skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would anyone want to live in a metaverse? It sounds dumb.
SOCNORTH trains on strategic Aleutian island Shemya
What makes me angry is when I pay to remove ads for some of these games, and then a year or two later they show me ads anyway.
In-N-Out blasts S.F. over shutdown: 'We refuse to become the vaccination police'
http://deconcentration-of-attention.com/deconcentration-soft...
Sorry, I misread as Edit #1. We know in certain countries in certain areas nothing gets done without some kind of bribe / kickbacks so we assume some of finders fee we pay for leads goes back to the customers exec. Sometimes we get asked to increase prices to increase their margins. I.e. make a Pro version for 10x the cost for them to buy. Sometimes the customers complain to us how expensive it is and then we tell them how much it should be costing them which is a fifth of the price. Usually the exec is untouchable though so it doesn't change anything. Funnily enough, only time we've been directly asked for graft was from a Swiss customer and we offered a junket which they didn't like, I guess they wanted more.
No you don't; that time never existed. It's just that previously the only people with voices were the powerful.

Look at what happened when George Pullman or Trump or John Adams had their opinions challenged. They throw childish tantrums until they get their way.
Why not 5a? Had headphone jack + other improvements for maybe 150 more...
The resulting sludge is in many cases much richer in valuable (but dangerous) heavy metals than the ores we mine the heavy metals from, as well as a few lighter elements like lithium. Maybe the way to handle this is to split it up into one-tonne or ten-tonne chunks, seal each one in a few millimeters of polypropylene, and bury them in carefully recorded secret locations: in abandoned underground mines, quarries, wilderness areas, on the sea floor. Then, you can sell the coordinates of these secret locations to would-be miners—maybe not in 02021 but in 02061 or 02121. Seeking investors with long time horizons!

More realistically, there isn't really any risk of running out of landfill space for product packaging at anything similar to current consumption levels. If a person ate a 50-gram can of Pringles and a 30-gram bottle of Coke every day, they'd have 29 kg of packaging at the end of the year, or 29 liters, which compact down to a 40-cm-diameter sphere.

I used to periodically visit an ecovillage that handled their (much smaller than normal) packaging waste in this way: they would tamp it into two-liter Coke bottles with a piece of rebar as a tamper, and when the bottle was full, they would cap it, plaster it over with adobe, and use it as a construction brick. A 6 m × 18 m house with 300-mm-thick walls 3 m tall contains 43 m³ of wall volume which can be mostly filled with this kind of stuff: 150 person-junk-food-years of packaging.

8 billion people doing this would produce 23 million cubic meters of packaging per year, which sounds like a lot, but it's an 800-meter-diameter sphere. Lake Superior is 12000000 million cubic meters, so it would take those 8 billion people half a million years to fill it up with this packaging, if carefully weighted to keep it from floating, of course.

So, I don't think recycling packaging is a particularly bad problem. If by "in the longer term" you mean over the next hundred million years, I do agree that we'll need to solve it. But I don't think it's a particularly difficult problem at that timescale. For the next few million years, we have plenty of space to just store the stuff until recycling it is profitable.
If it is lower power, going 3d with it makes more sense though. Brain structures like synapses are ~2x smaller than UVC wavelengths or so (cubing that, ~10x smaller).
Sorry, I meant per quarter.
Yes, just like you still own the phone if you take out a bank loan, use it to buy the phone, and then default on the loan.
There has been this myth around that 'structural' means 'non replaceable'. This is complete nonsense made up by ignorant people who dislike Tesla.

Structural packs are nothing new, even cars like the iPace have structural packs and so do many. Hell even the Model S was structural and that had a swapable battery. Tesla or BYD structural packs are no different.

The actual innovation when people talk about 'structural packs' nowdays is that the cell themselves are part of the structure. However, this has nothing to do with how the pack is connected to the car.

Sadly the discussion on these topic gets totally confused by people endlessly repeating the same myths without understanding what they are talking about.

