skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm doubtful that 10k plastic particles are landing inside your house simply because external air turnover isn't that fast (only a few per day).

In your house they are likely much higher as they're coming from your shoes, your synthetic fiber clothes, your carpet, that 25 year old plastic dog your gran gave you.

The carpet fiber dust at my job is insane, I wipe down my plane model every day, and 24 hours later you can see little red/blue/green/tan carpet fibers already accumulating from the foot traffic in the office, if I let it go a week it (and skin/hair etc) will cake on my finger if I run it down.
It also becomes a hurdle to read the footnotes. I often times got sucked in them and forget even how to come back to the original text, let alone the original idea I was reading.
Broke it up into 3 paragraphs now >.<
Agreed. Manual mode is a necessity. I was just shooting night skies and had to use manual focus and manual mode to get the photo. My Canon 6D doesn't have the imaging magic that comes with modern smartphones like my Samsung Galaxy S8 that can take a rapid fire succession of photos that my Canon 6D could only dream of, but the 6D is a boss at getting low light photos of high quality, or being able to take the photo I see at the time I want it. It's always ready, and will always take the photo.
This era will be marked by a layer of plastic in the geological record.
>>Yes, adding a backdoor increases our collective security because it allows law enforcement to eavesdrop on the bad guys. But adding that backdoor also decreases our collective security because the bad guys can eavesdrop on everyone.

And the bad guys can be the state. People need to acknowledge the phenomenon of systemic failure. People at large can know that the system is deeply flawed, yet not be able to fix it, because the problem is too complex to fix.

One could argue that situations where members of Congress see their compensation increase by an average of 1,800 percent when they leave office and become lobbyists, where fewer than 3 teachers in an entire state are fired in a year due to sweetheart collective bargaining agreements, where police unions protect officers from facing disciplinary action for miscondict, where the wage gap between federal employees and private sector workers has increased significantly since 1950, where more than half of the 20 wealthiest counties in the US are suburbs of Washington DC, where intelligence agents are known to use the state's surveillance apparatus to spy on lovers and exes through a practiced coined LOVEINT, where there are approximately 1 million federal regulations which hold potential criminal convictions for breaching, and where the prison population is 1 percent of the total population, are all examples of systemic failure, and the frequency of such failures requires us to check government power by enshrining legal principles like the right to privacy.

Information is power and centralizing information in the hands of a small government elite through mass surveillance leads to power asymmetry that is dangerous to society.
The point though is why would anyone even bother, since no one uses TSA locks as anything resembling legitimate security anyway.
You do realize that "Lower"/低 Is a verb right? In fact if you look at the complete poem every line contains a verb except the first one.

The full poem is:
床前明月光

Bright明 Moon月light光 before前 (the) bed床.

疑是地下霜

(The) suspicion疑 is是 frost霜 on下 (the) ground地.

Verb: 是/Is

举头望明月

Raise举 head头, gaze望 (the) bright明 moon月.

Verb: 举/Raise

低头思故乡

Lower低 head头, think思 (of) (the) homeland故乡.

Verb: 低/Lower

Quoted words are those not present in the poem. Chinese, like most languages doesn't have a definite article so "the" is implicit. The last "of" isn't present because "homeland"/故乡 is the object of the word think in Chinese where as the topic of a thought is usually marked with a preposition in English. The above was a word for word translation where only the order of words were changed. If you haven't noticed already, the last two lines literally translate to English in the same order (save for the lack of pronouns).

The only thing missing are pronouns, which also occurs in English with the passive voice. 静夜思 By the way literally doesn't deviate in any way from "vernacular" Chinese in terms of grammar or vocabulary. In fact it's taught in early grade school and is easily understood.

> the written language often cannot be understood when read aloud unless the listeners are already familiar with the passage and what this means in turn is that the written language should probably not be seen as a transcription of speech

I'm sorry but this is nonsense. I learned the poem you mentioned before I knew how to read or write and understood it fine. On the flip side, I didn't know what the pledge of allegiance meant until I learned how to read/write. Differences between formal and casual registers exist in every language, there is no indication that this is any different in Chinese. Your example of "abbreviating words" also makes zero sense when the "parts of words" you refer to are atomic and have meaning by themselves. DeFrancis makes his wild claims about Chinese because he believed that all writing was ultimately phonetic when it's clear that all writing is logographic, which is the case for both Chinese and English.

