skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use the example of an imaginary article titled "Animals instinctively avoid nuclear power plants", in this hypothetical the animals flee due to the noise generated by a newly constructed plant.

People will make the assumption that radioactivity is involved and that plus years of superstition surrounding radioactivity damages trust. This affects decisions made by public bodies due to changes in voter behavior. In this scenario there is no upside to publishing the outcomes without investigating causes first.
Apple has many products aimed at general consumers, all presentations and webpages are held to an equal standard as far as my experiences goes.
I thought copyright in GPLv2 kicks in once someone is linking? I saw Linux Kernel, bash, awk mentioned; but if these were compiled into binary assets without any code from the TV, then isn't Vizio entitled to sell these TVs without disclosing their own source code?
Direct Digital Synthesis
I have no idea what you're trying to say. Why would it be bad? It makes no sense. All it means is insisting it is true without evidence makes no sense. But nobody here is making that claim.
Yeah, in Scotland we actually pretty much universally dislike the “return to winter time” change (that’s coming up). Perm summer time please. :)
It's a treatment for a specific medical condition. Those devices and claims about them are universally regulated.

I also don't believe deregulating the market is going to work. The reason prices are so high is because there is a small monopoly of manufacturers that control global supply and a small cadre of middle-men that are allowed to create whatever markup they like.

Deregulating the middle men doesn't really solve the fundamental problem. I would expect a lot of patent lawsuits to be filed against small manufacturers and distributors if the government gets it's way here.

It's an attempt to solve an endemic lack of regulation with even less regulation.
Just wondering: Would this be something for somebody with one of the new jetpacks?
BitTorrent v2 shares dedups chunks between torrents as a side affect of changes to the hashing algorithm.
The boundary where abstract noodling around with mental images becomes math lies precisely at the point where you can render those images symbolically. That is the thing that distinguishes math from all other forms of human mental endeavor.
Sounds like they're offering to bribe an insider to disclose specifics about the "commercial paper"[1], which is presumably how a company like Tether would make most of its money. That is, taking advantage of the time-value of money over short periods of time (< 30 days) with large quantities of money (tranches of $100k) at a time, reserves which any marketplace would naturally have on hand.

Note that Tether looks shady at first blush, with a link to "Proof of Transparency"[2] that is content-free. I also find it sus that their job listings only list "Business Development Specialist" [3].

Is it illegal for a private person to offer to pay someone to illegally snitch on an illegal operation? Do two illegal things cancel out?

1 - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/commercialpaper.asp

2 - https://tether.to/latest-assurance-opinion-confirms-tether-f...

3 - https://tether.recruitee.com/
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I had to submit my (very mild) prescription for glasses to Warby Parker.
Well, if Tether isn't backed by dollars, then there's some pretty big questions to answer - for example: "When people buy tether using fiat currency, they hand $1 to bitfinex, and in return get 1USDT. Where did that real $1 go?"
Yep. See the perennial complaint about Signal as a demonstration of that. They don't persist your messages across devices on privacy/security grounds. That's fine, it's why I use it (or one motivation for me to use it). But it's contrary to what many people expect from that kind of service.
Also not a lawyer, but can't you sue in California over any product sold in California?
Thanks for letting me know. I simplified the css, that seemed to fix it.
Model converts casual text to formal
black gay guy, HE / HIM
How much would it cost for a top of the line desktop running OS X vs a mac mini?
Why is it perverse to file a police report so you can file insurance? Why is it perverse to file a police report, even to just make sure that crime statistics are accurate?
We would be lying to ourselves if we pretended that we could turn all the Jobseeker’s Allowance material into software developers with some training, just for the sake of not hiring a Mexican or a Rumanian.
> I don’t know anything about what you are working on, if you say it works for your specific use case, fine. A better question for you would be, do you believe you could not write that UI if Typescript didn’t exist? You’d be able to, but I know you’ll argue ‘but it would be much more painful’.

I worked on a team that happened to be starting on a cross-platform React Native app that needed to have its business logic able to be re-used on a couple other platforms that weren't well-supported by React Native (or React), but did support JS well enough, when we decided to trial TypeScript. The team had done a bunch of "apps" in React and a couple in React Native without TypeScript, before this.

TypeScript made things so much nicer. It cut necessary communication overhead during development down to almost nothing. Turnaround on platforms that were slow to deploy to was a non-issue because things almost always worked on the first try. Navigating the codebase was downright pleasant. Refactoring a library that was used by multiple platforms, a breeze. Simply excellent.
Well, there's a number of very public, very loud Tether skeptics out there. I guess now we'll find out if they have anything concrete.

