skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think technically the problem wasn't that the US had cancelled his travel documents, as the Ecuadorian government could grant the necessary document to a refugee (which is almost what happened[0]), but rather that he was worried the US would force his plane to land in a country where he could be arrested.

That fear was well-founded, given what later happened to Bolivian president Evo Morales when the US suspected he might be transporting Snowden out of Russia[1], even though forcing planes to land to capture political prisoners is more fitting for a dictatorship than a democracy[2], but I suspect that Russia made it a condition of Snowden's safety that he not attempt to travel to any other country.

Of course I'm not saying I would have done anything differently were I in Snowden's position, but it is worth noting that he could in principle have avoided US and NATO airspace by travelling from Russia to Shenzhen to Johannesburg[3] to São Paulo[4] to Ecuador.

[0] https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/30/how_edward_snowden_av...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair_Flight_4978

[3] https://www.flightconnections.com/flights-from-szx-to-jnb

[4] https://www.flightconnections.com/flights-from-jnb-to-gru
Shouldn’t be an issue. The crazy stock market sent the stock down after hours. LOL!!
Jimmy Johns did have a non-compete until fairly recently, and they only stopped because the NY AG made them[0]

Looking at a Five Guys employment application: "I understand that I may be required to sign a confidentiality and/or non-compete agreement, should I become an employee of {store}"[1]

Those are just two I'm familiar with. When employers have the upper-hand over employees, they'll try all sorts of shenanigans to maintain that as long as possible. Surely that can't be a surprise in America.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/22/jimmy-johns-drops-non-compet...

[1] https://jobapplications.net/wp-content/uploads/five-guys-bur...
Ask HN: StyleGAN for Prose Style Transfer
Has anyone found a program similar to StyleGAN that can take plainly written English and Rewrite it in the style of a another author or a provided set of training data?
Japan traditionally used the lunisolar calendar - so if any record says "blossoms peaked at the fifth day of the fourth month," then it means it peaked at the fifth day after some day of the new moon, which can be calculated with very good precision. It should severely constrain potential calendar conversion errors.
I was actually just looking for an update on his collab with Mark Roper and I find this!

Scammer Payback is doing a live to support him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uQzpyEhfLs
Apple's revenue numbers the past 15 months really seem to conflict with management's statements that their staff needs to be in-office in order to produce optimal results.
Also interested. Looks like a lot of it is JS code written by hand. This is certainly readable code: https://ciechanow.ski/js/navarch.js
2700 users? I'd classify that as more than a "small" or a "medium" server myself. That's definitely in the range where setting it as a "Community Server" could be beneficial for a lot of other reasons.
I always thought TV was the most quickly adopted product. Not clear from charts:

https://ourworldindata.org/technology-adoption
Revenue numbers at time T are often the result of work done at T-3 years, T-2 years, T-1 year etc
Apple's biggest asset is their branding. They make great products, but that's not what fuels their enormous margins.
Regardless of number of cases, most of us will be exposed to SARS-CoV-2 eventually. Just like with other endemic coronaviruses such as HCoV-OC43.
> every woman ... has vitriolic harassment faced (and/or sexual harassment).

I experienced being treated differently when I was playing a very attractive Blood Elf Warrior in World of Warcraft ten years ago: a fellow adventurer would continually give me gifts (valuable in-game items).

The third time this happened I realized he wasn't being generous—he was courting me! I had to come clean.

I messaged him, "Dude, I gotta tell ya: I'm not a girl in real life."

"You're not?"

"No, I'm a balding man in his mid-forties."

Long pause, and then he replied, "I gotta take a cold shower."

I never heard from him again, but he seemed like a nice guy who was trying to get a girlfriend by doing nice things for her, and I hope he found what he was looking for.
You quote policies from at least 30 years ago?

So by comparison we are taking the highly successful policies of Reagan and Nixon… perhaps with the Japanese internment camps and dropping nuclear weapons thrown in? (For a similar time period in the US)
Would you care to ask them what it is that they doubt, specifically?

It's basically down to two choices. One can doubt the CO2 greenhouse effect, which everyone with a basic education should know the basic principles of, and which can be demonstrated in home experiments.

Or one can doubt that humanity burns the amount of carbon that is reported, but these figures are publicly available in many forms, including the amount that is produced and sold by the oil companies themselves.
I think smart move for them here would be to buy them now, before they finish building fabs in Arizona - TSMC value will skyrocket after those factories are operational and getting the yields similar to Taiwanese ones.
Binance charity sued over $9M Bitcoin meant for cancer patients in Malta
building matrix is really expensive i guess. i wish them luck, but so far i haven't been sold. probably wont be either.
> The CompCert C reference interpreter aborts execution on undefined behavior.

