skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Lambda is an unusually bad bootcamp owing to their financialization strategy and also lack of prior educational experience in their leadership. I think there are good bootcamps, but the well is being poisoned a bit here.
> They are measuring the difference in earth's gravitational field at two locations separated by a millimeter.

Just in case there is anyone here who didn't read the article (surely not?), for whom this summary might not convey the full astoundingness of the procedure, what they are actually measuring is the difference in the passage of time itself, due to gravity, when a millimeter higher up than the other.
Integral theory: The I/It/We/Its quadrant and states of consciousness
It was well known why Google got rid of their "don't be evil" tagline... except now nowhere on the internet seems to have a record of the exact reason either...

These kinds of stories get 'forgotten' very quickly.
A Quick-and-Dirty Argument Against Moral Relativism
Yeah, SLA printing was totes used in prototyping back then. It was just really expensive because the patents hadn't expired yet. I'd expect that Apple's R&D lab would have had access to them.
I'm not familiar with Shortcuts at all, but is not this related?
https://help.apple.com/workflow/#/apd142384946
Federal Judges Would Face Tougher Stock-Trading Rules Under Bipartisan Bill
They’re just plain handy to have around. I use mine as an Airplay receiver with shairport-sync, an ebook opds server with Calibre Web and as a development machine so I can continue working on websites when I only have access to iOS. It’s great!
What is your position on police officers covering their badge numbers at protests?
My favorite translation is by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky - I prefer it to Katz anyway. I haven't examined the Ready edition. (I ended up aquiring all of Dostoevsky in Pevear/Volokhonsky translations, I like them so much -- I understand other dislike their editions for a number of reasons, tho)

I also really liked David McDuff's translation years ago.

Any of these are going to be miles better then Garnett, though.
Can you email me about this? me@vincentwoo.com
> A friend of mine put it this way: what is the cost of being wrong?

1. substantial new contributions to greenhouse emissions
2. diversion of attention and resources away from other things, that may make your (2) self-fulfilling
3. dilution of sentiment that we have an obligation to try to fix what we've done here.

You also missed

7. The outcome of not getting new nests and fixing the rot is that we're much, much prepared to subsequently get new nests.
The Soviet bloc was sufficiently large that if communism was even moderately functional it would have succeeded even if the US had managed to stop it from trading from any country outside its bloc.

The destruction wrought by any kind of communist policy is so devastating as to make its true effect obvious. This is unlike social democratic policies which are a weaker economic poison and thus can cause decades of stagnation/deindustrialization without total collapse.
Thank God he staffed you with all the objectivity he had left after creating the objective universe so that you can enlighten us with such third grader logic.
I think placements rates are just a way to game data. I'm imagining two schools, one that accepts everyone that applies, and one that filters the bottom half out before acceptance. After graduation, the first school has a 50% placement rate, and the second has a 100%. Which one is better?

Sure we can all pretend that "everyone can do it" but... everyone can't. Placement rates as a metric are just deciding when to filter the low performers out.
Ummmm... Ashli Babbit was a QAnon conspiracy theorist who broke into the capital during the Jan. 6 insurrection. She was at the front of a mob trying to get into the Speaker's Lobby containing representatives sheltering in place. The mob was commanding the police to let them in and started chanting to break down the door. Police warned them multiple times. Instead, Babbit climbs through a window in front of a police officer with a gun pointed at her after being commanded to not enter. She got within feet of representatives (who... mind you the mob was screaming death threats about). There was no way to know if she had hidden weapons on her body, especially with others at the insurrection carrying assault rifles. Any reasonable person would say the shooting was justified doubly so with a mob of conspiracy theorists behind her ready to brutalize some politicians.

Don't gaslight people by just calling her "unarmed" especially when QAnon is turning her into a martyr for their movement. It's fundamentally dishonest.
It's at least a little more elementary than that. There are many, many school teachers of young children that will tell you that words like coöperative lost a lot useful disambiguation power when English dropped support for such syllabic markers. I see words written like that and I think of grade school, which seems like the opposite of pretension.
Definitely if it's a daily service, it's totally worth spending the time on automation.

I did make the assumption about AWS/equivalent, didn't realize how much of an unconscious assumption it had become. Sorry about that.
Russia (and also Uzbekistan!) produced all the mid- and long-haul airliners - Il, Yak and Tu. You don't know what you are talking about.
> How does an algorithm determine what is a lie or bad idea? Please share.

I don't know. Perhaps there will never be an algorithm that can do it even "approximately" never mind accurately - OK maybe "never" is too strong a word.

It doesn't change the fact that the current way we are doing things are causing problems.

