skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hell, dude. That's hard to imagine. Maybe it's hard for them to recruit world leading experts on crypto, but Facebook still has a ton of top talent and a ton of hungry people willing to make a name for themselves within the company.
This one estimated a beam emitter "on the scale of a large rocky planet":

https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01109

(my highly sophisticated approach to finding academic papers about outlandish alien technology is to search on Loeb).
Just have a concrete type (class/interface) that specifies required fields.

This is overkill that will only confuse everyone who isn't the original author.
I regularly run into people who claim they had Covid back in fall 2019, and it's vastly more likely that they had the flu.

And not getting vaccinated because you don't want to support the pharma industry misses that they get $20 per shot for the vaccine, but will get thousands per dose of the expensive meds you'll need if you wind up in the ICU.
Chiming in to add - also very common in urban Southern California.
How Facebook and Twitter rigged the game in 2020
Right, but at least with the expensive machine, one is making a conscious decision to spend a certain, known amount.
This article is a bit sensational / hyperbole, Morgan Beller, who's is mentioned as instrumental also left the team a while ago and it was still moving along, albeit slowed due to external pressures
Having read about the situation more, the author of the code claims that they didn't distribute any copyrighted software that they don't have a right to distribute. Maybe they actually did what either of us suggested.
> Do you just not like dogs?

No, I have a dog and had dogs since ~10. I just don't have that emotional attachment that makes me see them as these amazing fairy-tale creatures. They are just animals with a human bond.

Also a huge dog doesn't make me feel any safe. Unless you are living in a jungle or war is breaking out in your neighborhood, you don't need a massive dog that can take a bear. Some dog breads are too powerful and can hurt real humans. These are still animals after all and can be unpredictable and harm others[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_dog_attacks_in_t...
To reduce the temperature on HN :) Technically the article is correct, alas it reads as a half-truth. Mark Twain had some words for half-truths, but those words won't advance a level-headed conversation.
> People will listen to a reasonable, nuanced discussion. They won't listen to someone who hates them.

The victim argument is standard rhetoric, but they can choose to do what they want. For one thing, I haven't seen much hate at all. Could you give examples of it on a significant scale? Some leaders expressing hate? Mostly, I see resignation.
He then whispered into Mr. Bigglesworth's ear: 'Those Dumb F***' as he dived back into his data-powered virtual reality where he is King, and far richer than Lord Bezos.
> In Dublin, commuting to work via car has been falling since at least the late 90s, driven by increased traffic

Ah, the classic joke, "nobody drives in Manhattan; there is too much traffic there".

> The number of cars per capita is still, as far as I know, rising, but they're being used to commute to work less.

Alas, 75% of Irish workers commute by passenger car, either as driver or as passenger. Only 10% of workers commute using public transit. That's what I meant when I said that Europeans are very much car dependent too: even in Dublin, the capital, most of the workers drive, and small minority uses public transit. Outside Dublin, cars dominate even more.
> With that said, what we did was very illegal, and other administrations may have pressed charges. We are grateful that the D214 administration was so understanding.

Note well that the victim of a crime does not get any say in whether or not a prosecutor prosecutes a crime. "Pressing charges" is a myth.

The prosecutor decides. Period.
It's over in China - has been for a while. I guess they did do lockdowns right.
It also includes regular performance reports, which are likely evaluated by the government, but are mostly for self-auditing. Leaks like the recent "FB knew and didn't care at scale" are €5M fine offenses. Neglect to delete individual posts however are not.

oh i am not at all in favor of that law!

I am just wondering that this style of pressuring FB to have a team of censors trained in regional language and law (else 5M fine!) isn't more common. I kind of expect Hungary, Turkey, Russia and the Saudis among many others to demand that as well and file long lists of censorship topics, but they are underrepresented on the list we see here. At least Russia and Turkey are currently fining Facebook for non-compliance.
Watched the video from start to finish. It's basically too good to be true -- modular, undetectable, lethal, rain proof, etc. Picturing the meeting room where the Anduril salesman plays the video to investors. A distortion vortex is in play due to the founder's previous success and no one in the audience dares object to the claims in the video. Bereft of challenge, the startup quadruples in valuation after the meeting.
No, I'm about 60km one direction - I live rural and work in a nearby city. Each direction is still only 40 minutes or so, so it's not as onerous as it might sound.
It's a great device (for certain use-cases). My advice would be to just avoid the cloud features anyway if you can. If some of them are important to you, and can't be replaced by third-party tools (many can), yeah maybe a different device is better for you.

I never even created a cloud account, partly for privacy, partly to avoid crap like this.
> The total cost was $10.5B 2020 dollars.

