you estimate an approximate ship date for Batch 2 pre-orders?
Maybe the original interview is a better link https://www.theverge.com/22588022/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-c... ?
It claims 1250 signatures, which is more than “a few”.
I like Kim Stanley Robinson and Ministry for the Future has some interesting ideas but it reads a bit like a white paper disguised as a novel.
When you're quite literally erasing James Webb from the name, that seems like erasing and supports olivermark's point entirely.
I ran my own ghetto experiment. Despite resisting (I'm still not going to install it on mobile), it was Plebbit that brought me to Tiktok. Without having visited Tiktok, I've seen thousands of tiktoks that were scraped out and hosted on other platforms. Over the course of the year, I collected well over a hundred videos.

https://philosopher.life/#:[search[tiktok.com]tag[Link%20Log]]

I went back to the source for each of these and started Liking them. I'd check every so often to see if the "For You" feed improved. It did improve, considerably, but it still doesn't beat the signal-to-noise ratio of having humans pick them out for me. I can scroll through 200 videos on Tiktok and not find a single video worth a Like (I've found one so far from Tiktok's recommendations, and that was from a channel of a video I had previously liked). Perhaps I've misused the algorithm that does the real work for picking out content that will capture my attention, but I'm pretty disappointed. I bet the information they have about me does tell them a great deal, but it's not clear they're going to be able to keep me engaged.
We have managed to come to this point in our history with all of the various changes in values over time without renaming everything from the last generation. Until now. I come from Georgia, which is named for King George of England, our enemy in the Revolutionary war. And they didn't even rename that! I can't stand these new authoritarians.
Cloudflare is ramping up it's enterprise sales and deals (and doing a good job of it too, anecdotally). So they are competing more and more with AWS (their Workers product is a good example), and why not point out things people dislike about their competitors?
> “We don’t call them Newton’s laws anymore,” an upperclassman at the school informs me. “We call them the three fundamental laws of physics. They say we need to ‘decenter whiteness,’ and we need to acknowledge that there’s more than just Newton in physics.”

https://www.city-journal.org/the-miseducation-of-americas-el...
My NAS does btrfs snapshotting of the Synchthing folder.
So I have an up-to-date backup of my phone pictures, laptop files and can go back in time if I accidentally delete something.
Show HN: xlcat (like cat, but for xlsx files) – my first rust project
It’s the 7th I believe, “thou shall not covet another planets resources “
There is a difference between not celebrating and erasing. I agree with some of what you say here but I think asserting that not naming a telescope after somebody is erasing them from history is an unsupported leap - most people don't get their names on space telescopes and we don't think of them as having been erased.
My point is he could buy a lot of time to save the business. He's not "running out of time". The entire article just feels like: woe is the billionaire's pet project failing because it's not profitable in an unreasonably short amount of time despite plenty of cash availability if said billionaire wants to continue and achieve their original goals.
That makes sense. Different people have different preferences. What's nuts to me is that land use laws take the preferences from one set of people and impose them on vast swathes of a city. It seems weird to me, for example, that you can only build single family homes in 70% of San Francisco, one of the densest cities in the US.
A quick googling brought me to the following paper:

"Data value speculation in superscalar processors"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01419...

It would appear there is an entire section dedicated to "Value prediction in a realistic scenarios", but I am not curious enough yet to pay money to access this document.

Edit: Found another that is accessible.

"Practical Data Value Speculation for Future High-end Processors"

http://class.ece.iastate.edu/tyagi/cpre581/papers/HPCA14Data...
Beer on Friday afternoon means everyone is relaxing instead of being busy with end-of-week deadlines for releases, progress reports, meetings etc. It is a good situation that offsets some of the inappropriateness of drinking and partying at work.
Any feedback is welcome! Are the lessons too easy? too difficult, confusing, etc.
These are not "5G smartphones". These are "5G-capable smartphones". They still have improvements in other electronics, battery life, screens, cameras, firmware, possibly even cost.

These smartphones may not need to use 5G networks to be useful. It also makes little sense to produce a smartphone without a 5G capability today, except at the low end where many other compromises are made anyway.
I don’t think that’s true, haven’t you seen all the dogecoin billionaires running around?
> Name one thing Bezos is doing that isn't about himself.

He has saved me an enormous amount of time and gas because I don't go to the mall anymore.

I.e. Bezos makes money for himself by providing a service people find worth paying for.
Not Just Bikes is a great channel on urban development, and he did a series on Strong Towns' ideas specifically. I like this one, "How Suburban Development Makes American Cities Poorer".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVUeqxXwCA0
Same. I have a triple monitor setup and move it to the left.
I came to comment, not read
Am I the only one bored by virtually everything on social media? Everything feels like its been curated for either teens or people with exceptionally low attention spans. I find it all very annoying (With Hacker News being the exception).
Common misconception about sociopathic ceos: https://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/landay-harms-psychopat...
1800 drones flying in unison to form an illuminated globe over Tokyo stadium
That could be one aspect, but I was actually talking about taking pictures of complete persons. Usually turns out you're a beetle, or a worm, or a butterfly :)
I would think apple products are the antithesis to the Framework laptop. How can you go from the M1 being "the default choice", and being disappointed that this wasn't a possibility? Wouldn't there have been a myriad of other choices closer to the Framework laptop, than the M1?
I was exaggerating a bit for effect, but the point is that they are still just as human as everyone else. Just like everyone else, sometimes they don't keep themselves 100% under control.

