skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Set aside everything about this story that involves celebrity, for a moment, and focus on the 12 year old who walks in and is immediately captivated and excited to learn and experiment. That’s the magic of the personal computer. That’s the manifestation of how macs and PCs changed the world.
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/07/apple-ceo-tim-cook-secr...
I understand that exercises has long been known to improve cognition [1].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/15/exercise-benefits-cognitive-...
Are you being pedantic with no information on how to receive local broadcasts because you've chosen to not have TV/radio/etc, or are you really just unaware of how to do this on modern equipment? Many responses answer if it is the latter, for the former, well, go back under your bridge troll ;-)
Julian Assange suffers stroke while in prison
When I was studying in the states fire alarm tests (or someone cooking triggering them) were so frequent that I would have never expected to be informed of a real fire this way.

Monthly test alarms are so wrong.
Respectfully disagree. No company in the world has 100% uptime. Whether it’s your server rack or their server rack going down means nothing to a customer.

We’re not discussing data loss in this thread specifically. This is about a couple of hours of downtime per year.
> Building something to specifically withstand 200mph wind

A properly engineered reinforced concrete building would easily withstand that.
Yeah leading with a baseless "X IS HARMING YOU" is one of the more manipulative techniques
But the "many are not" flies in the face of a market economy and the fact nobody is forced to pay this compensation. It's your opinion they aren't worth it and you aren't the person writing the check. You're certainly entitled to this opinion :)

Arguably, success as a professional coach is substantially more objective and less subjective than many professions. Professional sports analyze everything. Statistics is huge both for the fans and the teams. Is the team winning? For colleges especially, you have annual turnover in student ranks so more in-and-out of players than NHL, NFL, NBA, etc etc. That's got to be tricky to manage. You have to attract talent to the institution and develop it when there.

So the simple fact is these coaches are able to demand these packages (and get them!). Someone out there has to write the checks and believes the performance and outcomes justifies the cost, that they are "worth it".
If course the industry is looking down on maintainers. They give away their work for $0 and then act all surprised and morally upset when people then value their work at $0. Facepalm galore. If you value your work, make people pay for it.
What tests have you done for MS? MRI + lumber puncture should confirm it.

Also, Tysabri is effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalizumab
FOIA Lawsuit Data on Pfizer Vaccine Adverse Events [pdf]
Tornadoes can be more powerful than a hurricane. The only structure that would survive them all is a concrete bunker.
I hear you. I didn’t use EBS for five years after the great outage in, what was it, 2011?

At this point, it’s reliable enough that even if it were to go down, it’s more safe than not using it. I’d put EBS in the pantheon of “core” services I never mind using these days.
My complaint about the --add-opens fiasco is that it was basically a breaking change for the sake of being a breaking change, rather than one that was necessary to fix some bug or add some feature.

> they will do their job of preventing this problem of bypassing the spec from recurring

This feels like curing cancer by killing the patient.
TS won't work. Despite claims to the contrary the only way to use TS effectively is as a tracing aid.
Well, they are paid that much because that money is coming in and they sure as hell aren't going to give it to the athletes. So the coach is next in line. Things would look quite different if athletes were able to negotiate salary.
It makes sense compared to spending. But that only makes it reasonable if the spending is reasonable.
To be clear, per the report, after salaries, the biggest chunk of expenses seems to be awards and grants, and they may be doing significant good in the world for all I know.

But I don't think the appeals really make it clear that's what they crave money for. I assume it's largely out of expediency, because visitors necessarily understand the value of Wikipedia and likely don't have a clue about the grants that are made.
Later on in the process, you could do something like this. When you know what else is impacted and how that looks to your customers. But by then the problem is most likely over or at least on the way to being fixed. And hours may have gone by before you get to that point.

Early in the process, when you’re flying blind because you don’t know what’s going on around you and you look at your own systems and they appear to be fine, you can’t really say anything useful.

These weird edge cases are hard to adjudicate because they’ve never happened before — otherwise fixes would already be in place to prevent them. And nothing quite like them has ever before happened at this scale.

I understand the frustration, but when everything you think you know turns out to be wrong, or at least you are unable to confirm whether it’s right or wrong, what do you do?

Read the RCA — When AWS got to that point, they did actually update the SHD with a banner across the top of the page, but that ended up actually causing even more problems. There’s a reason why you try to do these sorts of things safely, which may mean using manual methods in some cases. And sometimes even those safe manual methods have their own weird side effects.

Sometime shit is hard. Sometimes you run into problems like no one else on the planet has ever experienced before, and you have to figure out what the laws of physics are in this new part of the world as you go about trying to fix whatever it was that broke or acted in an unexpected manner.

