skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> will they really stop doing what they're doing?

Yes, if they don't want to get an easy reaming by the federal government, because in addition to the cash portion of the settlement, the consent decree includes:

(1) a requirement that they stop making the specific claims that were at issue, and

(2) a requirement that they stop making any financial claims to consumers without “competent and reliable evidence to support” those claims.

That basically means that if they keep doing anything like what was claimed in this case, the FTC gets to treat them like a money piñata without proving a violation of the generally-applicable rules, because they’ve accepted, in a legally-binding way, stricter rules where violations are easier to prove and harder to refute.

The cash payment is almost never the most important part of a settlement with a regulatory agency in terms of preventing similar future abuse by the same company.
Hence why they just bundle a copy of Chromium in Electron.
You're on HNews?
Sure; my point is that both perspectives are equally arbitrary. Neither drive me nuts.
> Iran for instance is hiding their military nuclear program behind a civilian nuclear goal.

This is so much nonsense. Even the CIA has long said that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapons program. This is just a myth propagated by people who hate Iran. According to Isreali politicans, Iran is '1 year a away from the bomb' since literally 1998. There has never been real evidence presented and many intelligence services have said so.

What Iran in fact needs, is civilian nuclear power. Their power generation was mostly gas/oil and they realized in the 1990s that this was a huge issue. And in fact, Iran asked France to provide that for them. They made a deal with France and France would provide all that is needed and take back all the nuclear waste to France. All of this would be totally monitored by the IAEA.

Now of course the US used their power to prevent this. Then Iran said, well I guess we have to make our own civilian nuclear program. Once they started that the US and Isreal started to publish huge amounts of PR about how Iran was building the bombs and used that as an excuse to make the whole nation suffer.

If you want to build nuclear weapons, civilian nuclear power are not really very useful, there are far better proven methods to do this.
"over a year ago" was 2021.
Yeah good call out.

As someone who has never/will never write a contract, I had the mental block of flipping it vs. buying.
>“I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the
industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses
two of these qualities.

>Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General
Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are
stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the
highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental
clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious
must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.”

– Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Or, it might imply that the size of their infraction was pretty small compared to the size of the business they were doing. It might also imply that the FTC wasn't too certain they could prevail if it went to court, and OpenDoor was willing to settle for a relatively small fine but if the FTC tried to get a large fine they were worried the court might find the disparity between market and what OpenDoor was quoting was within the margin of uncertainty.

I mean, there were several companies providing quick online estimates of house value. I don't see how OpenDoor could have been all that far off the market value, without most people noticing.
Communicating with a NAS on your home network for large file transfers is really the only use I can see. It's not like >gigabit consumer connections exist anywhere, though there is a bit of a chicken and egg situation there of course.
Using Nuclear Reactors for Cover, Russians Lob Rockets at Ukrainians
I like innovation and this certainly is clever. But do I really need it? I agree that it can be hard to shift cleanly but after I wiggle the levers a bit it all works out.
> I absolutely refuse to regress to the era where the mafia and cartel leaders ruled the streets and stood toe to toe with law enforcement

Assuming you're talking about the US, this really only happened because of the dramatic increase in organized crime prosecutions in the 70s (mostly due to the departure of Hoover), the RICO act which significantly increased sentences for typical mafia activities like drugs/loansharking/extortion/etc, and the witness protection program which changed informing from a likely death sentence to a potential to turn a new leaf. Money laundering only became a crime in 1986, the original BSA mainly just introduced cash reporting requirements (which had a threshold that at the time was two times GDP per capita). Also things like carjacking, cigarette trafficking across states were made federal crimes which again made prosecution easier. "Follow the money" is touted as this law enforcement panacea but historically is not really that effective. Which is why for instance most major narcotics trafficking cases today almost always rely heavily on wiretaps and informants/government witnesses.

