skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Your city council approved it, likely after several public hearings

“But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.”

“Oh yes, well, as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything.”

“But the plans were on display . . .”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’”
I find it a bit untrustworthy when someone frames a language design issue as representative of the way the project is run. List comprehension is a feature that comparatively few languages have, and I can easily imagine that the GDScript team has other things they consider a priority.

For a programming language, 5 years is not at all an unusual delay when we're talking about an extension to the basic syntax.
ClarisWorks paint and draw models were my first foray into the creative field. It would pave the way to a career. I'm forever grateful.
I've done a few quizzes on the app now, and I don't get it. The questions feel very contrived, like someone had a quota to fill so just put whatever looked plausible together. They are also _very_ culturally specific.

Questions about eggs barely made sense to me being from the UK, with incorrect pack sizes, animal welfare terms, and completely missed our great standards body that makes it easy to know which eggs have met a reasonable quality bar. It's not that the info is globally applicable, it's that it's an awkward combination of wrong and useless depending on where you live. Starting another quiz about kitchen equipment it seems this is a pattern throughout.

Cooking is deeply embedded into culture, tradition, region, climate, regulatory environment, retail infrastructure, and more. I don't think these quizzes will be able to overcome this without being fully localised per country.

The recipes? Maybe they're better. I don't know, I'm still 7 levels away from being able to know how to make scrambled eggs.

Edit: when I opened the app the first time it asked me how experienced I am and I answered the 3rd out of 4 options, I know my way around a kitchen. The app just asked me to match pictures of eggs to how they have been cooked: fried, scrambled, etc. I'm not sure I can survive this level of patronisation, it's honestly a bit insulting.

Edit: "what sort of pan should you cook eggs in"... "no not a wok, people don't have those at home". Ouch. At best that's incredibly sheltered for a food writer, and at worst it's practically racist.
Yeah; I live in Toronto, and that's the closest thing that gets me to road rage. Streets are randomly closed for extended period of time, and everybody involved acts like... unprintables. Which, I get, is a self-feeding process - public members are unprintables to police and security and film makers, who then in turn are pre-emptive unprintables to anybody. But gawd, it's an awful experience that's difficult to describe to people who haven't lived it - it's my home on my street with the shop I go to and school my kids go to, and my car or my bus station I take to my work, and suddenly we can't use it, are third-class citizens on our own street, with no rights or permission or ask, and not for some emergency infrastructure process, but so that Jaw Sharks On a Plane 27 can be filmed :-<

I have some empathy to the film crew, but while I'm all about practical effects in some ways, the city neighbourhoods should be CGId ASAP. This isn't a tiny-non-issue. Think about all the movies and shows on all the networks on all the streaming services. The 37 seasons of NCIS and 32 seasons of Law & Order and ten million episodes of all the crappy shows - every how many scenes in all of them closing down some neighbourhood somewhere for the shot of actor walking down the street.
FOSS, doc, and respecting your elders
I believe it's on AWS after its two servers broke at the same time the other day.
> the NBER has officially called a recession every single time we had 2 consecutive quarters of negative growth

Because the other indicators they look at (employment, consumption etc.) have been consistent with recession in those cases. They've also called recessions without two consecutive down quarters (either with an up quarter in between, or most recently with a single down quarter), because the other indicators were strongly indicating recession. Right now jobs are up.

Employment is strong, consumption is strong, the 1Q drop (not sure about 2Q because I haven't seeb details yet) was associated with a jump in imports as consumer purchases of imported goods shot up.

Honestly, there's probably a problem with the entire concept of “recession” as a binary label, but the same multidimensional set of factors that has allowed multiple recessions to be determined without two consecutive down quarters supports non-recession with two consecutive down quarters.
If you're trying to win over an audience based on fact, you've already lost.

Emotion wins every single time.

This is where you see a lot of really smart people trip up. They think that being right matters. It doesn't.

> The challenge is knowing how to calibrate responses for maximum effect on the audience - who are usually the real target - balanced between keeping credibility and staying relatable instead of dislikable.

100%
It's possible to have a disorganized evil! Maybe I just like a secret villain.

I always assumed a component of the forest was a way to keep Hobbits at home and home with the Hobbits.
Providing free (at the point of use) health care, and making sure children don't go hungry, and even providing tax benefits to couples who raise children, are all perfectly constitutional policies that don't encroach on civil liberties.

All of those policies can be motivated by a state/federal desire to grow the population. In fact, some people believe that the federal government has a legitimate interest in providing a free (or discounted) service for healthy women to abort healthy children at any stage of their pregnancy, so if the government has an interest in preventing children then surely it can have an interest in producing them.
Why is our society so incapable of providing a small box for people to store their valuables? Banks are trying to drop the concept almost entirely. These private storage companies are kinda sketchy (https://www.bluevaultsecure.com/ is anotehr one near me).

