skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct. In the US, subway stations and buses, elevators, convenience stores etc. have video cameras. Electronic tolling gantries have been used to track vehicles. Red light cameras are everywhere. I haven't seen a backlash.

It's always interesting to see a reference to a different society as a pedagogical tool to learn about something you might not like. The key step though is to see your own life from an outside perspective, i.e. introspection, which is a very lacking skill indeed.
These tracking systems are being combined with China's "social credit score". You think Transunion, Experian and Equifax are creepy and wrong? Spend ten minutes researching this:

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=chi...

Cameras with facial recognition are the tip of the iceberg. Through sufficiently strong government legal control, metadata such as mobile phone GPS and tower data can be correlated with facial recognition, bank debit card tracking, mobile payment app payments (which are HUGE in China), mandatory data reporting from Lyft/Uber type apps, toll road transponders on private cars, transit system stored value cards, and so forth. It's the aggregate of the whole which paints a picture of a person's entire lifestyle.
Those founders aren’t necessarily deeply in debt. They shifted their risk over to investors in exchange for equity.
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In this particular case; Mr Bob Martin is kind of a repeat offender. As far as I am concerned he's just another one of the overly famous white dudes with horrible opinions that have made the Ruby community seem quite toxic to many outsiders.

Aside from stepping in on this thread; I certainly have not
put him on blast on my twitter because as far as I'm concerned he's an irrelevancy.

However, I do think that shame is a necessary part of a functioning civil society; particularly in a society where the levers of power have been systematically stolen by a faction that seems determined to ride the society into war to consolidate their power. A faction that willfully provokes ethnic cleansing to give their supporters a taste for blood.

You may think I am being hyperbolic in my description of American politics; but I am if anything underselling it because I hope to reach a few people reading this thread.

Calling out people who are normalizing active ethnic cleansing campaigns is just one part of it. People saying crap like Mr Martin should be shamed by the people who think they can be salvaged. But informing someone that their behavior is shameful and evidence of a reprehensible callousness to the humanity is not a particularly life-ruining event for the one being called out.

Trying to excuse their behavior and take the lever of shame away from those who are attempting trigger society's immune response is bad and dangerous because it normalizes those opinions and makes them likely to spread further.

tl;dr Don't shoot at the firemen trying to save your house.
This. These researchers clearly don't have kids. This kind of behaviour is a big part of how they learn. Do something, see what happens. Keep doing it, see if anything changes. Intensify it until something else happens. To act surprised at this behaviour (gasp, so uncivil) or to frame these kids as some embodiment of evil (blocking and striking a robot!) shows they need to research Early Childhood Education as much as Robotics.
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I could honestly care less :)

> ... not to mention unhealthy, both physically and mentally, to suddenly hard-reset the body clock plus/minus one hour...

I hope you're not planning to do any jet travel. Lots of people have 5-9 hours of jetlag multiple times a year, and they seem to living just fine :)
Well unfortunately, in the large debates, really many duplicates are being submitted. Take the UBI one with close to 3k unique claims. It's really hard to suggest claims that aren't already in there.

If you have specific examples, please point us to them, but we are not aware of any really large (>500 claims) biased debates.

The idea is for claims to be canonical for each debate, otherwise you have to rewrite them a gazillion times, including their children. That's what we have linking for.

Generally speaking, if you think your claim was unfairly rejected, just hit report and we'll look into it.

Having claims rejected as duplicates, happens to us too. :)

If you have any suggestions, other than reporting, and roaming powerusers (which we will introduce soon), please let us know!
This article examines A.I., policing and authoritarianism from a Western perspective, rather than the local perspective. I think it would have served the article's balance to get a more local and relativist view on the intersectionality of the things they are looking to be objective about.

That said, if the technology delivers on the potential the gov't claims, I think they will have to relax the laws or make it flexible enough such that people and the government reach an understanding in expectations while affording people the maximum liberty while providing a base-line of expected behavior.

Obviously, without oversight from the people, this has the potential to turn into a monster.

China is a huge, huge country, historically it's been difficult for the central government to exercise its control all over its territory. This would be the realization of that historical desire.
The Big Three credit bureaus started exactly as a social credit system. They'd send snoops to keep tabs on you and collect gossip from your friends.
"We" (a general "we") never do anything wrong, it's always The Others.
I think it's really dangerous to talk about we're wired to this or that. It does two things:

- give the thing an odd, unearned, protection status: lots of things people are wired to are frankly pretty terrible and we could do without them (hierarchical dominance dynamics);

- it's very hard to prove that we're actually wired to something vs it being cultural. Given that we can't even prove this, the above is extra strange: we might be giving special statuses to unnaturally developed processes, and the status quo.

