skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oculus lost money (10b) but I mean they bet the whole company on it. So will be interesting what happens.

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/meta-vr-revenue-2021-loss...

IG looks like it’s doing well financially but it’s getting eaten up by Tik Tok.

Whatsapp makes no money though lol, and it’s only successful abroad not the US
The use of the plural "people" here is interesting. As far as I can tell there was one Nazi flag and one Confederate flag. But they sure got a lot of media play...
Oh ya puke. A big list of bugs for the wage slaves to toil over and fix. Everything tracked and timed.
This strikes me as a strawman argument, considering the OP article clearly states "unruly", which is not inherently violent. Tourette's Syndrome sufferers could often be considered unruly (I posted examples of them being punished by airlines already).

It seems to me you're not only okay with those actions, but want to expand punishment in a more systematic way for people who cannot control their actions and do not engage in violent behavior.
Any references? Organic molecules is not life.
I believe the current understanding is that life even formed while lava was still around. I think the earliest dating is around 4.1B where the Hadean epoch ended 4B year ago.
It’s 18 bits and 1.5 nanoseconds per +* plus overhead using a micronext. What did I miss? Also you’re assuming what I want to do is trivially parallelizable.
The thing is, if you own a good IP in a mixed block with some bad ones, that's no reason for you to be blacklisted. It's pure laziness. It's usually wrong to assume that everything in a /24 is controlled by one botnet, and it's not that hard to check whether it was just one or two particular addresses that were compromised. But if you're an ISP and you want to take the nuclear option to every spam threat, at least be willing to listen to your own customers when they complain that they're expecting mail, and there's absolutely NO reason to assign "group punishment" to everyone using the same service provider. I think the thought was that that would make service providers more accountable, but it's totally unfair to use everyday customers as pawns in a war between ISPs.
Rents are set at the margin. If UBI recipients can move to lower-rent/lower-cost areas while keeping their UBI, there's no reason for rents to rise.
According to some studies, up to 1% of prisoners in the U.S. are innocent. That would mean 23,000 people wrongfully imprisoned.

In my experience, false positives in fraud and risk models are lower than 1%.
PowerPoint collaboration is … interesting, and gets more interesting as people mix web, Windows, and Mac apps simultaneously, and as the number of people on a single deck increases (which seems like an edge case, but more than once I’ve had up to thirty-odd people in a deck editing and observing right up to a proposal submission deadline). Versions are prone to race conditions, data gets lost, and each version of PP imposes its own weird idiosyncrasies on the deck. Even so, it’s still the best of the slideware builders; if I didn’t have Office I’d probably fall back to LibreOffice; then Indesign; then Keynote; then paper and pencil; and then consider cuneiform or cave paintings. After that, I’d probably consider Slides, but only if the client rejected a proposal to present through the collective medium of slam poetry and interpretive dance.
Some degree of caution is warranted on the part of the individual when unwelcome side effects manifest following a drug or vaccine. Doubly so when you can find cases where others have reported the same side effects.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CovidVaccinated/comments/nnqm8u/lon...

We are also dealing with a novel (and evolving) virus and an even more novel set of vaccines. We're still learning about both. I find it silly that one could possess hubris about their stance on such a matter.
If it’s a variable there’s a reasonable chance it’s used more than once and thus saves more than four characters.
LOL, I always thought self driving is a scam. Its just hyped up driver assist.
>Well, I commented it. Ofc it is my opinion, who else would it be?

Your "point" doesn't stand for much if it's just your opinion and you refuse to justify the reason for it.

>It also happens to be how reality works. Private organizations have literally always chosen sides. It’s how the world works, and I’m sorry it doesn’t fit your likes. Nothing you can do about it mate.

The state can always send Men With Guns to quell dissenting speech. Should we also proclaim that the government "absolutely does not need" to guarantee freedom of speech? Corporations can ultimately coerce you into accepting terms that overwhelmingly favor them, by offering services under "take it or leave it" terms. Should we say that consumers "absolutely does not need" to be afforded consumer protection rights?
"Even though Python isn't the fastest language out there, it's likely still faster than the shell command above."

That is going a bit far. By all means use Python. Go ahead and attack people who use the shell. But let's be honest. The shell is faster, assuming one knows how to use it. A similar claim is often made by Python advocates, something along the lines of Python is not slow if one knows how to use it.

The startup time of a Python interpreter is enormous for someone who is used to a Bourne shell. This is what always stops me from using Python as a shell replacement for relatively simple jobs; I have never written a large shell script and doubt I ever will. I write small scripts.

If anyone knows how to mitigate the Python startup delay, feel free to share. I might become more interested in Python.

Anyway, this "jo" thing seems a bit silly. Someone at Google spent their 20% time writing a language called jsonnet to emit JSON. It has been discussed on HN before. People have suggested dhall is a perhaps better alternative.

https://jsonnet.org

https://dhall-lang.org
You cannot do it in the OP, but there is no rule against your commenting on your own post.

