skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lenny - so great to see you here at HN.

Thanks a ton for sharing your words — interesting perspective re: The New Yorker for South Asians. Especially since when I first met you six years ago, you were a senior engineer there. If we can consistently pull off that quality, I'm excited to reach an even bigger audience.

If you want to read the latest free newsletter Lenny mentioned, you can go here: https://mailchi.mp/inkmango/our-weekly-roundup-pulwama-crisi...
No worries, it wasn't dumb to say that! Your intention just wasn't 100% clear to me.
A new tool lets us better see through the eyes of artificial intelligence
> news about Facebook being awful is pretty mainstream at this point

Given that mainstream media has been pushing the Facebook is evil meme for the last two years since Facebook changed their ranking models to deprioritize news sharing and destroyed traffic to media sites, this is unsurprising.
>Lastly, the planet has trouble with us now... It's terrorism to suggest that 10 billion is just fine.

Calling it terrorism is a bit absurd.

It's totally possible (and even likely within our lifetimes), but that doesn't mean that there aren't huge logistical issues to overcome for it to be comfortable.

One of the main problems is that the world population is so widely distributed. We can already feed and house everyone, we already have more resources than what would be required... they're just not distributed appropriately (some due to hoarding, some due to supply chain barriers, political borders, etc).
I currently publish a series of detailed articles that cover exactly that.

https://dragan.rocks/articles/19/Deep-Learning-in-Clojure-Fr...
> Self-stimulatory behavior, also known as stimming[1] and self-stimulation,[2] is the repetition of physical movements, sounds, or words, or the repetitive movement of objects common in individuals with developmental disabilities and most prevalent in people on the autism spectrum.

... Holy Shit ... I do this all the time ... I'm autistic?

Where does one do more tests?
Nothing in my Spotify is rare, I can hunt it all down again. If Spotify pulls the plug then the biggest hassle will be recovering the track names of all the music in my sprawling playlists (which I should probably start backing up now). The benefit of Spotify to me is spending $10/mo on the >$10 of new music I listen to each month.
Western companies only see the dollar (umm... yuan) signs. "Gee, we weren't expecting them to steal^h^h^h compel by local law the transfer of our tech when we agreed to open a jointly-owned factory."
> Online backup? This seems like the only real option, but for me the risk/reward just doesn't fit.

What risk? You can privately store your music anywhere, it's completely legal to do so.
> What am I really losing though by allowing access?

Sovereignty over your cognitive processes.
The only difference between ML and AI is about $10m in venture capital.
Thanks, I'll take a look at Maslow and Moixa.

We've got an electric car too, so I plan on getting a Zappi installed soon to push all surplus energy into the car battery. It automatically adjusts the charge rate to match the level of surplus being generated.

https://myenergi.uk/

I'm thinking of combining this with Economy 7 for charging the car at night when we've not had much sun.
Huh, that means Iceland can no longer set our timezones to Casablanca. A few years back, Atlantic/Reykjavík was never an option when selecting timezone, so we would always go with Casablanca.
Rest in peace Terry Davis, the world wasn't ready for TempleOS.
> Chat apps, on the other hand, make it really quick and easy to communicate with the team but are usually bad at maintaining separate threads of conversations cleanly.

I disagree with the author. Most modern chat applications like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Skype etc allow separate threads of conversation cleanly.

IMO email is the worst platform for having conversations about a project.
> But, I think you're overestimating people's capacity to care about issues that will have no real consequence on their life.

Why do you think that this has no real consequence on their lives? I would state unequivocally that privacy violations have a direct consequence on people's lives. And they see that consequence, too, it's not some hidden thing. I would blame a lack of privacy culture on the election of a lying, cheating government that has directly caused pain to individual Americans. This is happening presently and I believe that if we had valued privacy significantly more over the last two decades, there would be far less physical pain intentionally caused on targeted people.

> This is exactly the type of information that people don't care about. "So, you're telling me FB knows I'm browsing Groupon for house cleaning deals and looking at cat pictures on Reddit? O, and other people could have access to that data?" Shoulder shrug...

What do you mean? I'm not talking about that at all. I'm talking about how when you go to the grocery store and someone snaps a selfie with you in the background, FB knows. They know when you take the subway and where you go, they [will] know pretty much every single detail of your life even if you don't have an account.

I'm not talking about browsing the web. By the way, that privacy violation is real and serious, not something to shrug off.

> The problem is that their uninstalling Facebook isn't going to change anything, other than making their lives less fun

What do you mean by this? Uninstalling Facebook isn't going to change anything because FB spies out the wazoo anyway! And anecdotally, I think that people are generally happier when they spend less time on Facebook, not less happy.

> If there's a real threat to democracy, the solutions need to come via regulation.

