skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The body cam video clip showed the spent casings disappearing into thin air. It was a doctored video with special effects added. I saw it and reposted it on both my Twitter and Facebook page. This video covers the discrepancies. Two men in baseball caps were also shooting. https://youtu.be/dOCwYd4ogFY
> If you’re not going to read things you dismiss, please don’t reply. It just adds unhelpful noise.

I skimmed your post, and read the first, last, and a few in-between paragraphs. It's incredibly verbose, repetitive, and wordy, and repetitive to the point of not helping you make your point. I'm not dismissing your point without reading it, though.

> The whole point is that if these services cannot be self-sustaining without monetization of ad injection, then the service is thereby demonstrably harmful to the people it delivers the service to.

You make this assertion, which is a huge one, then fail to really support it at all. You leave no room for nuance, and ignore the value that people do derive from free services like Facebook or Google. Your initial assumption is "ads are bad", and anything that has ads is therefore bad, and that's where your train of thought ends. It’s adding nothing to the discussion.
It’s an inspired satirical project. I think there’s value in shipping something no-one would ever use; it allows you to see things from new perspectives. See also: the useless machine [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useless_machine
Such a great godlike compassionate gentle guy ... working in Abu Ghraib without noting abuses and reporting them or even figuring out why that damm prisoner cries.

I don't think I would have courage to report in such situation. Socialization that makes it all normal and very real consequences whistleblowers get would stop me.

The issue is not dude. That issue is article writer trying to frame that work as something gentle glossing over the actual reality of the situation.
Downturns in the Amsterdam housing market are incredibly rare. My wife and I bought my first (her second) house in 2008, and a month after we bought it, the news said that for the first time in ages, housing prices in Amsterdam were dropping.

Despite that, we never had any trouble. Even during the crisis, house prices didn't drop much, they just spent more time on the market. We had been careful enough to make sure that in a pinch, my wife would have been able to pay the mortgage on her own (my income would have been too small for that), but even if we would have had to sell our house, I doubt we'd have lost a crippling amount on it (and the house we'd have bought instead would probably have been cheaper too).

After the crisis, things quickly recovered and we sold out house with €100k profit in 2017. (Of course our new house was more expensive too.)

The main risk he have, is that part of our mortgage is not automatically getting paid off. So even after our mortgage runs out, we'll still have some debt left unless we pay extra. These mortgages are now illegal: all mortgages need to paid off in a predictable manner, to ensure houses don't go too far under water even when the market goes down.

We have always overbid (but never too much) for the houses we bought, and when we sold, buyers also always overbid. It's how the market works here, I guess.
> you never intentionally cross them too much

I think the 'too much' is key - occasionally, you should cross them a little. But the opposite happened in the story - he was expanding his kid's boundaries.
Their filter process is based more on the founders. The product and idea is just part of evaluating the founders. It often happens that someone goes in with bad ideas and product. Some pivot their way out. Some can't.
I think what's being referred to was the shoddy way many musicians and producers used digital technology and basically just digitized an analog recording without even bothering to get mixing or levels right on the analog side. Dire Straits in particular was an early adopter of a fully digital pipeline[1] in the studio and used it very well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_in_Arms_(album) was notable as being one of the first CDs recorded as DDD as opposed to AAD (https://www.danielmcadam.com/AAD-ADD-DDD.html) which was much more common in the 80's. It's still sounds great today IMO.
Perhaps you meant this article https://dnote.io/blog/how-i-built-personal-knowledge-base-fo...

My main argument in that article was that we almost never look back at our notes. Therefore we should focus less on organizing our knowledge neatly. Instead we can automate the retrieval through weekly email digest and search.

To achieve this, I built an open source system [0] and that's pretty much my setup nowadays.

- [0] https://github.com/dnote/cli
Analog introduces it's own set of distortions into the final sound -- it's simply a preference for that style of distortion.

Totally duplicate on modern equipment though, no $1000 cables needed.
Facebook comms knows that. That's why Facebook comms used the word "keep." It's also why they said "some" passwords and not "hundreds of millions" of passwords.

Facebook comms also knows that "there is nothing more important to us than protecting people’s information" is a bald-faced lie, since Facebook is literally in the business of selling people's information to companies like Cambridge Analytica, but sometimes it's okay to lie as long as it sounds like a meaningless platitude so that nobody would be expected to seriously believe it.
This is so incredibly important a thing to teach children. Between this, and not forcing them to hug or kiss people they don't want to, they learn that their body belongs to them. I can't think of much that matters more for people to know at an embodied, felt level.
> The city spends more than $40,000/yr per homeless person,

That's an absurd myth. The city spends about ~$3,800 per person per year. Or $10.41 a day. Your story is based on incorrect data.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Bu...
I'm not sure if you got through past the introduction or not but there's this really key piece here:

"Now they claim we have got nothing new. And, yet, much of the thought that we
integrated in MMT had been lost in the postwar period. Even the very best of the heterodox
thinkers—people like Bob Eisner—had got caught up in debates over just how strong “crowding
out” is. He took what we call a “deficit dove” argument, against the “deficit hawks”. The debate
took place largely on orthodox grounds, trying to find some “sweet spot” for budget deficits and
debts. Most of our critics remain in the “dove” camp, arguing that deficits in recession are fine,
but that if “too large” they become unsustainable. We developed the “deficit owl” position—a
position that indeed can be found in the work of those we follow, but a position that was mostly
lost by second and third generation heterodox economists."

