skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A newer fiction book I skimmed after finding it abandoned at a campsite seemed to have overt and contrived repeated mentions of bmw automobiles, including the models, in places such details didn't seem to have anything at all to do with the story.

It left me wondering if some authors now secure contracts to always use a specific brand of $foobar if $foobar makes an appearance in their stories.

The only time I've ever encountered this level of repeated brand shilling in a book I actually intended to read was Vonnegut's Bluebeard and its Sateen Dura-Luxe. But there it played a significant part of the story, and it's a fictional brand..
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>(Central News Agency reporter Zhang Jianzhong, Hsinchu, 31) According to media reports, in order to ensure that its gross profit margin and profit remain at a high level, TSMC has increased its foundry prices and will require equipment and material suppliers to cut prices by at least 15% in 2022. The legal person said that this will create more opportunities for local manufacturers.

>Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. recently notified customers to increase foundry prices. The prices of advanced 7nm and 5nm advanced processes have increased by 7% to 9%, and the prices of other mature processes have increased by about 20%. According to reports, TSMC will also require equipment and material suppliers to cut prices by at least 15% in 2022 to reduce costs. TSMC does not respond to market rumors.

>The domestic legal person said that TSMC has been looking for ways to reduce costs for many years. Unless it is an exclusive supplier, TSMC will reduce costs by adjusting the proportion of procurement.

>The legal person pointed out that domestic suppliers have always offered lower prices than foreign manufacturers, and TSMC has been committed to increasing the proportion of local procurement for many years. It is expected that TSMC will require equipment and material suppliers to reduce prices, which will create more opportunities for local suppliers.

>According to statistics from TSMC, last year, the proportion of indirect raw materials purchased locally was about 60%, and the proportion of local purchases of spare parts was about 44.8%. This year, it plans to increase the local procurement ratio of indirect raw materials to 60.5%, and the local procurement ratio of spare parts will reach 50%. (Editor: Yang Lanxuan) 1100831
Neither do I.

I’m simply trying to point out that people believing that can treat themselves with unproven drugs and skipping vaccines …

Anyway, a thousand Americans will die today, mostly unvaccinated. I sure hope people figure it out soon.
Kubernetes is overblown for home set-ups. Any tooling I use, including Docker and Ansible, is because they make the unenviable task of keeping the home infrastructure running less bad than doing these things by hand.
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Does Walmart commingle goods from counterfeit sellers with that of reputable sellers for optimized delivery? Amazon does.
Previous discussion from 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307224 (248 comments)
Emacs vs. Vim survey (C. 2018, 1,123 responses)
Lasers are single-wavelength, so it seems like you could coat the windshield with nanometer selective bandstop filters.

Green is the biggest, most visible offender. Add a 532 nm filter.

I did the inverse of this to make a laser pointer-driven drawing application on sky scrapers. No video of this sadly, but here's me playing asteroids on campus buildings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTi-jf-ans
Depends what kind of aircraft. There are a bunch of videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75aUKIIY1Lg
Though I don’t find myself in agreement with this position, this is a particularly clear and well-articulated statement of the position. Upvoted for clarity of thinking and communication.
That logic ignores the potential criminality of the activity. If a bunch of robbers incorporate an LLC, would you want to limit their liability to their tools and the getaway vehicle so the LLC can “declare bankruptcy”? Those sponsoring the “enterprise” will at the very least be charged as accessories.

Limited liability is not about, and has many asterisks before it applies.
There are two forms.

Those sold without prescribed are not for human use. Lower quality, different dose etc. People are buying those and getting very sick.
This probably isn't a good idea because you are going to annoy your manager. Annoying your manager is not a good strategy to getting promoted.

Manager: I got this PagerDuty alert about the RefactoredRubeGoldberg System, can you look into it?

Report: Sure, how will this help me get promoted?

Manager: If you don't do this, then you won't get promoted.

You should periodically bring this up to your manager in the 1:1 meetings when you go over your projects that you are working on.
They didnt deal drugs really. Doctors did. Wonder why the medical establishment hasnt taken a reputation hit like the sacklers justifiably did.
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Are people using something to help aim their laser? How do you accurately even target something like that so far away where you don't even know if you've hit the object?

