skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SC may not negate. But CCI rulings can be appealed in SC. And that process will take time. You can be sure Google will appeal and drag things. And while I don’t expect SC to overrule the whole decision some elements will get eased for Google in the process.
« Non-paternity events » occur at a rate of a few percents a given generation at best, but it's enough that at this scale even a rock-solid documents trail isn't proof of descent.
Given that the accusations seemed fairly veiled and measured I don’t see how this would fly
> I don't know that I believe that the answer to which one happened in the case of covid-19, is all that important

It is when literally this week a version with an 80% kill rate but with the spread of the most transmissible was made in a lab for no good reason.

How many would die if that leaked out and the only reason it’s been made is just so some academic can get their name in a paper and earn some grant presumably.

The idea of we just have to trust that these labs are secure and competent enough when the fact they’re even making something so deadly raises questions about their competence. We need to start judging the people making these things with the potential to kill millions the same as we would anyone else building something that had the potential to kill millions.

I don’t see why playing with Weapons of Mass Destruction in a random lab is just considered fine when the weapon is invisible and can live inside your body or a mouse. At least Fat Man and Little Body couldn’t be carried off base by a single person.
Have you actually tried to send files via bluetooth from Android -> MacOS or Android -> iOS?

I can't make it work, the file just doesn't get through.
I think companies have gotten so relaxed about indemnity because of things like section 230 protection and the typical EULA claiming no responsibility that they're now trying to extend it where it doesn't belong.

In any other industry, MS WOULD offer indemnity protection or it would be dead-in-the-water and no company would even attempt what MS is attempting to do.

Big tech really needs to be reigned in.
Don't worry, XKCD has you covered!

https://xkcd.com/2623/
Goldman Sachs’s disastrous Main Street gamble
I don't think this is true. If the CIA intervention in X had been a huge success, we would have heard all about it. If the CIA were involved in (say) removing dictator X and that somehow led to democracy and peace how and why would they keep that secret when they don't and can't keep secret when the opposite occurs.

Also, just looking at CIA actions we know about (removing democratic leaders for autocrats) it seems very unlikely the CIA has a super secret program doing the exact opposite. Do the two departments take turns or flip a coin to decide whether to give a job to the successful or counterproductive department?!
Nah, there will be enough phones with 3,5mm headphone jack.
That's not what thought experiment means.
And anyone to anyone sailing on one of those first ships to Australia, the SMC and LMC would have been really obvious in the sky. Sure, they're only dwarf galaxies, but still.
How about the German city of Stuttgart rendered as Stoccarda(FR) or Estugarda(PT) but not in other languages... no idea why.
Yes. The law says that something will depend on incidentals, not that changing such incidentals is wrong.
I looked into tasmota but it doesn't intrgrate with homekit and it says that's basically intentional
Yes, it's bad. I have a not so different experience from older Microsoft where it got worst and ugliest when the review season approached.
> An unbroken lineage to people of ancient times, known as a descent from antiquity, still remains to be historically proven.

Such records exist in Chinese culture, in particular in Taiwan and the diaspora, as they have not been interrupted before the Cultural Revolution.
I suspect that Asimov was a better physicist than you.
> What Microsoft did in the 90s was pale by comparison

You really don't know what you are talking about. The issue with Microsoft was not bundling a piece of software and not fixing the box model.

Microsoft (of the 90s) deliberately worked to undermine the web using their dominant market position, adding their own extensions to ensure lock in. Their behaviour in the web standards process was appalling, and directed from above (sometimes by phone outside meeting).

"Embrace, extend, and extinguish" was not hyperbole.
Is this another ill-conceived argument for the existence of classical Christian metaphysics? They'd have a much easier time concealing the bias if they didn't construct it exclusively from the themes of genesis... Woman... Knowledge... Apples... Who forgot to bring the snake?
Do The blockchain and NFTs have any place the automotive industry?
I actually thought the article was about the singer Marc Anthony...
Does ubuntu still require you to pay for automated updates?
I've never seen someone independently recreate exact comments with a persons name in it, have you? Do you find that reasonable as an excuse for independent creation?

