skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Campaign against Amazon funded by those that are against Amazon" might be burying the lede.

Far more interesting imho:

>The grass-roots support cited by the group was also not what it appeared to be. The labor union says it was listed as a member of the group without permission and says a document purporting to show that it gave permission has a forged signature. The Boston professor says the group, with his permission, ghost-wrote an op-ed for him about Amazon but that he didn’t know he would be named as a member. The California businessman was dead for months before his name was removed from the group’s website this year.
I think this is the wrong question. I think you should find better compassion for yourself. Understand why you didn't do something the way you wanted. That's useful learning about yourself, other hackers, and the software development process on general.

Are you doing work where you don't care about it's quality? Why do the work? Some part of you didn't care about the result, or didn't believe that the additional quality would actually pay off.

That's completely normal.

Understanding which one and why is honestly far more interesting than most personal software projects.
Since when did anyone ever expect due process when being fired? This is a world where you can be fired for showing up 30 seconds late because of a road closure.
Yes that's how I would react. So what. It's only Twitter. There are plenty of alternatives.
Dirty water is cleaner than clean water. Pure H2O can drain minerals from your body. You can just boil the water and retain most of its mineral content. [Boiling also separates excessive calcium.]
Those poor politicians, we can't expect them to read laws before voting on them. They must of gotten confused because they have so many checks to cash and speaking gigs to preform.
I wonder if there's a startup (or multiple) here? If you take GABA supplements it has some minor version of the affect of alcohol, and if I remember correctly alcohol is a GABA inhibitor. Is there a way to engineer a better, safer, equally or more enjoyable alcohol, maybe with less judgement impairment?
I feel exactly the same way about DNA testing and therapy. I think is speaks more about our health industry in the US (assuming since it sounds like it) than to any personal issues with going to therapy or getting these DNA tests.

Why do we live in fear of our own healthcare system? It's truly upsetting for US citizens to fear getting professional medical help.

It's like if you got into a car accident and your car is totaled, but you try to fix it yourself and keep driving it around because you fear the repair costs.

We're all just broken cars afraid of going to the mechanic.
You missed the (clever) point.
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One malicious push/release effectively enables every user on browsers that have not transitioned to the passive list/filter model of blocking to be completely owned.

It is not about intent, it is about the many many extensions out there that use this feature set for good intent, but inherently open the risk of a full on traffic funnel should they be exploited * the number of users for each of them.
This is perfect example of mob mentality in action.

At no point Stallman was defending sex with minors. And yet, here you are, extremely offended at him for something he didn't say.
Here's what keeps me on social media:

* YIMBY activism. Facebook especially is a great, low-friction way to get new people involved.

* FB can be a great way of sharing, say, photos of kids or activities or events with people who are... maybe a bit more peripheral than friends I see every day, but who I still find value in keeping in touch with.
As much as I can welcome more options for EVs, I just can't trust VW with electronics and software. It's catch-22, traditional automakers sucks at electronics and software, but tesla sucks at making cars.
In a sense, 3D models are the ultimate compression of 2D information, and therefore the most amenable of 2D transfer learning?
DRAM latency for a random access read can get into the low hundreds of cycles on modern multi-socket devices. But the streaming bandwidth remains very high. Cache systems will routinely prefetch the next block ahead of an access if they detect that memory is being used sequentially, eliminating a huge chunk of that pipeline stall.
Obviously, "not adding" is good but not sufficient. We need to decrease the population. There are multiple ways to do that (all unpopular): 1) (the obvious) actively kill some people. That would work but most people don't like that option. 2) inactively kill some people - by not trying to feed everyone, not trying to prolong the life of sick people etc. That's also not popular (but would help). 3) forcefully reduce increase by placing limits on numbers of children per person, forced sterilisation etc (also not popular). 4) Just wait; the climate change we've started + the rapid decrease in resources available will at some point force a massive die-off. That seems to be what everyone is going for..

