skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because it uses TensorFlow (lite) and there aren't many (any?) VPLs supporting C++ integration.

And also Google has NIH syndrome, it's hard to think of any outside projects they use besides the Linux software stack and LLVM.
The summary line of the article:

> Widening inequalities in pay, health and opportunities in the UK are undermining trust in democracy, says an Institute for Fiscal Studies report.

It's addressed again, later in the article:

> Sir Angus said "people getting rich is a good thing" but not if it meant "enriching the few at the expense of the many".

In the U.S., we talk of the American Dream, but the more modest versions of it weren't really a dream, but more of a promise, or an agreement: You could get by, and even modestly prosper, by being a person of good will with a dose of diligence and hard work; life could be fair. I think that got lost in the inevitable exaggeration of that dream for dramatic effect, things along the lines of forming the next Google in your garage or of winning the lottery or getting promoted into the C-Suite for your ingenuity or "moxie" or whatever. Granted, this hasn't been a credible belief for all sectors of society (It helped to have had white skin.), but it enjoyed some prevalence. To the extent that it was believed, it animated people's actions. They could bear up under a dreary job to send their kids to college, or to save up for retirement, or both. Devastations like cancer or some other personal disaster could be regarded as exceptions, enough so to hold the Dream together.

It just isn't like that anymore. Predatory insurance companies seem bolder in their greed. Hospitals seem complicit. The easy money available from being the only manufacturer of (honestly pretty shitty) cars went away, and labor prices deflated out from under the working classes. Houses, formerly built to last a lifetime, are built to sell, and then fall apart. The whole thing has turned to ashes.

Honestly, the honest, modest version of the American Dream is gone. Hard work is rewarded with insecurity and layoffs. The ACA even seems tenuous under Republican rule, and that only for the slight majority that think the ACA to be progress over private victimization. All that seems left is the prospect of walking over one's peers to a better life. We may malign CEOs as having said, "Fuck you, I've got mine," but we feel left with, "I'm sorry, I have to get mine."

The point of this ramble is not to diminish the contribution of naked inequality of the scale we're seeing. (I think, practically speaking, that's the cause.) Rather, the point of this ramble is that it's something like the modest American Dream that has to be tenable in order for a stable working class, and therefore democracy, to limp along much longer. Where there is no vision, the people perish.
> I'm quite scared of this in America

Don't be. I've done it for 7 years and counting. Have met awesome people and never hassled or bad interactions.
The images are interesting --- I assume they are photographs, but the blackness makes them look like CGI.
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>Historians proper get so caught up on the ramp, but by any metric they seem ridiculously unfeasible.

what 15K people can do in 2-3 months
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Masada#Roman_siege

(the ramp is better visible in all its glory on the right side on that image https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/012919-25-... )
Explain? Besides societal stereotypes of how “gay people act” how is sexual preference anything but who you are attracted to?
DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing)
> The law of one price says that the same item cannot sustain two different sale prices in the same market (since everyone would buy only at the lower price).

This is currently a problem with digital goods. How can you sell something, like an indie video game, for $1 in India and $10 is the US, and prevent Americans from buying the Indian version? There are online marketplaces that allow people to buy and sell "game keys" for cheap. People in cheap markets can sell local keys for games, at a small markup, to people in expensive markets.
Maybe changes will come now that Jack's account has been hacked? Also, why would they fix this when it gives state actors plausible deniability when breaking accounts.. like the CEO of public companies that may or may not be reading state leaders private communications...
Cars in the US are far cheaper than in Canada. One of my coworkers in the Montreal office came to US to get a used car. Even my German friend who is working here on a contract, could not believe how inexpensive a BMW was here.
California lawmakers OK medical marijuana in K-12 schools
> The app automatically matches phone numbers with the user names in the group. Chinese authorities then only need to request the owners of the phone numbers from the local telecom service in order to learn the users’ true identities.

This is a flaw common to services that rely on phone numbers as IDs. In many countries, one cannot purchase a SIM card without showing ID (and the seller makes a photocopy of the ID to provide to the authorities). That means that there cannot be true anonymity. Know the phone number, know the person.

I am always baffled when people claim that PGP-encrypted e-mail is passé because it leaks metadata, when Signal and Telegram leak metadata too and, furthermore, metadata that can be immediately associated with a specific person in many countries.
They (787's) aren't necessarily all fixed. And in fact, I recall reading somewhere that the fix was to ensure that a 787 could not fly with any more than 1 of the batch of engines that has a penchant for premature turbine failure due to the high sulfur content of the atmosphere where the turbine blades were manufactured.