Sure - but with the way laws are written, FB's lawyers will write those laws and nothing meaningful will change. More than legislation has to happen, a cultural shift into caring about privacy is needed.
> dkms requires compilation

So not a stable ABI at all then.
I think the essence of the privacy problem is even simpler -- it's a question of agency.

I have little choice about whether or not I'm going to be spied on by Facebook, Google, etc. That's the problem. If I could engage in some sort of meaningful informed consent (if I consent to data collection, then it isn't spying), that would resolve 90% of the philosophical issues.

But I can't.
> The nightmare scenario for a financial institution is someone getting a mortgage, paying it off early, and not getting another mortgage.

I think the nightmare scenario for financial institutions is people buying houses for cash. No mortgage, no down-payments, no middlemen. The west coast right now is seeing an increase of such transactions. Add to that the slew of services trying to get around realtors, and the future may be bleak for such financial institutions.

One can only hope...
Curious how you manage to do this? Do you use apps, rooted OS, proxy sinkhole, etc?
An open letter from tech workers to Doordash
What type of legal abstraction would provide the features needed to make it safe and sensible as a practice? Incorporation with shares?
Uber Freight Launches Rating System
SMoTherSpectre: Transient execution attacks through port contention
Has anyone created a discord or IRC for this yet? I'm keen on learning a tool like this, and would love to be able to discuss it with others. If anyone wants, I will, but if that's a bad idea then let me know and I won't. Just looking to learn from others more experienced than myself!
Despite the click-baity title, the article makes a really interesting case for CNN classifiers acting essentially as bag-of-feature models.

backing paper:
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=SkfMWhAqYQ
That sounds like auditory processing disorder.
In the states, we can recast your line thus: "For my friends, judicial/prosecutorial discretion; for my enemies, the law".
Of course. In the meantime I posted patched binaries to the relevant issue: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/2#is...

As soon as the code is up I hope to submit a PR, which will be pretty easy since I already have the diff.
Steps to Learn How to Build a Mobile App
A simple, yet clearly unsympathetic, view to take is that a business does not hire you to make sure you are happy. That your needs to meet a fruitful and positive life are actually met is not necessarily in the best interest of the business. Granted, not all companies have that attitude but for most, that's the way to go to survive in most economic systems in place around the world.

As for the burger flipper, I'm willing to bet there are barriers in place that prevent the flipper from living the life you describe that has little or nothing to do with the joint they work for. Often times there are exterior forces being applied that people are more than happy to ignore so they can blame the wrong target for their own agendas.
The difference between the $8.5M in Federal funds, and the $24B that the locals had to pay, is about $24B.
That's only true if you include Americans ineligible to vote (i.e. children). 61.4% of adult U.S. citizens cast ballots in 2016. More Americans would could vote for either candidate did so than not.

I doubt there's ever been a candidate that has won votes that total more than 50% of the voting age population so there's no reason to single out the results of the 2016 election.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/12/black-voter-...
>"Healthy" society is a weasel word here though: a qualifier that turns this into a "no true scotsman".
>In this one, and most real societies, hospitals do want people to visit more often. Their incentives are geared towards that.

This might be true, but I would expect citations. I might be biased, is only anecdote, but my experience around the world would single out USA as a place where this is predominant.

Besides, not all the hospital visits are equal, a clear example of how we can align the incentives are vaccination campaigns.
Thank you!

No, currently there are no limits, and I don't plan to add any. First, it's really boring and tiresome to grind the rewards, and second, there's nothing to get out of it apart from the feeling of guilt.

Perhaps some messaging stating the points above can also prevent cheating. Thanks for your feedback!
I put down two reservations, at $1k each. So, my outrage is quite real. I intended to buy two $35k versions, after rebate at $27,500, that’s a better deal than any Honda Accord. And, I didn’t request my refund back because I believed in the vision. However, now I’m even more pissed, so I’ve made the refund request.
And like homeopathy, this should be scrutinized scientifically. There is nothing wrong with eating tiny bits of sugared balls, but don't tell others they are somehow of special powers.
Most people can't simply change the hours they work for their employer and it sounds out of touch to present an argument that assumes most workers have that level of autonomy.
>The car's back-up driver could still face criminal charges.

Wow, this is wild because this means that in every case from hereon out,there will have to be a decision of whether the driver or the car was at fault.

I am sure whatever the outcome of this case is, it will set precedent for laws to be made in the future.
From the WP article "While weekend recovery sleep had some benefits after a single week of insufficient sleep..." so here they are admitting there are some benefits from catching up on sleep debt, which is incompatible with the title that it is a lie.