I'm tired of the mysticism that people display towards Chinese when arguably it has few difference from English.
IMHO Wordpress itself is grossly undervalued. I've done some whole-web analysis and they (including both the open-source project and the hosted service) account for roughly 18% of the web. The volume of content produced on them (in terms of # of words, not # of messages) is greater than on Twitter. If you look at comparables - with Twitter valued at $30B, Reddit at $3B, and Wordpress valued at $1.16B - it's pretty hard to justify those valuation disparities. Sure, it's open-source and non-hosted-by-them Wordpress installs don't really make much money for the company, but you could argue that they actually have more control over the greater Wordpress ecosystem than Reddit does over famously revolt-prone subreddits.

Unfortunately, they're private, profitable, and to my knowledge not seeking investment, otherwise I'd buy a slice of them in a heartbeat.
Thanks, cableshaft! Yes, it's not so clear about whom this community for. I'll make it more clear on the landing page.
One of the best "Hands Channel" for basic electronics. And also where he lives -- the Isle of Man -- is a beautiful and fascinating place.
Advertising is a half a trillion dollar market - how is that fragile?
I usually try to exhaust all my fiends, so they'll stop bothering me.
If my data was shown to someone else, it's a data breach.

Fuck your MBA bullshit about 'a glitch', Credit Karma spokesperson Emily Donohue.
It’s usually to run some old, proprietary software that only has a Windows version.
Thanks for your question!

I believe my main post or the responses might have been unclear. If so, my apologies.

But your understanding isn't correct. Other companies are not insuring your downside. We are the only counter party you have.

The problem is if a recession happens, then a lot of our properties actually decline in value. As a result, we might not be able to pay you back. So to make sure we can pay you back we buy financial instruments on the open market, kind of like buying a stock of apple for example. These instruments work in a very interesting way. Their prices go up, if the real estate market goes down. Their prices go down, if the real estate market goes up.

So, with these instruments. We can ensure that in the event of a recession, we can still afford to pay you back, because we can sell the instruments for higher prices than we originally paid for. We then use that profit to cover the losses our customers experience.

The way this works out is that events that would cause large declines in the property values are covered by these instruments. Which means, as a company, we just need to pay specific attention to the potential losses between 0-20% range. Here, we deposit the 20% value of the original purchase price into the 3rd party account.

In the event that our company stops operation. These hedging instruments don't expire or disappear. They are bought at the beginning of our agreement with our customer. As a result, these instruments will be passed off to our lawyers along with the 3rd party account for them to maintain. This way, your loss coverage will still be guaranteed even if we go out of business.

Is this more clear? If not, I can always elaborate :)
> What they should do is collectively take their content somewhere else.

Everyone would have to coordinate it at the same time, and a massive capital outlay would be needed to create a service everyone could switch to at once. If it is done piecemeal Youtube's strong lock-in though things like driving traffic through recommendations on other videos etc. would win out and punish the early switchers too much.
If you're near scene of a crime police can force Google to hand over your data
Downvotes with no replies.

Do not imply a recession is possible, the Silicon Valley elite have not yet fully cashed out.
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[This is Julia, the OC] My intention was to point out that even though I haven’t actually spent a lot of money on hiring, I have invested a ton because of my time. The actual cost is very high, even if you’re not hiring recruiters.

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I agree, let's just ban makeup. No body needs it any way.
They have lost my confidence as well after breaking* a Windows 7 machine I was using as an ad hoc server with updates that ammounted to little more than telemetry without announcing themselves as such.

* Set off a crash loop in connection with my setup that had been pretty conservatively setup. It was fixable, but a nonsense problem to deal with.
Nit: autism isn't a disease, it's classified as a disorder. And isn't quite on the level of cancer, regardless.
"Number of particles" is a bad metric. One way to formalize this complaint is that this measure is independent of Avagadro's number. In particular, there are many more molecules in a liter of water (~10^24) than there are liters of water in the oceans (~10^21). So if you tag all the water molecules in a single glass of water, fully mix that water in the oceans, and then scoop out another glass from the ocean on the other side of the world, that second glass will contain many tagged molecules.

These misleading sorts of statistics also appear when people discuss detection of radiation, e.g., detecting minute radioactive fallout in the US after the Fukushima meltdown.
The false self employment concept seems fishy to me. I doubt they will succeed on that front.

Perhaps they will be able to get somewhere with GDPR, but, supposing that they are able to get the courts to classify the judgments about uploaded videos as personal data (a stretch), YouTube will just begin disclosing that information (or stop retaining it). If all YouTube retains is a bit that says how many raters rated a piece of content as "teen" or above, what recourse does the GDPR offer? Sure, you can have that information, but that doesn't mean that YouTube is required to disclose the mechanisms by which they made the determinations.

