skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a book (political hit piece) about Peter Thiel coming out by a Bloomberg reporter this is part of its press tour along with the hit piece in Bloomberg.
I haven’t checked your stats, but how are they relevant to this discussion, at least in the way you imply?

If one even ignores the insane fact that that many young kids kill themselves every year, in what world is it okay to gleefully ignore an increase in suicides to any age group and the cause(s) of the increase?
> How about your landlord charging a 30% cut if you want to take your amazon package inside his house? Don't like it, go build your own home.

That actually happens in commercial real estate: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage_rent
That is an interesting choice for a counter example, because when I think of Hubble I think of failed gyroscopes. Hubble has required 5 servicing missions and always seems to be at risk of moving from a state of crippled-but-still-useful to flat-out-busted-forever. Look at the program's weekly observation logs, keep an eye on the file size - the interesting ones are smaller than average. Gyros and safemode. If you suddenly feel the urge to blurt out "Bbut funding and politics!", then consider my point proven - a Moon based telescope would be far more vulnerable to such externalities.

https://www.stsci.edu/ftp/observing/weekly_timeline/
Over a century ago, Emma Goldman was an organizer trying to improve the lives of working class men and women.

She wrote about the upper middle class liberal, politician-and-yellow-journalist-fueled frenzy around the "traffic in women". Funny that over a century later absolutely nothing has changed. Even the same word is used for the old moral panic - traffic.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/191...
This is exactly what NSO does and they don’t get charged with anything.

Mudge sells Cobalt Strike out in the open.

The only difference is these guys didn’t set up a company first.
It depends.

If they thought that backpage enabled/induced trafficking, then them being a top source of tips isn’t that valuable.

Would you let a drug dealer run a meth lab if he reported his customers for prosecution?

You can argue with my analogy, and I don’t quite agree with it myself, but I can see the government seeing it that way.
A Mathematician’s Guided Tour Through High Dimension
Unlike 418 I'm a Teapot, 420 Enhance Your Calm is actually a nonstandard HTTP status code. The correct response is 429 Too Many Requests. [1]

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6585#section-4
Oh eek, I retract my comment!
https://spectrum.ieee.org/sodium-ion-battery

> Sodium batteries are also more stable and safe than lithium-ion. They have a wider temperature range, are nonflammable, and there is no thermal runaway—which can cause lithium-ion batteries to catch fire—under any condition, says Pouchet.
https://archive.md/M66kJ
> walking into a room turns on the lights via motion detectors

Do you know if there's anything good in this space yet for detecting presence (not just entry)? There are some spots in my home where I only want the lights on while I'm there, and I haven't found anything yet that can reliably detect that somebody's actually left a space other than Hiome (https://www.hiome.com), and that doesn't work for something not delineated by a doorway.
Strong disagree. Basically every opinion I read was “Jesus defer work until prices stabilize”
Are they trying to persuade? I figure they were just trying to signal their "loyalty" to some audience they have in mind.

I found this hilarious:

"The Thiel Fellowships, which began in 2011, initially provided $100,000 each to 22 high school students with big ideas for changing the world… Unsurprisingly, these dreams came to nothing."

Because of [0]:

"He dropped out of university in 2014 when he was awarded with a grant of $100,000 from the Thiel Fellowship, a scholarship created by venture capitalist Peter Thiel and went to work on Ethereum full-time."

Which I guess is "nothing" for these sorts of people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik_Buterin
> Covid misinformation currently kills people every day.

Part of the "misinformation" is how institutions are hiding the truth... so isn't censorship reinforcing people's distrust, therefore contributing to the deaths?

This isn't hyperbole, every time some censoring like this happens, it gets factored in as proof of many of the plethora of conspiracy theories. Are these big platforms and government really interesting in saving people, or playing politics? Because it's pretty obvious the main problem is lack of trust, and censorship makes that worse.
It's quite silly for anyone to see HR this way in the first place. They get paid by the employer. Union execs get paid by employees. Figure out which is pro employee.
> Once launched into space, satellites can no longer be serviced and contaminations increase the probability of malfunctions occurring during the planned lifetime. Even a single dust particle can interrupt a circuit.