Github cannot independently create code, we know this. Comparing Github to humans writing code is disingenuous at best.
When AMD/Nvidia/Intel and Samsung/Mediatek/Rockchip/etc were able to put AV1 blocks into their chips, I'm sure Apple would be capable of doing the same -- if they wanted. Now it looks that they do not want.
You don't need to be a genius engineer, you need to be a competent stage magician. And competent stage magicians are more common than 2700 Elo chess players, so it's not by itself unreasonable to suspect.
I find it even less impressive than most horoscopes. At least horoscopes skillfully make use of the Barnum effect[0] to trick people into believing the reading. The results of this on my own users, on the other hand, are much too specific to pretend to hide how wildly inaccurate they are.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect
Generally speaking, underperforming for two halves (so, a year) is very likely to result in a dismissal. Even earlier, if it's particularly bad. Senior Engineer (level 5) is considered terminal, i.e. you won't get fired for not growing, but at that point expectations are high, so coasting is not really an option for most people. Lower levels have a ticking clock, with the expectation of reaching senior by a certain time at the latest. Not doing so will definitely result in a dismissal.

TL;DR, it is a high-performance culture and ignoring it is hardly realistic. People do get let go. Folks usually leave on their own before it gets to this point.
Project Wisdom for Red Hat Ansible
If that's what paywall means now then sorry for the noise. :)
training on OSS may be considered fair use (that hasn't been challenged in courts yet, but it would probably hold).

But that says nothing about its output being fair use, and that definitely won't hold up in court anymore than the output of a human retyping a novel word-for-word would hold up as fair use.
The problem with combining travel and work is that the travel part suffers, and the work part suffers.

When traveling, i like to spend my energy on the travel, not stressing about work.
> I would hate to be running a release build with this

The usual argument is that the program would be in an invalid state if the condition was reached, so the only option is to crash. If it turns out it's a valid state, then the programmer can treat in a branch. I don't think tests would capture this because they would operating under the same assumption that such states cannot exist. Maybe fuzzy testing could surface an issue like this.
I had an effective data cap while moving flats. The address for home internet can only move at the beginning of the month, so I used a mobile router with a prepaid SIM card.

It had random timeouts, and streaming was impossible in all but the lowest resolutions (144p).

Other people might just feel like not paying for overpriced internet, even if they have money (boycott).
SpaceX replaces Russia on 2 European launches after Ukraine invasion
Figma CEO Dylan Field on why he sold to Adobe
Unfortunately, you’re right. These models are beneficial to large corporations, and they do the most harm to the small individual artists who created the content that made them possible in the first place, so it’s unlikely there will be any serious legal challenges.
Yes.

People using NG plants depend on reliably regular deliveries of NG. They should be equally willing to depend on regular deliveries of NH3.
Unrelated to the genealogy; but at what point does it become ridiculous to claim yourself a prince? With over a century of no power for the family and no obvious way back to it as the kingdom is well dissolved, it feels like dress-up to style yourself a prince.
I just about fell on my arse the first time I saw Saturn through my telescope, actually looking at it and seeing the rings. Rings, right around a planet, right there. I couldn't see a lot of of detail because it's a fairly small refractor but there it was, a planet with rings.

Rings. Right around a whole fucking planet. Right there for everyone with a couple of hundred quid's worth of glass and aluminium and a reasonable view of the night sky to see. Just, right there in the sky, bright and clear.
> Asimov was a chemist and so was unlikely to be familiar with that work.

