skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no stipulation in the constitution that only non profit association is protected. This is something you literally just invented on the spot.

That would be relevant if association was what was being regulated. Your ability to engage in commerce is what is being regulated and the US constitution makes it very clear congress and state governments have the right to regulate commerce. You are still free to associate or not associate with whom you please but if you associate with or refuse to associate with someone for purposes of commerce the government can restrict your ability to engage in commerce. This is similar to free speech,you can say or not say what you want but for example the government can force speech out of you by way of product labels and disclaimers in advertisements and restrictions on false claims. You can still say or not say those things regardless of the government but that does not mean the government can't use your speech or lack of speech as a criteria for engaging in public commerce.

> Who are these people that are simultaneously being refused service and don't deserve such. I have NEVER been refused service at any business in my life. I have only very rarely seen people refused service outright and they were all extremely odious extremely hostile people. At risk of being discourteous is it you and under what circumstances?

Let's not get distracted here,the discussion and my initial response here is specific to Sprint's refusal to do business with some customers. I don't know what criteria they used and since they provide public services I feel like their process should be regulated so that I can have some assurance they're not being allowed to do business while mistreating customers for profit.

Your lack of experience being in that position is irrelevant. Every complex system with power dynamics between multiple subsystems needs checks and balances.
To answer your question, I can't say I have been banned from any business,I have been mistreated and I have had to walk out of establishments. I have had bad customer service and fraudulent and scammy business practices have affected me in the past. I have also worked on the customer support end of this and have witnesssed first hand how looking down on and mistreating customers is rampant. There are far more mistreated customers than there are mistreated customer service reps. A lot of times people vent their anger or speak against the company and the support staff take it personally and become severly jaded against customers. That being said,there are a lot of terrible customers and banning many if them makes sense. If banning customers becomes acceptable I fear it will only be abused by bad employees or bad management at arbitrary companies. You can ban random customers and refuse transparency and regulation and the government can refuse to let you engange in public commerce.
> For example, Telemetry is out there, Phoenix, Ecto and Plug already use it, so there is nothing stopping anyone from implementing the dashboard right now!

That is very good to hear.

Is it still planned for Phoenix 1.x to have that /metrics dashboard as something that comes out of the box with little to no configuration or having to set up external tools?

The one mentioned in the 2018 talk you linked here: https://youtu.be/cOuyOmcDV1U?t=2147
Great idea, will give that a shot - thanks for the suggestion! :)
His face is already printed on toiled paper, I guess that’s the maximum he‘ll achieve.
> Whatever Americans want or not, they have the face the fact that most countries don't play "fair" and if they have the chance they will wipe the US as soon as possible.

Whatever <US enemies> want or not, they have the face the fact that the US don't play "fair" and if they have the chance they will wipe the <US enemies> as soon as possible.
Glad to hear that there's finally progress being made!(or if it has been on the way all this time, glad to see that it's finally getting to the point where final users can see a difference).

Are you involved in the fix? If so, do you have a rough ETA for the remaining changes?
Anyone could offer some insights on how expensive it is to really do this in one's backyard and where the backyard is best located? I remember joining a astrophotography group a few years ago, and the equipment setup and scouting process could be quite a burden.
Nice, I am an absolute amateur though, I was more thinking along the lines of practicing offline against the computer, but it's nice to know where to go, when I'm ready.
> The rich could also just get rid of all the poor people they don’t need

That still leaves the poor people they do need
The person is actually talking about a broad range of things that don't just apply to agile. It's a little bad to compare this area to religion but, for agile, the analogy is apt because people feel it's the "only" way to do things.

What this person is talking about is a part of engineering where no theory or science applies. Take these two examples:

1. Solving the problem of the shortest distance between A and B involves a line... this is covered by mathematical geometric theory.

2. The best way to travel from point A to point B in the United States is not covered by theory.

The two examples illustrate a dichotomy:

1. Problems that can be solved with mathematical theory or science.

2. Problems that can be solved with "Design"

Problem space 2 is the umbrella that agile falls under. Usually when we hit a problem related to 2 we employ the word "design." The design of a house, Object oriented design, the design of a bridge, the architecture design of the program, UX design... etc. etc. "Design" is a method to find a solution to a problem space that is either too complex or we have little theoretical understanding. Designing something is akin to guesstimating a solution. We do not have any proof that a "design" solution we arrived at is the "best" solution, we only know that it is "a" solution (after verification of correctness).

Agile is like object oriented programming because both are methods created by guesstimation aka "design." There is no theory or proof (though there could be correlations) that either is the best possible solution.

