skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides NeXT being largely unsuccessful, it was also entirely enterprise-oriented. In an alternate history, perhaps Jobs leverages his fortune and hollywood connections to start "iPod Inc." He always envied Sony's expertise at consumer gadgets.
>Of course you've failed to mention that the use of a covid certificate was largely elective. You could simply not go out for dinner or on vacation and you would have been fine.

Huh? In most of Australia, varying on a state by state basis, signing in via QR code was not elective and was mandatory for all public venues _including shops_. Most people do not have >1 month of food, and restrictions remained in place for a lot longer than that. These sign-ins were tied to vaccination status and the state governments made a two-tier system where they classified what types of business would only allow vaccinated people in.

GP has it right in their assertion that people will just follow what the government says is best. We had a mass-scale demonstration of this in action!
Yes, we have that. But that didn't solve much, it was the passengers that were threatened/shot/killed.
I don't quite understand what's going on then because I swear I just read in one of those threads last week that even the best text automerger still needs manual intervention to avoid creating nonsense...which, to be honest, sounded off because I thought this whole thing was popularized by Google Docs? Wave? and it didn't have that issue
> Spiking networks require lots of storage, but a lot, lot less compute.

One way or another we need a 1000x increase in efficiency to be able to run these models on edge hardware with full privacy and outside the control of the big corporations.

Funny that Gary Marcus is pleading on Twitter to get Dall-E 2 access in order to formulate his response. He isn't getting access yet. https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1513215530366234625

That kind of gate-keeping is possible because the costs of training and inferencing these models is too high today.
Twitter users.

Twitter employees.

Twitter investors.

Twitter board members.

Elon fans.

Lots of people. Weird question. If you don't care, move on.
> but there’s not any real alternative anyway as they would have to shut down for multiple years so new gas plants are unavoidable.

Of course there were alternatives. One would have had to anticipate this crisis a few years ago and could have built up renewables or new nuclear plants. Instead somebody made the decision to go with fossil fuels from Russia and here we are.
I travel regularly on long distance in Europe and have never encountered any problematic behaviour.

What you have there is an "America" problem, not a "Bus" problem.
That's just wrong. Scientists using to the standard academic processes (aka rules) are advancing humanity a lot farther than some rogue US CEOs ignoring laws from push their stocks. Those CEOs build on this science and even promise results before science advanced far enough.
Being popular is not absolute proof that ideas are right either. That’s why we need to leave room for the unpopular ideas too.
Most, perhaps all, people are.
I know too many people who regret their suicide attempts to let this comment go unanswered: Call whatever service is available in your country to speak about your thoughts.

I’m not going to involve myself any further, because I’m afraid I’d do more harm than good.
They're thinking about the laws they have to comply with to collect analytics data on you without being subject to fines.

Did you really not know that? That's a genuine question. I really want to know if that thought ever crossed your mind before. Not trolling or trying to be a dick, although granted it comes off that way.

Really, please respond because I don't understand how I keep seeing this sentiment. I don't like the popups either, but that doesn't stop me from understanding the how/why I'm subjected to them.
> to inform the patient that the button to administer morphine was in their control

Sometimes (I don't have a statistic) in Israel this is used for placebo effect. Patient doesn't control anything, but still might feel a relief.
He probably does some trolling on purpose, too, and this might be one of those times. It really is hard to tell.
That is so twisted.
Haha if you look at the calendar at the bottom of the page, every day is green “100% uptime”… maybe they’re not even aware there is downtime given that their statuspage service is also down /s

Screw atlassian, I also hope this is the end of them and I’ll never have to deal with Jira ever again.
druid is really cool. it's great to see so many ui libraries (druid, iced, rui and egui) come out for rust.
Someone on HN recently linked to https://www.readsomethinginteresting.com. It seems to be focused on personal blogs and I've been really enjoying finding authors I didn't know about.
And yet religious beliefs, generally speaking, are protected.