You cannot fix overpopulation while still keeping your empathy and "everyone has a right to life" hats on. There needs to be a decrease and it will have to be ugly and unpleasant. No way around that. It's either survival of the species or the death of humanity. You have to take off the civilized glasses if you actually want to fix the global problem (which is the number of humans inhabiting the planet beyond its sustainable limits).
One alternative I haven't seen mentioned is Glimmerblocker[1]. There may be good reason for this—it looks like the last commit was a few years ago—but I know it still works in High Sierra at least. However, it's been a long time since I used the program regularly.

Glimmerblocker is unique in that it doesn't use Safari APIs—it creates a proxy to filter traffic before it gets to the browser. Despite that, it's quite powerful; I remember using it to make an extensive Javascript patch for one site.

(I vaguely remember something about Glimmberblocker needing SIP to be disabled, but there's nothing about that on their website now, so I'm not sure. I keep SIP off anyway, so I wouldn't know.)

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1: https://glimmerblocker.org
One year with numbers that small doesn't prove it yet though. Maybe they're just exited about the possibility of another referendum on Scottish independence. Who knows, with this data.
This seems like a massive boondoggle and a potential security issue.

No thanks.
https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/opolicy/operating_policy_...

The facility is being extended and will run daily through October 10.
This is the argument about renewables as far as I'm concerned.

Even if there was no such thing as climate change, long-term we still need to eventually move to renewables.

We have all the non-renewables as the fuel to do so. We can't continue to waste them - once they are gone, you can't bootstrap a renewable energy system.
Smartcat is exactly what I was looking for, looks really great! Thank you so much.
I go to conferences for two reasons: to meet people and learn stuff. And really, as I am generally poor at meeting people, the learning part is the bulk of it. So, really, I completely disagree with the foundation of your statement.

Whether or not information is technically available, there are any number of reasons why conference presentations are useful. They provide synthesis of information from multiple sources. They provide use cases and experiences. They dive into things that are poorly documented. They present information in a different mode. They highlight things you might have missed. They share with you the presenter's thinking about thorny issues.

After all, what publicly available resources on the Internet do you actually hunt down when you're researching something new? Chances are, posted conference decks and videos are a big part of them.
This is what, in marketing, is called "positioning".

VW is trying to "position" their car as the default electric car, or at least, the only viable alternative to Tesla.

If you don't set your own position, then your competitors will set your position for you. Now it's up to Tesla (or whoever else) to re-position VW, without looking nasty doing it. "The ID.3 is good choice if you can't afford the extra $3k for a Tesla. But only a Tesla has all the features you need, and will keep your family alive in an impact". You don't say "Tesla good, ID.3 bad". This makes you sound nasty. You say "ID.3 good if <scenario that doesn't apply to customers>, but Tesla better if <scenario that applies to customers>"

It's all marketing nonsense at this point until the car exists.
I have a hard time believing the issues bringing people to therapy have changed towards global crises and dictatorships and politics, in these company worker cohorts.

I think it’s really just that the employers treat workers badly and don’t pay them enough to escape personal life anxieties in the super expensive urban areas they are requires to live in for these jobs.

Bait & switch jobs, stalled out career progress, salaries that seem high on paper but don’t go far at all, insane open-plan offices whipping up anxieties all day every day, disallowed to pursue good craftsmanship.
You're being sarcastic, but most laws are massive and legislators don't read them before voting on them. They depend on aides and lobbyists to figure out what bills mean.
Heaven forbid users choose to trade performance for a more usable browsing experience. Ads/tracking vs blocking is a war, and preventing blockers from running arbitrary code will cripple blockers, allowing technology to be developed by hugely funded ad companies that effectively bypass blockers due to these limitations. Providing a blocklist is completely insufficient for totally blocking ads and tracking, as anyone that has used the content blockers on iOS has observed.
Satellaview – Nintendo's Forgotten Console (2015)
JavaScript: iPhone 11 performs 20% better than Macbook Pro (2.7ghz i7)
"They even call a specific item distribution a "seed" which is terminology borrowed from the randomizer community."

Random number generators have been getting "seeded" for decades now; that terminology may well predate video games entirely, though I can't prove that either way with an HN comment's worth of effort. Probably originates from a "seed crystal" in chemistry, which goes back even farther.
Indeed and in 2012 even Microsoft suggested a minimum of 1024 bits.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2661254/microsoft-s...