I think the skeptics are probably right, but we're at the point where real information needs to be uncovered.
It seems strange to me that they'd adopt this strategy in the U.S. because of past failures in other countries. Gplv2 makes pretty clear it's a copyright license, so I see no reason it would be interpreted under contract law in the U.S., and as a layperson it seems unlikely that SFC would have standing in this case. Has a third party beneficiary ever been held to have standing in a copyright case?
Awesome. I can't believe I missed that.
Why does pixel 6 cost ~10% more in Japan!?!
¥68,501 vs ¥74,800
Does anyone know how the single core performance matches to the M1 chip ?
Even though the Swing thing was java bean based, the idea of an "event listener" is a still current and sound idea in software development beyond Java.

The funny thing about "standardized" getters & setters is that they completely broke OOP and went against this idea that Java was "object oriented". One of the most known articles of the time was the infamous "getters and setters considered evil".
Mathematics: From the birth of numbers by Jan gullberg

A worthwhile investment
But they already breach the GDPR on so many levels.
When U.S. workers did apply, the suit said, Facebook hired them into different jobs, reserving the open position for the H-1B worker.

For what it's worth, as an ex-FB engineering manager, this isn't how Facebook works at all. 99% of software engineers are not hired into an "open position". Facebook hires all software engineers that pass the hiring process without regard to whether they are US citizens or not. Then, after starting work for Facebook, there is a trial period where software engineers figure out what team they are going to work for, usually working a bit on a few different teams.

Unfortunately, immigration law seems to be written by people who had no familiarity with how modern large software engineering companies operate. Tech companies are essentially forced to make up "positions" for the purposes of immigration law. This makes the law pointless, except for the occasional fine for not obeying the meaningless rules precisely enough, which is just the cost of doing business.

There is just no way to make a company "first consider US citizens for every open job" when you don't hire one person at a time for separate jobs. What does that even mean when you are trying to hire 100 people a week, and you just want to hire the 100 best people you can find every week? This law fundamentally has an incoherent goal.
I got a 200 dollar set that I’m happy with. It comes with “glasses” to attach the lenses to. But suggest ordering one that is more adjustable. The one it came with doesn’t adjust for distance between eyes.
> Do you think black people striving for equality are looking for companies putting black people on their ads?

Absolutely. How else would a person with attributes typically ignored know that a product was designed for them? Ethnic hair care products is another example. Do you think only white people should be in ads for hair care products for African Americans?
>In Vitro is a good sign that it may also be effective in vivo

My understanding is that the In Vitro study required massive dosages of Ivermectin to achieve the reported tissue concentration and antiviral effect. That's why clinical trails are so important to see if the effect is observed at a safe dosage.

>people don't trust corporations to look out for their best interests especially drug companies

I completely get that, but it seems equally dangerous to trust random people on the internet writing about ivermectin.
> The paper companies don't want the cans because they don't want to somehow deglue the cardboard from the aluminum (time and cost expensive to process), and ditto for the aluminum people.

I'd have expected that simply melting down the stuff would burn off all the organic contaminants (paper/plastic/glue and food residue), leaving the aluminium and sludge that can be scooped off.
For any particular tribe you'll see members of that tribe use dishonest tactics to try to convince the other side.

I find this the most distasteful when science, logic, consensus, etc. is on a particular tribe's side. Member of the tribe don't need to use underhanded schemes to try to argue their side. They are actively undermining their tribe by using dishonesty to attempt to strengthen their position.
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go further, and having 'hearing aids' that would let you rewind the last 5-10 seconds of a conversation to hear something again without asking people to repeat themselves...
Just because someone has something to gain, doesn't mean that their actions are corrupt.

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages”
-Adam Smith

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/68664-it-is-not-from-the-be...
This is the price we pay for our history. You might think it's unfair, and you might think equal numbers would be better, but given how shit the entire marketing industry has been to non-whites for decades maybe it's not completely unreasonable to swing to the other extreme for a while.
> All of those definitions are interrelated, and collectively they define what it means to be a number. There is nothing informal about it.

Then you could simply point to the formalism which unites various mathematical activity under some universal model of number. I will reiterate the claim again — "number" is an informal concept among mathematicians and they are fine with that.
Easily portable db files
Thanks for your response. This happens to me whether or not I've collapsed any comments or hidden any posts. Frustrating, because I've tried it on a couple of friends' iPhones and their phones don't have the same problem.

It feels like some kind of issue with the response cache headers sent by the webserver, but since it's not reproducible on some phones or any desktop browser, that's unlikely.
So, is this a reversion along the lines that used to commonly occur when blues musicians were able to claw back their copyright from whoever they had transferred it to, after enough decades (spelled out in statute) had passed?

