skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When technology advances far enough, "

This is not a given. It presupposes the continued existence of modern civilization. Who spends time researching carbon sequestration when their flooded neighbors from the next city over are trying to take your resources by force?

Also,the atmosphere is the ultimate tragedy of the commons problem, and we haven't fixed it in decades of trying.

The planet will return to a sustainable state. Sadly the loss of nearly all vertebrates and billions of dead is sustainable. Hell, so is Venus. Saying how great things are while dancing on top of the landmine, as this article is doing in a sense, seems foolhardy.
how is it ironic? that was exactly my point.
On an individual level, of course. But wishing that people would "just get it", or letting it affect you emotionally in any way, is a losing battle since the bigger picture social behaviour won't change unless the incentives are in place. Again, that doesn't necessarily mean monetary incentives. It could mean introducing carrots and sticks in the form of new social norms and dynamics.
For no silent updates, pay for W10 Pro. It's not free, yes, but neither was any other Windows.
Neat. This one works on Linux too.
> On the other hand, one of our Scout leaders got giardia at Boundary Waters, due to incorrect filtration habits. So the article claiming no correlation exists may be an exaggeration.

Am I not well educated on filtration. I did become terribly ill after drinkring unfiltered stream water. Given the outcome, I won’t ever do so again unless I’m hopelessly lost without provisions.
Next up, put yourself and/or family members into any movie. That's really only a matter of time.
Couldn't we argue that about all games? Particularly no or low randomness games (such as sudoku, or euro board games, respectively). But even games with randomness might be winnable by following an algorithm. The trance of executing those "algorithms" (playing, basically) is also part of the fun. Solitaire card games, for example. The gambling part of playing the odds against randomness is just one diension of fun!
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My oldest son (the only one that's shown interest in programming) really liked Scratch. One feature of Scratch that I didn't expect to be part of the appeal was how easy they make it to share your work. Every time he build something, it was trivial for him to share it online for friends and strangers to see. He wasn't upvote-obsessed, but I do think that social-recognition element was a plus
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OTOH, I'm perfectly okay paying REI $40 once every few years to not verify this.
> these updates reset your setting, enable things you explicitly disabled, behind your back,

And by settings you mean undocumented registry entries that people found and altered to break core services on purpose? If you start altering undocumented things there's no real assurances that it will work the same way (or state maintained) during an update.

> Microsoft still didn't document what data they are exfiltrating

Basic diagnostic data: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/basic...

Full diagnostic data: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/windo...

> silent updates, that you cannot control them or disable them

You get plenty of control over updates including how "silent" they are, you just cannot disable them entirely.

But is limiting the ability to disable them for the greater good? We still have huge Windows XP botnets running rampant on the internet because people would completely disable updates, get infected, and then start causing harm to their neighbors.

I've read quite a few people that want to disable Windows Update, but they never provide a plan or route for receiving security updates. They just simply opt to run an insecure machine because an update annoyed them one time, and that would be fine if it didn't impact others.
no future so far... maybe it can change, but the whole blockchain fad is basically a solution looking for a problem...
>Will a manager release truthful aggregate information, such as averages and standard deviations so that individuals can see for themselves how they stack up against the group?

At the FC where I work, managers printed metrics out from spreadsheets and posted them daily (ish) to encourage competition and productivity but there was no real way to verify numbers weren't being fudged, or that favoritism wasn't being shown.

Workers often won't know their error rate or accurate stow rate until they generate enough errors to trigger a warning, because only managers are allowed to see a worker's metrics. Amazon's policy is that an employee who follows procedure will never generate errors, and therefore, giving employees access to their own metrics is unnecessary - good employees won't need them, bad employees will either become good, or be fired. It's only recently that they've been able to see their stow rates as reflected by Amazon's own system, rather than a vague and inaccurate estimate.

>Or will a manager selectively hoard and release specific pieces of information to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the minds of the workers in an attempt to squeeze out more productivity?

Yes.
"The head comment was someone complaining that the US is going to shut."

Did I miss this? I don't see this claim anywhere in the thread.
My son has enjoyed making games in Roblox Studio more than anything else. It's scripting language (Lua) has been easy for us to learn together.
One is more than none.
That's why I too often have that xkcd strip about people being wrong on the internet in mind _before_ writing a comment on HN.

StackOverflow is for "well, actually...".
I wrote some thoughts on this:

https://github.com/pjlsergeant/multimedia-trust-and-certific...
> Do they actually expect governments and companies to buy a new Office license every 5 years?

