skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very fair from my point of view. Think about it, you're company want to do business making a lot of money in my territory. Why would I let you? unless you give me some benefit as well. And the request from the government is to improve the country's technological capabilities and economy. Which government doesn't want this? If you see the country as a group of person, then it seems very normal. You want some benefit from me, you also need to help me, right? What's wrong with that?
The article and the headline is wrong. The government is not banning smoking, it is banning sales of certain tobacco products.

You are absolutely allowed to smoke them.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I still don't grasp what you saw there:

> There's been quite a few high profile ones like Mars Climate Orbiter and more recently with CST-100.

Mars Climate Orbiter failed in the 1990s. Isn't CST-100 (Boeing Starliner) still in development (I don't remember the latest).

I don't doubt you have something in mind; I'd be interested in knowing what it is. Is it the idea of seeing sausage being made - it's messy and doesn't fit the public image? That I would completely expect. IMHO, that's true of every organization; failure is succumbing, success is delivering regardless.

> Much of the missions are bleeding edge ... but you might be surprised about how they don't always use state-of-the-art tech.

It's not about state-of-the-art tech, but addressing novel engineering problems far beyond where there is mature, developed knowledge. Helicopters on Mars, intersteller probes - it's incredible to me that these things reliably succeed. Will Europa Clipper not reach its destination? Is anyone even worried? They succeed, it seems to me, at a much higher rate than run-of-the-mill corporate software projects.
I frequently find myself in talks with web3 people. The talking points are usually
- this system is broken; blockchain addresses this!
- fiat is made out of thin air; blockchain has scarcity!

All the arguments fail when you start prodding actual implementations / use cases that are used today. Outside of 3rd world countries where prepaid calling cards were a store of value not long ago, I don’t think crypto would address anything that we couldn’t do and do well today.
pbaas, pronounced pbass
I thought it was literately illegal for publicly traded companies not to put profit first unless they were registered as a non profit (or similar special business classes)
They are not banning smoking, just the sale of certain tobacco products.
I gave an example that didn't exclude any possibility, while you're disagreeing with a linear, all-or-nothing, black-and-white proclamation. Clearly you have an omniscient view into all child behavior. Please enlighten me as to how exactly, in specific detail, that you came about this fountain of perfect knowledge.
I’d argue that the complexity of domain registrars and DDNS is less than that of public key cryptography and blockchain. Also again the right ISP would obviate the need and do both things for you, and that gets even easier when ipv6 is even more mainstream.

It’s easy to explain how web2 works right now to a lay person in non technical terms. I think it’s much harder to explain blockchain and even more so the systems and standards built on top. You’re basically going to be asking for blind trust from consumers
> FWIW, long ago I was the maintainer of Protobuf at Google, including putting together the first open source release. I like what buf is doing -- enough that, full disclosure, I made an angel investment in their seed round.

I know this might not be the best way to ask but have they considered creating proto rules for Bazel? The existing proto + gRPC story is pretty unfortunate.
I hope they stand by this because the EU commission is pushing hard for "ChatControl" involving mandatory backdoors. This German government change couldn't have come at a better time. Luckily Germany has a strong influence in the EU so I really hope they stick with this and not negotiate it away for something else.
Curious...did you think about educating your children yourself pre-pandemic? And was this the straw that broke the camel's back?
Sure man. Will do.
If you're already comfortable with the Wave Equation, then it's somewhat straightforward. You start with some spacetime geometry (i.e. some "known metric") and then study small perturbations that obey the wave equation. The key is finding distributions of matter that, by Einstein's Equation, cause such perturbations to arise.

In differential geometry, the device called a "metric" let's you define things like angles and distances on some space. This is generally denoted as g with the Greek letters mu and nu as subcripts. Just to give you a feel of what's going on, I'll leave out the subscripts, but what OP's saying is that

g = k + h

which says that g, the space-time metric, decomposes into some known, usually easy to work with metric k, plus some perturbations on top, h. In the math you put restrictions on h to make precise the "small perturbations" part.

Anyway, what Gravity Waves boil down to are situations (read distributions of matter) that cause h to obey the wave equation. In other words, gravitational waves are spacetimes that have a component that waves "on top" of a given reference "background" spacetime. Of course, you could cherry pick your background such that anything looks like waves on top, but typically we choose the background to be Minkowskian (i.e. flat).

FWIW, the above perturbative approach is called Linearized Gravity and is kind of a (nice) hack to restrict study of the really hairy non-linear Einstein Equation to cases that are manageable.
The CSAM controversy is dumb. The real “folding under pressure” example is the neutering of iMessage.

