skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great alternative strategy is to structure your finances so that it's impossible for creditors to seize your assets - that way, your practical liability is limited to the up-front costs. Which, by being up-front, you can actually reason about and make informed decisions on.

This is less difficult than it sounds. Move to Texas, and keep all your assets in retirement accounts, home equity in your primary residence, and possibly annuities if you've made too much money for that all to hold everything. Note that this should be done before possibly incurring debts.
Can multiple technically-minded reviewers thinking it's a screen protector really be deemed PEBKAC?

If they mess that up, an appreciable proportion of the general public will as well.
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Then given the sacredness/importance of human life, relative to the value of someone's hair, there is no reasonable justification for not requiring every airline passenger to shave their head before entering security, if it reduces the probability of the scanner having false negative even by a small margin.

Come to think of it, there's no justification for allowing passengers to keep their clothes on as they pass through security.
I have never seen LFCR in C or any other code (but plenty of LF and CRLF, and since OS X, very rarely just CR). I know your comment is tongue-in-cheek but I am genuinely curious if LFCR is otherwise common in some obscure niche.
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,,,voluntarily transitioned within service...

My impression is that very little about the military is voluntary. If they need pilots to fly different craft, the pilots will fly different craft.
So because the crime is lower than certain cities we shouldn't do anything about it? Maybe we should work on decreasing crime at all levels. This problem is preventable, we should work on a solution not ignore it because it's not the worst place in the world. Do not settle for "safe enough", it's an insult to anyone who has suffered a tragedy that could be prevented.

edit: to the bottom poster, we should strive for the crime to be as low as possible. A mass shooting doesn't raise the crime rate by any noticeable amount, but they are preventable. The same goes for crimes committed by illegal immigrants. All of those victims could be saved by securing our borders.

I wouldn't be throwing away my karma defending this issue if I didn't feel passionately about it. Step outside your bubble and have some perspective.
"Dropping protections because the failure rate dropped" is a common failure mode, as seen in: Checklists, vaccines, financial regulations, and I'm sure many more arenas.
You could also say my body is billions of years old because that's the age of most of my atoms.

In every way except the one that counts, it seems I'm not my age!
Interesting. That's not the case with US-based Catholics, or other Catholics I've met from Western or Southern Europe and the Americas. But while I know a few Eastern Orthodox folks I haven't really compared the specifics of the traditions.
Nice catch. Didn't see that. Thanks for posting that. Yeah, pretty amazing these bugs are still kicking around even for something that has been looked at pretty critically. Makes this even more impressive.
Capitalism as it exists today in the US (and other parts of the world) is a paperclip optimizer. The pressure is for those with power to leverage that power toward their maximum short term financial benefit. One consequence of this is that health care has essentially been parasitized by profit seekers who extract money from the system as if it were a strip mine. You can easily see the impact of this in the gross statistics in the form of the extremely high spending on health care in the US vs. comparatively poor return on that spending in terms of overall health outcomes. This is a corrupt system which today produces health care only as a side effect of its main purpose of wealth extraction. That is a natural consequence of our culture, economic incentives, etc. combined with the vast power imbalances between health care "providers" (hospitals, drug makers, device makers, etc.), insurance companies, employers, and individuals. There's no such thing as a patients or insurance holder union, the imbalance is enormous and there's very very little to tip it back from being dominated by the interests of the powerful.
One thing it took me a while to realize is that a lot of what's provided by "OSes", the way users think of them, is standards: ABIs, protocols, formats, etc. And you can play with those in userspace. I am not saying kernels don't matter or anything, just that the kernel is not the only place one can play with radically different ways to organize stuff.

So: if you want code to communicate and share capabilities through objects in a memory-safe environment, you can do that. (Browsers without strict site isolation often do this with cross-site iframes.) If you want to serialize state so you can stop and restore across reboots, you can do that. (CRIU does something like this, for apps not written for it even.) Sufficiently advanced language environments and runtimes often end up redeveloping OS-y bits (schedulers, binary formats, standard ways to exchange data).

