skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm posting this site as I nearly did a double take reading this startup's description, boasting about their Facial Recognition features. They talk about it many times on their homepage:

"When parents upload a photo of their camper, our facial recognition software scans each photo posted by camp and notifies parents when photos of their camper are available"

A friend's child is attending a YMCA summer camp that is unfortunately using this startup's software. The camp asked to submit a photo of their child's face, and now it lives on who knows how many servers, serving as training sets, etc.

How does this pass in 2019?
We support 30 developers on 10gb ram and 4 cores. That said, we are probably a year and a half behind version wise and only use it for its SCM capabilities.
Someone's going to have to pay for hosting that data, though. The domain name is only a small part of the picture.
What specifically is poor?

I've never used the API's -- only official MTA apps which presumably draw on the same data source -- but it covers all trains, and the train times have always seemed entirely accurate to me, if interpreted as "this is the minimum time the next train could take to get to you, from its current distance".

The apps certainly do take account of altered service (same as Google Maps does). Elevator closings are reported too, no crowdsourcing needed [1]. These are all official, non-crowdsourced sources.

Crowding is really the only interesting thing in my opinion -- but although I don't know of any apps that do it, it seems relatively easy to deduce from train history and known average hourly station usage per day, which is predictable enough to give decent results. But I'm not sure how often this provides value though -- how often is a station/train so crowded that you'll choose a viable alternate means of transportation in advance? Not often, in my experience, which is probably why apps don't offer it.

[1] https://advisory.mtanyct.info/EEoutage/EEOutageReport.aspx?S...
Start with the HUGE failure rate in software development. There is no provable reliability and/or costing, nor is there any form of standardization beyond RFCs and "best practices." One might even doubt that it's even possible for there to be standards like you see in capital-E Engineering due to the unique and complex nature of general computing systems.

To sum up, software development requires too much trust, way more than would be acceptible in an aircraft carrier or airplane or nuclear bomb. Or refrigerator.
How many parts of Settings do you actually like then? I think that almost every part falls into one of these categories for me.
What’s Wrong with Agile Frameworks?
You also have to remember that our brains have millions of years of evolution to learn from, so we have had far more than thousands and thousands of images and other perceptions recognized by the DNA of our ancestors, which gets passed down to us.
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An astrobiologist tries cooking in Antarctica at -70ºC
> Charge of an electron is a concrete fact

It's only a fact in one's imagination, as concrete as a fact about properties of any other thing that can only be measured indirectly.

We have no way to directly measure the charge of one electron, so it's a fanciful claim, or at best an approximation, and not a concrete fact.

Claims about wires can be verified.
> 0F is pretty dang cold out, and 100 is pretty dang hot out

That is pretty subjective and no better than Celsius. Anything below 30F is pretty dang cold for me and anything above 85F is too hot
We are running it on a 2vCore, 8GB RAM vm. Works good for our ~10 concurrent users on peak. The ~120CI builds per day are running on other hosts though.
Wow, I assumed that there was so much water surrounding Greenland that it would be impossible for a fox to swim or get there by themselves. Any idea how much of the path to Greenland from the poles and Canada is covered by ice and how far is pure water?
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Much of my car's wear and tear is from age, so I can discount some amount of that that. Free parking is plentiful in 95% of both cities.

Driving 1 person is already close to the price of a train ticket. Driving 2 people is ~50% discounted. Driving 2 people, and then not having to rent a car/taxi, is something like a ~75% discount.

With a real carbon tax, these numbers would look a lot closer to eachother.
ah, my apologies, maybe I missed that the first time. Thanks for sharing!
Not cursing is more professional than cursing.
In Greece on the other hand this was one of the coolest months I remember in the last couple of decades. We even had rains for multiple days.
Well, the combos are a part of the game, and to be a top player you need to know how to execute your characters combos. But for real competition, (at least for SF, and smash bros, never watched competitive MK), it really comes down into anticipating, reacting, and adapting to your opponent. You need to know what options your opponent has available to them, what are they likely to do, and how to properly react. You do need to memorize the timings of attacks, but the game becomes sort of a fast paced unbalanced rock papers scissors. David Sirlin wrote lots of articles and even a book about competitive gaming in general, specially fighting games, explaining concepts like this.

