skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we know how they end up there it will help understand how well solutions will work obviously. Are people flushing them down the toilet? Does the wind catch the bag before anyone can react? Do people throw them on the ground because their pockets are full and there is no trash bin for miles?
Lead developer of an FR system here: this issue is dynamic range, darker faces, as well as very pale faces as well as any face that the brightest portions of the face are not far from the darker portions of the face, neglecting highlights is difficult for facial recognition simply because there is less distinguishable detail in faces with less visible feature variation. I see the same behavior in very pale Irish, those from Finland, soft featured Asians, darker than coffee Indians, and Africans. Anyone with very little illumination variation, which is necessary to distinguish their features.
Exactly, glad someone said it. I don't understand what the motivation is behind all of it, but I can only assume it's white and male supremacy at the heart. Anything to chant, "but Hillary" and secure a presidency for a man who's ADMITTED to sexually assaulting women and regularly denigrated developing countries.
Are you aware of the concept of Dynamical Friction? There is nothing speculative about it. It slows down objects above the average speed by ordinary Newton-style gravitational interactions.
The author seems to express skepticism at that as well. That might be accurate for base pay, not counting equity.
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I think once you start documenting and recording exactly who is coming and going and exactly what apartment they're going to you are violating privacy.

No doubt cases like this will be tried as people test the bounds of that legal definition.
Here's the thing--they hand out drivers licenses to anyone. You need virtually no skills whatsoever to pass a road test here in the States.

If I asked everyone on HN what steers the rear of a motor vehicle; I'd guess only 10% would guess correctly, and we're talking about some of the smartest most well read people on the Planet here. If I asked everyone on HN how many times they have practiced stopping their car from high speed in the shortest time possible, and were competent braking at high speed; I'd round that guess to virtually 0. Let's talk about the wet; can you control the car when it fishtails? Can you stop quickly in the rain? No and no.

You simply can not be competent in a life and death situation without training, nor without a basic understanding of vehicle dynamics. You just can't. Now I'm not saying Everyone must be able to toss the car into a corner, get it sideways and clip the apex while whistling a happy tune; but for god's sakes can we at least mandate 2 days of training at a closed course by an instructor who has a clue about how to drive? That would absolutely save lives... lots and lots of lives.

Which brings me to my favorite feature of some of these "self driving" cars: all of a sudden, with No warning whatsoever the computer says hey I'm fucked here --you have to drive now and save us all from certain disaster. I probably could not do that, and I sure as hell can toss a street car sideways into the corner while whistling a happy tune.
When driving is automated, many kinds of cheap labor will be automated as well.
Had never heard of this. Wow.
I view this generally:

Motivation to stay is being directly excited by the work you’re doing or the thing you’re building. You want to work where you are. If another opportunity comes along you probably wouldn’t consider it.

Resistance to leaving means you’re at a pleasant place to work, the money is good, and you like your job, but you’re not super excited about the thing you’re building. If another opportunity came along you might jump if it’s something you really want to do (this is harder if your current pay is high and job is pleasant).
> That will happen because computers are already safer in most conditions - the switch will happen when they are demonstrably far safer in all conditions.

Computers currently can disengage in any conditions for any reason - how did you come with conclusion computers are already safer?
SASL is also used with Dovecot/Postfix for example.
Could you use WebRTC instead, for true P2P?
The bargan is, as I have heard it, that we force everyone through math because we don't know in advance which ones will get to use it. We can't afford to cripple the 1% of people who become engineers. They do so much for our country that forcing all of the non-engineers to suffer through elementary engineering training is worth it.
Like the other posters in the thread have concluded. I don't see how you could be correct at all. Everything you've described in terms of energy inefficiency is something that describes suburbia. Cities have large energy requirements but that's due to the number of people there, they don't have high energy requirements per capita.

If you can show some math that shows how having a few thousand people in walking distance of a few restaurants has a higher energy requirement than spreading those same few thousand people around the country and having them stay fed _without them farming their own food_ then you might start to have an argument here but for now this seems in the realm of impossibility
I will take it ;)

Are u a FE coder by any chance? Or a marketing/growth guy. I am in backend/algo so any mobile/browser-related dependency becomes a blocker for me. Sigh.

B2C, paid product, well differentiated, plenty of demand.

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> I haven’t noticed any difference. SF still has tons of litter. Less of it is plastic bags ...

Sounds like you have noticed a difference?

Unless you are suggesting that there is some "conservation of litter" principle that ensure that the total amount of litter is fixed, so reducing one kind of litter causes other kinds to increase?