They go on to explain what that is, and why it matters.
Yes, for example, abuse.
> Useful for near obstacle detection

You can't use LIDARs for safety critical obstacle detection as such...
ie we spend a third of all our tax revenue on housing insurance
Graffiti !== Spraypaint
The hype around machine learning has reached a point where every time someone sees a moderately challenging problem they leap to some nebulous "ML" solution.

No, we've long had the technology to solve most of this. Clip correspondence is content based image retrieval across a database of keyframes. Matching framing and position is an image registration problem (feature correspondence). Color balance seems like an almost trivial problem if you've solved the other ones, because the information _is_ there -- just modify each channel to match the histogram in the lower resolution image [1]

The challenge is that earlier stages in the pipeline need to be robust to inexact matches, and we don't want to rely on absolute color or pixel position. But I don't think that should be insurmountable for a slightly creative implementor - use local variation in color, gradient descriptors, pull in the motion vectors for an additional channel, etc...

Sure, you could go down the deep learning path by trying to reduce scenes to bags of labeled objects and semantic actions but that's bringing a water cannon to a squirt gun fight, which only makes sense if Google is giving you a free water cannon.

I'd probably try it if I really thought there was a fortune to be made here, but it's such a niche application. When something hasn't been done yet, there's usually a good economic reason, unfortunately.

1. First Google result for "histogram matching color balance":
https://blog.mapbox.com/color-balancing-imagery-with-histogr...
This is interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9RiR9AcXeE a bit of the history and why it was needed.
Nouveau: Accelerated Open Source Driver for Nvidia Cards
Cool project! Another alternative is to just use unison. Not only is it cross platform for windows, Mac and Linux, but on top of that it “just works”.

Amazing stuff. Brew, Cygwin and your favorite package managers have it.
I just unplug it from the wall...
It's about time! In addition to my "it's annoying and simply not scalable" comment, the bug discussion brings up some additional compelling points:

1. It included a click-wrap agreement in violation of the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

2. Fishing for inappropriate citations should not be encouraged, as it compromises the integrity of scholarship.
I think it’s because Google overcharges and Amazon knows the most about buying habits and thinks it can clean up.
IMO the industry has moved on from Patagonia fleece vests to Arc’teryx down vests.

Or maybe it hasn’t crossed the chasm quite yet.
What VNC are you using?
great color picker, really love the preview images. the only thing missing for me is to have the possibility to specify a specific color in hex as a starting point: most of the time when I'm looking for additional colors for a project, the main color is already pretty much set.
Prior to now, this doesn’t seem like it would have been much of a fix. Pilots would still have had to understand what is happening when this light went off: that there is a system (MCAS) that is taking faulty input from the AoA and pushing down the trim. And to fix it they need to cut the Stab Trim Runaway switches and manually trim the aircraft. If this light had been available in the two crashes would pilots have really understood what to do? Or would it have just been more confusion? You might assume the faulty sensor was inputting into autopilot, but you’d see autopilot is off, and you didn’t have any idea there was this MCAS system enabled instead.

EDIT: now after the fact it’s a fine addition because every single 737 pilot in the world is going to be acutely aware of this possible scenario now and to cut the Stab Trim Runaway switches.
Ask HN: What's the dumbest thing you've done on the job?
Could be a programming mistake, shooting yourself in the foot with a boss, scoping a project terribly, etc. Bonus points if it's something you knew was dumb before doing it anyway.
Nuclear pulse propulsion can theoretically reach .1c. Forty years to Alpha Centauri. One could argue it’s a matter of engineering and motivation, not known physics.
Server: x11-vnc

Client: NoVNC
Think of cats and belly rubs. Now that's a mind war! Kitty lays on the floor showing you it's belly, you pet it two-three times, suddenly claws are out and you 're screaming for help! Learn to read when claws are close, and you 're golden :)
Related, about 1 month after Parkland:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/14/593531945...