It's just that some games have this strange curve in the learning curve, for instance Starcraft, where beginners think the game is all about strategy. But as you learn to play, you find out that it's more about macro, cause having more units normally beats any strategy. But then if both players have top notch macro, they have to begin doing tradeoffs in what they build, maybe cut some units to get a technology faster, or be greedier but more vulnerable for a while for a later payoff. In other words, the game becomes about strategy.
In Switzerland it's just not allowed to install central AC with some exceptions AFAIK. But most people rent, so those window installed units aren't really an option either (can't just drill a huge hole for airflow next to a window). Many offices do that nowadays however, work impediment is just too big otherwise.
The global regime. So, all of them, to some degree at least. Large tracts of the world will simply become uninhabitable for humans due to rivers drying up, wet bulb temperatures being too high for human survival absent ac, etc

This will push people to kigrate or start wars. And our system won’t be able to handle a much larger amount of migrants, it’s straining even under existing low numbers.

You generally never saw a collapse in just one part of an empire. So I mean a collpase of lur global civilization, on the scale of past collapses that affected prior local civilizations.

We depend on caebon to feed the people we have, too. If we try to reduce and can’t replace, we have trouble. But if we don’t reduce, we have worse trouble as temperatures keep going up.

If we sort out energy and figure out how to suck co2 from the sky we can reverse this of course.
I was just in Berlin a couple weeks ago. It was brutal. No AC in hotels and 95 degree weather sucks.
> why they can't just make lightweight carriages

I would be very surprised if the carriages were any heavier than they had to be. Why would they waste energy costs (and engine size costs) on dragging around weight they didn't have to?

I'm sure that weight improvements could be made, but I'm also sure that it would cost money and rolling stock is expensive enough.
I imagine a big benefit to employers is that if a valued employee doesn't live in a tech hub, then there are limited opportunities to get another job.

It's the counterpart to the Silicon Valley saying "My job security is I can get another job"
Build a daily habit tracker in Trello
https://rebellion.earth/ or this just keeps getting worse.
‘Mormon’ No More: Faithful Reflect on Church’s Move to Scrap a Moniker
Interesting.

When I talk to HK citizens I don't really get the sense of desperation. I get the sense of complacency and imaging everything is going to be okay. Carrie Lam has certainly crossed an ideological line, I still think we are projecting our perspective of how Hong Kong citizens are supposed to feel.
I'd assume that's more about not fixing something that isn't broken. (Because if you break it, you might accidentally annihilate humanity!)
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What do you mean the AC units are not allowed in Western Europe? I lived in Germany and never heard of this. In my experience, it's mostly cultural. The French for instance expect a "canicule" once or twice a year and that's generally survivable, although I think they are realizing that their frequency and power are increasing, so we might see uptake in air conditioning.

Edit: Or perhaps you meant regulations? If so, then yeah those exist, such as permits for the building and so on.
I think the 3 and the s look nice but the x is just plain horrible. It looks like someone stopped designing it half way through and then just threw a spoiler on it and called it a day.

(The first ipace and etron were also delivered to people who hated the style of the x, but otherwise liked it.
The larger luxury market is funny this way - range will not be everything)
Maybe we should create a comprehensive list of these bad companies / bad actors? Something like:

https://gitlab.com/simonebrunozzi/dark-companies/blob/master...
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You can't install AC units on the outside of your building in Rome to maintain the architecture, which is the same as saying you can't have any at all.
As I remember it, it was France who pushed for intervention. Italy was originally opposed but relented once they recognized that France's persuasion of the U.S. and U.K. made it inevitable. (Context: France and Italy rival for influence in North Africa.)

Maybe you mean to suggest that it was Hillary Clinton who pushed the U.S. to intervene. She may have been much easier to persuade, and [according to Wikipedia] it was only after a tour of Europe that she lobbied within the Obama administration for intervention (and subsequently greater intervention), but unlike many other interventions the U.S. was not banging the drums. That doesn't absolve the U.S. or NATO of responsibility, but it's worth understanding.

Some quick quotes from the U.K. Parliament investigation at https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmfa...

* "In March 2011, the United Kingdom and France, with the support of the United States, led the international community to support an intervention in Libya to protect civilians
from attacks by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi." Summary, p3.

* "We were told that the political momentum to propose Resolution 1973 began in France." Page 10/Paragraph 18

* "France led the international community in advancing the case for military intervention in Libya in February and March 2011. UK policy followed decisions taken in France." Page 11/Paragraph 23. Bolded in original
And of course blasting A/C uses more energy that further contributes to the climate crisis. The positive-feedback cycles at play here are really terrifying.
Thanks for the answer. I meant IP between the employer of the engineer (her full time job) and the side project. Most companies have very rigid IP ownership, which basically forbid R&D engineers from doing any meaningful side projects.