Personal disclosure: I've never sent nude photos of myself, until I had a super-hot girlfriend repeatedly ask for them. She got the photos. Was it a long-term smart move on my part? Probably not. Anything could happen in the future. Did I care at the time? Not at all. Sometimes a zero-tolerance, "just say no" policy isn't going to work.
You're right that the abolitionists were better people who lived at the same time. My point is really that people can be good in many honorable ways and yet also be complicit in the common evil of their time. Likely many abolitionists were against LGBT; it's good to remember both their greatness and their failings.
Disinformation: It's History is correct from the context of the piece. i.e. the piece isn't about the history of disinformation, but rather, how history is relevant to disinformation. Just look at the sub-title:

> But history can help to disentangle the unprecedented from the historical.

That said, the author (or maybe an editor) could have avoided any argument by not using a contraction instead of trying to be punny.
If you can deal with the aesthetics of every search query containing your blacklist, try creating a custom search engine in your browser with a keyword like "g" (for google) that searches for your query plus "-site:pinterest.com -site:example.com"
It's real. In some cases it's turned on by default and some are not
https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/digital-wellbeing/m... has some information (not affiliated, just found this a while ago) . I can't find any info right now about apple or samsung or any of the other big vendors.

I think the impact is fairly damaging. I'm surrounded by people with body image issues, and the impact their issues are having on them is heartbreaking.

Sadly when I discuss this with some folks from that industry they pushed me to an academic debate about "well everything is post-processed after the sensor anyway".

There's probably some debate to be had again about whether this is creating issues, exacerbating existing body image issues, or actually just not having any impact one way or another. But I find myself believing that it is both creating and exacerbating.

And for a while I thought these were "first world issues" but many, if not most, of my friends are not part of the "first world" and they still have them.
Yeah, and everything is public on bcassessment.ca
95% of Americans aren’t entirely in line with cutting edge of American progressive thought
Tweet Like Me [GPT-3 generation of personalized tweets]
I agree that it is just lock-in. The price of egress is the same even when using devices like the Snowball where the data is loaded onto a server and physically shipped to you.
And now they'll take all the ideas from the previous efforts, pick the ones that will make them the most profit (revenue - development costs) and tada a new propriety, privately controlled ecosystem that slowly replaces whatever is out there. See, for example, Open Graph replacing Dublin Core.
I really like the replaceable USB-C ports. From my smartphone I know, these things wear-off when being used multiple times per day and being able to simply replace them is much more useful than it might look like at first sight.
Why is the university of California dropping the SAT?
SPCTL-17 does have a nice ring to it.
Take social media off your phone. Install a news feed blocker that forces you to toggle on the news feed for your site of choice when you want to scroll. That helped me cut my social media time from 1+ hour a day to less than 15 minutes.
CMake Part 2 – Release and Debug builds
NASA should start a committee to investigate Webb's past: set up the rules of the committee and start nominating members (at least 19) approved by a complicated 5 stage voting process by another committee. All in the name of objectivity. Drag it out for 10 years, have meetings from time to time, keep those activists busy, and let real astronomers do the real work.
Just for another perspective- I read it as peter intended, a deadpan way of purposefully taking your statement literally, that you wrote code that made you scream, it wasn't Perl's fault.

I found it hilarious, but I'm a weird guy. I just can see where he is coming from where he meant it as a snide joke, not a personal attack.
One way to rethink your relationship with social media is to, for lack of a more succinct phrasing, get a life.

I don't mean "don't be a loser", I mean have a life with goals, projects, and real relationships. Once that life flowers, you see social media as merely a tool for the further flourishing of that life. This mindset also makes you take a hard look at the connections you make through social media. Most are 1 dimensional, and based on emotional extremes or hits of "content". Instead, follow people you actually know. Then do stuff with them out in the world.

Doing stuff, and not just surfing social media, with other people is far more rewarding than being amongst 3 billion users.
Newtonian physics is a specific kind of physics distinct from other kinds which is why it has a sub-name.
> One consideration could be that you can't directly control data ingress. Charging for ingress opens an avenue for attackers to attempt to bankrupt you by sending unrequested packets to your network.

Most request/response models are very asymmetric. I can request a relatively large asset from S3 with a small request and maliciously generate fees as an attacker.

AWS egress is vendor lock-in 100%.
Reminds me of the incredible engineering done by Makani, as told in this 2 hours long autodocumentary [1]. They shut down in 2020 because they didn't see a path towards commercializing their airborne wind turbine. They made a non-assertion pledge on their patents, and open sourced much of their code (simulations, firmware) [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_hEja6bzE

[2] https://github.com/google/makani
While I agree with your comment, the decision to rename the telescope would make sense, since it was not named after an actual scientist like Hubble but after a former NASA manager.