In comments, URLs automatically become clickable: I used no Markdown, just a raw URL, in my comment.
I’ve ended up in the middle of the ocean more times than I’d like to admit. Mixing up lat/long really reminds you how much of the world is water.
From a purely moral standpoint, we should probably go to war with China as we are very much ignoring genocide there right now. Our response was to sanction a few provincial level officials, but we still participated in the Olympics. Pretty pathetic response on our part overall. With that said, from a real world perspective, I'm not signing up to go to war with China as we are looking at an end of the world scenario if that happens. I don't think China is our match militarily but what else do they have in their biolabs and what would they be willing to unleash if they were losing. An estimated 3% (70–85 million people) of the world population at the time was killed in WWII, how many would die in a war between us and China? Short of armed conflict though we should be doing everything in our power to disconnect ourselves economically from them. We should be prioritizing manufacturing in the US.
Web3 isn’t one-thing. There are many web3 categories (L1 blockchain, L2 roll up, dapps, nft markets, defi) and then within those, each product has a different focus.

For example you might say Bitcoin doesn’t provide privacy you can see every transaction, but if you want complete encryption then there’s monero, secret, mina and others…

To say “web3 doesn’t care about your privacy” is like saying vacation destinations are cold. Some are for sure, but others aren’t.
The World Is Likely Sicker Than It Has Been in 100 Years
That's definitely an abridgment of your rights to free speech.

The Anarchist Cookbook is an interesting study: prior restraint was never exercised against it because Hoover's FBI decided it was protected by the First Amendment, and it was published by the same (commercial) publisher as Charles Bukowski, The Sensuous Woman, and The Turner Diaries, selling some two million copies in all. But it's so famously terrible that many actual anarchists have questioned whether it was really a false-flag effort aimed at getting would-be terrorists to blow themselves up, and its author was admittedly never an anarchist!

In 01999 many people in the US could read The Anarchist Cookbook entirely without leaving a government record simply by walking into an open-stacks public library and reading it off the shelf. Even if you checked the book out from a library branch, librarians did not enter that fact into a centralized database, and were famously reluctant to cooperate with the thoughtcrime-surveillance aspects of the PATRIOT act after 9/11.

Today this level of freedom from surveillance is much rarer: you can probably get a copy of the book in 45 seconds, as well as far more reliable and trustworthy information on how to do many terrible things, but there's an excellent chance that the NSA will store a permanent record that you did so in the Utah Data Center. (Even if you use TLS they will probably decrypt that once their quantum computing effort succeeds.) If you walk to the library, Verizon probably stores that fact permanently, unless you leave your cellphone at home; if you drive there, license-plate cameras, wireless toll systems, and possibly OnStar and Tesla record that fact.

We saw both of these futures in 01992, but so did the FBI and the NSA.

In many countries outside the US, BBSes were in many cases a bigger hole in official censorship regimes than they were in the US.
Yes, but - if more small-ish companies did this, it could have an outsized impact. The company I work for is to AT&T what like an amoeba is to a whale; not much bigger than a single phytoplankton (e.g. an end user).
Could Google Be the Most Dangerous Company in the World? [2009]
https://archive.is/J2vp5
Having a nice modern language helps. I'm maintaining a small library with some geospatial algorithms and geojson support for Kotlin called geogeometry.

One nice feature with Kotlin is using extension functions and extension properties on type aliases. I use this a lot in my library. So, I can represent points using a DoubleArray, which is a specialized primitive array type.

I defined a typealias PointCoordinates = DoubleArray, and then have extension properties defined on like:

val PointCoordinates.latitude: Double
get() = this[1]

The compiler inlines all of that of course so it's all simple array manipulation. But it looks like an object. And I get to avoid the longitude/latitude confusion. Another nice language feature that I use a lot is named parameters on functions. Nothing worse than somebody calling f(lat,lon) when they should have called f(lon,lat). Much less confusing if you call f(latitude: lat, longitude: lon).
BBSes weren't powerful enough to elect him.
Fooled by randomness?
This seems inspired by George Carlin's advertising lullaby bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d82hYbDU-0w&t=20s
Interestingly, I just went to register an organization on Yandex, and I'm forced to provide biz info now, including a TIN, seems like it's now inappropriate for families. Can anyone confirm this for me?

Their FAQ also states that it is only available for non-Russian residents that are businesses. Urgh.
But still the eviction has to follow due process in virtually every jurisdiction.

And planes are nothing like private cars. An analogy would be Taxis. Taxis accepting the fare but then leaving passengers "at the side of the road" without provocation or reason is also against consumer laws in lots of jurisdictions.
Couldn’t you just pre-add an “X-Spam: yes” header?
Given that particular belief has been debunked by ten years of QE, it's not really a consideration is it.