Where are people supposed to store physical copies of backups and yubikeys outside of the house safely?
It depends entirely on the size and quality of the candidate pool, but I'd say very roughly:

* Initial candidate screening reduces the pool by 85–95% (leaving 5–15% of the initial pool)
* Interview #1 reduces the pool further by 50–66% (leaving ~3–4% of the initial pool)
* Interview #2 reduces the pool further by another 66–75% (leaving ~1–2% of the initial pool)
* Final chat usually doesn't reduce the pool, but it's one last pass for additional signal
* We choose a single candidate of whoever remains

For a position with 400 applicants, it could look like

* Initial screening leaves 40 candidates for interview #1
* Interview #1 leaves 15 candidates for interview #2
* Interview #2 leaves 4 candidates for final chat
* We pick from those final 4
Almost the same experience here; I have great nostalgia for that feeling, and the waiting for hours to finish. Nice to hear similar stories from someone else! I still have my copy of "Chaos", and it was (and still is) awesome, but another book I got around the same time was "Chaos, Fractals, and Dynamics", which included pseudocode, that I had to rewrite into Commodore-64 compatible BASIC.

I'd coded prior to this; I got my Commodore when I was like 11 (the family machine, but I used it by far the most). Mostly typing in games from magazines, but fractals were the first thing that felt like it was "computer science" - something that really explores a new space that just wouldn't be possible without a computer.
I think it's Chaos Cthulhu the way it's going recently...
Let's compare some costs then. As a random example, but not an unreasonable one, we have 100 1GB files stored for one year, and we want to deliver each of them 10000 times.

With Cloudflare R2, this will cost roughly $16.
With upcloud, this will cost roughly $10,000.

You see how this can easily be the difference between a business being viable and... not?
It's worth adding - especially for the down voters - that prior to leaving The Daily Show, Jon Stewart was the most trusted source for news for a fair percentage of the population. The channel for TDS was on...Comedy Central.

Believing in the mainstream media is the adult equivalent of believing in Santa Claus.
Bandgap is 1.82 eV [0]

[0] https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5116025
For how many months has it been making 2k now?
Well the film crew were still rude with the people, most of them having no idea what was happening before seeing the equipment nor having experience with how they operate.
Return of the Jedi use Blue Harvest when they were shooting Endor near San Francisco.
There's an old Chinese/Japanese proverb about this even.

"Baka ni tsukeru kusuri nashi"

The medicine which can be applied to stupidity, does not exist.
Open source != open contribution.

Don't like how they run it? Fork it. The maintainers have ZERO obligation to merge your PRs, especially when they don't actually agree with it.
Yes, it's possible.

Yes, it's being done.

Yes, they have compute capable of analyzing live traffic at those data rates.

The two methods I know of are:

1. Cutting the fiber and installing a splitter. This could be done during a "normal" maintenance window, in cooperation with the fiber owner. Traffic would just flow over another line.

Eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

2. Leaving the fiber intact, but bending the fiber and reading light emanations. This technique has been done for decades. You'll have negligible attenuation.

Examples of these technique were described in the James Bamford books, Body of Secrets and The Shadow Factory.

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

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

IIRC, the book Blind Man's Bluff describes a US submarine mission sneaking into a real hairy area (I want to say the Black Sea?) and applying method #2 to some Russian fiber.

https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage/...
Our best was a bird landing on a transformer up on a pole. Installed a fake Eagle after that.
I understand that us-east is AWS's oldest and biggest facility, but Amazon seems to have more money than Croesus, why aren't they fixing/rebuilding/replacing us-east with something more modern?
Iirc, that was the year he was born. Nice one, Bob. [edit: it might be a server issue, and it looks like they deleted his profile… wtf?]

I played go with Bob in Boston while he was in grad school.

Super nice guy, very smart, and he was very open about talking about the earlier days of software tech start ups.
I was thinking the very same thing. I like how they diverted the problem away from the real issue to benefit them - sarcasm.
In part, I think it's one of the ways he mimics the form of books like Beowulf or Gilgamesh or other works of that sort—that kind of thing tends to be full of digressions and whole scenes that simply seem like mistakes—dragging down the "momentum", not "advancing the plot"—if you're going by modern very-focused standards of what constitutes acceptable plotting, which of course is the kind of thing most people are used to reading/watching.
I saw Greenwald getting hammered all over Twitter yesterday for getting associated with this phone and was also surprised after looking into them. Amazing that he had no actual connection to it after all...