A C interpreter is not exactly the sort of thing that the embedded software industry has been waiting to deploy in production.
High coffee consumption, brain volume and risk of dementia and stroke
> The odd but customary way certain physicists understand this movement is that the electron moves because space is filled with electron-positron pairs momentarily popping into and out of existence. One such pair appears so that the positron (the electron’s oppositely charged antiparticle) is on top of the original electron, and they annihilate. This leaves behind the electron from the pair, displaced from the original electron. As there’s no way of distinguishing between the two electrons, all we perceive is a single electron moving.

I've never heard this idea before. I haven't finished the article yet but this is fascinating to me.
How is that any different to using the fully modern web app equivalent of this shitty spying marketing-loaded app?
The difference between "squeakies" is everyone was a squeakie at one point. It's basically an internet right-of-passage whether that is right or wrong.

Regardless, all squeakies get to stop being squeakies eventually. Women don't get that option. Women don't get to grow out of being women or being harassed for who they are.

I mean, I don't disagree with you that having a thick skin on the internet, but it's unfair that men get to make women feel unwelcome in online spaces simply for being women.

There's a large chasm between friendly teasing and harassment.
Agree 100% !!

I wonder if the new widgets capability in iOS 15 will allow you to get close to that. I’ll have to make a screen for that when it’s out of beta to see.

Has anyone tried this yet? (or something like it)
Looks like it was priced in
> red death map visualizations for people to see with inflated death counts.

There is no indication of inflated death counts. Death counts from covid correlate closely with excess deaths.

Some have claimed that deaths did rise but because of lockdowns, however in “locked down” regions where reported Covid cases and deaths were low, so were excess deaths.
Not sure what's the point being made

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_nationality_law#Citizen...
What I Learned from User Story Mapping (and how most people do Agile wrong)
I feel like we live in a world where it is becoming increasingly impossible for things like this to exist. I don’t have much commentary on the matter other than to say it makes me sad.
Background: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/capitol-hills-magi...

Restocking: https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2014/05/spoiler-alert-mys...

Disappearance: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/seattle-mystery-soda-m...
There are plenty of legal interpretations of "take her down." E.g., file a hard-hitting lawsuit.

I will give the CEO the benefit of the doubt that he did not mean: "Take a half-dozen people and engage in a massive, obsessive, batshit-crazy online and real-world cross-state harassment campaign."
exactly what i was thinking. Why is everyone acting like its a priveleged access. Any app dev can integrate smartlook and watch how you use the app
Newsgroups had fine threads. Same for email, before Google basically killed threads.
iPad Mini might be great for that. Especially the new one coming out soon.
Now if only they paid more than 10% income tax I could have a road without potholes.
Ask HN: Resources for incoming new grad SWEs?
Let's say I'm a new grad SWE starting work this fall. What are some of the best resources to read through in preparation for a full-time career in tech?

I've seen similar threads for experienced software engineers/engineering managers, so I'm wondering how the list should adapt for a new grad with minimal industry experience, but with basic academic computer science background.

Ideally, these resources should span a 0-100 onramp assuming minimal prerequisite knowledge, but I'd also appreciate some recommendations on the breadth axis. This includes technical, product, and softer career guidance related resources.

So far, some notable resources I've been going through include (mostly classics):

- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman
- The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (https://missing.csail.mit.edu/)
- The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
- Google's SRE Book

I haven't found a thoughtful comprehensive guide tailored toward new grads specifically (ie not too in the weeds, but not for CS beginners, and bridging the gap from academia to all the perils of building software in industry with microservices, distributed systems, collaboration tools, etc), so I think it would be great to compile a list here and start a discussion.
Maybe https://explorabl.es/?
You may have reversed the causality. Apple's brand comes from delivering great products.

iPhone, Mac, Watch, AirPods, etc. all have incredible customer satisfaction metrics.
I see your "java", and I raise you "Why don't you just use Rust?"
This sounds really interesting. Do you have any reading recommendations (links or books)?
FSearch is intended to be an alternative to Everything. However it doesn't have feature parity (and probably won't ever have due to some platform limitations on Linux). Disclaimer: I'm the author of FSearch.

I also like to use fzf a lot, which is an amazing search utility (not only for finding files) for the terminal.
The Problem with AI Colorization
You don't think it could have come out over coffee one day?
They made Steve Jobs work the graveyard shift at Atari because he stunk so bad (he'd go weeks without showering) no one wanted to work with him. That had nothing to do with his skills or job performance, but everything to do with disrupting the work environment to the point where others couldn't perform to the best of their ability.
Then I can understand you well. Kubernetes then just provides zero-downtime and additional complexity. When you already have something like a deployment window (like 2 am to 3 am) then ZDT also does not matter.
Ah you're right, I'm not sure how I got that impression
Budget isn't a problem. I'd happily take a pay cut, my expense are minimal. There just aren't that many employers interested in hiring someone for fewer hours.
Thanks again for sharing. I wonder what keeps prices up or competitors out if returns are so high and work is so low for those crops. For tree crops, land is a pretty negligible cost. Water is about 35% of revenue, Labor is about 35%, and miscellaneous other costs are about 20%. Average profits are around 10% of revenue, but vary, and years with losses are pretty common.

