skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you abolished patents you'd have to reduce regulations on drug discovery enough that university teams can make new ones (like in the bad old days of the 1950s). Big budget movies we can just do without.

On a related note: If you reduce the regulations on drugs you could go back to the good old days where new drugs cost under a hundred million dollars to make. This would let smaller companies make new drugs and drug companies would get slightly less insane margins (your average big pharma company gets $2 for shareholders for every $1 they spend on R&D, manufacturing, admin, advertising, etc).
that's doesn't mean it's because that amount of twitter users are fake tho

I'd argue real people rarely click ads

for facebook I read that most of the advertising money is spent on clickfarms, which just click anything to seem real e.g. follow 100 real brands and sell 50 fake follows on that acc.
> Again, that's okay.

Don't need to be reassuring to HN commenters :)
NASA assembles a UFO research team to study ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’
> This reminds me of the Black Mirror episode "Nosedive"

I shall check it out!
Let's hope if he ever has a tilt at president, his campaign lasts as long.
Then again, I kind of feel like we've been here before...
Great article and blog!

I would also mention, that we essentially design controllers to shift the poles and zeroes of the total system (which consists of the plant system and the controller system) to more desirable positions, than those of the plant system alone.
> I would prefer the FCC be more transparent about what he transmitted and use that to justify the fine.

If you're really curious, go and do the research then - if it's not public record, you can file a Freedom of Information request.

But why do you care so much?

In your hypothetical scenario, you can transmit just fine - just use the proper emergency / SOS channels, not the ones reserved for e.g. the fire department, you're more likely to get help then. I don't see why so many people seem to struggle with this basic concept.
Either way, if I ended up with $100 million ($600 million * stock crash) I’d probably retire. It’s mind boggling to me when people with such wealth want even more. Take the guy who stole tech from Google and went to Uber. Google gave him enough to live out his days doing whatever he pleaded for the most part. Yet obviously he felt like he wanted more - whether that was money, recognition, etc. and lost it all. It’s crazy to me.
Did they actually find a quantum algorithm for graph isomorphism? I was under the impression that was a major unsolved problem and would be a pretty big deal.

I have my doubts...
Following seems to be squarely the responsibilities of C-Suite (including CEO).

- The over-prioritization of certain products, which has led to a lack of focus on other important issues like infrastructure

- Not being able to output any higher or better quality products and services despite aggressively hiring more employees

- A generally apathetic and sometimes condescending attitude from the CPO, COO, and Chief People Officer

- Initiatives like the Dot Collector and the Performance review system that has led to a toxic workplace culture

> ..fluff like "a generally apathetic and sometimes condescending attitude" is not actionable

Feedback like 'apathy' and 'condescending attitude' are very legit for employees and even to the interview candidates. Why fluff and not actionable in this case?
Rust is hard without a doubt. I'm suspicious it's really only hard because it front loads the effort over, say, c++, but it is hard. Expect maybe a year to be proficient, but there's a point long before that it becomes a delight.

Async is hard again, taking more months to feel proficient. I've again a suspicion that much of the resistance to async is due to people who have done the first effort to feel comfortable in rust and expect async to fit right in, but it doesn't, because it's hard too.

Threads are also hard, but under rust they better map to existing thread models, so pre-existing skills are useful and so someone skilled in threads and rust will be skilled in threads with rust.

For sure, there are missing pieces of the async world like async traits, but they will come.
> 1. Untangle your self-worth and your work

When you are passionate about your work, it can easily bleed into every other area of your life — you read about work-related topics in your free time, you think about a particularly challenging problem in the shower, you journal about your work, etc. It also changes ones social circle: hanging out with an ambitious and curious start-up crowd easily leads to work as the default topic in a gathering of friends. Once you have work deeply embedded in your interests and social life, it does not take a huge mental leap to "work is what defines me as an individual".

That then leads to a precarious "all eggs in one basket" situation that leaves you vulnerable in cases of professional failure ("My start-up is not doing well; I am a failure") or burnout ("I'm cynical about my work; nothing matters").

It took quite a bit of time to disentangle my self-worth and my professional identity, but it makes life so much better.
> Did you mean to write "the most [used] form"?

Yeah. Too late to edit.

