skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is obviously catered towards large organisations

And yet it seems that only the big cloud providers offer a reasonable authentication and authorization approach.

For many other providers, api keys lend full account access (no resource limitation, no read-only/subset of actions), which is unacceptable from a security pov.
Conversations with Tyler, The Portal (seems dead now)
A similar write-up with Julia:
https://github.com/claforte/RayTracingWeekend.jl
I made a fortune off two web sites that sat there and basically did their thing. I essentially did about an hour's work a week for 5 years and took home about $150,000 a year.

The first was a mortgage web site. I bought a domain for $6000 that matched a top mortgage search term. The front page of the site scraped the latest mortgage rates, and the rest of the site was well-written mortgage advice written by me and First Wife. The site just had a form you filled out to speak to a mortgage advisor. When it launched in like 2007 I got about $400 for each time the form was completed. (It was less after the Great Recession)

The other site was a private TV torrent tracker that closed in 2013 due to legal pressures. Barely touched the code in 7 years. It made a total of over $13m.
The modding community has totally transformed Skyrim VR with mods like VRIK for adding player bodies with inverse kinematics and HIGGS for wildly improved physics interactions.

I dream that one day mods like those will be compatible with a some iteration of a VR OpenMW engine.
This article is nutty
The author of the article was probably not born then
I am reminded how even in as controlled an environment as China, He Jiankui broke the rules.
I notice that your AnExplorer file explorer app is a hefty $9.99. How do you get sales at that price point? Word of mouth over time?
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"Dura" in Russian language is "idiot". Specifically female idiot. Is it really hard for developers to enter word in google before naming application? This is ridiculous.
In Q3 2021 they had profits of about 8 billion... This is not a big deal and it's unlikely they'd lose everything. Certainly poses little to no systemic risk.
> I have long admired the work of fat activists — Marilyn Wann, Sonya Renee Taylor and Aubrey Gordon among them — and recognize that fat bodies can be not only healthy but also athletic, beautiful, sexy

There is a various and dangerous trend of people, some of whom are medical professionals, trying to insinuate that obesity isn't the problem some say it is. Worse is trying to enforce (it's certainly not just promotion) a completely impossible view of what others find attractive. Given the author's other work i find this commentary problematic, and more a window into their personal problems than anything else.
It sounds like the fire itself was pretty small, but considering how sensitive the equipment they manufacture is and how clean it has to be, the potential damage to the facility and the production lines could be really severe.
It's the buzzword for paper publishing industry.
> “If a $1000 PhD side project could kill millions of people, we must end viral [gain-of-function research], or it may end us.”

This sentimental reminds me of a talk given by a government bomb expert where a naive student asked “why do we allow the ingredients for bombs to be sold in store, shouldn’t we ban them all?”

The answer of cause is that if we do that, then we suddenly don’t have gasoline, orange juice, basic electronics, fertilizer or even just basic sanitation products available anymore, but of cause anyone who wanted to make a bomb would still be able to do so easily.

If it really is the case as pitched that 1000$ gets you a virus that will bring down nations, why on earth would we leave the field only to bad actors? Would that not just make it ever so more important that such researched happened openly and under well funded, strictly controlled conditions so we know what to expect and so we can start to develop plans for counter measures for when the next 9/11-like fanatic driven attack comes along?
Guys, you don’t need to use opensea to buy/sell NFTs. That’s the magic. It’s just one NFT exchange. They can freeze your stuff but you can just use someone else.

You can post all the sarcastic takes you like, but if you don’t get this part and you’re all like “oh it’s just like the normal world reinvented” your model is missing some crucial predictive elements.
At the local level, despite Beijing's efforts, there is just very little incentive to report the actual numbers. This adds up, and has a feedback loop as provinces compete to have fewer and fewer cases.