(And just to be clear, I'm not asking for instructions on this)
I've seen this track described as a "Solver", a sort of internal mercenary who can join a project with a critical, difficult problem, research it to a very detailed level and drive a solution.
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The vaccines did do what they were supposed to do: Prevent hospitalization and death.
Chances are you don't need an ac card.

see

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sekt...

Man you can get an atheros card off of ebay probably for less than $15 shipping included. If your OS does not support your card you could try using a card that is supported, a different OS, or a wired link. What I don't get is somebody complaining about wifi speed in 2021 when a replacement card is $15. Anyway only trying to be helpful.

If you are doing almost anything over the internet there is no advantage of ac over abgn. The wifi lan is not the bottleneck. If you are doing something local that requires superfast data transfer then just run gigabit ethernet or whatever the the cool kids are doing these days.
They family both owned and controlled (in the sense that the board was stacked with family members) the company that manufactured OxyContin. The _company_ has been found in prior cases to be liability for criminal marketing practices leading to deaths. This has ultimately lead to the company going bankrupt under all it legal obligations as fallout from various suits.

The family is losing their equity in the bankruptcy. The question is if the family, as both owners and/or directors of the company, need to give back funds they received as dividends from the company, back to the company (under the bankruptcy courts guidance to give out to its creditors, including parties owed money due to harm).

There hasn't been a specific criminal case against the family, so the prosecutors can't just seize the profits as proceeds of a criminal enterprise. But the family clearly benefited from and directed a company the willfully sold opioids that lead to the deaths of so many, and the corporate malfeasance is something that has been adjudicated.
An Ancheer ebike from Amazon cost around $1k, and while possible, it would be hard to get a car for that price. It seems pretty well made for the price, but it doesn't include the best quality shifters. I can set the saddle high enough for my 6'5" self, but I do want the handle bars raised as well. I suspect that for people 6' and under, it would be fine as is.
I agree with everything except for Kubernetes. My use of Ansible for example is purely so I don't forget what tweaks I made to the system to make things run.
"No one has died yet" is true until it's suddenly not.

If the penalty for doing this was a modest slap on the wrist, that would be a completely ineffective deterrent for an activity that is very easy to get away with and hard to prosecute in the first place.

It seems the only options to prevent misuse here are to restrict the sale of laser pointers, or make the penalty for improper use so well-known and draconian that no one would want to take the chance of being caught.
Probably because, in rural areas, it's available without a prescription for veterinary use. Usually from the local feed and seed store, if there's still one around that hasn't been driven out of business by the Wal*Mart.
Hopefully nobody decides in a decade that cryptocurrency or social media damaged society, I guess?

The reason it’s hard to prosecute somebody for something that was legal at the time is because that’s a giant can of worms to open.
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I think the OP may have be referring to the fact that Amazon also recently both filed lawsuit against the DOD for awarding the JEDI project to Microsoft[1] and Blue Origin filed a protest against the G.A.O. for awarding the lunar landing contract to SpaceX[2]. I think when take all 3 of these in the aggregate, it starts to look a bit like bad faith on the part of Bezos and Amazon.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/07/06/pentagon-sc...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/science/spacex-moon-blue-...
The Feds Want to Know What the McFuck Is Going on with the McFlurry Machines
There are hundreds of real world applications that benefit from connectivity.

For example Self driving would really benefit from connectivity for deeper learning models to get to level 5.

Telemedicine , remote learning all have huge potential with connectivity all around the world. Education in developing countries which suffer from lack of infrastructure can (and already does) benefit from tech driven learning

It is easy to say you don't want connectivity everywhere when you don't experience that lack of connectivity a lot of the people do.

It is hard to imagine the kind of applications that will come just like it was hard to imagine what came with web 2.0 /1.0 before .

Also a lot of pressure on urban migration would really reduce with global connectivity. I already know many people moving or considering to move to a rural location with better quality of life only because of starlink.
A week is the same as forever for all intents and purposes. Blinding a pilot can and will eventually kill people. You have to be a moron not to understand that.
> But the biggest problem with PGP is how difficult it is for people to use simply. "It’s a real pain," says Green. "There’s key management – you have to use it in your existing email client, and then you have to download keys, and then there’s this whole third issue of making sure they’re the right keys."