They then go on to "...those gains were wiped out when people plunged right back into their same sleep-deprived schedule the next Monday.", which again is incompatible with the title because they are saying that there is benefit but most just kill the benefit, so weekend sleep catch-up is not a lie, but Carolyn Y. Johnson (or their Editor in Chief) are lying with the title.

That title is click-bait for sure.
> I feel like until we have an internet that isn't dependent on ad-networks, this is an inevitability.

I believe that ad networks as they currently exist are actively destroying the internet.
I don't understand what the author's issue is with what he describes as "push". Sounds like how an investigative journalism project is supposed to play out. Couple of things:

> The reporter has a hunch about a newsworthy story that hasn’t being told yet

A 'hunch' isn't something an editor signs off on when budgets are low as it is. More like "a reporter gets a lead about a newsworthy story".

> Then everyone in the organization PUSHES LIKE HELL to get the story in front of as many people as possible in the hope that it will reach the people who need that information the most

This seems like what the author has an issue with. If it's their story, they have the right to push it across whatever channels they have at their disposal. Today they use paid social. Yesterday, they may have used newsstands, or a syndication agreement with another publication.

What's the big deal?
> This is also why modern vinyl releases sound a lot better than digital: they are mastered differently since its assumed everyone is going to be listening on good equipment.

I'm going to disagree here. They are mastered differently because the physical limitations of the media require them to be mastered differently _and_ it just so happens that the physical limitations help limit mastering tricks in a way that produces less fatigue-inducing, brick-wall-limited mastering output.

A heavily compressed master creates huge peak-to-trough cuts in the vinyl which can cause the needle to literally jump out of the groove, even with RIAA limiting applied.

The assumption of the gear is definitely not true in any mixing or mastering experience I've had. Mastering tries to balance the final product across a range of listening devices, not some unobtainable ideal system. NS10s are kicking around because they sound like arse and make for mastering results that work well on car stereos and other "inferior" systems.
Hi Snigdha,

Congrats on the launch. As a member of the South Asian diaspora, I too enjoy seeing folks from my specific ethnic background succeeding in business, politics, and life. This is because I generally love seeing ambitious and conscious people from all walks succeed.

However, I am increasingly wary of balkanization of populations into disparate groups based on their ethnicity, culture, gender or sexuality. Identity politics is at an all time high, and it seems like these days, people identify themselves first as Black or Indian before they call themselves American or Australian (or going further, as a human or even as a conscious being). My gut feeling is that this is a negative trend and actually fractures our species into sub groups competing for scarce resources and attention.

My question to you is - how do we heal the divisions we have as humans, and solve complex world scale problems if we're too busy further dividing ourselves up via trivial lines in the sand, such as our skin color? Representation is great, but why does it matter if someone in a position of power has the same religion as you or has the same skin color? I personally believe quality of character and internal content matters more to kinship than a shared culture or physical qualities.
I think that the real answer is that we do not know the answer yet. It is likely that both aspects are correct to some degree, I'll explain my take as of now:

There is a real cost to sleeping less or sleeping too much and that some will feel the impact more than others also depending on the environment they are in (e.g increased stress, etc).

Depending on the combined variables in conjunction to lack of sleep, some may see positive gains by 'catching-up' on the weekend (think of parents for example), although it is likely that a marginal amount of lack of sleep will continue to accumulate over longer periods of time. This in turn can potentially lead to increased risk of heart attack and other issues.

The lack of sleep scenario can be seeing a little with the same lens as smoking, results can vary from person to person, but on average, it has a real negative impact when done often or under unfavorable circumstances.
We are all still humans, now as then.
Then you just layoff half your workforce to afford the half you can't reduce.
The is not the only scenario. How about you made some analysis of two wines and they seem to be same, yet someone can _reliably_ tell them apart?
Why would you ignore the most important of the differences I mentioned - that of being overseen by elected officials? In the end, the government uses force to do everything, and this is okay because we get to vote on who controls that force, plus have a nifty legal framework and Constitution to limit the damage the elected idiots can do.
You'll get ads better suited to you. The horror!
Depends on the institution and their relationship to the borrower. For instance, if you are a servicer who bought the MSRs to a loan portfolio and a large cut of those borrowers pay off early, you may not make back your investment on the MSR purchase (this is unlikely though as rarely will that many people pay off early as to not payback the investment if you've conducted appropriate due diligence of the portfolio).

Though for the originating institution you're generally correct.
Where you been? these apps track your GPS coordinates 24/7, have your mic open all the time and get access all your contacts. They then sell this data from data aggregator to data aggregator and finally this data was being sold to bounty hunters or anyone who knew someone with access for a few hundred bucks. You can have an ex, stalker, business competitor etc buy your trove.