In the past we rely on fallible editors to filter the news. It wasn't perfect. However I think they did a better job than the algorithms of Twitter and Facebook - most editors had some common sense with regards to the effects of what they allow to go to print; the more responsible ones will do due diligence and fact check stuff before printing it (as imperfect as their ability to do so is, it's better than the no fact checking at all done by Twitter/Facebook before they amplify it to millions of people).
Reddit AMA with Ethereum developers pre-launch (2014)
just make a google search link go viral "you won't believe what the government doesn't want you to know!!" and every boomer and their mother is now a person of interest
I would suggest checking out cirr.org, as well as interviewing former students.
I have three. One was going to be a home security and automation server, but in the end, every feature it had was either something my family wound up hating, or something that worked 9 out of 10 times and was therefore useless, or something that proved slightly harder than I expected and was therefore too much trouble. So now, all it does is loudly announce the time of various things, like "Time to pick the kids up from school".

The other two pis are sitting in a project crate, ready to use if I ever find myself with extra free time again.
Can't people choose to refuse medical help?

The only reason I see expenses really causing massive debt is if you choose to accept/request medical procedures you can't pay for.

While it's morbid to consider the idea of just letting yourself die because you don't want to go into debt, it still is a choice... isn't it?
I see, interesting. Yeah at that point you have more structure there. But yeah that's just like... two overlapping ring structures? Hm. <shrug>
> Don't always take things at face value.

You are literally presenting an opinion at face value ...
I don’t know which SDKs require visual studio, but if you don’t use them, you don’t need it ;)
And there is the core difference....

For some socialization is stress relief.... for others, such as myself, it's stress.
Yes, but who’s more likely to get the code right to determine the system’s timezone: the programmer or the library?

datetime.datetime.now() is by definition local to the system. What motivation is there to not include a timezone with the return value?
My claims are without evidence, but it certainly seems as if this document was created with the intentions/hope that it would be eventually leaked.

The second slide seems rather suspicous in its placement of "CAST members are not qualified to testify after reading this"; almost as if they were not speaking to an audience of CAST members, but rather, the public.

Perhaps a decoy? to draw attention away from STINGRAY and other intricacies?
As well as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28946349.
Does AMD make these extreme low voltage CPUs? The small fanless builds I see always use Intel.
You're quite right, there are risks with everything in life. I believe a hardware wallet to be far more secure than online banking. I think you'll find this interesting: https://trezor.io/shamir/
What's the difference? Sam must have invested in Google before 2005. At least that was the time it became somewhat apparent
But... the "business model" you are defending is something we all know is bullshit: maximizing engagement to collect data on users and sell advertisements :(. Why should we go out of our way to help this exist? I am not "tying myself into a logical pretzel" to do the comparison: I'm carefully considering the tradeoffs with the goal of penalizing things I don't like to get the things I do.

The original model of Instagram--and Facebook! and (mostly, but not entirely) Twitter--is that you have an account, and people who follow you can see what you post, in time order. There is absolutely no reason why they need centralized moderation for this: the moderation comes from people deciding to unfollow you if they don't like your content for absolutely any personal reason.

If the result of this is that you can't have a massive behemoth social network that only scales because it is using biased AIs to filter content while attempting to maximize "engagement" by pushing people to extreme positions while washing their hands of the whole mess by claiming "wasn't us: this is on the users!" even though the editorial decisions are their own... THAT'S GREAT!
I had to replace the one mine came with. It was new-ish, so I was able to get it for free under warranty, but be aware- quality control for their power supplies is not great (at least as of ~2017)
Even the official CCP numbers disagree with you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...

> On June 19, Beijing Party Secretary Li Ximing reported to the Politburo that the government's confirmed death toll was 241, including 218 civilians (of which 36 were students), 10 PLA soldiers, and 13 People's Armed Police, along with 7,000 wounded.

But the actual number of deaths is likely much higher.
To be fair, long-term care is not just an opportunity to accidentally (from the perspective of the holder, not the system) get rid of one’s accumulated wealth, it is often the motivation for intentionally doing so prematurely, in order to qualify for Medicaid (which pays for the majority of long-term care in the US.) OTOH, for people who don’t have the knowledge or professional advice to do this (which, of course, correlates strongly with having more wealth to start with), it is a trap for accidental wealth drain rather than intentional redistribution, so the poor get generationally poorer, while the better off are also better able to protect generational wealth, both benefiting from programs for the medically indigent.
but hooks allow you to easily move business logic outside of your component. most business logic is simple so people use it inline. isolating it makes it pretty easy to test and reuse
Could also be an app that runs on the sim. That would make the most sense.
That's a poor example... The theoretical energy expended to move an object is zero.

