skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Face recognition is a publicly available built-in feature of security cameras market leaders s.a Motorolla, Honeywell, Hikvision and probably more. Had been so for quite the time (1 year? 2 years?).
So I'm not sure how the word "secretive" made its way into this piece.
I have done some benchmarking comparing JS, WASM, and native C++ addon performance in Node.js:
https://github.com/zandaqo/iswasmfast

From the look of it, in Node.js, WASM suffers less data exchange overhead while been decently close to performance of the native addons.
I like it. It captures the best spirit of the CoC stuff while also explicitly calling out and avoiding the parts of existing attempts at this stuff that some perceive to be aggressive.

Can basically be summed up as: 1) Everyone is welcome, 2) Don't scare people away by being shitty and 3) Keep it on-topic

But it seems that the discussion here misses the absolute best part. In true GNU fashion, Stallman refuses to accept grammatically incorrect use of pronouns and instead offers a brand spanking new extension built on a homegrown abstraction.

Here comes _GNU_ENGLISH!
No more AWS Builders program?
Just went to the page for AWS Builders, the program that AWS has for startups to get $1,000 in free credits and got the following:

> We're sorry, the AWS Activate Builders package is no longer available.

> Check out the AWS Free Tier to gain free, hands-on experience with the AWS platform, products, and services.

> Already working with an accelerator, incubator, seed or VC fund? We have a Portfolio package for participating organizations. Ask your program director how to apply.

Any thoughts on why AWS would stop this program?
Arizona kills vaccine education program to placate the ignorant
My GM truck has onstar data. I can remote start it with an app. Through Amazon I can have packages delivered to my truck when parked at work, they unlock it, put my package inside the truck, and lock it. I wish it had an API so I could write a script to start the truck without using their terrible app. That being said I won't be surprised if Amazon or GM uses this data and sells it.
What are the pros/come versus using a mature online editor such as Cloud9, that supports direct terminal access to the backend instance and FTP/SFTP support? Though I will admit I was disappointed when AWS acquired Cloud9.
That seems very short sighted in evolutionary terms. Guns, Germs, and Steel has served to give me a bit of trepidation about avoiding sickness for convenience sake.
This seems very much inline with much of Carl Jungs work and a lot of the western esoteric literature where there is a big emphasis on acknowledging and objectively analyzing the ‘bad stuff’.
the correlation is apparently causing an increase in car insurance costs, regardless of causation

This does not parse.
Because if you take it as a satirization of the adoption of CoC's, it's saying "we don't think CoC's address real problems and we'll do it with a general set of ideals that do nothing to solve problems".

Which ignores the very real problem of harassment in tech.
I think your attitude is pretty shitty, and exactly the sentiment that people in those rural areas point at when supporting people like trump. They're not evil people. They're humans just like you and me and feel overlooked and forgotten. Your attitude proves them right
What if they don't know to correct you, do you feel disrespected in that case, as well?
Data tax? Pay 100 USD / month or 0.01 % revenue per one personal record?
This is a good example of bad faith arguing. The original poster never mentioned "quotas" but this comment presumes and assumes that is what is happening.

The use of words like 'please' doesn't make things better.
You are right that COCOM is not the issue, but there are other measures.

The new military M code transmitted from the latest satellites is encrypted with a frequently changing key, so in the event of a war the DOD can disable the civilian signal as the M code will work standalone, hence a third party nation cannot rely on GPS.

The previous P(Y) code was also encrypted, but is theorised to need the civilian C/A code as well to work.
Thanks, we wanted to make sure our /jobs presented our key values, as some would say ;) ;)
Sally is traditionally short for Sarah, though if someone with a longer name like Salvadora/Salvatoria were living in an anglophone society, I could also see them going by Sally.
I think the spirit of RMS' argument is to benifit the people in general. In first the intent is to get the software to be accessible to as many people as possiblez and now his intends to make sure that talented people don't shy away from contibuting to open source projects just because of rigid policies. In my opinion he's been quite reasonable in both cases, whether you and I agree with his proposed method.
Devs: SOAP is too baroque

Swagger: hold my beer
I would think with this technology and the right implementation, there would be no need for jails in the distant future.
Didn’t downvote you but wanted to respond-

Smells bad can itself be a big deal. Some people also have migraines that result from inhaling second hand marijuana smoke. Moreover, many people don’t want to smell the stuff in their daily commute- and the smell definitely lingers longer, than say, tobacco, in an open space.

