skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then there are the constant pushere for social controll, who claim to do it for for decency and human kindness, but when the situation boils down the ingredients, you find its mostly because controlling other peoples lives, resources and creations is what they really want.

Yeah, with their things like, "Women get bodily autonomy because it's part of the full spectrum of human rights" and "you can't just fire gay people or say they can't be married because you think it's gross" or "maybe inviting someone who openly says women can't contribute to science because they're better off breeding is a bad look for a science conference."

Boy do they sound unreasonable and controlling. They just want your money, clearly.

> The radicalisation on 4chan, was produced by all those external echo chamber snuffing out that little speakers corner for weirdos. Reddit, Tumblr, all that comercial ilk, you serve so gladly, which aggregates people by doing the equivalent of a medieval mob ralley - created this nightmare.

"Mean liberals and corporations radicalized me," is not really that compelling an argument. If we looked at your youtube play history I suspect we'd find a plurality (if not an outright majority) of your time spent is watching lie-merchant radicalizers like Crowder or "skeptical" material.

> Of course if you would ever admit that, all those "nice, constructive people, wanting only the best for people" while blindly shoving there ideology forwards, no matter what the consequences, would become all edgy.

It's not "blindly", the attempt to de-normalize this behavior by shunning it is pretty tactical. It's the least violent way to proceed. It involves saying, "You're not welcome in my house, you're not welcome at my events, and I'm going to do my best within the bounds of the law to see to it you don't profit from my work."

The fact that this is interpreted as folks losing their careers or having their lives ruined is pretty interesting to me. The shoe is on the other foot now, and suddenly people realize that maybe words and ideas can hurt. Suddenly "free speech" (which is a code for, "forbidding social consequences for bad or unfriendly behavior") is very important to folks, many of which not so long ago said that Occupy was unlawfully assembling on public spaces and weren't worth listening to.
Right, it took me a while to figure that out half a year ago. Didn't realize bios was set to efi only and memtest wouldn't boot from USB. I wonder if that would require a major rewrite or if it's mostly just writing new bootstrap code. Since it's 32 bit code with PAE it's doing funky things like relocating itself at runtime to access more than 4 GB of ram.
Well, there was the infamous case of gcc 4.0.0 (No, I don't have a white beard)
This is a more interesting tidbit about os/2 than the entire article
My experience has been that doctors are terrible statisticians
12 is the current JDK version. OpenJDK has no notion of LTS (e.g. you will see no mention of 11 being an LTS on the project page: https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/11/ nor any special designation compared to JDK 12's page), and all versions are equal.

Java's LTS means something that could perhaps be quite different from LTS in other projects. LTS is a service offered by companies to arbitrary JDK versions of their choice (e.g. Azul offers extended support for versions other than those Oracle does); there is nothing special about the development, testing, effort or focus put into those versions. In addition, people can choose to maintain OpenJDK update projects, as Red Hat does for 11. Anyway, JDK 12 is simply the current JDK version, and there is no reason to use an old version for a technical discussion -- there is nothing more stable about it, or any other technical difference -- even if companies offer extended support for it. (I work on OpenJDK at Oracle)
I use Basic in the form of VBA to automate Excel, and VB.NET on projects that are already written in it (that I don't have time to port to C#). In other words, I use it when I'm forced to. I almost always end up resenting it, a little or a lot. I don't like the verbosity, among other things. And VBA in particular lacks a lot of what I would consider essential infrastructure.

Not to shit on my early days learning programming. Basic was my 2nd language, and even after years away, I was able to jump right back into it. But once you learn how to walk, crawling loses its appeal.
I believe he's saying you can't accuse an unrelated third party of stealing the lyrics from you, because you don't own them in the first place.
If you had a really rock-solid alibi - something that meant there was not even a remote possibility that you were the offender, would you still not bring it up at all to the Police? You'd go all the way to court, months later, and only then bring it up?
This is the direct result of 20+ years of piracy. Most companies realized they not only didn't want to have to deal with having to re-create serial number generation systems every 6 months, but also the attorney fees involved in chasing bigger organizations making money on it.

SaaS is a great solution: a more steady and reliable income stream and no piracy concerns.
Same here, laptop as main screen. At work I have an external monitor that I put above the laptop (not right or left), so my sight moves up & down. I’m often in meetings or I work when at home, so using the laptop as main screen for me reduces changes.

Edit: for the same reason I use the laptop keyboard and trackpad, no external ones.
Many people (including myself), don't want a laid back work culture. I want to kill myself for the firm, and work as hard as humanly possible. I think I just derive the most happiness from working (though I do like drinking as well). I know a lot of other people like this. Maybe you can call us brainwashed or whatever, but this is how myself and most of my co-workers are.