Perhaps both of us are generalizing our experience to all or most farmers.

Regarding the capital discussion, the magnitude of the capital outlay and returns are relevant, even if capital value is retained. A $100k annual profit is good for a $1M investment, but crappy for a $10M investment.
Potholes in Cupertino? Cupertino has the most pristine asphalt I think I've ever seen.
Tough to answer such a broad question. It really depends on the product. If it is something that you can prototype, then build the prototype. If not, then you would have to figure out what you can prototype enough to get funding for the remainder. If you can be a little more specific, I can try and help further.
I think that this has lead to the popularity of ARG/Analog Horror/SCP/etc. The Unknown is shrinking, so we need to create the Unknowable.
Thanks for translating these. BBC quotes the total revenue number at $34B. That would mean non ad revenue doubled from 3 to 6 billion dollars. I wonder what constitutes non ad revenue.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57522368
Some rewards can be worth certain penalties (pain) if within certain thresholds. Exhaustion fatigue can also play in.

You can of course boil them down to a single number, it just produces less nuanced types of decisions/operations, as it can’t differentiate between a cheap, painful, but bountiful choice and a expensive, no pain, mediocre choice.
Automatic Proofs of Differential Privacy
Hmmm ... reinforces my counter-intuition. The stack of pennies might explain why the bottom of the jar would explode, but not the sides, area not below the stack of pennies.

My intuition (wrong here) is that the extra surface not beneath the stack of pennies (your analogy) would in fact distribute the pressure and therefore represent a lower PSI on all sides of the jar.
It’s down in the aftermarket as well.
Hey, its not me. I posted it as a gesture of support to the developer. The app actually used to fetch content just as the instagram on the website does and also gave very less user data in that process, only limited to a fetch request. While there are a lot of instagram mods out there who are a real threat, facebook only has problems with projects who care about privacy on their platforms. Also, the app hwas built from scratch up and had many anti-addiction features. The app's still up and you're free to try it.
> lol, have you seen humans try and drive ...

This hints at an interesting issue.

The difficult problems with self driving are not going to be the technical ones (driving in X environmental conditions) but the social ones.

Self driving cars are going to need a theory of mind (be able to make good guesses about what mistakes other road users could make), and also behave in ways that don't make human road users uncomfortable. The latter is relatively easy, but the former is hard - never mind Theory of Mind, some self driving software doesn't even seem to have object permanence.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind

2. https://www.simplypsychology.org/Object-Permanence.html
It is a new design, but not a big leap up.
It's an approximation, though. You can't really describe a rotating body looking only at its centre of mass. So it does summarise the whole in the sense that we choose to ignore what it cannot describe and live with it, but it's more a matter of convenience than a profound meaning.
Well, fighting games do offer high crush/low crush options, where hurtboxes (the vulnerable portion of your character) are shifted higher or lower, to make a move suited to cleanly beat either approaches from the air or sweeps. Beneficial properties like this can be balanced by a number of things -- speed, recovery time, damage, range, for a few examples!

I realise you may already be familiar, but I figured it'd be worth expanding a little for other readers.
Aren't all swords double-edged? I would think that a single-edged sword would simply be a knife. Or an axe.
like the parent said, this is moot. TSMC is not for sale, for reasons of geopolitics and Taiwanese national security. it is Taiwan's biggest bargaining chip
This is just my understanding, but I believe in social sciences r values are usually quite deflated and a coefficient of .47 is extremely high.
Should or would aside, it's not an automatic system. Even if it were, the trials themselves would be adjudicated by federal district court judges, who are political appointees. If you've ever watched a Senate judiciary hearing, the questions posed to the candidate are often ideological in nature rather than legal.

I probably seem pedantic, but I think it's important to reiterate the scale of human involvement and imperfection underpinning the entire system in which we exist. The solution to that is not "take the humans out of it", but to iterate that system with incremental improvements and fund it to the level commensurate with its importance to our society.
New insights on flowering could boost cassava crops
"Staff are asking Activision Blizzard to adopt new recruiting, hiring and promotion policies to improve representation across all employee levels."

What exactly does this means? What is "representation across all employee levels" and why not competency?

In the US-based company I work for, we have a "diversity and inclusion" program that had resulted in promoting cafeteria managers to director level and hiring any (all) applicants of certain races in certain countries (varies by country) because targets had to be met. I have a friend in US that was told by all his mentors : "come on, you are a white male, you have no chance to be promoted". Is this what these people want?
6 figures from breaking systems and reporting them responsibly?

