skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, but you need to send the balloon to that place and inflate it, then you need to control its altitude so people could get signal on the ground. It doesn't seem to be easy.

An UAV's advantage is that it can fly on its own and fly a long distance (Wing Loong's flight time is said to be 30 hours). Given enough drones they can deploy a continuous mobile network across a large area.

One good alternative I can think of is deploying small self-contained mesh networking devices, something like Project Owl, directly from air. These devices can form an emergency network for communicating urgent needs.
19th century literature is full of treasures.
> It's becoming an increasingly dystopic force in our lives and will likely get much worse before getting even worse. So it needs a label.

It's not just something that happens to us, it's something we do. We need to do better rather than accepting it as inevitable, and let future generations worry about what the best name for it was.

> Maybe there's a ten syllable German word that expresses it perfectly?

That being said, I propose Urteilsfähigkeitsauslagerungsnekrose: The necrosis that follows the outsourcing of our capability of judgement.
In addition, Windows also quarantines and deletes innocuous Windows activation crack tools that contain no malware whatsoever, but can be used to activate Windows independently of Microsoft.

It's really amazing the attitude Microsoft takes regarding hardware that isn't theirs, including the nonconsensual forced autoupdate.
Then they're welcome to defend the actions of their employer.

Or to add this to the rather long list of "Uncomfortable things that we have to ignore to keep working here for a large salary." Everyone has their price.
Sorry I was trying to convey that. But language is often messy. I completely agree with you. I thought my parenthetical mention of Github clarified this but I guess I wasn't clear. I'm not sure how to edit to resolve. Any suggestions?
The same could be said for any language. For all its nationalism and patriotism, China is not interested (at least as far as I can tell) in being isolated. Translations of those papers will be distributed, automatic translations can be generated.

If you want to work in China, there’s probably a benefit to learning Mandarin or Cantonese. But I don’t think there’s some explicit advantage that’ll come from learning the language explicitly.
That Herod was a talking fox, just like how satan was a talking snake...
that's pretty cool! I guess gists are a bit fancier than a normal pastebin. They don't really advertise it and they don't even display the sha hashs. I didn't realize that :)

and thank you for the demo. With the`:paths ["."]` you flatten the project and minimize the example size. It would make demos look much better

In the end it's not quite as ergonomic as using `add-libs`, but it something that works today. Hope`add-libs` makes it into core some day. Having one-file programs would really take away the remaining friction of sharing code.

PS: thank you for your help on ask.clojure.org the other day. I got your book and am looking forward to reading it
False positive?
It doesn’t really taste like anything. Biggest thing is that you need to stir it quite a bit more than something like sugar to get it mixed
AZ followed by Pfizer is now encouraged in Oz by GPs for people who had an initial AZ shot before Pfizer was more widely available.
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Got any examples of these alternative archives?
Yes, if true, this would invalidate the "heuristics error on exe" argument.
How many times have you clicked a link and found the page 404 or redirect you somewhere else? That is the real value of the web archive to me. Wikipedia uses it a lot as well, they automatically snapshot any link used as a reference and if the page goes away they automatically swap the link for a web archive version.

Reading a reference 50 or even 200 years old is not absurd. A post detailing some research findings which is referenced in wikipedia is still greatly valuable. Youtube historians often reference ancient patents to uncover the history of old items.
That's just plain sinister.

I'm really surprised popular numerical computing Python packages don't already have optimized hardware back-ends for things like NumPy... similar to ORC (OIL) which has been around for quite some time:

https://github.com/GStreamer/orc

But I don't know that much about Python under the hood, and I'm willing to be since so many academics work on this there's already optimized FFIs. I've used TensorFlow and it can offload tensor math to GPUs, but only NVIDIA's AFAIK.
To you point about intent vs reception, I think the way the law works is actually more along the lines of "how a reasonable person might receive this". Which is perhaps harder to quantify, but IMO strikes a good balance. However I totally agree with your point about how some communication has become more about scoring points than having an empathetic and thoughtful dialogue
If you can lob your warheads into orbit with enough propellant left to accurately deorbit and aim them, you've then 1) got the capability of dropping them anywhere on the planet you choose, and 2) no longer have them sitting vulnerable in the silos and can sit back and choose your retargeting strategy without worrying about whether all your launch facilities will get nuked before you chose which cities to retaliate on...
Others have pointed out it's been done -- so it will continue to be done again and again until something gives. But I'd like to point out at least Go is safe for now, since black goes first! (However, white is used by the stronger player when not doing nigiri or playing a handicap game... And I'm sure some artificial drama could be manufactured based on which color you want to give draws to by giving or taking 0.5 from the perfect komi of 7. There's no safe space.)
Is there some reason to believe the work of Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic will stop at tourism? Couldnt their designs progress to offering sub orbital flights across the world in record times?
I never go out of my house without my passport and enough cash for a week in a hotel and a brand new laptop.

