skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No all of us live in the UK or some city that has cameras everywhere. Private CCTV footage and most government footage not part of a dragnet collection program is usually discarded after a few weeks or months if it's not needed. Cell phones are not always on.

I agree that everything being recorded all the time is somewhat inevitable considering the way things are going. While this does make the situation symmetric to some extent as far as the capacity to record interesting things goes. However, I believe that in the foreseeable future the negatives outweigh the positives.

You might be able to get the clerk at the DMV to be nicer if they're on camera but your ability to influence society with the ability to record video doesn't extend much beyond there.

Only the incumbents (tech giants and the government) have the ability to store and mine this sort of data for interesting things that are only interesting in retrospect. You do not have access to a big chunk of the data set. Your bank, insurance company and government do. They can mine that data to punish you or others for whatever behavior they deem bad and to extract compliance to their whims. You, neither as a individual nor as part of a group do not have the capacity to do the same analysis, the means to use what you learn to manipulate individuals. Even if you did you don't have access to a large enough chunk of the data set.

Until the power to access and draw meaning from this sort of data is in everyone's hands the situation is not symmetric. I hope you and those who agree with you reconsider your opinions.
Fake ivory wont help as there will be a premium for the real stuff. What you really need to do is make ivory seem very uncool.
An example of where it goes wrong:

https://www.npr.org/2014/08/25/343143937/in-ferguson-court-f...

> To understand some of the distrust of police that has fueled protests in Ferguson, Mo., consider this: In 2013, the municipal court in Ferguson — a city of 21,135 people — issued 32,975 arrest warrants for nonviolent offenses, mostly driving violations.

> A new report released the week after 18-year old Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson helps explain why. ArchCity Defenders, a St. Louis-area public defender group, says in its report that more than half the courts in St. Louis County engage in the "illegal and harmful practices" of charging high court fines and fees on nonviolent offenses like traffic violations — and then arresting people when they don't pay. The report singles out courts in three communities, including Ferguson.
I think when we say "impossible" we mean "well sure any old thing is possible but there are hard limits on what's consistent and sane."

I will go read the docs in more detail but what you've just describes sounds pretty awful. Perhaps it's more just you being glib about non-cooperative actors in an environment that expects cooperatuon, but an "available balance" abstractions are a pretty reasonable thing to ask for, if only to encode natural numbers.
This.

And unless the OP used some creepy leverage or borrowed massively, he only lost the money he had. If he is at least a bit able, there is invaluable lesson in this experience and rest of the life to make things better and better for oneself.

You hit the bottom. Now the only way is up.
Looks like Mark is more in the tradition of YAML, that is, YAML is a superset of JSON too, e.g. it wants to be its own format (not just a humble extension). For example, my better JSON format flavor is called JSON v1.1 to make it clear its just humble JSON, but improved :-).
And with some "smart grid" upgrades that are proposed, a busy electric grid could even "borrow" power from that big battery of a sitting car (with nowhere else to be) in periods of high demand and then repay what it borrowed, plus "interest" once demand drops.
>I don't see Apple deciding to not create a product that attempts to answer that question.

It's funny you say this and then bring up AR. Apple has been ignoring VR and AR for a few years now. Sure they released an SDK but it felt like a box they had to check more than an attempt to innovate.
This is a common tactic in normalizing stuff people are uncomfortable with "its already been that way for X years why are you complaining now".

Besides the fact this statement is inaccurate (there are not infact security cameras everywhere, footage is not centralized and analyized by huge powerful parties), It in no way somehow justifies the situation as it stands, or will stand if these become popular.
I see what you mean. I suppose what they're going for is 'this product is so revolutionary that it's equivalent to someone inventing a replacement for the wheel'.
That's why be put a struct constraint in. We'll quietly ignore the fact that non-primitive structs are as rare as hens teeth in most C# code-bases...
Old cars are always grandfathered in. It would be completely unrealistic for the government to bench hundreds of thousands of cars.
Indeed, it's massive and expensive. But this probably falls in line with some of the floor space/capital budget of the earliest plotters or copier/scanner/printers.

So maybe in ten years every office will have one.
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Question totally off topic, related to writing rather than 3D printing!

They call it not just the "HP Jet Fusion 580 Color 3D Printer", but the "HP Jet Fusion 580 Color 3D Printing Solution"

When I myself would be the target audience, "3D printer" sells better than "3D printing solution" I think.

Do you know what the true target audience they are writing for is, and if it really genuinely is so that there are such audiences where adding words like "Solution" helps the sell? Can you please elaborate on that and give intuition why?

Same applies for some other such words, like adding "Technology" to something that is more like a specification, and of course "Enterprise".