The actual numbers are potentially much higher.
Here is what we do:

- Let the community vote on the most trusted sources

- Include results from enthusiasts that have little incentive to write biased reviews (Reddit, HN, expert forums)

- Look at the ownership of the site and how transparent they are about it

- Regularly reassess these criteria

Curious to hear your thoughts on this.
Don't discount the possibility that she'll have her sentence commuted by a future President. Look at the roster of political heavyweights that she was able to attract to the company. It wouldn't surprise me if one or more of these people still have an affinity for her and, at the right time, throw some good words in the President's ears on her behalf.
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But if you add space travel...
Indeed, although I think on VB 5, only IDispatch was supported given the ActiveX references.

https://news.microsoft.com/1996/12/11/microsoft-visual-basic...
Ironically, we have excellent examples of your ideas in practice. Video games from 1995 are lost to time because they cannot be legally duplicated and delivered and even if they were the os to run them is under copyright and no longer sold. Meanwhile, the source code to all MSFT oses before XP leaked and it hasn't hurt them at all. Might it hurt them a bit if DosBOX used that leaked code to make a better emulator? I don't see how, they're already no longer selling that code.
“Everything is securities fraud”.

I can’t find details of the specific wire fraud charges that she was found guilty of, but it is far easier to find and prove technical breeches of law (documents showing X was claimed to investors to obtain money when other documents show it wasn’t true) than proving intent or knowledge by the accused beforehand.
I zoomed in a bit on mobile and found a red circle.
Which is why the only sensible option is a proper numeric tower.

Then the common cases are fast and the edge cases slightly slower, but everything works the same.
That is just false.

Very few people can code.

Almost everyone is capable of getting along with other people.
There's an infinite number of possible viruses. Inventing some random new ones doesn't protect anyone.
I thought the world-building in Skyrim was pretty good actually.
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> I'm not sure the government is actively killing it... they just aren't doing anything about the oligopolies and collusion that have always developed in these sort of situations.

They are implementing regulations that put smaller butcher shops out of business. That said, the regulations may be good, but if the burden is too high .... well you have a problem.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29718254
A better alternative to a retirement home is to retire to a cruise ship. It’s actually a lot more affordable than many retirement homes and far more luxurious, entertaining, and with way better food. You also get the benefit of being able to take day trips in various ports of call and of course you get full housekeeping services like any other cruise passenger.
The car managed the terrain, so it couldn't have been that difficult. It strikes me as bizarre that someone stuck in the desert with supplies would engage in experimental engineering rather than a two day hike.
Or, perhaps, they want both
Are we allowed to include executives who lie about the dangers of tobacco, asbestos, climate change, or politicians and bureaucrats who lie about the evidence they use to justify wars, things of that nature -- all lies for profit which materially damaged others -- in the non-violent bucket to answer your question?

They may not not technically be criminals because the government and judicial system protect this class of people, so in the interest of liability let's not allege they committed any crimes, but in the context of the the question yes white-collar or non-violent "whoopsie daisies" can do much more widespread damage.
Juries are not the brightest bunch. Anyone with even the most fleeting ability for critical thought can avoid jury duty. This is by design, of course.
I still love my PPC Macs, mostly the G4s. I have a hard time doing anything useful with my G3s any more and the G5s are too hot and power hungry for me to be comfortable running them for long periods.

I keep a G4 iBook, iMac, and a couple of Minis around as backup computers because they still just work. I've been thinking about switching some of them to Linux/BSD now that TenFourFox is dead, but they're still useful for a lot of tasks on Leopard. My iBook definitely plays DVDs much more conveniently than most Macs of the last decade.
In Pascal and its descendant (and probably ancestor) languages: A function returns a result, whereas a procedure doesn't.
No, I'm not "paid to do this", and none of what I said is half-true or embellished. What is wrong with you?
It’s not totally defunct yet but I saved a bunch of super rare Magic Leap swag exactly for people like you lol
The federal government sets the higher and higher standards for butchers. It’s not the smaller local governments causing the issue.
> The problem with 4 major meat packing plants, 2 owned by china

Do you have a source? My google-fu doesn't seem to be strong enough
The three hole punch device is only standard in the US and Canada. Everywhere else, it's two punch. This might explain the anomaly.
Seems like the clock shouldn't start ticking until you actually start trying to convince somebody. So, take your time making the equipment you need to demonstrate the photoelectric effect, and c, and the moons of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn (and existence of Uranus and Neptune), and electromagnetic induction.

