skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curiously, the "Pyramid Texts" the author cites were not incribed in pyramids. The pyramids are all unaccountably blank. The oldest stonework is of best quality: mirror finishes, perfect right angles and flat surfaces cut into the hardest of rock. Likewise, the biggest one-piece stone columns and statues are oldest. Later dynasties stacked their columns.

All the oldest Egyptian construction was blank, but that didn't stop later pharaohs from tagging them with their own cartouches, chiseling off any older tags. Today, Egyptologists routinely date things to whoever was the last pharaoh to tag it.

But there must have been a real taboo about tagging pyramids, because none did them.

By the way, the reason noses and right hands of so much statuary is broken is that that was the standard Christian way of neutralizing the powerful magic they had enabled. Without a nose, they could not breathe in altar smoke. Without a hand, they could not bless.
I feel that road rage has increased even in rural areas. Being on a bicycle or on foot automatically makes you an “other” and the contempt on busy roads is palpable. The law states “cars must yield to pedestrians in crosswalk” (novel idea) but it seems many in cars look at me like “what are you going to do about me not stopping? nothing” which mirrors a certain political climate as well. There’s a sense of entitlement and power when you have your fellow man’s life in your hands - and many choose to aggressively step on the gas.

As an aside, I’m raising a 5 and 2 year old a block away from a very busy 4 lane (2x2) street. A few years ago the state awarded our city a grant for a road diet (1x1+center turn). Everything was set to be changed and then our city council was replaced by car-loving candidates sponsored by local big-money. The grant was forfeited and the road remains oversized and dangerous.

The upside is I get to teach my children how dangerous this road is, meaning they won’t have a complacency that otherwise could set in if the road was made safer.

What a twisted logic … ugh!
For anyone interested in Data Erasure requests.
I've been using the service Mine lately. It scans your mailbox to identify and prioritise businesses that you've dealt with who likely hold financial and other personally identifiable information on you.

You can then select the businesses you would like to forget about you and Mine will send pre-written emails on your behalf and monitor for replies.

The experience has been enlightening. This is what I've found after sending 50ish requests:

- A small number of businesses already have a process in place to deal with such requests and action immediately without further correspondence

- Others ask that you fill in a form (pdf or web) to start the process

- A large number won't get back to you for around a week or two and eventual responses appear to be written by a person

- A small number tell you the can delete some data but not all. e.g. Compare the Market. In the past I've used compare the market to purchase insurance products, that sale is linked to my personal details and so they can not delete. I'm not sure why this is the case. Maybe there are compliance reasons but it is a little worrying that these middle-men companies that live on commission either can't or won't erase my data.

The big one that's been mentioned in other HN threads on this is Car Rental companies. I made it a priority to deal with them first. They have all manner of sensitive information and their size, tenure and CX don't instill me with confidence.

[1] https://www.saymine.com/
“I’m for this law because hypothetically there could be an argument for it”
True, but that's not the most important reason: Chrome connects an unholy amount of C++ to the Internet and hilarity ensues: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/search/label/Stable%20... and then control-f "critical"
On one hand, the lack of landing places is a problem. On the other, the whole idea of an Air Taxi Service is sufficiently ridiculous as to render a ranking of problems somewhat academic.
>Switching to Firefox makes you immune to annoying changes like this.

cough Proton cough

That being said, most of the extensions I use have survived the last two years of Firefox development.
Does that lower the seizure threshold at all? (I've had docs get on my case about bupropion + mild other medication that can in theory impact the seizure threshold) But I'd be interested - potentially - in trying this combo as things are pretty cobwebby in the brain department lately.
> Extensions are automatically approved after a few minutes.

This is not true in my experience. In fact I've experienced reviews lasting days or weeks with the Chrome Web Store.
It seems like the mildest action that could be taken; perhaps they will proceed to DMCA takedowns.
It's also doesn't fit well with modern narratives when they encounter and kill Humbaba. It would confuse the heck out of the audience that they negotiate and offer gifts to Humbaba. Then Humbaba tries to run away and they chase and kill him anyway, and then they piss off the gods for doing it. He's also the guardian of the forest, which today is supposed to be a good guy. It's all so morally untidy.
This is the core of how the system is broken:

> A specific challenge would-be-conversions must face is that the NRC’s standards—both for atmospheric pollution and for the amount of radiological material a reactor can release—are much tighter than federal standards for coal plants.
This is where I see NFT's being beneficial. Instead of 1M people spending $10 on a piece of content, they all get it for free, and 10k people spend $1k to become VIP fans with additional perks, maybe royalties on merch sales, and the ability to re-sell that VIP status.

This is IMO the most internet native way to produce content. Copyright on digital media is a legacy technology that we don't need in world where distribution is basically free and unstoppable.
> I've never seen any indication that Stockfish can know what a human is thinking, novice or grandmaster.