I know that, but I postulate that people look at the author of the PR in githubs UI, not individual commits. Even if they did, the verified badge only points to a github profile anyway. So.. an attacker would much rather want to impersonate a github profile than a commit. I guess.
iMessage is a legitimate significant value add to my life. Such a high percentage of my associates have iPhones that having an android is a legitimate harm for interactions (makes you less likely to be added to group chats)

I’m speaking as someone who has used both full time as well
Exactly. Why purchase a new roof ventilator for 150EUR if you can spend 1000EUR for a small lathe and fix the ventilator that was broken?
I agree that this is a potentially huge problem, but I wouldn't say that they had "no way"; thanks to git's distributed natured, surely if N developers got together and verified that their local hashes match up to a certain commit, they could be reasonably sure that those are legitimate.
I'm not an expert in this field, but i am pretty sure they are using the term "quantum supremacy" very incorrectly in this article.
Although asynq[0] seems to cover more serious usecases and has more interfaces, I like its simplicity.

[0] https://github.com/hibiken/asynq
There's a lot of people trying to play lawyer for this guy, I don't really understand why.

Yes there is an exception, but did you stop and think whether it applied in this case? If he wanted to be helpful, there are a billion other frequencies (I don't even know) he could've done so without broadcasting on the reserved frequencies.
Interesting! I'm curious to how it compares to MH? Have you tried both?
Your blog is awesome. Keep it up!

Don't pay too much attention to the external measures, like site clicks etc. Just continue doing what you like and continue contributing to your blog and development. One day, you will look back at it all with a smile (just like how you celebrate the old internet sites!). Also, don't forget to give yourself a pat on the back and celebrate little milestones.
I'm nX 1 too<p>;)\n
The Antikythera Mechanism: Session 1
One of those services even used to have a demo site where you could put in any mobile phone number and it would show where it was. It got quickly shut down when it made the news.

I can't find the article because Google search terms for stuff like "locating any phone by number" are SEOed to death by scammers trying to exploit would-be stalkers

edit: found it https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/tracking-firm-locationsm...
It wouldn't even be worth betting on because the odds of Republicans attempting to pass an amendment allowing foreign born citizens to be president is next to nil.
Stokes' Theorem on Manifolds [video]
I'm not into woodworking, but give me a CNC milling machine and you can lock me up and throw the key away.
Fair. Perhaps a glider would have been a better example.
Lol. So you can't give me any concrete examples. Got it.

Nothing tells me more about someone that is full of it than simply being dismissive of others. I ask for an example to support your argument, instead you chose to be defensive and give me attitude.
Well yeah, there are always exceptions and this isn't an automatic ruling. But it does not apply here, and you can read the details to see why not.

As for your hypothetical scenario, why would they hijack the plane's communications channel, instead of contact the central fire fighting authorities through the proper channels?

If you don't know what the proper channels are, you shouldn't have a license. This is another reason the guy was fined; it wasn't a random that happened to find a radio set to the reserved frequency (or however these things work), it was a licensed radio operator, they get trained and tested. And he repeated offenses, despite being told to stop / get off the channel.
I am not sure what to take from this. The title certainly makes sense from a engineers perspective. But from a layman's? I don't know.

It seems, that he tries to explain an important concept in control theory but does not explain the meaning of "plane" at all. Even worse: He uses airplanes as an example.

Isn't it terribly confusing for non-control-theory people? If I don't know control theory, then how on earth would I know that he means a 2D-plane? And what's this "minimum-phase-system" he mentions once? Is a pole a number? And what about RHP poles?

I would be interested in how readers without a background in control theory and higher maths understood that article and what questions arose.
Not a book, but this series on Youtube is excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7l8mMjYVE&list=PLMrJAkhIeN...

> familiar with Nyquist-Shannon's theorem

BTW: In control theory there is also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_stability_criterion
The show was called "Silicon Valley" but yes they did explore/mock that concept
As a statistician I chuckle seeing the genius rocket scientist lacks the most rudimentary understanding of stats 101.

Maybe from now on we should use statistics as the epitome of difficult intellectual activity instead of “rocket science”.
And supports fuck all upcoming web features, disqualifying it as a browser for any serious tinkering.
Free speech absolutionist, like you, also seem to be against the consequences of that speech, such as being "cancelled". I am for both free speech and getting cancelled for it. In this way, standards acceptable to our society can be policed without interferance from the government.
> If this is truly like the early internet, they should have vastly improved over the past ten years

They have. There are other cryptocurrencies besides Bitcoin. Even the worst proof-of-stake chains have multiple orders of magnitude better throughput and latency than Bitcoin does. Hell, there are plenty of other proof-of-work chains with better throughput and latency than Bitcoin. And that's all entirely ignoring sidechains and other such shenanigans pushing transaction rates and speeds even further.
You're right, fossil fuel waste storage costs aren't the alternative to nuclear waste storage costs.