“A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.” - Mark Twain
I think you'd have to further sub-divide California to get the full picture. LA and the Bay Area are worlds unto themselves in terms of culture, and probably do have more in common with Europe than Iowa. The rest of the state is much more typically American.

Having raised a 3 year old in the Bay Area (SF and Albany/Berkeley), I've anecdotally noticed a lot less of the puritan/sheltering attitude you're talking about than in other places in the US. I'd say a moderate version of 'free range parenting' is actually the dominant trend these days around here.
> They get a budget.

What happens when they exceed the budget?
> On average in a free market those with more resources are better organized and know what’s best for the country.

No, they don't, and there's not a rational or logical reason to infer they do.
Nobody sane would take $1M USD per year for life?

Call me insane I guess.
> but the FBI has deposited at least some of the cash into trustee accounts at financial institutions so no longer has the physical cash to test

Does it go back into circulation at that point?
No, but the same officer will use excessive force and make unwarranted arrests, etc. There is real accountability for a cop that is caught accepting a bribe, there is none for violence.

In our current political system a politician has no accountability for accepting favors or campaign funds. There is no accountability for passing bad laws or being corrupt. This behavior will continue regardless of the base salary, or at least until there are repercussions against it. Currently there are none.
But, you can't map to "identities" in most of these cases. That's why these laws don't seem to make any sense. An identity is a powerful thing but, an IP address is not an identity. Just knowing one doesn't tell you anything, nor does it let you look anything up unless you happen to have multiple sites that the user is browsing - and even then, not really, due to IP address re-use.
I don't think it would, and I don't know why you'd think I'm suggesting that.
TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants
they try offering in fruity flavors: "yall are trying to hook kids!"

they try offering in tobacco flavors: "that's not effective for cessation!"

wtf are they supposed to sell then?!
> It is one thing when they happen by accident, but when it is the result of capricious and hostile decisions by a vendor, it is an outrage.

I couldn't agree more. Which of these is happening with respect to the OP? It's entirely not clear.
hey. does anyone know of a foss/open source project that does invoice template designing? there are tools that let you customize an invoice in its print form wyswig and allowing to use/export as pdf. t
> Starsky was not able to reach an AI drive autonomy level needed.

The numbers were for fully manual remote driving. This thread is all about asking why they closed down instead of going in the fully manual remote option.

The article makes it look like the manual remote driving was perfectly viable already. Although there are obvious connectivity problems for scaling it over huge distances.

> They also assumed margins would not be razor thin if two or more logistics companies succeed in creating autonomous trucks

Any midsized investor would expect to reap the high margins during the transition, and deal with (maybe sell) a fully established very large and lucrative logistics company afterwards. A smaller investor would expect to sell it as a service to all logistics companies, and reap a share of that 3x ROI with much smaller investment during the transition, and then probably sell the company for relatively cheap.
Aside from the great idea:
I found the naming a little confusing, as there is a online dating platform called Parship and this sounds like a mock.
What does the focal region of a 3 dimensional solar gravitational lens look like?
My local library provides access to Oreilly. Before you pay for a membership or find an alternative, it's worth checking your library.
I misread your first post, sorry. Yeah, it's one heck of a goal.
In most other sub fields you don’t get to not publish if exactly one endpoint never comes to pass. I know I didn’t have something like that, and most of my non crystallographer friends didn’t.

There’s a lot of structural biology apologists here in this thread. Happy to crap on DeepMind but not ready to take criticism of their own field.

For anyone outside of the field wanting to learn more, check out this documentary: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturally_Obsessed
Ehh, you'd be surprised! I suspect very few engineers are "walking around without anything to do".

I think modeling the median tech employee as someone who wants to sit around and do nothing is inaccurate - most want to do something productive or fulfilling. Left to their own devices the average engineer in the average tech corporation will trend towards doing something.

The real trick is whether or not that thing is of high value to the company.

You can think about work almost as a gas - it expands to fill the container it's in. Which is to say, if you hire more people, those people will come up with work to occupy themselves. And I don't mean this in a "people are stupid and they will work on stupid menial shit" way - they will actually (in the median) try to come up with something they think is meaningful and important!

The problem is that this "bottom up" approach where people at the leaf nodes of the org tree come up with their own work requires intense curation from the top, otherwise the natural tendency is for lots of teams to form to very excitedly ship a lot of stuff of dubious value to the business.

tl;dr: The problem isn't engineers sitting around idle, it's that unguided engineers tend to get very busy shipping stuff that doesn't matter, or may actually be destructive to the business.

