skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They attribute it to the fact that space around the object is bent. Which is causing the other object to drop, accelerate or bent. Check General Relativity's explanation of Gravity.

That might not answer all of your or my question. But maybe we didn't give enough time to ponder on that line.
Vaping, I assume. I admit with some shame that after over a decade off cigarettes, I'm currently re-addicted to nicotine via vaping. Over the past 10 years or so, I would buy a pack of smokes every once in a while (like, maybe once a year), and enjoy smoking at a party or concert or whatever. I never had trouble stopping after a few and would usually throw the rest of the pack away, it was honestly just too inconvenient to keep up an addiction (not to mention that unless I was _really_ drinking, I would be all too keenly aware that, well, cigarettes are nasty).

Last time I was on vacation, and might have bought a pack of cigarettes, I decided "hey, why not try a Juul instead," and, the rest is history.

While I'm overall in favor of vapes and think that they're a valuable cessation device, the problem, for me, is that it's all to easy to vape while I work in my home office - no smell, no fire, etc. I think that makes it a lot easier to continually dose nicotine and really settle into addiction. Also, while I'm sure they're safer than cigarettes, I still have doubts that they're safe, and I can't help but think of the attitudes that used to prevail with regards to tobacco back in the 40s and 50s when I hear folks talking about how totally OK for your body vaping is.
The Designers Republic did an incredible work by providing wipEout with its signature Y2K aesthetics.

The fictional brand logo animations in wipEout 3's intro still give me futuristic goosebumps a quarter century later: https://youtu.be/DaI_084xDsg
The US went from 700,000 to over 12,000,000 from the 90s to today. In places where we've actually really started to look, we've found orders of magnitude more. I wonder how much more we'll find when we actually go looking for it elsewhere.
Are you a galactic cook or a garbage scow captain?
It's not really a competition at putting out wildfires, moreso detecting and tracking them. There are 3 separate prizes, so to speak.

$5M Autonomous Wildfire Response Track

$5M Space-Based Wildfire Detection and Intelligence Track

$1M Lockheed Martin Accurate Detection Intelligence Bonus Prize
I just keep wondering what the hell is wrong with the people who think junk like this is a good idea. And why there are any. Theory: They're child-molesters themselves?
If we'd stop mixing up private communication with global-scope broadcast "platforms", that'd probably help.

Not that it's the users' fault—it's that these platforms have structured themselves that way.
At my last job I gave a month to upper management and two weeks for those that I was supervising. This let management come up with a plan on how to reshuffle roles to fill the gap. I also created a transition document listing my responsibilities, suggested surrogates, and current statuses of projects I was managing and involved in. Why did I do that? Not really to get something out of it in the future, but because I didn’t want to leave a mess for my coworkers.
That was a huge mistake on your part. You should never do that. If it's required by your grant, then get them to pay for it. If it's not required, then publish non open-access.
None of this would make me want to hire you.

My most productive devs were fine coders. Their important skills were:

- writing code that other people can read and maintain

- working collaboratively

- staying open-minded about alternate ways to do things

- making good trade-offs between "get it done fast" and "get it done properly"

- communication (understanding specs, asking for help, giving help, explaining problems)

Most dev time isn't writing code, and 0% of dev time is implementing data structures or basic algorithms.

Learning a new stack quickly is important. Writing code quickly isn't.
> They can't force you to work on the project until completed, but they can certainly levy financial penalties against you if you don't.

There are very few circumstances in the US in which an employer can do that. It is considered wage theft, which in many states is a criminal offense that pierces the corporate veil. If you worked hours you get paid for those hours and the company can't avoid paying you (with fees or whatnot).

If you are forced to work because if you don't then you will be fined for breach of contract, then that is indentured servitude with extra steps. That is illegal everywhere in the US after the 13th amendment. That's why in the US employment contracts are generally enforced with rewards (aka golden handcuffs) rather than punishments.
That's a fair point. Maybe self-driving cars aren't practical at scale but it seems like they'll still be a thing.
If I sent you a link about a person's funeral to show a person had been born, would you not accept that either? The article is about the funeral of the order.
Right, I didn't have any expectation that she personally drafted the text of section 4 or debated the finer details prior to its introduction, or sought out expert testimony, or even read all 53 pages, or anything like that.

I was more curious over whether the "rounding up" and adding her to the list involved her being present or questioned in any capacity, or whether she just had a standing guideline that she wanted to be listed as a co-sponsor on any Judiciary Committee bills also sponsored by Durbin and Graham or something like that.
Online coding tests are the only way to hire at scale – Not Anymore
You could save some energy by catapulting a plane at a reasonable acceleration, like a glider is launched with a ground tractor wire. I flied gliders this way and I think the acceleration was not worse than a regular airliner. Problem is, the saving is not worth the cost and complexity.

