skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In China, the service you described already exists. It’s Zaih.com. I think people can either choose to meet an expert in person or ask the expert a question(they need to pay of course). However, this product is not monetizing well in China so it’s pivoting towards online training(kinda like udemy).
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We are long past the point of discourage its use. The move now should be to make sure it is properly regulated so that retention duration is public and verifiable. That acting off the images has follow a well defined legal process. Most of it will be forensic in nature and the benefits of the technology far outweigh the horrors that many claim will come. Here's a hint, the governments of this world have already committed gross violations of human rights of the worst kind for centuries, this isn't going to change that for the worse.

If anything a trusted system will put the authorities on their toes too. It will provide the ability to not only track those who committed a crime but those in need of emergency services. It will even capture those who enforce the laws. Yes there will be real time applications of this tech in the near future and that is why those who can create this software should damn well be working to make sure it does work and is not easily thwarted by those in power or abused by them. Its going to happen, make sure if you can participate you do so that the wolves don't have free run of the hen house.

So make it work, make it public, make it obvious, regulate it, and regulate those who employ it. That is where we are now. If we keep running from it we give other people the opportunity to do wrong with it
First it's optional, and then it won't be. Do people from UK realize that the government, intelligence agencies, and the police see no end in sight for this type of (ab)use of surveillance and censorship technology?

To me at least it has seemed obvious for some time that the UK government wants to emulate China in this regard. So they see China as a "role model" to be followed. I mean GCHQ has even proposed a Great British Firewall for crying out loud. But like with the porn filter, they will promise to block only the "really bad stuff" with it -- at first.

Both "democratic" and undemocratic governments of the world have woken up to the fact that the internet gives people "too much freedom", so they are all working to restrict that freedom, with all sorts of "plausible justifications".
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It's not the images that are executed. The images are used to pass commands to malware that's already installed on a machine.
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> What I don't like about the "cleared its orbit" criterion is that it's something you can't tell from looking at the object itself.

Dwarf planet is a helpful term in some contexts but not others. The solar system is a dynamic system, when talking about the whole thing or its evolution it's useful to distinguish between planets and dwarfs.
Access modifiers, as the name suggest, are an accessibility feature not a scope feature (like let).

example.myVar = 500 should throw an access error.

You don't need to distinguish because you shouldn't be shadowing private variables.
...but what if I don't want the popups or the ubiquitous surveillance?
I plan on transitioning from a vegetarian diet to a vegan diet, retiring my ICE car, and making use of the transit hub by my new home as much as possible. I also am resolving to not take any flights or take trips outside my city. 2019 is the year I make climate change my top priority.
But do weather forecast always end with "but this could also be completely random" to avoid being accountable ?
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I came here to post this exact comment — except less eloquently. Hi, ubernostrum! :-)
This article is brilliantly written. I could write an article about how much I enjoyed reading this article, but then I’d be distracting you from what I actually want you to read. Go read it.
I don't know if generic advice is really helpful to founders. I am contrasting generic advice that is applicable to any founder with specific advice to founders in a particular situation.

For instance, you don't really know if your strategy -- whatever it may be -- is going to work. Most of the time you come up with a strategy, implement it, and you hear crickets. It takes a lot to find the strategy, if you can find one.
> so now I have to keep a tab open in safari constantly…

You can close the tabs and re-open any number of books without an Internet connection. The books will work normally.

That is the whole point of offline-first!
Even if it is not hard to take this thing into account, it is definitely hard to take all the things into account. Adding more things doesn't help.
Loads javascript from google-analytics.com and facebook.com. Please do, in fact, stop datamining me.
oh cool, I had no idea it was a new talk on Clasp.
There needs to be a mechanism to tweak the signal-to-noise ratio. Either 1) stop interact with them and send 0 signal, or 2) have a browser plugin that just provides random interaction on a webpage and increase the the noise. The expensive targeting machines they've built become much less useful.
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Many premises already don't permit entry if you wear a face ski mask (balaclava) or a motorbike helmet.

I wonder how long until it's illegal to simply walk down the street wearing either.

Even if it's not actually illegal, I'm certain it won't be long before the Police stop and detain anyone that does, because obviously you have something to hide - your face!
Those hearings are a show...nothing more
You can claim that morality is a fiction, but that doesn’t make it so. It’s not the most common or most plausible view.
I don't think I'd subscribe, but I'd probably pay about $100 for my dossier and a universal opt out.
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People are increasingly withdrawing from Patreon. Earlier Sexy Cyborg was forced off by Vice [1] (they're now trying to push her off SubscribeStar[2]), but very recently people like Jordan Peterson, Quillette, and others are moving away and setting up their own crowdfunding platform [3].