And the now standard practice of adding money laundering charges to non drug cases really only started happening after 9/11. So in my opinion there is a lot of evidence that these laws have had rather limited benefits in terms of stopping crime but because of the erosion of the threshold due to inflation are having an increasingly large negative effect on privacy of regular people.
What if the deer is also color-blind? What colors do deer see anyway?
I really like his message but I feel each of his books could be a blog post. Good blog posts, but nevertheless something you could read in a few minutes. Instead you have to buy/borrow a $10 book, then he rubs it in by talking about how productive he as he has written so many books.
this so much. I had tried giving up twitter but the convenience was always there. Then one day I had enough and told a gun nut to set himself on fire. Now whenever I am tempted to get on twitter, I have that offensive "delete this tweet" screen show up to remind me that I shouldn't bother with this crap. I'm all the better for it.
Think conservative values on a social scale minus the personal property part(don't know if the personal property is a general consensus or just authoritarian laws.) Drugs are forbidden, fathers rule the household, children are disciplined when they don't meet satisfaction, you're expected to work hard. You know all the things the conservatives get a bad rap for in the US but everyone thinks that way there and uses it in collectivism
I'm surprised to see elixir in the software stack, I know TS is loosely based off of mastodon, which is a rails based project (the project is also it notorious for breaking under heavy user loads, so it's probably for the better they're moving away from it). Honestly it seems like they should have started from Pleroma from the start but I'm sure the team had their reasons.
In Portugal, the pay is 80% but tax free so in high salaries you end up with a massive profit (taxes can reach 50% easily)
Here's my experience with react native:

- There were very little opportunities for sharing functionality between web and mobile. The standard react architecture is code-behind, and you can't share components between react and react native.

- Time-consuming to update to new versions, especially on the IOS side of things. A constant avalanche of errors from the very convoluted cocoapods build system, with stack traces in multiple different languages popping up (From memory: bash, objective C, swift, ruby). Involved a deep dives into github issues.

- In the end we were at least able to share some validation stuff between the web and mobile app, which was better than nothing.

Full disclaimer - I was a busy tech lead, wasn't very hands on with it, and in my teams the mobile app was a secondary concern.

Very curious if other people have a different experience.
Yes and no.

It goes beyond lack of data and well into fraud (knowing deception).

See, for example, point 34 of the report:

>Opendoor has used an automated system to generate expected market values for homes. In many instances, Opendoor’s employees have manually adjusted these values before presenting them to consumers as offers. Opendoor’s internal analyses showed that these manually adjusted offers were several percentage points below Opendoor’s assessment of market value. Beginning
later than 2019, Opendoor instituted a policy to reduce its manually adjusted offers to [REDACTED] below what Opendoor assessed as market value.

In other words, they’re promising above-market value while actually quoting below even their OWN estimation of market value (which is undoubtedly revised down)
Congratulations. You now have to meet a burden of proof (beyond reasonable doubt) to convict a class of people who practically by definition are trained (either by experience, or by legal counsel/their social strata) to communicate in ways to make things happen which leave little or no paper trail leading back to them.

Be the first person in a group of founders to want someone to put something controversial down on paper. I guarantee you. You will get chilled out.
There's "3D V-cache" now too (cache on top of compute, or something along those lines).
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> terror attack doesn't cause a 1000 km2 area around the plant to be unlivable for 100 years

That can't actually happen. And if you believe it can, you are wrong.

Please explain the mechanics of how that would happen to me! Ill wait.
I've been very happy with insync for years, it works very well.
It should be noted that the need for standard GUI doesn’t come from the users, who mostly prefer consistency among different apps within their OS of choice.
With Stage Manager the iPad as ultra portable is worth revisiting. I wish the iPad Mini had Stage Manager as well.
Someone who has never been an IC or has no technical background makes me doubt their competence.
Family-oriented social conservatism, instinctive obedience to authority and disinterest in political debate mostly. A lot of it actually bottom up rather than top down.

Obviously this clashes quite hard with cyberpunk using the aesthetic of Asia for characters who epitomise American ideas of rebellion, competition and countercultural coolness...
How does that avoid race conditions?

SKIP LOCKED doesn’t seem to be designed for that purpose: https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/what-skip-locked-postgresq...
> "you're wrong"

You did say "effective control", which 50% isn't.

> You don't get to just call whatever you don't like "misinformation."

The title of the page you linked to is "THREE WATERS REFORM TO GIVE IWI/MĀORI DOMINATING INFLUENCE" - 50% is dominating?

You think that co-governance directly attacks the pillars of NZ democracy? Funny, I thought that te Tiriti o Waitangi was the founding document of that nation, and that the principles of the Treaty are key to how we manage our democracy.