How is this PGP's fault? The computing world has had 24 years to catch up with the standard, and frankly it does everything listed here out of the box on Linux. Microsoft, Apple and Google have all been dragging their feet in the sand when it comes to actually implementing it, so the onus really falls on them as far as I can tell.

PGP is still Pretty Good Privacy: not perfect by any means, but a considerable step up from plaintext. Maybe there are credible threats to it's security, but most people reading this will probably be dead before it's implemented.
I can't disagree with that, but it doesn't make it bannable.
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One could just as easily say that there's no point in trying to have a rational discussion with people who want to compare anyone who disagrees with the worst thing they can come up with.

If you wonder what kind of content is actually on subs like NoNewNormal, you could just go on and see for yourself. Well actually, now you can't anymore, because they're gone. Which leaves their enemies free to smear them as the worst thing anyone could come up with, when they have no chance to respond and nobody has any way to see for themselves what it's really about.

I used to check in on them every now and then. I didn't see much of the supposed extreme stuff about the vaccines being poison or being involved with 5G somehow. I do see things about how they aren't as effective as we would have liked, don't last as long as we would have liked, have more side effects than people are willing to admit, and there's decent evidence that natural immunity from having caught Covid is more effective. It is pretty arguable that blindly mandating everyone take it without accounting for people who have already had the disease or have genuine allergies or other negative reactions to things in the vaccines is not a very good idea.
Gibson wrote Neuromancer without ever using a computer, its all vague because he didnt know how any of this would work :)
Which subcultures of Twitter would want to pay IRL money for tweets? I'm seriously out of the loop here.
Just momentary swiping of laser across the cockpit is already quite debilitating. Precise targeting is not necessary. I've had lasers aimed at me while i was flying, and it is so bright that it blinds you for a minute or so. The actual laser strike on the aircraft was maybe 1/10 of a second long
I wonder if this will allow explicit content and try to come for OnlyFans. Seems unlikely, but that's the first analogue I thought of.
It appears that, given the 0 refund policy, blocking super followers will cost the followers money. Oddly, this feels good for folks who would otherwise be harassed by such an amplification mechanism.
I just don't get who would pay for this. Maybe I'm getting old.

Also this is a good example of how Apple's fees are sneaking into creator content. Out of a $5/mo sub, Apple gets $1.50 as an Apple Tax, yet Twitter still charges money on top of that for processing. The Internet has taken a turn for the worse.
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It's not a one time cost. For it to be valuable, you need to perform additional audits periodically.
How likely is that?
Maybe there isn't a big conspiracy to censor?

This was discussed last week too.
The real problem is that the US allows direct to consumer marketing for pharmaceuticals, which is illegal in basically every other country because it's an objectively terrible idea.
Death to anyone with a full-size water bottle!
You call it in to the ATC, give an approximate "from" location, they dispatch local police, and often enough they find someone on the ground with a visible laser beam aimed up.

Source: am pilot, have done this, talked to police for follow-up
I agree with the historical part because recently there has been more meme posts, one liner edgy comments, giant political rants, etc.

And since people can't delete your post after 2 hours, you can see a lot of fluff nowadays even in a relatively old thread.
You can see two of the reactors built, sitting on flatbed railcars on display in Idaho at the EBR-1 facility https://inl.gov/experimental-breeder-reactor-i/
The extradition treaty is a disgrace for the UK, completely imbalanced in favour of the US.

- https://blog.6kbw.com/posts/this-lopsided-treaty-is-the-us-u...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%E2%80%93US_extradition_trea...
>I think what I'd like to emphasize is that everyone just needs to find whatever works for them

If only it were this easy! As the article points out, often what you think works best for you is actually just what you're used to. I think switching up studying habits every so often is good practice. Forces you to try new things and see if they make an impact on your retention.
In my prior comment I used equidistant points for the interpolation.

