skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fine, but if it's just a matter of degree, why would anyone want to keep spinning the evolution roulette wheel that might lead to a variant with significant vaccine breakthrough? This is a global pandemic that we have effective tools to fight not being fully utilized.
I’m sure It’s in the TOS.
>Totally makes sense why we'd basically always want someone who has done the trip before. I wonder if that was actually the thought process?

Yes. Besides the shuttle flight denvercoder9 mentioned,[1] there was one Skylab mission with all-rookie astronauts, and a few Gemini two-man flights. So one shuttle flight out of 135, and about four other NASA missions before that. (Obviously I'm excluding the six Mercury one-man flights that were by definition flown by rookies.) NASA always prefers having the commander (the actual pilot), at least, to have flown in space before. The upcoming Crew-3 is unusual in having a rookie commander, but at least the pilot (i.e., copilot) has flown in space before.

This is why NASA has always chosen people with very high-performance aircraft experience as pilot astronauts; it's the best known way to predict beforehand how someone will do at piloting spacecraft, an inherently dangerous and high-stress environment with complex tasks.

Most of the recent news coverage over the "Mercury 13" was nonsense, but especially the stuff about how the women who participated in that endeavor were "trained as NASA astronauts" or "qualified as NASA astronauts". NASA didn't restrict the selection process for the Mercury 7 to exclude women, but to select the best from the US's pool of active-duty military fixed-wing pilots who had graduated from test pilot school. Yes, no women had attended test pilot schools or flew combat military aircraft, but neither did the vast majority of its soldiers, military officers, or even military pilot officers. (Army, too. There has never been a US Army pilot astronaut,[2] and the first Army mission specialists wasn't selected until 1978.)

[1] And even here, Joe Engle was a NASA rookie but had flown to space on the X-15

[2] The most unrealistic part of I Dream of Jeannie is Roger Healey as a 1960s NASA astronaut who is an Army officer
They inserted ads into the default new tab page at some point as "sponsored shortcuts" and "sponsored stories", although I think those options defaulted off for existing Firefox installations.

Honestly though Mozilla should just cut the bloat that makes up the majority of their budget, bank the Google bucks while they're still getting them, and turn that into a sustainable endowment. Unfortunately the C-suites of large, failing organizations can justify larger salaries for themselves than small, successful ones I guess.
Android uploads everything to the cloud and it gets scanned there. But maybe in the future the Tensor SoC can rat you out client-side.
I found that out the very hard way. I dealt with a large sqlite database once where a past bug had entered data of a different data type. Instead of blowing up when the rows were created or modified, it blowed up in a much harder to debug way much, much later.
> obviously there are internal problems

Exactly. If 150 employees are not productive I hesitate to conclude that that's entirely the fault of the employees. Maybe it's not that those people are wholly unproductive, rather that they're culling the worst ones as a weird way of boosting productivity (also scares the others into working harder, I guess)
Viral loads in the sinuses such that it's transmissible. This is not the same as viral loads in the body.
Sensationalist headline. Accurate one: the project hit a snag, continues despite this.
Happiness comes from giving, not taking. I want a society that views success by the amount you give, not the amount you hoard.

I think the race to make as much money as possible is very bad for society. Part of the problem is that people think wealth takes care of them, so they hoard more than they need and avoid risks. They wouldn't think this way if society took care of everyone. Hoarding is unhealthy too; cash is the lifeblood of the economy and it has to flow.

But I don't want to talk about communism. I'm certain there's a better socioeconomic model for the software/internet era.

It's mentioned a couple times here too under Government 2.0 and Underserved Communities: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs
comma three will be getting nav and e2e longitudinal while comma two will only be getting e2e longitudinal. the comma three will also get longer support.
That’s a gooood reason.
More info here: “It has a flat fan-shaped radiation pattern, which is tilted slightly down to cover the cell area without radiating at higher angles into further off cells which reuse the same frequencies. The elevation angle of the antenna must be carefully adjusted, so the beam covers the entire cell without radiating too far.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_site

Also some antenna radiation patterns here, not sure how accurate: https://www.slideshare.net/nehakumar01/radiation-pattern-of-...
Love this game, still have my SNES with the mouse. Funnily enough PC ports like SimCity 2000, SimAnt etc, don't work with it. But Mario Paint holds up so well, great game to kill 15-30 minutes and relax your mind. Really want to get the sequel Mario Artist for the 64DD - had a full 3D modeling suite!
Also if you're American the short answer is you can't afford that medical bill.
Depending on the nature of the employee’s role, looking at hard metrics gathered from the systems the employee works in seems like something every line manager already does. One could argue that a system capable of essentially automating part of the manager’s job is a net positive and could increase productivity and possibly even fairness in evaluating some aspects of performance.