But it's incredibly easy to train ML models to predict what a human thinks is a good move. Then you just send a signal when "most probable move" is different than "chess engine strongest move".
Except it’s not remotely cheap. Guaranteeing rates on new build nuclear is like 6x more expensive than wind resources and at least 4x higher than say combined cycle natural gas. If the new reactor at Hinkley is ever completed, it’s going to cost over $0.15/kWh wholesale which is more than I’m paying retail at the moment.
A king move can be the one strong move in a position, but let me be more clear. Early into the game your king is usually pretty far away from the action, so even if it is the best move, moving it usually doesn't affect things in a direct enough way so as to have a massively positive effect on the position. It's possible, it's just not very likely. It's only in positions where the king is really getting into fights with the other pieces where it becomes likely a king move is the one strong move.

These kinds of heuristics doesn't need to be perfect to give you an edge.
There's often a who is looking for a cofounder thread too, and I think Startup School has a cofounder matching system.
At some point there was a Mac OS (classic Mac OS in the 90s) that displayed a hard disk activity icon to the left of the Apple menu icon. I’ve looked for the name of the utility or setting off and in for years and have been unable to find any mention of it. I seem to recall seeing it on many unrelated Macs, which made me think it was a system setting, but having gone back through several system versions I’ve never been able to find it.

Not quite the same as what TFM has made (which is awesome), but hearing the crunch of a hard drive and seeing that LED flash or the activity indicator blink are so pleasantly nostalgic.
I thought it’s presented as the first example of heroic epic
Clickbait: “Hempstead Turnpike is a congested section of state Highway 24 that starts at the edge of New York City, the eastern border of Queens, near a ballfield encircled by an on-ramp. It runs 16 miles east into Long Island, through Elmont, Franklin Square, West Hempstead, Hempstead, Uniondale, Salisbury, East Meadow, Levittown, Plainedge, and Farmingdale.”
I was expecting an endless stream of random DALL.E generations.
Like instagram, but no one exists and the posts are made up.
Let us all be reminded of Optus' security hubris:

"Optus is not aware of any security events which would warrant revisiting the security obligations imposed on regulated entities,” the telco’s submission stated."

Despite concerns that data retention could create a ‘honey pot’ for hackers, telcos already had in place security measures to protect customer data they already retained for commercial purposes, the department argued.

“Given this, it did not follow that the proposed data retention scheme presented an unmanageable level of risk to customer privacy,” its submission stated. “The evidence to date supports that the existing data security arrangement have been effective.”

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3458462/data-retention...
It is a major showstopper in the same way that the lack of widespread huge trampolines installations is a major showstopper for my giant cannon based transit concept. Sure it is a problem but is it the problem?
>They are losing money because they spend a fortune on sales and marketing. As all growing enterprise software companies do. And it's sensible.

Their service is undifferentiated from the competition. When they try to make more money by increasing costs their users move to a similar, cheaper solution.
Your argumentation is missing a crucial event, which threatens USA’s position: The win of a right wing party in Italy. If this trend continues in Europe, then a friendly disposition of Europe towards Russia becomes probable. If this happens, it would threaten the core geopolitical interests of USA. It would also become lonely around the USA.

Its not what I want but an attempt at an unbiased assessment.
>actors and that this is a huge security risk when the extensions request "all access to all sites."

sure but that's my choice, that's why it's an extension. Paternalism of telling me what to do with my browser is silly merely because something is potentially dangerous. The entire internet is potentially dangerous. Clicking on a link or installing a piece of software is dangerous.

You're an adult, make responsible choices about whose extension to install instead of demanding that Google strangle you with security policies which at the end of the day serves only one purpose which is to extend their control over the user experience.
Huh, I never knew Quaker Steak & Lube had spread that far. I lived in Sharon, PA for most of the 80s, and worked a couple blocks from the original restaurant. Decent wings, if a bit too focused on heat level ("atomic wings"). Nice lunch joint - of course, the pickings were pretty thin in Sharon.
Sure, unless the player can communicate questions to the computer/accomplice.
Dear Apple: You're helping Facebook bully your users
Do most Safari users even realize ad blocking is an option?
They brought a laptop to market and shipped thousands of those. So, seems likely?
not only, it sends invitation to Canadian Citizenship ceremony to promo folder as well. My wife missed her ceremony because of it.
I’m not sure that’s right?

I think the limited liability is for debts to creditors and shareholders, rather than limited liability against criminal or other behaviour.

Maybe I’m wrong, but as I understand it, Australian law treats a corporation as a person and the directors are answerable if the corporation breaks the law.

The real problem (as I see it) is that a company the size of Optus can afford to defend their behaviour for so long that enforcement itself becomes a burden. The closer you get to the CEO and board, the more they will spend shareholders money defending themselves.
They do more than sign, they manage the process and lifecycle of agreements.