The carrier example is wrong, the planes stay on the catapult only a few seconds while they go full throttle (this takes time), even with the burn rate it is not a significant quantity of fuel. Regular planes can do the same on the runway, I did it myself several times for fun, but it rarely bring benefits - the only place where it helps is with very short runways. In any case, the fuel consumption is not significant.
I agree with everything you said, but you missed my point somewhat.

You and I know that a senator is not an in-state representative, and that their work is federal in nature. Most people who vote do not know that, and do not understand the distinction between state reps and federal reps. If you took a poll, how many people do you think would even know CA had a state senate and separate federal senators? I would surmise very few.

As to the point about CA; I agree, gripe away if you’d like, and I agree CA has many issues it needs to address. So does literally every state; my point was to not go down that rabbit hole, and instead realize that most Californians like it here. They enjoy the weather, infrastructure generally works, etc. As a result, most vote for the status quo. I’m not saying that’s a good thing.
I wonder if you could use the word "Champagne" if you were doing it in a way that clearly showed you were not Champagne. For example, a label that says: "It's not Champagne, it's just beer!".

If the restriction is on using the word anywhere on the label, that would not work. But if it's more along the lines of trademark law, where the question is whether there would be confusion in the marketplace, it could be allowed.
That is quite a bit more nuanced and reasonable that the original moderation feedback given. You certainly appeared to know his intent when you outright accused him of name calling.

> p.s. Please let's not go into name-calling like "fruit-cakery". You can make your substantive points without that!

Heed your own advice?
https://www.mdpi.com/editors

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Would the company give you a lot of notice if they decided to eliminate your role? If so, extend them the same courtesy, if you can. Chances are, most companies wouldn't.
What 20/20 Vision Means
I'm not being cynical at all. The notion that your position is anything but couched cynicism is my whole damn point. It's just fanciful mysticism on your part that actually reads more like science fiction.
dude, same! Got mine in 1985 (i was 9, not 8) and it was THE machine that got me hooked on computers. BASIC coding, playing Missile Command, so classic.
Within 5 days I'm fully adjusted but there are some symptoms of dehydration before that.

Leads me to doubt the conventional wisdom these days of "drink gallons of water per day to have a chance of being healthy"
https://archive.ph/6Lni4
It's because those people don't see it as addressing the root cause.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35618934 (2 days ago, 15 points)
Why would something that only applies to probably 0.01% of humans be mentioned in a book made to be understood/followed by everyone? Especially when Islam always allows for exceptions based on good faith, reasonable terms and best effort. That's why you can eat pork if no other food is available, or drink alcohol for medical reasons (mostly surgery, back then). You are also allowed to not fast whenever you travel, so it's not like exceptions on fasting rules can't exist.

So with that framework, it is not needed to have every single little quirk documented.
But it sometimes also requires islamic experts to confirm what would be reasonable and reassure those who haven't read or understood everything in the Quran. You really can't look at Islam as a completely rigid list of potential gotchas. And there's no equivalent of a clergy or a pope, so you have to think of those experts' interpretations as more of a "legal opinion" instead of religious or divine mandates.

(It's also why it is funny whenever I hear about people dunking bullets in pig blood or whatever when fighting against muslims, because they think that will send them to hell or something. As if intent isn't super important in Islam!)
Stack Overflow Joins Twitter, Reddit in Charging AI Companies for Training Data
The biggest grave robbery: Asia’s disappearing WWII shipwrecks (2017)
I wouldnt necessarily encourage it, but if its not illegally anticompetitive, and Apple wants to retain control of devices, they could make it where "enable sideloading" disables the Apple App Store, and prevents any app from the Apple App Store from running, including cancelling all subscriptions. If they really wanted to get nasty, they could force a full device reset before going back to Disable Sideloading. The latter part is almost exactly the route Microsoft went with Windows Mode S.

They could let you have your phone in either mode, but refuse to allow "hybrid" App Store + Sideloading configurations.
> when all of your competitors don't have that

Aside from the Chrysler Pacifica, which does offer a traditional AWD (to this day AFAIK), presumably with the requisite transmission tunnel.

