skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I reckon probably most. I made Bulk Resize Photos (https://bulkresizephotos.com) because resizing to particular dimensions was a problem I'd run in to continually for years. (Eg. creating different sizes of icons for mobile apps, but also other situations that I don't even remember)
A restored pair that illustrates the appeal -

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/122170
The story mentions modern day successors in the form of winklepickers which were apparently a highlight of 1950's/1960's fashion [0][1]. I'm predicting a resurgence in the early 2020's until the TSA declares them a menace to airport security at which point they fall out of favour again until the early 2050's.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winklepicker

[1] https://gucinari.co.uk/shoes/boots/the-history-of-winklepick...
Is his question not valid?
We already have hiring discrimination based on gender, race, intelligence and who knows what else... It turns out many of these traits have a large genetic factor (there’s obviously nature vs. nurture ambiguity here too).

The solution is to ban discrimination. Banning a technology that has the power to actually make the world a better place through better medical interventions is not a trade off I want to make in the name of ending genetic discrimination (I write this as an African American).
Generalizing even when you are only using your solution once can sometimes be useful.

When you know that certain information should not be used in a correct solution, a more abstract approach can make sure that information stays hidden.

A really simple example: for-loops in Python 'leak' their index variable. Stick that loop inside a local function, and then you know that you can not accidentally make use of the index variable later.

A more complicated example is deliberately coding to an interface that carefully exposes only what should be exposed. Eg using a map or filter higher-order function.
The harsh truth of working at Google is that in the end you are moving protobufs from one place to another. They have the most talented people in the world but those people still have to do some boring engineering work.
If you ban sites with paywalls and those which show ads, what’s left?
It’s different in the country and far worse. The consolidation of all things has vaporized advertising business in small markets.

That means there is nothing. No daily/weekly newspaper, no radio. Just Jesus and a clear channel affiliate playing a national soundtrack. (And they are fiscal timebombs too.)

Basically, you live in a different country if you aren’t in a top-50/too-100 market. That’s one of the big drivers of reactionary politics.
Clam flash crash forces Poloniex to socialize $14m in losses–what happened
If you are looking for a more ‘humane’ method for mice and rats check out the Automatic Trap. As far as I can tell it’s near instant and doesn’t suffer from the prolonged suffering issues of glue, poison, and flip traps.

https://www.automatictrap.com/
We saw this coming years ago. It’s chilling to see it implemented and modeled so clearly and a tool of efficiency and oppression. It’s verry ccp
In some cases... One thing I think also contributes is that a lack of access creates want. Having instant access to things makes them a bit less magical. I notice this a lot with my son, he has access to tons of media so he takes most of them for granted. However we don't allow unsupervised youtube so in his mind it's become the forbidden fruit that his friends all have. Every time he gets to watch some gaming streamer he gets really excited and lights up in the same way that we did when that 12th song the radio never played came on :)
Conspiracies about le ebil Russia are always relevant to every topic at hand. Get with the times.
ColorKitty: Find palettes from pictures
Interesting, did anyone ever try to massively analyze DNA by collecting, I don't know, hairs or used cutlery or other waste that contains DNA?
Don't ask questions while we search for Russian trolls under our bed!

P.S. Maybe you are a Russian troll yourself? Hhm?
> All these are quite well known but I wonder whether the contra-evidence is also as known https://www.eweek.com/it-management/ibm-and-black-history-in....

Did you intentionally link to a slideshow about IBM and Black history? If so... respectfully, you may have misunderstood what “IBM and the Holocaust” is about (or perhaps what the Holocaust was).

Implying that IBM’s good deeds in your link are “the other side” of the magnitude of IBM’s support of Nazi Germany is a very unbalanced comparison.
> Yes they pinky promised not to collect all of your data. So will you email me your social security number if I promise not to use it?

That's dense. If you use Apple email, they also collect your social security number if someone sends it to you, and they (and the Chinese government for Chinese users) have the ability to reset your password and gain access to any service is sign up for, despite pinky promises otherwise, and Apple's software has permission to read absolutely everything you do on your phone. In just the same way, what they have the ability to do exceeds what they tell their customers they do. What the app actually collected was specified, and there remains no evidence that they did anything more than they told the panelists.

> Yes there is nothing wrong with breaching a contract....

There is certainly nothing evil about giving users what they want in spite of the whims of a capricious (and actually evil) middleman.

> That’s not how public/private key pairs work and the article said no such thing.

Apple encrypted user's iCloud emails and iCloud data in a way that Apple still has access to for search. It is Apple's keys that matter in this case, not the user's keys for communicating with Apple.