And I fully agree that a crowdfunding platform should not be involved with 'de-platforming'.

[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/vice-vs-sexy-how-18216256

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FETt5JzufY4&t=0s&list=LLcD8F...

[3] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/jordan-peterson-says-hell...
From the home page:

"wolkenkit is a CQRS and event-sourcing framework for JavaScript and Node.js which fits perfectly with domain-driven design (DDD). It provides the technical foundation for your application, including an event-store and a scalable real-time API. This allows you to focus on what's essential: Solving actual real-world problems in no time."

I've been a developer for decades and this means almost nothing to me. I'm sorry if this comes across as harsh - I'm just trying to be helpful. What's your elevator pitch for this product? I'm not looking for CQRS because I don't know what it is. How many more people might you attract to your product if you could translate your pitch into how it benefits me? It's really hard coming up with your one-liner in plain English. But every time I see a one-liner that means very little to me as a programmer (which is unfortunately most projects), I encourage folks to put in the effort. Otherwise, I just skip over it and move on. And I'm guessing I'm not the only one.

Here's a one liner I think works well: "React: A JavaScript library for building user interfaces".

I hope that helps.
Exactly, and LeanPub already covers the analogous use case for books fairly well.
When reporting on the run-up to an election, taking great care to avoid having one's figures misconstrued as suggesting that the outcome is settled, when it is not, is the responsible thing to do. For Silver to not say a damn thing would leave all the interminable speculation in the mouths of those with even less knowledge of what might happen, and those with an agenda.
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I've always been fascinated by these simulations. Can anybody give a rough overview of how these (I guess?) fluid simulations work?
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I thought that the post was fairly unclear, but for me, it seems like the main argument against 538 is that it makes unfalsifiable claims about the probability of individual elections - picking a winner is a falsifiable claim, but assigning a probability always allows Silver to claim something like “even events with a 10% probability occur frequently” even if his model assigns a high likelihood of victory to the loser of an election.

My favorite Nate Bronze takedown remains Carl Diggler[1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/posteverything/wp/201...
If asked about the outcome of some uncertain future event (say, an election or some sports game), saying "team A has a 20% chance of winning" is making a prediction.

Making a decision/declaration in such a case where the outcome isn't (yet) certain does not mean "being held accountable", it means that you're either stupid, or a liar, or a stupid liar. If you want to call the results of a game before it's certain, then you shouldn't say a damn thing, because anything you say is a lie if you're falsely implying that the result is certain.

If reality is uncertain, then any certain statements/predictions are by definition wrong. Some predictions have more certainty than others, you can stake things on such predictions (sports betting is a great example - if you think that there's a 20% chance of winning but others think that it's 10% or 30%, then there's an opportunity), but it's ridiculous to require certainty where certainty shouldn't be expected.
Not as far as the spec is concerned. They decided that private variables should be completely scoped to the class.

"Having a private field named x must not prevent there from being a public field named x, so accessing a private field can't just be a normal lookup.
This is only an issue in JavaScript because of its lack of static types. Statically typed languages use type declarations to distinguish the external-public/internal-private cases without the need of a sigil. But a dynamically typed language doesn't have enough static information to differentiate those cases." [0]

There are also performance concerns to changing the lookup logic without the sigil. More info in the link.

0: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-class-fields/blob/master/PR...
Thanks! Looks like the first link answers my question.
There is a company in Utah called "VidAngel" which I believe had built up a fairly sophisticated DVD ripping/streaming operation until they got sued by Disney.

They are still around but have since switched to a streaming only model. You could reach out and see if they still have their DVD ripping infrastructure, I'm sure they would love to help.
Well, let's state for the record, that Facebook was informed since 2013 that their platform was used for genocide in Myanmar.

They did exactly nothing until it turned into a PR problem this year.

The same pattern - maybe with slightly less genocidal consequences - could be observed in Sri Lanka, Hungary, The Philippines and Cambodia.

The argument that it's just a tool really doesn't cut it. They knew and they only started to care when the bad press rolls in.

Blowing the most vile, antisemtic dog whistle against their oponents also really doesn't help their case.