We've chosen to have to deal with both fairly indefinitely, for any time scale we're likely to want to talk about.
These are pointless nitpicks. Every language has things like this. In 4 years of using Python in anger I’ve never written a line of code that could be improved by the features you list.
Everyone with a license to operate some kind of maritime, aviation or other radio also knows which frequencies are designated for emergencies. Those frequencies are monitored 24x7 all over the world by for example the coast guard, ATC and nearly every airplane in cruise flight (and I guess also ships, not sure how it works there).

Jumping in on a non-open frequency that is used for firefighting coordination, with a callsign that is specifically chosen to sound as "part of the team", it just a stupid stunt that deserves to be prosecuted.
Does it matter if harm was done? He broadcasted on a reserved frequency; that is illegal. He proceeded to broadcast on a reserved frequency despite being told to stop; that makes it not accidental. And he is a licensed operator, so he knew what he was doing, which makes it on purpose.

There's a lot of people jumping to this guy's defense, or reinterpreting the law, or what-iffing hypothetical scenarios in this comments thread and I don't understand it.

Let the guy take the L, he broke the law and has to face consequences, it's that simple.

edit: I see another commenter in this thread pointing out he got off lightly, too.
The Just Bananas Method for Generating True Random Numbers
I'm disappointed the article didn't have a link towards a copy of the book; at this point I think most copyright have expired, no?

Here's one I found: http://demonax.info/doku.php?id=text:how_to_survive_under_si...
> is way more important than a chat app will not use my phone number for advertisement.

My profile being shown on a different platform to people that I might be close to (co-workers, in-laws, friends of friends) but I'm not interested in having on social media is pretty damn concerning, regardless of ads.
By that I mean not easy to steal by anyone at gunpoint.

The point is that money is not wealth. Wealth is the ability to consume goods and services. If you got stranded on a deserted island with a suitcase full of millions you'd still live in extreme poverty despite all your millions.

Therefore securing crypto-currencies doesn't replace the need for securing actual wealth. On the contrary, it's an extra cost that its users have to bear, in addition to the costs of securing GDP and the entire economy.
Tesla Shanghai workers can leave the factory for first time in weeks
You are vastly over-estimating the scale at which local government operates and I'm not saying this is 100% about signing. Searching, pulling GIS files, whatever, it's all essentially the same problem.

Your argument is akin to being anti-Twitter because the local government could build a notification system just as well. Maybe San Francisco could, but most of America cannot.

Twitter's core function is that it lets you send and receive short messages. That's absolutely great for a local government office, but it didn't make enough sense for any local government to invent Twitter. That's not the job of local government.

The value here is in the network effect of agreed upon protocols between interested parties.

If parties agree on data sharing protocols, which is something we've all been talking about forever, then the network gains value.

> we can transact using an on-chain NFT that grants the equivalent of ownership rights to the house

He's literally talking about ownership rights tokenized for convenient settlement with a governance layer that can be overridden by officials. I think that's a fine idea to try out. It will probably reduce friction most of the time.

> you can just gloss over because blockchain

The idea is that a universally trusted, always-on database allows you to build new types of applications. This seems obvious to me.

I was listening to NPR a while ago and they had story on about governments that paid for ransomware attacks so they could access critical records. That's where we're at today.

All networks are hard to get off the ground. If you can't tell, I was a fan of the "semantic web" idea. I feel like this time it's going to work because there's a money-layer built into it.
I'm a coder for a furniture company. I can confirm making it digital takes the fun out of it. Well maybe it's the mass manufacturing side.

However I've picked up some skills along the way. It's nice to be able to design and build small projects around the home.
As a shareholder I support them and 100% agree with what they're saying.

edit: That said I don't see any proof that this was written by Coinbase employees. Will treat it as unconfirmed although that doesn't change anything about the criticism being correct.
Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm
> The radical left is very predictable. They don't fool anyone anymore though.

What a strange and unnecessary point.
> how well they demonstrate the 10 crore Values at coinbase

I wonder if these are the 10 core values, or Coinbase actually has 10 crore (100,000,000) values they want employees to think about... Doesn't seem impossible given some HR departments I've seen.
I think the Dunbar Number plays a significant role in why those situations are different.
Yeah, this is the classic playbook of hype vendors. The bigger the claim, the less specific, the better, because specifics can be settled one way or another.
When I bought my current house I had copies of the deeds dating back to the early 1800s (thy physical building dates from 1962, but I know there was a post office here before then from old OS maps). This isn't just a transcript, this is the original writing in the original style. OK it's only 200 years, but it's still interesting to see what was being written (formally) by normal people back then.
Turning twitter into a public company worth $100/share would be below par for Elon's performance with all his previous companies so far. He'll probably turn it into a company worth much more if he actually acquires it. Even just unbanning Trump from the platform would drastically shoot up the share price. Twitter leadership has been screwing itself as a company for some time.
I didn't exclusively use Duolingo. I also got real world practice. But Duolingo was great for practicing in free moments, and for about 1-2 hours every day. Something that was hard to match with real world conversation partners.
> He uses airplanes as an example.

