skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/revealed-the-secret-...

the take away for me from this article is SpaceX's appoarch is like software development.

fail often and fail fast, stock options for employees to retain talents.

i also believe Elon's vision for Mars paint a goal for SpaceX employees and Gwynne Shotwell. She is the force behind SpaceX.
The muscle memory of Microsoft is part of their DNA. So long as IT managers continue to buy lousy Microsoft products and don’t get fired for not buying best-of-breed alternatives (and there are so so many like Zoom and Slack etc..) then this abusive relationship will continue. When and if the market penalizes Microsoft (unlikely) then it will stop.
How do you gasify it if you store it as a solid? Heat?
I don't think this makes sense. Microtransaction cosmetics have value beyond just the concept of ownership. You get to show your friends in game the new skin or whatever.

You can't do that with NFTs other than just showing people the image you paid for.
> As executives edited the draft, Herdener summed up a central goal in a margin note: “We want policymakers and press to fear us,” he wrote. He described this desire as a “mantra” that had united department leaders in a Washington strategy session.

The chairman of Amazon owns a newspaper and nearly every person mentioned in this story works or has worked for a prominent political party.

Obviously there's some standouts and they deserve some accolades:

> Cunningham has tried unsuccessfully since 2019 to require companies to get consumer consent before storing or sharing smart-speaker recordings. When Cunningham re-introduced the measure this year, Amazon took a novel lobbying approach: It argued the privacy protections would hurt disabled people.

> Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican and the ranking member of the judiciary committee, was among Amazon’s top-tier VIPs, the 2014 watering-the-flowers document shows. Last month, Grassley co-authored a bill with Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar that would prohibit companies including Amazon from favoring their own products on their e-commerce platforms.

then...

> Amazon recently has widened its lobbying strategy to focus less on killing or neutering legislation it opposed and more on drafting favorable bills and getting them passed in friendly legislatures, a former public-policy employee said. That tack paid off in a big way this year in Virginia, where Amazon convinced Sen. David Marsden, a business-friendly Democrat, to introduce privacy legislation that the company had drafted.

Sounds conspicuously like the mission of ALEC.

Anyone defending Amazon's recording collection practices should pay particular attention to this feature:

> Some recordings involved conversations between family members using Alexa devices to communicate across different parts of the house. Several recordings captured children apologizing to their parents after being disciplined. Others picked up the children, ages 7, 9 and 12, asking Alexa questions about terms like “pansexual.”

You can use Alexa as an intercom. It's recording that too, which does not fit into explanation of why they record regular Alexa prompts.

> Florian Schaub, a privacy researcher at the University of Michigan, said businesses are not always transparent about what they’re doing with users’ data. “We have to rely on Amazon doing the right thing,” he said, “rather than being confident the data can’t be misused.”

There are no easy answers to privacy. Regulations can only be a first step, because this is the paradigm and I'm not going to argue that it shouldn't be. There has to be something better than these outcomes though.

Maybe I'm biased and just see all the darkness woven into this story.
Obviously the USSR and Russia space program is world-class. But they clearly took some cues from NASA*, albeit sometimes due to political pressure.

Just look at Buran- Brezhnev started the program as a direct response to the US Space Shuttle. The KGB and VPK spent a fortune hoovering up documents about the shuttle, and the resulting vehicle had clear similarities.

*And there have obviously been times where NASA drew on their work
If getting the card upfront is about filtering free trial users, that doesn't support the usual behaviour of charging the user immediately after the trial ends. You can use a credit card as a filter without doing that.
The Shuttle still dropped the two solid rocket boosters.

Still it performed better than Tsiolkovsky and everyone else thought a chemical rocket could perform because running rich with extra H2 lets you get a better ISP since it lowers the molecular weight of the exhaust even if it does lower the temperature a little.
Yep, this is exactly why I'm looking to colo. I have eight or so RTX a5000 gpu's and although colo is expensive, it's an absolute slam dunk in comparison to renting from AWS or even "dedicated" companies that only rent out GPU hardware at slightly better rates. I will say, power and efficiency become a bigger issue when colocating - if our scaling requirements and credit were slightly different we'd likely have preferred a greater up front cost and purchased V100 gpus instead of RTX a5000's.
>But the difference is that video game companies are not claiming that their skins are revolutionizing the world.

I think Epic is claiming exactly this, and to be honest, I don't think they are wrong.
But you who philosophize disgrace

And criticize all fears,

Bury the rag deep in your face,

For now is the time for your tears.

--Bob Dylan
My 2019 F150 XLT is still mostly analog. It has a screen, because it has to, due to the back-up camera mandate, but there are still physical dials and buttons for all of the radio and climate controls, and it still has the same setup for the shifter and wipers and blinker that have been standard in Ford pickups for two or three decades now.

