skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain this more? I've been getting into home automation and my wife would like programmable irrigation for when we're not at home. Did you interface with existing wifi valves or are you doing the circuit yourself?

I recently got rtlsdr to read my water meter so I can detect leaks, which is pretty cool
> Who decides what constitutes a "human rights violation" in the first place?

There are plenty of organisations trying to do just that. UN Human Rights Council, Amnesty International, etc. There's a Universal Declaration of Human Rights that could quite easily be applied as a baseline.
I agree. And I would argue that the CIA should also get the boot. Probably about half of AWS's GovCloud should. But all the other heinous stuff that the US government agencies do abroad someone (that's not me) could argue is in the furtherance of national security. ICE is absolutely, clearly, not. There is no justifiable defense of the things ICE does, which is why it's the one most targeted.
Microsoft still appears to be doing so: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/privacy-whit...
[Spoiler Alert:] Original 1968 “Planet of the Apes”? It's a great visual reveal in the last moments of the film; no dialog needed.
Yes, there are risks involved. Not saying there aren't. That said, there can be organizations, which are not credit card companies, that buffer that risk.

Correct, this model does not work for everyone's financial situation. However, people who are living paycheck to paycheck arguably shouldn't also be floating on debt. This is why credit cards ask for income statements in order to determine how much credit to extend.
> It puts an insane amount of risk on the employee

The market is what dictates this. You don't have to take a startup job.

Facebook, Google, etc. minted hundreds of millionaires when they IPO'd. It's hard for me to feel bad for people who take those risks.

I'd argue a whole lot of engineers should be much more judicious about joining startups and ask for more options. If engineers knew how to calculate startup risks better they'd probably know there is too much equity is concentrated to too few individuals (mainly founders).
That's just a misunderstanding of why (most) people use stablecoins in the first place. It's not ideological, it's practical.

When you sell crypto and want to exchange it for "real" money, say USD, some exchanges don't support that, they only support crypto to crypto conversions. On exchanges that do support it, it's sometimes slow and often comes with a fee. Both the exchange and your bank may impose arbitrary limits on it. It may create a taxable event.

By comparison, a crypto to crypto conversion (say BTC to USDC) is instant, often free, and without much limitation.

If actual USD had none of the above limitations, nobody would need or use a stablecoin. It's a utility, not some bet against the dollar.
> all the heinous shit US defense and intelligence does, whom Amazon is also in bed with, a-ok

I seriously doubt people think this.
a current induction charger for a phone, that operates over about a millimeter of distance, is at best 70% as efficient as charging with a wire.

The fact that this article omitted all details about efficiency, and omitted any numbers that we could use to calculate it, say it's probably not beating the standard induction charger's efficiency.

I think this technology is more in the stage of "It's possible to do this!" rather than "it's practical to do this"
Earth’s land and water hemispheres [1] were particularly stark in contrast back in the time of the dinosaurs. Are there geological theories as to how the asymmetry formed? Could major impact events from astronomical objects have played a role?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres
FYI, I am the author of the blog post.

> This undercuts the critics' argument.

No, it doesn't, for all of the reasons given in the blog post and the subsequent discussion. The Born rule is an observable fact of nature, and you cannot derive it from the Schroedinger equation, Duetsch and Wallace's claims to the contrary notwithstanding.
His title says Chairmen. It's worse - he's ABOVE the CEO.
Number of openings is very much not the same as the number of jobs that exist; the article conflates the two, but it's entirely possible that many devs just don't want to work for crypto companies, so crypto job openings stay unfilled (and therefore visible) for longer than other types of Rust positions.
That's not historically accurate. Historically, the purpose of a company was to be a vehicle that a passive partner could invest capital into an enterprise providing a return on investment, such that an active partner (who did not) could manage it [1].

I do not see historical support for your claim that the purpose of a company was "to employ people and provide services and value to the community they existed in" even if that would be an ideal social outcome (and one which I'd personally prefer to see everywhere).

[1] https://news.law.fordham.edu/jcfl/2018/11/18/a-brief-history...
You must not be referring to their HQ.

Because AT&T is in Texas and IBM is in New York.
The often-cited notion that a warehouse worker has even remotely the same responsibility as a company CEO is just straight-up fiction. Ergo, their jobs are incomparable.
Your "for fairness" response article includes:

> [Graham's blog post] Before closing, however, I’m understandably very happy to quote here the useful concise summary of America Before given by anthropologist Jeb J. Card in his contribution to the issue (pp 26-30):

>> [Card's review] Attempting to critique America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock (2019) using the criteria of professional archaeology is doomed to failure, as his goals are outside of the materialist practice of scientific archaeology. In a nutshell, Hancock argues that an ancient civilization of the Pleistocene emerged in North America that was based not on material technology but on psychic/spiritual knowledge. It became a global sea-based society comparable with the late pre-Industrial British Empire. These Ice Age Americans (spoiler: Atlanteans) foresaw a cosmic disaster and spread memetic seeds of sacred knowledge of geometry, astronomy, and the Otherworld and how souls may navigate it around the world. After this civilization was destroyed by impact events from a comet during the Younger Dryas, these advanced people came to be remembered as magicians and gods. Seeking this knowledge today is a path to truly understanding reality and the spiritual elements denied by materialist science.”