Just don't get into a car crash without the pack inside.
I'm partial to FacePlantPalmRollMaskHugger
Trump was anti China since the beginning, he put sanctions on China that put us into a pseudo trade war. There’s one side of the political aisle that is hyper focused on immaterial things like LGBTQ rights and racism, and I think everyone reading this knows which side that is.
Interesting, coming from Clojure/Script it bothers me that you need to repeat the pipe since I'm used to:

(-> "a b c d"
s/upper-case
(s/replace "A" "X")
(s/split " ")
first)

But I guess in JS you wouldn't know when to stop the piping.

Also, in Clojure, you have -<> which is like a hybrid between Hack and F# pipes. Basically it defaults to piping into the first argument, but if you use <> anywhere, then where you've used it is where it will be piped instead, best of both worlds.

(-<> "a b c"
s/upper-case
(str "result:" <>))
Only at the beach, unless by "a short time" you mean centuries to millennia. In any other context (in the forest, by the side of the highway, in a river, in the desert, buried in your backyard) the glass can remain dangerously sharp for at least millennia and in some cases billions of years.

Of course there are natural sharp rocks, too, just like there's natural asbestos and natural hydrogen sulfide.
> Lying during congressional testimonies and confirmations is a time honored tradition that applies in nearly every case

No, it isn't. This statement falls in the same category as "everyone commits insider trading; I should buy out-of-the-money options." You can recount specific cases because they remain exceptions.
That's what I thought too, especially since the headline says "scored Mortal Kombat", in which they scored the music for the video game.

The three of them (Praga Khan, Jade 4U and Olivier Addams) had dozens of projects (or "bands"). Would love to see it all documented in a memoir or something. It's so interesting to me. The closest thing I can find is a lengthy interview segment with Jade 4U in a video called "What Happened to Jade 4U and CJ Bolland" which is great.
Not knocking these phones at all -- I'm sure they're great -- but I found it genuinely hilarious that in 2021, one of the features Google chose to highlight, in the main, big "The reimagined Google phones" section, under "An all‑new Pixel experience" is "...and checks your spelling as you type."
In principle, yes, but:
- lower wavelength light is harder to confine within waveguides (or transmissive optics), and messes up atoms when colliding (think of x-rays),
- finding an efficient source at lower wavelengths is one of the main struggles of the semiconductor industry.
The government does not pry into such details, but the reason why marriage historically consisted of a man and a woman is that they reproduce together. Why are marriages of cousins and closer relatives banned in the U.S.? Because society does not view certain couples as proper reproductive units.
> It is strange, but I have seen in novel court cases where cases in other countries are used as an example.

AIUI, it's relatively common in common law jurisdictions as a form of persuasive precedent[1] (I'm most familiar with England and Wales, where it has been noted "[c]ases decided in other jurisdictions can, if properly used, be a valuable source of law in this jurisdiction"). Though non-binding, the jurisdictions are based on (broadly) the same legal principles, so in areas where common law (as opposed to statue) predominates, a ruling in a comparable jurisdiction may suggest that similar findings would be true in the current jurisdiction, even if it hasn't formally been decided by a higher court.

As such, it can be illustrative to examine the reasoning of a rational, out of jurisdiction court and see how it would map to the current jurisdiction. If the necessary legal principles are applicable in the current jurisdiction, it would suggest a similar decision would be reached, but if something specific to this jurisdiction interrupts the chain of reasoning, it suggests local courts must come to a different decision, and may indicate how the ruling must be modified. As another example, if the reasonableness of a person's actions must be examined, a competent, rational court supporting similar actions in an adjacent jurisdiction may add strength to an argument that the person's actions were reasonable.

There is a brief discussion on the use of foreign caselaw by the House of Lords (predecessor to the Supreme Court) at [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precedent#Persuasive_effect_of...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20110204002153/http://www.hmcour...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20191025182334/https://www.loc.g...
From [3]: "Thirteen percent of respondents who were familiar with the brand had unfavorable opinions of Amazon, compared to just 9 percent in 2020."