I don't think it's an accident that America is the most rich and powerful country in the world. Or that American Tech dominant the world (except for China). It's because Americans have a protestant work ethic, they're willing to suffer and kill themselves for greatness.

This of course isn't for everyone. But as a highly ambitious person who wants to win no matter the cost, I couldn't imagine ever working in Europe.
Even worse when a generator goes out (or is destroyed). It can take months to get a new one. Hope we don't have multiple generators go out at once. They're not just sitting on a shelf somewhere waiting to be picked up.
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Show HN: I created a website to compare online service security, need your help
A little more than a year ago, I made this website that compares the privacy and security of online services. After getting a ton of feedback (especially on Reddit), I have made a lot of changes, and I'm looking for some feedback on the new site.

Anybody is free to use it, so I thought that I would share it here, and see what people think about it. It's called https://Secured.fyi, which is completely redesigned from the ground up, it took me a lot of time to do that.

Looking forward to hearing what you think.
I recommend this lecture to everyone I know. Absolutely crucial to watch it and be aware.
Metal 1.0 was ultra-limited; it was more MVP than anything else.

It was done exactly for the Apple to be "first". The initial Vulkan release was more comprehensive than Metal 2 in 2017.
Statements like that ring a bit hollow considering the number of security patches that Microsoft has to provide on a ongoing basis for their most "modern" Windows OS, and the thousands to tens of thousands of potential holes still left to be patched there. Out of necessity that patching is just never going to end, in other words, so Windows will never really be secure. In fact, it may just be about time to bring something like OS/2 back from the grave.
It’s my understanding they are metric’d on wins....
Keep your types small and your bugs smaller
It’s no different then the proverbially 10x programmer landing a consulting gig for literally 10x the compensation of a nobody.
I read the comment as referring to the fourth estate in general, rather than people who are journalists in particular.
I can't imagine ever convincing a suit as to why they should pay for it.

...no other time mechanism could record the trades happening reliably without duplicates.

Start with the core value added, describe the world with and without in cost/benefit terms, and work from there.
How resilient has the cellular phone network been in this outage?

How resilient is the municipal water system in an outage like this?

Do most people in Argentina and Uruguay cook with (piped/tank) gas or electric ranges?
Nope undergrad. UWaterloo just has a special co-op program that extends the degree and fits in six four-month internships in alternating school and work, for a total of two years of work experience by graduation.
Jobs are an undesirable side effect of a business, not the goal. With or without globalism, that is and always will be true.
No, your defense will be weaker if you talk because the prosecution will use your words against you. They're not going to give you virtue points for being kind to them and not bothering them with things like asserting your right to an attorney. That's not their job.

That's exactly what defense attorneys and police themselves advise. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mvkgnp/law-professor-poli...
I don't understand how 2 cameras on a 20K+ robot is cheaper/better/easier than 20+ fixed cameras that look for changes to the floor.
Transportation is the biggest difference between the us and a lot of the rest of the world. Switzerland is the size of a small New England state. Mass transit is a tough thing to scale.

That said I’ve noticed that a lot of the jobs in the us that would be considered “glamorous” are by and large the lowest paying jobs with the longest hours. Looking past the status of a company and career and looking into the practical details of a job will make finding a fulfilling and well paying job easier. All in all I think the article is not really apples to apples but has some valid points.
Eye witness testimony is crap too. Even if you could answer pointed questions about your whereabouts in any given evening using Google maps, human recollection of events and their details is not great.

There are questions I am capable of answering with the police but I must accept that most questions I answer could be wrong, or another witness could be wrong and now the police can use my evidence to accuse me off being a liar... Which happens to innocent people in the US because our prison system isn't about Justice, it's about maximizing the slave count in the private prison system.
That is an interesting idea.

From the article in this post:

"When the two types of apostrophes were converted to the dots and dashes used in Morse code, they spelled out the words 'Red Handed.'"

I'm aware of the history of Genius (formerly Rap Genius) so I found the translation of the code to be entertaining and mildly ironic.
Is Switzerland producing anything like SpaceX? Or Google? Or Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Tesla, Stripe, Y Combinator?

More importantly, would we have produced these with their system? If so, then great, but let's see the evidence.

No problem to have a work culture preference, and things could definitely be improved(!!), but I think we're kidding ourselves that there are no tradeoffs and everything would simply be better. And that we'd still have the same rate of innovation.