Notice the FBI doesn’t whine about iPhones anymore.
Depending on your feeling towards the ethics of it:

YouTube Vanced (3rd party YouTube app) with its integrated sponsorblock actually makes the app pleasant to use, it also unlocks some of the premium only features like background play.

No root required, although you're buggered if you run iOS presumably
Anecdote: I once lost a lot of files over a period of ~two years on a desktop PC running ZFS with bad non-ECC RAM. I figured out what was going on after a bunch of audible corrupt blips kept appearing in all my favorite FLAC rips as they got mapped into the bad memory, checksummed against the contents still on disk, and written back "corrected" as far as ZFS was concerned. There's a better (i.e. not by me) write-up of it in the OP of this thread under "What happens when non-ECC RAM goes bad in a ZFS system?": https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/ecc-vs-non-ecc-ram...
Interesting, I didn't even realise UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap and UseContainerSupport were Java parameters.
They don't have to do anything. If local law said Apple had to share all its technology with the CCP, I bet they'd find a way not to do it. It's a matter of priority and choice.
It depends how you define evil. Spotify behaves like anyone else does in the space, redistributing licensed, copyright content to users who pay money. They're a business, and the majority of the evil you'll hear about from them comes down to their bottom line. There are some places where they go the extra mile: they (semi-unofficially) support Linux, have a pretty massive catalog of music, and a pretty accessible price tag to what is essentially an all-you-can-eat buffet of music. There are also some places where they fall short, like their measly compensation for artists and general apprehension to fix bugs. Really it just depends on where you stand in the Overton Window of this particular topic.
It's not as bad as you think. If the frontend and database is open source, the assets will be mirrored, and therefore end up in a giant archive. This is what happened to Hic Et Nunc last month - founder decided to pull the plug, community resumed within a few hours with other sites. The power is in the technology mix: Blockchains and smart contracts secure the transactions, everything else can be secured with existing methods. It's an incentive structure shift that's still being explored - you always want a 100% archival because it protects the represented value on-chain. It pushes the business model away from platform control as well. They will most likely have to differentiate with curation and discovery services.

Currently, a lot of the frontends are not open. They pose the same degree of rugpull risk as any ordinary web site. That is unlikely to remain the status quo since both collectors and artists will ultimately demand a proof of redundancy. But as it stands, it's a bubble, and the rules aren't set.
It'll be very hard to keep this secret since the EU was planning to mandate each chat network to implement backdoors in their E2E encryption.

If that's the case so many people will know about it that it will leak quickly. Especially as some of these are open source.
This sounds incredibly undemocratic to me. To deny a goods to a portion of the population arbitrarily sounds shocking. There will be 2 classes of people from now on: those who can smoke and those who can't. Not that i agree with the american concept of democracy, that every law has to conform exactly to their constitution, but this seems like a worrying sign.
How SF Castro Safeway is redesigning itself to halt shoplifting
> Most software engineers do know how their code works at the level that they need into order to make good software.

This kind of thinking is why we can't have nice things!

If this were true we would have good software. As the world (currently) exists, we have a vast ocean of horrible software with a small number of islands of quality.

I'd argue "most" software engineers don't know enough. The fact that checking my bank balance online involves transferring 32 million bytes of information(!!) over nearly a third of a minute, or that bluetooth headphones have so much latency they're unusable for live music, despite radio waves traveling at the speed of light, or... any app written in electron, ever (or pick any other example of stuff sucking in modern life, it's ubiquitous)... these are all a result of engineers knowing way, way too little about how their stuff works.

Most people, including engineers, are idiots, slapping together components and using abstractions they have NO understanding of, stopping at an increasingly low bar of acceptability. (I make no claim to be special or otherwise a "non-idiot".)

correction: 5 million bytes of information, not 32. but still at least 4.9 million bytes too many.
This is mostly a myth: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
> the US isn't a first-world country.

If you are going to use the outdated, broken, and useless-for-the-current-context first/second/third-world model at all you should realize that the US is the country with whom relations define whether a country is first-world; it is one for two fixed poles of the model.