Still not necessarily an "oh God, ground it", but there is a growing pile of very hard to stomach problems that the aviation industry is having to cope with this year.

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/rolls-royce-problems-trent-100...
The Swiss cheese model applies for redundant checks, the Anna Karerina principle applies for cumulative checks. Or, if you get success if any of your components works, you get the Swiss cheese model, if you get success only if all your components work, you get the Anna Karerina principle.
One thing I'm curious when I hear about entrepreneurs that started late is what they did leading up to it. That's a key difference in 21 year olds and 35-year olds. Are the 35-year olds doing something in common leading up to it that makes them more likely to be successful?
> Houses, formerly built to last a lifetime, are built to sell, and then fall apart

I suspect people think that older homes are better built because the only older homes around today are the best built ones. The rest fell down and were replaced. I.e. survivorship bias.
As a engineer I can see how truly amazing feat that is. As a human being I'm staggered that it took so much effort into AI and machine learning to do so little.
No, it's impossible to know what code is running on someone else's server. If you give your phone number to someone, you are at their mercy to keep it confidential.
What about https://tox.chat/
The actual paper (in English):
http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/files/eins_lq.pdf
I've long felt that we need a "post office of the internet". Some type of communication platform that's truly neutral, doesn't attempt to censor or manipulate the activities of its users aside from enforcing the law, and isn't liable in any way for their behavior. Sure, you can send a bomb or a death threat or an illegal copy of a movie through the mail, but the post office isn't liable for the actions of its customers. Its only responsibility is to filter illegal content as best it can, and that's all.
You're probably right on the multigenic origin of homosexuality. One theory goes around that it exists because of some relationship to other、 evolutionarily beneficial factors. Twin studies also imply the possibility of epigenetic impact here as well, though I haven't read much of the literature there.
This seems self evident if you know anything about evolution. In order to pass on your genes you need to have relations with the opposite gender.
If we use that as a reason, shouldn’t we study why some people are attracted to people of another race since there are many religious people who still think interracial marriage is wrong and it was illegal in certain states as late as the 60s.

We decided as a society to ignore those people because they were wrong. We shouldn’t need “studies” to get the hell out of people’s bedroom. Slowly we are changing as society. But studies won’t convince people who believe that not only are “the gays” going to hell but they are the cause of all of society’s ills and natural disasters.
Close to 400 comments. It was a good discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20662232
In other words, stoicism is completely dependent on morality, and being a moral relativist, that means stoicism is not only useless to me, but completely wrong.
It's less advanced than the intel 8080 from 50 years ago...
Depending on your position this to me reads like paranoid behavior one would expect from someone without many social skills who gets manipulated into fearing for his job when he has realistically one of the most portable and in demand skill sets in the modern markets.
you are literally claiming the opposite of almost everyone else. could you back that up with some evidence please?

for decades the word has been that fat is bad, now the narrative is slowly changing to sugar. now you are either turning it around again, and if so, i'd like to see the evidence for that. (and by that i mean current studies that prove that other studies about sugar are false) or you are simply repeating what we have been told for decades which has been shown to be false.
My understanding is that JDR started his business at 20, got into oil at 24, bought out his partners, started a new partnership, and then ended that partnership at 31, naming the part of the business he got Standard Oil.
Sandboxing on iOS would not stop this sort of thing. Not that this would be useful on iOS, some all the libraries are combined into one file, mapped into every process, and easy to grab from a firmware image. (I guess this could be useful if you’re trying to debug something on an internal install?)
The marketplace for video games is strange, I agree. Another odd phenomenon: I recently saw online newspaper subscriptions being sold on eBay from foreign countries.
Self-funded and built by myself. :)

https://www.checkbot.io

It's a Chrome extension that checks 100s of pages at once for common SEO, speed and security problems.

Profitable but trying to get more traffic. Does anyone know what you have to do to get featured on the Chrome Web Store? The extension has been getting good reviews for a while now but it's hard to get noticed.
The idea is that if your sexuality is not innate, then it can be changed. There's long been a desire to prove that homosexuality is genetic in order to counter the claim of bigots that they can turn people straight through shame and abuse.

It's frustrating on several levels. One, there is an element of the naturalistic fallacy; many people feel that homosexuality being "natural" (e.g. occurring in many animal species or being immutably determined by genes) is a strong defence of it (as opposed to the preferable argument of "it's not hurting you, so you have absolutely zero grounds to object to it"). Two, many people want to be able to point to a single gene as the causative factor, when genetics is rarely so simple, and other prenatal factors may contribute (e.g. something that happens during gestation).
Never talk about it offline or on any other website (especially from any account associated with any name/username you've used for any other purpose).