Oh wow, i didn't notice that. It's either pretty clever, or unfortunate wording.
Sounds like those employees that took exit packages to leave after their "apolitical" pivot 2 years ago, got a good deal. There was a lot of congratulatory posting here then, about how the company was going to come out of that a lot better, and with less of the fat. Now it doesn't look like that really happened.
It's called legislation, and it's there for a reason.

Likewise, some text on a website says you and your comments can be removed from this site if they break the rules; you agreed to said rules when you created an account. I mean I'm sure you can start a discussion about some of the finer points if you bring up good points, but in the end, you agreed to create your account and use the service under those conditions.

Likewise, this person decided to get a license for radio transmissions, accepting the consequences for misuse. If he didn't want to be at risk of those consequences, he shouldn't have a radio.

I'm seeing a lot of libertarians / anarchists in this comments thread, who seem to fail to grasp the basics of a functioning society. If there were no deterrents, rules, "pieces of paper", etc, it would be anarchy and the radio would be unusable.
I concur with everything except this part...

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He wanted to buy twitter for personal readons [reasons] and is in the process of doing so.
***

I suppose that he wanted to buy Twitter. Perhaps it was for personal and business reasons. I simply don't know.

Also, at this point it seems like he might have decided not to purchase Twitter.

Nonetheless, the following comment which you successfully refuted...

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Am I the only one who thinks it's obvious he was pretending to buy Twitter to try cover his cashing out of massive amounts of tesla?
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was ridiculous.
> The goal is to sway public opinion against Musk.

At this point anyone with half a brain, no make that a single functioning brain cell, knows that Musk has fucked up and is trying to welch on the deal.
If you want to talk to a plane about an emergency, you would use the designated emergency frequency. A trained radio operator is supposed to know that frequency.
Don't disagree with that, but does banking the unbanked require hundreds of billions of dollars in funding? Do the unbanked need algostables, five-figure APY yield farming, sophisticated options protocols like Ribbon, and memecoins valued at $20B?

The core ideas behind crypto remain solid. Unfortunately that has been hijacked completely by speculators.
I can't speak to whether your assertion is true or not (I've no experience of Netflix or it's hiring), but it kind of makes sense that this would happen if you think of the Netflix journey to date.

They transitioned from a mail order DVD system to online streaming, building that as they went, then moved the lot to the cloud while keeping everything up during it's exponential growth period.

There are a lot of really hard engineering challenges just in that sentence that would need some really good people, but now that they've built out a planetscale video delivery system their needs are a lot different (they just need to keep the lights on and the engine running).

I'm sure some really clever engineering still happens at Netflix but mostly the hard problems appear to be solved at this point, so you don't need incredible resources. Also, it would follow that most of those people would want to seek out new challenges rather than stick around for maintenance over the long term, but I've no idea if this actually happened there.
from wikip.

Bellingcat is a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group that specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence (OSINT).

It was founded by British journalist and former blogger Eliot Higgins in July 2014.Bellingcat publishes the findings of both professional and citizen journalist investigations into war zones, human rights abuses, and the criminal underworld. The site's contributors also publish guides to their techniques, as well as case studies.
Correct. If anything, Coinbase's value should be tied to the volatility of the crypto market. Doing a quick search of various crypto volatility indexes, this appears to check out, roughly.
The main thing missing for me: presumably if there's a plane, you're graphing something vs something. What are the X and Y? (or, uh, the x and y in the x+iy) Talk of a plane remains rather vague without knowing that. Maybe I missed it, but I looked twice, and read the comments on this page, and couldn't see it mentioned at all. There are a couple of graphs/planes, but they seem to be a different kind of thing.
Russia, China, warn US its cyber support of Ukraine has consequences
> What would I do if I was born a hundred years ago, before computers were invented?

> And the answer is now clear:

> Find something to build.

My great-grandfather was born ~110 years ago and became a master machinist. Kept those giant steam locomotives functioning. Grandfather was a construction worker who went into civil engineering and two of his brothers made airplanes in their garages, father is an electrical engineer turned software engineer and now I’m in software as well. Hopefully the party isn’t over just yet.

If I lived a hundred years ago I’d like to think I’d be building as well.
Correct, for the legal part of the purchase.

But there is also a “public opinion” part, and that’s about politics. I have the impression that Tw is trying to at least remain in control until the upcoming elections.
You don't know that they are the same group.