skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this school of thought is that it essentially says "let's lose the bulk of our Pacific fleet and have to spend a couple years rebuilding, to get a sufficiently strong cause for war."

This is absurd on its face, especially when you consider that successfully repelling a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor would achieve the same thing without the massive loss in men and material, and allow the U.S. to go on the offensive immediately, before Japan consolidated its Pacific holdings.

Besides, at the time of the attack, public sentiment was 2:1 in favour of risking war with Japan to curtail its expansion; German submarines were already sinking U.S. ships in the Atlantic. The U.S. public had already swung towards war with both powers. The PR boost of the attack wasn't needed.
It took 7 months for the Sonny Bono Act (of Sonny and Cher and at the time congressman) to extends the copyright from 50 to 70 years. I would call it pretty fast when you think it took several years for congress to vote the last "infrastructure" law (remember 2017's infrastructure week?).

By the way, that law was sponsored by Mary Bono, Sonny Bono's widow (Sonny Bono died during that year) and also congresswoman.

All this is a neat little circle of people voting laws for their own benefits. This has nothing to do with artists or small businesses.

I think it is fair to say that once the original author of the work is dead, the copyright should go with it. And if a corporation buy the copyright, then they should be able to recoup their investment in a timely manner and 10 years is not that huge with all the means of electronic distribution we have today.
Here in the United States, doors are generally required to open out towards the nearest exit. Helps prevent panic in case of fire.
From what I've heard it's mostly true. Not only the CEO but a few SVPs can approve it, but yes a human must approve the update and it must be a high level exec.

Part of the reason is because their SLAs are based on that dashboard, and that dashboard going red has a financial cost to AWS, so like any financial cost, it needs approval.
> Goodhart's Law is expressed simply as: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

It’s very frustrating. Why even have them?
Because AMZN and maybe MSFT have not yet decided there is sufficient revenue potential attached to it.

The other contenders don’t have the various resources or would do it “wrong enough” it wouldn’t matter.
national origin is different from active citizenship though, isn't it?
Friends tell friends to pick us-east-2.

Virginia is for lovers, Ohio is for availability.
For those interested, James Renegar also had some great stuff on Newton's method ("A polynomial-time algorithm, based on Newton's method, for linear programming" 1988). It seems there are a lot of great algorithmic opportunities in specializing Newton's method to a given problem domain.
Discussed yesterday also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29450885
I think so, yes, see here: https://docs.hetzner.com/konsoleh/account-management/email/s...
The EVERY Company (B2B Animal-free Protein) raises $175M Series C
Show HN: Code coverage tree heatmaps for Go
Well those goal posts just got 10yard farther away. Regardless, as a civil engineer reading the political winds is already part of his job. If the city is gushing over bike lanes you better be sure that your proposal mentions how you've spec'd things out to include potential for easily adding a bike lane even if what you proposed is not special in that regard. This is no more chilling than the maze of routine mixed messages politics and game theory he already has to deal with.

Chilling is the whole point of this law. He's presumably not an idiot and he figured that out as soon as he knew about the change. If he thought suing the state would actually jeopardize his income (suing the state creates a massive conflict of interest his government clients could easily use to justify cutting ties) he almost certainly wouldn't be doing it. In reality he knows how the people he does business with lean and knows they won't care or will think well of his lawsuit.
Related to this - If you want to read a story about a truly post-death world check out the YA novel Scythe. CGP Grey recommended it awhile ago (I assume he read it while developing his video on this topic) and it's an interesting (and very easy) read.
Surprised there is no mention that during this period 1932 and 1938 the US was de-militarized! In 1939 the The US had the 17th largest Army in the world by size, and half of it was the national guard.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180124005751/http://ssi.armywa...
there was a time before people were reachable 24/7 and at no point in that time did the world or people's lives collapse.
YouTube is sort of like Craigslist for videos and their competitors generally target either something they can do like Twitch and Instagram or something they can’t do.
This is a useful thing to keep in mind: https://xkcd.com/1053/ .

[edit] removed irrelevant stuff. The xkcd is great though :)
I don't think we'll see a real competitor to YouTube until someone manages to decouple hosting from discovery. No startup can compete with free unlimited video hosting. But it would be relatively easy to make a better discovery algorithm. The problem is the network effects moat. But I think if you started in a specific community (say tech talks or ASMR) it might work.
Dailymotion? Youku? Fb watch?
On the other hand, I just saw that "Quill was founded by the former creative director of Stripe, Ludwig Pettersson". [1] And who was Stripe's CEO, but Jack. So this could easily have been Jack arranging an acquihire for a pal.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/23/the-new-new-slack-quill/
More like admitting failure is hard.
Messari Report Crypto Theses for 2022 [pdf]
No one in San Francisco has attempted to solve the homelessness problem ever. No resources, no ideas, nothing. People hardly discuss the problem.
I have been using the Wireguard support in the beta release for most of this past year. Having a persistent connection from my Android phone and my wife's iPhone was simple with the built-in Mikrotik DDNS service. It makes checking on things like security cameras nice if you do not want to use a cloud service.
>The utter insidious evil of the election theft lie from trump is going to destroy the USA by removing any trust in elections.