$200 won't even get you a cab and a new phone after you get mugged for all your cards and mobile.
I love the Internet Archive; I worry that its utility will wane as content becomes more dynamic than static. What does it mean to archive the experience of scrolling through a social feed?
Volumes on USDT:USD pairs should be taken with extreme skepticism, after all, exchanges have a massive vested interest in the peg remaining fixed and are more than likely just arbitraging/wash trading to keep it there. It's hard to know with any sort of certainty how much actual volume is going back and forth across that pair. It also doesn't represent a redemption in any way vis-a-vis the backing assets so can at best be treated as (with a massive lump of salt) some connection to faith that someone else will accept it at 1:1.

Remember only entities Tether deems as customers are permitted to redeem in the first place, and more than likely only the exchanges are deemed customers. They know they can't redeem anyways so they don't bother even trying. That's my read on it anyways.
Interesting theory. But it cannot explain a few things. One of which is why children never have accents, and adult non-native speakers do. Another is that children do not need lessons to learn a language, and adults always do.
Yeah so there is a master/slave model but I agree that that's not what GitHub was using. I tried to clarify this with my parenthetical statement but apparently did not do so sufficiently. Any suggestions of how to edit?

> A master branch evokes mastery of a subject, like a Masters degree.

I would actually say that that a Master degree is using a different definition (though both part of the adjective usage). For a master branch (or master document, master copy) I'd say it is the definition that is "main" or "principal". Whereas a Masters degree is having mastery over something, which is akin to high proficiency.
PG&E will bury 10k miles of power lines so they don't spark wildfires
Note: I am no teacher of Vipassana and merely a student (that too not advanced), so my thoughts should be taken with a grain of salt.

The folks running the course do have a screening by asking you certain questions in the enrollment form and they do ask you to talk to someone if you are confused or concerned about any question. It is not a strong screening but screening nonetheless. How effective it is, I don't know and it also comes down to how forthcoming the student is in clearly stating his/her condition.

Having said the above, people do experience intense emotions like you mentioned as I observed first hand. My take based on what I learnt in the course and afterwards is that throughout life since we are born, we experience life and it builds up certain kind of emotions in ourselves. Depending on who had what experience in life, the build up can be very strong. Vipassana attempts to rid you of the emotional build up that one has accumulated. The act of crying or shouting, or anything else is an act of getting the emotion out of the system and be left with a cleaner state of mind. How long the emotional outburst will continue will depend on how much one has accumulated in life.

I would summarize this as - In order to fill a cup with afresh, you must empty it first. You can't fill an already full cup.

One may also want to read U G Krishnamurthi. One of his quotes that I really like is `When the movement in the direction of becoming something other than what you are isn't there any more, you are not in conflict with yourself.` another way to interpret this is that emotional build happens when you action is in conflict with your inner self and over a period of time, the build up keeps growing resulting in problems (I have had emotional build ups that I have worked very hard to get rid of).
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> The response from this individual rather shocked me. He said, sorry, but I’m looking for a design job, not a verification job.

This shouldn't have been too shocking. In the digital design industry, design engineers and verification engineers really are different positions. They require different skills, and though there are people who can do both well, they haven't been interchangeable for a few decades. I'm not surprised that an applicant for a design position would decline a verification job, especially if they're not just looking for an entry point at some prestigious team like Apple's CPU group.

The strange thing is that finding a bug and "fixing a broken design" is a design task, not a verification task. The verification engineer creates the simulation testbench and the tests to expose bugs. The design engineer uses these to find and fix the bugs. I doubt that most design applicants would balk at being asked to find and fix a bug in an existing design. So I'm not really sure exactly what he asked the interviewee that got the response he claims.

> One of the realities ingrained in the history and culture of Gisselquist Technology is that simulations rarely find the critical bugs.

This statement is so wrong that I think the author must have decided to redefine "critical bug" as any bug that simulation doesn't catch. In reality, there are critical bugs found at multiple steps -- design review, simulation, prototyping, ... not to mention critical bugs found in backend "verification" (timing analysis, equivalence checking, ...). The author pushes formal verification but it's not an alternative to simulation; it's a complementary strategy.
Well at least it wasn't for corrupting the youth.
Nice, thanks! Ever since I started using archive.is last year, I've always wanted something like this! Could be paired with a bookmarklet too.

javascript:(function(){window.open('http://arxiv.link/'+location.href)})();
What's the tell here? I've had people dead serious tell me that the US government is racist for making the lowest value coin brown and putting Lincoln on it.
> “The FTC’s Complaint says almost nothing concrete on the key question of how much power Facebook actually had, and still has, in a properly defined antitrust product market,” the filing reads. “It is almost as if the agency expects the Court to simply nod to the conventional wisdom that Facebook is a monopolist.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/28/judge-dismisses-ftc-antitrus...