Their last option (collective action, like strikes or what have you) is just wishful thinking. Most YouTube watchers do not care that a guy who is getting paid shittons of money to make videos about slingshots is making slightly less shittons than he otherwise would.
>It's not going to be easy to draw the line, but in the case of pushing politics, it has clearly gone too far.

In which way? I've seen a lot of arguments that YouTube pushes people into alt-right and ethnonationalist content way too easily.

I don't think there's an objective way to choose what videos to promote. Obviously they're going to try to come up with some right way to put the weights, and then if they subjectively think that results in the wrong thing, they're going to tweak the weights. Even if there is a weighting that objectively results in more views, it's a value judgment to choose to use that weighting. It could be that prioritizing outrage-bait content gets more views, but I wouldn't call prioritizing that neutral or beneficial.
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This stuff moves too quick for print. Check out Siraj Raval on Youtube. Anything by Andrew Ng is great, too.
52? When did we get two more?
The hacker bits were good prior, but even this preview is yucky. It's trying too hard.
Thanks for sharing. This gives me some target use case to work towards.
I think it is fair to say that using the term "deadliest" in this context gives almost everyone the impression that this strain of the disease is indeed deadly (that is to say, that a fair number of people die from it).

So if very few people die from this strain (and I don't know the answer to that, but the grandparent comment implies that very few do), then I'd say it is definitely not accurate.
Agreed - though recently I've had several packages from Amazon delivered FedEx with Sig Req'd. Can't seem to find a way to refuse this kind of shipping - FedEx regularly misses deliveries (just two weeks ago I had a signature required package where the driver left a note on my door...despite the front door being open, with me VISIBLE in the kitchen through the open door. I had my back to the door and was cooking lunch, waiting for the package, and the driver just noped out).
Germany's infrastructure has been stressed in recent years by immigration and other factors. The two books that the article places a spotlight on are: 1) "The Dumbing Down of Germany" and 2) "Tolerance Isn’t Easy" (as roughly translated within the article). These books represent the german people's response to that.

The first book, "The Dumbing Down of Germany", suggests a frustration with the decline of their education system -- something that Germany has traditionally valued highly. This is particularly concerning because sentiments like this lead to the rise of Hitler and eventually WWII.

The second book, "Tolerance Isn’t Easy", offers comfort with the influx of immigrants. This may be viewed as an attempt to stymie the tension. Alternatively, this may be viewed as an anesthetic that is wearing off. As of checking today this title is actually 13th on the list.

To answer your question. Why Germans as opposed to someone else? I suppose it is partially because Germany is a big player in the EU. It is particularly concerning because of Germany's role in WWII. To some it seems like things are trending in the same direction. As stated in the last paragraph: "Germany has been undergoing dramatic social change since the fall of the Berlin Wall, which occurred 30 years ago this November... Fear-mongering arguments against immigration and an Islamic takeover continue to attract scores of German citizens whose future economic prospects are less than rosy. Regardless, one cannot help but detect the political vestiges of an old GDR intolerance in its novel political manifestations."
Twitter, IMO, is wonderful when you stop following journalists, politicians, and A list celebrities. What that leaves is mostly meme makers and minor influencers who generally wrap all the bad stuff inside of funny jokes and hot takes.
You should not be getting downvoted.

When I was a young 20 something starting out in the bay (20 years ago) I ran across quite a few older engineers (some of them in their 50's).

All the best things I know came from them.

I remember at one point one of them handed me a spiral bound book of the papers from an early 90s (or late 80s) unix conference. Papers, actual papers, from a conference, BOUND (pre internet right there) --- there were a lot of interesting insights that came from that book that still impact me to this very day.
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I CANNOT believe how much Americans spend on cars. As an American, I just do not get it.

Whether you're rich or poor, people spend INSANE amounts of money commuting. I get it that our public transit is garbage. I just don't get how much people pay to commute instead of moving somewhere that makes better economic sense (even within the same metro, where you can keep all your roots -- your family and friends and eat at your favorite restaurants and all that).
Same here, was just about to comment on this.
The thing I have never heard anyone talk about is what the repercussions should be for those asking for a back door when the door is used by malicious actors. We have seen companies like Wells Fargo commit company wide bank fraud...no one goes to jail. We have seen companies like Equifax lose millions of people's worth of personal and financial information...no one goes to jail.