Disclaimer: my opinions are my own and are not necessarily shared or reflective of my employer.
>Then you theory is exceptionally hard to disprove, as someone would have to come up with a huge number of individual examples to have "statistical significance".

It isn't my theory. The right claims the entirety of social media has been engaged in an orchestrated conspiracy to purge non-leftist speech from their platforms in favor of pushing a radical socialist agenda for years, and that this is so widespread that it threatens democracy itself. Yes, you would need to come up with a statistically significant number of examples to prove that claim. But if it's true, it should actually be easy to prove, if not impossible to deny.

Anecdotally, I haven't seen any sign of a decrease in right-wing speech on social media. At all. If anything, it's spread to places where it didn't even really exist before, like Youtube comments and this very forum, and it's thriving on the very platforms it's supposed to be banned from. And I can find accounts of leftist, Black and LGBT accounts being banned, algorithmically suppressed or arbitrarily demonetized, which runs counter to the narrative.

I stand by my comment. The vast left-wing media conspiracy isn't a thing. It's propaganda. It's lifestyle branding.

>There are also a few websites, whose entire domain is banned in Facebook Messenger. It was discussed here previously. thedonald.win is a political example of such censorship. I think The Pirate Bay links are banned in Facebook itself.

And I'd bet dollars to donuts something other than mere political speech was involved in each case. I can think of reasons why Facebook wouldn't want links to pirated software on its platform other than political bias, for instance.
Amazon might use this as a PR opportunity to clean up their image a tiny bit, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if the workers just get screwed.

My dad had to go through workers comp once and the process took 7 years and covered only a small percent of his costs - not with Amazon, but with an employer who cared more about their employees and never made anybody go to the bathroom in bottles out of some ruthless abusive system to squeeze more work out of people
Looking at the photos it seems like a massive building and the tornado just sliced straight through it. I’m not sure what you can do about that that’s reasonable?

A candle factory was completely leveled. Dozens dead. Many still missing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kentucky-candle-factory-ha...
Yep. Open Source developers who give away their work for $0 are undermining their own value and the value of other peoples skills. Open Source should always come with a commercial license for companies.
Absolutely hard. But that doesn’t mean if you’re in a position to start a company from scratch that you can’t walk away. Or if you go to another company and are involved in their procurement of a new purchase, that you can’t sway it away from said provider.

Just because it takes years doesn’t meant it can’t happen.
Indeed, except for the comment about the spartan king with weak legs, none of that was Sparta specific evidence.
... Baseless? Really?

Did you not hear about the whole Cambridge Analytica thing?

Even if you think they overblew their claims, there are so many more examples to choose from. All you have to do is look.

People have written books on the harm done; or YouTube videos, if you prefer.
How cute. What a lucky girl.
It's a real shame too, Samsung displays are to die for. Say what you will about their chip manufacturing capabilities and phone business, their display fabrications are the real moneymaker.
Yep this. Trust, but verify. If a manager (or IC, for that matter) is failing in my org, then it is absolutely my problem. VPs won’t accept “these were by my buttons to push” as an excuse.
Very naive question, but, why do we need to go smaller and smaller, why can we not go bigger in terms of processor size? why would double the size of the processor == double the number of transistors be worse than packing more transistors in the same space. What are the limiting factors in going bigger?
I think besides learning how to balance and steer a bike, kids have to learn propelling the bike using pedals. A bike is different from most other pedalled vehicles that kids usually use (with the exception of pedal karts) due to the gear ratio and the fact that stopping the pedals doesn't stop the bike. This requires learning to use the brakes as well.
The impact of AI on the future of insurance
Part of living in an area prone to certain disasters is being prepared to deal with them. Get a small weather radio.
I downvoted you because very few phones have AM and/or FM receivers. I've never owned a phone with one. None of the most popular phones have had them.
I’m amazed the PDP docs didn’t have the corresponding octal included in the assembly listing!
I have seen lots of (hard) cider accidents in Bristol. An unavoidable consequence of living in the West Country, my lover.
> Question: what was the peak wind speed? Is it more than a hurricane's, or less?

For comparison, a cat 5 hurricane is 157 mph or higher. An EF-5 tornado is 200 mph and up. The highest recorded wind speed is about 300 mph.
... for a human. I think this is still anthropomorphism.
You could have a staff of a million-plus people and stuff could still go sideways.

Hint — it did.
Compartmentalization doesn't work when the iceberg slices them all open.
Maybe, or grass is greener? Also don’t know if I would pass IC technical interviews after so many years as manager. The leetcode grind seems out of reach for me now.
Theoretically you could have a benevolent tracking system

You could show people who have problems with gambling ads about help workshops on how to quit gambling.

You could reserve the gambling ads for people who haven't had fun in a while and are looking for new things to try

The core problem is that what's most profitable is not really aligned with what is good for people.