But maybe all you really need is to solve quadratic equations and demonstrate integral calculus, and maybe disprove some famous conjectures. Show that pi is transcendental, and introduce e, non-integral powers and logarithms, and infinite sums. And (la pièce de résistance) zero. You will need zero to explain limits.
Funny I was about to post the same thought. It's the vaccine for Republicans.
Wow, that's a great song. Thanks for sharing that.
> I saw that she was acquitted of defrauding patients, but surely handing out known bad diagnoses also has some consequences from a 'risking lives' viewpoint, right?

The bad diagnostic test in exchange for money is the essence of the fraud she was acquitted of, not some separate harm.

I mean, it's not impossible she could face state law claims about it separate from the federal ones, but any federal criminal claims from the same set of actions would be foreclosed now by double jeopardy (besides retrial on the charges that the jury hung on.)
Not pushing complexity to appear more 'intelligent'
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I know I'm just some random person on the internet, but that's at least 1 person that thinks you have value :)
And if they are right though? Are you going to apologize for suppressing different theses? As far as I know, Science lives of These and Anti-These, right?
I mostly agree with this, but I would add a secondary construct on top of it. Sometimes you want collections of things to appear identical.

You might want a component, that as part of its own public API, abstracts away the usage of the spacing component (author calls this "Stack").

Ex: suppose you have a list of images and you always want them to be 8px apart. So you package up the Stack and an <Image /> component, that takes an images[] array.

This prevents the issue where engineers use the raw Stack+Image "atom" components and define random spacing rules: say the spec is 8, some engineers use 6, others 10, etc-- then you have inconsistent spacing in your app.
https://ir.netflix.net/financials/sec-filings/sec-filings-de...

Consolidated statement of net income for each year (page 22 of the PDF):

2020: ~$2.7b on 200m members

2019: ~$1.8b on 167m members

2018: ~$1.2b on 139m members

2017: ~$0.5b on 110m members

2016: ~$0.2b on 89m members
> How you are going to proof, that it is not you?

If technology like this is plausible, then the recording shouldn't be considered a statement by me in the first place.

People are just going to have to learn not to trust audio. People adapted to photoshop, they'll adapt to this.
Power is a problem and is scaling far less than the node scaling. Raw single threaded performance basically isn't scaling at all.

Going from 45nm to 7nm we only gained about a factor of two in terms of power consumption. Most of that is due to the fact that interconnect and SRAM aren't scaling.

The upshot is that it is worth doing almost infinite amounts of calculation in order to avoid moving anything from point A to point B in a compute unit. If you must use memory, DRAM is death so put big amounts of SRAM on chip and make the buses as wide as possible.
Well, now you have.
Always happy to see someone writing in a hierarchical format. Maybe one day everyone will wake up and start writing Engelbart-style tree documents[1].

Site feedback for you, John: I would appreciate if you linkified your name (in the header of the page), as well as the path "breadcrumbs" at the right hand side of the header. Otherwise I'm stuck chopping things out of the URL by hand to try and go up the path.

[1] For instance, see this online copy of "Augmenting Human Intellect" (AHI). https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/138/ Notice how all the paragraphs are explicitly arranged in a hierarchy. At Engelbart's research lab, all documents were circulated in such a format ... even public releases like AHI ... and they had software with capabilities similar to today's org-mode, or Workflowy, or Vim folds which let researchers browse/edit code and text with respect to the hierarchy ... I highly recommend reading the linked report.
Hmmm. Real research on a vaccine would require at least 30,000 subjects, several months, millions of dollars, and a bio lab. Getting a double blind research result would likely earn a PhD.

No, "do your own research is NOT that simple".

Research is hard. It is time and life consuming. It is also more fun than, as the saying goes, a "barrel (lab-full?) of monkeys".
It sounds like they are getting similar treatment to Holmes: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/business/ozy-doj-sec-inve...
>an interested reader to step up from reading this type of article to at least understanding the abstract of the paper.