Thanks! :D
The sounds in this video make me extremely uneasy, disoriented, and sort of wanting to make it stop. I believe that's on purpose, but I'm genuinely curious if there are other type of people who, unlike me, find it pleasing.
That is by design.

Abuse flourishes in an environment of learned helplessness.

You think things are bad now, wait til you see what they'll try to get away with when everyone starts feeling like a battered wife.
This will lead to all glasses wearers being treated with suspicion, until such time as cameras are also readily available in shirt buttons and everything else. At that point recording will become unavoidable and therefore normalized.
This current administration must be like living in a mirror reality for long time government workers. The EPA, FCC, CFPB, DOE and other regulatory agencies have had appointed leaders who explicit mandate is to tear them apart. Even the state department has been severely reduced (Did you know that we don't have an ambassador to South Korea???). It seems like only Homeland Security and DoD have had leaders who alight with their vision.

There is tons of waste in government and oversight is needed in many facets but destroying our agencies is not the way forward. I wish voters where more aware of how many services government agencies provide, it seems like most of America is for smaller government until something like a shutdown slaps them awake for a brief period of time.
The purpose of all this "deep state" talk is to cast doubt on the idea that certain government policies should not change at each administration's whims, and there should be a semblance of continuity of both policy and personnel across presidential elections. Now that anyone who's been working for the government since before 2017 is being demonized as the "deep state," it opens the door to politicize every single action from every single agency.

If a Democratic president gets elected in 2020, it'll be interesting to watch whether this standard gets upheld. (Most likely the Republicans will complain about how the Democrats are attacking loyal Americans working hard for their government, and the Democrats will do their usual thing of feeling bad and giving in.)
> The operating budget request for zero dollars was because they collected so much in fines last year that it will pay the entire year’s budget.

That sounds like misinformation, considering their website says they're explicitly forbidden from doing that.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/payments-harmed-con...

> When the Bureau collects a civil penalty through an enforcement action, that penalty is deposited into the Civil Penalty Fund. The money in the Fund is pooled and can be used to compensate victims who haven’t received full compensation for their harm through redress paid by the defendant in their case.

> In accordance with the Dodd-Frank Act and the Bureau's Civil Penalty Fund rule, the Fund can only be used for two purposes: to compensate eligible harmed consumers and, to the extent that victim payments are not practicable, to provide funding for consumer education and financial literacy programs. If victims cannot be located or it is otherwise not practicable to pay victims, the Bureau may keep the money in the Fund for victims in future cases, or the Bureau may use money in the Fund for consumer education and financial literacy programs.
Just my two cents; I'm a father of 4 and I'm okay with not capturing those moments on film. And I mean that in two senses. One, I'm fine using my very imperfect memory to recall special moments and two, because of the logistical problems with grabbing the camera I'm not willing to risk missing out being fully in the moment. The occasionally photograph from an event or time period seems sufficient to conjure up the feelings from that time.

Regarding an always on camera - I'll second other comments in warning there are just so many concerns with abuse, I don't see how to get around those.
If we're going to entertain the analogy further, Freedom Caucus is an association of funding targets for "VCs" (PACs and super-PACs) in which Russian investors/state agents are possibly LPs (see: reports of Russian money in the NRA).

LPs typically don't have such a direct influence on the operations of the investments, although certain actual LP arrangements have in recent years.

Of course, the nature of political contributions and influence seems to be vastly more complicated compared to VC.
I am definitely not against languages extensions in general. I think that it's one of the unique features of Haskell that keep it stable and flexible at the same time.

If I already have `ScopedTypeVariables` in scope for other valid reasons, I am happy to use it. It's just that I'd rather not enable it for tiny cosmetic improvement like this.
Nothing is ever 100%
To help with the perspective, the fine print states that they were making comparisons to comparable products that cost between $100,000 and $450,000.
Because it's a very plausible risk for incentive misalignment. If the department has a role outside of people doing finable activities but is only financed through catching finable activities, false positives are strongly incentivized.
"flowers". It's a commercial competitive term and most ad spots would be filled (flower delivery). I expect a wikipedia entry, dictionary entry, a diverse set of results overall and ideally not many SEO-heavy pages.

"mexico". Check official websites vs commercial (travel related or SEO heavy) ratio.

"news". Well the German translation of news to check the language vs region setting. Switzerland and Austria are German speaking as well and in the past search engines would show a mix of results. These days I think IP addresses are a factor and when in Germany I wouldn't see Austrian results.

"good dick". I expect the movie, not NSFW results. (alright movie, terrible title).

Disclaimer: worked at Yahoo! Search
I don't know about this. One thing that has really struck me about the kind of behavior on display is that a lot of it seems to be under the assumption that getting away with it initially means getting away with it forever, but in reality, we live in one of the most well documented periods of time in history. Information is everywhere and it's nearly impossible to suppress. Not everything happens in internet time, but the truth is going to catch up to a lot of people eventually.