No, they view 2019 and similar traditionally licensed versions as a legacy line they'd very much like to retire entirely. They want people on Office 365 subscriptions, and expect to have success moving the market in that direction.
Chroma from luma happens to work particularly well for video game content. It's one of the reasons Twitch is interested in using AV1 as soon as possible. Here's a talk by Thomas Daede where he discusses chroma from luma:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKEDf5-2sT4

Slides: https://people.xiph.org/~tdaede/demuxed_av1_2017.pdf

Twitch is also interested in AV1 for its s-frames feature which allows for better compression in low latency live streaming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5sJX6VA34o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeSNW2T7QwE
There's at least the metagame of discovering the algorithm. Also, the Simon Tatham Minesweeper is only mechanistic up to the last ten mines. After that, it can require (by design) reasoning across all remaining mines and spaces.
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the good old hard cash will do just fine...
Whatever you think about this, it's here to stay - the code is open source and cached on a million hard drives already.

If we treat the normal rate of progression, we'll see a year 2023 version for 5 bucks off the App Store, your phone will live-convert the video you're recording at your drinking party with your friends into an all celebrity event. Probably with voice swap. Your drunken roommate's scratchy voice will be ML'd into Frank Sinatra, autotuned, face swapped, and uploaded for a few laughs to facebook.

It's here to stay whether you like it or not.
> Next election the "grab her by the p*" soundbite would have been "fake sound".

You mean the last election right? A lot of people believed it was faked.
This is a rare case where it seems useful for me to externalize my inner monologue: "Well, this just looks like Jupyter lite... oh, wait, this is Mike Bostock's project? He's built some very cool visualizations and some really powerful libraries with a tasteful API design... if this is his idea of a useful workflow it's probably well thought-out and executed and worth checking out."
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Anecdotally, I've had gallons of water from lakes in Northern MN while camping, and it was delicious. On the other hand, also anecdotal, one of my ancestors in Germany is said to have died from infection after drinking from a pond in Germany. More recently, a family friend became seriously ill after drinking from a mountain stream -- they think it may have been due to a dead animal upstream from the location. The rule-of-thumb I was told is to take water from the middle of the lake, and not near or downstream from any streams that might feed into it. I wonder if this article is perhaps understating the risk, or maybe giving people ideas that could lead them to engage in potentially life-threatening behavior, particularly if they are not experienced in back country survival. Yes it is often OK to drink from fresh water sources, but it is not a myth that people get very sick and/or die from it.
Love this - keep em coming!
Maybe older: were the tools _Carbon_ dated?
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Mux is hiring video engineers (and others) to make online video work
You can't prevent someone from making a fake, but one could at least use cryptographic signatures to prove they made a statement on video/audio.
> how do we teach some of these concepts to our kids at a young? What does that kind of curriculum look like?

To see one approach you might be interested in looking at the "Computer Science Unplugged" project: http://csunplugged.org/
Science fiction thriller with a bad ending.
Video has been pretty much immune to "Photoshopping" AFAIK. The new technology also makes it extremely cheap.
Everything is anything to certain degree.

As a core compute system, k8s is more sufficient to be a candidate for everyone to learn than any thing in the same category on earth.
I noticed a flurry of Foxconn propaganda, reported in all the usual western media, that tried to make this argument about 7 years ago. They said that they had robots that would shortly render something like 800,000 factory workers obsolete.

It coincided with a period of worker unrest in their factories.

They didn't though. They now employ something like 400,000 more people than they did.

It was just a ploy to terrify Shenzhen factory workers.

The apparent abysmal failure of their "project" to replace all those people seems to have gone 100% unnoticed in the business press. Foxconn just forgot to issue that press release I guess.

I think back to that story and subsequent non-story every time I read the latest news article about "the robot takeover of our jobs that's just around the corner".
Journals wouldn't accept generated PDFs? This genuinely shocking to me. Is this prelevant in all fields?
> I expect this is true but it is not going to happen.

What is your point. That we shouldn't do anything, because it is all hopeless?
There was even a rather convincing incident 2 years ago where a Jan Böhmermann may or may not have faked Varoufakis "giving Germany the finger"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/mar/17/yanis-va...

https://youtu.be/Vx-1LQu6mAE?t=127

Youtube Video with subtitles with Böhmermann.
Herd immunity? Perhaps naive people believe those spam sites because smarter people believe the better spam sites that share the same narrative...