When Barr and Trump push through legislation that requires back doors put into all our security, who is going to do jail time when all our personal information is leaked again? I try to put the least amount of info out there but when I do I use crypto that I know works, that I know who and how it was designed, who and how it was audited. When the government comes in and some intern loses a USB stick with keys to the back doors I wanna know who's head is gonna roll for it.
Program, shutter priority, aperture priority and manual all have important use-cases. Program and aperture priority are probably the most generally useful, but they're not the only useful modes.

Sometimes controlling depth of field is most important, so you'll be in aperture priority. Sometimes controlling motion is most important, so you'll be in shutter priority - a photo of a moving car or a waterfall looks very different at 1/125 compared to 1/1000.

Manual is less frequently used today, but it's still vitally important. There are plenty of creative applications where you want or need full control over the exposure triangle. Modern autoexposure systems work incredibly well, but they'll still fail catastrophically in some complex lighting situations and still make decisions that aren't in line with your creative intent.

Big strobes aren't a studio-only tool and are often used in the field for fashion, product and architecture photography; TTL strobe systems are available, but you won't always have (or want to use) TTL metering. I've often gone fully manual even with just a speedlite, because any sort of automatic control introduces an unpredictable variable. Underwater photographers nearly always use manual exposure, because AE and AWB systems can't cope with underwater conditions. There's still an important place for bulb exposure, particularly in ultra-low-light and lightpainting situations.

More broadly, learning to shoot in fully manual mode is IMO essential if you want to fully understand exposure. I still highly recommend shooting a few dozen rolls of film early in your photography career, because it breaks your reliance on automation and the shoot-review-reshoot loop. Autoexposure is an extremely useful tool, but your skills will always be severely limited if you depend on it totally. Learning to use the zone system and estimate exposure in your head is hugely empowering and liberating, even if you go on to shoot predominantly using AE.
I was replying to a comment on the headline being useless. It's normal in English not to repeat something in a reply.

To spell it out. It's completely useless to mention $9k in the headline if you don't mention per how many units of energy.

Your suggested titles are IMHO better since they use qualitative language instead of a quantity with no reference point.
Entertaining? Yes. Always informative?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n2ZZbuOeNmw
I've often wondered how cool it would be if Google or Apple made the software for a DLSR camera? Judging by the results they can pull out of tiny sensors and tiny lenses, I'd be excited to use one.
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I have the same impression.

Old days: random cool stuff, sea of garbage, impossible to find anything.

Middling days: random cool stuff, sea of garbage, Google!

Now: random cool stuff, sea of garbage, impossible to find anything.

It’s still gotten easier to put things on the Internet than ever before. There are still even more hobbyist sites than ever. Google hasn’t actively rolled those things back, it’s just taken us back to the garbage fire of the old days.
Let me guess, 6 months of free credit monitoring to make up for it.
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He specifically said they’d continue to employ all of them.
"Old, proprietary software" describes something like 80% of all the software keeping the modern world going.
Yeah, this bit is an egregious lie:

> “What our members experienced this morning was a technical malfunction that has now been fixed. There is no evidence of a data breach,” the statement said.
He was talking about a recession. Which might happen. (since people feel like it is getting closer)

If you know a stock which actually goes up in a recession, please let me know!
I'm pretty sure that's the route most Korean and Japanese speakers go. The differences between the two are exaggerated anyways.
That sounds similar to how Mortgages used to work in the UK in the 60s.

One would get a mortgage from a Building Society for around 75% of the property value, and had to get a Bank Loan for the remainder which they couldn't cover from savings.
> The xenophobes here tend to prefer "taxpayer"

The irony, I guess, being that the xenophobes probably intend to raise a distinction better delineated by the word "citizen".
Can youtubers go on strike and take the content down for a limited time? If such an option is available and they do it, it would be a relevant strike. But since those who are joining the Union are the one demonetized provides that Youtube isn't making as much profit from their presence as those who are still running ads. In such case, the former ones will need a way to engage those who make profit align with their doctrine, so the strike can be a blow to youtube. Bottom line to me; Not Gonna Happen (NGH).
We are guinea pigs in a worldwide experiment on microplastics, and I fear it will turn out worse for us than our grandparents with asbestos.

However, you're not powerless. Personally, cook your food in metal and try to drink out of glass and metal. For the world, work hard and save up. As a SW engineer, you should be able to save up. Put some of your money into organizations that are trying to save the environment. Donate some money to politicians that recognize these threats.
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> Good book on how things went down and my who is Crashed:

Incredible book. Tooze's interviews and lectures on the subject can only scratch the surface of what the book covers, but they are worth a listen too. I can recommend his appearance on the podcast Talking Politics:

https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2018/113-crashed