The premise is true but the conclusion does not follow. Asimov was one of the most prolific authors of popular science books including astronomy, cosmology, physics, etc. It's entirely plausible that he was familiar with chaos.
I suspect this is entirely in jest, but one can never be sure.
The election map shows results of a dude/party who ran on Pro EU platform. As much as you like to spin it any other way that is an indisputable fact. Protest erupted when he refused to sign the EU association agreement.
Envious? I am aware we will all die, and I am proud to leave a mark on humankind.
Yep, a simple flask app is an option. Easy to deploy and have a simple endpoint hook that reads the input parameters and then does your magic of writing out some static files and/or if you feel adventurous write out json files that can be read via javascript!
This gives me a flashback to university. We was tasked with writing some Java swing desktop app. I developed it on Windows. The lecturers would run it on Ubuntu to test and mark it. One of them tried to deduct a point for the text being clipped by a couple of pixels on Ubuntu even though that didn't happen on Windows.

How was I, as inexperienced as I was at the time, supposed to know that a "cross platform" GUI framework was going to render a tab or a label (can't remember which) slightly wrong on Ubuntu compared to Windows? A very frustrating experience.

Keep in mind that "good" UX/UI wasn't even a requirement (or even taught) and mine was honestly one of the better looking programs that were made. Some looked as you can imagine a bunch of students made.
Azure is really simple if you use dotnet. Just create an app and then click scale-out (or scale-up).

They of course support docker and k8 also. And Azure functions which are like lambda in AWS.
> ..but Field stressed multiple times that Figma will remain an independent company and that there are no plans for changing the company’s pricing plan. Adobe is paying $20 billion for Figma, though, so let’s see if that changes over time.

I'm afraid Figma will face the same destiny WhatsApp had after being acquired.
It has been tried, but it quickly turns into a dystopian hellscape. If you don't have people on the streets they turn into crime dens. Meanwhile, the skywalks are not visible from the buildings so they lack social control - and are completely unreachable for emergency services. Not to mention that the main benefit of pedestrian areas is the wide-open spaces connected to a dense network of local infrastructure, which such a skywalk would not provide.

The only way this works is by separating out the cars - like highways are doing. Due to the lack of physical space to exist and the huge speed difference they are completely incompatible with non-car traffic.
Because they are not the same people. The good stuff usually comes from EU parliament while the messed up stuff usually comes from EU commission.

EU parliament is staffed by elected officials from all over Europe, while EU commission is staffed by ministers from governments of member countries.

It is pretty obvious that the latter will be pretty corrupt.
> Maybe for the same reason the names of famous cities (especially if already famous in the past) are translated into foreign languages.

They're not translated as much as they are derived from the same etymons used by the languages spoken there. Italian Acquisgrana or French Aix-la-Chapelle derive from Latin Aquis {capella, grana, villa}. The only properly official name most cities had throughout Europe was in Latin rather than any vernacular, including in areas where non-Romance languages were spoken such as German, English, Polish and so on.
If this turns out to be true, how many cumulative man years of media coverage on this issue can we say was complete garbage?
A little bit different to software, but the big kicker for me was a standing desk.

When I'm on calls I compulsively wander around the apartment with my wireless headphones on, I can't stand still. If I'm in a call for 4 hours, I will be walking constantly for 4 hours (often covering 20km in small circles in my apartment).

I got a powered sit/stand desk with presets so I can press a single button to have it raise up or lower down, and it's made me a lot more present at my desk during discussions, because I can sort of fiddle about on my feet while still being in front of my screens.

Strongly considering adding a flat, miniature, quiet walking machine underneath my desk for this stuff, if I can find one which meets my specs.
> can the "result" of any thought experiment be surprising, not what you expected?

Isn't Schrödinger's cat the classic example of this? Physicists at the time typically thought of quantum effects (like superposition) as being confined to the microscopic realm. Schrödinger pointed out that if you take the principles of quantum theory as serious and objectively ontological, then you end up with macroscopic superpositions.
The situation in Europe is very bad. We have a conglomerate of corrupt people in power positions that are waiving anything their lobbies want them to. Living in Germany is the worst with the new government. They manage to destroy every form of wealth the citizens had. Decisions are made based on stubborn ideology and not on what’s best for the country. If you’re living in the US and ever thought your politicians are bad I invite you to have a look at Germany. Very weird country.
That varies a lot by party. I watched some debates during COVID to do with lockdowns. One stuck in my mind because it was to do with the accuracy of epidemiological modelling.

