skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or it's so easy.

Ants live in cities surrounded by humans, but have no idea what a human is or what humans do, and literally cannot experience - never mind imagine - what a human is, what a city is, what transport networks are, what culture is, what technology is.

Every so often an ant nest is destroyed because it's an irritant, but if the ants notice at all they carry on relatively unthinkingly. There are only other ants, pheromone trails, and food sources. [Other] may register very fleetingly but does not align with any ant concepts or ant goals, and therefore leaves no lasting impression.

Wide differences in intelligence make more advanced lifeforms invisible - not physically but conceptually. Which turns out to amount to the same thing in practice. Even between two species who share the same physical space.

We could be surrounded by a universal or galactic civilisation and we wouldn't know.
I’m gonna have to read some trip reports on this. The only other things I’ve seen described this horrifying are deliriants like datura.
I'll put myself at least partially in the "true crypto believers" group, but I think this is good news. Stolen X is 'bad', bringing the people who stole X to justice is good.

This is where I may only be a 'partial' member: My feeling is that Bitcoin (not all cryptocurrencies) was about removing Fed/Gov control of the currency. It takes no position against law enforcement of direct currency theft - outside of what could be construed as the theft of currency value by quantitative easing / gifting bailout money to banks, etc.

Bitcoin, specifically, has always had a public ledger too, so start-to-finish transaction tracking is part and parcel.
About 5% of users make in-app purchases. Paid apps are about 6% of app downloads on iOS.

However, I checked and it looks like the majority not using the App Store is several years out of date, which makes sense given the popularity of free social media apps.
Many car systems can fail. Think power steering going out with tires rotated 50 degrees to the right a driver that doesn't know how to properly steer without it.
Elsewhere in the thread a FSD Beta participant is imploring other drivers to keep their distance to Teslas because the software "gets easily spooked".

This makes it even harder to assess the safety of the system - other drivers are helping it along as well.
True!

Ironic for us graybeards I suppose.
"I’m following Timnit and joining her at the Distributed AI Research Institute as Director of Research, effective tomorrow."

I hope the employees enjoy their new boss.
If I was on that team I'd be outta there quicksmart.
Say what you want about Elon Musk but SpaceX is one of the most inspiring thing in the world to me. I recently drove down to Boca Chica beach to see the spaceships in person: you can get really close to them it's pretty wild, and honestly I think it was the most amazing man-made thing I've ever seen in my life
> The fact checkers would check with the government's facts who states there were WMD's in Iraq. The fact checker (not an expert on WMDs) would possibly label that as misinformation.

I don't remember the government providing any real evidence of this though, whereas for, say, the COVID vaccines, they've each had different medical trial phases, followed by data on the general populace once they reached widespread deployment. Those are very different situations.

You're right that of course there's nothing that absolutely guarantees that fact checking is better than no fact checking 100% of the time. Just like, say, a white supremacist forum's idea of 'moderation' may be worse than no moderation at all. I should amend my point: moderation and fact checking are potentially better than doing nothing, and in the case of the major platforms, definitely are.
Thank you. And thank you for making it open source.

Concerning this line:
https://github.com/arkadiyt/zoom-redirector/blob/master/back...
Why is it sometimes returning undefined? (or is that known)?

Cheers!
It was due to increased atmospheric drag, not a direction result of radiation.
Doubtful SpaceX would ever use that for starlink, they are not attached at deployment so you’d need one for each sat.
Yeah, those are called "lies".
The Starlink satellites are launched into a very low orbit, and raise to their final orbit.

These satellites had just launched, and had not yet raised their orbit, so they were lower than the rest of the constellation.

> SpaceX deploys its satellites into these lower obits so that in the very rare case any satellite does not pass initial system checkouts it will quickly be deorbited by atmospheric drag. ...

> Unfortunately, the satellites deployed on Thursday were significantly impacted by a geomagnetic storm on Friday.

So, while Starlink's final orbit is lower than (almost?) all other satellites, these satellites were even lower than that. I would be very surprised if any other satellites were effected.
As long as abstractions can be leaky, they aren't better. And once they start to leak, they go from "just the right amount" to "too many".

I think that's a general rule of thumb for abstractions. (I'm not sure, though; I just made it up.)
I'm not saying they didn't, but that sentence you quote is future tense. We don't know that they actually did in the time frame that they said they would. Just that they said they would.
The page says that they are deployed out of the ship at very low altitudes before they climb to their final orbit. So I think this only applies very early on in the deployment process and wouldn’t impact anyone else, or even existing deployed starlink satellites. They even describe why they start lower than normal in the article ;)
Is this true? Emergency vehicles unfortunately get struck rather frequently by human drivers.
I don't get crashing except when I go to share a window and then cancel it without sharing anything.