I have the unenviable position of being against trust in elections and also against Trump.
No, trademark is entirely different IP. Copyright very explicitly protects the right to make derivative works.

(See 17 USC §106 (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106) for the full list of what copyright actually protects.)
Youtube makes it pretty easy to search for videos and watch without an account, and the other big platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok go out of their way to make sure you can't do that.
I thought this article was more about connectome research as a whole rather than a single worm paper. (Side note: one thing about worm brains is that their neurons don't have sodium channels -- which mammalian brains do and they wouldn't function without)

I'm not a glia scientist (those who study the cells that support neurons), but one thing systems neuroscience seems to largely avoid is the role of glia on signal transmission, processing, and the like.
I don't know about photoshop, but gaming scene has gotten really good. My last odd experience was with using Lutris to run a Blizzard launcher ( didn't work for me, but it worked for a buddy with similar setup ). The experience is not a 100%, but is not bad.

edit: I was super lazy and didn't want to troubleshoot that day so I just ran Windows in VM insted.
If the failure of this single point led to the loss of $114m, that counts as a SPoF in my book regardless of what the platonic ideal user “could” or “should” have done.
I'm logged in; you're missing an error message.
CIWS has 1500 round magazines and fires 60-100 in a burst. As with the missiles, fairly easy to overload.

I've no doubt a modern warship can shoot down a lot of drones, but at a few thousand bucks a pop, an adversary can field a lot of drones.
Unfortunately, errors don't require his approval...
> "Sometime in 2014 or early 2015, China's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping told members of the Apple Maps team to make the Diaoyu Islands, the objects of a long-running territorial dispute between China and Japan, appear large even when users zoomed out from them. Chinese regulators also threatened to withhold approval of the first Apple Watch, scheduled for release in 2015, if Apple didn't comply with the unusual request, according to internal documents."

> "Some members of the team back at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., initially balked at the demand. But the Maps app had become a priority for Apple, so eventually the company complied. The Diaoyu Islands, when viewed in Apple Maps in mainland China, continue to appear on a larger scale than surrounding territories."

Total subservience to Chinese government.

(Quote from original source article https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facing-hostile-chine...)
yup, same, the plane design was great as a glider which floated for quite some time in the air
Yeah but it's only for their higher margin cloud servers products atm, they haven't committed to offering dedicated servers yet.
I worked at a company that hired an ex-Amazon engineer to work on some cloud projects.

Whenever his projects went down, he fought tooth and nail against any suggestion to update the status page. When forced to update the status page, he'd follow up with an extremely long "post-mortem" document that was really just a long winded explanation about why the outage was someone else's fault.

He later explained that in his department at Amazon, being at fault for an outage was one of the worst things that could happen to you. He wanted to avoid that mark any way possible.

YMMV, of course. Amazon is a big company and I've had other friends work there in different departments who said this wasn't common at all. I will always remember the look of sheer panic he had when we insisted that he update the status page to accurately reflect an outage, though.
Feel free to reach out, username at berkeley edu.

In open source bioinformatics we strive for reproducible science, which can be difficult in a field with tons of different methods and tools. One approach is to use a workflow language such as Nextflow [0] and Docker/Singularity such that the entire analysis is reproducible, see e.g. [1].

There is a vibrant community around Nextflow workflows called nf-core [2] which has a rare disease workflow in development [3], come join our slack!

[0] - https://nextflow.io

[1] - https://github.com/brentp/rare-disease-wf

[2] - https://nf-co.re

[3] - https://nf-co.re/raredisease
The most difficult part of inventory management is convincing employees that telling the system that 40000 units moved when only 38732 units moved is a problem
this. Vimeo is great, but we've seen hardly any continued development in the last 10 years. It looks exactly the same now as it did 10+ years ago. In order to pursue the market you need to keep coding, adding things, trying things. Discovery, yes! W/o discovery you're sunk. But there are 20 other things you could do to defrictionize the platform. And 20 more you could do to improve its reach. Scale will come with the audience graph justifies the expenditure. I would argue that YouTube's recent machine-learning suggestions actually totally ffing suck. The way they were 8 years ago was incredibly better. This is one area you could challenge them in. Be a YouTube of 2014 and you could beat them in suggestion.
Yes, you can, but there's a bit more mental math involved for a human looking at it, and more truthfully it's just less aesthetically pleasing.
Instead of reporting just a single number for whole project, thought would be good to report "2d signature" (tree heatmap) that shows how coverage is distributed.
Cardio is one thing.
But it also results in a release of hormones - giving a sense of connection, meaning and reducing stress.