The article said exactly such thing:
"Before a switch announced in January, all encryption keys for Chinese users were stored in the U.S., which meant authorities needed to go through the U.S. legal system to request access to information. Now the situation is based on Chinese courts and a gatekeeper that’s owned by the government [emphasis added]."
The problem is that most of the people who are watching don't know that "code red" has no real meaning, and they may decide what action to take based on what the TV station says. Those actions could end up being costly and unnecessary.

As the article says toward the end:

> Other meteorologists aren’t a fan of proprietary alert days to begin with, expressing reluctance toward alerts that don’t originate from the National Weather Service.

> “To me, the best option is communicating the risks issued by the Storm Prediction Center,” wrote Kit Cloninger, weekend meteorologist at KSNB in Hastings, Neb. “It’s simple, and consistency is key with broadcasting. Otherwise, viewers may wonder why one station issued an ‘alert day’ while another one didn’t.”

> Jamie Moker, a University of Arizona researcher working on improving weather modeling, agrees.

> “Branding is not universal across all stations,” he wrote. After all, the National Weather Service already has more than 100 types of weather alerts it can issue. Moker argued that the solution isn’t for stations to create more alerts but to work on communicating existing ones.
MixKit: Beautiful Art and Illustration
What's interesting to me here is not the ACL thing, it's how in a way 'straight forward' this all seems to be.

It's the large architecture of a fairly basic system, done I supposed 'professionally'.

I'm curious to know how this works organizationally. What kind of architects involved because this system would have to interact with any number of others, so how do they do requirements gathering? Do they just 'have experience' and 'know what needs to be done' or is this something socialized with 'all the other teams'?

And how many chefs in that kitchen once the preparation starts? Because there's clearly a lot of pieces. Do they have just a few folks wire it out and then check with others? Who reviews designs for such a big thing?

Or was all of this developed organically, over time?
This is so rude and self-aggrandizing: "Anne Wojcicki is 45 minutes late, something so encoded in her habits as 23andMe’s CEO that employees have stopped complaining about it. They know it’s hardwired. They know it’s hardwired. On a Thursday morning in April, her team is waiting patiently as she swirls into the company’s headquarters"

From the opening sentence, I already don't like her.
That is clearly not what I said.
Me too. I started with my first crystal radio at age 11 with a germanium rectifier purchased from an electronics store and a phone headset donated from the landlord who worked at the telephone company and wanted to support my hobby.

Moved on to Shortwave Listening, QSL cards and at age 15 got my Technician license at the FCC office on Varick St in lower Manhattan because I didn't know any other hams who could administer the Novice license. I think Adafruit is now around the corner from where that office used to be?

I built tons of stuff from salvaged components, did lots of experiments that didn't pan out, accidentally discovered that the inductive spike from a big solenoid powered by a 9V battery is enough to shock! I went on to get degrees in EE and SE.

I firmly believe that right now it's easier than it ever was to get into the hobby. All those old parts are still available and tons of exciting ones are now easy to purchase, with tons of documentation. No more desoldering unknown transistors and playing around with resistors to get the bias right.

I think we all have our motivations for getting started and continuing. There won't be any shortage of curious kids getting involved and building weird stuff. Just take a look at the Arduino forums online, electronics as a hobby is exploding, it's just that people are getting started in a different way.
How is this a relevant reply? I offered further details about my fine-grained strategies and multi-faceted custom solution, and your response is to offer a random set of blindingly obvious facts about SSO and SIWA.
No, it’s an article by and for anyone with western values. You know, the values that resulted in 99% of the innovations in this world.
Proof #1001 that being an "investigative journalist" is a get-out-of-jail card and a license to break the law.

Wish I was a journalist. :(
But you can reduce any job to this can't you? Pretty much all engineering is just moving some strings around.
In the fading days of the Soviet Union they put away dissidents in insane asylums where they were pressured into giving up their USSR citizenship and leaving for the West. While inhumane, no one ever got beaten or treated as poorly as the modern Russian police treats its opponents. That was partially why 1991 was a bloodless revolution, the USSR mostly abided by its own laws, minus the democracy part. I have a feeling history will judge the current regime worse than the Communists.
Where is over here? In all the Western countries I'm familiar with, journalists are free to say bad things about Google and Facebook and the NSA, and it happens with some regularity.
This seems like a really silly point of view: it would be similar to saying that anyone ever reading a novel would not be able to write their own.
Why should I build an app the way you want?

You are entitled to not use my app. I am entitled to not care.
I found there are many other cruel traps. There's even a pretty expensive one that electrocutes them for 2 minutes.