Where did you get that number? Wikipedia has the costs around 11-13 million, also consistent with this https://www1.nyc.gov/site/designcommission/public-programs/t..., or $304 million in 2019 dollars.
HN may not be the place for these kind of comments - but I will never not up-vote this specific comment.
Trust: easily lost and hard won. Looks like a small step on the path to recovery.
Closing borders is racist.
Two weeks to flatten the curve.
Don’t mask.
Mask.
Stay Inside.
Trump didn’t close the borders fast enough!
Double mask.
Protest crowds are not superspreaders.
Trump Rallies are superspreaders.
School is dangerous, distance learning is good.
Go outside, inside is bad.
Dems-don’t trust Trump Vaccines.
Biden/Pelosi - we can’t mandate vaccination.
Dems-you must trust our vaccines, they are effective.
Biden/Pelosi- we are mandating vaccines.
No mask if vaccinated.
School is good, kids don’t get it.
Still mask if vaccinated.
School is bad, kids are getting it.
Vaccine boosters because they are not as effective as we thought.

Did I miss anything?

Edit: added some punctuation for clarity
You might have Trump derangement syndrome. The sources you decided to cite also points to that diagnosis.

Trump was never anti-vax. He was a shit president and is an awful human being but he wasn’t anti-vax. He actually wanted credit for his handling of vaccine development and distribution. He himself is vaccinated and encouraged others to get vaccinated.
The whole post is sarcasm, and a joke.
Right, and because of severe disease and death health authorities introduced more stringent rules to reduce transmission. Evolutionary this should eventually pressure the virus in to becoming less severe (assuming public health policy continues to be focused on preventing severe disease and death).
https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/
> Can't

> One famous argument about why SV was special is that its because California judges utterly despise non-competes and non-competes-alike. I believe they're at least, in some form, unenforcable.

They absolutely can; it just doesn't have to involve non-competes. It wouldn't surprise me if they trump up an accusation of IP theft, or more effectively, if they happen to hit the lottery and find an audit trail suggesting exfiltration of data prior to the departure.

I'm not saying they did this, but I am saying it wouldn't surprise me if Facebook tried to build a case around it, if only to slow a16z down a bit while Facebook recovers.
Is the email notification sent synchronously? What happens if there's an error sending the email?
The best way I've heard this put to me was this: "Your business has some special selling point where it stands out, the reason it's unique and people should buy your thing. Your business has hundreds of bog standard things it needs to do. You only have so much development time; spend it on the stuff that makes your company important and not on the stuff that already has perfectly good solutions sitting on the shelf."
I do not get your real difference point and I do not wish to argue your point.

Regarding your edit, this post itself points to the web version only (which I also mention in the comment you are replying to): https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli_text_processing_coreuti...
We’ll need to move the planet due to the warming of the sun before we’ll run out of fissible fuel.
This is some sort of sarcasm right? Arguing that the abhorrent actions of companies like Nestle, DuPont, Phillip Morris, DeBeers, and Purdue Pharma are anything remotely equal to setting federal safety standards while saying I'm guilty of "ridiculous rhetoric"?
We will soon need new words for different flavors of misinformation, because the business model for generation of new flavors is proving extremely profitable, far beyond the dynamics of Soviet propaganda that only had a mere dysfunctional state as sponsor. PR agencies can (have already?) incorporate machine learning for real-time message adjustment based on social media tests and sentiment signals. Thanks Smith-Mundt Act! https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-cult-of-the-vaccine-neurot...

> As a student in the Soviet Union I noticed subscribers to what Russians called the sovok mindset talked in interminable strings of pogovorki, i.e goofball proverbs or aphorisms you’d heard a million times before (“He who takes no risk, drinks no champagne,” or “Work isn’t a wolf, it won’t run off into the woods,” etc). This was a learned defense mechanism, adopted by a people who’d found out the hard way that anyone caught not speaking nonstop nonsense could be suspected of harboring original thoughts. Voluble stupidity is a great disguise in a society where silence is suspect.
Mask policy has always been consistent with the available data. They work but the effect is limited. This is why we have focused on multiple mitigation strategies. The problem we have is that because masks are not 100% effective people have decided that no masks are acceptable. Same flawed logic about vaccines.
A lot of comments talk aboue being disappointed and all, but id rather pay for cloud services than have my data sold to merchants and marketeers.

Meanwhile, I have syncthing and gocryptfs installed on my remarkable 2 and have blocked all telemetry domains with the hosts file. If i wanted to, I could even disable xochotl completely (however you spell it).

This is all good and shows that they respect their customers. We should praise this! Of course theyre not perfect--from what I understand the display driver is a big blob so its unlikely that well ever have a totally free OS running, but its way better than any of the chinese spy tablets that fill up the eink tablet space or American spy tablets sold by our favorite advertisement companies directly to our children's schools.
The official policy is actually published externally: https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/oneversion/

Note that the author doesn’t mention that the One Version rule applies only to third party code (in case you’re wondering why I’m linking to docs about “third party code”)
No one is saying we shouldn't invest in exploring fusion. But we shouldn't sit on our hands on the interim. We need to invest heavily in the best alternative resource available right now till such time as fusion is a viable alternative to solar.

