skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Pashtun nationalists on this thread should really not be claiming sole ownership of Indus Valley civilization unless they are from Swat which is only place where male line descendants passed on genes and even then that’s hardly cause for jagirdari
Using the internet without an ad blocker is a security risk, I don't care who you are.
>Of course, if all we cared about was the "linux" part of gnu/linux, then its already the most popular operating system kernel in use by mankind. Its already won.

Except the "linux" part matters to the actual user not one bit.

Android is a fairly walled garden no matter what kernel it uses. It's an implementation detail.
Can’t you put them in a reusable plastic/glass/metal/… container once you get home to make them last?
comparing Apple to a two-person company is highly disingenuous. in the past decade or so we've slid into a world in which massive corporations start pretending to have morals outside of "increase value for shareholders" and it's absolutely ridiculous that anyone takes it seriously at all... especially when at the same time, everyone is on board with firing the Brendan Eichs and Palmer Luckeys of the world for their individual beliefs/donations! we cannot continue to allow a world where these gargantuan corporations attempt to exert moral influence on the populace, it's like we're just asking for a technocratic corporate dystopia at this point
> unwinnable

It seems winnable so far if you look at the Xbox One and later, at least. I'm not aware of anyone successfully modifying game code on those consoles.

The downside is that it a requires a completely locked down system.
So, like that black mirror episode?
> The FTC also said in court that Facebook’s fine would have been closer to $106 million...

Fines need to keep up. This is ... nothing. $106M is what, 1.5 DAYS of revenue. 1 and 1/2 DAYS. Gah! That's ridiculous!
Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux
Yes, it is aimed more at academia and professionals who want/need to preserve knowledge in a structured way. Support for footnotes is planned.
If you knowingly work with and for criminals congrats you're committing a crime too basically anywhere. A LocalBitcoins guy I knew briefly got charged (on top of the usual illegal money tranmission charges) a bit back for selling coins to an undercover after they implied the money came from selling cocaine.
How did he get and maintain full control?

What are other startups / companies where the founder is in full control?

Is it possible, as a founder, to maintain complete control of the board and the company through Series A - E ?

I've seen several short answers on this in other threads, but I want to know more about this.
Agreed, I always wondered how those “Top 100 business books summarized!” books fit all that “content” into one book, then I read Checklist Manifesto…
I was thinking more that it creates a chilling effect. It sends a clear message that progressives aren't welcome in Texas and anyone thinking of moving there will feel that chill regardless of whether the supreme court strikes down the law.
If the US government actually wanted to (mostly) eliminate cash, they could just stop printing currency, and wait for what's in circulation to wear out. That would take about 23 years [0]. As it is, though, only about 8% of all USD exists in physical form [1], anyway, making the USD largely a digital currency already.

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[0]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/how-long-is-the-life-spa...

[1]: https://money.howstuffworks.com/currency.htm
I didn't leave _that_ long ago, and don't want to look up my contract/NDA to see when it expires, so I don't want to go into too much detail.

Flash cost Adobe a lot to develop (it was a big team). At some point, I speculate[+] that Adobe simply decided they no longer need the runtime, since the browsers have/will soon have all the capabilities that they need, natively. So why waste the money?

[+] I don't know for sure (e.g. I didn't participate directly in the decision); but still, I believe my speculation is much more informed that the typical net user who just noticed the coincidence and wanted to believe the narrative.
Isn't one supposed to have the mouse in between the split keyboard for ergonomic reasons? Setting keyboard parts far from each other seems to be the direct opposite. Which setting should it be?
Perfectly sensible policy and I for one appreciate insiders clarifying misinformation especially on such issues, while still notifiying their potential conflicts.

Disclaimer: I am not a googler, opinions are what google tells me to think.
> And given how weaponized pretty much all information is these days, it is perfectly reasonable to adopt the stance that if you can't objectively judge the accuracy yourself, you simply won't take the information on board.

How do you judge information you're not qualified for? Do you "objectively judge the accuracy yourself" of medical research (and of course, the research that lead to that research, and derivation of all underlying equations) before permitting yourself to listen to advice from a doctor? It may seem silly, but this is the same logic that anti-vaxxers adopt.

Personally, I think the actual problem[1] here is not that people aren't critical enough, it's that they don't know how to perform, contextualize and interpret research, and in particular to do this for work that lies outside of their domain-specific expertise. The kind of work graduate students learn to do: find meta-review papers, drill into the work of early pioneers, survey the current state-of-the-art, and then, after all this: identify any gaps and omissions to critique; which then gets tested in the humbling environment of advisor-meetings, conferences etc.