Even so, I had to get FORScan to disable the autolocking feature (very frustrating when you are just going around the yard and it automatically locks the tailgate on you) and tweak a couple other things
> I guess I could have tried computing magazines

Here are some offline methods other people used to get such information:

1. magazines and "zines"

2. books

3. word-of-mouth (as you said)

4. clubs or meet-ups

Online methods that pre-date google:

1. newsgroups (usenet)

2. yahoo groups

3. bbses

4. forums

5. msdn

6. other search engines, even ones that used categories like yahoo were sometimes effective. It just took longer to search to find exactly what you wanted

7. manufacturer websites. for example if you need the pin settings for a WD MFM or RLL disk drive, go to the WD website and look it up.

---

It wasn't as bad as people think. It just took a long more time to find.
I went to the TV app on my iPhone, searched for Survivor, scrolled to season 41 episode 9, and saw I could watch it for $3, or you can sign up for Paramount+.
I've commented on that difference before, in a pro-union sense, but I don't see how it makes any difference to the role of agents.

What about the presence/absence of a union affects the viability of agents?
Clear case of self defense. Glad to see the system working.
Good question. A follow-up: What's the best low(er)-digitalization EV (ideally BEV, but alternatively PHEV)? Something with more tactile/analog UI and a minimum of "entertainment" accessories?
For some reason these change endlessly on my network.

RFC4941 or similar privacy extension stuff might explain this.
Isn't this how the early AIM-9s worked?
So you have to deal with people who don't like what you have to say, and criticize you in a way that you don't like or agree with.

Life is hard. This stuff happens, and if it doesn't, it's probably not a society any us would want to live in for long, since at some point we'll be the group being "nasty" to someone else.
It is of course super common. Unit tests should be stubbing out as much as possible/reasonable.

The presumption is that we're talking about a well rounded test suite with both unit tests and integration tests, and the integration tests would indeed be catching the fact that A is passing entirely the wrong thing to B.

Of course, this does mean we're leaning heavily on the test suite here. But, in any nontrivial application I hope that we would have a robust test suite, right? Otherwise we're going to have some problems whether we're statically or dynamically typed.
Forth Haiku: An attempt to mix mathematics, art, and the Forth programming lang
Wouldn’t depositing your money into a bank have some level of insurance so you could get it back off the bank lost out?

Your argument is a bit weird though. We replaced cash by mostly electronic systems that are backed by some entity and we have recourse to get out money back. We generally want that feature.

You arguing it’s good that we lost a feature that we want?
Ransomware Attack on Identity and Access Management Framework
Ransomware Spread via Active Directory

Once simple explanation of hierarchy within Active Directory is Creation of Forest (Company), then creating Domains under a Forest, in each Domain there are Domain Controllers that in turn manage Groups and Users, which enable the organization to manage its Role-Based Access.

So, for Ransomware Attacks to use Active Directory as a medium towards gaining un-authorized access, it requires privileged access to directory. Majorly, it has been observed that organization manage privileged access Active Directory accounts in a way, if a resource has left the company and it is not de-provisioned from directory, thus still having access to various security groups. Hence, such users with privileged access serve as a gateway for these Ransomware Attacks to propagate throughout machines. Even in cases, where IT staff has gone extra mile to protect domain controllers within organization, Hackers can get access via User connected to Active Directory. Thus, it’s important to follow the best practices for Active Directory maintenance.

As per Microsoft,

“To a hacker, an infected or stolen identity is measurable in two ways: the breadth of computers that trust and grant authorization to the account and the level of authorization granted upon successful authentication. Since encryption can be performed by any user account, ransomware benefits most when it infects an account which can convey write authorization to a large amount of data.”

https://www.imanami.com/how-ransomware-attacks-on-active-directory-and-azure-ad/
Goblin?
And I'm pointing out the downside. External control does not work on the blockchain, which means that when mistakes or theft happen, there's no mechanism to undo.

It's a pretty large downside. The only upside I've heard is that you could avoid oppression or government theft. However, I'd contend that a government that would directly rob your bank account isn't exactly going to stop at just that.
That's certainly true, but I do feel like there's a sweet spot in the 2005-2010 area where most "critical" safety features (improved airbags, traction control, ABS brakes) are almost certainly present, but none of the modern safety features that fall more into the "augmented sensory" category (merge/blindspot detection, early braking), which I'm happy to compromise on. I drive a 2007 SUV which does everything I need it to do and I'll probably continue to drive similar vintage vehicles until I finally switch to an EV when the charging infrastructure in my area has finally gotten off the ground.
Every person deserves the freedom to criticize their leaders and to speak out against abuse without fear of reprisal.