Procreation is not special because people want it. It's special because of its effects on populations and politics. But that's neither here nor there in terms of whether or it makes sense for a given group of people to procreate. That question shouldn't be closed.

> Where is the line where we say "You are desirable enough to have children"?

If there is a process out there that already exists, and you find yourself really not wanting to make a decision that is relevant to the continuation of that process, here's a little secret: the decision nonetheless will be made, and always has been made, just not by you.

So there's no slippery slope here, because the selection process is already in place, we're just washing our hands of it, so it looks like an easy decision because it's not our fault when a child with a horrible disease is born. It similarly not our fault when some people are unable to develop relationships.

But it is real, it is true, and it happens. And we could make a difference.

This is the eternal question of whether humans are ready to actually take responsibility for the process of the world or if they want to continue let it flow freely hoping it works out...
I remember a while back there was a post by one of Prof. Sussman's grad students on books he (Sussman) recommends[0]. One of the books (improbably[1] prescribed for high school students) was Space and Time in Special Relativity by David Mermin. Does anyone have experience reading this book as a way to learn special relativity?

[0]
http://aurellem.org/thoughts/html/sussman-reading-list.html

[1] One of the other books recommended for high-schoolers - Quantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott Aaronson - I found very dense despite having a bachelor's degree (and no small amount of extracurricular interest) in the subject matter.
They don't solicit donations, they sell cookies for no personal gain instead. Sure you can go out of your way to donate - but they aren't asking for that.

If Girl Scouts want to use children as labor they should pay them the commission, then ask the children for donations. If this isn't a form of forced labor they would make the same amount.
A system in which some authoritarian power literally watches your every move and subjects you to analysis, legal implications, social standing, and wherein citizens have no power or recourse to alter that system ... is fairly objectively 'dystopian'.

If this were strictly limited to 'matching terrorists and murderers faces out in public' - then I think some kind of argument could be made. But this goes way, way beyond that.

You know what would be better? A system where people are raised to be conscientious, responsible and fair - so you don't need to monitor them all day and night. It works pretty well in many places.

Even if you put all the privacy and social implications aside - I really don't think anyone in my neighbourhood would think that all of this would actually create a more peaceful neighbourhood or create better social outcomes at all. So it's like 'all the dystopian stuff' without really a lot of upside.
Speaking purely hypothetically, if the benefit value was small enough, it would never make sense to not work, no matter the flaws in the program. We take it for granted that one can live off welfare, even if not well- that assumption/precondition itself could be what pedro_hab is marveling at.
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I think being a locksmith earns more than most cooks (although certainly less than high end chefs). Opening locks without keys is a big part of locksmithing.
To the best of my knowledge, not having been alive at the time, credit cards in the US and Canada mostly started as department store cards, from the days when companies like Sears, Montgomery Ward, etc were dominant. You couldn't even get a card unless you were a man, women could get a card under their husband's name. The system evolved out of single-store charge cards to general purpose cards.

The difference here is how it's used: If you have a "bad" social credit score in China you can't participate in some activities, right up to buying a domestic train or airline ticket. Possibly because your online writings have angered somebody working for their Internet Police. Or you have expressed an unpopular political opinion. Or you're a Uyghur.
I’m a PhD student focusing on large scale video analysis. It’s an unfortunate fact that a lot of the applied research in this space is motivated by surveillance, particularly in systems, eg what’s come out of Microsoft’s efforts here [0]. A colleague who attended CVPR said most of the industry booths were either surveillance or self driving cars.

I wish researchers would start to think more creatively about what we can do with large video datasets and tools like face recognition. The least we can do is try to use this technology for social good. For example, a USC/Google team used computer vision tools to identify gender bias in modern cinema [1] (for my own research, we’re doing a similar kind of analysis on TV news at 100x the scale).

[0] https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi17/technical-sessions/...

[1] https://www.google.com/about/main/gender-equality-films/
Y'all need to chill
No. That's exactly wrong. We need to stop even thinking in terms of MVC. React, Vue, Angular all used component based architectures and if you think component based architectures can be labeled as MV* then you're not understanding why this pattern is lightyears better than MVC.