Keep in mind horses and cars co-existed as mainstream transportation choices right up till the end of world war 2.
Wow that’s fascinating. I’m glad I care more about building software than language purity
I've been pushing our org towards this for my entire career, and will probably continue to do so. These are problems I aspire to have.
I’m not sure what to think of this. The only thing that struck me was that dnf “deeply regrets” their actions but also makes maintainers opt out instead of opt in. Maybe that makes the most sense at this point to cause no disruption to the maintainers that don’t mind. It just kind of felt like a whole lot of nothing I’d you deeply regret it but didn’t undo your action. Idk maybe I’m in the minority.
Another good one on that level was using the Windows keyboard shortcut ctrl-alt-down to rotate the display upside down - totally harmless, but absolutely maddening if you don’t know how to undo it
I'm expecting that this book is somehow going to get 'banned' soon for spreading 'misinformation' and 'false claims' of 'election fraud' and 'election interference'.

We'll see what happens next.
The Video Game Canon
I don't find any of the responses surprising, nor would I think most Bay Area residents, but

1) conclusions that neatly mesh with popular narratives should always be met with a heightened degree of skepticism simply because narratives and reality are rarely so consistent;

2) people tend to say one thing but do another, especially when there's a powerful narrative driving expectations;

3) this only begs the question to what extent these sentiments and expectations differ from residents in other areas, such as as Seattle, Washington, or NYC metro areas;

4) it begs the question of how actual relocation patterns have matched similar, previous survey responses (this is the first survey by this group, but there have been others before); and

5) it begs the question of why it matters, because so far people leaving have simply been replaced by richer people, and if you consider global cities like Seoul or London, neither of which are even in the top 10 most expensive large cities, San Francisco alone has quite a ways to go to even reach those CoL heights.

Also, suffice it to say that Joint Venture Silicon Valley is not a disinterested party. A cursory inspection makes me think they're supported in a non-partisan manner by a diverse array of groups interested in economic development. Their agenda is economic development, which even without any negative connotations means they need to drive home the point that the current environment is unsuited for, say, stable, equitable economic growth. From their perspective, there's very little to gain by actually answering questions #3 and #4 above (or improving survey respondent diversity, for that matter) because any answers might deflate the impact of their survey "findings".
Fairly common where I grew up in rural new hampshire. Buying a car would often be the first thing you'd do after working for a year or two. Otherwise, you'd need to borrow a car, or bum rides to get anywhere.
I like to think humans stole the pups or took the abandoned ones.
Are there example issues? The article is paywalled.

I was at Google for a few years, and we were forbidden to discuss work issues.

So I wonder what kind of issues we are talking about here.
Seems far too simplistic. Berkeley is actually even more liberal on many issues so your explanation doesn’t really make sense.
"decentralized" meaning ... your crypto may go through facebook.co.uk, or facebook.fr, or instagram.co.jp or facebook.com.au, instead of being centralized at facebook.com. much better security for peace of mind. ;)
This assumes a uniform global response. Not even the US can get their pandemic under control. There are so many breeding grounds across the world where Covid is completely free to mutate that it doesn't matter if a handful of countries have it figured out. You also have an increasing pushback against measures even in European countries with high vaccination rates. If a high impact variant emerges, it's going to become harder and harder on a political (and even economic) level to contain it.
Do those companies accept login G Suite account on custom ROM?
Except we don't have working geoengineering yet. If we did, that would be great, and that should end the bickering back and forth whether this is even happening. But we don't and we don't have a timeline to when we will. So good luck with that.
You can use `-x` option to compare whole lines. So `grep -Fxf` is similar to `comm -12` (this will differ if there are duplicate lines within a file)
US attorney details illegal acts, sealing the fate of the “nuclear Renaissance”
He has a companion video about that - apparently that particular SEM is the smallest in the world, and the manufacturer loaned him one to make videos about. But he had a ton of issues with it due to being at a high altitude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t60I0Z7qCsU

It looks like an amazing channel!
Some people who lack a driver license know how to drive and are quite capable of driving safely. A few of those, I'm almost certain, drive better than most people with a license.

When you need a ride home from the airport, do you want a licensed driver, or an unlicensed one?
But also probably not very decentralized.
I think the evidence available today contradicts this position. Vaccine immunity is much better than naturally acquired immunity, and natural immunity plus vaccine immunity is much better still.
>If trust on the blockchain boils down to trust in a mere social system, what has been gained?