But at most, this should be supplemental information considered in a proper evaluation process, not the sole source.

Things quickly go south when they start to involve “softer” signals like email activity.

And further still that the direct outcome was immediate termination and not some kind of performance improvement period.

Perhaps this last part is not present in the Russian workplace, I’m not familiar.

I can’t help but feel like this is a real life slippery slope that came fully to fruition.
The pricetag is where I'm struggling to justify it right now. While the unit is compatible with Nissan's ProPilot it's not clear to me just how much more value I'd get out of adding the comma, but it doesn't seem like 10% of the car's value over what I already have.

Maybe with later software releases if it improves beyond 'the same as propilot but better at lane following'.
Apple beat government spying in the past so I don't see why they can't again.
That's because there isn't a consumer water shortage, by and large.

The water shortage is because the agribusinesses keep pumping it like mad before the party stops.

The only solution is to start shutting down the agribusinesses. But the agribusinesses will continue pumping everything dry to extract the last penny before it all collapses.

Welcome to Easter Island ... err, the Central Valley.
Can't wait for that day, so that I can write some scripts to check JIRA every minute, scroll through my Gmail inbox at random interval and add likes to my boss's messages on Teams. I'll have the top score in no time.

Obligatory Dilbert https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13
Yes. The harm is mostly psychological, but it is an existential threat to society. You might not agree, but that is my take, and I would bet it is shared by the others who are downvoting you.
It's still really, really bad.

It always starts with child porn, and in a few years the offline Notes app will be phoning home if you write speech criticising the government in China.

This technology inevitably leads to the sueveillance, suppression and murder of activists and journalists. It always starts with protecting the kids or terrorism.

Perceptual hashes like what Apple is using are already used in WeChat to detect memes that critique the CCP.

What happens on local end user devices must be off limits. It is unacceptable that Apple is actively implementing machine learning systems that surveil and snitch on local content.
Still means it's comparably transmissible right?
> Everything about their employees is monitored and tracked, down to individual finger and eye movements, to prevent waste and track performance. All emails that are sent out include an estimate of how long they should take to read. Go to fast, you get scolded for not paying attention. Go too slow, you get scolded for inefficiency. Get it just right? You get scolded for being a smartass.

—- Snowcrash
No, it doesn't if you choose to keep it local.
Wickard v. Filburn is crazy.

Filburn grew his own crops on his own land to feed his own animals. The government fined him under interstate commerce laws for growing too much wheat.

>The Court decided that Filburn's wheat-growing activities reduced the amount of wheat he would buy for animal feed on the open market, which is traded nationally, is thus interstate, and is therefore within the scope of the Commerce Clause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
Hard agree. Especially since modern farming methods create food with much less nutritional value than it used to have. But nobody gets rich off of magnesium supplements, so we don't check magnesium levels for anxiety (for example).

If you have a health problem, make sure to try to have a problem that has a lucrative treatment.
This is the video (of pictures) of the race director trying to rip her out of the boston marathon.

Classic.

Her beefy boyfriend at the time went WWF on the old dude. :-D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOGXvBAmTsY&t=199s
> we will help you find a good place, where you will earn more and work even less

Wow you're really selling it for us. PR nightmare.
To start scanning my local photos on my local phone and report back?
> Herd immunity is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that can occur with some diseases when a sufficient percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, whether through vaccination or previous infections, thereby reducing the likelihood of infection for individuals who lack immunity.

Right from wikipedia.
Maybe, but as another comment[1] notes, there was probably a human in the loop at some point who was able to "save" people they thought should be kept, regardless of what the data said. Either that, or the process was seeded with an "ignore list" of exceptions.

1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28069040
I wouldn't take this at face value. It's more likely that they already wanted to do the layoffs and just put the burden on the employees.
Creating a mapping between primitive data type and "kind of content" is ad-hoc, arbitrary, and icky. What if you want your reasons to be numeric as well, then the scheme falls apart? What about aggregates, as a sibling comment mentioned?

Copy of another comment of mine: I dealt with a large sqlite database once where a past bug had entered data of a different data type. Instead of blowing up when the rows were created or modified, it blowed up in a much harder to debug way much, much later.
> "Let's go production with it now and we can secure it later" - no, you won't. A better question to ask yourself is "If we don't have time to do it correctly now, will we have time to do it over once it's broken?" Sometimes, building a system that is in constant need of repair means you will spend years investing in turd polish because you were unwilling to spend days getting the job done right in the first place.