Capitalism only works in a world where people are perfectly informed. In that world, despite ads and manipulation, people will know to choose what is most likely in their best interest at the time. In the absence of that world, they might want to use an intelligent digital agent that will "fight off" (block) manipulative advertising (and content) and seek to help them steer their life in a direction of improvement according to their current needs
It seems like her drugged out father is leaving her to be entertained by total strangers. Great when it's a computer-innovation legend demoing new technology. Maybe not that great the rest of the time.
Why should they? Open Source developers give away their work with a price tag of $0. So why should anybody pay more than $0 for it? Do you pay more than the asking price for things you buy?
Since we're talking about the website, does anyone know why the only available theme is flashbang white?
There is still a risk that the kind of time required for the maintainers to have to get those teams up to speed on the project and how it works and what needs to be done could be just as much of a distraction. Adding more triage teams might be good in the future, but for now, adding more outsiders without proper context might just add stress.

As with openssl, what needs to be done is that these volunteers need to be given cash so this is more than just a volunteer project. If a particular corporate entity doesn’t want to sponsor some of the maintainers to work on it full time, then the project needs full-time sponsorship by the Linux Foundation, ASF or under the OpenJDK.
>why do we need to go smaller and smaller

Cost, performance, Energy efficiency.
I don’t think I felt dumb for not getting it. I did feel confused. It was like those magic eye stereograms. I used to not be able to see those (still difficult, but I get one now and again). But before I could, I would hear everyone exclaiming how cool it was and I was like, dammit why can’t I see what they are seeing.

One day that clicked too and my mind was blown.

I had the same experience in a different way with the movie Tenet. I love Chris Nolan, but I simply didn’t get that movie on the first watching… or the second, or the third. But I could tell there was something there I was missing and I was determined to figure it out.

On the fourth viewing I sat there with an online guide to the movie in my lap and paused anytime I didn’t get something. Right around three quarters of the way through, that one clicked for me. I finally was getting the logic of the film’s premise. All the scenes that looked like a crazy ballet of action that made no sense to me suddenly made perfect sense… and it felt great!

Love that feeling of finally understanding something you were having trouble groking.
That's still the law in the US today. Specifically, able-bodied men from 17 to 45.

"10 USC Ch. 12: THE MILITIA" https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title10/sub...
Look I have no reason not to believe you (nor am I a white American) but when I had it at Landry's on New Year's Day they sure didn't market it that way (nor did it taste that great).
HIPAA is a good chunk of the reason medical software and practices are so dysfunctional. Medical practices are some of the last places that use faxes because of it.
If it was in it for the experience of making the paperclips, it also seems like probes isn't a way to achieve that.
>>something else that we could consider before taking the drastic step of reducing freedom of speech?

We could consider editorial responsibility - responsibility for what you amplify.
The Fairness doctrine did a not bad job while it lasted.

Edit:

I also notice everyone arguing about Shenk, and no one brings up that some speech is still illegal, e.g., incitement to riot, sedition, and a few others.

The point of the example was that nothing is absolute, or should be absolute, even freedom of speech.
Yeah, iircc Apple did this as a negotiating tactic with Qualcomm. Intel had acquired and did nothing with their modem business so they eventually sold it to Apple.

Apple is still using Qualcomm as their supplier but it wouldn't surprise me if they pull an M1 with their modem. For now they're at least using it as a bargaining chip with Qualcomm.
Buy WX “weather alert” radio Midland makes a bunch of models some that even run off batteries. Basically it is several radio stations run By NOAA to send out local wether and warnings. They are like 20 bucks and most also do AM FM as well.
No, it is an editorial decision.

When a newspaper editor decides a story has insufficient credible sources, or lacks any of a variety of qualities that constitute good and responsible journalism, and so does not publish or broadcast it today, that is an editorial decision, it is not censorship.

When an algorithm or human decides that a story has the same qualities, or that it has insufficient 'engagement metrics', and refrains from amplifying it across millions of accounts, that is also not censorship.

By your definition, if I post something and it doesn't make good 'engagement' metrics and FB/Google/YouTube doesn't promote it, that's censorship — Nonsense— it is an editorial decision. And, restricting or boosting amplification based on a metric of sourcing, value, truth, moral compass, is also an editorial decision.

These decisions are already being made thousands of times per second. It is past time that the deciders become responsible for their decisions.
Ironically, these two Nobel Peace laureates are arguing for authoritarianism, in creating an elite set of gatekeepers who decide what is and isn't disinformation, and censor the latter.