You can buy a turnkey loan solution for example from them.
Yeah, curious why the next two months? We're definitely going to be implementing the VRM avatar format fairly soon, but not VR just yet. There are plenty of unsolved problems on desktop where there's a much larger user base. And we also still have mobile design and optimization to work on. I've worked on AltspaceVR and Mozilla Hubs and as much as I love VR, especially WebXR, it's still a relatively small market. We will support WebXR, but it's not our top priority right now.
Apple's revenue is mostly iPhone.

Google's revenue is 80% advertising.

Stark difference.
Many factors:

The Americas, as a whole, are a more violent place. Life is just not valued as much.

American apartments suck in every way, particularly sound. Most people in cities go through a phase of apartment living and it sucks and as soon as they can afford they move into a house, but they require cars because even the houses are built poorly and only have a semblance of privacy with big spaces between them.

So most people need cars, any costs added to cars are costs borne by most people, people don't like voting for things that cost them personally. We don't trust the government to execute social change, because both the right and left preach against it (cabrini green, for example).
$1B for the design of a power source that is going to scale, at a minimum level of success, to 10s to 100s of GW, isn't that much.

So IMHO the scale of power that nuclear needs to operate at in order to be efficient, $1B doesn't seem like much. Nonetheless, where did that cost come from? Does it really take that many hours of engineering? Is there a $950M payment to the regulators to evaluate the design?
I have not worked for government, but I have looked at government job postings. And their benefit plans, vacation, etc. are surprisingly well-documented.

> that component is usually the highest of any public employee

This is not correct for most public employees. Depending on the employee, the ratio will be broadly similar to that of a private-sector employee doing a similar job.

We don't look at companies with unlimited vacation time and assert that the vacation time is the largest part of their compensation, because it's unlimited. Similarly, we don't look at a pension in year 20, which often has less flexibility than a 401(k) and declare that the pension is somehow worth more than an equivalent 401(k) balance.
just posted above - my wife's invitation to Canadian Citizenship ceremony went into promotions folder and she missed it :( what's funny, all previous communications from the same domain were ok.
Why would you expect it to look different? Danger comes from metrics or proximities or traffic patterns or design flaws not apparent in a photo.
To put it into greater (debateable?) context, Australia is part of the Five Eyes too. Food for thought I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
You are right. They created their own with webgl.

https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to...
No. As I said, they are made for the benefit of everyone else to prevent social race to the bottom.
It also means that every employee can look at the competitor and see who pays more. Loyalty doesn't go far when you see the other guy pays 20% more.
The only unbelievable part of this short story is that they wrote a compiler in assembly! Very enjoyable. Reminds me of Rob Miles' AI tasked with acquiring stamps.
Could the coal steam turbine system also be reused for deep geothermal? Seems less a regulated space than Nuclear
US Air Force pilots capture snaps of light blazes caused by SpaceX
People going faster due to less congestion due to the pandemic.
The source is available (https://invent.kde.org/utilities/filelight), and there's a chance it'll build on macOS. I haven't tried, though (and am not the original recommender).
Most popular chess tournaments have a live audience. So that would be another vector.

Any delay would have to be significant like 30min to avoid players just waiting for the broadcast to match the board state during a critical move where they wanted to cheat.

And then if you see the players exit the playing hall while the board is 30min behind, do you just fast forward broadcast the remaining moves? That kind of takes the drama out of the most interesting part of the game. Or do you just keep the feed on delay and ask the players not to indicate if they won/lost yet? I’m sure their body language would be obvious.
The F1 tickets are about access. Your pal the sales dude buys you scotch and yaks about SAP.
So what's all this then?

https://brave.com/brave-ads/

> Sponsored Images: Striking, high-definition images that are featured in the Brave new tab image rotation. Advertisers have the opportunity to feature their brand prominently in this coveted space in front of millions of consumers.

"Fuck Google, have Brave shove ads in your face instead!"
These are the only two people ever known to be executed in the colonies or states to follow: https://horrorhistory.net/2021/03/21/pair-hanged-for-adulter...

Which makes sense. Too many lawmakers would have to be hanged if it was actually illegal, as there were plenty of scandals around affairs made public. Hamilton for example admitted to having an affair (https://www.history.com/news/alexander-hamilton-maria-reynol...), which would of course be a crazy thing to do if he could be hanged over it.
> The French reactors were taken offline for scheduled maintenance and repairs.

Wow 40% offline, that's amazingly useless quality, never heard about sth like that.

Sibling comment says "unscheduled repairs because of corrosion damage".

> Those hours don't count against reliability metrics

Says who? If they need maintenance that often, they're unreliable sources.

That "doesn't count" idea sounds like excuses the owners/responsible could come up with, to get away with their incompetence (or what's going on).