You claim that FB is a monopoly, but the courts made a dispassionate, reasoned analysis and disagreed strongly. This is what an independent judiciary looks like.
They might eventually. Seems like Congress is gettin' more'n more annoyed at various aspects of the tech industry as more of these crazy things keep makin' it into the news.
Frankly it would be more accurate to say they are go-karts dressed up like a sports car.
I haven't seen any evidence that governments, local or otherwise, spend "a lot more than it should [cost]." They are (correctly) unable to subsidize the cost of development by selling data, which in some cases means they cannot use certain preexisting libraries. But many groups have to rely on vendors and contractors for their technical needs. Their costs should be compared to other groups outsourcing their needs.
What Is Mobile Wallet Marketing? More Than Just a Digital Payment
The evolution of payments is an interesting one: cash, checks, credit cards, and now digital payments. At one time, each of these was the newest in payment technology.
Feel free to try building a chat bot for that. I guarantee you will fail.
Pretty sure these days they can triangulate you down to within something like 10-30 meters (with nothing but cell or wifi) with a pretty high degree of certainty, can't they?
In his reflections, Brewster Kahle mentions his goal of creating “a library available to anybody, anywhere in the world.” He doesn’t mention, though, the costs of making that library available to the world for free or the fact that the Internet Archive accepts donations. So I will:

https://archive.org/donate/
> Or cooler heads prevail like at the Académie Française who recognize that sexual genders are completely unrelated to grammatical genders despite what activists try to say.

But that's not really true. I always learned that, for example, ils (grammar-masculine they) should be used when referring to a group of people where any of the people are sexual-gender-masculine, but elles (grammar-feminine they) should be used when referring to a group of sexual-gender-feminine people. Ils and elles have the same rules when referring to a group of inanimate objects depending on the grammar-gender of the objects.
It’s nearly impossible to remember what it feels like to not know this information. Often the best programming teachers are people who recently learned the material, for that reason.
It's also that they have reason not to change up things. They have created vibrant monetisation mechanisms & fine tuned those mechanisms.

Innovating means new patterns of interactions & ideas. This also means new forms of monetisation that might be required.

As an example all the previous FB & instagram ads became obsolete or useless once they introduced stories. Now, have to create better ad formats and subsequently take few quarters to fine tune the experience and pricing.
I think AirBnB, Uber and Lyft should all be targeted. Uber and Lyft's externalities increase traffic. AirBnB's drive up everyone's rent. Clearly AirBnB's is worse.

The question isn't "legal or not". It's how badly does the illegal act impact society. Same reason we prioritize arresting drunk drivers over red light runners.
Because it depends on your personal circumstances and is thus unknown by posters on an internet forum.
Interesting point about managing against link rot.

But what got me is Youtube historians and their "ancient patents..." I want to see the ones for reinventing the wheel.
This is the main one https://archive.is/

From the FAQ, they do not respect robots.txt since they only archive on request by a user and they do not remove archives unless they contain illegal content.
> 40% estate tax on $195B in assets (first ~$5M being exempt)

I think you mean $199.995B, but doesn't change the outcome much anyway.
Superficial Intelligence.
I live not too far from “Harvey the Rabbit”, which is a ~20’ tall rabbit advertising a boat construction company that I believe is now defunct.

Harvey stands in an awkward part of town. Trapped between a narrow busy highway and train tracks, much of the land around him is being developed. I sometimes wonder if he will be taken down and moved somewhere more appreciated.
But it’s not ratting on your neighbors. They’re not your neighbors anymore when they moved away from your neighborhood and rented their place out to people from outside your neighborhood who are not going to stay long enough to be your neighbors either.
You no longer have neighbors in that home.
I always assumed that it’s because it’s a big dick, being launched into space by a big dick?
How how far the Salk family has fallen. Weren’t they implicated in the opiate crisis?
I imagine receiving dislikes wouldn't be rewarding, however the up/down buttons do not convey that kind of information. All they can fundamentally tell you is that someone (assuming appropriate bot protection is in place) pressed a button in proximity to your comment. There is no other information attached with the action. It could be purely accidental for all you know. Knowing that people have loaded your comment in order for the button to be presented, and thus statistically are likely to have read it, should be rewarding, though. After all, wanting others to read your work is why you're writing in a public forum and not your private journal.
> How do we keep stories like this in the "middle" of our minds?