The biggest problem for me is having multicolored noise covering most of the Zoom windows/controls when I'm sharing a window.

Also, it takes like ten seconds to share or stop sharing a window.
There might be the opportunity cost of a doing a retail launch instead, but I would guess for the Starlink launches, if they weren't launching them they wouldn't be launching anything at all, so you're probably right.
I live in central oregon, so I can only speak for where I live. But the power outages we did have, or that I know about, were mostly from wildfire season. However, I just know about my general area and that is not necessarily that same for all of Oregon.
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That is one of the goofiest reasons I’ve heard when I look at the volatility of crypto.

Definitely not a compelling reason.
He's not even saying China is bad.
He's related two things that people tend to like or hate simultaneously.
Do you think? How about medical content? Or artistic content? Is nudity OK even if it's sexual, provided certain sex acts are not shown? Which sex acts and how graphically? There have been plenty of dust-ups over the years about what kinds of nudity should be allowed.
Out of curiosity, I found this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_USA_satellites

Quite a number of satellites listed as "failed."
If they've snowed the CIO, chances are pretty good it's a large "enterprise" which is exactly what the target audience for MS Teams is.

The principal architects and security team don't care that Teams is neither good nor secure. They just know that they can blame Microsoft if things go wrong. Slack was too startupy. God forbid people just start texting each other, or even worse, use Discord.

(Before you say, "But...", PAs don't care if Slack is owned by Salesforce now. SF is just some weird tool that Sales requires and won't stop screaming about.)

So, they already use MS for Office, file shares, Exchange, etc, why not just throw another piece of MS crap into the ecosystem? Who cares if it sucks? Who cares if it was a hastily thrown together piece of garbage that MS scrambled to make when they suddenly realized Slack was beating the snot out of them? They don't have to do any work because they're already in bed with MS.
That would work if they had sold all of their capacity, but I think there's plenty of unfilled Falcon 9 capacity.

I don't think every Starlink launch could be replaced by a paying customer.
The press release specifically states the satellites will de-orbit and burn up by design.
After flying JetBlue and WestJet, where full carry-on bags were not included in the fare (small backpacks that fit under the seat were allowed), I will never bring a full size carry-on again. Most of the delay is people fighting for overhead bins and blocking aisles, and most of the stress for me is trying to board as early as possible (I always sneak in at least 2 zones ahead of where I'm supposed to).
> How many more people need to die to let Americans have a more comfortable ride in their private vehicles?

That's the entire point of America. We have so much space, so we make every effort to use it, regardless of the consequences.
>only two hard problems in Computer Science".

You mean cache invalidation and naming things? :)
I'd love to know a breakdown of how much of this money is profit to layer upon layer of contractors.
But the odds aren’t additive. If you sleep under a tree 4999 times and nothing happens, that doesn’t mean the 5000 time you sleep under one you’ll get crushed.

Each and every time you have a 1 in 5000 chance.
You could’ve just rephrased this to “don’t work anywhere during the pandemic”. Seriously, most people have very little choice in what they can install.
Thanks! I didn't know this doc. Only thing I see missing there is changelog so you can see when they adjust the formula or its constants, which they say there should be expected.
I broadly agree.

One saving grace is that a game of FTL doesn't really last that long. So even if you limp along, you didn't waste that much time.

I never really went into limping mode, though. I usually tried to turn my games around by staying aggressive; but eg burning through my missiles and drones faster when the run goes badly. In some sense, if you have missiles left when you die, you didn't use enough missiles.

There's some strokes of good luck in FTL, like the scrap collector or the long range scanner. But they tend to increase your longer term average, they don't provide an immediate bonus. (Exactly as you say.)
Most people spend most of their time on moderated Web sites, not the Web sites that allow you to post gore and porn whenever you want.
The browser client is missing (or was recently) the “grid view,” which is very important for my use. So I won’t be leaving the desktop app anytime soon, despite my attempts :)
~ No one uses week numbers

~ Events always start and end on the same day

~ Any event has a start and end time

~ All events are on a specific day
> I agree with GP. If ketamine works for depression, there's no reason to think similar effects wouldn't occur with DXM. I've always found the 'next day' glow to be quite nice.

From what I understand, ketamine's rapid antidepressant effect was once thought to have been mediated by NMDA antagonism. However, countless NMDA antagonists have been studied for depression, and their efficacy was nowhere near the S-enantiomer of ketamine, suggesting that NDMA antagonism alone isn't responsible for the full effect.

DXM acts as a dirty serotonin reputake inhibitor before it's metabolized into DXO, which is actually an NDMA antagonist like ketamine.

By combining DXM with bupropion, the bupropion prevents the DXM from rapidly metabolizing into DXO through enzyme inhibition, leaving more SSRI-like DXM in the blood to affect the brain. Bupropion itself is a potent inhibitor of enzymes that metabolize many pharmaceuticals.

