skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for spiders but there are plenty of animals that do horrible things for reasons other than eating and surviving. Seals come to mind (with what they do to penguins). Also cats.

At the very least, mammals will kill for sport and for status. The biggest difference with humans is scale.
Until we can see each other's faces in VR, this won't work for social presence. Shrinking everything down to contact lenses (even sunglasses get in the way of social contact) is likely to be beyond us for quite some while if ever. I'd rather not put something in my eye anyway.

Further, VR does not work well for switching - you can't be in VR and scribble notes at the same time. AR might be an improvement, but not by much.

Video conferencing does not suffer from any of these problems, and works pretty well for collaboration. 'Zoom fatigue' is definitely a thing though - it's unclear whether VR fatigue would be better or worse.

VR/AR will see limited adoption for certain specialised use cases only.
Not to mention Facebook gathering a dataset that is a virtual replica of your physical self. Imagine how much that would me sold on for...
I did this in the early years of OS X. I mostly use Homebrew now. But Git, for example, I have built from source as I wanted revert some changes in how certain messages are printed.
Check out you.com, it's very much what I would describe as a boutique search engine, and I'm really enjoying the beta personally.
Why? Whenever you return „void“ you return „this“. That does not make anything more complicated. It is a pattern that suits itself well in front end code. When it comes to async. code, however, it’s a different story since you return promises in this case that are also chainable.
New York City steam system
Was it really that trustworthy then? How many of the flash fad "research chemicals" got reports because there was a 50kg minimum from a supplier and somebody had a bunch they needed to sell?
> Every dollar spent on this is not spent on targeted ads.

If Facebook is successful, this will be a new vehicle through which to deliver targeted ads.
How is there more cheap consumer debt now than 20 years ago?
There are certain categories of trading cards that can not easily be bought online.

I know some people in the actual hobby collection scene for certain trading cards (as opposed to people calling themselves collectors but actually want to just flip for profit). The items these people collect are things such as rare misprints (with population sizes of below 100), physical printsheets (which sometimes have a population size of 1) or promo cards given out for very specific events (such as the creators wedding), again with single- or double digit population sizes.

From what I gather the appeal is partly just seeing weird things from the history of a hobby you enjoy. It‘s also a kinda nice way to connect with other people in the collection hobby, since when you run into something wacky you can just call up Jon who collects that exact oddity and bring it to him in exchange for a nice dinner or something.
>It's so much fun to look at a chain of generic functions working on a generic data structure, while keeping the code clear. Makes me feel all warm inside.

Yeah, that’s usually a bad sign. Programmers who think some language features are “fun” usually end up overapplying them and making life harder for everyone who just want to do their job and ship stuff.

Programming languages should be simple, boring and self-evident.

Keep “fun” in your hobby projects.
"Tell me more"

"Can I just tell you anything I like, or is there something in particular that you'd like me to tell you?"

That's part of his boxing-in strategy, I think. As a juror, I think I'd be unimpressed by an examiner asking such an open non-question. As a witness, it would make me angry (which someone up-thread has noted would mean I've lost that hand).

Also, if I'm not sure, then I'm not going to testify under oath that I am sure. Asking me repeatedly is badgering, and it won't change my answer.
Looks great. Would you recommend this (or another CRM) for a solo-entrepeneur running a boutique software consulting company? To tailor my needs (and satiate the inner geek in me), I ended up building my own little personal CRM after trying several that didn't quite fit my needs. Really, I want a CRM that combines the amazing aspects of both a personal CRM (like Monica) with more traditional, enterprise features like SugarCRM or Hubspot or Salesforce.
That last mouse instead of mouth was appropiate/funny I guess!
Classic illustration of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbqAMEwtOE
You’ll also love this radiolab episode then: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/octom...

I don’t want to spoil it but it’s quite a story.
Crypto$Hare – The First Peer to Peer Lending Platform
The First Peer to Peer Lending Platform that allows CryptoCurrency & Physical assets to be used as Collateral!

User gets a Digital Debit Card for online purchases with the option to get cash at a Cardless ATM!
Personally I just closed the tab when the SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER dialog obscured the article. I didn't expect to get much value from the content anyways so can't be bothered to deal with their crap.
> Am I losing anything by not visiting those sites? I generally think it's a net gain for me, because that type of setup correlates with low-grade content in my experience.