Sounds amazing, what's the catch?
The money, and the kind of people it attracts.
I barely have enough time in a week to keep up with emails and meetings, without crashing exhausted at the end of every day. I can't imagine having time in my schedule to travel across the country, send live cockroaches over mail, plan to plant GPS trackers on vehicles, etc.

I have to work on my time management!
There isn't a "Yes allow" prompt, it pops up a list and you have to select something specific.

Do you have an example of how these technologies have been used for ad tracking? I hear this as justification for Apples actions a lot but haven't seen it myself anywhere.
Spoiler alert: it was the locksmith in front of whose shop the machine was allowed to exist (rent free)
Oh, but Matrix is much more than an instant messenger. It's a replicated database with ACLs.

It could theoretically fail in the IM space and still succeed in the data sharing space. For instance, you could build an Activitypub-like ecosystem on top of it.
Certain demographics are cheaper, less demand high supply, daytime TV audiences ... so yeah maybe a sweet spot!
Fox News channel reigns as top-rated network in total day and primetime viewers
It still does not make any sense to me that a business would continue engaging with another business that is causing them to lose money. If a business is getting ripped off, then they need to ask for cash up front, or have contracts requiring direct payment.

But if they are going to continue willingly engaging with a party that jerks them around, I do not see who they have to blame but themselves.
$40 is almost surely a pre-pandemic number, as rental cars have mostly doubled or more since. Go see what a car costs in Southern California, or Albuquerque, for example. Further, that price is without any insurance, and likely a small car, while plenty of people going on a road trip need a much larger car to fit the whole family + luggage + extras like camping equipment, the dog, etc.
I thought People buy Apple products all over the world? Not just at Cpuertino?

Jokes aside, I want to point out that the money is made from selling to people. The profit does not come from air. They were from people. You can argue how justified that the profit belongs to the company. But it ultimately comes from people, and should be used on them as well.
As much as I loved it, Assassins Creed had a combat system like this.
I have to assume there was no evidence of that, or else he'd be charged too.
Years ago there was a cluster at Google where machines were kept around well past their prime, because it was cheaper than doing anything else, once you looked at all the constraints. There were still some CPUs and drives that could be reused, but the main source of pain was memory. The modules hadn't been on the market for years and recycling parts from decommissioned nodes wasn't enough. I remember one machine that came back from a power down/up cycle with too little RAM to do even its most basic job. The hardware techs that helped us had to consolidate old machines more aggressively, starting from that system. Fun days. Anyway, my point is that you never know... the CPUs were ancient, probably way older than the storage and I expected them to be the biggest problem, but in this case RAM sourcing was the real issue. Fun times.
I'm not that familiar with Flowdeck so I don't know if this is what you mean, but "collapsed threads" in Mattermost is just a personal view setting that can be turned on/off according to your preferences.
EBITDA is earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization
And thankfully Brave on my iPhone does the same thing :)
A lot of behaviour is obvious in aggregate but hard to identify in particular cases.

If you make a job posting, get 5 applicants, interview 3 of them and hire 1 it's hard to point a finger and say you did (or didn't) do anything wrong.

But let's say over the course of a year you receive 10,000 applications for various positions and 15% of those are African American. Now say that 10% of applicants get to the interview stage but none of the African American applicants made it to the interview stage then, in the very least, that looks bad. You would need to justify why that's the case.

Discrimination can be subtle. A lot of people who are discriminatory but don't think they are. In the US, for example, you have what are called "second syllable names". These are names that are traditionally AFrican American (eg Lakisha). I vaguely recall reading a study where someone took a bunch of resumes for assistant positions and for a bunch with "first syllable names" they replaced just the name with "second syllable names" and there was a statistically significant decrease in response rate.

So your personal discretion doesn't extend to unlawful hiring and firing practices.
Apple now has more than 700 million paid subscriptions, which is up 150 million from last year, and is four times the number of subscriptions that Apple had four years ago.

700,000,000 paid subscriptions is the craziest metric in tech. That’s an absolutely insane amount of people paying Apple one way or another as opposed to being free users and just seeing ads
Keep your eye on Frost Giant.
It does make the difference. You don't deliberately increase the surface of attack if you can help it.
> dispensed drinks were rare cans that were either ordinarily unavailable in the United States or have not been in circulation since the 1980s

> In June 2018, the machine mysteriously disappeared

I don't think it's mysterious. The owner likely ran out of full, rare cans of soda and could not / did not want to source them anymore.
Yes, this is what will happen in many areas.
>honestly, all I really want is Carplay on my iPhone.

This kind of response makes me lose utter faith in the YC 'massive'. Puke inducing tiny world view. CHRIST!!

Frankly FUCK OFF.