Also a lot of people like that stores are open on Sundays.
How I moved to another country, used its health and social insurance to achieve a positive balance. Then I shame someone who paid $3M in income tax on their not-so-risk-free income that could turn from $21M to $-21M very quickly.

Really?
What does your company do, and how do you contribute to it?
> police have a job to do and that is to make a case against you

...in the US.

If you're in England and you didn't do it then it's normally a good idea to clear things up. You can have a solicitor with you. Of course, if you've been arrested then you should make use of the solicitor and follow their advice - which will usually be "explain what happened and where you were at the time", unless you did in fact do it where their advice might be "explain in these terms what happened", or "just say 'no comment' to every question".
The simulation hypothesis and the ultimate religion
Well the law in some jurisdictions says explicitly

> it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court

As in the jury are allowed to take into account the fact that you did not reveal information at the first opportunity as a negative.
I've used LaTeX for years, written part of a textbook and a whole dissertation in it, and I don't like it.

There are two good parts to the TeX ecosystem in my opinion.

- Typesetting math formulae. Even Word agrees that it's superior to point-and click for this use case (unlike our Blackboard online learning environment ... *sigh*)
- Plain-text based. You can use your favourite editor, you can put it in version control, diff it, etc.

But for writing text-based documents such as lecture notes in subjects that are not mathematics, I really don't feel comfortable with the usability. For example,

- Getting figures, page breaks etc. where I want them.
- Underlining things is suprisingly hard (and not intuituve).
- A marco preprocessor that has many of the disadvantages of that in C.
- Confusing error messages, stuff randomly doesn't build.
- Package X doesn't work with package Y (unless you include package W with option Z first) type problems.

I would switch in a heartbeat if there were something with the advantages of TeX, but not the disadvantages. It seems to me like neither of LaTeX3, luaTeX or XeTeX has got enough traction to get everyone to switch.

For things less than 50 pages or so, I've actually moved back to word, which if you buy the proper version rather than the 365 one is surprisingly good. I've found that in practice, for things where I care a lot how they look (which is pretty much everything), unless it's very mathematics-heavy I get the job done in just over half the time in Word usually.
i believe 1 hour run time. not sure about charge time.
I wonder how many companies Google has wounded/killed with their search infopanels. For example, yesterday I searched for “speedtest” expecting Ookla’s speedtest.net to be the top result. Nope, now it’s a one-click speed test offered by Google at the top. Great for users, devastating for the sites at the top of the SERPs.
Having hand built and written software for a lot of drones, gpsd is not mission critical in most drones and I dunno where they get that claim.

You only use gpsd for embedded hardware when you have no drivers OR you're in 2017.

As for Android... again that capability is not important to the internet. It's important to Google cheaply getting a feature launched. This seems to me to be specifically ignoring the anti-corporate-centric intent of ESR's post to elevate his importance.

This essay is important without these sub-discussions. I fully agree with ESR that capitalism fails to sustain the internet and ruthlessly rides the backs of maybe four dozen skilled individuals in the world who, when they're gone, will be sorely missed and the world will suddenly become more expensive if others don't take up the call.

I just don't think ESR is in that critical group. He might be in a group of people writing widely used software. And that's great and important. But it really doesn't seem like what he himself is discussing.

> You can narrowly define "core networking or service contributions" to exclude everyone by Linus Torvalds and Vint Cerf, but that's boring.

Both of whom are well compensated for their work, no? Seems to me like we should look more critically at who is not being served by capitalism and help them since their work has value.
> I don't think it's an accident that America is the most rich and powerful country in the world. Or that American Tech dominant the world (except for China)

You were the winners of a World War that left your competitors in scorched ruins, while you hadn't suffered much physical damage.

In the multi-stranded bundle of reasons for American dominance, this is the big one.
What if the police aren't questioning you about what they say? Your alibi can place you where they want to place you.
> Mass transit is a tough thing to scale.

Is it? Russia is the largest country on the planet and they have had mass transit figured out for nearly a century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Russia
Research? Complex visual computations?
Yep, you certainly can. 'In-betweening', like superresolution, has been a GAN thing for years now, because triplets of frames are a clean dataset but you also care more about perceptual plausibility than pixel error. People use in-betweening GANs to make things like 60 FPS anime. (Not entirely sure why, but they do.)
I deny support for NTPsec specifically because I think it's an idea who's time has passed and now soldiers on because of inertia rather than good sense. It's sort of a meme that any project ending in "sec" is vestigal.