I don't think this is a reasonable expectation for most modern results in mathematics. There is just too much background to cover. Quanta's narrative style is the absolute best at it, but often leaves people with technical backgrounds outside of math wanting more. But I don't really think that's possible.
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The LCD might degrade, and you should probably replace the power capacitor.
You deflected the deflected deflection.
With photogrammetric thermal imaging, what in gods name is radar needed for?
I like balanced ternary a lot, but there is nothing longer-lasting about it.
31 vacant homes for every 1 homeless person in the US. i think the problem is slightly more complex.
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Are farms which sell directly to end consumers profitable at all? Like as a lifestyle business?

Last year I purchased a 1/4 beef directly from a local farm and, as a life long city dwelling techbro, found the whole experience awesome. As dumb as it is, I really liked feeling 'closer' to where my food came from. I know the farm, the people who run it, the age and hanging weight of the beef, where it was processed, and so on. I even like that you get everything, including the generally 'undesirable' cuts, because you're processing an entire cow. I haven't purchased beef from a store in almost a year at this point!

I've been enamored with it ever since. On the techbro side, I wonder if there's something more small farms can do "local beef as a service" wise. The process, at least with the farm I went through, was clunky and manual to say the least (especially when doing it for my first time).
> and may possibly be important to people eating vegan diets

I just wanted to chime in and say that it's not important, at least not for the vast majority of vegans or others following vegan diets.

Most of us are aware that plant foods are not without consequence to animals (e.g. there are likely some ground-up insects in flours). Veganism is more about not willingly/knowingly exploiting or violating the consent of animals, rather than achieving a perfect diet free of even the smallest animal inputs. Even if the latter was the driving force behind a vegan diet, I don't really see the difference between how a fig is pollinated and a tree absorbing nutrients from the decomposing corpses of dead animals buried nearby.

I suppose fig farming may include the farming of wasps to ensure pollination or something, which is perhaps the actual reason behind your comment. Stuff like that is a topic that most vegans don't seem to dive into, just as most don't research to see if their produce was grown with manure instead of synthetic fertilizers. I suppose that if that's the method used for growing figs, then it may get on people's radars one of these days (along with other plants which I know are farmed in a similar fashion), but at least for the moment, we have bigger tofu to fry.
He was just responding to this paragraph in the NPR article:

> Holmes' sentencing date has not yet been set. But she faces the maximum penalty of 20 years behind bars, though legal experts say she will likely face a lesser punishment.

That is, he wasn't arguing that she will serve the max of 65, just that the max is much higher than what NPR reported.
I do think there's nuance when the product is a medical testing device, and the company doing the reverse engineering is a competitor of the company who made said device and that engineering was faulty and could have cost people's lives.

But I don't know if the context of any of this is what some really want to discuss. It's just the slogans. You know: "hack the planet" and all.

I also don't think I'd be really OK with working for a company that told me to do this reverse engineering, but if your morality says differently, then: hey.
Yeah, that's true. The potential upside is large, but the timescale for profit is too long to fund.
That's Drexler's. He proposed it in Nanosystems and at NanoCon at about the same time; see http://www.nanoindustries.com/nanojbl/NanoConProc/nanocon2.h... and https://hackaday.com/2015/10/19/rod-logic-and-graphene-elusi....
Hygge
sctb hasn't commented since 2019, so it looks like it
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It’s not possible for a single average consumer to support domestic industry on their narrow shoulders. It typically takes some sort of collective action, often in the form of government trade policy.
Well said, a shameless grifter needlessly put people at immense risk because ego is a thing, and showed craven desire for money and celebrity.
Chicken doesn't have to be free-range to be better than what Tyson et al. are producing.

White striping is a lot more prominent in factory farmed chicken.
So Twitter only for the Every Day Joe? This sounds like BS. How many scientists that you probably follow, have announced news around Covid, via Twitter. You've probably even re-tweeted them lol.
Holmes verdict: indictment of Silicon Valley’s ‘fake it till you make it’ ethos
Chris Wellons did something similar: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/11/03/
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The point I was making was that it was irrelevant how the original designs were intended - if Theranos had been able to successfully reverse engineers the tests, and determine a way to make them work reliably, while it would have made those of us who believed Theranos had some incredible new technology, and that Elizabeth Holmes was the next coming, no patients need to have been concerned. It was the fact that the tests were unreliable, that made Theranos guilty.

Lying about it to the Investors, and possible intellectual/contract issues with Siemens are another issue.