Agile is especially religious because of the specificness of it: A series of random rules to manage a project out of a solution set where trillions of rules and external factors apply. Intuitively, there is literally no way agile is the "best" solution. Until we can quantify the effectiveness of a project and until we experimentally employ other structures and methods for project management and SCIENTIFICALLY compare the effectiveness of all these methods can we begin to iterate toward a solution that is closer to "best."
Does Firefox really want to beat Chrome? Netmarketshare shows "Firefox - 9.28%, IE - 8.29%" on desktop/laptops, it's not the position to win the race.

Also, Firefox sends analytics/telemetry to Google - https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/11658588961766604...

Very strange decision for competing products, don't you?
As long as the web is a viable software distribution platform, the world will need "webdevs". 2019 is still a chaotic time for the platform, and winners and losers still haven't really shaken out, not even at a basic architectural level. There are profound questions about what computation gets done where, what side-effects happen where, which in turn influences everything about how software is built, tested, distributed, and run, and yet they aren't really answered so much as philosophized about.
With all we know about climate change, how can anyone advocate for keeping more people around longer? Seems like a real nightmare waiting to happen.
I think you don’t understand how cheap rural areas are. My Oregon family blanches at the prices even in Eugene, forget Portland or Seattle. It’s not at all clear to me that whatever subsidies (rent control, etc.) would be required to allow the elderly to live in Omaha would be less than the subsidies for keeping rural hospitals open.
Ben Eater did a video on driving a VGA display using a breaboard circuit. He builds up to it in his usual amazing teaching style, highly recommend:

https://youtu.be/l7rce6IQDWs
Ask HN: Why Services like Facebook ads/stripe are closing Venezuelan accounts?
Services like Facebook ads/stripe are wrongly closing Venezuelan accounts

Venezuelan users have been reporting that different services such as facebook/instagram ads [1], heroku services [2], stripe atlas [3], sedo [4], and others, have been blocking venezuelan users and terminating accounts due to sactions that they didn't even care to read, the sactions are pretty explicit at targeting only individuals and officials of the government [5] and there is even licences that allow these services to operate [6] and a faq [7] where this is explained

Even kayak.com (and all booking holdings sites) stopped accepting venezuela as a country of origin for flights, (see: https://i.imgur.com/nAouvUB.png) with a learn more link that goes to [5], and it makes no sense at all despite how much we need to buy plane tickets as people is fleeing the country.

So, what's the deal with these services closing their doors to 30million venezuelans when the sactions are targeting a defined list of individuals?

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[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=facebook%20ads%20venezuela&src=typed_query&f=live

[2] https://twitter.com/gonzalezlrjesus/status/1167833470116225025

[3] https://stripe.com/docs/atlas

[4] https://www.sumarium.es/2019/08/06/empresa-alemana-sedo-suspende-todas-las-cuentas-de-venezolanos-por-las-sanciones/

[5] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/venezuela.aspx

[6] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/venezuela_gl25.pdf

[7] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Sanctions/Pages/faq_other.aspx#venezuela
Not really.

From this German article[0]:

> Knoppix' Startvorgang läuft nach wie vor per Sys-V-Init mit wenigen Bash-Skripten, welche die Systemdienste effizient sequenziell oder parallel starten.

> Knoppix' boot sequence still uses Sys-V-Ini, with some bash scripts which start the system services efficiently sequential or in parallel.

So it has still all the downsides of sysvinit, except that might start sevices in a more efficient order or some in parallel.

[0]: https://www.golem.de/news/live-linux-knoppix-8-0-bringt-mode...
The certain aspects are important, though. Rental and ownership costs for housing are typically 2-4x or higher in an urban area versus a rural setting. When you're already on medicare and have a fixed income, that can make all the difference.

More than anything, though, it really boils down to lifestyle. Often times, suburban senior living communities are reasonably affordable as well, avoid the major pain points of city life, and work out things like deliveries of everything from food to pharmacy goods.
Why my daughter said no to Oxford University and yes to Leeds
It's because £50 notes have always been associated with fraud and money laundering, which has negative connotations for both users and merchants.
You're conflating a right to healthcare with a right to have someone else pay for it.
No, it's not a gigantic PITA anymore. Yes, _15 years ago_, which is what everyone's reference time frame seems to be, it was hard.

Now, there are many solutions that with 1 click do all the painful integrations.

https://mailinabox.org/, https://mailcow.email/, https://iredmail.org/

So please, everyone, stop saying mail is hard now when you don't have any recent experience. A lot has changed in 15 years
Alan Turing's achievements

* Designed the programming of world's first commercial computer (Ferranti Mark 1)

* Devised Turing Test, to test whether computer is capable of thinking like a huamn

* Got an OBE for his wartime services

* Inventor of Turing Machine. To this day, all stored-programme digital computers are modelled on this invention

* Built the machine that helped in the breaking of the Enigma code used by the German forces. This was used to decode 2 messages per minutes

* His work shortened the WW2 by atleast 2 years.