> [Graham's blog post] Card’s precis of my arguments is fair, and in general I’d say that his analysis of my work and its function is much more carefully thought through than that of any of the other contributors.

If the author thinks the reviewer pointing to psychic Atlanteans in his work is treating him more fairly than the rest, that doesn't bode well for the overall work.
Yes, however today, this is done in a centralized way. You have to ask for permission to get that loan. DeFi does this in a collateralized decentralized way. If I have bitcoin, I can borrow against that bitcoin without having to walk into a bank and fill out reams of paperwork.
The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling
AOL didn't fight too hard?! AOL fought the hardest of any of them! AIM interop was by far the most notoriously difficult challenge for alt client devs back in the day because they explicitly fought alt clients, whereas MSN Messenger, ICQ etc didn't bother.

The trick I remember the most was really quite clever - the server started sending hash challenges to the clients i.e. a random byte range into the client binary. The client had to respond with a hash within a timeout or else the server disconnected them. The trick was, because the challenges were randomly generated you couldn't make a database of them, but also, the copyright license on the client forbade people redistributing it. Eventually it was worked around of course, people set up servers to answer the oracle queries that clients could relay to, but it really disrupted the alt messenger scene for quite a while. And in turn that meant it screwed people who wanted to use Linux because AIM was the number 1 social network in the USA during this period (though it's all forgotten now and was never as big in Europe, where MSN dominated).
Yes that's kind of my point through the thread.
If people point to Tesla's service as inadequate in 2020-2022, imagine how it was in 2015.. and you have Lucid/Rivian.
Very roughly minimum loss is 50% for a far-field optical or RF system (near-field can be better), excluding the energy cost of building the transmitter/receiver systems themselves. Losses due to impedance mismatch make this difficult to improve. The most efficient light emitters are ~50% and the best optical photo-voltaics are also ~40%, which would get you to an 80% loss, ignoring atmospheric losses.
Cool, we should totally stick to killing each other over made up nonsense then.
Routing for IPv6 traffic is sometimes marginally faster than v4 (cf. https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html), but this is probably more a matter of v6 traffic not using some older, slower v4-only networks.
People in the UK don't cook?
My understanding is that Paddle becomes a middle man in the transaction taking on all international tax responsibility. They pay you out after paying all tax/vat local to the customer. This massively simplifies international sales, particularly for EU business.

I also believe that an awful lot of small online SASS and digital good sales by companies are committing (unintentional) tax fraud in the countries of their customers.

I hate trying to understand vat/sales tax on digital goods, to the point that it has until now discouraged me from starting that sort of business on my own. With Paddle I wouldn't have to even think about it.
Check out Agner Fog's vectorclass library: https://github.com/vectorclass/version2
"Lesson" also bears this meaning of something learned, though that would make "learnings" more precise, and therefore distinct.

My experience seems to be that people who use "learnings" are referring to the lessons learned by others, usually subordinates and is used instead of "lesson" because of -- being sensitive to how harsh it sounds to say "group X learned several lessons".
you spooked me with the last line. very dramatic—the imagery is of talking to an old man in a cemetary.
Joining the 250 Club* is a big deal. Jassy just... missed out.

*250K total comp
Not by default, but you can add a Slack app which will allow you to run /todo commands. Now you've got a quick Todo list.
For me its been hiring and working with those that are not able to make the "leap" toward working in a startup. This mainly comes from folks that join a startup after being at a larger org for some time.

What I observe happening is that they cannot think 3 dimensionally, or do not want to wear many hats (which is now required of them in start up life).

This manifests itself in them not wanting to work as hard as others, or unable unwilling to break old habits. Which can be disastrous as every minute counts in a start up.
it was a joke. the inverted statement isn't specific enough to even be wrong.

I believe it was already well-known (in a supported-by-the-data way) in the public health community that handguns at home are more risky than not having them at home, when properly integrating over all the uncertainty, and the underlying mechanism was accidental shootings unrelated to ongoing crimes.
Who determines what fair is? What makes you more well equipped to set the rules here than the market? This isn't a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely curious.
You can’t sit here and say that you know the answers to the questions, despite the fact that you can’t define what a hard or soft skill is. You gotta pick one stance here man.

