skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks - that's really interesting stuff. Not immediately obvious to me what it would be used for, but mesmerizing nonetheless.
This news is not worthy of this feed.
Self censorship is the best way to keep your __ credit score high.
In Europe, fosil fuel engines are already 2-4 times more expensive to run than electrics. In 11 years, which is the average age of a car in Europe, the majority of private vehicles will switch naturally for purely economic reasons. In 20 years, the same will be true for busses, trucks & tractors.

And it will be driven solely by better economics.
This truly an antifeature.
The moral of this story is that, along with great execution, you have to get the timing exactly right for disruptive technology.
He may be a database engineer on call in case of problems, but not busy doing anything. Some people on call are doing crosswords, watching youtube, posting on facebook. He's posting on stackoverflow !
If that was true ADA guidelines wouldn't be mandatory.
>> 10% of the time it wakes at like 2am and power cycles my monitor every 30 seconds waking me up

My thinkpad does the same. Wtf is up with that?
I guess rent will be the one to go up in case of UBI.

UBI fundamentally does not solve the problems that:

a) some people do not want to live next to some other people, and are willing to pay extra for that privilege - now they have even more money to use for that purpose,

b) in the most expensive regions, demand exceeds supply a lot.

I even think that a vast majority of UBI would, at the end, accrue to landlords.
Not only EVs, dual-clutch transmission too since that is basically an automated gearbox so there’s no P therefore electric parking brakes are applied when you stop, if that stops working for whatever reason you can’t move the car.
UTC, of course. Not for the survivors, though.
> The best camera is the one you have with you.

But sometimes that one isn't good enough
It is funny how my original comment was downvoted to -1. The fact it has generated multiple thoughtful, polite, and informative responses shows that the question was not without the merit.

I think the fact it was downvoted was because some people precieved it as criticism of EFF. This is not true. I support EFF and personally do not use iPhone as a matter of principle. I was just curios about FAA regulations since I do not see many low-flying private airplaines over the Bay Area and asked an honest technical question.
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Especially weird because this multiple-demand pattern of brain activity that plays a central part in fluid intelligence is commonly found in primate brains.

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/36/33/8574
An unlocked OS build for the Oculus Go: can be side loaded for full root access
Poor children don't vote and they don't contribute campaign funds. As implied by TFA, they were only helped this time by mistake.
https://terragraph.com/
I am a bit surprised the Chinese government didn't secretly force the miners to collaborate for a 51 percent attack or more to kill it off, it would likely also destroy altcoins and the whole ecosystem.

But maybe someone from China can chime in and explain how serious the enforcement of these bans will be.
I have seen countries with all kinds of laws, none ever enforced.
> Sounds like this specific e2e suite was poorly optimized and was killed instead of rewritten/optimized due to a perceived notion that inefficiences are inherent in all e2e suites. If you maintain speed and strict curation of such a suite, most of the bullet points against are not an issue.

At least for web applications, all end to end test suites are slow and flaky. This is not an exaggeration - all of them. There are no magical optimizations. This is something that every project runs into, over and over again.

I will never willingly write an end to end test ever again. Unit / module tests + targeted integration tests are the only hope that we have.
> completely irrelevant to the point.

It's the entire basis of the argument which I am making. Maybe you are reading past what I am saying if you think it's irrelevant.

> What monopolistic position?!

The position in which they have access to the highest performance hardware.

> If consumers (as a whole) wanted to have removable batteries, companies would fulfill the demand by producing and marketing those.

Customers are more concerned about having the highest performance hardware. That doesn't mean they don't want removable batteries, obviously nobody would be opposed to having a removable battery since it has many advantages and no inherent disadvantages. But the limited selection of vendors which have access to the highest performance hardware don't need to compete with removable batteries because they have something customers want even more, high performance hardware, which cheaper vendors can't compete with due to economics of scale.

If smaller vendors were able to compete in the high performance device space, then perhaps the increased competition would lead to more options for the customer like high performance devices that also have removable batteries. But because of the natural monopoly that exists among the limited number of vendors which can provide high performance devices, they don't have a need to create those options (even though customers would obviously want them).
This is somewhat shocking and isn't the full story. As another poster said, yeah, use Ivermectin (and to counter the same kind of posts about that - yes, I knew what ivermectin was before all this Covid stuff, and it's upsetting to me what's going on with kneejerk reactions once it's mentioned. For example it's used as a topical Rosacea med and many pts have switched to the livestock version just to save money. It has so many effects that we haven't even begun to investigate such as treating fatty liver disease and more.)