* Alan was a member of the team which decoded the 'Fish' cipher, which was used towards the end of the war by the German High Command to transmit messages between Hitler and senior officers in the field.
Seth Godin, who posts something positive every day at seths.blog (https://feeds.feedblitz.com/sethsblog)
Birth rate has fallen off a cliff. Nothing wrong with less people having kids also living longer if we can drive down our per capita environmental impact. Consider the value lost to humanity each time someone with decades of knowledge, wisdom, and experience passes.

Offer me immortality and I shall go explore the stars.

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate
You might be living in a bubble, fifty quid is much less than $100 and I see those notes all the time.

Getting currency exchanged before a trip? They give huge bills.

Buying a used phone or furniture from Craigslist? Are you going to pay with 100 twenties?

New ATMs even ask you the breakdown of bill sizes you are want.
It seems to me the claim is that identifying VOIP subscribers is not feasible.
People upvote things they find interesting, even if they don't (or can't) evaluate the quality of the specific thing.
If I misrepresented your comment, apologies.

I thought since I put:

"Do you have any evidence that all parties provided informed consent?"

And you said

"This is going over the top."

That you were replying that it is over the top. I'd be happy if you could clarify what you meant.
Library Genesis has almost everything.

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=Learn+C+the+Hard+Way
Run commands is funny since many modern tools use ...RC files which usually don't include direct commands, but declarative configuration.
It is, but it still a crucial amount of money for an open source project breaking through that obscurity barrier.
Wag's new TOS charges users $1000 for going off Wag
Pristina: An Airport Too Far (2018)
Fingerprinting with a test that the person is applying pressure through their fingers?
Beware people telling you things you want to hear.

Aubrey de Grey is most likely going to be remembered like the guy saying machine vision is a weekend project before any serious research took place.
Funny you should mention that - initially home videos were what I was doing this with, as I was unable to find any existing programs that could handle them reliably (or had various shortcomings, or weren't hackable/extensible, etc...). Then I realized that what I came up with actually competed pretty well with the existing solutions (benchmarks below [1]), so decided to open source it and share it with the world.

Of course, the project is still very basic in it's current form, but does offer a good platform for testing more advanced scene detection methodologies (and has also been used as a baseline in various research/academic contexts). There's been plenty of suggestions for other detection methods (e.g. using histograms) which I'm very interested in looking into adding for future releases.

Lastly, one thing I do want to address going forwards is the performance, to make the algorithms more suitable for real-time systems (have decided to rewrite the core algorithms in C++ when I have some time, and interface that with the Python library/CLI). That being said, I'm always open to feedback or different ways of approaching things. If you or anyone else has any feedback or suggestions, feel free to create a new issue on the Github issue tracker [2] and I would be happy to discuss the possibility of including it in a future release of PySceneDetect.

[1] https://github.com/albanie/shot-detection-benchmarks

[2] https://github.com/Breakthrough/PySceneDetect/issues
It's good that Turing gets put on a banknote - and about time.

However, the concept art in that article is really ugly. I'm not that familiar with British banknotes - are they usually that messy looking? Every piece of text is in a different font, and it seems pretty vulgar to have a quote on the note at all. There's even drop shadows! It honestly looks like something I'd put together in Corel Draw in the mid-2000s.
I went to a Fry's recently to buy some breadboards and simple chips and was pretty surprised to how hollow (the article's choice of word is totally right) they've become. I was surprised at first, but then realized it really made a lot of sense given how commerce has changed. Seeing it gave me a sad childhood nostalgia I never expected when going to an electronics store. I guess change really is the only constant.
Your linked issue says that certain types of source maps will work with Firefox. Can't you just use one of the working options (e.g, "eval-source-map" works but "cheap-source-map" does not).
I would not want to be in the position of ejecting. The stories I hear about bones breaking and even fatalities caused by the system seems like a risk in itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCORwUxlNQo - XB-70 mid-air collision ejection story

> ...Today, the ejectee will "only" suffer from 18 Gs...

Related: I'd like to extend this to also include atmospheric re-entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCxNIaBC_r8 (bonus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_bkY7-9c8s for channeling Rocky and Bullwinkle)

Diagram of re-entry window: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_entry#Notable_atmo...

There used to be ejection seats in early space shuttles (https://youtu.be/CwLx4L5NRU0?t=419). After the mishaps with SS there was discussion about reintegrating ejection mechanisms, but it'd add weight, cost a lot to redesign, etc. This documentary talks about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja4ZlswGvpE
I've dealt with this problem too, mostly in trying to log/debug real-time media processing where a log trace equivalent would be long chunks of floating point data at multiple trace points in the data flow.