This is why I think the people most vulnerable to this kind of "I must objectively judge the accuracy or I won't take it on board" are people who are educated enough to be comfortable with technical concepts and jargon, but are not actual domain experts and haven't done any actual research themselves. It's how you get large numbers of anti-vaccine nurses, and engineers skeptical of climate change.

[1] Actually, I suspect the actual problem is the discomfort people have with reality's liberal bias, and its corresponding reflection in historically trusted media sources (i.e. BBC, CBC). Even if you aren't uncomfortable with liberal politics, it may seem obvous to you such media sources are pushing an obviously liberal agenda, when it's really just a mainstream scientific consensus.
Have you visited boing boing in the last few years? It’s literal cancer.
The politics of this are strange to say the least. Why should a company shut down, or limit growth in a state due to a law that is political/cultural? I don't see how them expanding in Texas is implicitly supporting this law, just that is supports their bottom line. If we take that line of thinking does Apple implicitly support dictatorships? Authoritarian states? Apple has locations open in many countries that do not have worker rights, do not have democracy, etc. This is a civil liberty sure, but they are otherwise fine on selling their phones without complaint. As far as moving employees there, if an individual employee has issues with the law they wont go there. There are women that disagree its infringing their civil rights, do their ideas not matter?
This is very similar to a project I created around a year ago. https://github.com/lindell/multi-gitter

Multi-gitter does also have support for other source control systems, and from what I can gather, does in general have more configuration options. But I will definitely take a look at the differences and take inspiration.
The description linked talks about a distinct sterilization phase, where hot steam is passed trough the installation prior to use. It seems exactly like the type of situation described in the article, where small welding gaps allow bacteria to stay alive - I would imagine, especially if the surrounding metal has enough thermal mass. My suggestion was a bit more nuanced, heat the very body of the reactor + reaction medium; but I could be venting hot air.

Nonetheless, it's not a fundamental, thermodynamic limit, it's not like bacteria spontaneously materialize inside vats above a certain volume. It's a technical problem to solve, it seems solvable and once you solve it, all 100 ton reactors can use that design.
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I had a google suite account (with one email user) for years.

I had used the account to purchase stuff on Google Play. I wanted to close the GSuite organization account but retain the purchases. Either by transferring to another (disposable) gmail account, or by somehow closing the organization account but continuing to be able to log into other parts of google using a now-third-party email addresss. Or a refund. I don't know what options were available, that's why I contacted support.

So this was a transactional support request, not a Q&A. I did get through to a chat support but their answer was pretty much "I don't know, check the support forums".

I'm not trying to make my point about the situation, more about the customer experience I got for trying to ask what I imagine is a fairly common question.

(I feel like an idiot for spending money on DRM, but different story)
No, it says "Some of the microfliers are built" with such a material.
> ...or only move single males in...

You know there are plenty of women who are strongly anti-abortion as well, right? Handwaving within a few percent, about 40% of women and 50% of men in the US are strongly anti-abortion according to Gallup and Pew surveys from the last few years.

> ...but then they'd have to get out of China or other distasteful places.

If only. They can't. China has Apple by the balls, and Apple knows it. The downsides of moving literally all of your manufacturing to a country that's increasingly "Do what we say or else."
Is this a joke? You've just defined everyone who's not European as "native" which is a complete social construction and fabrication.
And use 2+ computers at once for increase performance at a fraction of the price. That's what I'm doing lol.
While I have mixed feelings on the issue, having paid for an abortion in the past, these reactions strike me as being over the top.

Most workers will most likely be remote from now on meaning they have a choice in what state they work in so they can address this regardless of where Apple chooses to locate physical facilities.

Further, I keep wondering what % of females are having 1 or more abortions for this to be such a critical issue for most?
> a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services

Any further translation on what VP and "Distinguished Engineer" means here? It sounds like both of them are honorary and doesn't really mean much, but then "Distinguished" makes it seem they received some sort of Nobal price of computing as well.

And if neither of them really mean anything, then this guy is really "just" a developer right?
Sending away all of your PII to be verified in games isn’t much better (in terms of intrusiveness) than running anti-cheat software in the first place.

Additionally, will it be any harder to get around a system like this than a traditional anti-cheat system? Theoretically - for the average player at least, it might make cheating worse - assuming the cheater runs their cheats in a realistic way, in your world, there is now no detection software pinpointing the cheaters!
Interesting that Apple is so concerned with the Texas abortion law, but has no qualms using sweatshop labor, or maintaining offices in China. The Texas abortion law is bad, but it does not begin to compare to the human rights violations of China, including an active holocaust against the Uyghurs and other Muslims.
LN doesn't have addresses, it has invoices that can't be reused.
>I'd like to see an industry standard anti-cheat root-kit developed as a publicly reviewable open source project at the very least

An anti-cheat is one of the few areas that truly would ruin its security by going OSS. A cheater can quickly enumerate every method the AC uses to detect cheats, then they know EXACTLY which goalpost to kick into, per-se. 85% of Vanguard's effectiveness is their CONFUSING ban protocols, whether that's delaying a ban to confuse someone testing what's bannable, not divulging details about what avenues are tested, constant updates that aren't specified anywhere, etc.