As for your needles argument, would a tax on needles really reduce the total externalities? Sure, it would result in less needles being bought, but that may result in move people sharing needles and transmitting diseases resulting in a much more significant cost. Something should be done about the needles, but it is not clear (a) that taxing them is a good idea, and (b) what this has to do with plastic bags.
True but you’re going to take a 30-40% paycut all to reduce your rent by $1000-$1500/mo. Rent goes down but a car and an xBox cost the same everywhere.
Inspiring Students with PVC Pipe Racing “Cars”
Do you need the best devs in the world to be the n-0000th domain registrar?
I live in Seattle, and paper bags hold up remarkably well, even in the rainy weather- and in my experience, they’ve been more sturdy and hold more than than plastic bags, especially when doubled up.

We also use them for our recycling- in my opinion they’re much better than plastic bags in because they stand up on their own.
That reputation is probably exactly what someone in the chain relied on to make a few exceptions... because skepticism will drown out these exceptions quickly...

Just a random thought. I don’t know the company or the parent in anyway so I am neither supporting nor dismissing anything.
But remote developers aren't the only kind of developers, and people do pay more for strawberries grown locally.

The remote developer market is a piece of the developer market, and the developer market pays more for developers in SF than in Topeka, same as remote strawberries cost less (often because cost of labor is lower).

As a remote dev, you're competing with other remote devs who can out price you. If I can offer someone else 10k less for the same product, why wouldn't I?
In my area you are required to update our roads authority within 14 days of changing address, and they send you a sticker to put on the back of your current license card.
In at least some states, yes, your driver's license needs to have your primary residence on it, or so an officer told me when I was pulled over and i hadnt updated mine yet.
It's still a rip of the Ghost in the Shell opening credits, but an interesting one and iconic in its own way.
Have you tried asking in the subreddit "tip of my tongue" [0]? I have been amazed at what they can figure out about obscure stuff with very abstract clues.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/
> He smokes a pack day and has had 2 heart attacks

> The job is literally killing him

I don't mean to be snide or to blame your brother (addiction is a powerful thing), but I'd say that maintaining a smoking habit despite having suffered not one but two heart attacks sounds more like putting a frog in a pot with some water, splashing boiling water into the pot twice, scalding the frog both times, and having the frog decide to stick around and see what happens next.
1) Such soft power is exerted by PRC everywhere in the region, and even against the US as exemplified by the trade "war" (it takes two to fight a war). If Taiwan was under the thumb of China then it wouldn't be able to, or need, to ban Chinese social media.

2) Same can be said for average PRC citizens too—they're not really day-to-day concerned about owning Taiwan. They often travel there for vacation too.
I think of this bit every time I dream of Rez, which happens a few times a year.
Think about someone who works at an non-profit NGO versus someone who works an 80 hour week at an investment bank. The NGO worker might only be making $30k/year but he stays because he really cares about his work. The investment banker might hate his job and hate the long hours but stay because of the high salary he'd be unlikely to match elsewhere. The NGO worker has high motivation and low reluctance, the i-banker has the opposite.

The actual technical term for this is motivation vs. hygiene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_theory
It can be much simpler than that. Maybe an I/O pin is left floating by accident (neither pulled up or down) and below a certain temperature, it gets toggled and brings the machine down. We actually had this exact problem, but it was the other way around: The floating pin was pulled the wrong way after a certain temperature was surpassed.
You don't necessarily need people — the impact of snowfall on the Soviet landmass was a concern during the development of various types of guidance systems.
Currently, you can split the discourse. I'd hope that the majority of people would be outraged if sandy hook denial was pushed to them for example.

If you cannot target your message, you need to take into account everyone who will hear it. This requires a more palpable message, and almost forces the adoption of a universal framework of facts.

Similarly, the profiling has lead to echo chambers. Having that fall away also helps create some universal discourse.
Right, the real problem with highschool is that it twists every normal thing about college into a dystopian parody of itself. I don't know why.
"Gas", here, as usual, means "plasma". Gas does not interact electromagnetically.

Use of the term "plasma" invites banishment from the community of astronomers, and loss of access to telescopes.
> Entirely non-surprising that devs are the ones who left because by hard capping their pay you are reducing their reluctance to go work somewhere else with higher pay.

The surprising part is that their dev retention (article notes small sample size) of ~3 years matches Google at 3.1 years and surpasses Uber, Dropbox, Tesla, Facebook and Airbnb. [1] That suggests that the culture created by the one-salary experiment increases the motivation to stay enough to offset the incentive to leave.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/average-employee-tenure-rete...
I was thinking the same-- I wonder if they compensate the more market-desirable engineers by giving them more freedom / spare-time than support people get.