That does _not_ sound like "popular support for skewering"! That sounds like "Amazon is one of the most popular, well-liked, and trusted organizations in the world".
A DIY 3D printable laptop/IBM 240x clone with modern hardware
I'm still using my google pixel 2 xl with no case for the whole time I've been using. I dropped many times (including some drops I definitely thought that I was gonna need a new phone instantly), but nope, it still works like a charm with only minor scratches on the corners.

While I do really love pixel, I do think they are not putting enough effort into building a functional eco system around the phone, sharing files is such a pain in the ass and the "sharing nearby" feature never works on this phone, and everytime I needed to transfer files I have to use a cable, that's why I'm switching to iPhone. But I do like what they've shown about the new pixel phone tho.
> varying from literal but incomprehensible (“TAO called TAO is not TAO.”)

Having read numerous translations, that sounds perfectly comprehensible to me.
> I was pleasantly surprised with the OnePlus. Little bloat, compared to Samsung, hardware is very solid, didn't notice any glaring software issues, no weird stuff. I'm not sure how open it is to flashing another ROM, but to me it feels like a higher end Nexus phone.

OnePlus is one of the two (the other being Google) manufacturers with absolutely stellar custom ROM support IMHO (if there are others I'm missing, I'd love to know) (:

And even their stock ROM is pretty damn clean and good as well, last I checked. It's really impressive.

Literally, the OnePlus 9 Pro (latest model) has an official LineageOS release. I don't doubt there are plenty of ROMs for the 9 as well and there will soon be an official 9 LineageOS release. Hell, the OnePlus One has an Android 11 official build on LineageOS's website.

I've been daily driving a OnePlus 6 for the past three years. After OxygenOS 10, I switched to LineageOS for Android 11 and the phone is just as fast and smooth as ever. Extremely, extremely satisfied with my OnePlus phone, although I may be trying Google this time around because the Pixel 6 is cheap.
Tim Cook: "The App Store guidelines [...] are transparent and applied equally to developers of all sizes and in all categories." Clearly a lie.
Ah, we meet again! Good morning Joseph:)

Let me be specific. I agree trees(or json) in general can have a fixed set of general purpose ops. This particular paper though, the author claims changing the type of a record struct is itself an operation. This allows to treat it as a special kind, thereby applying it means it has to touch a whole other set of nodes. This is just one example, there could be ops like this tailored for the structure he is working with which is what got me into thinking :)
There are other possibilities than "they lied". The most likely explanation is that the branch in India used tactics that were specifically forbidden by corporate policy formulated in the United States, that corporate management was unaware that it took place, and is now plenty embarrassed to hear that it did.

It's not necessarily true, by the way, that they wouldn't have gotten flack from Congress if they'd initially testified that they use sales and product data only they possess to find out which third-party products are both profitable and vulnerable to lower-cost competition, use it again to design competing house brands that are identical to the third party products down to the smallest detail, and follow that up by using their website to promote the knockoff products as preferable to the third party products they've ripped off. This is not a standard industry practice and would likely not be defensible as "It's just a house brand, like Safeway Soup. What's the big deal?"
Given that nearly every important member of the government that has testified before congress has flat out lied to congress... this seems like selective enforcement. How about going after all the members of the military and intelligence command structures that told blatant lies when testifying.
No we did not print 40% of all money last year, QE is not printing money, its an asset swap. This money did not go into anyone's pockets. The Rich did not get a a lot richer compared to everyone else the bottom quartile of earners actually see their wages increasing the fastest of anyone right now. Saving are up, demand is high, Things are good! https://twitter.com/rortybomb/status/1448767207899545609?s=2...
But have the Gifted and Talented programs been eliminated? My children are in LAUSD, the second largest school district in the country, where we have regular Gifted and Talented meetings, including one tomorrow. No one here speaks of eliminating the programs, but I do read about it in national news sometimes.
Why are phone numbers a privacy problem?
Thirded, and just wanted to say that it requires maintenance, too. I quit programming professionally and use the computer quite infrequently compared to before--my WPM dropped 20-30, from ~110 to ~80-90.