Side note: Google is like this internally, and I suspect (having never worked at FB) that Meta is likely similar. Upper management provides very little product guidance, so figuring out what work should be done and what they should ship is decided very close to the leaf nodes of the company. This IMO goes a long way to explain why Google cancels so much stuff - many, many engineering hours are spent shipping products that do not matter, and eventually the company has to wind it down.
There is no "pay for a controlling stake", they either send engineers to work on it or they don't. GNOME is not a corporation, you cannot buy stock in it.
What did they get more wrong than other nations regarding these topics?
I have confessed this before and it’s appropriate to confess it again here: I have worked places where there was an onerous task that three of us split. When one of those quits, I’m looking to leave too. Not only does being the last one take away any illusions of autonomy you might have had, but it also makes you feel guilty for leaving because you know that some things won’t get done at all.

My body metabolizes guilt readily, by converting it into resentment. “I have to be here and I hate you for it.” Is not a room anyone should walk into if there’s another doorway.
Trump spent hundreds of millions of dollars officially, outside groups that don't need to report all of their spending (like the NRA) spent further hundreds of millions, and he had hundreds of millions worth of "earned media" due to the circus-like nature of the campaign.

Because he spent marginally less than Ted Cruz in the primary and less than Hillary in the general doesn't give lie to the premise at all. His 2020 reelection campaign spent ~$1 billion when including independent expenditures!
Here's one that made news 12 hours ago. Phillip Morris just hired Holman out of the FDA:

> It's unclear when Holman had recused himself, but it appears to have been less than four months ago. On March 18, Holman signed off on the third generation of PMI's heated, smokeless tobacco product, IQOS.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/fdas-top-tobacco-sci...

The article mentions a second recent incident like this.

It's pretty common practice to "passively" wait for a regulator to take a questionable action on your behalf, wait the minimal recusal period, and then hire them to "work" for you for some large multiple of typical market compensation.
You can already do that while slowing down. Might require some image correction though to account for that in the pictures.
a substantial number of people (not me) do enjoy reading the stories, they get something out of it, damn normies.
You could mail them to the FBI, I suppose.
"Not an adult"; are minors allowed to gamble in casinos?
Shots Fired at Facebook’s VR Monopoly
lmao no. they're on board with vapes as a safer option bc it pulls them out of the long decline to nothing they was on
> two back-to-back negative GDP stats has been the definition of a recession for my entire life.

No, it hasn't, and two of the last three NBER-identified recessions have not met that definition. It has always been multidimensional, it's just that historically the other factors have always [0] pointed toward recession with two down quarters, and sometimes also without. Having strong employment, etc., despite two down quarters in GDP is a historical aberration.

[0] EDIT: as another poster notes, not always—the 1947 non-recession being an example
I wonder if the Senate could pass a rule that allows them to choose when to take a secret vote. I don't know of anything in the Constitution that prohibits such.
This needs an app, or might even be a great use case for that weird DAO stuff - SneakerRAIDBnB.

Fundamental is that your data should be encrypted and duplicated before you give it to your host so if someone tries to read your data, they just get random numbers, and if someone breaks your devices, you give them a bad rating and move on to the other nodes in your BnB RAID.
This also struck me as odd. I can't use Siri on my Android phone in order to "fragment my exposure to big tech".
But that can be said of any transaction via a card. When ever I've receieved a chargeback (iirc its only happened twice in all my years, but I've been lucky) my payment provider has offered me the ability to dispute the charge back which will send the evidence that the transaction was legitimate back to the bank requesting the chargeback.

At which point you would give the documentation showing that that it was a as-is purchase and a legitimate transaction.

But as I said above, this could happen to any card transaction not just used car sales.
Actually, I think it would be good to illustrate how few product lines Apple has as compared to its competitors.
Because you measure your fees in yachts at that point.
It's never been a default datacenter. For a long time the default when you first logged into the console was us-east-1 so a lot of companies set up there (that's where all of reddit was run for a long time and Netflix too). At some point they switched the default to us-east-2.

So anyone who is in us-west-2 is there intentionally, which makes me assume there is a smaller footprint there (but I have no idea).
>bullish each day on low-code tooling

we use Microsoft PowerApps.

i see it differently. if you build too much internal software/tools on PowerApps. your company is tied to Microsoft for a long term since there is no easy way to jump from PowerApps to another low code platform without redo.
> How often do you get to a successful resolution of a dispute when you start from the position that one side's concerns are made up (pretended, imagined, etc)?

There are times when one side's concerns are nonsense. Brainwashed Russians believing Ukraine is overrun by Nazis. People who believe that the 2020 election was stolen. I choose not to gaslight myself into entertaining that nonsense and entertaining the notion that there's a successful resolution to be had.