On the conservative side you have several politicians who had actually been programmers before they went into politics, one who worked with implementing risk models at a betting firm. They had generally read the Ferguson/ICL papers and understood why they were deeply flawed, and could talk at length about the concrete technical problems that had undermined COVID modelling, both statistical and implementation wise. For example, one MP talked about a specific paper and why it was based on circular logic, others about the validation of the underlying assumptions. And of course they asked a lot of pointed questions about how such shoddy 'science' had been allowed to dominate the government, about how the quality of scientific advice could be improved. Concrete things that they'd already thought about a lot.

Then the SNP and Labor MPs stood up. It was night and day. They were, primarily, angry that a debate was being held in the first place. Their entire spiel was "How dare the evil Tories criticize amazing SCIENTISTS who are only trying their best". One even cited the conclusions of the specific paper a Tory MP had just ripped to shreds 10 minutes earlier, apparently without realizing he was discussing the same research. None of them had any knowledge of the actual topic whatsoever. Their worldview went no deeper than: academics are brilliant, Tories are evil, why are we even wasting time debating this?

This is ultimately the reason the conservatives have such long durations in government. The quality of MP they attract seems to be much higher overall. Yes they have lots of the Oxford PPE types but overall they're less angry, way more polite and analytical, and way more likely to have concrete skills obtained outside of politics. A good example of this problem for the left came up just a few days ago where a supposedly neutral Channel 4 presenter was caught on a hot mike calling Steve Baker a "cunt". Baker - a Tory MP and one of their former programmers - just politely brushed it off, clearly the better man.

This sort of thing is routine in Labour circles and it puts voters off. Whilst some may rail against classism, ultimately most people want to see civilized debate between politicians who don't clearly want to kill each other.
Londres is a special case. The /r/ was added in French (and I assume Italian) because London was otherwise clumsy to pronounce.
I don’t want to cast doubt on his claims either, but I was unable to find anyone with the surname Kopaliani in any of the main or cadet branches of the house of Bagrationi.
Yeah exactly and if it messes up delete what you started with and try writing a comment about what you want it to do, often then it codes something better than I would.

You just need to get good at writing comments or descriptive function names.
> Safari Technology Preview is ahead

My userbase isn’t using Safari Technology Preview, they’re using Safari

> the most anticipated web feature

I’m curious how you measured this - I have yet to be interested in :has(), but I am very interested in AV1 and PWA features...
Someone might have thought so, but I think your theory needs some serious qualification - a lot of people were credibly surprised that it went so badly for Russia. The version I heard was that the US had extremely good (open source and not) intel on what the higher Russian military echelons thought about their chances - and they thought it would go well!

So the mistake the US might have made is to buy the self-confidence of the higher brass instead of looking at the reality at the ground. (Bad training, no combined arms, bad equipment, low morale etc.)
If you're at risk of a bad time with Covid, get vaccinated. Simples.

>As for the sin of being fat that you find so unforgivable

Simple cause and effect. The study you linked said so - if you're obese, you're much more likely to go to the ICU with Covid. It is strange that all of the public messaging designed to "keep us safe" did not include any component to look after our bodies, which would have significant benefits when it comes to fighting disease.
Dizzy Gillespie was well-known for having his trumpets made with a bent (but at the end of the pipe). IIRC it started with an accident damaging his instrument, but he liked how it sounded.
> I can’t help but wonder if this is just an entire sport refusing to accept that someone could come along and achieve this