How does a single dust particle interrupt a circuit? (I know nothing about this; it's interesting.)
As the old saying goes :“snitches get riches”

Anyway, this is a pretty good model. I like it. They poison the well for coordination by making it hard to recruit into your scheme since if you win big, one of your prospective collaborators can now snitch on you.
I never had to do that. I had to convince people Docker isn't the right tool for every job though.
Is there any thought about presenting the papers as TEI XML with XSLT to display the paper in a browser or screenreader? TEI provides pagination support (needed for citing page numbers, because most of academia still needs that) and extensive semantic markup for things like bibliographic information. It also serves as one data model that can be converted easily with existing tools (XSLT) to provide many representations for humans, while also serving as a machine-parsable text for datamining. Digital humanities has made heavy use of TEI for years, and this project seems like it could benefit from it.
It is sad as far as I can tell the main reason you are getting downvoted is because you mentioned the name of the top prosecutor who unjustly arrested the Backpage founders on trumped up charges.
It doesn't surprise me it's Alameda Sheriff's department.

They have one requirement besides a GED, and it BDS (big, dumb, stupid).

They are known for doing stupid stuff around the country.

I grew up with the guy who runs the Coroner's a office, and literally thought he was developmentally disabled.

(CA decided to nix voted in Coroners a few years ago, and replaced all with cops to save money. A Coroner is an executive position. Needs no training. In Marin County, we had a great Coroner, who was a medical doctor, for years.)
You can also simply apply cold. Ultimately turned the offer down due to concern about burnout, but I had a great experience interviewing with McKinsey. Compared to most tech company interviews, I felt like I was given every opportunity to showcase my strengths as a generalist, and the people I spoke to were all very likeable and invested in the process.
They are pseudo decentralised. They have a point of failure. Take down the operator and the exchange is gone. Happened before with an ethereum exchange. Ethereum delegated some control to miners which isn't decentralised
My dad's gas car (20 years ago) caught on fire in the garage while he wasn't there. The house was fine b/c of a a code required fire break between the garage and house. It's probably more rare nowadays, but not impossible.
We don't know the public price of Inspiration4, but the $62m list price of Falcon 9 does not include Crew Dragon, which is a substantially more expensive vehicle to operate.
Very interesting and unexpected points. Thank you for sharing that view.
That's outsourcing, not consulting.
Yeah the general style of putting comments into questions is much better.

But that's not exactly what I meant with question-comments, I sometimes genuinely don't know why are they doing something like this, or have to ask for additional testing/evaluation/analysis/profiling results before I can decide that it's most likely not going to blow anything up. And as long as there's low probability of damage (or rather low expected value of damage) I am happy with the change :)

What really helps is a style guide. It shuts most of those pointless style nitpicks, God I hate them.
This is true! It's a specific case of every tool being useful in its ability to affect the world, that anything which can affect the world will be at some weaponized, and any weapon will eventually be used to further marginalize the marginalized.

There is a very good discussion further down this thread. I do not mean "enables" in the sense that "a tool is used to violate human rights." I mean "enables" in the sense that "Facebook itself commits human rights violations, and employees of Facebook further the aims and means of these violations."

That is, Facebook employees are not unethical because they develop tools that are used to violate human rights. Facebook employees are unethical because they take direct part in the actual policies by which Facebook makes the world a more user-hostile place.
There seems to be a group of people who predict hyperinflation at the drop of a hat. I’m not sure if it’s paranoia or motivated reasoning though. Maybe a mix of both?
The recent trial of a certain Minneapolis police officer was riddled with prosecutorial misconduct… and due to the political shit storm surrounding the case, the misconduct was ignored or denied at every turn.
Not to imply I know what I'm talking about, but I really wish we could find some way to create carbon-based batteries (graphene or something) so we could develop a carbon capture -> battery process. That would be pretty damn cool.
Samsung has hardware issues over time the same as the rest, heck it was only 5 years ago their premium model had quality issues so bad they had 2 rounds of recalls and cancelled the model completely.

I still went with OnePlus again with the 9 Pro even though the initial (or maybe all, I stopped checking after I heard the initial reports) 8's were troublesome. OnePlus isn't half as good as what they use to be but at least you can get a decent phone without overdone software. That they actually let you just unlock the bootloader on new devices says a lot to me even though I don't think I'd deal with custom ROMs anymore.

The main thing I've found when getting an Android phone is more than which brand is reliable wait a couple of months for the first batch of common users (not reviewers) to see how it actually is before going for it. Yeah you're eating into the short update lifecycle Android phones have but you know it's not bad out of the gate and there is no crystal ball telling you which phone models this generation are going to have unforeseen issues in 2 years (though I guarantee it will be some).

If only the iPhone let me install apps from 3rd party sources... I'd jump on that hardware in a heartbeat.
Ethereum delegated some control to miners for within block trading which isn't decentralised. Between block trading is possible but you'd have to wait 10mins for a trade
Well of course. Having a billion dollars is like having a dozen children: something is deeply wrong with you.
FTC warns health apps to notify consumers impacted by data breaches
I don't necessarily want to defend car makers for their historically (and hysterical) media systems but there are lots of things working against them here.