If so, Penguin does not owe him any royalties unless they continue publishing. It might also mean that he doesn't personally have rights to publish it himself, if it depends on copyrights somebody else holds and only licensed to Penguin, not him.
Nobody's asking for Vizio's code, just the modifications to GPL software (e.g. kconfig, non-upstream kernel modules, etc.)
The solution is to standardise packaging so that it can be re-used by multiple brands and companies, with just a clean out and new set of logos glued on.

This might not be suitable for a Pringles can, but at least suitable for glass containers and bottles.
still not available, AFAIK!

Now that one really IS dependent on computers being small enough, and on there being high-quality indoor maps available. Also, sensors to keep it from running into things & people.
GPLv2 requires you to either proactively provide the source or proactively provide a written offer to provide source on request to any third party (section 3 of the GPLv2) - simply distributing binaries without including either source or an offer is technically a breach of license.

Reacting to requests is not sufficient, you have to inform the recipient that they actually are entitled to make those requests and provide a promise that those requests will be honored.
You’re right. Oops.
There was an interesting episode or series on Freakanomics years ago about the virtues of “quitting”. Very thought provoking.
Doesn't that depend on the size of the compiler? Nim can surely be faster than all of them, but that particular figure can't mean anything.
Tether is a cryptocurrency with tokens issued by Tether Limited, which in turn is controlled by the owners of Bitfinex
Likely in the case of a bank run, Tether cannot redeem even a cent because their organisation is unable to serve any customer outside few selected one (no staff, no processed). However the damage to retail US investors should be quite well contained, as I do not feel they have significant Tether holdings. It is mostly (shady?) professional traders (Alameda, Celsius) and offshore (China) that use Tether.

Tether is 50% of crypto trading. Tether stopping would case quite interesting escape into either Bitcoin or some other liquid widely available pair (ETH). Prices would shoot up until real dollar offramps can pick it up. Long term USDC, USDP snd other more robust stablecoins can pick up the slack. Tether is not too big råto,fail, though is massive.
This data is wrong. Crime is not down. Crime is not flat. Crime is up. The city is on track to lose 1,000 people to O.D. and dealers are free to deal. Someone literally died outside of my apartment last year. Have you gone shopping lately in SF? Everything is behind plastic, including toothpaste, or anything for that matter. Stores are closing. Business is voting with its feet. We can redefine crime, we can refuse to prosecute it, but we can not escape its deleterious effects.

Recall Chesa!

https://www.safersfwithoutboudin.com/
Ahh makes sense. Thanks!
There could different pollutants when you recycle batteries than when you take ore.

I am sure there would be ways to do this but I guess somebody has to invest the money to figure out the process. And also to design things so they can be recycled easily.
I see. So SF is missing it's normal population of crime victims and so locals are being victimized harder. I wonder if the fact that normally some large share of this burden is not experienced by locals accounts for the degree of their indifference to it.
I have no idea what you're trying to say here or how it is meant to relate to the hypothesis of to possibility that our reality is a simulation.

The way you describe idealism also makes no sense to me. The way I understand what you wrote does not match Berkeley's subjective idealism at all. You call it false, but it's an unfalsifiable philosophical view, so while we can reject it as meaningless, you have no basis for saying it is false.
What does 'totalitarian' mean then? If we redefine it to mean every implementation of every form of government, then the statement is indisputable. But otherwise, if we don't distinguish Xinjing and Scotland, we aren't saying much.
Google: Don't be evil, you must be the devil
Well, that wasn't really true with 68K on PPC. It aspired to be as fast as the fastest 68K Macs, but that was based on averaging over some system calls in PPC code and some not. Speaking as someone who used one of the early machines @ 66MHz. The speed was unimpressive enough that there was a third party product that claimed to accelerate 68K code. Probably through some JIT techniques, I don't remember.

But it seems weird in any case to me to give Apple a lot of credit for this, because haven't we gotten to the point where VMs have eaten the (software) world? Everything runs on an advanced emulator, it's just the processor never even existed.
Nope. I flew in the 70s. There were not porters around in airports, at least not that most people used. Airports were pretty much the same as now.
Ending Facebook Frictionless Sharing
Slides from the Center for Humane Technology, who authored the social Dilemma [0].

[0] https://www.humanetech.com/the-social-dilemma
> IPv6 should have been designed to be backwards compatible

Impossible. You can't communicate between two hosts without both hosts being able to address the other -- and there's no way for an IPv4-only host to pack 128 bits of address into a 32-bit host field.
It doesn't have to be an insider
https://archive.md/cQVJl
It is highly dependent on what prosecutors have jurisdiction and the politics involved. The Duke Lacrosse prosecution is a good example of a prosecutor going over the top on charges for political reasons, and the Jeffrey Epstein plea bargain in 2007 is an example of the opposite.
> Is it illegal for a private person to offer to pay someone to illegally snitch on an illegal operation?