At this point I think 2048 or 4096 is recommended.
I made this because it came up too often that I had to process CSVs. I would write a quick ruby script for that, but ruby isn't really ideal for doing stuff like joins and other things, so I wrote this.
Bezos promises Amazon will be net-zero carbon by 2040. His workers want more
Working link:https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/35-billion-star...
This was my thoughts exactly. I am fairly well off comparatively I make way over minimum wage and there is no way I would consider a car that expensive. Affordable to the masses is more like $20,000 Canadian. That would be the price I could call affordable to the masses. Even a 20,000$ purchase would be hard for most people in my town. As someone who has not looked at EV car prices if this is what they call affordable I guess am still a long way off from owning an EV.
What AWS does is easy in the small scale but hard on a large scale. The core tech is about giving you a seemingly unlimited supply of object storage, disks, virtual machines and networks to connect and isolate them. This is something a hundred companies have been doing for years but AWS is in the lead thanks to their level of tech that has made the buying of computer resources fast and easy.

Simply said: buying basic VM/dedicated machines has been around long enough that it is not a black box for professionals.
Tesla is adding over 100k vehicles a quarter to the fleet. 100k trucks over 5 years is a drop in the bucket.
Most of the grassroot campaigns, if not all, are organized and financed by individuals and companies for their benefit or for political benefit. In the olden days, loyalty would organize a distant revolt so the king would be forced to march to a distant land. In the meantime, benefits will accumulate, either by making king poorer, distracting him, or by coup d'etat. Same thing here. I don't believe for a moment that any of the grassroot campaigns, either political or business, are spontaneous nowadays. Maybe 0.001% are, but that's it.
I'm surprised more cyberpunk authors didn't anticipate that wars between corporations wouldn't be fought using hackers or "street samurai", but with teams of propagandists competing to do a better job of bullshitting the general public.

Yes, I'm calling marketers and advertisers propagandists. As far as I'm concerned, marketing and advertising are nothing but private-sector psyops.
"I think it is morally absurd to define 'rape' in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17."

"I think that everyone age 14 or above ought to take part in sex, though not indiscriminately. (Some people are ready earlier.)"

"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily [sic] pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."

- Richard Stallman

Source:
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761718975/free-software-pione...
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Your computer is a desk weight without the (or an) OS and software that runs on it. Each os/or software package down to libraries make trade offs that restrict their usage from general purpose to a specific set of functionality. It is impossible to write a line of functioning code without constraining the concept of "general purposes" as you have implied above -- each line of code does "something" not "Everything" by its very nature.
Is that the way it should be? And if not, are you saying that there's no point in arguing for something better?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury

Learn the difference between a legitimate loan and predatory practices. There is a distinct difference between capitalizing on a market and pure exploitation. The Wall Street/Harvard Business ideal is the latter.
Boycotts, strikes, and pressure campaigns against companies have a long track record of working. It's hardly wasted effort.
Relatedly, be sure not to make your email address public if you don't want to be contacted! HN is a deceptively public place, you may end up with unwanted messages before you know it.

I'd suggest something not quite as easily scrapable/spammable as your email address, but I'm not sure what the best alternative is.
That reasoning is just plain wrong. The memory usage has almost nothing to do with the field where it will be used. It will depend on the size of the model being run on the board.

The size of that model will be determined by the number of weights used. Being that industrial automation will likely use CV, that will mean the potential for a lot of weights.

Same goes for any other non trivial use case.

So yeah, 1GB is paltry.
Except the Vietnamese were not living among the Americans in the same cities. That would've complicated matters a lot. Would we have carpet bombed Chicago? Napalmed people hiding out in Yosemite?
Which was just released today and is currently being downloaded at my house.
I didn't like that fact either. If you have a big battery and only need to charge once in a while it would not be so painful but with the smaller battery combined with the slower charging I wonder if it would get tedious waiting for it to charge all the time.
That’s very high and noble but look at France and les Gilets jaunes. Even voting in people willing to bite the bullet and pull the trigger on much needed actions is not enough.