That's what Niemann wants you to believe, but it's not right. Carlsen is rated about 200 Elo points above Niemann. That makes a win in classical an upset, sure, but far from unprecented, and far from proof that he's a threat to Magnus' dominating position in the chess world the last decade. Weaker players have beaten Magnus, even with black.
I originally didn't think that it came from a lab. Primarily because flu epidemics have happened before and they were of natural origin and there hadn't been good evidence that it came from a lab. But my opinion changed as more good evidence started to turn up that suggested engineering.
Probably Bentonville, Arkansas, I’m kidding mostly bc I don’t know if they have a police department but it’s sorta the same idea as Cupertino. Also I think Santa Clara fire fights and polices for them.
TL;DR "Using IP Address Instead of Domain Name"

Everything else remains pretty much the same...
If u want to be as cheap as possible but in line with tos maybe cache manually to r2, then have some logic in your client to get from r2 or ur server?
They made noise about the copyright directive and online platforms, yet nothing changed.

https://danuker.go.ro/eu-copyright-directive.html
Today I learned that S. N. Bose and Meghnad Saha were the first to translate Einstein's papers from German to English.

From the article -

A momentous event in physics occurred following the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, when Arthur Eddington observed the deflection of starlight passing near the sun. His observations vindicated Einstein’s prediction for the gravitational bending of light. After this event, Bose and Saha translated all of Einstein’s and Hermann Minkowski’s papers from German into English. These were published by the University of Calcutta in 1920 in a volume entitled The Principle of Relativity, with an introduction by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, a friend of Bose and Saha who would go on to become a pioneer in statistics in India. These were the first translations of Einstein’s papers into English.
When I said about kids "changing the world" I meant in the broadest possible sense. If they're surfing and bumming around Spain, why not? If they make some other people happy as well as themselves whilst doing so, that's gotta be good right? I think many people on HN are rather focused an "achieving great things", whatever that may be, which can involve starting companies or making a lot of money which is hardly a guaranteed route to happiness in fact often the opposite. So, as a happy parent who has enjoyed adventures and travelling and career to some extent etc before having a family, I just share my experience that having kids gives a lot of joy and purpose and gives something to the world, and that other things many of us strongly want to do when we're younger don't always deliver really in terms of purpose and fulfilment. So, don't rush to have kids but don't dismiss it either ;) There's a compromise. :). PS not sure where you get the $500k from. Maybe it more costly in the US.. Kids are happy without growing up in a rich household. Long as they're fed , housed , clothed, have some fun things to do. They don't need trust funds, top notch college, competitive sports etc. Sure a lot of people think they do but a lot of people think that's nonsense
“By contrast, I think about Bluetooth a lot. I wish I didn't.”

LOL, yes same here. Can’t wait for Bluetooths b̶a̶l̶l̶s̶ baggage to be chopped.
Hence the therapy recommendation. Learn to go easy on yourself.
Same, I don’t even drink soda never mind own a sodastream!
> Help us make AI truly open, rather than open in name only.
Tor Relay Operator Meetup – Relays Snowflake Proxies → October 22, at 19:00 UTC
I'm not implying anything about Titus, I'm implying something about Hyrum. Apparently he must have thought to himself: "Well, I'm still missing a name drop here for my credit-grabbing." If that name had been "Niklaus Wirth" or whatever, and it was Niklaus Wirth who put up the website, then, sure.

...but the best name he could come up with is a name only recognized by fellow Googlers and people attending highly specialist conferences, and he's going around telling people "Hey look, this super-smart thing that I once said. It's so cool. Look, this guy over here also thinks that I'm the one who deserves credit for it. This is so smart, it will blow your mind. Now listen up, ..."

If this kind of thing doesn't "pop" to you as a violation of social norms then you know you're living in a subpopulation where, basically, narcissism has gone endemic.
Tor Relay Operator Meetup – Relays Snowflake Proxies → October 22, at 19:00 UTC

Gus - @0xggus -- Community Team lead @torproject

>Tor Relay Operator meetup will happen next week, on October 22, @19:00UTC.

Join us if you're running relays, snowflake proxies for #Iran, or just want to hang out!

Check out the Agenda : https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-relays-invitation-join-us...