I don't have data, but I would bet $ that sex is much more beneficial for overall health & wellbeing than exercises resulting in a similar heart rate.

Furthermore, sex is likely to indicate that someone has a loved one (connection, meaning, social life in general).
Definitely not just the console. We had hundreds of thousands of websocket connections to us-east-1 drop at 15:40, and new websocket connections to that region are still failing. (Luckily not a huge impact on our service cause we run in 6 other regions, but still).
I was disappointed when listening about WWI how wrong the numbers were and gave up.
> we grant a monopoly to a creator for a limited term to incentivize new work

That’s a nice goal, but not entirely accurate. Copyright is intended to protect individual works of authorship, and allow the author to leverage their work, even when they only produce a single work.

> How often does ten year old software make the difference for a company taking off this year?

It happens all the time in software companies! The early software foundation of a company is often integral to where it is when it starts making money. It’s common for the core ideas and algorithms to sit around for many years while the company is building marketing and payment and integrations and customer support and waiting for business to catch on. Sometimes companies wait on their patents to be granted before even starting to try to monetize some software, and it can take a couple of years just to get the patent.

From a copyright perspective, it’s important to understand and recognize that business, like law, often moves very slowly. While I’m firmly in agreement that 99 years is too long, I also think 10 years is too short. And to reiterate: the term length shouldn’t be set because tech moves fast, it should be set by considering what’s long enough to recoup an investment and when it’s fair for the copiers to come take your work and use it for their own financial gains.
Being dishonest about SLAs seems to bear zero cost in this case?
I am not sure yet where to put them exaclty.
Are Julia and its libraries in a stable state now? That's one of the reasons I stopped learning Haskell. With each update, some things would break.
Looks like all aws internal APIs are down....
Men Who Cheat On Their Wives Are More Likely To Die Of Cardiac Arrest During Sex
https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/02/29/men-wh...
(note: comments based on a superficial read)

I would say "interesting" more than "groundbreaking", in the sense that you will not solve problems that you were not previously solving.

The benchmarks provided show nice convergence. The interesting part is that the method will not fail, which is very good. The benchmarks seem to crush other methods but keep in mind that the plots do not show "time required" but "number of iterations required" and that with Newton's method you are doing much much more work per iteration: computing the Hessian instead of the gradient and solving a system of linear equations on every iteration.
I would really like to see a open source alternative that can interface with all sorts of different hardware to manage my infrastructure with a single pane of glass. Sorta Ubiquti - but leveraging things like the Unifi API & the new REST api on Microtek to get me out of vendor lock in.

I don't think I have ever seen anything along those lines out there.

Im actually happy with my unifi setup - but there are some things (like multiple load balanced WAN ports) that should be easy to do, but instead are impossible.
> Finally it needs to be noted that a ton of people expected a surprise attack. They just expected it against the forward US base (the Philippines) or Singapore

And they expected it in 1942, not 1941. And in point of fact, there was ALSO a surprise attack on the Philippines hours after Pearl Harbor.

The historiography (how we handle the narrative of history and how that narrative has changed over time) around the attack on the Philippines and the subsequent defense is very confusing and interesting to me.

A few thoughts - The US Navy was not ready to fight the Japanese Navy in 1941; it was only by the end of 1942 that you see the US getting a real advantage. Look at the Battle of Savo Island in August of 1942. [0] But much of the history of WWII is viewed from the highest point of each participant.

The US public needed some kind of hopeful news, it needed to sound like the US was fighting back. The news out of the Philippines was not good, but it could be made to sound like a struggle to get behind.

The defense of the Philippines was a disaster, but it could not be presented that way to the American public, so MacArthur was made to be a hero. This is oversimplified and I'm sure a lot of people will disagree.

0. Midway is not a fluke, but a result of excellent planning and deception operations, with a bit of luck thrown in. Even in Midway you can see that many US battle elements were not ready: ineffective torpedo bombing, ineffective dive bombing, ineffective high level horizontal bombing (which remained ineffective against competent enemy vessels for the entire war), poor navigation.
Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team
Not that you're wrong, but I don't believe I described Pearl Harbor as a strategic success; I was discussing the intent, rather than the outcome.

I do think it's fair to describe Pearl as an attempt to reconcile the doctrine of decisive battle with the increasingly evident primacy of naval air power and the numerical and resource superiority of the US. I'll grant that a surprise strike on ships in port doesn't exactly qualify as battle per se, but it was certainly intended to be decisive, and in that circumstance waiting to receive an attack in the classic style doesn't work.

