skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can relate a funny story about this. A Microsoft employee I know very well used to work at Bing and then moved on to another organization within MSFT. He isn't a big fan of Google (surprise!). When similar news came out about Google recently (audio recordings got leaked I think), he said everyone should stop using Google if they care about their privacy. So I told him that if that is the case Microsoft should have at least distanced themselves from Facebook after all the Facebook scandals which came out recently (they actually still own some chunk of Facebook shares if I understand correctly). He got a little stunned, mumbled something about how no one person represents an entire company's views, and proceeded to change the topic. :-) I would also now be curious to know what he thinks about the current story.
Aren’t the rich VCs cashing in on the IPOs and letting the markets take the losses? Classic bubble behaviour - pay plenty so long as someone else will pay more.
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You can throw the algorithm through a logic simplifier and pattern matcher, like the one available in Isabelle. This often helps figure things out, but not if the algorithm is just a bunch of weights.
That's a really cool concept. I like it.
>On iOS the situation has gotten worse in that the interface between Swift and C++ has to go through C, so if you are using C++ you need a special interface layer, which is almost like the JNI situation on Android.

I’m curious why you don’t add an Objective c layer for C++ interoperability, I’ve done this in the past and it works a great.
It would be nice if they were better but if we assume that every human generates the same amount of terribleness, then China is going to lead in all categories if you just sum up by country. China happens to be leading in the number of well-fed people. What's terrible about that?
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The History of Polish Photography (2002)
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Its so awesome that they were able to secure those prime real estate spots in Manhattan and San Francisco to begin with!

Maybe they’ll buy Candytopia right across the street from the SF spot.

Experience museums are so charming. I hear Gen Z is even going back to malls because stores are making experiences intended to be shared on social media.
You likely know that driving constant 60 is using less gas than driving 30 half and making it up with 90. While is not a square function it may be close enough for a rough real life analog to help.
"The difference is the Party lacks the sentimentality of western countries when it comes to issues of total surveillance and intervention to maintain control"

No, the difference is hypocrisy, and of course tons of daily propaganda from the Western media / Corporations / Governments / intelligence agencies.

https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
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Nice. I so wanted something for quite a while. Brainstormed, sketched out quite a few times with my friend. Would be intereting how this progressed.

Was using Contactually but was not happy.
> If I understand correctly some of the most common painkillers are steroids.

Most over-the-counter painkillers (other than acetaminophen/paracetamol) are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. OTOH, if the reason steroids work against hearing injuries is anti-inflammatory properties, NSAIDs might also work.

(OTOH, regular use of NSAIDs and acetaminophen is known to sometimes cause tinnitus and hearing loss, so, there’s that...)
Shit. Companies with "my idea" keep getting into YC ... I always feel that my ideas are too crazy but then I see companies with exactly my idea getting into YC. I should just start building them out I guess ...

Looking forward to what you guys build, Dex!
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Maximizing probability naively sometimes works, but of course it can produce misleading garbage.

And then you can get fooled instead of actually correctly believing the image was unreadable.

There is no free lunch, even with robust estimators. They will make mistakes. For image quality, it is ok to make a mistake here or there. For actual recognition? Terrible.

Better than human brain? Show it.

People are pretty good at reading blurry text when trained, but I'm not aware of a test pitting trained people against a machine.

(No, Mechanical Turk does not count as trained at a specific task.)
This is one of those comments that, from my perspective, tries to sound smart by saying "Ah! Implementing you're idea will inconvenience me and have unintended consequences! GOTCHA!"

But seems to intentionally disregards that I did try to address your concerns in my previous comment.

I did write "With exceptions for some ... equipment, or the ability to physically cover the indicator light when ... recording ... for whatever reason."

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have some hearing damage with mild tinnitus and find it hard to follow discussions in noisy environments (bars, very noisy public transport, even some restaurants). Custom fitted flat frequency earplugs are the perfect help for these situations, I always carry them in pocket just in case.
What does it matter if he believes the moon is made of cheese or if he emulates Ilhan Omar on Twitter? He provided documents. Shoot the messenger all you want but the substance of what was exposed can’t be denied. He provided way more documents than can be humanly faked, and we all know Google’s internally accessible troves of documentation are easily verifiable.
Why is it offensive. What is the word for the color black in Spanish? Does the color black have a negative connotation? Or did racist cultural attitudes turn what was a neutral term in to a highly charged weapon of oppression.

I think the OPs point was “deep state” has a deliberate, highly charged, negative connotation.

Don’t conflate the horrible reality of racism with the historical origin of a racial insult. The OP is merely using it as an example to illustrate how terms acquire meaning through time and social norms. Not excuse their existence.
Same. It's very weird how the tables have turned on this.