There's also the Toyota Sienna, which gets away with AWD by using an electric motor for the rear wheels. Hopefully this continues to catch on.
How does your focus evolve or progress while fasting? Any relevant difference between the first days and the last days?
I do wish people would read to the end of the sentence (which addressed that issue) before reacting.
> the idea that AI-driven dispossession is necessary and preordained to sanctify the wisdom and virtue of its creators seems to already be taking hold

I am not seeing that anywhere. Most of what i see is astounding naivety like in your parent's comment - completely unfounded hope that "things will work out for everyone".
The specious inference here is that because electric vehicles weigh more (which is true, the heaviest model of the Mercedes E-Class is actually the hybrid), we should be careful about encouraging people to own electric cars. This is the "priuses pollute more than hummers" phenomenon all over again, with the same hidden agenda, and the same absence of rigorous examination of the problem.

>The report from the British Parking Association noted that some electric cars weigh more than double what popular models in the same segments did in the 1960s, due in part to their heavy battery packs.

What this doesn't address is frequency of these heavier cars, especially as it pertains to their presence in parking structures, or how car weight has in general increased over time. Its true that the newest electric Hummer weighs almost a ton more than the conventional. But not every car in a parking structure is a brand-new Hummer. Should we be concerned about a Tesla Model S's weight, but not the hybrid Mercedes E Class? Which is worse for these structures, a Chevy Bolt or a Dodge Ram 3500?
The Interview, not The Dictator.
The Dictator was the Sacha Baron Cohen movie.
It's not available in my country yet.
I see. When they say feelings, I reckon they mean sensations. Not emotions.

Homeostasis is just about the delta measurement/ variation being sufficient.
Because humans are all different from each other and therefore, an absolute measure wouldn't make any sense.

In that regard, a running machine awaiting for input also has homeostatic feelings. Just not necessarily the same ones as a human but likewise for a bat relying on sonar or a blind mole.
So it's not really a point of contention at all here. :)
Is Spider Solitaire Always Solvable?
testing for creativity is much harder than testing for iq, and a high iq person with no creativity is a safer bet than a dumb creative person.
> The “end” in end-to-end encryption for regular users is never a server.

Why not? Are servers not communication endpoints?
Very good question.

The answer is it ruins the narrative of the conventional media and people will bring up all sorts of excuses to defend why it’s fine for a ‘trans’ person and not for anyone else. Henceforth, they sweep that under the carpet and forget about it.

Both are indefensible. Anyone defending either side is just part of the problem.
>If so, then no problem, right?

I agree. It's the company's decision not to have you help with handoff. Not your problem. In fact, all the more reason to give two weeks notice as you'd be paid for doing nothing. (If they were immediately fired with no payout, they'd probably actually be eligible for unemployment though that's irrelevant if they have another job lined up.)

I didn't take the same conclusion from the parent who didn't say anything about payments. In general, the norm would be to pay for two weeks--and maybe benefits to the end of the month. Someone can be terminated on the spot and still paid. (In general, they have to be paid out for accrued vacation time in any case.)
Here in Norway, if they "let you go" immediately they still have to pay you for your contract notice time which is usually three months.

There are some with six (my last job) or some with one. In my last job I was able to negotiate it down though as I wanted to quit earlier, it was the employer that wanted the six months in my contract. I was a key person in a start up bank so it's not a normal term to have.
>you are seen as a blank slate

To me, this is just another angle of what the parent comment was talking about.
We are not blank slates. We have millions of years of evolutionary instinct and genetics/epigenetics built into us AND we have everything we are fed (literally and figuratively) affecting us before we even get a chance to start thinking about 'who' or 'what' we are.

The blank slate line of thinking is what conservatives in the US implicitly (or explicitly) use to make the claim that being gay is a choice. It seems that it's just another way to justify punishing people for things that may be beyond their control, because if we are blank slates, then everything about you is your own fault.

Obviously there are aspects about ourselves that we can change, but the blank slate ideal is a dangerous slope to slide down.

>You are however instructed to gain mastery over those feelings and make them subordinate to you rather than the other way around

Genuine question: How is this different from saying "it's not bad to be gay, it's just bad to not repress your feelings and never act on them", as is a common (paraphrased) refrain among those who are anti-lgbt?
From what I can see he was studying to prepare for working in International Aid orgs back in Sri Lanka, so I don't think his English matters too much.
aww that's scary. I managed to quit smoking years ago (I only smoked for less than a year anyway), then quit vaping, then used nicotine lozenges for an embarrassingly long amount of time (4+ years?) until quitting cold-turkey at the start of this year.

do you think I'll relapse? I don't usually get cravings anymore but I'm scared it'll happen.
I never used that before, I am a Linux user staying far away from Adobe. It's really just the language design that got me (to my own surprise)
I think that's not what was meant. You _can_ hand in your notice earlier than contractually necessary. If your notice period was 2 months, and you let your employer know, that you are quitting in 3 months, that's perfectly legal. Its not changing the date of the document, it's about the date of your intended departure you mention within it.
Potluck – Dynamic documents as personal software
really enjoyed this demo of a tool that enables text documents to be gradually enriched with application features. think taking a recipe and making the quantities and durations interactive via some pattern matching and simple instrumentation.
> This site uses cookies if you are logged on. But even if you aren't logged on, we share your browsing details with 6 other companies from around the world.