Is the engineer expected to ask its full time employer for permission to engage in this side project?
They've already won. The driving idea behind denialism was always to delay action for a few decades. Well that worked perfectly. Now they will move on to saying it's all too late for gradual mitigation, and they can swoop in with highly expensive adaptation measures, publicly funded in perpetuity. This stage of rentier/disaster capitalism could be what pushes our global civilisation off the cliff.
Too much traveling. Too much consumption. Not enough minimalism. Not enough contentment. Government promises, minimal actions. I'm not bitter, I'm being realistic. 2018 3rd highest annual mean growth rate in CO2 of all time.
https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/gr.html

We need to urgently implement solutions now. They are controversial but necessary to protect humanity and keep the planet culpable for future generations. We know we need less people and birth control, less consumption, and a goal of carbon neutrality. How do we get there?
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Just got done reading about how that freak storm dumped five FEET of hail on Guadalajara, and now this...our planet is in distress
> ^ This

No. Privacy is not about your right to hide. It is about another's access to info about you, i.e. consent.

"If you've got nothing to hide" is pure misdirection. It doesn't matter one bit why I won't allow you access to personal info.

I do not owe you an explanation - if you want my data, you owe me one.
Climate change:

More frequent/extreme heat waves.

More frequent/extreme cold fronts.

More frequent/extreme drought.

More frequent/extreme heavy rain.

More frequent/extreme storms.
I don't think the author would agree its much simpler: https://drewdevault.com/2018/03/10/How-to-write-an-IRC-bot.h...
Germany had an all-time hottest June before global warming, too.

Also this is a terrible attitude. Talk to people who are misinformed. Don't shun them out of your life.
How would you automatically translate hand-layouted dialogs (originally even manually adjusted for localizations where required) into a completely different layout and design language? Never mind the few dialogs that do custom controls and custom rendering (joystick test and joystick calibration, for example). In plain Win32, that stuff is often part of the window repaint event handler and not encapsulated in a way that allows it to be repositioned reliably. It is a huge mess.
ICANN eliminates .org domain price caps despite lopsided opposition
It is when you start work at 8:00.
> to vote

sounds like a waste of time

a few times per decade the citizens are presented with a few multifaceted people, who will then go on nominate other people

its very easy for someone to agree with your foreign policy and disagree with how you expect the government to spend resources on climate change

this is an irreconcilable conundrum with the vote
Earth has a fever: "A fever is a temporary increase in your body temperature, often due to an illness. Having a fever is a sign that something out of the ordinary is going on in your body."
I strongly disagree with your definition of legitimate authority. From your wrong definition, you are going to reach all kinds of wrong conclusions, which will to you seem to be right ones. But the police are not bullies when they arrest a mugger, rather than advising him to stop mugging people and stop by the jail.
I only know SDF as the abbreviation of the Sol Defense Force from the Robotech anime translations.
It keeps getting worse regardless. It's only a matter now of how much worse, and how quickly. Many of the leading lights involved with XR are very clear on this, and indeed are working in parallel on 'deep adaptation' (ie. how to manage through the collapse).
Not sure why you're being downvoted, but:

This feels like slippery slope territory to me, especially in the current age of faux outrage. Look at what's happened to the political cartoon sans legal prohibition.

Alsp the hammer example is a lot easier to justify because hammers aren't speech, and physical injury is objectively verifiable.
A nice thing about Win+X (but not Win+R) is you get the pop-up on your current monitor on multimonitor systems. (Unfortunately, if you do “Run” from the Win+X menu, the Run app does not show up on your current monitor.)
This is a sensationalist headline. If you look at the graph it's a precipitous fall from the sea ice extent at a cherry picked point when it happened to be at its greatest extent in the last 40 years. Comparing it to the average, it's still the lowest of the last 40 years, but actually not that far from the mean. It could even maybe be explained by normal variance. Now that's not to say anything about man-made climate change, which I believe is a real threat, but this data is not nearly as dramatic as it is made to seem.

Edit: Perhaps the actual study would be more significant, but the article itself is very nearly vapid. With no talk about the variance, how am I supposed to know how to interpret this specific deviation from the mean? Just visually it looks like it could easily fit within the normal variation.
"Mind Matters is published by the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence."

The "Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence":

https://centerforintelligence.org/

...is a part of the Discovery Institute, which is, according to Wikipedia (and everything else I've read):

"a politically conservative non-profit think tank based in Seattle, Washington, that advocates the pseudoscientific concept of intelligent design (ID)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Institute

And who is Walter Bradley?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bradley_(engineer)

"Walter L. Bradley is a retired professor of engineering, lecturer, old Earth creationist and an advocate of intelligent design."

And who is Michael Egnor, the author of the article?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Egnor

"Michael Egnor is a pediatric neurosurgeon and intelligent design supporter who writes for the Discovery Institute blog."

Please take this information under consideration as you read the article...