"This humane trap kills rodents using a high-voltage shock and since rats are able to restart their hearts, the shock is applied for 2 minutes to ensure higher kill rates."

I feel like this must exist solely to satisfy some weird revenge or morbid urge. It's way more cruel, complicated, expensive, and probably less effective than a regular spring trap.
India’s largest domain registrar goes insolvent, gets suspended
I dunno. We're not anywhere near the level of China (here in the USA).

To achieve that, we'd need

1. The fourth estate to become a government agency (functionally)

2. Facebook to have government agents on-site that employees have to follow the orders of

3. The existence of a "department of cultural well-being" with total authority to regulate art, media, news, etc

4. Laws on the books outlawing esoteric orwellian concepts like "distributing harmful rumors" or "disrupting the cultural well-being of the United States."

Certainly any one of those steps would have me in front of the capital with a big bottle of water and a picket sign, ready to settle in for the long one.

China is very far removed from us.
As someone who has programmed tabulators, I can confirm this is correct. Once IBM delivered the machine, customer personnel were able to wire the panel to perform calculations and print reports.
> not despite their impracticality but because of it

This isn't part of the definition of a shibboleth, as I understand it. A shibboleth is simply a marker of group identity (the original case was the speaker's accent when pronouncing the word 'shibboleth').

You seem to be referring to something more analogous to peacock feathers, where hewing to some practice in spite of its impracticality signals the depth of one's commitment.
It sounds like a literal (machine?) translation from English, "the chickens are scheduled to be sacrificed" or similar.
The distinguishing feature I see compared to other systems is the ACL ordering and consistency, which is indeed difficult to do at scale. Looks like Spanner is doing most the heavy lifting, great use case for the database.
They are rare compared to every other desktop/laptop computer, they still have touchpads and really why would you smear your screen with your sweaty fingers when you can avoid that?
I think there is a lot of tinkering available still. Raspberry pis and IOT are areas where you can really go nuts.

I do hope we’ll see hardware open up again, and maybe we will with the increasing focus on sustainability.
Interesting.

In any case, my argument is basically that some people prefer bigger cars; but Europeans don't get to act on that preference as much because their fuel is more expensive. So you'd see different cars, even if they preferences were exactly the same. (They are not exactly the same.)
The whole idea of a development certificate is that it is suppose to be used for internal use where a corporation can deploy an app to employees that can do all sort of weirdness.
Except most of the key combinations are not intuitive. I could never guess them like I could with a compose key.
If “computer says so” and it’s been shown to be right more often than my doctor, I will trust the computer more. I already have very little trust in what doctors say, because their error rates are pretty high.
Nonsense. I don’t know of a single person afraid to express their political views in western countries, no matter how extreme or bizarre.
If she wants to make good use of the money, why wait?
The longer they're hoarding it, the longer it stays away from people who need it.
> proper legal process forces them to do so

That's not what I'm talking about. The platforms need to create a new form of "legal process" where these issues are defined and adjudicated in an open process. Google et al are de facto a new layer of government, and they need to act like it. Currently, they are trying to act like a "(mostly) benevolent dictatorship" and finding out that the hard way that you can't actually please everyone. The proper way to handle calls for censorship/banning/etc is to tell them to take their grievances to the formalized judicial process and/or argue for changing that process in the formalized, open "legislature".

For a much better explanation, I highly recommend watching Raph Koster's talk (my previous [2]). Even though it was at GDC and initially talks about VR and MMOs, the talk is not actually about games; it's about the ethical and social responsibilities of creating social spaces, and the may ways we've tried to solve their problems in the past.
When I read stories like this, I always think of the systemic factors that are creating this behavior; that America, and indeed many countries in the world, do not have the social safety nets to take care of its own people when they can't work anymore. It would be better and more efficient for a nation as a whole to take care of its children so that they can choose their own avenues of success rather than needing to choose between two hard choices. Imagine where mankind could be if we had everyone being able to have the basics, and ample free time to think, to explore, to experiment, to create. I dream to see such a world, and to see the human progress that results.
Well sure there has been shitty code that has allowed doublespend or unintended transfers...but the satoshi nakamoto Blockchain did solve the problem of double spend on a decentralized peer to peer network, do you disagree?

Take the current status of publicly traded companies, they require a lot of middlemen to manage these centralized stock ledgers, including, the corporate general counsel, underwriters/investment banks, stock trust, stock exchanges, and stock brokers/trading apps.

Each one of those middlemen takes a significant slice of the pie, whereas Blockchain would allow corporatations to bypass all these middlemen and allow stock to be issued and traded P2P.