So no, I disagree with your position.
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So one is user configurable and understandable (leaves much to the user) and the other is a black box that performs magic? One takes some time to understand and make work while the other just does the right thing 85% of the time?
Taleb's biggest thing is exposing holes in predictive models. Silver's biggest thing is making and using predictive models. So it's only natural for these two to quarrel.
Yep super annoying. I know sears went bankrupt but now you can't use their website at all b/c of the recaptcha. If I were these companies I'd cancel the Google recaptcha services.
This must be an example of "do the right thing" as opposed to "don't be evil".
How do I find any new books there? I don't mind the classics yet I feel curious about what do indie writers write today.
By the way, just came across: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/18/11/10/1656225/apple-bloc...

Ugh.
This is an unusually poorly written article to see on the front page. It reads like a book report.
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The absolute irony of this site's privacy policy.

> Service Providers. We work with third parties who provide services including but not limited to data analysis, order fulfillment, list enhancement and other administrative services. We may disclose personal information to such third parties for the purpose of enabling these third parties to provide services to us. Such services may include: marketing distribution, email list management services, advertising, certain product functionalities, customer support, web hosting, customer data management and enhancement, fulfillment services (e.g., companies that fill product orders or coordinate mailings), research and surveys, data analysis and email service.

https://www.stopdatamining.me/privacy-policy/
No. I don't care how long they're keeping it.
The problem is that governments have databases of citizens. The problem of governments is that they want to blow a hole in previous ideas of "assumption of privacy".
Lots of people around the world have trusted governments in the past. Many of them are dead.
If you haven't guessed, I don't trust the government. But I think that's with good reason. I don't believe any regulation can solve this problem. The government itself should regulate its own use of something? Like that's worked before.

Keep this away from me. My concern is only secondarily that someone using my data to run ads. My concern is primarily that government should never have access to such a tool.
And the only thing that would have your comment better if it had the word 'worse' instead of 'better.' Oh, and that "of made" thing.
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> Brainfuck is simple, but nobody would choose to write a real project in it.

Sure. But it's worth knowing whether a language is simple or not (and what tradeoffs have been made to get there).

> Most programmers struggle trying to understand what a monad is. That's not easy.

It's easier than achieving Haskell-like defect rates in languages that have ad-hoc built in solutions to the same problems, IME.

> The free monad is not easy.

Disagree. Certainly it's a lot easier than solving the same problem by hand.

> Monad transformers are not easy.

Agreed, but again, easier than achieving the same defect rates without them.

> Understanding foldable/traversable/arrows/applicate is not east.

Easier than understanding dozens of ad-hoc informally specified implementations of half of them, which is what working in an ecosystem without them boils down to.

> Lens is/are not easy.

Perhaps not, but easier than achieving the same defect rate without them.
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It's a one-man job more or less, so it comes in bursts, but it's up to date with 1.9.0.

That said, if you're looking to get into the Clojure ecosystem in general, almost certainly not the place to start. You miss out on the multitude of good OSS libraries that have Java deps.
I've seen this tradeoff firsthand with dsp video algorithms. The naive code just implements the algorithm straight away. The performant version has to ensure that the inner loop all fits in cache while running. It also does tricks like prefetching data into cache so the code doesn't stall on a data load. These sort of tricks really impact the readability of the code.
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Just realized the list is messed up...

- non-nullable + option types

- function composition (a bunch of languages get stuck in the filter/map phase but never get to the)

- typeclasses + data types over classes + interfaces/abstract classes

- pattern matching

- Monads

- The Free(R) Monad and attempts to make programs more like state machines and encode it at the type level
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We have had a very hard time to grasp what's special with CQRS and event-sourcing, and to put it into a one-liner, but basically, I agree with you.
One PC with 8 DVD R/W Drives.

I use to own one in the 90s. I would do work for churches and conferences. I could get a thousand done in a few days. They use to have automatic feeder drives for producing more. No one sells them anymore it appears.
Assuming this rumor is true are there related papers about how machine learning can improve or hide latency?