So the idea behind combining DXM+bupropion to treat depression doesn't really come from the same mechanism of action that esketamine has. It's more about the SSRI-like properties DXM has in the body as long as it isn't metabolized into DXO.

Also, combining two medications that are off-patent for a new treatment means that you can patent the new combination as if it's a new drug. I suspect that's why it's being investigated. Both DXM and bupropion have pretty good safety profiles, they're cheap to manufacture, and the combination can be patented.
I think the press release is lacking in detail. For example, they completely fail to disclose whether recovery was attempted by rerouting power from life support to the structural integrity field.
The whole argument being made here is about just those "edge cases."
Bribing or planting support agents as employees at every cryptocurrency company seems pretty easy.
The cyclist was visible on the screen. This is obviously a case of "you don't get a good driving AI by hiring dozens of vision AI people".
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> They can't just raise rates or borrow money whenever they want.

Uhh, yes they can, and yes they do. Wholesale rates of electricity change every 15min in ERCOT. During the deep freeze weather event you could sign up for electricity plans which exposed you to the wholesale rate of electricity.

The retail rates you pay in the open market are determined by the contract you signed. Lots of REPs offer all kinds of pricing structures on their contracts, the contracts offered change every several days and can all kind of term lengths or even allowed variability.

The amount generators are getting changes constantly in this market. As mentioned earlier, spot prices change every 15 minutes. Bids take place in day-ahead markets as well, which change based on tons of different factors. The only people getting somewhat fixed rates are the distribution companies but even then their rates are allowed to change every now and then, and their prices are based on usage.
Because they are lighter and easier to carry around and also to use on one’s lap. I have a pro however because I don’t mind all that that much.
> Theoretically if you could travel very close to the speed of light ... Of course the energy requirements are insane

Yeah, this is why I don't think we'll ever achieve this and I very much doubt other species have or will either. I don't think the incentives are there to expend this kind of energy (and capital) trying to get to another galaxy - especially since it would a very, very long time before anyone would know if the project succeeded (if it would ever be known at all)- there's no success feedback for a project like that. Interstellar travel will be difficult enough and the feedback time there would likely be at least a couple generations (longer depending on where the travel is to).
SpaceX should build a satellite picker satellite to collect their dysfunctional Starlink satellites and bring them back on Earth. They could study their vulnerabilities and apply the lessons learned to shield future Starlink satellites against solar storms.
Well, you still have to do perception on the lidar data to segment the road surface and classify objects. But it is a much easier problem (takes you from infeasible to extremely hard).
Yes, Zoom has a similar setting. I don't think the client is listening for the ultrasonics all the time; you need to click the "Share Screen" button on the main zoom page to have it work, and it presents a "please wait" screen for 5-10 seconds after pressing that button while it appears to detect the room info.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the author was a hypocrite.

I just meant, even if he was a hypocrite, that wouldn't necessarily undermine the text. A world class coach doesn't have to be a world class athlete. Or someone not practicing what they preach doesn't necessarily invalidate what they preach.
This is reasonable, but the grid should support such separation then. Each building needs to be connected to a known tier of power grid, and parts of one building may need different tiers: e.g. an ICU that should stay powered no matter what vs the rest of the clinic that could afford to lose power without hurting anyone.

Unless it's already built, it's rather expensive to rebuild.
Had a similar issue, tried to use VIXEN and DIMES, but VINES and MIXED was the "correct" answer.
Logging in Drive is pretty robust (backups are not). There's a few tools that can move that level of data, but google's now-first-party migrate product could likely handle it.
This method of parking in a lower orbit is also why the trains of satellites are highly visible for a few weeks after launch. They extend their solar panels horizontally to minimize drag, which causes them to reflect the sun just after dusk and just before dawn. Once they reach their higher orbit they reorient their panels perpendicular to the earth, greatly lowering their apparent brightness.
Their Lidar wasn't plugged into AEB, so it's not like Lidar would have helped AEB either. The car's built in radar would have triggered a stop.
It's a very practical language (more than C or C++). But it does have a challenging learning curve.

Pay no attention to how the language was derived. Just dive into it.
You are simply not allowed to show hardcore porn on broadcast TV. That said, standards were edging toward allowing more things until the FCC cracked down hard after the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake Super Bowl performance. This question is more political than you like to pretend.
you couldn't have 50 companies in one place and even if you cold the fix cost are high o make it unprofitable, low regulation means less control not more competition in a natural monopoly, making all companies try t extract the most money without making too much attractive to new competences, if you look carefully companies (commercial and industrial) pay less than other countries because they have more bargain power against the power industry but regular citizens cant pay the extra money for a tailor connection and tent to pay what they being offered.
Radio control will work in a pool. High angle helps and lower frequency transmitters work better than high (so 75MHz, not 2.4GHz). Salt water would absorb radio transmission so results would be much worse in ocean or salt water pool.
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The combination mechanism is a core part of Unicode, not just a thing added to make emoji work.
If it’s -2°F outside, many people can figure out a way to save their frozen food.
yes, they turned a loss into publicity... while not harming future space operations... They turned a loss into a win-win, I think.
> They don’t found startups, they start small businesses.