That's one of the things the GDPR was created for. If your data is being shared, you must be informed of with whom it is being shared, and for what purpose.

And if the only reason the data is being shared is so that you can earn $0.00003 for it, rather than being necessary in order for you to provide the service, than you probably need consent anyway. And at the minimum, you must offers users the option to object to that processing.
This is an interesting topic I've explored a bit. The tldr; is that if your business can't afford or recover from a vendor having an incident, you shouldn't be using a vendor. This is often why highly regulated industries are slower moving and more expensive to operate: You need to either spend a lot of time vetting your vendors with policy (via contracts, compliance requirements, certification requirements) and practice (sign NDAs and review source code for components of interest, run joint penetration tests, fund bug bounty programs).

That said, there are mitigations you can take. There are end-to-end encrypted log solutions out there. Honeycomb.io used to have (they might still?) an interesting offering I used at one employer to encrypt sensitive fields in logs leaving our infrastructure. They had the UI set up to talk to our encryption service and decode things on the fly in the user's browser-side UI so that they (Honeycomb) never had direct, unfettered access to sensitive data.

There are other approaches you can take, but things get tricky when you either need to audit your vendor's access to your data or assume that your vendor can't secure your data to your satisfaction. Better to do it yourself at that point if you have the resourcing to do so.
Tesla sells luxury cars, so it should have a high profit per car. Its luxury competitors also make a lot of money per car.

For comparison: Ford's profit per F150 sold starts at $10,000, and that doesn't take into account upgrades. Their margins on F250 and F350 sales are even higher. Their profit margin is dragged down by the many low-cost cars they sell in other countries, since unlike Tesla they serve the entire market and not just a small slice of it.

Mercedes Benz (21.7%) and Mazda (21.9%) actually had higher profit margins than Tesla did (<20%) for the past calendar year.
"Supposed to" is not the language I'd use. People feel motivated given their self control for food and water and are encouraged to try and use that momentum to also be better people.

In my personal experience as a compulsive snacker being able to fast daily for a month makes me feel like I can do anything
Parler’s New Owner Is in It for the Money, Not the Politics
It's "Criti-Hype", basically using FUD to get media attention to lower CAC.

Source: https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-cr...
I found the comments under the TikTok ban thread the other day and asked,
Why are you so concerned about China, which can do nothing, while other apps collect the data in the country you are in has the actual power to jail you because, you support abortion or LGBTQ.
The mental gymnastics were, US has a due process of law and China is an authoritarian dictatorship, while they still live in the US and China can't extradite them.
People constantly fail to realize, the views change, what's legal today could be illegal tomorrow, and you will absolutely be profiled as a risk.

Even if they can't prove you are guilty, the absolute nightmare of going through the due process of law and being tagged as a risk is something to think about and take it seriously. The concern must not be if the app is based on what country, it must be why does this app want to know so much about me, or why does the govt need to know my every opinion.

US trusted Dick Cheney's words and we all know what happened.
You can eat in practically every muslim country during ramadan, if you aren't muslim. It will be hard to find open restaurants during the day, but no one will bother a non-muslim about eating openly.
Anyone used to scripting languages knows there's a difference between single quotes and double quotes for escaping.
A transition document seems reasonable. Anything more would be straight up people pleasing.
This is getting less and less relevant.
I wonder at what point it's cheaper to just aggressively hire the talent that will be lost in the RIF and buy up the warehouse/distribution centers.

I'd imagine the tech side of things are pretty proprietary and still in use on the streaming side.
For the reason I just told you — they can be compromised much more easily, and are typically run by a party which isn’t fully aligned with your interests and those of the other participants in your conversation.
Me too – I saw it at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Gorgeous machine! The museum was great too, highly recommend a visit to anyone interested in the history of computing.
I don't think it was working fine. The previous system treated state media from different countries very differently, even when they were identical according to any objective criteria.

Ideally, they would have made a rule saying that if more than N% of funding came from government sources and/or government officials have the power to appoint or remove board members or employees, it's labeled as state-affiliated media.