The other side of the story is that holistic treatments aren't junk. They work. If you go to a holistic vet you may get tips like putting diatomaceous earth in food - a trick livestock owners have done for years now. The DE is like tiny pieces of ground glass and physically hookworms and eggs are not going to have a good time with it. ( It's like using alcohol for bacteria in that way. There are studies showing this works (https://www.pjvas.org/index.php/pjvas/article/view/125/0) and pumpkin seeds rival antiparasitic meds (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22684690/) Papaya is also one that's been used forever (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03788...) Trust indigenous knowledge!

I'm really sick of these articles that have some sort of end of the world take on "drug resistance" and don't consider the fact that there are actual, science backed studies into alternative treatments that often work better but just don't have the same funding/research behind them versus studies here and there. If anyone works with animals or livestock and actually use these treatments though it will be no contest in a lot of cases. That doesn't mean ignoring the vet but that does mean when the vet is shrugging their shoulders like "Gosh it's just a crazy case of parasite resistance what can you do, these meds just aren't effective these days" that's not the full story and there are solutions out there. It's the same issue you see in mainstream medicine that you can't patent or get rich off of selling a pumpkin seed supplement for dogs so the narrative that this is just "woo woo hippy treatments" and they're just placebo is a useful one.

Anyone who's had livestock or a pet at the end of life and has been told some crap from the vet and taken matters into their own hands by researching treatments like medicinal mushrooms for dog cancer, supplements for chronic kidney disease in cats, and more, will tell you that there are so many cases where the vet's shrugging their shoulders and giving them a few months to live, and you can turn your pet around and give them a full recovery or at least a few more years of an active healthy life by researching and following evidence based studies on supplements that can alleviate these symptoms.
He’s a famous person who has been a prominent television anchor, his being a journalist has nothing to do with it.

The definition of public figure is nebulous, and sometimes it can even be argued a regular person becomes a ”limited purpose public figure” if they are involved in a public controversy.

Stossel isn’t even an argument because again, he used to host 20/20 on ABC and has been a broadcaster for 30 some odd years. He’s a public figure. But using a real world example, I’m not famous, but by any legal standard, I would be considered a public figure because I have a Wikipedia page, I'm verified on every major social network, I’ve appeared on television, and I’m recognized as a prominent person in the various industries that I have worked in. I know this, not because I’ve ever wanted to sue someone for libel or defamation, but because there have been a few isolated incidents where I received harassment/death threats/rape threats via my work addresses (which obligates me to report them to law enforcement), and the amount of fucks police in the US are willing to give about idle threats to public figures are almost zero. I’m generally OK with this (I have only ever reported threats when I’ve been required to do so my company policy), but it is what it is.

Even taking legal protections out of it and just looking policy enforcement, according to Facebook's terms of service, people can call for my death on their platform, provided they don’t tag me. But if someone says, “Christina Warren should just die already,” that’s completely fine according to Facebook's own terms of service, because they consider me a public figure. Now if someone directly tags me, that may or may not be harassment, but even though Facebook isn’t the same as legal requirements, it shows their own rules are different for public figures.
I spent the better part of 17 years at startups, with grants ranging from 0.2% all the way to 1% (VP Eng in a Series C+). The latter exited, but options were worth $0 due to liquidation preferences. I did get a cash bonus equal to about 2x my salary, so that was nice...it was also about the same as the sum of my last two stock vests (i.e. 6 months) at the FAANG I'm currently at, and whose stock price has doubled since I joined. I currently make 4X what I made at the height of my startup career.

Unless I'm coming in hot with good equity and an imminent IPO OR I don't need/want the money at all, I can't see going to back to startup life. (I also wouldn't trade that startup experience away, either)
Oh jolly. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
A criminal once is a criminal forever.

I don't agree with that idea, but that's effectively how things work, you might find exceptions to the rule, but once your reputation is tainted with a legal charge, it follows you forever within society.
That might be true. But the payouts were more limited than a nominal UBI program, and the costs were astronomical.

The US added 20% of GDP in debt in a single year. [1]

The US Fed added 4 Trillion to it's balance sheet in 2 years [2] which is ballpark maybe 25% of GDP.

Obviously there was more than just wealth distribution in there, but what becomes clear in the calculation is the gigantic expense of UBI.

UBI doesn't work in current terms, it's not a program that can be remotely afforded without a 'total re-work of the system'. Surely there are opportunities with taxing the ultra-wealthy and considering loopholes (esp. offshore tax havens) but there's just no calculus where it works out neatly. In other words 'UBI' is not like 'child care benefits' or some kind of regular social program where can argue about the balance sheet. It's a completely different scale of costing problem.