It'd been nice if they had worked (apparently better than burning coal and causing climate change)
This is not wrong, but it's a horrible arms race that leads to an incredible loss of life as well as massive amounts of unnecessary pollution.
Oh, fun fact: Washington state legislature tried to reduce the number of DUIs before you go to prison from 5 to 4, but they decided not to because it would cost too much money.

We have to have some sort of collective trauma that should be worked out.
I feel like I have to be missing something here. If the law is upheld why wouldn't sites just not allow access to their content in Texas? Stick the same front banner up that alcohol or porn sites have where you have to confirm you're over a certain age but this time it's confirming you're not in Texas, and carry on as normal.
What to Do If a Nuclear Disaster Is Imminent
"In terms of the costs, if you are small, the free tiers (and cloud platforms in general) are great. If you are at the point where you are paying $5-10k/month, you are almost certainly overpaying by using cloud services."

The core point, that you appear to have missed in the actual math, is that you will never personally be at that point.
> What exactly does posting race and gender data accomplish exactly, specifically?

If I am a person whose demographics do not pattern-match against the prototypical C-suite exec, it lets me know which companies will make it harder or less hard for me to get paid as much as other people doing the same job. If I know up front that a company has a pattern of large variance in how they pay for a given role, I will save us all a lot of time and apply my talents elsewhere. We both achieve what we want in the end.
It's your basic north American "stroad".
Atom Computing to invest $100M in Colorado for quantum computer center
BadTLS covers some scenarios that public CAs cannot sign certificates for, e.g. a certificate that expired in the 1960s.
To add more colour, the here’s the first para of the linked article:

> Data retention: Government gave Optus ‘exemption’ from encrypting metadata

> Editor, Computerworld | 17 JULY 2019 6:46 AEST

> Optus says that it would have struggled to comply with its legislative obligations without a decision by the government that exempted it from a requirement to encrypt all metadata collect as part of Australia’s data retention regime.

The government 100% has some responsibility in this. I can’t express how much this pisses me off, and I’m not even an Optus customer. The OAIC, it turns out, is a farce.
It’s smoke and mirrors trying to fool you into thinking it’s generating intelligent text. In some applications e.g., a chatbot, that’s appropriate. But it’s really no comparison to an expert system for most applications, where you know exactly the right and wrong solutions. Not adding numbers correctly with the huge budget GPT3 has for training and inference is a poignant case of that fact. A linear layer taking in x and y will learn x+y just by setting the weights to 1.0, so it’s not even a hard problem for neural nets, just in the particular tokenization and architecture used for GPT models.
Azure chatbot: Dynamics E7
These companies can ban the US President from their platforms. What makes you think they can't ban yours - you don't even have any nuclear launch codes...
FWIW, I'm sick and am currently looking at a bottle of Robitussin Dry Cough Forte, and the only active ingredients are DXM. But yes, if you're wanting to do high doses, tablets are gonna be the least unpleasant option
I don't think that's even possible, it runs in a loop perpetually adding elements every time you scroll. Perhaps you crashed your browser instead...
Pyramid texts, inscribed inside a pyramid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burial_chamber_in_Unas%27...
Privacy proponents should cheer for this. Legally Meta must take down the app to comply with FTC's order (obligatory not a lawyer):
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2019/07/ftcs-5-bi...

> Another way the FTC says Facebook violated the order was by failing to adequately assess and address privacy risks posed by third-party developers. Other than getting developers to click an “I agree” terms-and-conditions box when registering an app with the Facebook Platform, Facebook didn’t screen developers or their apps before giving them access to massive amounts of data that users had designated as private. Of course, in the wrong hands, information like that can grease the wheels for identity thieves and fraudsters.

> The order imposes additional requirements to address Facebook’s illegal conduct. For example, Facebook must implement a stringent program to monitor third-party developers and terminate access to any developer that doesn’t follow the rules.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2019/07/ftcs-5-bi...
"Why Cars Rarely Crash into Buildings in the Netherlands": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_0DgnJ1uQ

tl;dw: because they actually do what you suggest, and they incorporate their findings into better road designs.
>STPIHKAL

Nice. Just yesterday, I was moving books around and spent time flipping through PiHKAL and TiHKAL
Same over here, over five years since I left, more than the required time they're required to hold information for.
> Leaving out "hours worked" or "Value provided" is going to create a race to the the bottom. If my salary is now capped by my peers then I may as well instead work less / less hard.

For the vast majority of employees, this was always the case. For my entire career the only way to get a raise commensurate with your value was to switch companies. After 6x job changes over 8 years + a 4 year stretch at the latest firm I've increased my compensation by ~10x. The most any manager was able to get me for a raise in 1 year was ~10%, and that was in a year that the standard tech salary went up by 20%.