80 isn't a bad number, but touch-typing is definitely a muscle memory skill that needs exercised.
> Fortunately, StrongSwan maintains an extensive database of virtually any supported configuration that can be used as a starting point

You are confirming what I said: that it's only easy if you have something to copy and paste off of.

It took me hours because I was trying to do something less common, namely peer to peer transport mode between LAN hosts with rules to exclude SSH access and multicasts. That this was a less common config is no excuse for the amount of prodding and debugging I had to do until I figured out what magical set of policies did what I want.
Nah, there are all sorts of missing features, some of which were added over a decade ago. With a few small exceptions and modifications much of the Unix base has been quite dead for a long time.
I made it halfway through, a decade back. It's not usable for practical communication, but it's an interesting experiment in linguistically forcing a Zen mindset.

For instance, "telo nasa" is alcohol, but it literally means "crazy water." "pona" means good, simple and beautiful, while "ike" means bad, evil, complex and ugly. There are no numbers besides 1 and 2, and no ways to embed clauses.

Translating into Toki Pona is like describing the world to a 5-year old feral child. I recommend it.
My comment is not about their lying. That's a different problem and not what my comment is about.

> Can you really not distinguish Amazon, it’s market position, and their acts from brick and mortar retailers that carry private label items?

Who do you think had the dominant market position before Amazon was a thing? Again, this play is older than Amazon itself.

My argument was just a rhetorical statement reflecting on the government's ineffectiveness and contradictory behavior when defining what harms customers or competition.
It's only now they care, because it's only now that they seem to see the political benefits from pursuing what's a rampant decades-long behavior.

Believe me, my comment is not trying to defend Amazon, is simply trying to showcase how politicians are opportunistic demagogues.
Indeed, the corresponding numbers for congress would suggest that there is overwhelming popular support for skewering congress!
I do, and it's been tested as well. I won't ever work in gambling, or the "gaming" industry as it is euphemistically being called in India these days. I receive a linkedIn message nearly every week from recruiters for lucrative jobs in gambling startups, and I've told them all the same thing: no matter how much you pay me, I won't work in gambling.
Imagine if someone did a special and said all lives matter back in 2020. That's what this is like, TERF stuff denies that trans brains even have even more mosaic architecture, it's complete bioconservatism. Denial of existence. Excuse people if they want to defend the aspects of their existence.
How To Design In Every Language At Once
Chapelles bit also throws trans POC under the bus as well
Telegram? It also allows you to share your username instead of the number
Presumably the suit is federal because it’s a copyright case. So, yeah, it would have some significance within the 9th circuit until the appeals shake out.
Sure. Here's the basic pipeline: Somebody makes a cool piece of tech, but they don't have the UI/UX chops to make it work. Apple comes along and works some serious magic on the tech to make it attractive for everyday use. Other companies get their roadmap from Apple's release, and go from there.

Some examples:

Nice fonts on desktops

Smartphones

Tablets

Smartwatches (more debatable, but Apple did play a big part here)

In-house SOCs.

I suspect that their future AR offering is going to work the same way. The market is currently nascent, but Apple will make a market.
Too bad the representative government is literally just pretend.

Literally just pretend.
> It requires both unlawful behavior to motivate the executive [2], and political animus to motivate the legislature.

But... it shouldn't. If you get caught lying to Congress, the hammer should come down on you. Period. If you can't answer the question without lying, then just don't answer the question. This selective enforcement should not be allowed, because all it means is that anyone that can cause problems for the members of Congress can lie without any penalty.
> That is, an employee violating an NDA for profit might be considered committing fraud against their employer.

I don't think so. Fraud would require an element of deception. Corporate espionage seems like a more probable avenue. IANAL, so I'm not sure who bears the liability here: the buyer, the seller, or both.