I agree entirely. If a website fails to function if it can't run JS, that's a very good indicator that I won't find the website useful anyway.
GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town
I actually think it's a good idea to leave the screen in for rear/parking, and disable it while driving at higher speed.

And I feel the same for the baseband chip (phone and data), speaker, noise-notification in phones. Yes I'm punishing passengers, waze, etc, but the #1 (observed) danger these days to me, cyclist and pedestrian, is the driver's phone. It's such a problem, I feel we're not being serious about it.
Now this would be a really great time for EFF to step in…
No.

The conflicts started after people from other origins were admitted.
They use C.A.M.s with smart cards that are embedded with a microcontroller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional-access_module
Q. Okay, then could they have been more than 25 feet apart, say the length of this room?

A. Is this room 25 feet long?

Don't agree to something you have not verified.

Q. If someone showed you photos of the scene would that possibly allow you recollect something about seeing Mr. Smith’s car? (asking if reviewing a document might change recollection)

A. It might implant a false impression that I remember more than I do.

Alternatively,

A. I very much doubt it, but if you think there are pictures that will, show them to me.

If a lawyer took that bait, she might be setting herself up for an "if the glove doesn't fit" moment, where the witness denies that any evidence presented makes a difference to her recall.
This is a lot of victim-blaming in a such a small response.

> If you are totally clueless and don't bother to take even a few minutes to try to understand a system you are using, the results are going to be poor.

Having a hosted system which behaves different than the underlying technology it's modelled on is not immediately clear. The realm of "things you don't know that you don't know" expands drastically with managed services.

> Thinking any system can overcome total user ignorance is the thing here that isn't sane.

It's never been suggested that this is possible. There is a large range of options in between "solve all user error" and "don't hand everyone a loaded foot-gun".
Turns out we make twice as much electricity in the US from natural gas than from coal, and we use about as much nuclear power as we do coal for electricity (and nuclear is equal to about all the hydro, wind, solar, and geothermal we use). This is another thing I think people aren’t aware has changed. ~80% of our electricity in the US is made without coal.

(But globally is another story, and this doesn’t really affect your overall point.)
So an iOS device with an eSIM is running a JVM in the eSIM?
3D print to kill, no mercy.
Establishing and retaining a culture over several decades is not easy, especially in publicly listed companies where CEOs and board members get replaced every few years or every decade, each bringing baggage from where they were before.

The HP Way was still popular and well known/followed even during the waning years of Carly Fiorina and for sometime after her departure.

I don’t understand why this would be a failure of the founders long after they moved out. Look at Google, which went as far as dethroning the “don’t be evil” mantra in its early teens. HP has probably kept its culture for several multiples of that before it was drowned out.
Yikes, sorry — this is one of those domains that got registered in the InterNIC days and transferred off years later, so I never bothered to move the A record to an IP that doesn’t use an obnoxious parking page. I’ll add that to the to-do list. It is very much email-only at this point.

I’ll probably publish the paper on my company website, once that’s up — having a bit of an identity crisis at the moment to figure out whether everything gets done in English, or Japanese, or both — probably both...
I had a similar experience where the entire marketing and BI teams (BI was part of marketing) were called into a meeting at short notice.

Everyone expecting layoffs or some such bad news. Turned out the guy heading up marketing was leaving, and ego being a thing, needed a platform to announce this.

This fricking act put unnecessary fear into folks with mortgages and kids, for absolutely no reason!
Personally, I think it's just speculative group-think. Makes me think of tulips.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Yes!

I've been doing this for years, and advocate it strongly. I run a private little website just for me that is a bookmark manager that I can easily add and follow links to. I use online-bookmarks (http://www.frech.ch/online-bookmarks/ That website doesn't seem to be responding right now, so I'm not sure if it's still active or not.)

Anyway, using something like this, I have access to my collection on any machine that has internet access.
And where has that got us? Surveillance states, the whole… *gestures at Facebook* thing, insurance companies having access to your medical records. The oceans are full of plastic!
Your submissions are nothing but "ask HN". Leech. To chide about "not knowing" but then yourself ask the community seems a bit hypocritical.
> For my age/health group, I view this risk of Covid to be less than the risk of the known issues with the vaccines

1. If you extrapolate that out to everyone doing it, we have a ton more people die, many from things unrelated to Covid because hospitals don't have the capacity. That hasn't been factored into your risk assessment;

2. Even with highly-effective vaccines, the death count in the US is at least 700,000. That's likely underreported by a large amount. The absolute worst case for risks of getting the vaccine are orders of magnitude less than that; and

3. Your choices don't affect just you.

(3) is the big one for me. If the net effect of not taking a vaccine was that that person would simply be more likely to die with no consequences to anyone else, I'd just call that evolution in action and move on.