Case in point, even in CSGO: Just changing the offsets of some game values will break some cheats for several days.
That would be reported by the news and people would care. Whereas here we get this reaction: "they seized his money and say he is suspected of being a drug dealer, well then i have nothing to worry about - i am not a drug dealer."
corporations are comprised of people that work for them, but corporations themselves are not people, regardless of the image social media managers try to portray. this is a crucial distinction.
Firebase does this brilliantly with Firestore queries. Any data mutation by the client shows up in persistent searches immediately, flagged as tentative until server acknowledges.
Apple is looking to do that.
> Getting caught cheating in one game then impacts your reputation in _all_ games.

This sounds pretty similar to Steam's VAC (Valve Anti Cheat) system aside from how widespread you want the system to be. IIRC, owners of Source-based game servers can set a flag to allow/deny users with a VAC ban. I don't think this is available to non-source games, which would be needed for your idea.

> How do VAC bans relate to phone numbers?

> VAC bans are applied to all accounts sharing a phone number at the time of the infraction.

> Can I move my items and games to a different Steam account?

> No.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/647C-5CC1-7EA9-3C...
Looks like they are too old?

You can't downvote replies and the reply feature is disabled after a certain amount of time, as well as when it is <1m old (under some circumstances?)
I don't know that he's ever offered a position on life philosophy or nihilism.

I've read Zero to One and listened to multiple talks from him on YouTube. My impression is that he thinks we need to create new things and that innovation is slowing, partly due to regulation and partly due to people not believing they can create innovations that society needs to progress.

Thiel tells a story about how he got a job at a law firm and soon decided to leave and a colleague says "Wow, I didn't know anyone could leave Alcatraz". The point, to me, comes across as something like "Society tells you what the track to success is, e.g. become a lawyer at a fancy law firm, and because you believe this you are trapped in a prison of other people's expectations, but you are always completely free to walk out the door and follow your own path, you just have to be willing to do it.

On YouTube he has a talk called "You are not a lottery ticket" that covers his world view a bit. He also has a debate with Eric Schmidt from a few years back where he argues that Google isn't a tech company and investing in Google is a bet against innovation in search. In the debate he also talks about his ideas relating to innovation.
> Every single feature on the web that gets misused has some useful applications too.

That's why you have the permission prompt.
ChessCoach: NN-based chess engine capable of natural language commentary
A long time ago, before my frontal lobe had completely developed, I used to develop multiplayer game cheats. I now recognize that behavior as abhorrent, but in those days I thought it was l33t.

In any case, no mater how good your protection is, how deep in the system you go, the cheaters can go deeper. Like anti-virus and DRM evasion will always win from detection. The cheaters have complete insight into any/all client side protection mechanisms, more importantly, the cheater owns the machine and the environment where your code runs. There is not a checksum that can not be faked, and no way to measure if any of your protections have been circumvented, because the code you use to measure can (and will) be patched.
> That’s 50 times the initial price.

There is no limit of someone else's money i'd spend - repercussion free - to avoid the slightest bit of liability. I can imagine the same thing applies to Mark. tbh can't fault him for it.

The blame for this behavior lies in the FTC for brokering a deal (as if the US needed money? Was it for a big-number press cycle?) and for early stage investors in FB for allowing a business with such a brass stock agreement.
UK faces food supply shortages
Again, nothing there specifically puts weight into the argument that "Fuchsia is replacing Android."

And also, Fuchsia's license is more permissive than Android's.
It just seems weird that you would choose forcing Apple and its employees to operate and live in Texas as the non-dystopian option.
There's still a myth floating around that companies are legally obligated to make the maximum amount of profit for shareholders.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-co...
It’s certainly not the only book I’ve read like that in the last few years. It’s maddening - I value conciseness in a book, not length.
If you don't renew you can still use the app and open and edit all your existing notes. Good point, I need to make this more clear on the site. HTML vs. ZIP vs. power user: I'm going for the most common denominator, the average user with a browser :)
Real properties in China are licensed to holders by the Communist Party for a limited time, typically 70 years or so. NFTs don't have that kind of built in time out, but maybe they should.
"The asset would somewhat or entirely cancel out the liability as it where." > no, at least not for the purposes of the risk of bad debt; because if that debt is bad, then the equity asset is worthless as well.
Assuming this is in good faith, the answer is it does apply evolutionary pressure on covid to develop a spike protein that can avoid the immune system.