Like Glenn Greenwald said:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1434854149087182848

>>The entire "anti-disinformation"/"anti-extremism" industry is a gigantic fraud, funded by the same tiny handful of billionaires, governments and NGOs: a scam to control discourse while feigning neutral, non-ideological goals to battle "disinformation":

My personal experience with Facebook's anti-disinformation campaign:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28411734
他不在這裏 is a Mandarin sentence, and Mandarin is taught as the universal common language in China. If Cantonese had been chosen as the standard (which was a possibility in the early 20th century), then you'd be saying that 他不在這裏 is informal and 佢唔喺呢度 is the "universal" written form.
Indeed, in pro sports even average players earn more than their head coaches/managers.
> Did people not go because they were worried about productivity dropping? No!

> So to me, reading people imply that they got killed because of capitalism is ludicrous.

Take a look at people who aren't brainwashed by capitalism if you think this is ludicrous--kids in elementary school. Most of them are happy for emergency drills as they waste class time. They get to chat with their peers and go for a walk instead of sitting in class.

It is adults who have been coerced into caring about the company's/there own productivity who would not want an on-the-clock break, especially, in my experience, in this type of manual-labor-for-a-big-corp situation.

Would you really rather literally mop the floor for Amazon if you could, worry free and on the clock, chill in a room during a tornado warning?

And this isn't some generalized indictment of capitalism, which I personally believe to be highly effective at harnessing the whole of humanity towards social progress, just an observation about the realities of this type of situation.
Doesn't the reverse hold true too? If you rely on software you paid $0 for and it fails you, you got what you paid for.
I don’t understand a few things, as they aren’t covered in the article, that I saw.

Were there no warnings for the severe weather storm that would have prevented people coming in to work or allowed them to leave work early? When I was working in the office, we were usually forced (literally security swept the building) to leave when severe winter weather was coming in a few times.

Why doesn’t Amazon, in the middle of Tornado Alley, have tornado shelters for its employees? Employees should not be having to run around finding places to hide. There should be designated shelters.
That’s like saying that you’ve got a hard drive so you could be your own DropBox.

You vastly underestimate the amount of resources required. And what those resources cost.
Photosynthesis is fascinating for how inefficient it is. And slow. Usually, when you look up some enzyme's rate of reaction you realize it's operating at a speed drastically higher than what you were imagining. DNA synthesis? 10,000 nucleotides added per second. (≃ 3s to copy the COVID genome)

Rubisco runs at a speed where you could count along, easily, in realtime.
I'm sorry to hear it was flu-like for you. I'm in the same boat, and it was flu like for me too.
They have to understand to keep pedaling and not to stop while you push them to get up to speed where it requires a lot less balance. The hill method you mention offers the same affect. It's amazing that it only takes a try or two and they are set.
Why were they forced to work during a tornado?
I think Steve Weinberg demanded to be paid at least as much as the football coach at UT Austin
I have no sympathy for maintainers who give away their work for $0 and the act all surprised when the world pays $0 for it and value it at $0. Wake up! Look around and notice how the world actually works and act accordingly. If you want people to pay real $ for your work then make that the price tag.
Yes, I especially loved it months ago when I was getting Amber alerts for a child abduction that took place in San Antonio (I'm in Dallas). I was totally ready to jump out of bed at 3am and look for a silver Impala that couldn't have even gotten to my location for another 5 hours.
In the beginning, reading in the basics is important because you need to know the language of the field, the special terminology. And then you're in a position to learn from experts talking to other experts (at a convention, for example). When you know enough to know what good questions are, then the expert has something to gain from the conversation.
I'm an ads person. Ads for casinos should be banned. But ads for therapy for gambling addicts sound fine.

Ads are just a tool. If you don't like a certain industry being promoted, then crack down on that industry and its ads, not everyone.
> Amazon did not have an exact count of the number of people working in the sorting and delivery center at the time the tornadoes hit, Whiteford said.

WTF? Do they record attendance on paper?
It is still a choice you make, do you want to be nice and do everything anyone asks of you ? Or stick to your principles and build only what you think is right?

Developers are social creatures like anyone else and like validation and recognition from peers, that is understandable but not an excuse.

It is no different from being able to say no when your boss ask you to build something you don't believe in or is against your morals, it is tough but our choice nonetheless.

Their choice then to support this feature, and now to patch it. They could have no either time, no point in complaining about it after making the choice.
Damage scales exponentially with wind speed. Hurricanes max out around ~180MPH. That's the speed of a feisty F3 tornado. You can be "hit" by a hurricane and be fine unless it's the eye or you get some debris in higher winds further out. Any hit from a tornado brings the full force of a thin column of debris whirling at that speed.
What's the point, though? Statistically, most people who live deep in Tornado Alley will never even see a tornado in their lifetime. Getting hit by one is like winning the bad luck lottery; trying to build all buildings to be tornado proof would be wildly expensive and difficult to justify. Better to focus on good warning systems and making sure shelters are plentiful.
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