But that's not the case. And the impact on other people is seemingly given absolutely no weight into these anti-vaxx decisions, which is the selfish aspect I was referring to.

Further to that, we get this under control and the vaccinated and unvaccinated both get to share in the benefits of that so it's doubly selfish.

The worst part is this level of selfishness is dressed up as some kind of virtue.

> unknown long term risk factors that aren’t yet fully known

That's just the fudge factor of confirmation bias rearing its ugly head.
Like I said, it doesn't have to be hostile. For example, the one fact one question pattern is useful when someone is throwing a messy ball of information at you. They may not be doing it to be intentionally evasive, but it's simply ineffective for helping you understand what they know, so you need to help them along.

People can "end up" unintentionally evasive(aka confusing) and having a structure and strategy for keeping them on track is key.
Sorry, I was not following whatever the parents were talking about. I just saw someone claiming Linux DEs are excellent and reacted to that.
We have a Taco Bell / KFC combo restaurant in the area. I went to the drive-thru several months back and was told that I could only order from the KFC menu because all of the Taco Bell people had just picked up their stimulus checks and decided to leave.

Similarly I was in DC and my Uber driver told me that he had been living illegally in a friends house he knew was empty but up for sale. When the house sold he had to sleep in his car which was not Uber worthy. When he got the stimulus check he was able to buy a used police car and converted it to an Uber himself by replacing the seats, dashboard, etc. Both these stories show me how valuable those stimulus checks were to others. I would definitely support direct income relief in the future and those types of programs may be the easiest and most direct way to help those in poverty.
This is fascinating.

If you don't mind my asking, what kind of practice do you do? This sounds very different from the usual general practitioner family doctor stuff.
You do you. Software development is a large enough field, our paths don't have to cross.
I'm a solo-entrepreneur and use it myself every day!

Give it a try if you have time, and don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions etc :)!
I hope that it gave us look at what will happen with all these real-estate-bubble-inducing a*holes.
Those that have no other option? I don't get the question at all, not everyone has the chance or luck in life to become a surgeon or a software engineer.
> skinned while still conscious because the stun mechanism could, eventually, fail.

And all those grand pianos falling over the poor cat again and again...

Oh sorry, we were talking about the real life, or in terms of a cartoon possibility?
None for me. Get better at the wide variety I already have.
I don't know. How can you say "never" with such confidence? If we get a severe recession, it's hard to say that 25-year-old pieces of cardboard couldn't lose 70%.
this looks like the most false thing I've ever seen.

You don't need QC to solve transport problems. What, are you suddenylu going to get a magic optimizer that couldn't do what classic optimizers have done for decades?
>In this case, it would be transmitted only when a SIM is turned on in a new device for the first time.

But this is seemingly not what happened in the case at hand.

>In this particular case, the phone had recently downloaded an update that included new baseband firmware. That was almost certainly the trigger for this message.

So, every time the baseband firmware is updated, likely millions of devices need to send that SMS to that single server, unlesss the updates are deployed somehow sequentially.

And if these firmware updates happen not very often, which probabilities were that just after such an update the person (suspected of distracted driving) crashed with the car?

Like 0.00000000001 or very, very, very rare chance.
see also: https://everything2.com/title/SNAFU+Principle
What happens after 6 hours? Let's say I capture all the data from all the sensors and decrypt it with a 24 hr lag. I don't get a real-time info, but i collect all the patterns and whatever long-term data that's accidentally sent out.
Leaving aside the extremists, most people here seem to want to remove mostly touchscreens that replaced electro-mechanical under-the-wheel commands. I actually agree with those 'takes'. Completely removing any screen seems some kind of butlerian djihad. Leave the screen, doesn't have to be huge, or to be seen by anyone else than the driver, put it somewhere useful for safety. And make it not flashy, not attention grabbing when driving.
Nope.

If you look at Gini index you can see the best countries are not "diverse".

https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SI.POV.GINI/rank...