As planned, the attack very well could have worked; after all, if the US fleet carriers had been at Pearl when the Japanese strike force arrived, the IJN could have counted on superiority in the Pacific until at least 1943. While in the long run that might still not have been enough, it would certainly have at least enabled them to consolidate gains and better prepare to receive US attacks in the Pacific, and in any case it's well documented that that was what they were going for.
For sure. And I would add that Google bought the network-effect leader at just the right time to put Google's massive ops resources behind it. They basically killed off the competition and then made if very hard for anybody to compete.
Perhaps we ran in different social classes but in the 60's most believed that you had to save a good portion of one's life to afford a home and worked towards that end. Home ownership was not a given - it was considered an enormous investment that took much of one's life to prepare for.

However, the affordable rental market greatly mitigated that and allowed "delayed" home ownership until a suitable nest egg was constructed.
Everybody you see now is a potential infectious disease vector.

And when everybody is wearing a mask, faceless, it sorta takes the human out of human-interaction.

And those guys not wearing masks, they're all filthy trumper qanon goblins. So ramp up the fear for that.

An obedient citizen rolls his eyes in terror.
Sure, but... that just raises more questions :)

Taken literally what you are saying is the service could be down and an executive could override that, preventing them for paying customers for a service outage, even if the service did have an outage and the customer could prove it (screenshots, metrics from other cloud providers, many different folks see it).

I'm sure there is some subtlety to this, but it does mean that large corps with influence should be talking to AWS to ensure that status information corresponds with actual service outages.
Non an expert... are the ciphers in order of preference? So they can't really be randomized, I suppose.
What are you talking about? How is it ‘walled’?
Teams is broken, Microsoft is breaking everything

No Microsoft, I don’t want to openly the ppt in the browser or teams where it’s barely functional, graphs cannot be edited well, and everything is displayed differently than on the app.

No Microsoft I don’t want to save on your proprietary cloud, I have never done I so why must I cloud through three panes to get to the original file browser in order to save it elsewhere?!

No Microsoft, this is my work computer I don’t want news articles and web searches popping up in the task bar and notification area
“Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Status Pages”
Repulsive Surfaces
Or US-East-2.
> you either need to focus on a tiny niche not well served by Youtube (extreme far right or far left personalities perhaps, or porn)

Other niches are history videos and music analysis videos, the former which gets demonetized and the latter receives copyright strikes with abandon.

Many history channels are on Armchair History TV: https://armchairhistory.tv/content-creators/

Adam Neely (music analysis) is on Nebula: https://nebula.app/
It literally is fraudulent though.

I don't think a region being down is something that you can be unsure about.
Aging affects more than just the homeless. It affects everyone universally, poor or rich, homeless or royalty. It also manifested itself in any number of ways from decreased mobility to cancer. Nobody is immune to it. It is literally the biggest health challenge in the world and the biggest killer of mankind.

The homeless opioid addict while in some way much more acute, but can be solved the next day should we decide to. It is a political problem, not a technical problem like aging is.
imdb.com is down right now. But https://www.imdb.com/chart/top is reachable right now. Strange.

https://imgur.com/a/apBT86o
I'm getting blank pages from Amazon.com itself.
Another fun one is the cricket. Its nerve system contains a single interneuron that inhibits auditory processing during its own chirp[0].

[0]: http://www.wormweb.org/gapfree/files/Poulet_2006_Science.pdf
Do you have eye strain just from screens or also from reading books? If it's just screen related then there might be some fix in the future, I think of computer screens that do not cause any eye strain at all.
So you have read several times that this term is criticized as offensive, yet claim that in your perception the word is the opposite of offensive. What more would it take to get through to you?

> In my perception, it's the opposite: anything that is "retarded" is perfectly capable of being better designed/implemented or of making better choices, but instead actively chooses to do the worst possible thing for seemingly irrational reasons.

This is a such strange thing to double down on.

Not everyone is "rational" as you perceive them. That's the point. And it's not always an active choice. Some people are disabled. Some people think and act differently than you. You don't get to call them irrational any more than they get to call you intolerant.
While I'm with you on decoupling health insurance from employment, I'm not too convinced that moving white collar work into "the gig economy" is bad. IMO the two things appear to go hand in hand.

The security benefits of being a company man are to be weighed by each individual against their own priorities. For some, doing whatever work a company needs how and when they need it in exchange for a secure paycheck or other benefits is the smart choice. For others, the lowered perceived security is worth being able to decide what to work on and how and when to work.

Generally speaking, if those security benefits that come with giving one entity a monopoly over your skills and productivity were as strong as they once were the gig economy wouldn't exist. The benefits IMO are overstated. In a world where these entities treat professionals as fungible, it only makes sense that the professionals treat those entities as fungible as well, and it is only fair, and freeing and empowering, if that sort of thing appeals to you.