Firstly, the technology cycle since the introduction of the iPhone moves a lot faster than the new model car cycle. What seems like a great idea yesterday (an AUX input onto a radio/dvd player) is hopeless today or tomorrow.

The second problem is catering for a wide variety of uses. For me, I don't care about video playback whatsoever. When I'm driving, it's the phone call performance that is super important and after that, if I can listen to bluetooth for maps guidance and music that is about all I need.

Other people like to see the maps, or have kids that need entertaining or whatever. My personal opinion is anything that plays video on your dashboard is a major hazard but other people might think it's OK.

So it is hard to manufacturers to "get" because by the time they release the car, the entertainment system was set in stone 2 years ago. The in-car navigation systems are even worse in this regard.

The obvious answer for me would be if the manufacturers offered bluetooth, media buttons / phone buttons and screen mirroring and that's all. Forget about fancy integrations or Apple Airplay or Android whatthecar or whatever the hell they are calling it this year. The integrations are always broken / out of date by the time the car is released and people like me simply want to be able to use their phone to do navigation.
The new runaway inflation is in steel prices.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-steel-prices-have-manufact...
I'd be shocked if SpaceX didn't treat this launch with all the care and preparation and expense of a manned NASA launch. Any issue with this launch would ground F9/Dragon and require full investigation the same as an issue with a NASA launch.
This is why commodities make poor investments. As prices go up, so does supply and demand for alternatives.
"If high prices held you back from building, you are in luck, as the tables have now turned"

Except... many builders will find some other reason/excuse where prices are high to keep prices high. We were looking at building a house - talked to builder last November and... looking at $470-$480k range (ballpark estimate). Lumber was going higher, but we'd reduced the house plan size. Lumber kept going up... and up... Then... no parts were available (IIRC certain trusses were unavailable for months, that's just one that stuck out).

We regrouped a bit later. House was now going to be min $620k, but... no guarantee it would be $650k or $700k. Builder has been working on spec homes in the $700k-$900k range last few months, whereas exact same size houses 1 block away they were building and selling in the mid-$400s 14 months ago.

Before we cancelled the project, we asked why we couldn't build something smaller and target a time in a few months, as lumber was coming way down to where it was 18 months ago. "Everything else has skyrocketed..." which... I know things have gone up some in the last 18 months, but I think there's simply some "get high prices while you can".

When talking to some home finance folks, they're all saying "watch out for HELOCs in 18-24 months - people will be clamoring for HELOCs as they won't be able to sell these $700k houses they're buying, because they won't have appreciated at all, and the homeowners will be trapped".

There may be 'blowout' prices on lumber itself, but around here I'm not seeing any 'blowout' prices on new construction in the short term.
Not transparent and market manipulation change the situation entirely. And many govt agree and will happily put you in prison
While your sentiment that Apple operates under far stricter privacy protections is totally correct (in my estimation) in fact until the latest version of iOS Siri absolutely did rely on sending audio data over the network for dictation and processing.

Case in point, it has always been possible to use Siri to turn on Airplane Mode, but until iOS 15 it was not possible to use it to turn it off (which they included in a demo at WWDC this year to somewhat humorous effect if you were paying attention)
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Will oilshell have job control? I couldn’t quite tell. A lot of small shell projects seem to neglect it.
New Zealand is anti-nuke? You'd think they would be pro-nuke!

Sometimes a small country needs a big equalizer. For example...North Korea.
> As others have pointed out, we don't need to 'ask', we need to legislate.

Legislate what, specifically? I always see calls for more legislation around social media, but I rarely see any actionable suggestions.

Frankly, I’m kind of shocked at the degree that tech communities are rushing for legislation on this topic. When I was growing up I remember the big issue being violence in video games. Politicians went on crusades to demonize video games and demand that we pass legislation to protect the kids from any exposure to violent video games, lest the video games turn them into school shooters.

With video games, the online tech communities rallied against any legislation and wrote volumes about how kids were smart enough to manage themselves and not let violent video games influence their thinking. With social media, tech communities are doing the opposite: Writing volumes about how kids are incapable of managing themselves and will succumb to social media destroying their mental health.

The major difference between the two is that tech people (on average) like video games but they don’t like social media. So video games get a pass, but social media must be attacked with everything we’ve got. The secondary subtext buried in most of these articles is that young girls, specifically, are most vulnerable to social media issues, whereas violent video games were largely an issue for young boys. Apparently we’re okay letting young boys handle difficult content but we don’t give the same credit to young girls. The more I watch all of this play out, the more hypocritical it all feels.