Have you never heard of “soft skills” OR the genders are the same, which is it? If you don’t know what a soft skill is, how are concluding that they’re both the same gender? You literally said you don’t understand the question.
Mine only charges to 280mi now and I am at way fewer miles, so YMMV. I think its region dependent, maybe my car got more hot/cold cycles, etc being parked outdoors in NYC for years.
Not if it's a basket of different crypto. You could peg it to the overall market cap of crypto. It would then by definition be stable in reference to itself, each token would always represent a fixed % of the pool. It still wouldn't be stable in relation to other non-crypto markets, but it's instability would be relative to crypto as a whole rather than any particular coin.

But this is only helpful if you don't need to have your money going back & forth between crypto & traditional investments or currency. It wouldn't be stable relative to fiat currencies. Relative to outside systems it would be more stable than riskier coins but probably less stable than something like BTC. Individual coins are still highly correlated to the crypto market as a whole, so any single coin's stability (or lack thereof) could still move the value of a stable coin like this significantly in relation to outside financial systems.
Contrarian opinion : to the extent this matters (which is not much), the acronym is fun and more memorable.

You'll remember SLIM, even if you forget what the individual words it stands for, because it's a single word. Being memorable helps with getting public support by staying the public conscience which is needed for these multi-million dollar space investments.
Twitter shareholder sues Elon Musk for tanking the company’s stock
Could not resolve location for "Barcelona, Catalonia, ES"

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I agree with some of the critique here, but the lesson I took from the experience of following those first graces was "oh, I guess I'm going to need to be stronger to fight this guy, guess I'll go wander around and level up" - which I think is _exactly_ the lesson that the designers intended.
Amazon Graviton3 vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance
I wish there were a way to volunteer some of my spare time to civic stuff (as a technologist) instead of having to make it my primary employment. I'd do that in a heartbeat, and I bet lots of others would too
I have some issues as well; I heard that [1] was the cause for some breakage, which should be fixed in 5.18, but I didn't verify as I haven't had much reason to use suspend lately.

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/dfbba2518aac4204203...
Andy Fletcher (Depeche Mode) has died
From Demo Day to pivoting 20 times
Does this strategy of shaming the corporation who wants a nice big government contract instead of, you know, petitioning your federally elected representatives, actually work?
Technically speaking, it is possible. But in real life such event could:

- dilute overall value of BTC if it was a 1:1 airdrop (this could be avoided by maybe minting the ERC20 version after providing a proof of burn of real BTC)

- get backlash from BTC maxis who attribute its value to the fact that BTC is secure thanks to PoW, or that Ethereum blockchain relies on an asset that has traits of a security, etc.

- uncertainty related to risk of incorrect smart contract implementation, entity behind it, etc.

These factors could cause a lot of volatility to both tokens, and only one of them would prevail in the long term (historically I would bet it would follow similar path of BCH or BSV, or gazillion other BTC killers)
Hm I just tried `!imdb wag the dog` on bing and I didn't end up on imdb.com. Instead I got Microsoft's take on that movie and a bunch of other cruft. If by proxy you mean they use bing's index then yeah I guess they do. If you mean they have the same functionality then no, you're wrong.
This already exists, Circle Finance + Coinbase issue USDC, for example. It's just backed by 1:1 actual USD (at least it will be 1:1 very soon, as in 100% reserve, according to public statements, I haven't checked recently if that is complete).
Well, there isn’t matter at that time — and your analogy to dice is exactly my point.

That instant could roll to anything from its current position (and according to many worlds, did) — the phase space of that object is huge, far beyond anything we normally see. That single object has all the complexity of every possible universe stacked into an infinitesimal region!

We’re in a colder universe than it was at that compacted moment, which I’m having trouble aligning with your explanation about crystals: we’re seeing the cooling towards absolute zero as a superheated droplet spreads out and freezes.

Defects forming in the crystallization of iron doesn’t imply the cold, defect laden iron has more entropy than the liquid drop it cooled from.
> purpose of a company was originally exactly that: to employ people and provide services and value to the community they existed in

This describes charities, trusts and local governments. Maybe artisans. The East India companies weren’t trying to “provide services and value” to anyone but their owners. Even going back to Roman times, civic duty and commercial interests were distinct parts of peoples’ work. You were expected to do both. But the unification of the two pursuits appears to be more modern.
Different filaments. You form a mesh that creates "hotspots" of attraction for water.
> We need hard limits on executive pay because if you adjust every other employees salary at a truly fair rate, Jassy should be lucky to make 10 million a year.