"A 17-year-old student was struck in the neck, according to his father, Fermin Gonzales III, who spoke to Monterey County Weekly.
"He was going to go to his next class, but he was pulling out metal fragments," Gonzales said of his son. "It was a soft metal."
"Nobody from the office came in and looked at what had happened," he alleged." (Struck in the neck from shrapnel, fyi)

"In a series of tweets, he (Donny) said, "20% of teachers, a lot, would now be able to ... immediately fire back if a savage sicko came to a school with bad intentions ... Far more assets at much less cost than guards. A 'gun free' school is a magnet for bad people. ATTACKS WOULD END!""
> Hawaii is 1313 miles from Midway Island

Close-up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papahānaumokuākea_Marine_Natio...

Clearly easy to navigate due to many small islands / reefs.

> The closest useful island to New Zealand is the Raoul Island in the Kermadecs (which was settled by Polynesians from New Zealand).

980 Km distance or so, less than e.g. Iceland from the rest of Europe. Where is the mystery?

What I'd like to know is how these atolls and islands looked a few 1000 years ago, with lower sea levels (what is the rough estimate, 3 meters per millennium?).
Google is becoming a service that no longer performs searches and instead attempts to project reality back at me based on a keyword cue. This is how the AI takes over society.
Ya, that's one reason I rewrite the commit message to add the CVE. Hopefully people will view the blame before changing.
It's quite a mess really. I'm still hoping we may get May's deal with a public vote on whether we want it or not (Wilson-Kyle amendment).
Sure, music will always exist as a human form of expression.

It's just more likely to exist in the same way your hobby projects compete with your full time job. Lots exist as concept only. Some are half-finished but never ship. Maybe some of them get done. What could you have done if people payed you to do what you cared about?

Patronage is... a thing. Better than nothing. But obviously a weaker form of economic systematizing than a model where you pay to listen to a performance or a recording.

I mean, if you're designing a system function, do you want it to reliably tie outputs to inputs, or optionally tie outputs to inputs?

And yes, the economics matter, even considering the "love" factor. Paying for things supports the enterprise that goes into providing them. Diluting or disconnecting payment from the music is another way of saying "in order to make music, you should be spending time doing things that aren't making music."

And the problem with that is that Time is the primary ingredient that goes into making music. More time goes into making music that's "better" by any number of reward functions in listeners. You can cheat that rule a little bit at the margins with better tools or inherent talent more than a standard deviation or two above the mean, but the significance of those terms in the equation is generally less than capital-T time.

Which means diluting/disconnecting payment either limits the output of people who don't have outside resources, or limits the quality of the music produced.
The brutal thing about flash is that it doesn't matter how many pixels you collect, it's still going to spread out over the whole thing. Multipoint flash like Ouster is better in this respect.
funny, but this isn't reddit or twitter.
But again, most users that can't operate an adblocker also cannot be trusted to browse the Internet without one.

You're describing this setup like it's a choice between complicating someone's life or giving them a simple browser that just works. Phishing attacks are nasty. No matter what choice you make, a new user is going to have a complicated element they need to be educated about. You either have to teach them to use an adblocker, or you need to teach them Internet security best practices.

To jump back to the same comparison I made earlier, this is like wiring a house without circuit breakers because the owner is too scared to mess with the little switches. Is it simpler? Sure, but it stops being simpler when their house burns down.

Nontechnical users click on things; they particularly click on flashing banners that tell them they've won prizes, and they particularly click on images with scary fonts that tell them that their Facebook has the virus and needs to be updated. If you're going to give a nontechnical user a browser without an adblocker, you need some kind of other defense against phishing attacks, fake download links, cryptocurrency miners, and compromised Ads/CDNs that scrape credentials out of payment forms.

Do you have an alternative defense? If not, then I really feel like for someone as tech-illiterate as you're describing, giving them a bare browser is roughly the equivalent of throwing them naked into a hostile environment.
We're working to improve it. It's actually why jhawthorn found this issue.
A famous Chinese blogger called English a “trash skill”
We call them "physicists" :)
> Most of the time it's what people want.

It really sucks being a frequent traveller, and frequent VPN user and having to REALLY go out of my way just to get some useful default behavior.

VPNing through Iceland and now all the Google Flights prices are priced in Icelandic Kroner and not even a clear dropdown to change this preference. Try the URL hack to change the currency code in the get parameters and MAYBE get what I want.

There are so many ways to detect this and assume this preference, and they opt for the most debilitating one. Many services are following this trend, all because of blindly following some A/B test iteration.

Add the human sense back into it.

And god forbid the VPN server you used was used by someone else doing something odd, welcome to CAPTCHA HELL! Where we make all the assumptions about what you want until search is no longer useful for you, but don't let you access search at all by assuming you the current user are the problem based on IP address alone!
I never said the FDA was specifically interested in passwords. The FDA was brought up in reference to my work with PHI. The FDA does care about how you secure access to sensitive data however. If you leak passwords which allow unauthorized access to PHI, you're going to have a problem.