All energy losses in moving things are due to inefficiencies that we could theoretically engineer away. For example air resistance could be eliminated with roads becoming vacuum tubes. Wheel friction can be eliminated with magnetic levitation. Braking energy can theoretically be fully recovered, etc.

Today we don't do that because we care about other things (cost etc), but if in the future energy costs went up dramatically, engineers would reconsider...
I have a guess at which bootcamp you mean, but I'd love to talk to you more - me@vincentwoo.com
But Urbit is "overlay OS" -- which means it still uses all the existing stuff (Linux, filesystems, UDP, TCP, HTTP, Javascript, web browsers for frontend) but adds a whole bunch more stuff on top of it [0]. So you are not reducing complexity, but increasing it.

And it's identity management is based to Ethereum, so maybe just attach "Sign-in with Ethereum" component to the Mastodon instance, and you get something with same featureset as Urbit, but somewhat simpler and vastly more supportable. And as an extra, you get nice features like multi-machine scaling and live encrypted backups.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27268462
It would be really nice if that was the case. However when you pick up a USB C cable, you can't tell if it is suitable for a particular purpose because there are so many optional features in the spec. Data transfer speed, PD, Display Port, HDMI, Thunderbolt 3/4, and probably others that I'm not remembering.

I can understand not requiring a heavy gauge wire for a cable that is just transferring data and a bit of power, but it would be really nice if the standard required cables to label the cable ends with symbols representing that cable's capabilities.

Oh, and if you have a cable with USB C on both ends, you still can't charge an i-phone since apparently USB C isn't good enough for the phones yet. That's something I really don't understand is even after all these years Apple still hasn't fully standardized on the USB C connector across their devices.
It is often worth it in the short term to trick sources. But it has consequences for the individual doing the tricking, over the long term. And it has negative externalities for reporters as a whole. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it's a decision that comes with a tradeoff.
It's been my experience that there is knowledge that can only be taught in high school for some subjects. Not because the information is inherently specific to high schoolers but because high school is the only place that allows for the leisurely-enough pace to teach the knowledge.

For example, I learned Pascal as a first language. Outside of high school, no one has the time to learn a dead language for the few cool ideas it has but in high school, it provides indispensable background for a lot of concepts that come later (e.g. BEGIN/END being written out to teach you how much that sucks so that you understand why we use {} in every other language, the := operator making far more sense than the = operator, and other little tidbits).

The same logic applies (for me) to Latin, cooking classes, and Calculus. Ironically, I find that music classes have become so subsumed by the struggle to justify their funding that HS music brushes off non-essential skills just as shamelessly as university music does.
The recent documents made public have shown that google doesn't give a shit about moral integrity. What makes you think that they would put themselves at risk for some kind of non-monetary public good?
They also famously had no meetings, like at all.
I once worked for a newspaper while they were researching if dead people were voting in the state of Kentucky. The project would compare voter records with those of the deceased. The State responded to one of their open record requests with a a magnetic real about a foot in diameter, which I was tasked with decoding into a spreadsheet.

I took the magnetic reel to college with me that summer and asked around. Turns out they had magnetic tape reader for reels of this size hooked up their VAX system. A friendly sysadmin tried to read the data for me, but it came back has gibberish.

I wasn't surprised. Then he said "Aha! EBCDIC!" I hadn't heard it, but as the reel spoon and the names of the dead spun off the reel, he spun his own yard about this arcane format that was an ancient as the magnetic tape reel I'd brought it.

And yes, there were some dead people voting in Kentucky.
The laptop I use the most is a T500 Core2Duo P8600 with 4GB RAM.

The StarLite Mk IV out performs it at every turn, and I’ve been wanting an 11” laptop for a while now.

Is there any reason I shouldn’t but the Mk IV, or is there any other similar devices I should consider? I’d rather buy locally for Australian consumer protections.
This is always a controversial opinion, at least in some circles, but: I've long said that the PM role was created solely because companies can't find enough good engineering talent.

That isn't to assert that PMs don't do fantastic, necessary work. More-so that there's a more ideal reality where the engineers should be doing that work; the outcomes, in my experience, are better in orgs where engineering is not just influential in, but responsible for, customers, business outcomes, product planning, etc.

This isn't always possible. Most orgs don't resemble Whatsapp; they resemble Google. A hundred product divisions building a thousand different things. Its already difficult to hire engineering talent to fill an org like this, let alone the additional number you'd have to hire in order to account for the fact that a double-digit percentage of an engineer's role should be PM-like stuff.

So, throw away idealism; outsource that part of the engineer role to another specialty which is easier to hire for: PM. Its reasonable.

But the issue has arisen in that industry has forgotten than this was a necessary sacrifice; its not desirable. We've now got university and bootcamp programs dedicated to training for PM roles. Many companies have entrenched the idea that every team/org needs a PM. Tons of people are now adding financial momentum to this idea that their skillset is valuable and necessary; the ship can't be turned so easily.