A big problem, as with completely new OSes with their own kernels and syscall interfaces, is getting people to develop to your interfaces. But it would be (is!) interesting to see folks build alternate universes in userspace that are much easier to dip into.
Happened to realize I posted the wrong link. Above is for building Godot. This is about exporting games for the Web.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/getting_started/workflow...
See also:

Lord Kelvin's thunderstorm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_water_dropper

Vaneless ion wind generator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaneless_ion_wind_generator
I don't configure my desktop machines with swap. They have a ton of memory relative to my needs. I rarely crack 10%. I could fit all of /usr in ram with gigabytes to spare. If the OOM reaper hits, it's because I really screwed up. That's the kind of thing I want to know right away anyhow.
Leaving the lights on with the curtains drawn - and possibly the radio playing - is a hack to discourage break-ins. Someone seems to be home, but burglars can't actually look inside to check.
I don't think they are using an external cache.
Media exposure to mass violence events can fuel a cycle of distress
I think the problem is that hospitals can use the price of procedures as a bargaining chip. They can jack up the price for the uninsured (on paper) then lower it if they're actually going to bill a person. Then they take the jacked up number and use it to negotiate with insurance companies, and insurance companies can likewise point to the number and say "look what will become if you if you don't stick with us!"

The first step should be disallowing this negotiation. That should massively lower the on-paper prices, or let insurance companies at least make the tough decisions about what procedures are actually worth it, which is supposed to be one of their functions anyway. If that isn't their function, I'm not sure what their function is.
For what it's worth, you'll still be able to use the old roots for another two and a half years (until September 29, 2021), which is not quite five years from the date of that old post, but also way longer than half a year.
I believe Chrome has already shipped an implementation, I don't know any more details unfortunately. It's still in the standardization process.

I know it's not exactly easy to follow but the only implementation repo I can think of to follow right now is the Chromium repo.
Latex. Fixed that for you.
Does an epileptic seizure modify the slow brain wave activity? It would have less data due to a smaller sampling rate but still might be necessary to avoid "total refresh"? Have we EMPed brains before to see if they lose any prior memories?

Afaik, ECT therapy has been despised by many folk for making them forget whole weeks of their pasts.

The question is whether the electricity is causing changes or just interrupting existing flow....
Reminds me of this story I read a few months back about one woman's experience at Grambling State University: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/a-college-degree-mor...
No it's not. Career =/= life.
Whats your plan for providing locomotion to the robots?
Actual previous discussion from less than a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19677721

I guess this slipped through the dupe detector due to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19684806
This is an outdated document. Apple has a detailed whitepaper on the topic as well as the fact that you can see eqch submission and its parameters in the device logs.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/docs/learning-with-privacy...
Who uses outsourcing firms like Wipro (government agencies)? What do they do? It seems to me, living in the bubble of haute tech, that the only things you ever hear about these firms are (a.) they exist and (b.) they are very large.
even if you have 1000 servers that all have a local promise you may still be helping the backend service by reducing 10000000 requests to 1000.
I've dealt with a few.

One turned out to be LZRW3, kind of like LZSS but with the 12-bit string source being a hash table index. That was totally reverse engineered from staring at hex bytes, and then later we found out the identity of the compression algorithm.

Another was never discovered. It was one of two compression algorithms used by VxWorks, as part of transitioning between boot stages. My solution was to put the entire RAM content into an ELF file (including all of VxWorks) as one big section, then hack it up to run as a Linux binary. I thus made a decompression program.

Writing an emulator is also a great choice. I do that a lot.
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I don't think little-snitch can tackle anti-censorship or can really prevent ISPs from snooping up on you? VPNs like Orbot might be required then.
Underlying photogrammetry library, https://alicevision.github.io/, has more informative landing page.
> Catholics are required to believe in whatever the pope says is true in the matters of religion.

This is fairly explicitly not true. Most papal statements even on subject matter that could in principal be subject to infallible declaration are not made ex cathedra. There very few even arguably ex cathedra pronouncements (leaving aside the disputed status of canonizations), even though Popes say and write a lot about religion.
That's a tremendous series. The mechanicals in these things are mind bending.
I am not too well-versed in TypeScript, but it would be nice if I could verify at compile time that I am not mutating state in my reducers.
Hell, I do the same thing when traveling. I 'get dressed' in my head to check that I'm entirely clothed. If I weren't as good at visualizing things I'd probably just write it down.

I never forget socks but I've had to buy a few toothbrushes and deodorant...
It's comforting to see that reddit's censorship craze was likely just the tip of a common destroy-the-business-from-within arc.