I’m not opposed to legalization, but saying that there’s no societal harm is pretty misinformed too. Seemingly minor things like ‘smells bad’ can easily make one hate cannabis.
Christ never advocates for the state to do anything. These are individual commands.
My feeling was that FB’s desire to monetize acquired properties has put off a lot of acquired execs.
I’m going by the article. “Eastman Kodak spun off its chemicals business to help pay down debt.”

At the time the CEO was quoted “Mr Whitmore, who has been under pressure to restructure Kodak, said Eastman Chemical would be spun off as an independent public company...”.
I don't get it. "Sharia bank" is not a partnership, chain or franchise, it's a concept like "British law".
I know millenials who fall for fake news just as much as older people do.
In what way is that worse than technically factual news that conveys a counterfactual meaning.
While I agree that violence in context of language is different from physical violence in that the harm can result from an interpretation of the listener's part, I also suggest that certain forms of language are equivalent to physical violence in that there is no non-harmful way to express something. For an extreme example, I do not know of a non-harmful rhetoric to advocate the genocide of an oppressed group.
Turns out that it knocks around enough and ends up about as good as varying the amount. Lego pieces work too if you want a more lightweight solution.
You don't have anyone else looking out for you? Imo it's give and take. You look out for others, others look out for you.

(That said, it's wise to ensure you have yourself taken care of before helping others; else you may end up making things worse. )
The essence of Slack is to solve the problem “IRC is broken because my company doesn’t own it.” Slack’s only value prop is to its shareholders and no one should bother to use it.
Smartphones?
Not to get into a huge political philosophy discussion here, but conservative people are on average some of the biggest donators to charitable groups who focus on tenets such as these. The "liberals" don't have a corner on wanting to help people, although people disagree how that help should be organised.
I don't understand what the relief would be. replacing non-american workers with machines does nothing to help American workers
Why is respect earned, not given? The way you've stated that sounds like an axiom.

It called me to contemplate, and realize that I hold the opposite axiom – that all beings, including humans, deserve respect fundamentally. Some people might behave in ways that call this into question and modify the degree to which I feel I can truly hold respect for them, but that only happens with more information about how they are organized or disorganized.
In the paper you link the suggested mechanism for vaccine fatigue is the immune system under-reacting to the new vaccine, because because it's too similar to the old vaccine.

The effect vanes over time, and most certainly is not relevant to tetanus.

[...] This hypothesis holds that the impact on the current season’s vaccine effectiveness is most pronounced when the difference between last season’s vaccine component and the current season’s vaccine component is small (this year they’re identical).

In that case, the current season’s vaccine may boost memory of the earlier vaccine’s antibody responses; then these “old” antibodies may mop up the current vaccine’s antigen before the newly vaccinated person can mount an immune response to it (this is called antibody interference). [...]
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It's a way to make the headline more appealing without changing the article. Another good use of this is "quietly."

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/tech-news-sites-quietly-rely-w...
Terminus

Some OSes and programs it doesn't look good though.

http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/
https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/
Thanks for this one.

The history of black people being excluded from pools has an UGLY history. The grandparents positioning this as some innocent thing is... well.... Check this out: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/motel-manager-pouring-acid-...
Repl.it's current business model appears to be giving cloud services away for free, attracting lots of users, and using their high user counts to get more venture capital funding to spend on giving away cloud services for free.

Am I missing something, or is this basically the programming equivalent to MoviePass? Surely as soon as they start trying to be profitable, people will find some other startup to give them cloud services for free.

See, e.g., Koding, who went through this exact cycle a few years ago: they started out getting tons of users by giving away cloud servers for free so people could learn programming, then they tried to monetize by building out IDE features and cloud filesystems and orchestration, and pretty much no one bought them.
You won't get a non-connected bicycle even.

I'm exaggerating of course, but think about how hard it is to get a decent dumb phone nowadays. Yes there are options, but nothing like in the Nokia 3210 days.
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Or rather be careful with who you sell it to. Companies like Omnicom generally let companies they acquire do whatever they want within a wider pool of resources. Though, it seems as if 'tech companies' are a bit more controlling...
Zizek is good at uttering profound-sounding things, but there's no substance. Anyone who has raised young children knows there's a high chance they'll call your bluff.
> Whether or not to legalize weed is the wrong question. The right one is: How will growing use of delta-9-THC affect individuals and communities?

strongly disagree. the only question we should be asking about cannabis (and other drugs) is "do they harm people who haven't freely decided to consume them?". if not, there is nothing left to talk about wrt the law.

edit: unless i misunderstand your post and you are making a point outside of legality?
IMHO, there's not much of a market for a tethered VR headset. Some of the big components of a compelling and immersive VR environment include some ability to move around and interact with the virtual environment and (again in my opinion) a tethered headset really gets in the way of that.