If the US focused really hard on 'some kind of healthcare for all' (not making any statements about what that might look like) and controlling costs there, improved minimum wage, and did 'basic structural tax reform' - things might improve quite a lot. (i.e. doing the hard work of reforming normal programs we have to have would go a very long way). But I don't think there's any actual magic math that would allow for a true, enduring UBI situation. Even really well managed Oil-rich places like Norway don't quite have that, they sort it out using the more accessible, 'normal' social programs etc..

For more context 'the current payout program' which is not not 'U' in the UBI, just for about 10% of the population, is going to cost 0.5% of GDP. Meaning just that limited program, expanded to 'U' i.e. 'Universal' is 5% of GDP, every year.

Edit: finally should not that a lot of the expansion of the Fed's balance sheet amounts for 'welfare for the rich' and it's not a small amount. That's a problem as well.

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

[2] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
24 times more.

You are better off just pumping the CO2 down there, instead, and arranging for it to turn into rock.
probably like Mercury looks today - a ball of fire
The entire article is about the reasons they ditched the test suite and replaced it with a different practice. Does it need to be more specific about the tradeoffs between fixing/rewriting the e2e suite vs. doing something different?
I first saw that kind of technology in my aerospace days, around 1983. One day I was shown into a classified area, and got to try a rack of custom built special purpose hardware used for analyzing aerial imagery. There was a screen, a trackball, a knob, and a lever. Pan with the trackball, rotate the image with the knob, and zoom it with the lever. It was nicely done; no artifacts and no lag. One of the people in my department worked on extending it to larger areas of imagery, and he said it got much easier once they realized it could be viewed as a virtual memory system.

I'm not sure who the customer was. I just saw the prototype and wasn't involved with that project.
At the time, imagery analysts usually used big photographs and magnifying glasses, as they'd been doing since WWII. This was the beginning of computerizing that process.

So this was being done, expensively, decades before it became a consumer product.

(DoD R&D was like that back then - very expensive one-off designs to solve specific hard problems. This was before "commercial off the shelf technology" overtook the DoD one-offs.)
I think YC has not put out information like this because the data would show joining a startup as a regular employee is not remotely worth it vs publicly traded companies.
Is disinformation fractal in nature? Is there ever a purpose to discussing it, or is the discussion the purpose?
Note that the phrase "coastal foraging" typically implies fishing and the exploitation of other littoral/marine resources.

Anyway, the current understanding of the paleoclimate is that entire region between approximately Valdez and Vancouver Island was entirely covered by glaciers out to the edge of continental shelf until ~18kya. Lesnek et al has some good diagrams [1]. Living exclusively off deep-sea marine resources in an iceberge minefield without fire for over a thousand miles in one of the coldest, most dangerous oceans in the world without landing suggests an unprecedented level of both nautical technology and experience. Where did that come from? We have no good answers right now.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar5040
You can't honestly believe that this reduced child poverty. While the Child tax credit has been increased, it's been on a steady increase for a while, and the net amount hasn't changed that much. If the claim is that the timing of payments is reducing poverty.. that's quite the claim.

The more obvious answer is that America had quite the recovery from the great recession including a pre-pandemic unemployment rate approaching 0%.
Uh, I disagree with a lot of the commenters here. I do think it had something to do with the "defund the police" movement, the BLM riots and the absolute unwillingness of police agencies around the country to address crime. However, I can also acknowledge that keeping people shut out of their jobs and participation in public life is an easy way to forment social unrest.
In theory a fact checker is a censor that can only censor content found to be not true.

A regular censor can remove content for any reason, most commonly because it violates community standards or is politically inconvenient for the people in power.

This distinction is important so calling fact checkers a censor is potentially misleading.
There is already a good solution for planes: ammonia, manufactured efficiently from green hydrogen. You will never be able to use gaseous or liquid hydrogen on planes due to the high volume, weight and risk associated with known storage methods.

Ammonia seems to strike the right balance:
https://www.ammoniaenergy.org/articles/zero-emission-aircraf...
Looked at it differently, we go between two states:

1+12, 2+11, 3+10, ..., 10+3, 11+2, 12+1
(12 pairs, each adding up to 13)

and

0+12, 1+11, 2+10, ..., 10+2, 11+1, 12+0
(13 pairs, each adding up to 12)
I absolutely understand what you were saying and I don't think you're incorrect - I just wanted to highlight that the wording was poorly chosen and could easily be misread. I personally have problems with clear communications myself all the time so I just wanted to provide a bit of feedback as to why it was called out as being flamebait - your core statement wouldn't start a flame war - but the way you said it wasn't the best.
I found the same thing when I was trying to figure out why an Intel NUC7i5 keeps waking up for no reason.