Obviously we vastly differ in how we interpret NZ's bicultural foundational bones, you seem to view co-governance as a fundamental threat, I view it as the Crown actually doing what we said we'd do back in 1850, which I'm very much in support of. But then I also guess it depends on how you interpret kāwanatanga and tiro rangatiratanga.

After all, NZ Europeans did promptly ignore the terms of the treaty, and go to war to steal land from the Māori, then confiscated some more land by force, even from iwi who were the Crown's allies in the New Zealand Wars, and made agreements to buy land, which provisions which were not honoured for over a century, in order to satisfy the demand from European colonists.

Oh, and then there was the deliberate efforts by the Crown to suppress Māori culture, and to disrupt their way of life.

I dunno, I just prefer it if our country was based on "treating the people who lived here first fairly".

> I get that you support the government's decision. I am simply pointing out that firing hundreds of nurses during a global pandemic was a bad idea, conceived solely to exert power and control over a badly needed cohort of public health workers.

Once again, failure to follow reasonable requests from an employer is grounds for termination. They failed to follow a reasonable request, they lost their jobs. Yes, nurses are needed, but nurses who are potential vectors for spreading Covid to people _who are in hospital for existing health problems_ are very much not needed.

> conceived solely to exert power and control over a badly needed cohort of public health workers.

That is just your subjective belief, unless you've sighted a policy document from the Minister of Health that says "Mwahaha, let's show those uppity nurses who's boss".
Very mild, but also unmistakably Latvian accent. Was also surprised to learn about Juris. RIP indeed.
People like fresh fruit and vegetables year around and most of the U.S. is too cold to grow these in winter. Arizona is an exception.
road bike innovation is rarely needed, it's mostly a step of incremental small improvements that add up to a large quality of life difference.

it's much more pleasant to ride a new age ergo-centric composite bike than it is to ride a Gios from the 70s, for a variety of reasons.

source : family bike shop; I don't ride myself.
> So your point is that once you learn how to use the tool it's easier to use the tool?

Kubernetes is not just "a tool", it's a platform. So if you know the k8s fundamentals, being dropped in an unfamiliar environment should not be a problem. It's the same as knowing your way around a Linux system, you might not be familiar with that specific distribution you're thrown into, but you should be able to explore the system and figure stuff out.

> Also, what is a k8s engineer? What's the difference between this engineer and a "devops" engineer? This and software engineer?

Any engineer who claims to know a bit more than the basics of k8s? It being a software, "devops", SRE, "platform", ... engineer doesn't really matter, I've been labeled all of the above.

I'll never claim k8s is perfect, I have plenty of issues with it, but very few of them are an architectural problem, and I've yet to encounter a platform that attempts to address all the issues k8s does. But you seem to be very critical of it, so what would you propose as a viable alternative?
The problem is that whereas casinos are strictly recreational, a lot of YouTube content is actually extremely informative and educational. The problem is that going to YouTube just for the educational stuff still subjects you to the addictive stuff.
Have you considered looking at the bottom of the page as well as well as the top?
Like any sufficiently complex thing, it takes a lot of numbers to create a representative profile.

One somewhat useful figure you’ll see used is MTr/mm^2 or mega-transistor per square millimeter. That number can change depending on what exactly those transistors are being used for (which cell libraries are used).

IIRC Intel proposed a standard ratio for such measurements a while back.

Density doesn’t make a process better for everything however.
Investors can provide liquidity and dampening to an otherwise relatively slow market.
> a CPU where these kinds of pipelines / executions are more explicit

A VLIW-style architecture is found on signal processors and other dedicated number-crunchers, where people are actually going to write custom assembly routines fully exploiting the hardware. For example, the original NEC uPD7720 from 1980 has separate fields in its instruction word. You get two ALU operations (where the operands don't depend on each other) and an address operation per instruction, all performed in parallel in one clock cycle.

Intel would later take that idea for the i860 (long before Itanium) and the i860 can run in a mode where it always fetches two instructions per cycle, one integer and one floating point. Code generation with a compiler for this turned out to be very difficult to exploit.

Another ten years later, compiler technology has improved a lot, right? Maybe it'll work now. Cue Itanium. Ah. Maybe not. The idea is probably going to be revisited every decade or so until compiler technology has actually advanced enough to pull it off :P
It’s also not clear it won’t work.