Convalescent people do have a more diverse immune response, to other parts of the virus. And after a vaccine actually have even stronger responses still.

The immune response to covid and the spike protein in immunized people is very uniform and the antibodies we produce are very similar (although not identical.)

But the specificity of the spike targeting was chosen for a reason, it is VERY unlikely there is another spike protein that will work as well and entirely evade the immune system. Studies have been done and threatening spike mutations have been checked, and it doesn't seem like there are good alternatives.
This? https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2021/09...

I see no mention of paediatric ICU displacement in the above article or any other. Are you spreading misinformation or can you please back up your claim?
My Grandma has DNS level ad blocking enabled. Why? Because her ISP home page (her 20 year strong default as well as login for email/etc) used run ads when a page was left open for a while. She'd unlock her laptop to find full on porn ads running full screen with no way to click away without quitting the browser.

So now she runs ad blockers galore and pihole across all devices. So far no porn ads in her email.

And no I did not ask if any of her browsing behavior would lead to such ads. She's a tiny old blonde Christian lady that...wait also a church donation site gave her porn ads too. Maybe I should avoid checking her history.

So yes, do enforce ad blocking on your network, if able. It will save a few calls and probably embarrassment as well.
"Personal inconvenience/embarrassment" will hurt his ability to operate the company efficiently. Protecting CEO is (usually) in the best interest of minor shareholders.

This is why companies pay for personal security of CEOs or for their personal PR (most large companies, not just Facebook).

> spending unlimited amounts of company cash

This is clearly not the case here.
> it's like we're just asking for a technocratic corporate dystopia at this point

You think we're not already there? Optimist...

A huge amount of modern life on the internet is intermediated by a very, very small list of giant companies. And those companies have started going, rather aggressively, after points of view they don't like - Amazon has recently announced they're going to be paying more attention to what's running on AWS, etc.
California is running out of water
> What I think really makes the most sense is just global time - UTC everywhere. Yes, I've seen the args against it and I think it would all be a lot more adaptable.

So more than half of the planet has "midnight" (i.e. the change of the calendar date because it's 00:00 UTC) happening during waking hours and each solar day is being split into two calendar days? No thank you.
As someone who hasn't done graphics programming(or anything like this), it's amazing to me how 'simple' directives can yield such things. Is this type of logic still used in games/graphic programming today?
But they aren't instrumental! Maybe only four actually sent the file, and even a judge can be made to understand that one of those was superfluous. If you want to make it even less clear, then imagine that the client is told they can download chunks from ten peers, of which five have relevant data, if which any three are sufficient. So someone comes along and downloads eight random chunks and reconstructs the bad file. If you are required to prove that a particular peer infringed a copyright by distributing a protected work, or a work derived therefrom I think you could have a hard time.

I'm not sure I understand your second objection. Suppose I publish a "status" including some copyrighted work and I encrypt it such that you need a private key corresponding to the private key of anyone on my friends list to decrypt. Then it's distributed among a thousand peers (who are not my friends), such that one of my friends can download from a random twenty, receive garbage from ten, and they'll have a 30% change of being able to reconstruct the encrypted file. Can you now prove that on the balance of probabilities a peer has violated the copyright?
I once read a book halfway through only to realize that I had already read it years before. And when I happen to stumble upon my notes from some book that I‘ve read, I‘m sometimes surprised and have zero recollection of ever having read it. I‘m probably somewhere around the thousand to two thousand book mark. Sometimes I think that, even if I don‘t remember the contents consciously, the books might still be influencing my thinking and my judgement in some positive way. But sometimes I think that, perhaps, it‘s really just a chasing after wind. That „next book“ is always as shiny as those new headphones from Amazon, or that new productivity tool. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
I believe the term "fuck you money" has never been more apt.
Intranasal vaccines could be the next best thing in the fight against Covid-19
...part of me thinks the blue side of the aisle welcomes this law and will use it to change the states colour in the next election cycles.
The data will be open? (OpenData) or private?
This sounds like another case of Operation INFEKTION.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_INFEKTION

The key here is that they don't need to convince the world, they just need to convince the their own population. Also they don't need to convince their entire population. The elites living in the cities and intellectuals know better, but they are a minority. All you need to do is convince the masses and it will work.
> I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. When are the working hours there? It's 8:00 to 16:00, same as it is here, of course!

Of course not. If everyone uses UTC, Melbourne wouldn't start they working hours at 8 UTC, neither would you (unless you are in a place where 12pmUTC is sun-noon). So you would need to either ask him his hours, or convert anyways
I don't know, his comment was a pretty accurate representation of common responses of HN.

Though it's just the case of the loudest people voicing these complaints.

It doesn't represent everyone, but it certainly is prevalent and can be demoralizing hearing all the hate.