Did you read about the Cambridge Analytica scandal at all either? I mean if you are fine about someone knowing about everything you ever clicked like on online and directing adds to rile you up politically then fine. Let the algorithms feed you man.
Is there a tool that shows you if you are being tracked, and by whom?

EU compatriots--looking at your general direction here.
I don't see the complexity here. They pay competitive salaries and people don't give a fuck about what FB does and accept the gig. Simple.

Being able to say: "No, I don't work here because of principles" is something really nice but not everyone can afford to do.
I'm HN reader, I well aware of all these and I still don't care. The stakes simply is not high enough to matter or cause me suffering.
Personally, I just analyze my web server logs to get this data.
Why would I want to buy a house at all, much less with other people? Some anecdata and heuristics incoming: I know someone who owns his house and he had a plumbing problem in his basement recently; huge pain and expense. Folks in their 20s are seeing these stories. Cultural criticism and call-out culture makes it clear to us that productive communication and friendships are actually hard to do, and that just because you're "supposed" to buy a house and have 2.1 kids plus dog doesn't mean you really have to to be a "successful person!"

I think if people my age see the economic incentives like I am, they are going to move in to apartments, where they can just autopay rent and worry about degrees of magnitude less things that could go wrong, or just move out of the country where they can make more money?
For those working with C++ an answer might come in C++23.

http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p1371r0....
I use an older version of Media Monkey on the PC. I would have upgraded to a newer version but they removed the interface to the LAME encoder. This was before the patents expired so I should check them out again, but the old version does everything I need. I quite like it.
What would you change about the design? I'd love to hear the specifics! You can email me at snigdha@thejuggernaut.com and if you do do design, happy to figure out if we can work together.

To get a better sense of our stories, you can visit thejuggernaut.com/articles, which I think is far better designed. We're working on changing our landing page right now and our site is definitely a work in progress.

As per YC tradition, we wanted to launch early rather than get it perfect. We've also heard that if we're not embarrassed by what we've built, we've launched too late.

Our product at the end of the day isn't just the site (though it is part of it), it's the journalism. And we don't compromise on that. Do read a few of our stories there — I'd love to know what you think.
Most US banks sell the loans immediately and are basically middlemen. They don’t care.
Why does Facebook need your banking info and SSN? And how in the seventh circle of hell would they feasibly brute force the correct information?
I don't think the issue with your feedback is that it is unkind, but that it is not specific.

"Cheap" is not a type of design.

"Probably a quickly modified free template" does not say what you found wrong with it.

"Unreadable" is just, on the face of it, false since I could read it.

If you had been specific with your feedback -- even if it were negative -- I think it would have been better received.
Vinyl releases are mastered to be less loud than digital releases because vinyl cannot reproduce mixes that digital systems can. The side effect is that lots of times they sound better. I think in a perfect world an artist would offer you vinyl if you want it, along with a digital version of the vinyl master. You could skip the whole ripping vinyl process entirely.
I find I'm the opposite. Wanting to photograph things makes me _more_ aware of my surroundings, and take them in more.
I myself made one: https://losttech.software/stack.html . You can't completely replace the default one, though. Just override relevant hotkeys and pointer gestures.

I am unsure why do you think Linux has more options? How did you count them?
I think catch-up sleep is just an excuse we grant ourselves for sleeping more on the weekends... we've been conditioned to feel bad for not feeling productive, so we need to grant ourselves special permission.
> No one cares who you are, they are just trying to sell ad space.

That's not true at all. GP comment referenced the fact that foreign companies get the data and then manipulate public opinion by spreading lies in a targeted manner, with the direct goal of cheating elections to get far-right, fascist governments in power globally.

> What am I really losing though by allowing access?

We have a lot to lose here. We already lost our democracy. At least temporarily.

> No one cares who you are

Yeah, they do. They care because that gives them power. We know humans like power and we know it is corrupting.

Your posts are spreading dangerous lies. The ad space is not some innocent thing. It is insidious and threatens democracy, with tyrants and dictators already taking over countries with the help of 'innocent ad space' that 'nobody really cares about'.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

As to the real life consequences of a laissez-faire approach to privacy:

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-p...

(Edited to combine my two comments)
“As a conductor, aluminum allows for a much lower cable voltage drop, which allows for a higher number of FPS per cable.” Also, its cheaper
I clicked the link and then tumblr asked me about privacy, with a link to "Manage options".

I clicked the link, hoping to disable x,y,z and there is just text. No options!

Not reading further.
Okay. So what's the evil end game of FB privacy?

The government doesn't need Facebook to get your data (they go straight to the ISPs, anyway). There's 10,000 companies that buy and sell your personal data already (and has been for 30 years - you can buy lists for direct mail of people's name, full addresses, numbers, marriage status, estimated income, etc.)