Is there a reason you believe the existing centralized stock ledgers of public companies and system of middlemen is more advantageous than having P2P stock on a distributed ledger/network?
I'm 19 years old and I left the US because everything is so expensive. There's just no way to live on your own or even comfortably without a high paying degree. I now live in Eastern Europe on $400 a month. My standard of living is many times higher than if I was living in the US.
Standard Oil was broken up into lots of pieces. Esso -> Exxon and Standard Oil of New York -> Mobil were just two pieces.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-evolution-standard-oi...
Cannabis Is Going to Go Mainstream
You might want to label your comment "irony" more clearly.
Um, not really. Care to elaborate? If something is available open-sourced we're typically free to use it, as long as we are abiding by the license conditions.
Neither is the 2059 Genetic Equality Program, described in this op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/opinion/ted-chiang-future...
I find how the Fourier Transform works so simply in multiple dimensions as long as you have cartesian sampling is where the transform starts to shine. Just apply along one dimension then the others and because it's a linear unitary operator they are incredibly robust and it makes no difference which order you apply them. Then you can combine them with other measurement types in higher dimensional measurements (e.g. a relaxation period) and still just mindlessly apply the Fourier Transform along the frequency dimensions (first since it's so robust) and get the desired result.

There isn't any difference in the Fourier analysis between spectroscopy and imaging. In imaging you're just encoding position as a frequency and if you enforce Cartesian sampling the analysis remains the same, including combining extra dimensions. Spectroscopy and flow imaging experiments can get pretty crazy with 5-6 encoding dimensions limited only by your patience and instrument drift over longer periods (weeks).

The differences between spectroscopy and MRI are primarily application driven and then because it is tricker to apply precise magnetic field gradient pulses vs precisely timing RF pulses. Combined with the fact people are a lot bigger, more impatient and more delicate than test tubes while imaging can also be far less quantitative drives the design of very different NMR/MRI pulse sequences. In imaging, the speed gains and human placed limits on gradient slew rates (Audio frequency dB/dt induces currents in neurons) often justify the trouble of non-Cartesian and/or incomplete sampling.

If you want a next step for MRI signal processing, look into multiple-coil reconstruction techniques and how they not only combine the spacial sensitivity profiles of the coils with gradient imaging, without knowing the actual sensitivity profiles a-priori. Pretty much every medical MRI machine uses multiple receive coils to reduce imaging times.

Note: My user name is proton gamma though I left the field mid-career to do sw development. (A far better career though not as exciting if you love physics like I do.)

(edits: grammar, probably still missed a few typos)
There's a distinct difference between time at indicated airspeed (which is what calculations based on fuel consumption per unit time are based around) and the ground distance you'd cover. Ground-dwellers - that is, most readers - are comfortable with miles per gallon (or, say, litres per hundred kilometres), but it's a useless number as an aircraft spec.
Really hoping, but also expecting MS is doing this too internally right now, it's the only pain point left for me on Windows.

Great to see how this sort of thing could feel.
I did the same, but on reel-to-reel. Finally got a boom box, then switched to cassette. I remember the dual deck boom boxes, threw the recording industry into a tizzy.
You can correlate, directly, the "Western value system" with 99% of innovations in this world?

Wow! I have questions!

1. What is the west?

2. What is the homogeneous value system of the west, in its entirety?

3. What is list of the inventions this value system?

4. How do we know it was these values that generated these innovations instead of other causes?

As you might expect, I am extremely skeptical! I'm particularly curious how you're going to deal what I view as a very non homogeneous concept of "Western values" (it is news to me to hear them lumped together like that), and where you'll draw your border on "The West." For example, surely your West definition must include the Arabian peninsula, for giving us mathematics, 0, and eye surgery. Surely also it must include China for giving us gunpowder and extensive bureaucracy? Oh and Japan for innovations in education systems!
Well. Seeing that you were arguing that you didn’t want to use a “random email” that could be created in five minutes. Your whole spiel about not wanting to use a random email created by Apple as if a troll couldn’t create a random email on at least a dozen different platforms makes your whole argument against using Apple’s randomly generated email kind of nonsensical.

Besides, why use any third party identity provider if you are still managing passwords? You said that you needed an email address to send a password reset link.
I "run" a makerspace...

I put that in quotes because its barely running, and I've basically quit.

Wealth innequality is extreme. The people who can afford it buy their own 3D printer or laser, do. The people who can't afford them, can't afford to pay dues.

Everybody wants to donate their broken junk to the space, but nobody wants to give us cash to pay the rent.