How hard does someone have to believe something before it crosses the line into religion? Or is it just a matter of paperwork?
I remember hearing in a podcast or reading once (it was a long time ago) that in Homer's Odyssey the word "blue" never occurs. Instead objects we would typically think of as blue are described strangely, like the ocean being "wine" colored. Judging by that, I'd guess the answer to question is "yes" but it'd be interesting to hear more on the subject.
I’m not the one complaining and I’m not sure what their complaint means either.
Dancing under the stars: video denoising in starlight
If PV and storage were that much cheaper, those people controlling billion-dollar budgets would have built that instead of gas plants and this discussion would be moot.
Ooooh, he remembers a lot of people. He'll quote people from years ago that he blocked on Twitter. He definitely remembers people who he feels slighted by.
Yes, this is a major bank in the Netherlands. The rabobank.com domain seems to be for international marketing, their main domain is rabobank.nl
Cities aren't inherently louder than countryside. Car traffic is noisy, but the volume is proportional to the speed. Cars going 30 km/h aren't THAT noisy. You don't hear them through the windows. Cars going 90 km/h are VERY noisy and at that point it doesn't matter if they are electric or not - you mostly hear the tires and the aerodynamics.

Using car horns at cities is forbidden anyway, unless there's a crash or a dangerous situation you shouldn't hear them. I can't remember the last time I've heard a car horn in my city.

I've lived in countryside and in several places in 2 different big cities in Poland, and except for one time I lived near a big 4-lane road in the middle of the city (which is a disgrace of communist urban planning BTW) - cities were quieter than the countryside.

Cars are going faster in the countryside and dogs are constantly barking at night at anything that moves.

BTW another factor is windows quality. It significantly changes how quiet your home is.
Not joining the board doesn’t change the fact he is the largest single Twitter shareholder. He didn’t buy that stake because he thought it was a great company as is.
You're a minority, not only here but also in Romania. To be perfectly frank, most of us appreciate being in EU exactly for the checks and balances it provides. I DON'T trust our leadership (or electorate) not to lead us to killing innocent people 10 years down the line. It's the kind of stupid we don't usually do, but still, if it somehow happens, I'm happy that there will be NATO bombers there to stop us.

What happened in Serbia was stupidly simple, and I really can't imagine how Serbian citizens rationalize this: Yugoslavia broke up, but Serbs wanted to keep their tiny empire even if then had to force ex-members. And while fighting, some ugly ethnic and religious animosities came up, with pretty horrible results.

It was about as clearly white and black as what's going on in Ukraine right now.
Good Inclusive Design Newsletter
Perhaps the alt text is condensed to comply with a limit? Looks like the same information for the most part.
Just as light bends under the influence of gravity....Looks like rule of law also bends under the influence of capitalism...
The investor is always right.

That being said, I agree, if only because it makes for boring reading and comes off as disingenuous.
Leaf blowing to the other side and then another leaf blower needed to blow it back.

Madness.
Sorry for asking so directly but since I don’t have any idea how „work“ works in other places, does 10 days mean that you have 10 days of total vacation days per year? Or is it 10+7(+6)? If it’s 10 days/year, is it normal in the US?
If you have a new email server you have to do domain warmup. That basically entails sending out emails to show ESPs like Google that they aren't spam. I did this at a previous job, we would have email lists of millions of people and have a monthly plan where the first day we send emails to 1000 users, second day 2000, until at the end of the month we send to all. We'd get blacklisted sometimes and then have to apply to be whitelisted. It is not easy.
> August 10, 1997: Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced yesterday that it has completed the acquisition of Apple Computers

> November 8, 1997: Apple released a new version of the Macintosh personal computer yesterday … the MacUltra is powered by a 300 MHz UltraSPARC II microprocessor. The MacUltra is shipped with the “Macintosh Solaris” operating system – a version of Sun’s Solaris OS with a classic Mac OS-derived desktop environment and full compatibility with classic Mac OS application

In 3 Months they switched architectures, integrated a DE on top of a new OS, and wrote an emulator for a new architecture. Impressive.
> I see enforcing utf8 as about on par with enforcing that a boolean be 0 or 1, and not 5.