The article justifies the higher-than-market wage their support folks get, because it helps retention and their support people do a lot more than support. That's fair justification for paying over-market for support people, but it still doesn't seem like justification for a salary that's exactly the same.

And I agree that it's silly how companies won't offer 4-day or more-time-off as part of an employment agreement. I'd be seriously interested in a job that allowed me to take extra unpaid vacation time.
I think they are referring to Herzberg? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_theory

Sounds like a different way to express that.
Sure, but it's working ;)
You still need a proxy server, unless the OpenTTD game browser supports WebRTC connections.
As he mentioned above, it matters if the country supports or does not support Russian language (which makes sense to me too).

I moved from Russia in 2012, and would gladly move to Ukraine, if not for that movement away from the Russian language.
That is exactly what I do (and what results in the "This message was not sent to spam because of a filter you created" message in my screenshot): Create a filter that maches all and selects "Never send to spam" as action.
If you submit a PR, will you become a Brownshirt?
It is an inevitable byproduct of a world that has access to a free copy/fax machine where anyone can reproduce anything that can be digitized and the whole world can receive a copy.

The "sameness" makes the technical burden easier for anyone who develops a search engine. If more searches had to be treated as "unique" this would require more resources and more time to complete. Sameness allows results to be returned faster.

Thus Google and others providing "search" are invcentivized to facilitate what you call the "cultural selection" process, i.e. selection by popularity. This article reflects a common view that this process is not adequate for all type of "content".

In the early days of web search engines, sites like AltaVista or later Google, would include a line on the results page boasting about the number of returned results and the number of pages searched, drawing attention to the size of their database and presumably the variety it would contain.

The irony of this is that we see now that Google, and any other who followed their lead, does not want nor expect people rapidly digging deep into search results. The majority of queries they receive are repeat queries. They would prefer and they expect that users be content with a "top search result", never moving beyond "page one". This not only lessens the technical burden, it can be presented as "what people want", they can portray this as the optimal "experience" for the user. Whereas someone who keeps digging and digging for more would draw suspicion and be blocked. Genuine curiousity, often a hallmark of intelligence, is not accounted for.

The system is geared toward delivering the sameness that purportedly all (e.g., 80% of) users want, as efficiently as possible. They offer no option (for the remaining 20%) to sort all results alphabetically, by date, or some other field or to download a list of all results to do this offline. Even sorting by "relevance" is a non-transparent process. It is not a disclosed algorithm and we are not allowed to do our own relevance filtering on raw results. What we get has already been pre-filtered. Advertisers pay the bills.

If the majority of users never reach page two, then an ad at the top of page one can command a higher price. The order of results is all-important. The user is not allowed to control the order.

"Everything is on the web" and yet doing "real" research -- as, e.g., one would using a databse in a library - is, 30 years on, still nigh impossible. Advertising is the problem, as the Google founders published in their search engine paper announcing Google in the 1990's. Alas, they later found advertising was the solution... to commercializing what was originally meant to be academic.
I'd be ok with it. In fact, I'm ok with China blocking our sites. Perfectly fine with me. China uses their sites to try to undermine the US. (And vice-versa I'm sure.)
Mushroom version: https://youtu.be/29u_FejNuks
IME these discussions are almost always driven by people that drive to the grocery store once a week to do their shopping and can't imagine life any other way. Then they can get on their high horse against people like us with much lower carbon footprints. Like you I don't know ahead of time whether I'm going to go shopping until I do and my plastic shopping bags become rubbish bags on a nearly 1 to 1 scale.

Things like this are usually just feel good measures all around, in the western world most of these bags will end up at rubbish sites and there are a million other sources of plastic waste that get left unaddressed. When they introduced laws against single use plastics here the number of bags used dropped 80%, but the 10c "reusable" ones have a lot more plastic, making it a net wash. And even then when you buy fresh veggies like potatoes and carrots they'll be bundled into a single use bag, either by the shop themselves or the customer.

They're are tonnes of ways to cut down plastic and other waste but everyone is preoccupied with this one convenient and hard to avoid use.
yeah, it's like $350-500k after experience at this point. new grads aren't even slumming at $136k.. http://levels.fyi
> I'd love for research to be more balanced since the phenomena can be explained through more hypothesise than just increased mass.

I'd love for climate science research to be more balanced...

Seriously, the "balance" tends to fall towards the theories that have the strongest indications of being on the right track, and that's what's happened with dark matter.