MVC was a hack of a pattern that developers adopted to get server side rendering architectures to even work. Good developers recognized its many flaws and when front-end development became decoupled from the server, tried and true practices and patterns such as modularity, reusability, and separation of concerns were adopted to the front end and the results of those efforts are the front end frameworks and libraries we have today. They are not variations of MVC. If you work with them as such, your SPA architecture will look just as brittle and shitty as a server-side architecture.
I like FTP Server. It's really convenient for transferring files from my computer.
It might be helpful if you could spell out why the branching, tagging and merging of svn isn't workable for you. It's clearly worked for many people and large projects for a number of years.

Linus didn't set out to create git because of some missing features in svn, but because he wanted a fundamentally different tool. If you find yourself with merges that are clean in version control system but creates conflicts in another, which is entirely possible, you are likely doing something very special that isn't a great fit for either.

There might be more straightforward process to follow that doesn't end up with such difficult merges. Maybe it's just merging more often, maybe it's something else. But it's very easy to blame the tools when the processes are broken.
All employees who are getting paid below market rates are providing a direct and ongoing capital investment of their own money. At minimum they are investing the difference between their market rate salary and the amount you are paying them. That is a direct investment in the company that is no different from investments from VCs. In fact I would argue the cash investment of employees must be greater than that of any VC, because if it weren’t you would simply pay them entirely in cash. The only way paying in stock makes sense is if you recognize that they are investing more from each paycheck than your VCs are willing to pay. Otherwise your VC “partners” would insist you pay market rate and don’t issue stock.
Kinda like this? https://github.com/miguel-perez/smoothState.js
" elevators, convenience stores etc. Red light cameras are everywhere. I haven't seen a backlash."

Because those cameras are not used to track you, nor are you identified in those videos, nor is that data generally shared with anyone, and in most cases not the government.

In some areas, i.e. highways in LA, they do track license plates, and there is backlash and at least concern.

A 'timed security camera' is barely related to the idea of 'ubiquitous cameras that identify you and track your movements in a government DB and input into a social credit score' a system I might add citizens have no recourse to alter.
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We thought that green = pro and red = con, is kind of universally agreed upon, no?

The most common misunderstanding is the one mentioned before, a con to a con, indirectly supports the thesis, but is red.

But changing that around is even more confusing. Especially when the parent to that con is then used as a pro somewhere else (and the con now having to be labeled red again).

We consider pros and cons always to be relating to the parent directly above them. This allows them to be linked or copied between debates, irrespective of what debate they originally were a part of.
"False imprisonment"
If you have a "bad" US credit score you can't get an apartment, a job, a post-paid mobile plan, or any number of things nowadays that ask for your SSN. That's why identity theft can trash a person's life. Same with ad profiles built around your activities and movements. You think that's not being sold around commercially and the intelligence community hasn't obtained a copy? The scaffolding is all there.
With kids, you have to allow boredom to happen so that they will create ways to entertain themselves......like making toys out of leftover boxes, etc. I should limit the crossword puzzles I do each day to practice what I preach.
Nvidia is one heck of a pivot. I remember buying the most powerful card I could find in 2006 or so to simulate my windmill blades before cutting them, the voxel array was so large that doing it all in software was next to impossible but with the Nvidia card it was so fast that it allowed real time simulation with voxels of 1 mm^3. Those runs shaved months of our time and saved half a forest of trees in runs that we would have to abort that would end up with unusable scrap.

Today all the focus is on machine learning and mining crypto, but there are some excellent use cases for these cards that have nothing to do with either.

Another one, much closer to playing games is 'serious gaming', simulation of real world events to train first responders with access to scenarios that would be way too expensive, disrupting or complex to set up in real life.
After reading a number of comments...

I wonder if we in the tech sector tend to romanticize the trades. I don't necessarily disagree, but would only offer a caution: Look at their hands. I had a new screen door installed on my house, ordered it through Home Depot, and they contracted it to a father-son business. The father was not much older than me (mid 50s), but was broken and hobbling.

There's also a widespread view that we will always need tradespeople, e.g., to build houses. But the trades are being replaced by automation in subtle ways that could eat away at their livelihoods bit by bit. Examples include plumbing fittings where you just cut a plastic tube and squeeze it onto a fitting, rather than sweating it together with a torch. Another is the ability to design and order a "custom" house that's built in a factory and assembled on site.
It seems pretty easy to use to me. The impression that I get is that they've erred on the side of making it simple and easy to use rather than powerful and feature-heavy. In what ways do you think it should be easier / what is too hard to use now?
When Maps.me went open source, there was a clamour to get it onto F-Droid, but there were issues, perhaps including access to the company's data servers, and the topic eventually petered out.