UTF8 correctness is an invariant of the code. Its not something the compiler understands or cares about it.

But really, I get it! My point is that rust is rife with people marking functions "unsafe" when they mean a method will cause bugs / "runtime UB" if used improperly. Even the standard library does this, so it feels a bit rich to cry foul when 3rd party libraries (ab)use "unsafe" in the same way.

I certainly use unsafe like that, in order to mark methods which, if misused, will violate internal invariants of my code.

How does that list of unsafe features justify the unsafe marker on String::from_utf8_unchecked?
How Amazon plans to fix its returns problem
A newsletter is the same thing as a blog post, right? In that case I think this one about the satellite imagery industry is interesting:

https://joemorrison.substack.com/

The main thing you learn is that outside of governments there isn’t much of a satellite image industry. Which is why there aren’t that many posts.
I've co-written and edited our newsletter covering climate tech and urban tech startups for over 8 years https://thirdsphere.com/updates/
Cancel Culture has become one of the defining aspects of modern culture. Arguing it doesn't exist is going to be difficult when the elephant is clearly sitting here in the room with us.
Better advice than in Office Space: https://youtu.be/-da3-gPWFp0
And someone else might have told them:

And you think those things would make you happy? A "convertible Mercedes 190 SL" and "expensive marvels of art and engineering"? You trully didn't learn much your first time around...
Where in Colorado? I previously lived in NYC, moved to Denver. Noise was much much better here during 2020, but vehicle noise has gotten awful this year. Well, that and all of the people who drive around without catalytic converters because they've been stolen...
Elon has made many unilateral decisions very frequently and without warning. Case in point was to close all of Tesla’s car dealerships. For obvious reasons this was backed out due to the fact that some of them had leases which would be a breach in contract .
The goal is not to circumvent consent.

I find cookies to be an outdated concept in general.

More developers should be embarrassed about making a client fire up 52 connections to 20 domains with 17 cookies just so they can read 0.6kb of text.
Sigh. These were not the first two interviews I did, I interviewed at several startups offering remote work etc but didn't get hired. I'm really burned out on interviewing.
I just do not see the problem. The urge to live is way stronger than a bad week. The urge to live is strong. And we already have systems in place to determine the course of medical treatment in the case of unresponsiveness, all you’d do is tack on euthanasia.

It’s not your business to determine whether or not a person should live. Why don’t you sit in the corner with people who think it’s their business to determine whether or not women have abortions?
Earplugs do essentially nothing to stop low frequency sounds. I can block out a lot of noise with white/pink/brown noise, but the only thing that will stop sounds you can feel, whether it’s an idling truck or a sound system cranked up, is substantial mass and/or decoupling from the source.
The worst part about it for me is I made the mistake of selling my house in Spokane, WA (where my family is) to rent again for a while to start at Microsoft. I had a $1600/mortgage. Kicking myself for selling that house, which has also gone up more than 50% in just over two years.
I haven't worked at Atlassian in a a few years but when I was there Jira and Confluence cloud ran a Postgres DB per tenant in huge ECS instances (hundreds of DBs per VM). No managed databases. I can't imagine this has changed.
But like is it actually keeping anyone safe? If we disabled that noise across the board, would ppl actually die from being backed into by big trucks?
That diff is a great lesson in Plain English. The version that looks ~50% longer provides no additional information.
Amazon’s Drone Delivery Program Is Hit by Crashes and Safety Concerns
Ah yes, "just build it in the desert". It's only a matter of:

- Building hectares upon hectares of solar panels in one of the most hostile regions in the world
- Maintaining them because the sand is horribly damaging, and replacing them regularly
- ignore the fact that, in the Sahara, there's multiple wars going on over there and that it would be a prime location for a terrorist attack
- Somehow, also build the infrastructure to transfer that energy through the desert without losing it all as heat. Remember, you've got multiple GW coming out of here. A single 800kV line will not be enough
- have backup power lines in case your inaccessible and hard to repair line breaks.