I don't think that means this needs to be a race to the bottom, but when you move to a portable device it looks like everyone starts looking really hard at smartphone-like hardware. That's a big jump from a custom desktop workstation and, for a lot of people, smells like a race to the bottom.
No you´re right. The banking system was bouncing up and down like a yo-yo in the 19th century, on average there was a crisis every 10-12 years (also astonishingly regular). The mean time to crisis is several years longer these days.
I don't think I follow.

Bob killed his neighbor. On camera, recorded for all to see.

Now you're saying we can continue letting Bob walk around, just because the camera will see it again?

I don't mean to be insulting, I don't get what you're trying to say.
Cults work until they don't.
I believe Lin Clark is the artist, she has a whole series called "Code Cartoons" where she explains various (usually web related) technical systems like WebRender in similarly excellent style.

[0] https://code-cartoons.com/
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Most product reviews you see by bloggers and youtubers are seeded this way. Vendors understand that when people are curious about a product, they search for it and click on some reviews. It’s common practice to make sure that they have results by giving them to reviewers.

Reviewers generally fall into 3 categories.

The small time reviewers who are excited to get free stuff, and want more free stuff in the future. Aside from their delight of free product, which gives a major positive bias before they even unbox, there is also the fact that if they trash a product, nobody is sending them one again.

Then there is the professional reviewer. They monetize their website and youtube channel heavily, and they live or die by getting product to review. If they trash a product, they face a huge risk of not receiving anything from that vendor again.

The third is the fully independent outfit that has a revenue stream completely detached from the product, and often have to buy it on their own. This is very expensive, and not many consumers pay for reviews. Consumer Reports is an example.

As a result, almost any kind of review you find is likely worthless, and should be treated as a paid ad.
Wow, I didn't think anyone would try to defend that and double down on the dehumanisation.
They were just trial signups, though. None of them resulting in making money.
At age 35, I’ve never had the flu, and only got the shot a couple times in my life (it floors me - so I usually only get it when it includes a bad flu season)

But I wash my hand obsessively. Ppl are gross and then lecture you for not taking the shot, go figure.
A look at the Android Market on its 10th Anniversary
Their version of the microsoft MR was a tad nicer due to higher pixel count. Now they double the count and the new version is same price, old version is 150 bux cheaper. This sounds sweet. I was waiting for the 4/8k models to come out before buying a vr headset, but I might get this upgraded version at this price.

Played warthunder with a rift and it was a blast, but wanted better resolution before I bought one. Watching movies was ok, but the screen door effect needed fixed. This has anti-screendoor, might be worth it...
It was once explained to me as a dam vs a swath. You will never successfully disentangle/stop the madness and constant flow of thoughts(good,bad) but you can sort of detach and tread water to watch the current.
Paywall. What does the article say?
This seems like a smart move from Facebook. They clearly stand to make more money from standalone VR headsets with good-enough graphics and low prices (i.e. the Quest) than from super high end wired headsets that require a $2k PC.
So you would be fine if projects started adoping CoCs like these, if they did so seriously?
Everyone is moving to vaping distillate. There's virtually no smell if you're outdoors.
I think people should have copyright over everything their creative human brains produce, including their purchasing decisions. Copyright can't be transferred away from the author, only licensed. My credit card history happens to be a piece of performance art commenting on consumerism, thank you very much.
I hear this so often without any other evidence to refute an argument..

Causation requires correlation. It's certainly not enough to prove causation, but it's actually a necessary starting point.

Speaking of driving and marijuana, I've noticed a large increase in pot smoke coming from cars in traffic since marijuana was legalized in CA. I expect some of that to come from passengers, but people driving while high is no joke.
Minimal Criterion Coevolution: A New Approach to Open-Ended Search [pdf]
I think it's important to understand that while everyone has conscious and unconscious biases, it's not true that recognizing that fact is the same as assigning blame. The idea is to better know one's self, to try and understand one's own bias (to the best of one's ability, that is) in order to try and apply correctives when making decisions involving people who are different than we are.

It's when we actively press into these biases that we hold and steadfastly cling to them in the face of contrary evidence that we become guilty.