There will probably be dozens of books solely about the topic of what has been said by the executive branch on Twitter. (How clever will all those snappy quips and one liners seem 15 years from now on the pages of the next David McCollough?)

It's usually the case that those who aren't passionate about history will primarily be familiar with the big picture marquee events without fully getting the nuance of the experience, but there are troves of evidence here for extraordinarily rich future histories.
There is a change history. No changes are lost.
The film addresses a lot of the questions, but you need to see it many times, as most of them are not spoken out loudly.
This is very disheartening, because there are a few reasonable strategies:

1. CRDT like linear change rules.

2. Vector clocks.

3. Forking the entire tree and allowing merge queries, creating a DAG of the state that can be interactively and speculatively remerged.

Just picking one winner arbitrary and silently discarding all peers sounds like the kind of thing that gets labeled as a bug when we examine concurrent data stores.
They also have ~1500x the build volume (15,643,840 cm3 vs 10500 cm3), so 144x the cost is possibly warranted. They are two totally different classes of machine.
Probably includes software or more than just a "printer".
Migrating from Webpack to Parcel with benchmark comparison
HP's website is legendarily disorganized and horrible.
> He added nice patches for debugger and profiler integration.

He is me ;)
> Mark utilizes a novel feature in JavaScript that an plain JS object is actually array-like, it can contain both named properties and indexed properties.

wouldn't that make introspecting objects very annoying?
> I think the only deficit it really has to the Model X is drag co-efficient

No, the projected area is also worse. Air resistance is proportional to drag coefficient multiplied by projected area. Since both are worse, the best estimates I could find is that the Pacifica has almost twice the overall air resistance of a Model X.

It's not as bad as the 6x difference between a Model S and a Ford Transit, but it would still mean almost half the range at a given battery capacity.

Conversely, an electric Pacifica with the range of a Model X would be about 1000 lbs heavier.
I hate being a downer, but was anyone else struck by how...uninteresting so many of these answers were? I love reading this series, but it seems this year's question was just too hard. Seriously, I have no clue what I'd answer either...though it is fun to think about how to put a wider eyed spin on what's there! Like:

how can changing the tax rate affect motivation (how about "are there levers for manipulating motivation which go too far?"),

or what kinds of minds can solve the mind-body problem (us lol, instead what about "what is the history of understanding what we are in relation to the world and which new concepts might we use instead through which a sense of intractable puzzlement doesn't arise?"),

or can we design a machine that can correctly answer every question (how about "if we could design a machine to answer every question, what are its values such that it knows when to stop in any particular case?"),

or is there a fundamental difference between the physical and the biological world (how about "how should we understand the causal role of normative characterization in a kind of explanation which has been particularly well suited to biology?").

EDIT: of course some were very thoughtful! Like Aaronson asking "Can we program a computer to find a 10,000-bit string that encodes more actionable wisdom than any human has ever expressed?" or Bostrom "Which questions should we not ask and not try to answer?" or Dennett "How can an aggregation of trillions of selfish, myopic cells discover the unwitting teamwork that turns that dynamic clump into a person who can love, notice, wonder, and keep a promise?" or Pagel "Is a single world language and culture inevitable?".
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Did you try its Sports mode?
In the long run I hope that the model for this kind of thing will be 'printing as a service', much like how historically you went to a shop to get photos developed. It'd be amazing to be able to upload a design and pick it up/get it delivered next day, for the 'commodity cost' of the printing.
Totally agree. I know a few professional photographers and some of their best shots were HARD to get. Days of recon, precise timing, sometimes significant physical exertion, and a healthy dollop of luck.

Learning that they had composited those shots would be really disappointing. Learning that some hack was "stealing" their income by compositing hard-to-achieve shots would be maddening.
Can clients quickly access the change history to figure out what happens? Can the relevant change history for an object or a proposed change be retrieved in linear time?
Yup absolutely. For me that was Google Glasses biggest flaw. I could capture beautiful photos of family and relatives instantly, but they were beautiful because no one else in the photo was wearing Google Glasses.

Another reply mentioned Snaps, which I haven't heard of. It looks interesting, but ultimately it has the same flaw. I'm not going to wear dark sunglasses with LEDs indoors to take family photos.

I suppose there really is no ideal solution. It's either going to be noticeable and thus culturally acceptable or hidden and be bashed for being used by creeps. I suppose a device like Google Clips is probably a better solution for my needs, but it lacks that killer "wink to take a photo" feature.
Broadcom raises buyout price for Qualcomm to $121B
Today I learned that `:: IO [Int]` at the end of an expression is applied to the whole expression. Thanks!
I agree, but wanted to get something working out there first. I'm finishing up some code over the next day or two that will import the original assets from the game files without needing to include the assets within the repository.
Today .com is a serious asset. It it's taken, buy it as soon as you raise money.