Facebook also creates a divide between people that have Facebook and people that don't. It's especially weird when that divide is between you and your immediate family. Luckily I'm someone who isn't too bothered by it.
Previous discussions about what3words

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8614198

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17423251
From my experience, the people making these decisions are incapable of examining their behavior. When many news websites tried to go paywall a few years ago I spoke to someone who worked at one of them and I tried to be diplomatic but eventually said, why do you need 26 pieces of malware to display less than a thousand words and why is the the size of any given page bigger than a Windows 3.1 install?
I didn't even get a coherent response, it was basically, oh these guys in a meeting said we need to and we wanted the money so we happily signed up.
If the police were to treat everyone equally you would see a lot more police hanging around at offices and work parties.
What happened to washing the cells from the underlying collagen structure and using that as a scaffold?

Roughly ten years ago I saw a Nova Science Now episode on this and it looked rather workable, so what's the state of that?
That annoyance may be enough to keep many actors from just plugging 10 random trackers into their sites, especially when it means running code from less-than-trust-worthy parties on their own servers instead of their user machines.

At the very minimum it aligns incentives better for developers to think about these things.

And with IPv6 privacy extensions IP addresses will also be less useful for server-side tracking.
What is the advantage of this over, for example, running gnuplot locally?
That's true. Also no annoying vacation diaries. If they don't get filtered I might unfriend you for those, too.
So, people have to download an app because the UK emergency system is too broken to receive the GPS data directly from the phone.

+10 to dispatchers for a clever hack. -100 to governments for an emergency dispatch system that fails to actually be an emergency dispatch system.

In addition, what3words is copyrighted and patented and doesn't have a published standard.
One thing I never see mentioned in any analysis of WeWork is Regus, which does more or less the same thing but with less fanfare. They’ve been running coworking spaces and short term office rentals around the world for a long time. Do the two companies have similar business models? Can we look to Regus’s long history to better analyze WeWork’s prospects? It’s not like WeWork invested co-working spaces, so I don’t understand why everyone acts like they did something novel.

On a personal note, I’ve been a happy user of Regus for nearly a decade and I can’t imagine switching to WeWork. The WeWork offices I’ve been to are large open offices or glass-walled. They have better kitchenettes but not astronomically better. And the whole vibe feels very unprofessional, one step up from a coffee shop. And they cost a lot more. I don’t get it.
Unreal, Unity, Adobe, Disney, OTOY, Fusion, Cinema4D, ... are pretty fine with it.
No, but blackouts after storms are pretty common. Sometimes lasting for days.

IMO, that’s a big part of the reason why backup generators are so very popular here in Texas.

Certainly, that’s the reason I have seriously considered installing a 10-15KW natural gas powered backup generator. It wouldn’t be grid-tied or even grid-interactive in any way, but it wouldn’t take me long to go downstairs and throw the transfer switch.
Indeed they have. What’s missing in some of the discussion here is the size of the application. For large applications like Office, a shared code base is often the correct strategy.
It is still a simple case, because it is animation with sharp continuous lines, gradients or relatively flat inpainting.

And mostly temporally stable, which is not even getting exploited by this cheap but effective superresolution filter.
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if you have internet signal why not just share from google maps to sms?

On second thoughts, how do you even? I know I've done it before, but doing anything in google maps always takes me 15 minutes of searching howtos - just awful UI.

oh, you have to drop a pin first, and then share that. It seems like 'share my current location', without turning on tracking for an hour or whatever, would be a fairly obvious use-case.
You can achieve that with firefox containers or - if you want a bigger hammer - first-party isolation.
Mobile networks can be considered strategic infrastructure. Normally US State Department would be working closely with US companies to push back against Huawei with all kinds of political tie-ins and perks.

Except that the US is not in the market. US based mobile network infrastructure assets (Lucent Technologies and Motorola's wireless network infrastructure business) were sold to Europeans long time ago. Both of them are part of Nokia today. Nokia and Ericsson compete without government support against China backed Huawei and ZTE.

Huawei is most likely government owned/controlled enterprise:

Balding, Christopher and Clarke, Donald C., Who Owns Huawei? (April 17, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3372669 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3372669
That page also lets you „pause“ your activity recording. I would be pretty pissed if that didn’t work, because so far that means that it shows me no actual recorded information (they still have my emails though)
When the recession hits (more controversially the bubble pops), I’m not sure what will happen to WeWork.

I would guess it will collapse, as tenants leave and it can’t pay for its rental costs.