I have seen this everywhere I went, one way or the other.
This reminds me of Ted Talks about the original thinkers by Adam Grant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxbCHn6gE3U
Just because these people are not behaving or contributing the same way like others, it doesn't mean they are worthless.

If company design the work "game" like such, people will try to cheat the game like automatically producing whole bunch of crap on daily basis - is that productive? Then, they will have to figure out an anti-cheat, on and on. Play stupid game, get stupid prizes.

For people who might want to work for them, this really a turn off. What kind of potential metrics they could be looking for next? If a person made a 2000 line code that impacted the whole company, but that's all the code that person produced, should he/she get fired for being unproductive? What a rabbit hole!
> … are bad to program

And yet everything you run your software on (Linux/Windows/your browser etc.) is written in those languages. Mostly C/C++. So clearly millions of developers can do real work with those languages. And very little real world useful software (except a few websites and Emacs) is built with Lisp. Despite Lisp being an older language that most. And yes I know the standard reply to this is “all non-Lisp developers are stupid” which is just unbelievably childish/arrogant.
> pseudo-nerd businessman

I find this attitude towards Musk so, so odd. Where are you getting your info?

He was coding PC games as a teen, wrote the code for zip2, was the cto at x.com, and taught himself rocket science from textbooks (as confirmed by other rocket scientists). If that’s a “pseudo nerd”, who qualifies as a “real nerd”?
The letter is so unprofessional it makes me question the validity of the decision making more than I otherwise would. An email dripping with sarcasm has no purpose here except to make the CEO feel tickled inside, it's masturbatory.
Yes. The harm is mostly psychological, but it is an existential threat to society. You might not agree, but that is my take.

OK, understood. It's good to see where people are coming from on this subject, even when disagreeing.
We are already at that day: https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-looked-at-all-the-ways-micro... discussed on HN here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25816297 and the linked https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-365s-productivity-sc...
Resist De Blasio’s Vaccine Passport – Reason.com
Gaming Historian did a great video on Mario Paint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54bXwb5DfRI
Flip side: engineers who curry favor without delivering value can't hide it quite as easily. Those who do their jobs without sucking up have a chance for recognition.
There probably won't be any; just do a POC.

They showed some marketing benchmarks at https://techfieldday.com/?s=pliops which are probably not outright fabricated but merely downhill with a tailwind.
This is true for "ads". I also get a flood of "suggested for you" links which seem indistinguishable, are almost certainly paid content, and have no such labeling.

Some of this is benign enough, like all the inexplicable videos of rollercoaster rides or the Crafty Panda nonsense. Some of it seems somewhat nefarious, like the very family-friendly, feel-good, decidedly non-political suggestions for things like Cute Cat Content at the EXTREMELY political Epoch Times.

I mean, come on. All systems can be gamed. Facebook will still, for a fee, put any content you want in front of any user you want in a completely untrackable way. And that's why they freaked out about this extension.
Wow that's crazy. 150 at the same time? I'm not sure how long did it took him to review all of those before taking that kind of decision.

But again not sure if that's the whole reason behind the action, maybe the company is not doing so well at the same time? That's why they needed to change.

Regardless of the reason, I'm sure firing 150 people at the same time will give you some backslash in any way. Good luck to all those 150 employee for their future
Another "beginner" intro that starts with describing FCs and neurons, and doesn't tell why we need NNs in the first place.

Although Deep NNs is not very interpretable, there's good intuitions behind the designs. These kind of articles will only make deep learning more mysterious.
> A PyPI package version doesn’t have to be strictly numeric – they’re usually in the form 1.2.3 or similar, sometimes with characters appended to indicate alpha, beta, dev or release candidate, but they can be any string.

Wait... they don't have to be valid semver? How in the world does resolution work?
‘Accuracy’ is a nonsensical idea in fiction. Like all fictional stories, the purpose of games is not to be ‘realistic’ or ‘accurate’. It’s to get you to willingly suspend disbelief. It’s light entertainment for goodness sake, not a doctoral thesis.
Result: git committing, excessively.
How did food get into the places that were welded shut?
Every single day the world gets closer to the cyberpunk dystopias of science fiction. It's eerie to watch this sort of thing happening in real life.
People are too shy to say it but I think a lot of them would prefer a much more violent solution to the problem. I mean, what other answer could there even be, if you don't like the status quo and also don't think homeless people should be offered housing? That's the dark secret behind a lot of these debates where people's positions otherwise seem nonsensical, I think.
I suspect it works, but I think it's just a super grind at first.

If you don't have an audience already, then you have to try to squeeze getting a temp-audience into a very compressed amount of time, and you'll have relatively/very few emails.