This is a shame.
If I understand NFTs correctly, anyone can verify who owns the NFT. No one is claiming the NFT is literally just the bytes of the profile picture. The NFT is the control of the token on the blockchain. Likewise, anyone could download the bytes of a 3D model of a weapon or hat in a video game. The only difference is that Valve’s software will check the canonical source of ownership, which isn’t much different than if Twitter or any other social network writes code to verify the ownership of an NFT representing some profile picture.
I have not found an English translation of the South Korean regulations - do you know what clause(s) Apple does not comply with?
No. The experimentalists used lasers to condense the atoms to high densities.
Thanks so much. Sorry for the slow reply!

I'm sorry this doesn't have at-rest encryption, much-less E2EE. I totally understand. As I wrote elsewhere, the best I can do is be transparent about that. I'm a solid fullstack dev, but it would be dishonest to represent to people that I can cryptographically secure their information against a sophisticated adversary. I hope that Pony grows such that I can retain or hire a reputable expert who may be able to assist with that, so that I could market encryption in good faith.
> However, there are valid applications as long as the bearer is entitled to "something" other than speculative value.

I've seen the assertion that there are "lots" of other applications for NFTs many more times than I've seen those applications actually described.
What I said is a statement, not a question. The question mark is not a mistake. What else could it indicate if not a question? Perhaps it was marking my general sense of confusion in response to the original comment. Or it could also be adding a hint of sarcasm. What would you like me say? Do you not approve of my use of it?

Throwamon's explanation is good too. When someone asks a question with an obvious affirmative answer, a popular answer is an inquisitive "yes?". Only the thing being questioned in that case isn't the answer, its the doubt in the mind of the speaker who asked.
Placebo can be incredibly strong when taking low dose psychedelics, especially for inexperienced users. You begin to focus on normal parts of reality as if they aren't part of your usual experience.
Oh no, it's not dying—there's a ton of PHP work out there—it's just that most of the PHP dev market is very stagnant, wage-wise, outside a handful of companies, in a way that most languages in wide use are not. There's also a real stigma that goes along with still being mostly a PHP person these days, I've noticed. (I was one, like... 9 or 10 years ago)
I am sorry, my bad, I misunderstood that you are looking for your next gig. Here is my take,
1. Contract work varies very widely from say few weeks to years. Agent model won't scale here because you as a contract employee can get fired for numerous reasons, and which is pretty common in the industry. If an agent has to make commission, long term reliability is a must.
2. Continuous cut for the duration of the project with the contract employees keeps cash flowing for these consulting companies. Why risk the cash flow when you can earn bi-weekly :)
To me as well, that was the most interesting part of the article. Almost sounds like communism :) but really it's more like the advice to not judge a book by it's cover. Giving everybody a chance is much more effective than funneling funds into a small "elite". As far as individuals and people are concerned at least.

Having said that, the model used in the research is way too simplified to draw conclusions from. "Talent" in it is just a change in the likelihood of a randomly good event or bad event. There is no activity, no searching for opportunities and no competition. They could substitute "talent" for electrical conductivity and events for being struck by lightning and the results would be exactly the same.
Personally I find it faster than using an IDE much of the time. It’s super fast and very powerful.
Fine, if you live in a non-democratic country with no or an unreliable banking system, go nuts with the blockchain.

I get the feeling that 99% of blockchain users/proponents aren't in that circumstance.
The predicted fracture has started, with different networks starting their own streaming services. Luckily, there seems to be an acceptable minimum level of quality in the UI and service so far, which was one of my fears.

We subscribe to a number of the services, but it's still cheaper than cable TV and there are no commercials, and it's all "on demand" which still seems to be pretty iffy on cable directly.

I feel like it's going to be a constant struggle to only subscribe to the ones that we're actually using, but it isn't as bad as I feared yet.

I'm still predicting that they'll get ridiculously fractured, and then realize their mistake and start bundling together again.

It has kind of already happened with Paramount+ and Showtime's bundle, and I think some of the others were doing it before them even. But these bundles are just a bandaid. You still need to actually use 2 different sites/apps to view your TV, and it's hard to get a list of what shows have new episodes across all the sites/apps. We end up just starting up each app and checking until we find something we want to watch right then.
Postive Research Findings about Adults who microdose psychedelics
Apple pays developers 70% of their revenue. Thats where the developer revenue comes from.
For the JPEG part: That is not surprising, for several reasons:
- Depending on if the IDCT (2D cosine-based frequency domain => time domain) is implemented using floating point or fixed-point, the ways roundings are done, 0.5 offsets or not etc, the number of bits of precisions, you will have small errors.
- Most JPEGs are in i420 format, that is "for a 16x16 Y block, there is one 8x8 Cb block and one 8x8 Cr block". The upsampling algorithm may differ both in precision and on the choice of the algorithm itself.
- Even in YCbCr => RGB conversion, there may be 1-bit differences. More if they used other constants.