Man, life as a solar zealot sounds easy, all you have to do is ignore physics and reality.
"not evasive the way this piece is"

I presume you refer to the avoidance of examples in the article. Your comment suggest he was correct to do so. Some people will be desperate to disprove that modern heresy exists, and highlighting forbidden opinions would help negate the entire article.
“Digital Vegan” is snappier than “Digital Selective Omnivore” for those us consciously trying to control our tech use, but I can’t find a positive term for people like my dad, who don’t directly use the Internet in a world that increasingly demands it. There needs to be a right to paper.

A very specific example: for international air travel, it needs to be acceptable to give an email address from the airline or airport to receive Covid results; alternatively, anyone charging for Covid testing must be required to offer a printout of results (or at least make it very clear when booking the test that results are only available via email).

A right to paper has privacy protections. If you have the right to receive and present required information on paper, you are not being required to carry and use a tracking device.

And I say all this as someone who has had and enthusiastically used smartphones for over a decade, and the Internet since the mid 90s.
It would be an unmitigated disaster to have this dude on the board - his decorum is totally unacceptable
more interested to see cruise respond to why its headlights weren't on.
Snapshot VM, npm install
vehicles are make noise with the engine and wheels, so light electric vehicles are super quiet, but heavy vehicles tend to be loud regardless when moving fast
My cat would smack the metal blinds when he got stuck in my bedroom with me while I’m sleeping.

I just love how he knew that I was sleeping and found out how to make the loudest possible sound in my house, all while staring at me of course, without even having to raise his voice.
To be fair, we are talking about Twitter here.
Typically its not that they have no control, in the cases you're talking about, but the machines do have specified dose limits still. You can press the button as many times as you like, but it typically won't let you hit yourself with a gram of morphine or something. So in that case, I can see the button being an applied placebo effect.
> I personally read it as 4 separate readings being shown.

The uncooked data (meaning, total case numbers) are available. Do the math yourself. You'll see you are wrong.

You can also see that of the 34705 people who has a case, 1166 were hospitalized. Of the 321868 people who were fully vaccinated and had a case, 2409 were hospitalized. Ergo, those vaccinated and who get a case are fare less likely to be hospitalized.

> without the raw data

You'll never have access to the rawest of data as that includes personal medical information that isn't supposed to be public.

> We can certainly say that the data is not being provided in a straightforward, accessible way to the public

The government data sources were more straight-forwarded than the interpretations you linked to.

I had no problem with the data, other than it being more technical than I can easily understand.

> we also have unknowns around the data collection

Which is irrelevant to the thesis that those with two shots are more likely to be infected than those with no vaccinations.

Even if the thesis is correct, the analysis purportedly demonstrating the link is clearly wrong.

And the thing about medical data is there will always be unknowns.
It's banned in all Polish cities I've been to. And for a good reason.

Half the problems with America seems to be lack of regulation and the assumption that it can't be changed :)
The 10 "vacation days", would typically be for planned things, like taking a family vacation.

The 7 holidays are literally holidays, like Christmas, thanksgiving, etc, where most everyone is off work.

The 6 days are basically sick days, but you can also use them as one-off "dont feel like working" days .

I would say this is a decent policy by USA standards, but most tech companies have better policies. Amazon pays high salaries to engineers, but the other benefits are pretty poor.
Russian Gas, Acid Rain and Industrial Scaremongers
Archived: https://archive.ph/2022.04.08-162236/https://www.nytimes.com...
Thinking about it Apple is really just an iPod Inc: looking at the iPhone and airpods as evolutions of iPod (iPod touch is the missing link)
My dream is to build some kind of app to actually give a resonable noise estimate of a place and warn against potential problems.

I also struggle a lot with noise pollution. Shity neighbours, random building noises in the dead of night, Buses that accelerate right in front of my window at 6 in the morning, etc.
Imagine if you had to sign a consent form before entering a supermarket.