Governments fund the arts all the time. Why is there automatically an assumption that this will end with the government editing the dictionary to control speech?
Both - CPUs, electronics, military gear, etc.

Strategic risks such as war, invasions, sanctions, etc. have to be dealt with on a decadal basis.

You have to ask: what's the current reality, and what's the trend?

The trend is pretty clear: our world is going to depend more on computers, not less. You have to prepare for a world where drones have replaced your fighter jets, where every citizen has a smartphone, and where your financial system will collapse without working computers and servers.
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I was in the beginning and did it only once or twice a week. At some point I tested taking it daily and found that it didn't lose its effect. I've since switched to Armodafinil and have been taking it daily for the past 30 months or so. I'm getting a check up every year and my doctor says I'm fine (well, as fine as a fat guy can be).

The only side-effect is that I feel like I perceive lights and noises as annoying at a lower threshold. I've had that before as well so I'm pretty used to blacking out any LEDs, but it seems to have been increased. Don't know whether that would lessen if I took a break because I haven't for more than a few days.
We had one of those at my previous company! I didn't realize until now.
Interesting, I didn't know about that

Though our web app does a lot of things the mobile app doesn't, and also benefits from things like Next.js, so I'd be a little worried about the cost/value tradeoff there for us specifically
The problem is that the instant you sign a mortgage you become a real estate investor.
I immediately stopped reading after I saw her name, because it gave me the sense that the well was poisoned and not worth my time.
Also:

- delete browser bookmarks, desktop icons, "favorites" ...
Study Shows a Key to Reducing Poverty: More Friendships Between Rich and Poor
I have a friend that is a real estate broker.

His job is to act as a scout and local broker for corporations that buy up residential properties, then turn them into rentals.

He makes great money. Most of his work is in "distressed" areas. Many NIMBY neighborhoods don't like rentals, but poorer sections of the county don't fight it, and may even welcome it.

I'm of two minds about his work. On one hand, John Oliver did a big segment, roasting corporate rentals[0], but I have also seen local slumlords treat renters like garbage (I actually rented from one, at the start of my career, and can attest to that).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4qmDnYli2E
Question (from somebody who only skimmed the article): how much variance exists of that fabric? Is that pattern repeated after x meters if fabric?

If so: wouldn't knowing what to look for greatly increase the ability to automatically extract the pattern from image data?
(Like how it is possible to extract signals from below the noise floor in LoRa communication?)
Because Debian-testing is wonderful?
What’s the average tenure of an engineer at a big tech company?
Putting "journalist" in your Twitter bio, at least by 2022 standards.
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True, but in France almost all companies will also supplement so you can have a full salary.
There are many good reasons for real estate to be an investment vehicle. You won't convince someone to build a new apartment building if they can't make money. In fact, we really really want people to build more, better housing.

The current real estate "market" is certainly far from a "free market". If we live restrictions on supply, by removing things like:
- Minimum parking requirements
- Maximum height requirements
- Aesthetic requirements

There are also demand-side subsidies for home ownership that make it more expensive, such as the mortgage tax credit.

A land value tax is another way to encourage people to improve the land. https://localhousingsolutions.org/housing-policy-library/lan....

I agree we can't have real estate be both a great investment (increase faster than inflation) and affordable (decrease on inflation adjusted basis). I think adopting more of a free market here would really improve things for everyone.

Note: I also think congestion pricing + eliminating free parking would solve many of the related problems to this issue, and are important parts of a solution.
Uhuh... Few more tweeks to exclude even more things that go up in price from the measure of inflation, narrow the definition of unemployed some more, and the US can record its best economics data ever.

Meanwhile, in real life..
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14th paragraph:

> Ultraprocessed foods are defined as "industrial formulations of food substances (oils, fats, sugars, starch, and protein isolates) that contain little or no whole foods and typically include flavorings, colorings, emulsifiers, and other cosmetic additives," according to the study.
If we as a people actually invested in technology all those issues could easily be save.

If we had invested in actual advanced breeder reactors this is a non issue.

As an example, a modern molten salt thorium breeder only requires dissolved thorium.

But of course if we stop innovation at the first generation and then do nothing for 50 years we are not gone have optimal technology.
What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?