I'll never comprehend how it happens so blatantly. I can only imagine it's the result of grave causality misjudgment while transitioning to the closed world paradigm - thinking "having all these users would be extremely lucrative if only they didn't ____", ignoring that this is the main reason you have all those users in the first place!
> I often laugh when I hear inexperienced American talk about how much better the health system is in the UK. Sure, health insurance is expensive, but the actual healthcare is leagues ahead of anything available via any sort of national health service

Exactly the same private healthcare is available to you in Scotland, if you chose to pay for it.
> "Without profits, people would pay for things at cost which sounds great in the short term, but would result in no money left for further improvements much less incentivizing hard work..."

note that profit (without qualifiers) == net income (as opposed to gross profit or operating profit)

so it's not true that no money is available for further improvement. profit is what's left over after re-investment (and other costs).

it's also not strictly true that it doesn't inventivize hard work. if the owners take money out of the company as salary and benefits, or they derive satisfaction from the quality of their work and/or pride in building an organization, they may be very well incentivized.

to actually answer the original question, you'd need to understand how value gets distributed in a value chain (including customers). it depends on the relative power of the various actors in the chain. if customers have a lot of power, they'll extract most of the value of the value chain (likely in the form of lower prices). if suppliers have the most power, they'll retain most of the excess value in the value chain as profit. based on a quick read in this case, the supplier has lots of power, so stripe will likely retain most of the profits.
Historically Boston banned Christmas celebration for a few years in the 1600. https://mentalfloss.com/article/54131/time-boston-banned-chr...

I know of several other Christian groups today who don't. The ones you mention are the only ones anyone is likely to recognize without personally knowing someone in the church. It isn't only about rejecting holidays.
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This brings the concept of "brain in a vat" to a whole new level.
“Teacher tests” often have different objectives than solely measuring one student’s ability compared to another. Likewise, the investments made in the creation of standardized tests are not likely to be matched by classroom teachers due to logistical constraints even if they have the necessary knowledge to create an equally valid assessment.

The objective should be the creation of a system that allows teachers to retain the flexibility to modify curriculum in a manner appropriate to their specific student population while also maintaining the trust and reliability benefits found in standardized tests.
I'm working on something like this

This site's approach looks promising
>>> This can be done via taxes but insurance is a private market solution which should in theory make it more efficient for the sake of maximizing profit.

In reality, it's less efficient.
My big question with face rec is this: what happens when the tech is so good that people can find out the identity of someone whose "special" photos were stolen or shared on the internet? That's going to be a huge deal and will cause huge problems for some people if not handled correctly.
Arabic is even more complicated!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_grammar#Cardinal_numera...
Most Catholics from those areas are Western Catholics (a.k.a. Latin Rite Catholics or Roman Catholics).

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_particular_churches_a...
The curious case of Spamhaus, a port scanning scandal, and an apparent U-turn
No.. I think they should double down on strategies to curb fake news and misleading ads and adopt some rules similar to the Fairness doctrine.
> it's hard to tell how it's been used and in which projects

That's always the case in vfx. The best source is contemporaneous interviews directly with the people involved, which is sporadic and very rare. Most demo reels, even for big software packages, are incredibly misleading. Company A might have some partnership with a production studio, slap their name in the credits, use their work in the demo reel, but the output is junk so the artist scraps it and does it the "old fashioned way" from scratch. Or the software gets used in a very specific, tangential way like roughing something out or converting file formats back and forth.

VFX companies and software packages are trying to sell themselves for future work. So they tend to gloss over details and present themselves much better than they are in practice. After a show wraps, it's really difficult to get good information. The files on disk may not even open anymore and the artists have moved on.
Not OP, but I could see the fun and value in an immutable and distributed record of a board game. Cheating would be very hard, and I imagine a passionate player feels good knowing the platform will exist for as long as there are players, and about having an eternal record of all of their games ever. Pro leagues can refer back to the chain for scores and arbitrage, customized game clients can hook up to the chain (perhaps tagged with a hash of the client so players can agree on subgenres of 'legal' clients), players can easily pick up and play any game in history from any state..

I don't know about being 'freed from the constraints of manufacturing'.. But a game on a blockchain might be one of the few uses of blockchain I can think of that actually sounds useful.
Used to LOVE LiteStep, used it until Windows 7, since I actually preferred it over any LS setup I'd used. Will have to check out Plasma... next machine will be a hackintosh or linux (if I can't get macos working well enough).
Seems like a situation where doing the right thing is luckily in the best interest of Microsoft.
I've been harsh to Microsoft in the past (for what I consider good reasons) but I want to give credit where credit is due - this is exactly the sort of behavior that many have been asking for from companies. Foresee a problem, don't do the thing.

It doesn't matter that there's an argument of this refusal being good business - truth is, big companies being confident that consumer outrage won't translate into enough market impact to say they shouldn't do the bad thing has become the norm. Nice to see an instance where that's the not the case.
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It's described right on the page: "Meshroom is a ... 3D Reconstruction Software..."
1 minute into the 6 minute video you can see that the program generates a point cloud from a set of photos.
At some point you have to run through the process with enough disengaged brain cells that you can think about what you're doing while doing it. With processes that only get used in emergencies, this doesn't happen often enough.