I also suspect that if anti-social-media politicians see success that we’ll see a revival of the anti-violent-game politicians. After all, we need to regulate what the kids consume, right?
So we have 3 categories that mean "has not banned", and 1 category that actually means "banned". What on earth does "on the fence" mean? How is "unlikely to ban" any different from "using Huawei"? This chart is one of the worst I've ever seen, regardless of the color coding - seems the objective was to make China look alone or something? Who knows.
I’m not sure if you’re referring to economic or lumber experts, but the more reputable economists that I saw were mostly saying that the price shocks should be transitionary. For example, https://mobile.twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/13895559570767...
> stroke and biotech research as well as running a foundation that searches out disadvantaged people exhibiting special talent.

Might be worth mentioning it is life extension research it is primarily focused on. The stroke thing is great, they may have initially started out trying to hibernate billionaires like bears to let them make it to the singularity, but the enzymes may prove useful for humans too.
> if it were illegal to lie to or otherwise obstruct Congress?

Not only is it illegal to lie to Congress but it should be illegal for corporations to lie to anyone in public statements.
Interesting content marketing piece for an invoice PDF generator leveraging wkhtmltopdf. I would like to hear more from people working with PDF directly in Go.
Do you know where there is more information about this type of design or what it might be called, in blog or book format? I ended up designing a very simplified (and modified) version of this same thing a decade ago for a web application:

Data is owned by some account (user or group). Users have membership/roles associated with an account (either a share or a membership) which enumerate all the operations that user is allowed to perform on data owned by that account. During a request a graph is built mapping the current user to the data's owning account via user->account shares/memberships or group->account shares/memberships. The graph is traversed ensuring that the action being taken exists on every role through the path (e.g. a user can share data with another user but can only grant a maximum of the same permissions that user has).

The big challenge I had was getting others to expand on this system as the product grew. Particularly as new features were added there was reluctance or ignorance that the actions introduced by features had to be enumerated in the roles/permissions. Though, when adding new actions it is difficult to know how to insert those into existing defined roles (as our roles are entirely customizable and not some constant set). That required account managers to go in and update their role definitions to specify where new actions should be allowed. The desire to avoid doing that led others to "just do an admin check" that would proliferate through the codebase as a means to simplify the logic, defeating the purpose of this flexible system. Early on I had eliminated the isAdmin check by ensuring all accounts had an un-editable Admin role whose list of permitted actions always contained everything. However an isAdmin check was added later which looked for the user having the role with all the permissions, instead of doing a check for that specific action.

Edit: Apparently this type of design is called Role-Based Access Control and information about it can be found by searching this term. And oso (the product made by the people who wrote the parent article) is a library for implementing an RBAC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-based_access_control
We should rebrand it USUKA
Pasta: A Case for Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption [pdf]
Fair enough.

That last quote reminds me of this classic Dilbert: https://imgur.com/zbTJR5o
Agreed. Many engineering leaders at big companies were consultants at one point, which is a big reason why I got into the game.
I missed this. What happened?
If you don't need the latest and greatest, Nokia ships relatively vanilla android phones that are durable as hell.
Careful with that sarcasm.
The Wall Street Journal published many of the slides in 3 stories this week (and I presume there are more to come.)
That's outsourcing for the employer, but consulting for the employee. If I consult for a US company while being in South America, I'm still a consultant. They are the ones outsourcing.
> I haven't seen any mention of any "science" they are going to do

Apparently they will be researching human body fluid distribution in microgravity using ultrasound.

I learned this from the Livestream.
Easily, yes, minimal tools, no.

But a 93 second full battery replacement for the Model S:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY
One commodity out of hundreds has come down a bit. I wouldn’t write off inflation fears yet.
Just to add some counter balance to the hyperbole in this article. First, I always approach articles of “every X should do Y” with some skepticism. Its not a statement everyone can make, and I think individuals under appreciate survivorship bias.

Also you should know that being a self employed consultant is very different from being a company employed consultant. If you work for a firm, you won’t be measured by your impact per se but rather by the number of hours you bill.

Optimizing for hours billed is a cancer that kills innovation and creativity. I despised it, and it poisoned my experience in consulting. You’ll also find that it’s more profitable to create a factory that churns out 100 mediocre solutions than a few really good ones. You’ll also write a lot of single purpose code if you do software development as part of your consultancy work.

Consultancy has lots of great qualities but there are a few really awful ones that are prevalent in the industry as well imo.
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