I know about Microsoft DeLorean/Outatime [0] but that doesn't use machine learning if I remember correctly, otherwise I found this [1] but that is about TCP and games usually use UDP for better latency.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

[1] https://1989chenguo.github.io/Publications/SmarIW-IWQoS18.pd...
Just from personal experience I’ve spent time opting out of these collections in the past. To include, people search websites only to find my information resurface months later. I think this may take constant monitoring. I’m not sure the mechinism that is used for data to be added after asking for opt out/deletion
Love your other projects too by the way! Especially the serial terminal.
At our lab we needed another workstation and the IT-Department took ages to give us one.
So we modded an old surveillance CRT into a Terminal with your circuit and connected it to the existing PC.
Now two people can work with one Workstation. It is still used to this day (albeit more because of the cool factor).
But that's at least illegal. If it's inadmissible, they won't likely get funded. And if they try that, it's fruit of the poisonous tree and a good lawyer should be able to ferret that out.

I didn't say it's a perfect solution. But it might at least help.
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> Most expensive traffic jam in the country.

Not sure if this was your point, but when we can make such a big deal about how a meeting with ten people costs the company ten man-hours and therefore meetings are sooo expensive yet everyone at the entire company goes and sits in traffic twice a day. The macroeconomic cost must be astronomical.
Yes but that's not how the proles understand the blog. They take it as "x has a y % chance of happening".

Which is Taleb's beef with it. The commoner thinks its Silver putting his money on something, but when it doesn't happen he says "well I didn't say _that_".

And it in the day and age of more robust machine learning models, that the 538 models are so volatile is a pretty weak excuse.
We do indeed measure improvements against more than one website. We wouldn’t want to improve website X while regressing the rest of the internet. See https://v8.dev/blog/real-world-performance (from 2016):

> We now monitor changes against a test suite of approximately 25
> websites in order to guide V8 optimization. In addition to the
> aforementioned websites and others from the Alexa Top 100, we selected
> sites which were implemented using common frameworks (React, Polymer,
> Angular, Ember, and more), sites from a variety of different geographic
> locales, and sites or libraries whose development teams have
> collaborated with us, such as Wikipedia, Reddit, Twitter, and webpack.
> We believe these 25 sites are representative of the web at large and
> that performance improvements to these sites will be directly reflected
> in similar speedups for sites being written today by JavaScript
> developers.
Or it maybe just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
They had this in Berlin city-train (S-Bahn) stop Südkreutz. I never consented, and now wear a scarf over my face in that station.
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My biggest gripe with excel is that it doesn’t support complex numbers. Otherwise it’s bloody brilliant.

Life in science would be so much easier if it did

(I work on the simulation end of electrochemistry. All the data I receive is in excel sheets)
Was expecting some sick game.
Declare facial recognition inadmissible, and its use will drop off.

The police are well aware of this, and consequently won't use facial recognition data as evidence in criminal cases. That won't stop them using the data to knock on the doors of every person who matched (for some level of confidence) a given facial profile though.
Can't help but think that if this was done in beijing or shanghai, the headline would be far more ominous.

For all the politically motivated attacks on facebook and tech by politicians ( especially the british and their commonwealth ones ), they sure do love spying on their own citizens.

And for all the talk about dystopian china, it is britain that is leading the world on spying on its citizens and using an authoritarian "social credit" system on its people.

And I've no doubt that our politicians and tech leaders are using london/britain as testing ground for surveillance before importing to the US.

I would love for china and its people to be free and have individual rights, but I'm far more worried about the loss of freedom, privacy and individual rights in the US.
This not a trial, in terms of what a real trial should be.

It is a deliberate wedge strategy that has been employed at least once in the UK before. (I couldn’t find a source right now, will report back when I can.)

The goal is to be able to say to higher powers that «we reached out to the public and they didn’t mind.»

And then it’s made permanent.
I have a conspiracy theory: they track the persistence level of the user and if the user is very persistent then there is no harm is giving them a few extra puzzles to solve right? I honestly think this might be the case.
I think you're confused. The C++ framework is called Qt, OP asked about QuickTime.
1. That is normal, ask a doctor if you think you have problems and STOP FUSSYING AROUND ABOUT FAMOUS PEOPLE. You are doing fine, they just had more luck in life than you. I'm in the absolute 0.01%(or 99.9%?) of a normal distribution of my peers in terms of success and I'm nowhere near Elon Musk. You can be very successful, and yet, it won't be enough for you to be remembered or noticed. Why is that so important? I find this kind of questioning quite immature to be honest. Just focus on YOUR goals and YOUR strenghts/weaknesses.

2. Rest and look for people that can help you out, or solutions. Life is tedious and hard, we must fight everyday. If people respect that in order to grow your muscle, you must relax and chill when you have fatigue, why shouldn't you when you have mental fatigue?