I came to the same conclusion. Raw bandwidth to your logging endpoint is meaningless when you start dealing with big chunks of information, which is common sense I guess. You need a fast way to digest it into whatever format works for the person reading the log later, and it's tough to make it abstract since how data is interpretted can be quite varied even in the same application.
Sorry, language compression demands it.

If you want to push towards transcode, that's probably the most likely alternative. It's shorter too.
Where did I apply it to everything? To falsify an argument you only need one counterexample. I'm happy with all the alternatives (as mentioned before), but I'm not happy with a claim that can be falsified with the first example.
I was working at Amazon when the 2-pizza team idea was introduced. A week or two later, we though "we're a 2-pizza team now, let's order some pizza". That when we found out that there was no budget for pizza, it was merely a theoretical concept. At the time the annual "morale budget" (for food and other items) was about $5 per person.

These days I think the morale budget is a bit higher; in 2013 there were birthday cakes once a month.
So you are saying that my copter solution will not work in parts of the country and given a low-capability copter. Ok, I concede on this point.

Do you think it will work in other parts of the country, and with a more capable copter?
66 years from Kitty Hawk to landing on the Moon. Progress must start somewhere, and encouraging is more helpful than pessimism.

Even if I don’t live forever, maybe my kids will. That will meet my success criteria.
>I think you don’t understand how cheap rural areas are...

Just as a matter of full disclosure, I should let you know that I live in rural Wisconsin. I'm just trying to be as intellectually honest as possible about the subsidies that go into allowing me to be here.
This is a bit hard to say, right? Google is also responsible for the normalization of aggressive user tracking and the creation of the ad-ridden tire fire that is the modern internet.
Oh yeah, I totally forgot: You may be surprised by the newly released Amazon Polly Neural Text to Speech voices. I use them sometimes, too, now: https://aws.amazon.com/polly/
A lot of those small towns might as well be called exurb equivalents? When you have an s-bahn train running through your small town and commuting to work at BMW or whatever is 45 minutes anyway, why not stay there?
Well, seeing that there are only 24 hours in a day and that I refuse to work more than 40-45 hours a week....

There are two parts to any implementation - the parts that only you or your company can do - ie turn custom business requirements into code and the parts that anyone can do “The undifferentiated heavy lifting” like maintaining standard servers. Why would I spend the energy doing the latter instead of focusing on the former?

If I have an idea, how fast can I stand up and configure the resources I need with a private server room as compared to running a CloudFormation Template? What about maintenance and upgrades?

How many people would our company have to hire to babysit our infrastructure? Should we also hire someone overseas to set up a colo for our developers there so they don’t have to deal with the latency?
The article poses the question, is the agile structure the best way? Is it the only way?

Also, people do not need formal "structure" to communicate concepts. Is strict formal structure over projects better or less strict?

The closest way of knowing is to run scientific experiments. However, this is akin to running experiments to determine whether communism or capitalism is better. It's brutally hard to come up with an experiment or even the resources to run such a thing.

This is the article's point. If there's no science or theory backing agile or OOP up.... why do we, by default, consider it the "best" way and make it so ubiquitous? His answer is religion. OOP and agile are religions.
I think one of the hard things about operating any server is securing it.

If the author is arguing that 'mail is easy now' you can't make that argument without addressing the security aspect. I hate google and I still use gmail because their project zero team is so good.

Big consumer tech companies are finding their own ways to make this argument: apple with privacy, google with security research, even facebook with providing better privacy controls, although this isn't in their DNA and they'll fail. More products are supporting MFA/FIDO now.

If 'mail in a box' etc are going to convince me to self host (which I would love to do), security is the missing piece.
Actually, skin in the game explains his feud with Nate Silver.
Seam Carving Demo
> Why do you think that? The article mention exactly this could just be a myth that perpetuates because people repeat it without actually trying it.

Not sure about OP, but many people have tried it and it is a PITA. Even once you have everything setup right (SPF, DKIM, etc.), you still have to deal with IP issues. I ran my own mail server for years (actually, still do for incoming) and it worked fine for about 10 years until I needed to switch providers and got a new IP. Then I found I had to deal with an IP with no reputation and IP whitelist/blacklists. The deal breaker was finally dealing with blacklists that you had to pay to keep off of.

UCEPROTECT was the one at the time. They would randomly add my provider's entire IP space to one of their lists and during those times all email to a couple ISPs would bounce and the only way to get my IP whitelisted from those blanket bans was to pay $$. Switched to using an external provider for outgoing mail and haven't had a problem since as they take care of that crap.
Railroads are spaced much further apart than highways, and the train schedule may not be that great when you're in a hurry to get to the hospital.
Anti counterfeiting measures, perchance?