However, distrusting digital media isn't the solution either - there are plenty of trash magazines publishing conspiracy theories and other absurdities. Plus, digital media has revealed huge segments of America are becoming culturally isolated and undemocratic. A return to print media might shift funds back to deep professional investigative journalism that covers those issues... or just give owners better returns.
We need to start thinking about what criminal justice will look like when digital recordings are all considered hearsay. That's bound to happen.

And perhaps it should... if average people have the technology now, how long has it been in the hands of police departments, newspapers, militaries, and intelligence agencies?

We tend to focus on fakes with high-profile people like politicians and celebrities, but it can clearly be done with everyday people as well. The author was able to produce a fake video segment of a well-lit, animated conversation involving his wife. She's directly in front of the camera, speaking and making hand motions for several seconds. How much easier would it be to insert a face into grainy security camera footage, or a shaky clip of a large crowd at a political rally?
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Someone tell Nikolay Przhevalsky that his cause of death was not linked to drinking from a stream:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Przhevalsky

Just need a dead animal a bit upstream and you get a lot of goodies.
> Office used to be Windows-only

No it wasn't. Microsoft Excel was initially Mac only [0] and there was a bundled product named Microsoft Office for the Mac a year before there was one for Windows. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office
People should never have been trusting media in the first place, digital or otherwise. And for the most part, they don't have to. Humans believe what they want to believe or are told to believe. Evidence has little to do with it.
You can already get 'em and the price isn't completely out of reach for a hobbyist:

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14342

I had actually just discovered those recently and with 0.2mm repeatability my first thought was a pick and place. But the complexity ends up being with the part feed and with configuration. It's really hard to build a machine that can reliably feed arbitrary parts automatically, and then programming it for each job is a pain so you'd also have to revolutionize the tooling so that a person could program one in a few minutes (and don't forget loading it ugh). The kinematics do share a lot with 3D printers, but it's the open-endedness in the feed system that makes them difficult. It's probably not impossible, just really hard, so there needs to be a considerable market to recoup the cost of designing such a machine that is accessible to a hobbyist.

I mostly agree with CNC, though it depends on how ambitious you are. I have a very cheap generic CNC engraver ($100 + shipping) that I use to engrave PCBs and it actually works quite well for that as well as it can do wood and soft materials remarkably nicely. Ditto for nicer machines like the Sienci, especially if you're doing woodworking. But a 5 axis machine capable of milling metal for <$500? It's not gonna happen. And even if it did, would you really want one? Milling metal is always gonna be complex and full of hassles.

I feel the same way about laser cutters. They're actually affordable now and I definitely want one, but I don't wanna deal with the considerable inherent hassle. Fires, toxic fumes, permanent blindness, focusing etc, just not worth it to me even for free.

Also this has been an interesting discussion, thanks.
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I know this must be a stupid question to ask, but why does a document writing tool need security updates? Can someone hack in and write documents on your behalf?
Information will need to be verified by consensus on a decentralized blockchain.
This. The differences in failure rate aren't worth the risk.
Sorry for replying to my own post.

AV1 encoder has a latency allowance parameter, which you can set to zero. Something like av1enc ... lag-in-frames=0

Obviously h.265 has same low latency option like h.264, in form of not using B-frames.

The question remains, which one performs the best?

Is AV1 with lag-in-frames=0 actually usable in practical applications with the available hardware? How much quality suffers from not being able to predict from future frames in comparison to other codecs?

Anyways I really like the ability to specify balance between latency and quality in AV1 and VP9.
Agreed. Filtration systems are cheap, and even if you don't have one with you it's pretty easy to boil water to be sure.

In the extreme case that you can't boil the water, try collect rain water or water closest to an in-ground source (top of a stream where it comes out of the ground or a natural spring).

The biggest risk factor imo (outside of personal hygiene) is not knowing what lies further upstream. Only takes one dead animal to make you have a real bad time.
Adyen actually provides this too, it's called Hosted Payment Pages (HPP)[1] and it's difficult to find because the documentation structure is abysmal.

There's a shared secret you can use to verify the payment when they callback to you after payment, and their HPP is skinnable.

[1]
https://docs.adyen.com/developers/api-reference/hosted-payme...
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Good workers expect to have good managers. Good managers can gauge the worth of their workers without resorting to rigid procedures with constant robotic surveillance.