> What if Hindenberg offered $1M for access to a private list of donors to a [prominent abortion rights organization]?

This isn't equivalent. They're buying information, not selling it. Specifically, they're buying evidence of illegal acts.

Also, personally, I think there's a wide gap between the reasonable expectations of privacy for a business and an individual.

> But now that I think about it, why doesn't every successful private contract enforcement action end in a public prosecution for fraud?

There's usually not an intent to deceive, so it's not a crime. Also, the contract should specify the damages for violating it. The victim agreed to those penalties at the time of signing, so it wouldn't generally be in the interest of justice to add further penalties unless the behavior was so egregious as to override the victim's choice of penalty.

The accused can also often afford their own lawyers, which makes securing convictions a lot harder.

And there's a self-reinforcing penalty. If you have enough proof to get a conviction, you have enough proof to leak the leaker's name and make them unemployable.

And the criminal justice system is already stressed. These would likely end up getting plead down to something insignificant, because our justice system depends on most cases not going to trial.

There just isn't much to add from a criminal prosecution, and it would cost a lot.
You can't directly compare optical and electrical compute through looking at the difference in feature densities. Optical compute will most likely take the form of analog waveforms that contain many bits of information, whereas electronics for computing is inherently binary.
Not sure why this was flagged? It's taking a position on a somewhat controversial subject, but it's not needlessly inflammatory, and it seems like the main points are supported with a lot of sources.
There seems to be no winning with the government actions : Act early and they’re accused of stifling “innovation”, act late and they’re accused of “ineffective ness”.
> That does _not_ sound like "popular support for skewering

Skewering doesn't mean destroying.

Amazon is better liked than Facebook, Twitter or TikTok. The first will be skewered, and the careers of those associated to it will follow a familiar pattern. Twitter and TikTok will probably be fine, though they will suffer some wounds.

Amazon will--in my opinion--also be okay. But they will suffer wounds. The 7% of Americans who think they negatively impact society and 23% neutral are geographically concentrated, and passionate and organized, in a way that gives them political weight. Not enough to decapitate. But enough to enable the Congress to e.g. credibly threaten contempt charges.
It's a tough market. The majority of people who want a smaller phone do so because phones aren't so important to them. And those people probably expect a cheaper device.

I think Apple would make a better selling product if they could chop an extra $100–200 from the price of the mini. A single rear camera, fewer SKUs (say, two colours and two capacities), and maybe a binned version of the A16 chip with one fewer GPU core.
Why is that "the market will adjust itself" arguments do not come out as loudly when workmen wages start to rise?
I don't actually understand why anyone has an obligation to answer honestly to congress. Who cares what congress wants? They aren't a judge. They're supposed to represent YOU.

Congress isn't a judge, and when they summon someone, they aren't on trial. When you're answering questions before a judge you have to answer honestly.

Not when some elected official from some random state I don't care about decides to posture for CSPAN. Why do they have any right to my time in the first place?
The five things mentioned in the article are clearly observed unknowns about water. Water memory and other “out there” theories are exactly that - out there with minimal or no evidence (if not mainly evidence to the contrary), so most people don’t give it a serious thought. You’re free of course to still formulate the hypothesis and test it, but it’s not totally surprising you’re not able to convince more people to take it seriously until you show real data. Not that I appreciate the way academia works but we can’t blame them for our inability to prove our pet theories.
Leaded gas has still been in production and use up till this year 2021. Its finally gone though.
That's why I like the answer. It's the user's choice.
But the fact that they faced no repercussions for doing so is not an exception, it's the rule.
It's ambiguos at best

`foo(...)` normally means "call `foo`, but not with pipes

function foo(str) {
return `wrap(${foo})`
}

function bar(prefix) {
return function(str) {
return prefix + str;
}
}

'hello' |> foo;
'hello' |> foo($);
'hello' |> bar;
'hello' |> bar($);
'hello' |> bar('myprefix');
'hello' |> bar('myprefix')($);

What of those expression does the right thing?