But on the flip side, in a recession landlords become much more open to renegotiating terms, and more people freelance or start their own business when they lose their jobs. So it’s possible WeWork could somehow claw their way out of it.
How would any website or application these days work _without_ full-blown analytics tracking the hell out of every user?
We stopped using them at our workplacedue to compliance. they have a lot of issues and not interested in fixing them
Reddit thread has some QA on this port

https://www.reddit.com/r/WebAssembly/comments/cqabm9/sqlite_...
The story I heard when I was in music school was that the word jazz came from the days of slavery. It was intended as a coded way to let others know that there would be prayers and music that evening (e.g. Jass Tonight) but the 'S' would be flipped around. The word stood for "Jesus Amen Save our Souls".
Why there are only around 40 Starbucks in Australia (2018)
Their fix is apparently to not leak machine-unique UUIDs but UUIDs unique to the version of the AV. Thanks Kaspersky for leaking if the users AV is vulnerable to exploits!
It isn't necessarily like that. Uber has tried to “disrupt” fair conditions for transportation workers out of existence.
> No one buys their groceries with loans

Many people do. Credit Cards and Credit lines.
Exploding into a bag, though, so isn't most of the energy absorbed by the expansion of the bag?
You’re definitely warm. I worked at Dropbox around this time and there was very little C++ or systems experience in the building. I think it’s expertise they tried to build but for whatever reason didn’t. I work at Facebook now and the difference is night and day. FB does share a ton of code across platforms, and it doesn’t even feel controversial.

I don’t think Dropbox made a mistake in cutting out their shared C++ code, but I would caution against generalizing code sharing as a bad idea.
Are you me?

do you want to pair up on something and mash something out over the course of a few weekends?
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As a European with a drivers license this is news to me.
It’s called an “ice bear”, and is actually very effective at the level of an individual home.

I don’t know why more people don’t install them here in Texas.
Sort of like a ponzi scheme requiring a constant inflow of cash, where those who get out earlier are fine and the rest lose?
Although the definition the other user posted was too strong, it was mitigated by the observation that Apple is barely 50%.

If we compare Google's marketshare in end user email, video hosting and search, we can see Google is a lot stronger in many markets, than apple is in their best market.

(I wish I could use an iPhone, but having to use Mac OS for development is a real turn off, considering how sucky Mac OS, in my view, has ever been.)
How can it be? Is driving deaf illegal there as well?
This is akin to asking for forgiveness being easier than asking for permission.
Every major media group, from popular newspapers to television hosts, has on a regular basis committed the same sins you list - from bias to selective quotation to making statistically misleading “racist” pronouncements to facing litigation and settlements to occasionally mentioning facts in the fourth paragraph. Where are these mythical ethical gatekeepers you describe?
This sounds like it's something new, but I thought Mercedes had been doing this for a long time already (read about it some years ago).
> turning on the floodgates

You make it sound like it's easy.
A suggestion that I also proposed to the Monica's founder (with no reply, though) - make it possible to organize contacts around interests. In real life there almost always is some kind of common interest that you share with people - computer games, politics, cars, cooking, whatever. However with different people you have different shared interests.
You do realize that deaf people can drive legally, yeah?
What's fine with wasting effort on pointless duplication? You made this false claim many times in the past, but it's as false as it was before. And your support of lock-in practices is strange to begin with.
Like the freedom to do with your possessions pretty much what you damn well please as long as you stay within the limits of the law.

Besides, in the best case we would get what we had with DVD-players almost twenty years ago. Each DVD-player sold could read only the DVD's released in its region. Until you entered some code with the remote control; then it could play every DVD you threw at it.
I would immediately jump to unbelieving due to anecdotal nature of this claim but these are kinds of stories that tend to be propagated through stories told
Is this someone reinventing xbr series of pixel art scaling filters?
I had the opposite experience with Flutter personally, the problem is that Dart is a niche language with limited exposure (Flutter is basically the only big project in Dart realistically) and it's also a new project as well, it makes a bad combination.
I know how to read sheet music but I'm using his video on gymnopedie no 1 to learn how a pro plays. The fingering isn't obvious to me since I'm a beginner and I'm not taking lessons. It actually helps a lot.
We don't need the bodies to function. We need them as an organ growing environment. The muscles will atrophy, so what.
He/she probably meant a particle filter mask, but it's always good to point out that this is something comoletely different from a surgical mask. Sadly a lot of people that really should depend on the particle filtration don't understand this, and wear surgical masks instead.
Mobile infrastructure provider are almost always delivering tech to monitor phone locations and communications. It is not unreasonable to expect them to support of such equipment. What would you do if your job is to support the sold and euphemistically called ‚lawful interception gateway‘ in a place with loose laws? This is mostly dual use tech.
If we are speaking movies, the old BBC TV mini-series "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Smiley's People" with Alec Guinness as Smiley are absolutely great.
Yeah, looks like I read too quickly and skipped too many terms I did not know. Thanks!
Isn’t link decoration an intractable problem? Ban query params and people switch to matrix params. Ban that and they subtly include it in the seo friendly text, band that and…