Now I'm not claiming that having bias is a good thing, it's quite the opposite. I am saying, however, that having bias does not imply culpability.
Apple and Steve Jobs for that matter basically invented cross-competition inside the same company. He pushed for different teams to work on the same problem and then compared solutions. Even from the Mac vs Lisa days to the iPhone initial designs (iPod based vs what we have now as iPhone) and even on minuscule things (iOS keyboard was assigned to at least 5 different teams and then one engineer got a big breakthrough). Contrary to shutting down any other idea from the get-go and pushing away talented people.
Hello Mr. Yakamoto! Welcome back to the GAP! How'd those assorted tank tops work out for you?
It's not really a game..
A lot of sites use a `title` attribute to hover to see the absolute timestamp. I'm surprised HN doesn't do this.
Not only that but, IMO, you can't really objectively review a product you didn't pay for and buy out of your own free will. "That's neat" for a product you got for free can easily be "waste of money" if you had to pay for it.
Good question. Repl.it is all about instantness, you should be able to get a REPL really fast[0]. If you want to host a webserver you should be able to do it quickly from the same interface[1], if you want to share your work then that should also be possible[2]. You could code and ship a small webserver on Repl.it faster than you can sign up for Cloud9.

Repl.it is also what's no called "Serverless" in that it's logically always available and you don't have to worry about the underlying resources. We're not doing because we wanted to ride a fad, we've always done it this way, we think that's the future of computing.

When we build Repl.it we always think what's a "web native" way to do online coding. We think it's a) instant! b) social c) simple yet powerful.

The previous generation of online IDEs -- C9, Nitrous, Koding -- were awesome, yet most pivoted or shutdown. It's good to ask why that is? We think it might be that they were not "web native."
Cannabis smokers have less qualms about driving under the influence than drinkers (in my experience) and from an enforcement perspective, it's harder to test for the presence of the drug because it stays in your system much longer (up to a month iirc?).
Okay. Which diseases are you willing to brave to facilitate the continuous evolution of mankind? Flu? Hepatitis-C? Polio?
Absolutely! The "insipid attitude" was never attributed to any person at all and no one supports "authoritarian" behavior.
It's really Zuck. He hires management between the co-founders as a diversion.
We had a respite after the Depression and banking regulations. Then Reagan(?) and deregulation, and now we're right back to the yo-yo
> Seemingly minor things like ‘smells bad’ can easily make one hate cannabis.

I think an individual hating something doesn't necessarily elevate that thing to the level of "societal harm".

For example, durian smells bad. Many people hate it because of its smell. However, I've never heard somebody go on about the harm durian is causing to society.
Really ? tell that to mayans and native americans. I'm sure they have a different opinion.
Cars have cellular modems now. Including Lincolns.
When it's in relation to a post asking, "who's really excluded", I think it's appropriate.
I think they're suggesting that Bob won't kill his neighbor if he's on camera.
it does smell bad.

It's not a non-truth, its highly personal what smells good, or bad.
Especially if you're more interested in making an exciting toy for rich people instead of a mass market product, Facebook might not be the company you want to sell to.
Note it has the same number of pixels. They might be nicer pixels but the new "PPI" number is still plain wrong.
Do you have any browser extensions running? It's possible one of them is causing some problems with their IDE.
And when they're being written by lobbyists from Wal-Mart and Target...
What bothers me is that we have no proof and everything is vague. The motherboard needs to account for the chip at the PCB traces level to work right? Did anybody saw a weird 6 traces converging at a point for no reason on all the motherboards on the market? What is the exact model? Which bus it is fed from? Give me the name of the bus instead of vague journalistic stuff! Send pictures, output captures, anything.
There are plenty of people who made a bunch of money on an acquisition or an IPO and they are still working because they enjoy it.

The story is that people like that are leaving Facebook because they don't like working there. It doesn't seem like other large tech companies have a similar problem retaining such people.
Thanks for posting, that's an interesting resource. Table 3.2, laying out projections of community space usage in outer space (including churches!), could be good fodder for future historians writing about the mid-20th century cultural assumptions that structured early space travel.

Also this sentence is fascinating to me: "Whether space colonization is a unilateral effort on the part of the United States or a cross-national enterprise, it will most likely be sponsored by a public or quasipublic organization with a bureaucratic structure which permeates the early settlement." I've always thought the Alien movies strike the most realistic tone in this regard, with the Weyland Corp lurking in the background.
I don't know that there ever really was a war. For nearly fifteen years Zuckerberg has been hoovering up every ounce of personal data he can get on everyone and they give it all to him willingly!

Snowden proves to us that our own government is spying on us as much as our enemies, yet the public outcry is more of a mass shrug.

Sadly, I feel more and more that we're at a point of no return; it's going to have to get way worse before it gets better. I'm hoping all it'll take to make our elected representative get off their asses and do something is when an indiscretion of a major political candidate is made public because of this level of data gathering. Because the people's interest in caring about their personal privacy ends at the point it hints at becoming an impediment to convenience.