In scipy you can use smoothing splines to get something close to optimal approximating splines with non-equidistant points. If you aim for a maximum error of 5e-8 (so when you round you have 7 exact decimal places), then with cubic splines you need 33 knots (including the ends). Now, the sine values are always less than one, so the digit before the decimal place is 0. If you count that towards accuracy, then you might be looking for an error not to exceed 5e-7, in which case scipy finds that you need 17 knots including the ends, so 15 interior knots.

from scipy.interpolate import UnivariateSpline
xs = np.linspace(0,np.pi/2,1000,endpoint=True)
s = UnivariateSpline(xs,np.sin(xs),k=3,s=0.75e-11)
ts = np.linspace(0,np.pi/2,10000)
print("Max error: " , np.max(np.abs(s(ts)-
np.sin(ts))))
print("Number knots: ", len(s.get_knots()))

>> Max error: 4.761484727611176e-07
>> Number knots: 17
What does that do to the pilot's visibility through the window?
I'm not sure what you're even trying to say here.
This will hold until good automated security systems.
So after Facebook and others, Apple now requires a real name too?
> Maybe things would be different if I had a chip on my shoulder from growing up dirt poor or a chip on my shoulder from an ultra successful parent that is almost impossible to live up to.

Neither of these are necessary conditions for poor mental health and/or having high standards for yourself (i.e. being in the target audience of the article). But they can of course have a significant impact.
Wow, that was pretty amazing. "He chucked something into the corner near the garden".

Pretty good accuracy.
Are Jews not considered white?
Yes you're.
It's not hard to see how piracy threatens the entire business model. You can have rampant piracy or you can have financially sustainable content production. You cannot have both.

There is some critical mass of piracy that would in fact destroy the economics of the content production model. The industry has to work to deter that by periodically making examples of people.

The timing is likely not coincidental either. Expect to see more of this as content once again fragments across providers, reanimating the traditional package TV structure in fresh form.
> Assuming your position on any subject, especially novel viruses and novel vaccines, is 100% correct and immune to debate or criticism is irrational.

The "debate" and "criticism" is always in the form of uncited or poorly cited conspiracies, along with links to extremely unreputable sites. It some cases, the only evidence is a highly shared Facebook meme. The credentials of the "research" authors are frequently lies, too. For example, there's a big one going around from the "inventor of RNA vaccines." However, if you look into it, it's just one of thousands of people who worked on RNA vaccines at some point in its lifecycle. It's like claiming some new grad software engineer who works for Facebook is "the inventor of Facebook."

Mercola, Natural News, Fox, Breitbart, *.win, Zerohedge, Infowars: These sources aren't dismissed because "there's a bias against conservative values" or whatever; they're dismissed because they regularly churn out completely debunked garbage. The times they're right about something is, at best, a fluke.
There have been so many seemingly respectable celebrities that we've gotten to know only to find out they're not really so great. I feel like Guy Fieri is the exact opposite - when I first saw him on TV I just knew this guy sucked. The car, the attitude, the hair - something just rubbed me the wrong way. But the more I've learned about him - his advocacy for gay marriage, his relief for restaurant workers during the pandemic, etc...I have to admit he seems like a good guy.
The only immediate use case that comes to mind is as a competitor to OnlyFans. Sex workers by and large are already all over Twitter.
Doesn't mean it's unhealthier either. How you cook something and how healthy it is are not related in any way.
I've had a laser hit a plane i was flying. I was basically blind for a minute after that. Had my engine failed in that minute, or had some other emergency occurred that needed my attention and eyes, i'd be dead, and so would some people under my plane.
Why is this downvoted? Do people think Macbook Pros have good battery life?
Your friend was a smart guy - you should hang out with him more.

Today, there's an epidemic of women 30 - 40 who will die alone because they don't want to "settle" or "be less than."

This is a mathematical certainty because female hypergamy focuses on the top 10% of men, and there's not enough to go around, creating harems (polyginy.)

Yes, you would be right if you think that means the end of Western Civilization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygyny
There's no official upstream apt repository/ppa, but there is a package in debian experimental (an unofficial but often outdated ppa for ubuntu exists as well, but there's no v0.5.0 in the stable repository). You can also grab a self-contained binary (an appimage) from https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/v0.5.0/nv... and then rename it to "neovim", mv it to /usr/local/bin, and chmod +x.