At the end of the day, this is a disservice to many engineers, as their people, product, and business skills fall out of practice and they're further relegated into code-monkey positions. Its actually a disservice to PMs as well; they could have been trained in engineering and unlocked far more professional mobility. In the worst cases, it leads to PMs resembling the Office Space "what is it, exactly, you do here" guy ("I bring the specs from the client, to the engineers!" "Then, why don't the engineers just talk to the clients?" "Well, they're not people people!" mhm)
> What the hell went through everyone's head when they built this system?

The way to make a profit on government contracts:

1) Underbid

2) Find every possible use case that’s OBVIOUSLY needed, yet not in the specs

3) Leave them unimplemented

4) Charge through the nose for the extra work.

The system has already been paid for and put to production. It’s too late for the buyers to back out, lest they be out both money and face
He didn't say 'first to land propulsive'. He said 'landing first stage booster' and that is correct.

Propulsive landing has existed as long as the space industry of course.

> The SpaceX advancement may be more business than tech.

No it really isn't. This is sort of myth people perpetuate because they don't like SpaceX. Fact is, SpaceX did a huge amount of development to actually achieve a really reusable first stage.

Early on data was flowing from NASA to SpaceX, but pretty quickly it was NASA monitoring SpaceX and asking them for data because they simply don't have it. SpaceX had to figure out things like supersonic retropropulsion. The engine SpaceX development achieved things nobody has done before.

People point to a few research projects that thought about some individual things SpaceX did, but those never came even close even as a sum of all of them.
Until eSNI or similar is implemented across all sites, it doesn't matter much.
Clever name... but not exactly unique.
An interesting thought experiment, really.

But when I read:

> the ability of technological advancement to do "more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing"

I add the footnote: "Terms and Conditions may apply" :)

The blind spot of the idea is: limits. Should it be rephrased "eventually you can do almost everything with almost nothing", I'd have dropped the "thought experiment" label.
There's a post from me out there somewhere complaining about how the iPhone was a non-starter because it wasn't going to have MS Exchange support at launch, and I wasn't going to carry two devices around.

I stood in line to buy it at launch anyway, and carried two devices around.
They aren't mutually exclusive ideas. From the way Shatner talked - if you want people to stop ruining our current basket just send them to space so they can have a profound experience and realize how fragile the planet is.
“Show me the man and I'll show you the crime” was Beria's infamous boast. He served as deputy premier from 1941 until Stalin's death in 1953 ...
Hertz has historically had a fleet of around half a million cars [1], so ceteris paribus, yes.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/470829/us-car-rental-ave...
Q seemed to be an 'Operation Trust' / операция Трест campaign. The idea is to undermine resistance by pretending there is already one in place and that the secret resistance with a plan that will be eminently successful. It undermines actual resistance. The parallel being Trump supporters being the resistance that didn't do anything (other than make fools of themselves) with the belief that there was a secret plan to keep Trump in power. In this scenario Q would have been created to undermine Trump and his supporters. A large part of propaganda is to make your enemies look foolish. I'm reminded of a Voltaire quote: "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous. ' And God granted it."
Losing a contract with the NSA because they didn't play with the NSA certainly sounds like a real thing. Telling the markets that they would continue to see national security contracts when he knew they would not is another. Presenting false accounting records is entirely unrelated and just banal fraud. Selling your own shares while doing these things is even worse.
VPN or company managed device? Seems like something a vaguely savvy user would keep in mind though.
My wife's name was adjusted by the Department of Motor Vehicles in Indiana because the format she wanted "wasn't allowed in the computer". Of course, the name on your driver's license becomes your legal name for many practical purposes.
Apple’s new AirPods are pandemic-proof
> You seem to suggest that in a free commune one individual's freedom to make noise would outweigh others' expectations of calm, or the opposite.

Try to find a realistic interpretation of what I said instead of something so transparently ridiculous. In other words, argue in good faith. There's no point engaging with someone if you try to misunderstand them.
I'm not a Constitutional scholar, but I would bet SCOTUS rules this kind of warrant illegal. Google certainly has the resources to take the case that far.

AFAIK a warrant usually is tied to a specific person or a specific crime. In other words, if an explosion killed Harry McHarryface, then it would be constitutional to ask for names of people who searched for Harry.

Or if the fertilizer used in the bomb was shown to have been purchased on March 10, then maybe a search for "fertilizer" in the weeks before March 10 would be allowed.

But not a generic search.

Just my opinion that's not legal advice.
Taxi service giant Hertz orders 100k Tesla Model 3 cars