It's not illegal to pay someone for information. If you induce them to violate an NDA, yes, it could be. But given the question "under what jurisdiction does Tether really operate" is a debatable question, I'd say it's probably risky but fine. (If you trade on that information, it could be a different story.)
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28904705
I hate myself, 5 years ago I gave up dotnet to move to Java because it was more popular now I'm drowning in Spring beans and wish I never switched.
Why am I not surprised with the dyed hair and the sharpie eyebrows?
Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean you’re wrong.
I can't see this succeeding because it would have some crazy implications in general.
I always thought EVs are more environmentally friendly and that batteries would be recycled but from what I have read that is not really the case. It seems that batteries are a similar scam like plastic recycling where industry put out a lot of propaganda to make people believe that things would be recycled. But in reality only a very small percentage gets recycled.
I really don’t think this is that, and I’m the most cynical bastard on HN.
> A really effective "Critical Thinking course" would be VERY nice thing to have, but I think it could be deemed too dangerous for current elites, even more dangerous than guns.

That's what a liberal arts education is, though in the US right now it's mostly only affordable by elites.
> These globally rich people have the least amount of potential because they already exceed what a single human can do by a wide margin, they are dependent on a huge amount of "supporters" to reach their current potential.

I don't think Beckstead would disagree, but that he's making a different point. Being able to reach your potential requires support networks and opportunities. Someone from a third world nation like Liberia will not. All things being equal, a random child born in the US will have more impact on the world than a random child from Liberia.

While that could be made different, and people from those poorer countries have as great a potential as any American, it's unlikely anything will change in the near future to allow a greater proportion of them to achieve that potential.

I don't want to endorse any of his ideas on whether that means American lives should take priority, but I don't think his overall point about Americans currently having a higher expected value vis a vis long term impact on humanity is wrong.
I was more intending to say it is unfortunate that one needs to make a police report that will likely lead to no action on the part of law enforcement to make an insurance claim. Perverse was definitely not the best word choice.
Yes, exactly. Trees are falling in the forest and nothing is set up to hear it. Setting something up to hear it is trivial, this is digital and not analog. Get on it, Waymo.
I guess I don't have a good sense of the value of overriding a configuration parameter. If I were generating config in Starlark or Python, I would just provide the configuration as parameters to functions. If there's some function `def foo(): bar(x=4)` and I want to allow someone to change the value that is passed to bar.x, I would simply factor it out: `def foo(x=4): bar(x=x)`.

> In a standard function-based language this can be done by rewriting function arguments at runtime, i.e. some form of monkey patching. I haven't seen a good theoretical explanation on how data languages (GCL, jsonnet, CUE, etc.) avoid the monkey patching trap as opposed to embracing it with good terse monkey patching syntax & semantics.

I'm not entirely sure. I know you can arbitrarily layer on more constraints (e.g., you can impose your own naming conventions onto a Kubernetes Deployment "name" field by adding a `Deployment{name: <regex>}` constraint to your own files). But it's not clear to me how you would do other kinds of patches.
While it's certainly true that there are some people on the Internet who both agree with the overwhelming scientific consensus on global warming and make bad arguments,

a) that does not imply that the position those arguments defend is incorrect, and

b) for the science denialists, bad arguments are all they have.
It's marketing.

When Hindenburg publishes equity research, the disclosure is "you should assume that as of the publication date of any short-biased report or letter, Hindenburg Research...has a short position in all stocks (and/or options of the stock) covered herein, and therefore stands to realize significant gains in the event that the price of any stock covered herein declines."

[1] https://hindenburgresearch.com/draftkings/
Probably that luggage in general was a luxury item as it wasn't used that often by most people and wheels made it moreso. Eventually prices came down.
Metallurgist Rated Knife Steels: Toughness/Edge Retention/Corrosion Resistance
As in one global time where for some places in the world daylight is always between 11p and 6a. Good luck trying to set the baseline country.
My favorite:

[Formal] "Your mother is so old, her last name is asaurus"
[Casual] "Yo mama's so old, her last name is asaurus"

[Casual] "Yo what's up with the weather?"
[Formal] "What is the weather like?"

More info: https://github.com/PrithivirajDamodaran/Styleformer
If the alternative energy sources are even more expensive, then yes, it makes complete economic sense for me to invest in this because it yields a positive return.

All you've done with this example is try to say that X is better than (X + tax), failing to identify the actual benefits and tradeoffs derived from the tax. Please at least try to be somewhat intellectually honest.
Air travel was pretty common in the 70s, and had been for 20 years at least. Rail travel had been around much longer, of course, and as I said, the stations had hard, flat floors and so did the walkways to the trains.