I practice interrupting myself between stimulus and reaction, and at least noting that I paused, and better if I take a breath and notice what I’m feeling. Ideally I then choose what to do next.
So far this is working for low-threat stimuli that I can laugh about. Much more challenging to interrupt are the deep-cut grooves of reaction to my spouse, and concern for her well-being (and mine and everyone I interact with) motivates me to keep practicing.

When I stop and notice, a long, deep nasal breath, 5-6 seconds in and out each, helps me feel more like my immediate needs are met. If it’s big, gnawing thing and I’m not currently embroiled, a cold shower helps put things in perspective, maybe because it shocks my system with a physical threat that overrides the perceived threat? Anyway, feels really good afterwards, and then I’m ready to be an adult again.
Standard in the sense that most languages and most editors have adopted it: https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/impleme...
But how will tech Cos show they're woke if they can't just change the names of things and say they did something important?

It's literally a bragging point at my new Co.
Who wants tourists in their building? And, seriously, unless you are in the hospitality industry then why would you want them around at all? And if you are, you probably ant tourists that stay in hotels and eat in restaurants, not in a little apartment.
But literally anything can upset anyone. You can never satisfy everyone at the same time.
Isn't the defining trait of Catholics as opposed to Protestants that they don't just straight up follow the bible? That the church is the authority and the bible is just a jumping off point. If you're reading the bible yourself and using it to argue with the church then you've already left Catholic territory.
I know I’m not addressing the article , but the comment above and many others on this topic. I’m still surprised by the blank check this community generally gives to big pharma and governments, seeing their track records. It’s not that I expect an anti (COVID-19) vaccine attitude, but I would have expected to see here a more questioning tone more regularly, as I see how strongly voiced HN can be with other topics. For example: discussion of their fast development time vs safety, VAERS stats, vaccination of children and pregnant women, real-world efficacy and the fact that these vaccines are under experimental usage up to 2023 or so.

All I’m saying is that I’d expect to see less consensus here on not touching these matters.
Artificial Due Diligence
The short answer is as far as I can tell, fundamentally yes, in almost every facet. I guess I could give the cliff notes otherwise it would be a 10 page wall of text to unpack.
I get annoyed with AV when it quarantines "Potentially unwanted software" like ProduKey. While it may be able to be used maliciously, that's not why I have it installed, and I do want it on my machine.
That’s ok. I went deeper, and pretty much still don’t get it.
UK Parliamentary committee calls for a ‘complete reset’ of music streaming
No he hasn't produced anything. The people making all the things his platform sells and his employees do. He sits on high in his ivory tower, never has that been more apparent.
100% agree. They aren’t clear because they don’t know. They might not be able to think in abstracts, or simply don’t have their priorities straight.

The same would happen with ANY other type of project.. marketing, home renovation, building an aircraft, or even baking a cake
It sounds like you've felt motivated in the past to pursue study on your own terms, but now you no longer feel that same passion. That's a loss that you are truly regretting and I'm sorry to hear it.

Your list of possible directions exemplifies the diversity in topics that are all exciting to some people, but are meanwhile completely uninteresting to the average person off the street. In fact, the same person who can't stop thinking about A doesn't necessarily like B even if they're next to each other on your list. In this post you're looking for someone to tell you something to feel that passion about, but honestly: good, actionable advice would require the advice giver to know you personally and understand what sorts of things would have that sort of pull for you. Any specific answers to this question from strangers will be shots in the dark.

So with that, is there anyone among your close friends and family who you could pose this question to? If so, that should be your next step. If not, you've got the tougher challenge of asking yourself. Why do you want to address either of the problems you've outlined? What is captivating to you? These are very personal questions and deciding "none of the above" is perfectly valid as well, you might just need a break from CS. And that break can be indefinite or even permanent. Fortunately it's clear that you're introspective here and that will be an asset in figuring things out.

If it would help in any way, feel free to reach out directly and I'd be happy to chat. I just made sure my profile here points to contact information.
> The following is copied from my response to him, with a few minor edits along the way.

This is probably the most important line of the post for context. The latter 70% is a copy/paste of an email response he sent to a job applicant who said he wanted to do design, not verification. Presumably this copy/paste is almost the entirety of his response because the post ends the way you would expect an email to end, with a signature.

I don't know the full situation, but I'm imagining the candidate said "not quite what I'm looking for" and got this guys life story in response, along with insinuations that he's a Prima Donna, and judgments like "If you are a design engineer who can’t humble himself enough to verify a broken design that’s been given to you, then I foresee that you will also be difficult to manage."

He might be a nice guy, I don't know. But from what I see of this interaction, he was acting like an asshole.
Anyone curious why those two got 100mil each?
At home?