This makes no sense. Why should executive salary be tied or compared to the salary of any other employee role? Should my salary as a dev be a function of what a janitor makes? Should my Manager's salary be tied to my salary? I'm not sure where this idea originally came from but compensation should be based on the value the employee is adding , the rarity of that employee's skills, and how in demand that skill set it, not some arbitrary multiplier of another role's salary. I don't care if a CEO is paid NX the rate of the lowest paid role as long as they are adding value commensurate with their salary. Also, "truly fair rate" according to who, you? What makes you qualified to be the arbiter of corporate compensation?

> There is literally no job on earth that should command this price tag.

The people who have a vested interest in deciding this, namely Amazon shareholders, apparently disagree with you.
The language has evolved greatly in the last few years. With LINQ and generics it was already nice but add on all the recent syntax sugar and ideas stolen from F#.. and you can write very nice code.

Not all code will be though - we have a lot of Java-minded people in the community (who port Java libraries/frameworks) and they tend to be... ugly..
Closure Compiler still works, I just wish it could output modern JS. It transpiles down to either ES3 or ES5 and there's no way to turn that off. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a good alternative.
Those articles are about old actions of the company. Those issues have led to changes that cause the company to be on the list now. They are spending billions on reducing emissions, researching alternative fuels, and partnering with renewable companies.

Meanwhile, Tesla and Musk have a very recent historical pattern of not caring about environmental regulations, with no indication of any change in belief or practice.

So one is at least putting up money to try to improve things, while the other DGAF about the environment if it gets in their way of their business.

https://tyt.com/stories/4vZLCHuQrYE4uKagy0oyMA/6qN1EZx2r1p7a...
Those are non paid users

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3637079/as-google-move...

> As of March 2020, there were 6 million paid customers, according to Google’s most recent publicly available stats.
"midlife crises" is not about a numerical middle, but rather a change in lifestyle that comes about from children having grown up, passing your peak at your chosen specialization, change in health, or whatever. It's when you change your major goals and priorities.
HTTP was already replaced by HTTP/2, which is mostly SPDY rebranded - a protocol developed by Google. They weren't satisfied with that so now HTTP/2 is being replaced with QUIC, a binary protocol implemented first in Chrome.
There have never been dinosaurs in my town. We've always maintained a big board in both local and regional languages that said "DINOSAURS KEEP OUT".
Yeah, but now people have to actually trust that you are being truthful about your backing.
I just double-checked with my peers and it turns out it's possible to protest two different things at once, and that petitioning at multiple sources of the problem is often more effective at getting things done.
Do you remember the title or any other details of Conway’s presentation? I’d like to look for this.
I may be silly, but isn’t this proof of stake, where you can stake anything, including a couch?
Exactly! To be clear to parent commenter, I'm not endorsing microservices to solve this organizational problem, just pointing out it's part of the reason to choose microservices.
The article makes references to atmospheric conditions:

> "Because of limitations imposed by the atmosphere on the effective transmission of energy within certain sections of the electromagnetic spectrum, researchers have focused on microwave, millimeter-wave, and optical frequencies."

It seems likely that water vapor is the big issue, and that's pretty variable across a lot of regions, and fog and cloud formation would be an additional issue. Hence, this is probably going to be more for relatively short-distance applications (the demo they discuss is a few hundred meters) on Earth. However, in space-to-space applications this doesn't seem to be an issue. Maybe something like solar satellites in orbit around the Moon beaming power to Moonbase would be an option.

For really long-distance energy transport on Earth, the transport of stored chemical or nuclear energy (hydrocarbons or uranium basically, or maybe iron?) are really the only plausible options.
I’ve done that before too - but it’s always possible if you run tests often enough that you’ll get an ID collision that randomly fails a test and causes a developer some grief. Easier to not use random sources of data as a rule of thumb within your unit tests.
Thought you might find https://verdverm.com/go-mods/ interesting. Outlines many of the lesser known features of `go mod`

Would be really interesting to have an MVS style NPM dep tree and do away with the lock file all together!
Some great questions and answers on deconvolution at Signal Processing Stack Exchange: https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deconvolution....
If trees block 5G, do human bodies block it also?
I worked at one of those places and helped rewrite components into Go ;) Sure, there were performance benefits but in my experience there was never a real business problem that Go solved that Python couldn’t.

All the people freaking out about performance didn’t realize that even in the Python days, half of our datacenters pretty much sat idle or severely underutilized. Computing is dirt cheap as long as you’re not renting a 15-year-old CPU from a Cloud Provider for 100x markup. The other thing is that engineers would frequently build things that were just wasteful or unnecessary, and sure, Go sped things up, but you could have changed the design instead of the language.
That’s what it says for my hometown unless I switch to a more recent year. The error message is a bit confusing I think, the tip to change the year isn’t super obvious.

Interestingly, Barcelona doesn’t show up until you hit 0 years ago, so perhaps it’s location is extremely recent on the tectonic scale?
Why do you need maximum performance?

Logically, if you need maximum performance, you can't care about compile time.