So no: they don't get my support. Why would they? Same with DNSsec. Useless project, please desist.
Genius also offers significant lyric annotation and crowd sources unpublished lyrics - that I imagine is what they are protective about.
Masonite 2.2 Released (a Python web framework)
If "randomers" are developers who are repelled by the proprietary nature of their graphics API "randomers" may well dictate the scope of the project.
In the US: you don't ever talk to the police for any reason unless you have a lawyer with you telling you what to say.

You're completely right about the UK though. If you didn't do it and police are asking if you did it it's normally much easier to just tell them that you didn't do it, and this has very little risk.

The risk comes from people who have committed the offence, but who think that it's a minor issue and think that just explaining it to police will mean they can go.

If the police stop you and you have a self-defence baseball bat in the boot of your car then you need to say "it's for playing baseball with the kids". As soon as you say "it's for self-defence, just to scare people off, I'd never hit anyone with it" that converts it into an offence and police are a bit touchy about weapons at the moment.
There is nuance to that - simply remaining silent is not the same thing as asserting silence, and is not as effective.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/when-how-invoke-your...
I need this device and was thinking about making my own. One of my cats is athletic and jumps up to the second floor balcony to get in via one of our bedroom windows. It is very easy at 3:00 AM to accidentally let the cat in while it has a still alive mouse, rat, bunny, chipmunk, etc..
The UK specifically rules that failing to speak to the police can be held against you. (You still shouldn't speak to the police, even in the UK.)

Every country is somewhat different in its rules for how a suspect can be questioned, what inferences can be drawn, etc. But the advice for everywhere is still the same: shut up.
If you have a rock solid alibi, like you're on video tape somewhere else while the crime happened and the police know exactly when the crime happened then you'll get off whether you talked to the police or not.

But it's even hard to figure out whether or not you have a rock solid alibi because you don't necessarily know the timing of the crime.

Also plenty of people have gone to jail for 20 years in the u.s. who have rock solid alibis(like they were in another city).
> America is the most rich and powerful country in the world

Source needed.
>Every defense attorney I've talked to says they've had a hundreds of cases where they wished their client hadn't talked to the cops

It may be good advice, but this logic is clearly confirmation bias. A person who talked to the cops and succeeded in convincing them of their innocence would not have a need for a defense attorney.
I’m not sure transportation is as important as, say, healthcare or work/life balance.
One of the things I continue to find disturbing when interacting with the markets we work in (e.g. self-driving & other highly-automated systems) is the growing hope that simulation will somehow bail people out of having to do real world validation, let them take significant shortcuts, or make assurance claims that can't really be made.

We deal in formal verification for some aspects of what we do, and that lead to a conversation that went roughly like this:

AV Exec: "Can we use formal methods to prove that our simulator is as good as reality?"

Me: "No. You can use formal methods to prove your simulator implementation more closely adheres to your simulation model."

AV Exec: "Isn't that the same thing?"

Me: "No. Your simulation model is definitely wrong."

AV Exec: (looking at me both disappointed and despondent)

Me: "Look. It's important to understand that simulation isn't creating an approximation with a known correspondence to reality. Simulation is fabricating an entirely new reality with an opaque correlation to our reality."

AV Exec: "Then how am I supposed to use simulation to prove our system is safe?"

Me: "You can't."

Despair on both sides of the table ensues.
The US has a population 40 times higher, that's not really a fair comparison.

Also: Nestle, Logitech? Just because they don't have shiny frontmen doesn't mean they aren't worthy.

Google also has a large AI research department in Switzerland.
You would potentially bring this up to the police, after consulting with your lawyer and ascertaining the precise language and limits of what you'll say. You won't be doing this on the fly without consulting with a lawyer. This doesn't require you to wait until a court date to have any statement made on behalf of yourself.
This is from yesterday's (June the 15th) workshop on self-supervised learning at ICML. The video of this talk can be seen here: https://www.facebook.com/icml.imls/videos/2030095370631729/ (not sure if the video is also available on other platforms than facebook)
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Only if you aren't human. On the other hand...

>You might make mistakes when explaining where you were at the time of a crime that the police interpret as lies; the officer talking to you could misremember what you say much later

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mvkgnp/law-professor-poli...
Have you been there? I really don’t think Russia has it figured out better than the US. Russia’s infrastructure is certainly not close to the level of Europe/Japan or China.
> Switzerland is the size of a small New England state. Mass transit is a tough thing to scale.

If tomorrow all of Europe and Asia was unified into one giant continent-spanning country, would building mass transit there suddenly become more difficult?
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> well I guess we have to do it NVidia’s way now

Nobody is, DXRT is a specification that any vendor is free to choose how they implement. NVidia are the only vendor who currently implement it.
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