The analogy was intended to focus on practices which should be employed by companies which handle sensitive data, not the specifics of what the FDA is looking for.
'Probing' is a better term than I used, yes. But neither probing nor disrespecting (or disregarding) really captures the admittedly rather fuzzy idea. I can't shake the feeling that such 100% adherence to verbal (and even intended) yes/no is somehow like keeping people at arms length distance, emotionally.

At the very least, it's not how I'd want to be treated.
There obviously is a market for songwriting and composition, but anger over excessive copyright (eg Disney style life+90) has drastically undermined all copyright. It's throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and is justified (above and in other comments below) on the idea that music lacks utility.
This is so real. Our VCs gave us Patagonia Fleece Vests, suggest Super Human... All Birds, Sapiens. Damn good job.
I just came here to say thank you for doing this team. When I wanted to teach my 5 year old how to type and do basic math, I did it in clojure using Repl.it

I may have biased it, but she found the experience more engaging than MIT Scratch (which is also very good).

When kids and newbies engage with a product so easily (think git before github), you suddenly vastly increase the userbase.
Ask HN: Has GitHub ever messed with your private repositories?
I am considering self hosting/bare repos on a file server of mine versus GitHub. I'm curious if you or anyone you've heard about has been screwed over by GitHub. In particular, with private repositories GitHub may have taken issue with for whatever reason.

I'm essentially wondering if such things as this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118) have ever happened with private repositories.
I’ve done Amtrak with my young kids twice, Tampa to DC overnight, in a sleeper cabin as described in the article. They love it, we love it. Hanging out, watching the scenery go by, exploring the train, meeeting other passengers, reading, playing on devices, playing games (the kids love making little forts in the upstairs bunk). It is a wonderful way to travel. We do the train one way and then fly back to save time.
VCs are useful in the longer scale of things. Sure you can build a $100M company or so bootstrapped, but by that time your competitor will be at $1B.

Whether or not you want this depends on the product you're doing. Several companies tried to make an operating system for touchphones. Out of them only Android was acquired and successful in the long run. Plenty of digital game distribution platforms tried to grow, but were choked out of the market by Steam.

The author is working on contracting specializing in American companies. The market for that is big enough. Or if you were, say, a community based baby stuff e-commerce, which can compete with Amazon, that works too.

The other thing to note is that YC partners say they go big to have the most impact on society.
I must agree Genie.jl is great!
Pinterest Steps Up Planning for IPO, Aims to List Shares on NYSE in April
What does that amendment do exactly? Force a new Brexit referendum?
The survey of economists that the article poo-poos includes the comment by one economist that a government can print to pay its own debts exactly once (because people loaning to the government figure it out quickly). This argument falls into the same boat: sure, the banks will change how they price loans, but for the lucky guys with loans it’ll be glorious!
The title of this needs to be changed go "A brief history of why artists are no longer making a living recording music". Live music is still huge and there are great musicians who make the majority of their income making something unique every night. Much like how people have made money off music has changed from selling sheet music to live performances to recordings we are back at creating music. Not selling its reproduction.
Love the initiative. I think it will help a lot of bloggers gain additional distribution with very little effort.

Unfortunately, as a regular listener of podcasts, I just can't bring myself to listen to TTS voice.

It's great and has advanced leaps and bounds in the past few years. But if you're used to listening to real human voices on a regular basis, any TTS speech is an instant nope.
If your project isn't intended to be uploaded (or is, but isn't intended to be consumed by other go projects as a go module), then you can make the project name whatever you want as far as I know.
There were some rumors that Germany giving in here is a high level backroom deal to secure French support for the gas pipeline in the Baltic sea linking Russia and Germany (which the US are opposed to).
Damn millennials, ruining juvenile crime!
Maybe you were primarily trying to access services outside of China?

Within China things can be decently fast and low latency - from what I hear - and it is a large place with a lot of compute infrastructure.

You have to treat it as its own world. Where on the outside, all we see is the chaos and interruption of a hurricane, but there is a center that is harder to see where people go about their daily lives and have decent amenities and ux.
I’m curious why you think this. I use Atom often and for many things so I don’t consider it broken at all.
This. I bought the first trial disk for Star Trek TNG, which had a couple of episodes that had been redone in HD. They looked great, but when I saw the price for each season, I ended up not purchasing them.
This sounds like an artificial distinction, drawn there only to make the point you want to make. A hammer isn't art, because a hammer is functional, and a decorative handle on it is part of that non-art. A wall isn't art, because a wall is functional, yet a fresco painted on it is art?
These aren't "leaked" passwords; they're logged in plaintext internally, which is not great, but is not the same thing as having leaked them.
But what would their own ad network run on besides their own e-commerce ecosphere? It leaves google and facebook with their unique offerings, and simply adds a third. Unless you think advertising dollars would shift from google to amazon?