In the video on the only non-dark-matter theory that you linked, MOND, it is pointed out that MOND is known to be wrong, and is considered to at best be an approximation to an unknown theory of modified gravity. MOND itself also has no real theoretical justification, i.e. no explanation for how or why the gravitational equations should be modified.
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Thanks phys.org but that article needs much more information to be useful. Numbers about the strength? More detail than like a fridge magnet.
Well, maybe. Or it shows that they hired people who were relatively comp insensitive, possibly due to being unable to command higher wages elsewhere. Hard to know.
No, they have to be much better than human drivers, close to perfect. We all know and expect that people make mistakes, and if a driver kills themselves by mistake that's on them. But if you buy a machine to drive you and it kills you because the engineers made a mistake, that's a different thing. That's much less tolerated, and rightly so, even if it isn't 100% logical by your standard. It's not just about mean number of accidents per driven km, it's also about accountability and blame.
Yes, thank you. This is what I was looking for.
Folks,
Understand all of you. But what can I say is to wait, keep calm, let all the fancy new comer like Angular, React and Vue going ahead. Wait and it will be sure, in 2 years, everybody, everybody write all their stuff in their known language and only compile it down to native, web-assembly.
Gheers.
Are young people actually confused by rotary phones?
It just seems so unlikely to me. I looked it up on snopes and couldn't find anything.

There are a a lot of videos online of kids and teenagers unable to make a call using a rotary phone¹, but to me I felt it had to be some scripted thing to try and achieve viral status.

I mean they've been seen in movies so many times, and sounds like the dial tone and the busy signal are such cultural tropes, it just seems like bullshit to me.

What does HN think?

1. https://youtu.be/oHNEzndgiFI
I'm not so sure.
It's not just semantics. What we have are bones and teeth. I don't believe that we know anything about the social behavior of the CHLCA species. Whether it was more like common chimpanzees, or more like bonobos. So the bit about parallel evolution of social behavior in bonobos and humans is highly speculative, at best.

And FWIW, I didn't argue that "a common ancestor of two species is always going to be equally similar to each of the two species". I argue that some stuff -- where we have no data -- is unknown. Maybe similar, maybe different. We just don't know.

Edit: Upon reflection, maybe we do. Bonobos being really an isolated subspecies. But TFA doesn't explain that.

I do like the idea that humans have domesticated themselves, in any case. A lot of it is neoteny. Speciation through arrested development. So if only the childlike survive, that's going to select for it.
>In the end everyone just block everyone?...

Would that be so terrible? Used to be a lot of time the answer was just war. Well, now, if they can't get along on the playground, people just take their marbles and go home.

It's not so terrible when you consider the alternative.
Are you talking about this tool, or the cloud providers? AWS RDS lets you pick storage size independent of the compute resources.
The google cemetery is even more interesting:

https://gcemetery.co/
Please see the last HN thread I linked for a discussion of headers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19100332

As mentioned there, the "via" most likely comes from the fact that the recipient address is a Google Groups address that multiple people can receive.

Also, as mentioned in the Github issue, Google's G Suite security staff has checked the headers (in the Paypal case) and come to the conclusion that nothing is wrong with them, and that it's a Gmail issue (and that the fact that the recipient is a Groups address should make no difference for spam filtering).
"Personal liability" is an overly broad term. In the EU a single baseless lawsuit does not bankrupt you, so if you feel you have your finances under control, it might turn out that sole proprietorship is not a problem at all.

This is what I meant by "liability problems are much less of an issue in the EU".
Well, it was for a while:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12894/apple-deprecates-opengl...
Don't trust the hardware RNG, they said. And people pointed fingers and called them paranoid while laughing.
I'm just a layman, so I may have misunderstood Sabine's explanation, but to my knowledge Dark Matter, as a theory, is fundamentally different from Superfluid Dark Matter. In the latter, there's a new kind of force explaining why MOND, in certain cases, works. She notes at the end of the third video I listed above that Superfluid Dark Matter should be considered a combination of both Dark Matter and MOND. I would recommend taking a look at her video, it's short (about 6 mins) and I found it quite clear. Anyway, this is far from a solved problem, and no theory is sufficiently developed to be the last word on the subject.
Ratings are cultural as well. Compare to the traditional French scoring system where 19/20 was traditionally considered the highest attainable score as 20/20 was reserved for perfection (eg. something unattainable).[1]

I couldn't find a source for this but I once heard of an North American company which had opened some offices in northern Europe and used the same satisfaction survey across all offices. They were astonished to see satisfaction scores being so low in northern Europe so they launched an investigation into the matter. The result of the investigation was that satisfaction in the European offices was actually comparable if not higher than the North American offices, but culturally they would use a score like 3/5 to indicate that they had no complaints, reserving higher scores for when things were above and beyond great.

Someone with better Google-fu might be able to find a source because I probably got something wrong but I think that was the gist of the event.

[1] https://astoldbydana.com/2014/11/11/grading-on-the-french-sy...
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