They would go out of business pretty fast.
I always thought Sun would have been a good cultural fit for Google.
In terms of firing people who don't deserve to be fired?

The thing you're claiming is that the company/decision makers think damore was right (or that his opinion was irrelevant) and fired him only to save face.

I don't think that happens regularly. I think sometimes someone points out that an employee is racist and the company fires that employee, but that's not "kowtowing", it's a combination of not working with assholes and taking customer feedback. I don't think the thing you're talking about happens much at all.
Barbiturate synthesis isn't particularly easy, for what it's worth. Though that depends on what precursors and equipment/glassware you can get, and whether you have organic chemistry experience.
Yes, really. https://forums.att.com/conversations/att-fiber-equipment/pos...
Kube-OVN – Kubernetes Networking for Enterprise
Same problem here. Small mail host on my own domain.

Everything is set up perfectly, mail-tester.com gives it 10/10, and last week Gmail suddenly starts hard bouncing emails for one day and delivers to spam folder after that. Three days later everything is back to normal.

How? Why?
I wish it was named Moore Cores :)

But Moore Threads is also really nice ;)
the key thing here is that if you know that no safe code contains invalid utf8, it is safe to do unsafe indexing into tables that are only sized to deal with valid utf8. as such, this works in practice lead to ub in otherwise correct code, so it should be marked unsafe.
I worked at EMC at the time that Sun was aquired by Oracle. There were rumors that EMC was considering purchasing Sun to gain the final toe hold in the DC that they eventually filled by merging with Dell.

I am sure if EMC had bought Sun I'd still be there. Sun & EMC were both engineer led organisations in the old days, and the two cultures would have worked well together. (IMHO based on my experience working at EMC and with many many Sun alumni).
FYI the neighborhood is Kalorama in DC, where a lot of diplomats and high-level government officials live. Maybe the agents didn't want one of the neighbors to call the director of the FBI to have them chewed out for "making the neighborhood look bad", which is not an impossible thing to happen there considering who the neighbors are.

I imagine if you're an FBI field agent, the last thing you want for your career is for the director to be getting angry calls from other high level officials because of you.
It's not. Check the statistics in Hong Kong, where hardly anyone died of they were boosted with the BioNTech vaccine, vs almost all the deaths occurring in unvaccinated or Sinovac vaccinated people.
Week in Ethereum News: https://weekinethereumnews.com/
Thanks for sharing! Look forward to your Ugen as well. It's great to see that many languages have supported sample-level control, including the Pd and Max you mentioned. There was a discussion on Faust repo before that might be interesting for you too: https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust/issues/685
I’m generally proud of how my home country treated West Germany after WW2, but opting for a rushed “denazification” that allowed actual Nazis back into power, as long as they hadn’t been terribly loud actual Nazis, in order to get things moving was a tragic mistake.
This may be nice, but would be better if it were a little more privacy and self hosted focused, like perhaps whoogle or searx
Oh that's cool! I haven't explored around the interwebs enough to know all the cool nerdy places like this. Thanks!
In the Soviet Union the high level apparatchiks lived in better housing, away from the common people.

There will always be elite people. At least in capitalism you become rich by providing value to other people. In socialism you become elite by stealing from your comrades and forcefully eliminating the competition.
I have a domain I've been using for some 20 years as my primary email address. There are some gmail users I can send mail to without any problems at all. For other gmail users, my messages appear to go into a black hole, not even showing up in their spam folder. Looking at my postfix logs, I can see gmail's SMTP servers don't report any problems at delivery time. It's frustrating.
You don't have to use the custom @domain.mozmail.com address with Firefox Relay—you can use @mozmail.com with one of the auto-generated random aliases.

Your complaint is similar to using RFC 822 "me+site.com@domain.com" style emails and then worrying that sites are going to learn that your real email is "me@domain.com" by stripping off the part after the plus sign. Call me optimistic or naive, but I don't think that sites are doing that...

https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/plus-signs-in-email-a...