Ps. Last is better
> the best way to ensure that some cryptanalytic technique works is to publish it so every cryptographer in the world can review it

The best way to ensure that a design is sound, is to publish it, but that is not true of cryptanalysis techniques. They are generally tied to a mathematical proof, so they can be quite confident of their correctness. A design, on the other hand, has an unknown number of ways in which it can fail.

Also, historically, secret cryptanalyses have proved invaluable in warfare; the most famous examples are the techniques used for Enigma, Lorenz SZ42, and the “Purple” Type B Cipher Machine, which allowed reading various crucial messages from the Nazi and Imperial Japan during WWII; had the techniques been published, the ciphers would have been improved.

There is still a very good reason to not like that situation: first, commercial information is much more sizeable and is arguably much more sensitive nowadays, as warfare is shifting to the weakening of the enemies’ economy (look at Russia turning a blind eye or more on the groups behind the Colonial Pipeline hack). Second, the government’s cryptanalysis effort is financed by the people, so it would be reasonable for them to receive its fruits.
> I do agree that Java is a terrible first language to teach, it has so much arcane boilerplate to get through before doing anything useful. Especially the whole "public static void main(String[] args)" incantation you're taught up-front. So many meaningless words for a beginner.

The boilerplate is annoying, but it's an obstacle that can be overcome. My lecturer/lab tutor for introductory Java just gave us a pre-prepared:

public class Main {

}

And told us to write all the code in between the two curly braces and don't worry about what's outside of them. The main method is another piece of boilerplate to ignore.
> Now we basically allow them to choose, but in the recent past not a single one has not chosen Apple .

I think that's awesome, and I would feel great about starting at a place that gave devs a choice between System76 and Apple.

> Having linux just work is worth investing in frame.work or system76 or dell developer edition I rather do actual work than fiddle with drivers .

Agreed! There are fun and sometimes productive forms of tinkering with Linux. Fighting incompatible hardware is not among them
I'll start thinking more seriously about it when I know anyone who's not hardcore into gaming, or a deep technologist, who owns one.

I can count on one hand the number of people I know with something like an Oculus.

Two of those people don't use it because they couldn't feel comfortable using it, but they like seeing other people try it out the first time, as a novelty.
So you're saying having giant IP modules inside your electronics is somehow making things more secure? They certainly don't make the product any less buggy.
My four year old and my wife both have Chromebooks that they use daily. I know it's not really a standard Linux distro but it's not far off from what I'm running (coincidentally being Pop_OS! now because I've grown too lazy for Slackware). Desktop Linux is far from terrible and, like you, I remember when it really was. I can remember when it was so bad that sticking to the console was often easier (printing, dial up, irc)
Maybe they would have listened if the model successfully used historical data to predict when people should have bailed in the past, in addition to now. That is, if it was a properly validated model. I am not an expert, but this seems like a reasonable way to see if a model works.
You're reading a lot into my comment that's not there. I don't have any disdain for the freelancer in question, and I think it's quite an achievement to be earning $120k without training in the given field. But you said

> "Why someone should feel compelled to pretend that they problem solve differently to ace a whiteboard in this market is beyond me."

and I'm making observations that I feel adequately explain why someone might want to pass a whiteboard interview at a big tech company. It's completely valid to not want to do that as well, but you said that you couldn't understand why someone would want to, and I've explained why someone might.

> If it was as easy as showing up with a comp sci degree and a heartbeat, why is prepping for whiteboarding interviews even a thing?

I didn't say it was easy. I just said there are not other routes I'm aware of that are easier.
This is written for a lawyer who's on a side, not a curious investigator that's trying to maximize their own knowledge of the truth.
You don't need to shrink down, you might be able to scan faces in vr glasses and put them in the vr world
While it’s true that scientists want to be open to new possibilities, that doesn’t mean naively accepting that known charlatans like Berensen are acting in good faith when they pick up a particular idea to see if they can monetize it.

The linked paper is a case study of n=3 patients. There quite possibly is a mechanism where patients with certain pre-existing might want to monitor more closely but, as the paper notes, this appears to be quite rare given the massive number of people who’ve been vaccinated. The medical community monitors these things closely and I’m sure of two things: if there is something clinically useful which comes out of this it won’t be ignored, and anything useful will come out of work by medical professionals rather than a right-wing crank who will shamelessly attempt to harness a dead man’s reputation to boost his career.