Then (IIRC back in February or so), somebody forked it, and (from comments) apparently pointed it to a separate data website (not sure how they pay for it if that's the case).

At any rate: "Maps": https://f-droid.org/app/com.github.axet.maps

Compred to OSMAnd: It's much simpler to use. Smoother scrolling around the map, and nice 3d perspective. It has some stalling problems that OSMAnd doesn't have, but is otherwise smoother I think. Sometimes searching for streets seems to not be as good as OSMAnd. Missing a lot of OSMAnd features but that is what makes it simpler.
Isn't that currently just a matter of legality and cost? You can already test for trisomy syndromes by sequencing a bit of the mother's blood around week 10 and isolating the embryo's chromosomes statistically - that probably takes a very fault tolerant kind of sequencing, but throw in an order of magnitude more money or a couple more years of cost reductions and you're there.
you want local perspective? this is what happens when it's implemented against a religious and ethnic minority:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/02/asia/china-xinjiang-detention...

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/travel-0327201816200...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/china-surv...

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turn...
Looks good but you may want to consider changing the name as to not clash with https://twig.symfony.com/
Rule of thumb, one man's useless version control feature is another man's saving grace. I've never needed to open multiple changelists simultaneously in one work area, but I'm sure someone loves that feature.
The other commenter nailed it. After that the answer to your special needs question is around a public health care system as well as general social services.

It's not theoretical, fanciful or rocket science, for such things exist in many countries already. France and Germany come to mind.
> The position of an electrical switch is not designed to signal the status of what it controls.

Wouldn’t the right affordance (at least for multiway switches) be a button, then? Especially with an indicator LED in the that is lit by drawing from line voltage, thus showing whether the completed system is on or off.
Hypothetically fair point, will keep that in mind for future revisions. In practice, have not seen any of the intended audience run into this.
I've earned a decent living doing DTP on Ataris (1040STFM first, TT030 later) all the way through 1995 or so. Back then there were some DTP/graphics software that was miles ahead of anything available on Mac,let alone PC back then. I haven't really followed that field closely since then, but it seems some of the features Calamus or Didot had back then still aren't available in mainstream packages even now...
> 1.5 or 2 thousand dollars!

There is such a thing as a second hand bike.
The vast majority of cameras in the US aren't feeding centralized recording/storage/analysis/monitoring centers. The $90 1080p cameras in your local 7-11 are probably feeding a box with a few 3TB HDDs in it on a shelf in the back room. Quite the opposite in China.
I'm not talking about edge case, I'm talking about the main example in the posted article in case you did not read it which is also a very common case among people on welfare cliff. What I'm saying is that it's a more complicated problem than just "let's just give everyone a living wage", in fact most people who single with no kids or spouse to support are not on the welfare cliff as it's pretty easy to find a job that will pay for the basics even at a fast food joint these days. Just saying.
A fence built to keep out wild dogs has altered the Australian landscape
Saw TV show on Stonehenge. A group of students dragged a stone from the quarry location (as was believed when the show was made) and about 20 people got it done in about two weeks.

There is a tendency to underestimate what can be done by human labor.
Why do we have to take for granted that equality is even a worthy goal? Raising quality of life for everyone would be... Like if someone making 80K today has the quality of life of a millionaire from a few hundred years ago, then isn't that notable? Why would it even be reasonable to try to get the same outcome for everyone? It's like a function that concatenates diversity - what leftists claim to love - but their principles, like equality, don't produce it!
It is amazing never thought about how you could translate a music sheet to Lisp but it makes total sense...

Also somewhat relevant though not in Lisp for anyone interested in programming music check out Sonic Pi:

https://sonic-pi.net/

I'm not affiliated with that project, just find it fun. It's in Ruby btw, I'm not a Rubyist but when it comes to Vagrant and Sonic Pi that's the full extent of my Ruby usage.
Ask HN: Advice on pricing software component of a hardware business?
I am looking for advice on pricing the software component of my company's hardware product. This software is necessary for the hardware to function.

From what I've read, customers are used to somewhere between 10% and 20% of the original selling price as a recurring "maintenance contract". These typically include software updates as well as service/support contracts.

We are in the early stages of our product's lifecycle and I would expect significant feature upgrades to the software in the future.

I would love to hear from anyone who has experience in a situation like this, either as the service provider or as the customer. What works, what doesn't?