I suspect that's part of the secret behind Netflix Chaos Monkey. Every single process gets run multiple times a month, and it's normalized enough that it's not a constant panic mode thing.
Forgive me if I find it extremely hard to believe. We can't even build self-replicating robots inside a clean room laboratory. Actually, forget self-replication, I'll be impressed if someone builds a machine (sitting in a factory with external power) that takes plastic waste and spews usable plastic material, and is entirely made of plastic.
I'm not surgical staff. The checklist does include this discussion phase. Here's the English version: https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/450/SFHFT_-_Invasive_Pr...
I'd just like to chime and second the recommendation. Gameplay aside the story that it paints is amazingly well done and makes you think a lot about all the possible implications of something like that.
I agree at some point we may reach the point where this is an ethical issue, but if you had read the second paragraph in the article you would see that this is not happening as you've described:

>The brains did not regain anything resembling consciousness: There were no signs indicating coordinated electrical signaling, necessary for higher functions like awareness and intelligence.
keep it in the copy paste buffer, obviously /s.

For an even more extreme version, look at Perl6's atomic operators: https://docs.perl6.org/language/unicode_ascii#Atomic_operato... (or any other operators on this page for that matter).

IMO, it's not a "bad idea". Code is meant to be read, not written. If it renders the code more readable, then that's a win. But obviously, whether those symbols actually make the code more readable is debatable.
Chatbots aren’t as difficult to make as you think
No, the crime level is lower in all 23 US/Mexico border counties. And it's not "not the worst place in the world"; it's better than the both US average and the average of all non-border counties. The problem you are alluding to does not, in the actual FBI data, exist.
only as screwed as we allow ourselves to be.
authority is given by tacit consent of those subjected to it.
there are free and/or open CAs and the moment cert revocation becomes a big issue is when the current CAs lose authority and are succeded by grass roots CAs.

this will take some browser twiddling and brand conversion, as the current framework for HTTPS certification extends to whitelist and blacklists of ^unvetted^ certificates, in a manner homologous to emailserver blacklists.

in other words, you can roll your own but the current infrastructure can blacklist it. its a big job but not yet impossible.

or we could forget all this business about encrypting the protocol [HTTP>HTTPS] and simply encrypt the page moving via the protocol, when there is a concern for privacy.

that being said, the whole point of publishing to the web, is so that everyone can see it.

if you want to publish to an exclusive group, then use a different protocol, that is not clear in public, and not reliant on third party mechanisms.
Yes, a good nights rest is related to health and wellness. US.
I’m not sure if SPI has supported member projects with receiving government grants specifically, but they are setup to provide shared resources like accounting for open source projects.

https://www.spi-inc.org/
> And if you count the EU as one country, which is increasingly true

I guess you read different news than I do.
This project was designed to meet the internal needs of data science at Mozilla. Them releasing and developing it openly likely has no/little impact on the amount of energy going into their core products.
They can sell their shares.
Isn't this easy? Just sell your stock.
Measuring quality is also incredibly difficult, patient input is practically worthless.

Every time patients are asked to rate the quality of the care, they consistently rate simple feel-good care like massages, chiropractice, or just therapy as very good, but saved-your-lfe-operations get rated very badly, because the experience and recovery is often miserable. You live, but you don't feel good, so you rate the quality of the care after how you feel, even though you ought to rate it Five-star, A++++, would transplant a failed heart again!

So the rational person abandons subjective ratings and look at objective ratings, what's the medical outcome for a provider? Sure, that's better, but the quality of the outcome is incredibly dependent on the quality of the patients! It's a well-known fact that a positive attitude helps immensely with recovery, how do you measure that? How do you integrate that with an outcome measurement?
There's plenty of dirty cheap energy reserves to let this problem get a lot worse. India in particular is an interesting scenario, they have huge coal reserves and a large population still living without electricity. Coal will probably be used substantially for increasing their quality of life, that's a really big multiplier on a very dirty energy source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_by_country
Well, they can sell the stock. If you don't believe in the CEO and can't fire him, you get out. Sounds like same shareholders are trying to stage a coup, good luck with that.
Rizzoma looks interesting, thanks for sharing.

We are building a collaborative productivity tool at Taskade (https://taskade.com), in part inspired by Google Wave. Would love to get your thoughts!