One would hope that powercfg /lastwake provides some information, but it doesn't.

There is a big difference between how Window should work in theory and what happens in practice.
While I'm certain that there are people who spend an irresponsible amount on lottery tickets, I don't know if those are also the lottery winners.

I'd be very interested in any statistics for that. Where I am lottery tickets cost about the same as a Starbucks coffee, and I'd bet the average lottery player buys tickets less than the average Starbucks drinker buys coffee, making me wonder about the label of "less fiscally responsible", unless we're also grouping all Starbucks drinks in there. And given the astronomically poor odds of winning, I also wonder how much more regular players win vs those who buy a ticket once every month or two - does it really help enough to be obvious in the statistics.
I would expect that your startup experience would place you well among a pool of entry-level candidates once you made it past the resume screening stage. Where the FANG position is going to help you is in getting past that stage. Fairly or unfairly, having a FANG position on your resume is kinda' like having a degree from an elite university in that recruiters will view your resume more favorably.
> ...dressed in a sheriff’s uniform to pose as a deputy to sneak a McDonald’s Egg McMuffin and a cup of coffee in to an inmate at Men’s Central Jail

Such clear proof that the article of this debacle... is nothing more than a cynically crafted advertisement for Mickey D's.

~~~~~

ETA (with, mind you, appropriate alarm & dismay at the downvote):

> “That’s what I’m telling you, dumb f—, is that clear?” Lillienfeld said. “I can’t make it any clearer than that.”

> Lillienfeld did not respond to a request for comment.

The guy is so clear(ly) nothing but a shill for McDonald's.
> providing a baseline income to a whole community

The rich oil sheikdoms in the Gulf are already providing a good income to all their citizens (not the working class gastarbeiters).

We should definitely observe them and learn from their experience. It is not precisely the same as UBI, but closer than anything else I can think of.
Is it still free speech when the "fact checkers" effectively control the public square? When you have no recourse against your speech being hidden behind a "fact check" label?

At what point does a private service become a utility? What if Comcast started "fact checking" web content with html injection? Would that still be "free speech"?
Thanks everyone, that's what I was thinking as well, but I'm fairly new to startups so I wasn't sure.
How The Lancet, a leading medical journal, now refers to women
While bugs like that aren't "confirmed" to affect desktop versions of software, the underlying bug is still in the Desktop codebase and needs to be treated as a security issue.
Scientific American: “Star Wars”, “Jedi” Are Problematic
I don’t know about Facebook, but my friends at Google seem to have terrible work life balance. Seems like they only get a breather when they’re between projects.
Chinese central bank takes action against cryptocurrencies
This is A LOT of research, and none of it surprises me. One thing that I'm not a fan of is that they are using imagery and slang associated with criminals, while operating with the legitimacy of the state. It comes across as someone who wanted to live a life of crime, without criminal consequences.
It wasn’t me, it was a corner case in an HN feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28644848

How fitting for a StackOverflow link submission :)
There is no platform/publisher distinction in the law. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 [1] was originally meant to be a carve out to allow websites to host comment sections without being considered the "speaker" of those comments and thereby being subjected to the speech restrictions in the rest of the law. The rest of the law has since been struck down.

When people are mad about 230, what they're really mad about is the 1st Amendment.

Is Facebook the speaker when it applies a fact check? Maybe but it doesn't matter much with respect to 230 offers minimal protection beyond the 1st Amendment. And as others have stated, the bar for libel against public figures is VERY high in the US.

[1]https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
Very cool idea. I can't wait to play with this. I've sold similar "productized services" as a consultant. Most businesses benefit from churn, revenue/expense forecasting, and stack-rank models but not to the degree where paying in-house makes sense. I was typically brought in as part of the fund-raising process.

What is your business model?
An easy example of where having promises is nice:

a := getFoo()
b := getBar()
c := getBaz()

If you want to do all 3 in parallel, you may need to use channels and wait groups and stuff. In a language with promises:

const a = getFoo();
const b = getBar();
const c = getBaz();

await a
await b
await c

or even better

const [a,b,c] = await Promise.all([getFoo(), getBar(), getBaz()])

If/when go generics become available, I expect to see some libraries that make things easier in golang.
Yeah I agree with you, and it's because writing a test suite to simulate the users and verify (all) the use cases of your system, is really complex. I think the test advocates make it way too easy for themselves when they always just say "the first rule of testing is that your tests should always be fast" See, you broke the first rule, that's your problem! Well.. how do you execute a large number of complex operations and verifications, quickly? There's a how lot of actual practical solutions missing here, and just a lot of obstinate principle belittling "rules" and deflecting from providing an actual solution, which in practice, is hard.