If you want to say “the US is a capitalist country with intense concentration of wealth and too many people in poverty given the aggregate level of prosperity”, that's valid but even when the first-, etc., world model was current and relevant, that description was most typical of the first-world (including the US of the time). The second- and third-world had their own, different, typical problems.
While the rest of the world is in a depression, Tech is in a bubble due to a ton of money being shifted over here since there was nowhere else to go.
I walked out of an interview with a well known company that does a lot of military contracting. The first thing they asked me to do was sign a document saying I would be willing to work without hesitation on things designed to take human lives. I don't necessarily have a problem working on weapon systems but the way they asked made it feel almost cult-like.
Title edited for specificity. Original: "‘This Safeway is getting weirder and weirder’: How one store is redesigning itself to halt shoplifting"
Google confirms Android bug that prevents emergency calling
That seems like an interesting test for the big circus model. If the JWST largely sees galaxies in early formation at those distances, would you consider the big circus model refuted?
When you're discussing merging nations, it is in fact a numbers game.
Raised that much at what valuation?
Import tax would solve that.
It was decent. Being a Konqueror user before Safari came onto the scene, I'd argue it was the best browser around at the time. The work no doubt continued to improve as time moved forward, as software tends to.
Maybe it's a lot more simple, like they have someone that's ridiculously good at raising venture capital, like the Posthog guys.
Their PR really puts me off. Makes me think the authors are sneering at everyone who uses JSON. And who says they get to deprecate anything?
Does Georgism work? Is land a big deal?
It’s not true though. They were under tremendous pressure to adapt their product and change it for the ccp (with censorship for example). They were constantly resisting by introducing workarounds. Until the espionnage thing when they said "fuck it, we’re done". I remember very well: I was living in China at the time.
Its not reasonable for us "we the people" to expect a profit seeking company to turn its back on profit. If we want it to behave a particular way we need to make rules for it to follow. Companies are no people with feeling and morals. They are machines for making money.
It's interesting to compare the ideas we can make and manage with a filing cabinet or with a Memex, both from the early 20th century.
Eptstein's video catalogue was previously cataloged by FBI and Returned to him
But getting industry jobs after leaving public positions is common.
The rant's punchline is "If you want to change the world to a better place, the best way to do it is a for-profit because for-profits have to take feedback from reality."

It could be rewritten to say what you're noting. That would be an entirely different essay, however, and not what was submitted here.

Mind: I'd also find more agreement with that view. It is not, however, the one that was presented.
No I totally think US is overall superior to China right now, when comparing 2 nations snapshot vs snapshot.

But, US perception on China is so bad compared the Chain perception on US, that this imbalance is creating a huge strategic risk between 2 nuclear super power, and causes both sides troubles when they need to collaborate.

That's why it's important to unshackle the US mass from the perception bias on China.

And that's what I want to convey. I.e., stop using grandiose sweeping argument like moral superiority, which is itself so large in scope that the comparison quickly lost any relevance.
Could you expand on the VC part please? What is their exact interest here?
I would love to get a response to why I was downvoted. Jack Maple is a hero. The leaders of NYC who made things worse and got all the credit are the opposite. Downvoted because of political in-group reasons?
Probably more correct to say that: "A group never admits they are wrong about the core identifying belief that defines the group"

Groups admit being wrong about non-core beliefs all of the time. But of course if you look at the core belief that actually categorizes whether you are in the group or not, then it cannot admit being wrong or else it ceases to exist.

Having said that, I think the author is really making a silly point to say that a group defined by a core belief CANNOT admit that its core belief is wrong. Kind of obvious when expanded to its more verbose form.
In college, I walked out on an internship interview with a company that sounds a lot like Sysco. I asked what kinds of projects the interns worked on and the interviewer proudly told me how interns don't do any real work and are just given projects to test their abilities. I got up and left.
Language models are too dangerous to be accesible by mere mortals.

Among OpenAI (and MS), Google and Nvidia, none of them have released their pretrained large language models.
>Your freedom to choose should not extend to imposing consequences on me

Conversely, your desire to be free from smoke should not extend to imposing consequences on those that don't. The problem is, at some point, there's a conflict on where to draw the line. Because, as soon as the line is drawn, freedoms have been limited/reduced/compromised in a way.
I’m not up-to-date with protobuf, but last time I reviewed it like 4 years ago, it still wasn’t consistent at describing schemas as well as avro, esp in describing schema changes.

Good luck to buf.build to sell a revamped wsdl and getting everyone to adopt it.
No absolutely not. I honestly believe teaching is a capital P profesion and neither me or my wife has the training nor inclination to be full time teachers.

The final straw was the school districts covid protocols for the 2021/2022 school year which made it obvious that they weren’t optimizing for student health, student learning or parent convenience. Instead it was some mix of federal guidelines, school district convenience & teachers union edict.

Those things might be the most important thing for public policy but as a privileged participant I could opt out.
*Evaporative cooling
I am so tired of recruiters.

Today I had one get quite irritated that I dare respond to her boilerplate with a link to my personal "I'm interested but in order to avoid wasting each other's time, here's my minimum requirements" page. She didn't even click the link.

Most recruiters that come across me have wrong incentives. They seem to focus entirely on churning through lots of people to get a hire rather than cultivating candidates and finding the best. So they just flood us with spam and can't seem to handle if the interaction goes off script.