If I am ordered to wear a monitoring wristband, I will naturally suspect that my manager is an idiot. The first test would likely to be to pair up with another worker and swap wristbands. Further along, try putting both wristbands on one wrist for short periods of time, such as when someone is using the bathroom.

I'd probably also try bracelets with magnets on them and wrapping the wristband in foil. If they are universally hated by the workers, spraying them all with histamine before the shift starts would result in visible skin irritation under the bands, and a video of said irritation posted to social media might get them withdrawn for a while.

Good workers like to be respected and valued as human beings. Treat them like fungible cogs at your own peril.
The piece is spot-on in that companies as they grow fill up with mid-level “PM”s who fill time with meetings. One problem with the article is companies don’t always use the P to mean product. They may distinguish Product and Program/Project, but the criticisms of the article, where not specifically about the word “product”, apply to the others.
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Anecdotally evidence: I've been backpacking for 25 plus years and am an avid filter user. But I have met dozens of people who do not, almost all on the AT (where I backpack the most). In the 90's it was quite common to find thru-hikers not using a filter. I have never met anyone who got sick from unfiltered water.

Will this change my behavior. Probably not. But I will stop treating my contaminated side of the filter like it it covered with ebola.
not sure if this is an obtuse cryptocurrency joke, or you didn't realize you were describing cryptocurrency...
This article has some more info: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/a-game-of-chicken-how-...

One paragraph:
"One of these companies, Venky’s, is also a major poultry producer. Apart from selling animal medicines and creating its own chicken meals, it supplies meat directly and indirectly to fast food chains in India such as KFC, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and Domino’s."
https://github.com/go-gl has opengl and glfw bindings which would serve many of the same purposes.
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I did thankfully already decide to not send it. I realized I didn't really need the other person as part of the equation, as you said.

I think I'll go grab a guitar a friend offered me for free and play with that. I used to in college.
Ask HN: How are remote developers taxed?
Hi HNers,

(Asking this again as last I asked about a week ago at an inconvenient time of the day so only got a single response(thx mtmail!).
..I think this offset will prompt more results hopefully? as I believe this is a question many would want answered..)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16251000

---

I am a developer in London and I want to move to a remote role working from Portugal. While there are quite a few roles available remotely, I have never quite understood how the taxation works.

e.g. If you work for a US/UK company and you are based in Portugal (for example), do you pay double taxation or are you only taxed at source/destination?

Are remote roles then advertised as cost to company or what you will actually get before any said tax?

Is there any metric online calculator for this sort of thing or a simple way to work it out?
Teaching a new dog old tricks
nein.

or there was that time a german variety show 'false flagged' the germans by doctoring a video of yanis varoufakis to have him 'stick the middle finger to germany' during a talk he gave (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx-1LQu6mAE). There were witnesses; but they didn't stop the confusion and outrage that ensued due to the effects of viral media. Would this pass a sophisticated technical analysis of the video? No - is there time and public understanding for the results of said sophisticated technical analysis to prevent the damage before it is done? no.

The notion that witnesses or forensic analysis can combat the speed of information, especially across borders, is a bit quaint.
Most athletes aren't playing in the big leagues and aren't paid millions of dollars. Frequently they are pushed to perform past their limits or shortly after an injury, so their best interests aren't always considered. Pretty much the most significant difference to Amazon employees would be that they got into the job because they enjoyed it.
So how is JavaScript supposed to be used then?
a filter wouldn't have helped any, they dont protect against bacteria.
If you replace "innovations" with "behaviors" you're on to something.

OP is catching flak for the comment, but Filecoin and others are doing cool things exploring the possibilities of using incentives to drive massive resource re-allocations.
Well those people cannot be helped, he admitted it plainly.
Your computer doesn't need to be asleep to be idle. Even while browsing the web, checking email, or programming, today's machines are more than 80% idle...
Some do, if you've used their templates, and some don't. Most journals want to ensure a uniform look and feel across all their papers.
> ...made of wheat and corn that with traces of pesticides, sugar, synthetic ingredients...

Have you looked at what is in most of the things that are on grocery store shelves?

> ...the cardboard box starts to seem more appealing.

You go ahead and eat a cardboard box every morning for breakfast for a week and tell me how much better it was than a bowl of cereal. I'll wait.
You must be in a very different field than me.... If someone posts a word document on the arxiv, it's almost a reason to ignore it as unprofessional.
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Presumably because that OS supports you right back. If windows open-sourced a few key components, like directx, I'd be a lot more inclined to support it.