Note that even between two versions of the same library, you can get different results.
Or they could just not do it because it's not that important to most people... HN comment sections are not representative of the general populace.
> To steal crypto, I need to know your passcode. I can steal it from any location in the world.

Using the term 'passcode' for a 256 bit key generated from a good source of entropy is incredibly misleading. But yes, if you can either break secp256k1 or manage to steal a key that is stored with the same care as physical cash that is a distinction. It also doesn't mean that crypto doesn't work; thousands of people have safely stored cryptocurrencies this way for 10+ years now.

My point stands: one cannot conduct a chargeback in a transaction using cash where sales are final. The example of chargebacks is a poor reason for 'why cryptocurrency doesn't work'.
> Most of the NFT marketing I've seen is very fast and loose about this — people will talk like it's owning the item but only when pressed will admit that it means owning the NFT pointing to the item.

But that’s totally reasonable. No one is going to misinterpret that unless they’re deliberately being uncharitable. This is just a normal usage of imprecise language, not very different than saying you own a house when technically you have a mortgage, or saying you bought an album on iTunes when technically you bought a revocable license to play the album under certain restrictions.
Having a king also functioned decently well for thousands of years. Is that something you also want to bring back?
Seconding. Ford F-150 and anything that fleets/contractors buy come in very basic feature sets with add one available. This would include sprinter, etc. Most manufacturers have a special section of their site for commercial vehicles.
They make a very shitty EV though.
Show HN: Ledtop – htop, but for your motherboard or case LEDs
> And amidst the flurry of insanity in NFT world, there is some genuinely good art being created. ... The whole game around who gets to pay a stupid amount of money to say they own it of them doesn't diminish the fact that art has been created, and the art can be enjoyed anyone.

It is good art, and thanks for the link, I hadn't heard of them before.

But I don't see what the NFT aspect adds. They've been creating art for years. Are they creating more art because of NFTs? What's the practical difference in outcome for the artist between selling an NFT and selling a print?
You didn't understand what I said. I'm not arguing about a pipeline. I'm arguing about all the little hydrogen carrying piping in the solar field. This is needed to bring together all that hydrogen being generated at the hydrogen-generating solar collectors, before it even gets to a pipeline.

Simpler just to avoid all that and generate the hydrogen at large separate electrolyzers at the side of the utility-scale solar field (say), and then inject into the pipeline.
Apple manipulates Podcast app ratings on AppStore
Well hold on now, what about the pace of government funded space programs in the 60s and 70s? Government became mired and slow over time as the means of capturing money from tax payers became more routine.

It’s entirely possible the private sector will get mired in the same way over time.

Things ebb and flow like this. Healthcare in this country is mired due to the private sector, and can only really flow the other way due to government.

It’s a natural cycle. Once something becomes a money printing machine, all parties involved naturally want to keep it the same money printing machine (it prints money for god’s sake). Once private space ventures print money in a predictable way, the pace in which an Elon will move forward will stop (or such an Elon will cease to be involved, ala your Bezos and Google founders, gone from their money printing machine at this point).
Let's make it a felony to have any private contact between companies and legislators then. All communication must be publicly available.
Why should government even comment on this? Accusations on social media are private matter, this crime was not even reported to police.
I'd like to chime in from perspective of data center operator.

I don't see technical support being talked about here, but rather lack of it (hardware failures etc). I don't know if it is the norm in industry or not (I'm just a techie), but we do actually have 24/7 support available. With the ability to actually call support over the phone. The 1st line support is easily penetrable - exactly when you ask questions/operations that are not in their competence. Some premium customers even directly calls to upper level support. Kind of not official, but that's what it is when relationships get developer with customers.

So basically, depending on the support level, you can get your hardware troubleshooted/replaced and appropriate actions carried out within OS level (if we administer your OS or you provide access just in time). We actually have value-added support, that means, we do manage infrastructure for customers at certain level: AD, SCCM, MySQL, MS SQL, networking, linux stuff, private cloud, etc. I was actually a techie (until taking another position 2 months ago) for various MS things including SQL Server performance troubleshooting - when some application gets mis-developed and it has impact on performance, it was job for me to identify and/or mitigate the issues at hand.

I don't know if value-added support is standard or not in industry, but we surely try to add to our specialty.

Another point
I dont see him selling anything

You can just admit you dont like that he casts shade on stuff you like
>Lobbying is a heavily professionalized activity, mostly undertaken by specialist lawyers employed full-time for the job.

So you only object to the fact that lobbying is done by specialists rather than laypersons?
No, my argument is that chargebacks are not the hallmark of a functional financial instrument.
> Some folks, myself included, even have made the effort to use doorbell cameras that are not cloud connected and record video locally on NVR so that this data can't be shared without our explicit permission.

Well, if a crime is committed in an area the police think your doorbell is viewing and you refuse to turn over any footage then they cops will serve you a warrant.