You (probably intentionally?) put the finger on something that's been annoying me about this whole "Startup!" malarkey for a while now: The pretentious terminology. "Startups" are actually just small businesses.
The Kelly criterion is only optimal if you have logarithmic utility. People like to pretend that it somehow becomes optimal in other cases if you have multiple rounds, but when you do the calculations it just doesn't. Having the highest probability to win among the strategies that bet a constant amount is not a useful property, because you're not in a competition and don't have to bet a constant amount.

In particular, in that Haghani and Dewey study they mention, the optimal strategy actually involved playing a lot safer that the Kelly bet. (Although the participants weren't told about the cap at the start of the game, so they would be reasonable to take more risk. Incidentally, it strikes me as slightly unethical to mislead the participants in a way that makes it more likely that they'll risk losing more money.)
I'll give you $20 to be that cyclist
Why not "social legitimacy for privacy-enhanced traffic" that is also nobody else's business to know, including the hosting providers?

ie. I don't want Cloudflare CEO popping up here gloating about how they're fighting for the cause of tor users! F' that if they don't know it's there they can't take credit for it either. That's the tor I want.
Wrong question IMO. We're shaped by evolutionary pressures from situations that no longer pertain, so it's not surprising we are not optimized for a world that just sprang into existence.

My question is: Why is reality (especially including at the quantum level) so damned different and counterintuitive relative to our day to day experience? Why doesn't the universe scale up uniformly so intuition is holographically legit?
Meditation before medication, if possible. If it seems hard, think of it as a sport that needs practice.

Multitasking is ingrained in the software we use, which I believe is part of the problem. Something something Attention Economy, probably.
Opposite effect for me. I was getting workspaces for free to basically send and receive five emails a month or so. I pay Google for Google One storage, Stadia, and YT Music. Their reneging of workspaces is going to lead to me giving Google zero dollars per month. I'm sure I'm a rounding error to them, but perhaps others are in the same boat.
They are building that - it’s called Starship and one of the configurations will be a cargo ship with a bay and an arm that can pick stuff up and bring them back.
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For me personally, I only use my real plastic when my battery is low on my phone. So you have to account for times may not have their phone with them.

My bank allows for location based security. If my phone is not near the location the card is being used I then have to use chip and pin instead of contactless (dead battery, poor cell service, unable to get a decent location fix because of the building, all these can trigger the need to revalidate).

And a lot of people still don’t have banking apps on their phone (one of the reasons banks had to support SMS 2FA when implementing Strong Customer Authentication).

I’m not too sure if the banks/ Visa/MC would be too happy allowing users to enter their pins on the retailers phone as pin pads are supposed to be encrypted.

We are seeing cards come with biometrics and pin pads on them, these cards will help with “card terminal less” transactions, but both bans will have to start issuing them and card users will have to be happy using them (I still know quite a few people who refuse to use contactless at all).

So imo those BlueTooth card terminals will be with us for a while to come, they will just be used less, which is why imo Apple worked with partners who already have such terminals as a fall back for whenever contactless can’t be used.
There is one in the article too!

> The current year is 2020

> False. It’s the year 5780 in the Hebrew calendar.

Like an Easter egg.
I would never use the zoom app. No way that Chinese asset is touching my system.
An entire launch worth of satellites is not a "rounding error."

The carbon impact of just one launch is pretty obscene.
Notables:

--fingerprint reader support

--drm leasing on Wayland (needed for VR)
No, the two betting strategies diverge. The Kelly criterion assumes an unlimited steam of future bets, while the dynamic programming approach assumes a fixed number of remaining bets.
You can get minimal "liability-only" car insurance (at least in the USA) and still be legally covered.
New York Times

Capital City, Earth – Satellite Starlink XB-4590 has shut down yesterday, February 8, 2132, following a geomagnetic storm that irreparably crippled its circuits. XB-4590 was 5 months old. It is survived by the 32,008 other active Starlink satellites orbiting the Earth. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk IV declined to comment for this article.
My organisation is considering migrating from Metabase to Tooljet.

What are the known edge-cases Tooljet fails to address in the context of Enterprise use-cases?
The press release states the same safety plan SpaceX has been stating. We'll get to see if it works (which I expect it to), but shouldn't assume it already has.