I think part of it is just doing it - you put it up, you hustle hard for a few weeks to get 3 addresses, that makes you realize you need to build an audience before launching next time, etc.

No personal experience, just my take.
I got someone to cover for me. https://youtu.be/R_rF4kcqLkI?t=174
They have been taking money from the Google, but I don’t think they have become as ”arm of the Google”, as you make it sound like that. Their promise was to not become like that. They are very little affected by Google after all.

Monetizing browser is super hard outside of ads, and all they have done is to set their default search engine as Google.
I mean, that’s better than no second, human round, no?
You are absolutely right. The arrogance of Lisp developers is just breathtaking. Especially because the very same developers have no evidence to support their claims. The world runs on C/C++/JavaScript. Not Lisp.
I think the author seriously underestimates how complex the large distributed systems are, and how much specialized knowledge does it take to maintain it.

If Amazon releases the entire AWS source code and configs tomorrow, one is not going to bring up an AWS competitor any time soon. The released configs are not going to be usable as-is, as no one will have 81 datacenters with millions of servers. The configuration will need to be scaled down significantly, and a lot of this stuff is not documented and could only be managed by the members of the team which wrote it.

As an another example, take Kubernetes. It is a replacement of a small part of Google’s infrastructure, and a lot of people already consider it too complex. So even if we force someone to release the scripts, but those scripts require kubernetes, a large fraction of users will just have to ignore those because they don’t use the tech.
But it is dynamic typing. The type in sqlite is associated with the value. For example you can have a number column, but actually store a string in it.

Proper shocked now?
Please give me additional time I can take when I want to take it (including for three day weekends) rather than whatever trendy workplace time management is in vogue.

I personally prefer to take month-long vacations than consistently shorter weeks.
It’s not trying to close Pandora’s box. It’s liability limitation. They’re effectively saying that if you want to distribute CP don’t do it on an iPhone.
I don't understand this argument at all. Look at the Clipper Chip debacle in the 90s. It was technically feasible and the government very much wanted to do it. And the reason they didn't is push back from the public, saying this is a bad idea that can easily be misused, even if it does make some law enforcement things easier. I don't see how this is any different.

Sacrificing the privacy of the many to help catch a relatively small amount of (admittedly some of the worst possible) criminals, while simultaneously enabling yet more effective surveillance and oppression by those inclined governments (of which there are plenty) is a pretty terrible idea.

Eliminating the 4th amendment or mandating clear walls sure would make the cops' job easier. But no one thinks that's even a remotely good idea.
They are also allowed to sell equity if they discover the need to do so. But preorders allow them to a) offer somewhat less equity and b) do so at a higher price due to the PR value of >1mm preorders. The pre-orders appear to have significantly reduced the cost of capital for the Cybertruck.
There was a study upthread (from the Lancet?) that literally pointed out that there are the same level of virus load on nasal pathways for vaxxed and unvaxxed. I believe the study was linked by user timr

This was the underlying logic for the cdc to require masks once again
> if you are fully vaccinated, you are at essentially no risk of serious illness from SARS-CoV2.

… maybe for currently known variants. New ones will appear, and no one can predict if current vaccines will protect us from them. It makes sense to me that a mixed population of vaccinated and unvaccinated people interacting frequently could lead to vaccine-resistant strains. Keep wearing your masks!
https://relaygo.com/families/relay ?
> on the Super Nintendo that uses (comes with!) a separate mouse controller. I can name exactly one video game like this, ever.

There have been other games on other platforms that came with their own controller. The first one that comes to mind is BASIC for the Atari 2600. It came with a tiny membrane keyboard.
300+ Components from the best landing pages across the internet
So you don't have the right to drive a car, right?
2001 was made in 1968 - definitely a precursor to the New Hollywood era though very much stylistically apart
No, we can complain about it, and we can win. Remember when the government tried to ban encryption in early 1990s?

Remember SOPA that the internet killed?
https://www.google.com/search?q=china+food+delivery+quaranti...

(food delivery through openings)
And I’ve seen employees that would stun you with how productive they seem based on how much they post in the corporate chat and email, but on actual review did absolutely nothing besides add to the noise?
I don’t think labor market is as tight in the rest of the world rn as it is in the us. The immigration halt over last two years as well as insane equity growth really put upward pressure on comp and so some folks are in a bit of denial here. Not so much in eastern europe
> One could argue that a system capable of essentially automating part of the manager’s job

But not a system that could automate a regular workers' job so they don't have to be constantly checking Jira, Confluence, Slack, mail, etc, etc?
I was going to ask how this one compared to scudo.
They should target employees who live and operate in remote areas like O&G.