Investors won't protest if you buy a $XXX asset that might not loose value if everything goes bad.
I don't think any of the tips actually go towards "making the day count" except for #4, and even then it's such generic and bland advice that it doesn't serve any purpose. This doesn't seem like it was written by Richard himself, it comes off as detached and some sort of appeal to make him seem relatable in this day and age. Especially considering the amount of pieces on "his" blog.
It's a libertarian free-market experiment. I think the fundamental problem of crypto is that it is finite and quickly centralizes. Which, is the exact opposite of what the initial goal was. Bitcoin Lightning further centralizes the ecosystem. Etherum fixed bitcoins problem, but the underlying idea of a finite resource, to me, dooms it to failure. If I horde my stash, eventually the value will sky rocket due to limited demand. See the GPU market, which I think is an ironic analogy. Until people start taking BTC/ETH through the chain, you have covert to FIAT somewhere, which renders the initial goal obsolete. I can't take ETH for my business because I pay my suppliers with USD.

FIAT currency, using the greenback as an example, works because we have the Fed making sure the liquidity remains constant to ensure stable value. If I horde USD under my mattress, and I have enough to affect global liquidity, the Fed would release more greenbacks on to the market to make sure the economy keeps moving and the price doesn't fluxuate too much. I start to use my stash, the Fed will soak up some of it to reduce liquidity. Crypto, by its nature, doesn't have this. Crypto is trying to be the new Gold, but Gold doesn't have much place in our global economy any more. Nobody is conducting trades with a volatile mediums anymore. There is a reason that nobody* is on the gold standard. I don't know enough to say why.

I think we might be able to revisit the idea of crypto in a couple of years as a viable currency in a couple of years, but we have to wait a long period of stability or some serious evolution. I have no faith in a currency that doesn't have some banking capabilities.

The communist ideal is a society where inequality doesn't exist. A perfect social paradise, but as you point out, this is not in human nature. Most people will try and hold on to any power that they can get. I like to think that I'm not like this, but that would be naïve of me. We advance because we see that new car and want it.
Because it creates an organization that deviates from its purported mission, abusing the public trust instead of serving a common need.

The self-funded USPTO has a bias toward approving bad patents to generate revenue and consequently enables the predatory behavior of NPEs. It becomes a net detriment to society.
Common Lisp doesn't have a standard representation of hash tables, unfortunately. Also, CL didn't clean up the Lisp space completely; right now, there are Schemes, there's Clojure, LFE, Hy, and bunch of other niche Lisps, each with their own idiosyncrasies around syntax.
I use B2 (sparingly so far) for personal storage and it's been a good experience. I prefer B2 since it's permanent and very inexpensive per GB.
>there's a difference in shipping shit at scale and shipping quality engineering at scale

Ok guys, do we tell him how much Samsung hardware is in an iPhone?
> nothing is ever at rest in the known world.

This is nonsensical, given that you can construct an inertial reference frame at rest with respect to any massive particle, and that reference frame is just as valid as any other inertial reference frame. That is one of the primary features of Relativity, so stating what you did implies you do not understand it very well.
I use scrapy, although it doesn't do great w/ JS heavy sites unless you can figure out the ajax request and just simulate those. Tutorials are pretty easy to find, as it's the top python based scraping tool.
Surveillance will become ubiquitous. There's no plausible scenario where it doesn't, right? Can't legislate it away once the sensors/cameras become unnoticeably small.

So we'll need new social norms to control what people share about what they learn. E.g. we already don't mention what we hear from behind bathroom doors in polite company. We'll need rules so that people can continue to operate as humans in this new paradigm.
You need PERSONAL advice here. How old are you? How much other money do you have? What's your earning potential? Wife? Kids? Risk tolerance?

PERSONALLY, if it were me, I would hold on, and I'd bet you will get back to being in the black. That said, you need to understand this is an EXTREMELY risky investment, and it could essentially go to zero just as easily as BTC could go to $50k. If you are not OK watching all that money go to zero, sell. If you are not OK watching BTC go to $50k having sold it ALL, sell most of it, and keep some.

Realize you have gambling tendencies, and make a plan to get out. You sound like the kind of person who will double down when it gets up to $30K/BTC, and then cry again when it crashes even harder.

Don't bet money you can't stomach losing in this space. There are WAY too many failure modes.
It doesn't matter whether the quote is accurate now or even whether it was accurate in 2008 when it was originally written. What matters was that this formed the rationale for keeping variables out of CSS.