Be aware that you can fingerprint people based on word usage and sentence structure patterns.
The thesis of the article is that one shouldn't conflate "stoicism" with "Stoicism". And some people conflate other things with Stoicism in ways that exclude women and children.

You're basically in agreement with the author.
if kids choose to play an activity over and over again (not continuously, but every day or so pick it up and play for a while), is that not also spaced repetition? how would that be boring?
A combination voice recognition + gesture recognition + eye tracking would make mobile computers better productivity tools.
Those executives aren’t “founders” though. So I am not sure how this applies.
If you've got a cushy valley tech job you can do it for _way_ less than this.

I work out, shower, eat, charge all my batteries, use the internet, etc at work, and then park overnight on Shoreline, so there is essentially zero cost of living.

Im not counting the cost of things I would still be paying for if I lived in my cupertino apartment though, so like gas, car insurance, car maintenance, health insurance, laundry, etc.

I think my one cost would be about $10 worth of bulk silica desiccant every month to keep the moisture in the car under control while I sleep in it.
>Cops tend to shoot at the front license plate or the head lights

That sounds pretty ambitious. It's difficult enough to hold a laser pointer on a stationary license plate size target 20m away.
Apple iPhone, Amazon Echo Production Moving from China to India
They could’ve put a larger Apple logo around the chip, but maybe it just didn’t look good.
Trial for Men Accused of Plotting 9/11 Attacks Is Set for 2021
China's Lunar Rover Has Found Something Weird on the Far Side of the Moon
The great thing about research and development like this is by designing practical use cases for carbon nanotubes, its far more likely for large companies (eg TSMC, Samsung, Intel) to pick up and invest large amounts of R&D money to improve yield/production of carbon nanotubes, benefiting everyone involved.

Reminds me of how large phone/computer makers like Apple, Samsung and Huawei help foot the cost of R&D for so many innovations in the tech field (expensive die shrinks, display technology) which ends up trickling to nearly every industry.
Why did we need to know what it's like to send a human to the moon?

This is science and science is asking questions about the reality we live in. That is there are a set of people who deviate from the norm in that they are interested in other people of the same sex. This also deviates from the theory of evolution in that natural selection would supposedly eliminated this trait eons ago, yet it is quite prevalent today.

It is worth asking this question and it is worth asking the question why some men like fat women and some men like skinny and what are the biological implications of it? Yes it is.

A bigger question is why in the world would you question this research into a gay gene over the billions of dollars spent on getting the man to the moon (with little economic results to show for it).

I think I have an answer. Because our society has become so politically correct and so afraid of racial inequality that ANYTHING even remotely suggesting things are unequal is attacked. The truth of the matter is, we are all unequal and we are all different. That is a reality that is staring us in our faces yet we choose to ignore it because we have become afraid of inequality under all circumstances. Life is unequal. And it is worth studying the differences. A counterpoint to your analogy: we study why men have penises and why women have vaginas, or in other words sexual dimorphisms... why not study sexual preference?
But how many also had extensive experience in startups in their 20s and 30s?
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for years an XO testing device was my primary portable laptop for work. every time i ran into someone who hadn't seen it before, i let them try to open it. it was funny to see what people tried and how long it took for them to figure it out. sometimes i had to stop them as they would pry with force in the wrong direction and i feared they'd break it.
If someone really wanted to find out who was behind it, they could eventually do it depending on their motivation. Not to mention when registering the domain, you should enter contact information. If you are genuinely concerned about your safety and wellbeing, I do not think a website would be the way to go.
"Those pedestrians ain't gonna kill themselves"
https://mobile.twitter.com/mattmanning/status/11670737616837...
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> I urge anyone who is using dark patterns in their software or business models to take a step back and think about this ...

It's a complex systems problem, not one of great men losing a grip on ethics. Regardless of their individual conversance with (and willingness to be constrained by) ethical principles, the machine will remould or replace them if they get in the way. It's pretty Darwinian, and takes little account of the evanescent electrochemical flutterings of wealthy brains.

Barely restrained oligarchical capitalism is destroying all ecosystem and societies. We dismantle it, or it destroys us.
I suppose one solution (for sellers) is to localize the games and their translations and bake those into the game keys. Once one purchases a game in Russian, you can't play it in English.

This excludes pricing disparity between (en-US, en-CA, en-GB), (es, es-US, ...) and the like cohorts, but that may not matter too much.
Why not use Hacker News to Organize a protest?
At first I thought the blame would be mostly on the cell providers but it seems Twitter deserves at least half the blame here.