All government spending occurs by 'printing money' because that's how bank clearing works. Balance sheets expand during the day and then shrink back at settlement time - but often not quite as far as they expanded. That's how a growing economy is accommodated.

When money is created, it will always either instantly pay off other loans somewhere or end up entirely in tax, unless somebody along the way doesn't spend it the instant they get it. That's because income, less tax and net loan repayments -> spending -> somebody else's income, less tax and net loan repayments.

To notice "printing money", it has to have been saved not spent somewhere along the spending chain. Therefore the real question we need the answer to is why certain people believe saving causes inflation?

In reality it is the deflationary drag of excess saving that is offset by 'printing money'. They are two sides of the same accounting journal.
That's not optimal on real machines; it's often faster to recalculate x*y than to cache it.

In general this "optimal" strategy seems to assume infinite memory that's all accessible at the same speed.
Then it's not lying and I have no problem with it, as long as the continuing price is clearly presented at the time of sale.
I'm sorry I had to create an account just to comment on this. That's not how bayesian conditional probability works. It's not just, read an article, feel strongly about something, adjust priors based upon your strong feelings. It requires domain expertise and experimentation, so a mix of frequency perhaps, or at least past experience as a basis for adjusting a prior. The reason from a bayesian perspective why the lab leak is so unlikely is because of the vast majority of human interaction with viral material, the base case, is via natural interactions, food, medicine, digging up soil, etc. Following proper SOP in a lab environment has orders of magnitude less base rate chance of a human interaction with a virus. Now we get into the, "purposeful lab leak hypothesis," which is now getting into conspiracy theory territory so I won't touch that, but a pure, "leak," is highly unlikely, using bayesian probability, simply due to the base rate comparison.
> More than anything, this is what I generally promote - focus on the actual claims

Is it? Because your reply is again filled with pathos, tribalism and narrativization.

The Malone controversy really has little to do with heroes, villains and victims. It's a very straightforward matter: he used his profile to share wildly unscientific claims, hoax videos and delusional "mass formation psychosis" theories to the public. Because this contributes to an existing public health crisis it has invited scrutiny of his person and of platforms that host his content. Cause and effect. Simple stuff.
Depends on where it is located for line of sight. If it's on the other side of the center of our Milky Way galactic core, then it won't be visible in visible light (awkwardly stated). The overall brightness and/or the thick bands of dust prohibit us from seeing some things in the visible spectrum on that side of the galaxy. However, some things can be viewed with other wavelengths.
As a multi-decade Photoshop user, I find Affinity unusable. I know it comes very highly rated, but my muscle memory is so ingrained that I don't think I can make the switch. Not a single thing worked the way I'd expect, and trying to adapt to it was hours of constant digging through forums to do the most basic things, like move the canvas.

I started using Krita instead, and it's a good replacement without being so utterly different.
> like those canadian truckers,

I thought the protestors turned out to, by the numbers, prove to be not Canadian and not Truckers.

Meanwhile, I'm not sure why you would pick that example. There seem to be more relevant protests in the US you only have to go back a short while.

Meanwhile, it's difficult to assess if the US government has a great track record at dealing with terrorists. We're unsure of how many incidents are prevented.
“Use the Index, Luke” – Intro to Couchbase for Oracle Developers:Part 6:Indexing
"We know quite a lot about economics, especially inflation and the money supply."

That isn't the case. There's an awful lot of beliefs and curve fitting to them. Hence why QE didn't cause the 2% inflation they believed it would.
Have to say this is the most excited comment I've ever seen on this website.
I've created my share of failed side projects. There's a few things that I've learned (am learning).

1. Test the market as early as possible. This doesn't need to be user conversations. Start testing the basic assumptions with product - it's a bit of an art to figure out how to do this.

2. Traction will take much longer than expected. So don't quit your day job, literally.

3. I won't build anything where the product doesn't market itself. It's too easy to make step one building the product and then step 2 is pretending to market/sell it, but pulling the rip cord after $500. So, it seems worthwhile to focus on ideas that if they work, will naturally spread.

Good luck!
I don't think you got what I'm saying. I mean that when you simply give money to people where there may not be efficient markets for some needed good (which you wanted the money spent on), private enterprise often will just exploit the infusion of money to jack up prices and not actually provide more of the service desired.
My point is only that there is a valid argument to be had here. Not that it is so clearly foregone that only irrational fanboys would defend Apple’s position.

That position is a straw man which is unproductive toward the discussion.

Whether you think the EU way or the USA way is right is irrelevant. Countries / unions of countries have sovereignty and will do what they like. Apple can exit the market if it likes, as many companies have already done in places like China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. I’m not comparing the EU to those places, but I am pointing out the precedence that companies don’t need to do business if the regulatory climate makes it impossible.
I suppose it’s probably worth rephrasing as every major brand I’ve worked with, in that case :). Unfortunate to hear that but I guess not surprising
I do this with privacy.com. Every site gets a unique credit card with a custom limit.
The thing is, we have actual data on a lot of these policies. And we know what works and doesn't work.