This has already happened once when the original DAO project got hacked and the community decided to undo all of those transactions with a fork. The changes on chain were completely valid from a code point of view, but the community around the project decided to undo it.
Remember, when people strenuously accuse the other of something, there is good reason to suspect the accuser is deflecting and also projecting.

Remember the vehement Russia, Russia, Russia! Russia was controlling all media. Russia was doing all kinds of disinformation, attacks, etc., etc.

Meanwhile it was these guys and gals doing the heavy lifting for manipulation in concert.

Just imagine the 24x7 reporting we'd have gotten if Jared or whoever else in the Trump admin had lost a laptop will all kinds of incriminating emails and images... (oh, gosh, we can't verify the emails --yet when it's convenient they can verify emails attributed to people they don't like) They were even saying Hunter's deeds were Russian misinformation, they also told us Putin had Trump pee pee tapes... Well, we got Hunter with hookers... oh, yeah, yawn...

Now imagine of Pompeo went behind mr Heinz (Kerry) and talked to Germany or Russia to not sign an agreement... but when mr Heinz did that... oh, that's what former secretary of states do....
At the cost of a lockdown for everyone we could have offered targeted protection to the most vulnerable who wanted to avail themselves of it:

- Work from home options or in the worst case unemployment benefits for duration of the pandemic
- Reimbursement for food/goods delivery fees
- N95 masks and training on fitting them properly
- Hotel/AirBNB rooms as an alternative to congregate living
- Small gated communities with entry quarantines / contact tracing

In the meantime those at low risk could have continued to live more normally and building up some herd immunity as a stopgap measure until vaccines were ready.

Certainly Sweden handled things more along these lines and in the long term their society would be better for it. China caused every single COVID death in the world, whether through labs or wet markets, so I wouldn't sing praises of authoritarian governments.
I've been living & working here for 13 years. Moving out in December. Had enough. Between schools considering cancelling advanced math[1] while mandating ethnic studies[2] (guess which one is more marketable, geniuses?); schoolboards being more worried about school names (while doing no research) [3] than curricula; housing costing an arm, a leg, and a thigh (I do own my home, but it is not big enough for a family, and I have no chances to ever afford one here that is); insane & rising taxes [4][5], especially now with SALT deduction limits; and police not investigating car break ins [6] "because the homeless have it hard enough," I am done with this place. So long and good luck!

[1] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-20/californ...

[2] https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/576071-california-b...

[3] https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/San-Francisco-to-re...

[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2021/05/01/californi...

[5] https://www.cbs8.com/article/traffic/gas-prices/californias-...

[6] https://twitter.com/sfcarbreakins
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SF has gone as far left progressive/liberal as Florida has gone gone far right-wing conservative.

It's weird that american society is so divided, rather than meeting in the center as time goes on.

I would wonder if this is natural progression, or covert propaganda performed by foreign states to weaken american imperialism.
This is the YT channel https://youtube.com/c/MedlifeCrisis but I‘m not sure which video the GP was referring to.
Like many other advancements, civilian use has been a nice side effect of the primary driver of advancement.
Oh, wow. I had never heard of this device before, and looking at their website was an emotional rollercoaster. I went from “wow, I need this”, to “oh dear lord, absolutely not” several times, the whole connect thing, pricing around accessories, and lack of “formal” support for many cloud storage options leave me unimpressed.

Their website makes a real spammy impression, and really doesn’t inspire confidence. I need to keep paying their subscription to have handwriting conversion - one of the key reasons I would buy this? What if they go out of business? I lose device functionality? What about iCloud or OneDrive integration? I need to use Chrome for some functionality?

Nothing about this leaves a good taste in my mouth. It’s a real shame since I had my wallet ready, the device as such looks awesome, but the only hardware I want on a subscription is a new car.
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Discussion from a few months ago when Target reduced SF store hours due to retail theft: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27718204
This sounds similar to an experience I had at a much smaller, less mature company, but without a monorepo. We did, however, have a "platform" team which created many packages which all of the other teams depended on which were often forced on the teams. Unfortunately, the reliability of their packages varied greatly, so unless your applications had great integration tests (our team's did), you would take the update and find out in production it caused you issues.

I think another poster [0] hit the nail on the head when they identified the problem as likely poor dependency behavior.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28846514
>If it prevents the next Iraq war and the next Japanese internment, I'm all for it.

The downside is that it may cause other negative outcomes that are equally bad. There is a balance, as distrust can go too far.
I've done a bit of research here. It's not snake oil.

They did a trial, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.10.21256982v..., and it worked very well.

It's being commercialized here: https://www.apollohealthco.com/, and the guy has patents on everything.
Right patients with normal immune systems aren't really contagious past 10 days from initial infection (often less). But the issue is that immunocompromised patients can have persistent infections lasting much longer, which both allows more opportunities for viral mutation and gives more time to transmit the infection to others.
unless its a gigaservice