It just seems somewhat wrong that a browser with a huge market share doesn’t use any standards / rfc process and invents new ways of blocking tracking / breaking agreed upon specifications from release to release in isolation.
I tried a Nest but went back to an IP camera because the Nest can't be monitored off a local feed — it has to go to the cloud first. Most of the time when I'm looking at the baby monitor I'm at home. Requiring me to send it to the cloud before seeing it on my local device is bad for two reasons:

1: If the internet goes out, I can't even monitor locally. With IP cameras, it doesn't matter if the internet goes out.

2: Since the camera is always transmitting to the cloud, I don't want to use a very high-resolution option, which would eat up too much upstream bandwidth. What I really want is to have moderate-quality footage going to the cloud and high-def footage whenever I go to check it in real time. With an IP camera, it's only transmitting when I'm actually connected to the feed.
Wow, thanks. Somehow I missed that. Things move so fast.
> I always wondered why no other country went that road and why they are still hesitating.

Because when things go wrong they go really wrong and many times we see capitalism continuously move the goal post on safety rules. A plant designed for 30 years with an acceptable 1cm crack tolerance surpasses both limits, lobbying occurs, and then it's now all of a sudden designed for 40 years and 3cm cracks.
I would really like for the version of the product to move towards something like this -- a big struggle with relationship management now is some degree of fragmentation.

Some of the integrations you mention (FB/WhatsApp/Messenger/LI) are hard to do since these companies don't expose API access (and we'd have to ask for user credentials, which aren't always straightforward!). I'm very curious -- would you be open to sending your credentials to Dex to enable these integrations?
> Hindu Nationalist, BJP is quelling democracy the same exact way. Minorities curfewed and muted to satisfy lust of majority.

Minorities are not curfew anywhere in India. In Kashmir, Muslims are in majority.

> Nobody allowed to protest, and children as young as 11 jailed without charges. Same exact type of extra-judicial killings and molestation of women.

I don't recall that happening after the curfew was put in place. Could you share some news reports?

> Worse, state controlled India media being used as a weapon to justify all the excesses to the Indian masses. Manufacturing consent.

I haven't seen DD News justifying anything. They're just reporting what they're seeing.
I'm planning on learning and writing mobile apps in Rust. I remember reading that some things aren't supported on Android and iOS. Has that caused you any issues?
Not on the actual highways and not me having to surpass US military convoys more than once. Yeah, pre-2014 I used to see US soldiers quite often at the Bucharest international airport, they were on or off their trips to either Iraq or Afghanistan (we’re talking mostly 2007-2010) but sure as hell there weren’t US soldiers in the actual Romanian crop fields, like in here [1] . But feel free to hit me with Internet links, while I’m talking about stuff happening a hour drive’s away from where I’m writing this comment. And if it matters those US soldiers shouldn’t have ended up in those grain fields, it was an error of communication. In any case, I told my parents that were they to see US armed vehicles in their field they should just let them pass, no reason to make a fuss.

https://youtu.be/LGoTu36HDVs
What makes it worse is that quite a few toilet lids are self closing / soft closing these days. So if you get used to it, you start trusting the lid to close itself and take your hand from underneath the lid while it's still at a height. So it's easy to slam the lid down accidentally.
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Even in the case of what light does hit a solar panel, something like 80% of that power is wasted anyway, because the light in question is infrared. The bulk of the output from our Sun in the visible and near-visible range actually comes to us as heat, in the form of infrared.

Now, if there was only a way to collect much of that and turn it into usable electric power.....
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Aha, thanks for clearing up : )
The gain is they will loose less than borrowers.
But thankfully that Boing equipment is supported by advisors who‘s behavior is above board. Always!
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“than burning coal at individual households”
wait, what? who’s burning coal at home? :) can you imagine the discussions in those households?
The secret to automating repetitive jobs is often finding a different way to do it that provides a similar output, but is more amenable to machinery. A sewing machine doesn't sew at all like most humans, a dishwasher doesn't wash like you would with a sponge etc.

Gardening is hard to automate, but harvesting of somethings (grains, mostly) is heavily automated. Cooking is more amenable to augmentation than full automation, but there are exceptions mostly around processed foods.
> negate the ethics

For vegans: no.

To remind you, it was believed by many early vegans (like before 1995) that being vegan would have a negative impact on their health — and they were still vegan!

The understanding that a vegan diet can be perfectly healthy, and in many cases is more healthy than a typical omni diet, came fairly recent (like after 2000).

So vegans will rarely trade ethics for some "benefits".