1 dollar spent on increasing food stamps increases GDP by something like $1.75. For something like an expanded child tax credit, it's more like $1.25. And for tax cuts for top earners, it's around $0.30. Even just looking at it from a purely economic standpoint, one policy is drastically better than the other. But more importantly, the first two policies also have enormous positive and direct benefits - they drastically decrease things like child poverty.

These are some of the most obvious public policy choices for any wealthy country, and for whatever reason we just refuse to take action until there's a massive recession or a global pandemic, and even then it's for like 6 months or a year.
It’s bad, but there is still some light.

This bill, remember, removes Section 230 protections against civil lawsuits for noncompliance.

The solution is fairly easy though. If your messaging app runs somewhere hard to sue (Russia, China), good luck bringing a lawsuit. Even better if it’s decentralized with no clear leader to sue.

If anything this may help get people further away from regulated tech companies.
Moreover, I've used minute-by-minute forecasts myself, and (at least where I lived at the time) they were quite accurate. My use case was "where is a 30 minute gap when I can walk home without getting soaked", and I never once got soaked. So much of the OP falls into the category of things-I-know-to-be-false-from-experience.

The article really has a strong vibe of "algorithms are faulty, we need humans in the loop to make sure they're behaving well!", with a hidden assumption of "humans are less faulty than algorithms". That's an empirical assertion to be determined on a domain-by-domain basis. It's certainly true that having a human in the loop leads to worse outcomes in chess (unless the human has enough modesty to just not do anything). The same is increasingly true of other domains as well.

Perhaps someday, incorrect, largely content-free FUD articles about how algorithms suck will themselves be written entirely by algorithms.

This is pushing way too many of my buttons, so I'll just close by pointing out (on the other side of the apps/humans scale) that a substantial fraction of the time, when I check the weather on NWS, it says something like "Today's high: 56; current temperature: 58". I certainly hope that a human in the loop would fix that problem.
It loads for me but cannot post anything.
The author says neither is right, but clearly prefers lon, lat ordering.

"Geographical tradition favors lat, lon. Math and software prefer lon, lat."

But why does math and software prefer lon, lat? Unlike endianness, where it appears little-endian is the better choice at the hardware level, I'm drawing a blank why one ordering is better for computation.
Reading this gives me warm feelings. In the past, when I had the pleasure of working with geospatial data on a few projects, I tried to make a point of naming the struct holding the data in the same order as we'd received it: "LonLat" or "LatLon". My hope was it would help the team avoid silly bugs from flipping them by mistake. (colloquially, no matter the order the coordinates were specified in the data, we'd tend to say "Lat-Lon")
I love how HN makes me curious about the randomest things.

Shit, now I'm curious to know what a 2011 PDF on how to eat a tomato says!
Only currency isn't now. The author saw your comment.
I wrote a VR rowing simulator a while back using Unity, it's in the Apple app store as VR Rowing (with me as the author, John Keogh). The motion tracking is really easy, adding things like sealife is complicated. I was thinking about adding x, y, z, and yaw motion to make it more immersive.
Maybe your text is grey cause saving a few chars on variable names doesn't save any RAM. And also confuses sober-you from reading your own code.
This opinion and appreciation for teachers you hold could be held by the OP as well, you know?

What OP is saying is that most people don't appreciate teachers, and aren't greatful for them, not that THEY (OP) don't appreciate teachers.
That assumes taint can never get diluted.
There are many people who have these numbers and study them.

Public health officials in the US have both the reported numbers as well as piggy backing on the system set up for influenza monitoring (CLI & ILI).

Simply because not all public reporting is as rich as, say, Illinois or Pennsylvania's, doesn't mean these figures aren't carefully scrutinized -- especially when threatened by political leaning from either side of aisle (such as when the then-current administration pressured the CDC to change and alter reports).

In my experience, hospital operations officers, health information exchanges, and, depending on the state, state HHS agencies don't mess around.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/09/trump-officials-bragged-abou...
I don’t get it. Why should the airline care if you actually fly the plane or not?

Every 6 months auction off all the slots. Then use the slot however you want. If you want to retain the slot, you have to pay higher than the other bidders.
> All of them rely on operating system providers not stealing your messages.

You can compile your own operating system and control your hardware supply chain - you don't have to rely entirely on trust for those components.

> Since they have to be able to display messages they are able to log them somewhere.

If they're end-to-end encrypted, no, the people providing the chat application can't log anything except noise. That's what we're talking about outlawing here.

Regardless of the above, when I say 'system' I'm referring to a cryptosystem, not the other parts of the software stack.