The best luck I've had with "recruiters" is when the recruiter isn't HR. It's a CEO or CTO or some other technical lead. They're so efficient at getting down to brass tacks, having answers to questions, and figuring out if we move forward or not.

I think I'm about ready to just blanket ignore _all_ recruiter emails rather than attempt to filter them.
I've always been under the impression that schools are just glorified day cares. Even though research has shown later start times (and thus more sleep) improve learning, many governments still keep start times in sync with 9-5 work times.
AliExpress figured out how to get out of my promotions tab and into my inbox. That's the only thing I've noticed.
Communications from old tech are much more legally protected than new ones. Fax is still used a lot in the US too for a variety of industries.
> How are they deceiving people outside China when only showing the difference inside China?

I must have misunderstood. Thanks for pointing that out.

We can find other examples, however. For example, Apple avoiding movies, etc. on Apple TV that challenge the CCP.
A transpiler would throw the types away before generating C code. It does not need to implement traits or any other rust features.

Alternatively, LLVM byte code to C compiler would do the job, as rustc emits LLVM byte code afaik
Is there enough money to recoup investment if they don't get the average engineer churning out crud apps?

I mean, there probably is, but what kind of market penetration would this require if you are only going after the specialists?
Firefox 95 UI is still not nice,so I decided to change it
I'm no expert in the field, but if that's true, the space-time fabric must be quite irregular, and will become more so in the future.
US unions are that way as a consequence of racism. No, really. There was a US union that wasn’t doing its duty to represent African-American members. So it goes all the way to the USSC and the gist is that unions have to represent every member or be decertified.

In contrast, in a country like Germany, the union and management can agree that Hans is a fuckup and it’s in everyone’s best interest that he finds a new job.
No it isn’t. That was about standing up to IBM.
A long while ago, I worked on part of a memory system that during development we knew was corrupting RAM. The amazing thing, is just how high the error rates could get before the machine would actually crash. That is largely because so much of RAM is code that doesn't get executed and data structures that are resistant to random corruption. Even actual dat corruption when it happens is frequently subtle because it flips a transaction timestamp by one digit in the midst of millions of transactions/etc, or the data is transient a video frame with a miscolored pixel, etc. Its really like playing Russian roulette with a revolver that has a few (b/m)illion chambers.

Generally by the time you see actual program crashes or notice data corruption your system is really good and screwed. That is part of why people in the know are so afraid of RAM corruption. It can be persisted and exist silently for a very long time before someone tries reading some file/transaction that was corrupted during a write years back, or the database suddenly starts crashing after it updates some index as part of a GC pass/whatever, while the actual bug/HW failure will never be reproduced.
Something something indistinguishable from magic.
Bernie is an independent.
Yeah, it's the main recommendation I see is for people who have never done weight lifting to begin with something like this.

I'd say do a 5x5 program consistently for 3 months, and track your progress over that time. If you follow the program, you'll progressively add weights each time you do that range until you complete a cycle or cannot complete the 5x5 set successfully.

Ex: You start off at 100lbs x 5 reps on the bench press, twice per week. If you do a 3 week cycle, it might look like this:

* 100 x 5
* 105 x 5
* 110 x 5
* 115 x 5
* 120 x 5
* 125 x 5

It's important to understand what you achieved here. Increasing weight this quickly is extremely good progress. Eventually you'll hit points where adding even 5lbs more feels difficult. So remember that 25lbs is a big amount. Keep that in mind as you go.

Usually these programs will have you take a slight break/do light weights on the 4th week. Then you'll repeat the 4 week cycle, but you increase your starting point from 100lbs to 110lbs (or something along those lines).

At some point, you'll get either bored of this or maybe start hitting the limits of them. Some of these programs have you squatting 5x5's three times a week, which after a while is exhausting. After that you can begin exploring other styles such as body building which emphasizes physique more than powerlifting or strongman.
Tim Cook came into my bar and did not tip very well either. Why are billionaires so fucking disappointing constantly?
Across the Sahara in a day: swifts zip across the desert at rates
As a non smoker I agree. So now we just take round trip and go back to banning again? Should we go back to banning weed too? How about banning alcohol? I just don't understand how certain policy makers are thinking. Is this the new war on drug? Aren't restricting and economic incentives enough? Just why?

edit: the downvotes without comments are funny. Could downvoters comment, and let's have a healthy discussion about banning smoking/alcohol/weed?
How do you know and how can you be so sure?

It's called thinking out loud, this is still allowed, right, or should I assume criticism and hipster-like snark must be the defining marks of subject matter expertise?

The claim read like dragging a blackhole or massive object through space permanently alters it. I never said space was a rubber-band or a balloon, you did. Most people don't understand the Big Bang wasn't a point source per se either. Pick a name and run with it.