I just tested the flow. If your phone is linked to your account, regardless of your 2FA settings you can just start tweeting to your account by texting to 40404 without being asked to enter a password and completely bypassing any 2FA settings on your account.

That seems highly unusual to me. Most of these attacks happen with the hacker knowing the password as well. In this case, so long as you’ve successfully ported the number you’re “in”.
What a dumb reply. Webrtc works on the web for p2p ok. But how do people in the same area transfer files with each other? There are huge rendezvous problems webrtc comes no where near addressing.
bs, countries like Japan have lots of inequality and still no one is starving. work to solve extremer cases of poverty and you'll be doing a much better job against inequality
The article is discussing specific features that
Telegram is adding to make it harder to do matching on numbers to identify aliases.

This is not a general proclamation.
China Expels Wall Street Journal Reporter After Article on Xi’s Cousin
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The only actual way to protect them is to purge any potentially compromising data immediately.
> The fix Telegram is working on would allow users to disable matching by phone number. That option represents a balance between making it easy for users to find their contacts and the privacy needs of those who rely on the app for protection against state security agents.

> Telegram hopes to help protect Hong Kong protesters with the update, the source said. But wide adoption of the optional security setting would make the app far harder to use for the vast majority of its more than 200 consumers, who rely on uploading phone contacts to identify friends and family members on the app, the source said.

Make the match 2 way then.

If you both have reach other's number allow the match. If it's one sided - deny.
> The federal government, in its three branches, accepts as fact that the President issues official edicts through Twitter.

Sure, but pretty much everybody in the world accepts as fact that he uses it to issue random nonsense as well. Surely you don't need examples of this.

Which comes back to my question: would you take real-life, consequential action based solely on a Trump tweet or would you look for verification elsewhere first?
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> IIRC SQLite's test suite has 3x as many lines of code as the code being tested

Actually it has a shocking 662x as many lines of tests as it has code[1].

I agree though, SQLite is an amazing piece of software.

[1]: https://sqlite.org/testing.html
re: needing an ID for SIM cards, that's interesting!

Here in New Zealand, I can freely purchase any prepay SIM without ID and use it straight away. Most, if not all dairies carry them too.
There was a recent talk on tupperware that gets into some of what Alex's team does: https://engineering.fb.com/data-center-engineering/tupperwar...
I think it's hard to make an argument that China has a lot of leverage on Telegram as an organization, but that could change in years to come. A decade ago, no one really thought Google would become this hostile to users and even seek to collaborate with the CPC govt and its totalitarian vision.

Everything you said about open-source applies to Android too. At the very least all kinds of backdoors are in Android phone because of chip firmware. But I guess you might be alluding to the fact that Tim Cook handed over Apple iCloud keys to the Chinese govt.
The UK is a very odd place. There is an entrepreneurial spirit but that is held almost entirely by people who will never become entrepreneurs.

The reason there is stagnation isn't "the rich". It is the vast swathes of middle-class people who are determined to get something for nothing. An investment without risk. A job without effort. Respect from others without ability. The list continues forever.

What is bizarre, but totally typical of the British media, is to blame "other people" for something that is obviously systemic (the BBC is, ironically, a great example of British feebleness).
> collect lewd photos of him from his phone and post them on his Twitter repeatedly

He's suggesting that anthony weiner was "framed" by some 3-letter agency.
> Do people buy into badges, leveling up, daily streaks, etc?

No (and yes). Some people who thrive off of tangible validation may, but you will not drive long-term engagement or real enjoyment from it. Badges/levels/streaks and other "meta-game" only add value to a strong game itself, and is just a small part of the more holistic art that is game design. Same with vibrant animations, cool sound effects, pretty particle effects. Another small part.

It's better than nothing, to be fair, but if you really want to make your apps enticing in the way games are, you should play and get into a few games, and then study the vast field of game design as you see fit - presenting a challenge with demonstrable mastery, balancing multiple viable strategies, social components, enjoyable mechanics, challenge pacing, providing flow state, etc.

Otherwise you will just end up with an app with badges, and we kind of have enough of those.
YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations
hah, that's funny. my wife is a montessori teacher. montessori likes to use kid sized things for kids hads. that means for example teachers like to use small glasses that the kids handle with ease.

so that means as a religiously non-alcoholic family we have shotglasses at home - on full display - on the kids toy shelf and so does the kindergarden.

i have to cringe every time i see that.
Unless he's making his own JS engine, it won't.
If your manager trusts you, and the organization is structured to support it, you occasionally get the chance to write a project in your language of choice. Be sure that you’re thoroughly proficient with the language, runtime, and tooling before trying to introduce it though.