And that’s a shame because the general consensus is that in terms of effectiveness (i.e. not accounting for economic fallout), simply directly taxing CO2 emissions at “only” $60-100 per metric ton would work instant miracles.
They also worked on IM Meen and its sequel, which retained a lot of the art style from the Zelda CD-i game animations (and garned some of the same internet infamy as a result).
I don't downvote. It is a cowardly habit.

There is nothing wrong with investing in a productive enterprise and expecting to share in the profits of that enterprise.

If a man is starving (or, worse, has convinced himself he needs a new iThing when he does not) and you loan him money you are either violating charity or enabling debt-peonage, respectively.

This is setting aside the exponential nature of compound interest, which is why debt-based economies always go bust, and focusing on the individual morality of the transaction.
Thanks, but what "conspiracy tinge?" Planning for likely future conflict scenarios is what governments and militaries do. They have entire departments full of people who do it full time. It's not at all unreasonable to think they've looked at climate change and the possible outcomes and that powerful factions within government (and elsewhere) may have come to conclusions like what I wrote.
>Our culture has made a very bright line decision that sex with people of the same sex is unacceptable. Expressing doubt about this cultural norm, or especially advocating against it, is considered unacceptable. Of course one can argue with the merits of those two facts, but they are plainly true and fairly widely accepted.
A lot of the "campaign" against Amazon takes place in EU courtrooms where no rival company is focusing our attention on their transgressions.

It seems unlikely that competitors have no influence on what the EU chooses to pursue in courts.
Technically, BS Zelda no Densetsu [1] is a re-release with updated graphics, but I see your point. I believe Zelda 1 & 2 gameplay do not translate well to modern audiences, so it's easier to just re-release them in their original form instead of merely updating textures or going for an all-new remake. Link's Awakening was a much fitter candidate for the latter.

By the way, the Oracle games were originally intended to be a remake of Zelda 1 [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview_games_from_The_Leg...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Oracle_of...
'Everyone Should Have a Moral Code' Says Developer Who Deleted Code Sold to ICE
Seems like a great way to get spammed to death. (Pauses to build a scrapper to collect HN user emails).
Extremely rare stratospheric warming shows no sign of ending
If you're not getting paid for this comment, you could be.
Damn, in the first 5 minutes of Dyer's talk there's the best argument for Brexit that I've ever seen.
I actually find the Apple Watch prompts to get off my arse if I haven't stood up in the last hour to be really quite useful. I'm sure there are cheaper ways.
There's really nothing at all preventing Chrome from doing that today if they wished... they can manipulate the page before and after the Adblocker sees it.
If you're interested in econometrics, I highly recommend checking out Marc Bellemare's "Metrics Mondays" blog posts, which are full of useful, pragmatic advice for applying econometric methods to real-world data: http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/metrics-mondays.

If you're coming from an ML-focused approach to statistics, studying econometrics can be an interesting change of pace, because the focus is totally different. ML practicioners tend to be focused on prediction, while econometricians tend to focus on causal inference - utilizing pseudo-experimental variation within the data to estimate causal effects between variables. This turns out to be really hard to do correctly, and learning the pitfalls can make it easy to identify potential weaknesses in other research.

Most econometric work has historically been done in Stata, although it seems like both R and Python have been increasing in prominence a bit recently.
So you’re not a bad person. If you design it like a bank, charge a reasonable interest rate, deny people you know can’t pay you back, and give up on getting a return on people who legitimately can’t pay you back for unforeseen reasons. That would be fine.

But what these companies are doing is essentially giving a loan to anyone, at an incredibly high interest rate, to pretty much anyone who applies. If they can’t pay back, they keep increasing interest, charging fees and if it get really bad, they will make claims on the victim’s future wages.

You’re a bad person if this is how you do it.
I had one use-case I often came back to emacs' Magit for, and that was to more easily navigate the history of a file or of a particular function. I wrote this to make it easier to see a function's history from the command line.
True. I suppose pound-a-tin Polish beers from the corner shop would go away too.
Parents do not give up control of their children by sending them to public school. (At least, not in the sense I meant. They do, voluntarily, give up some control, but that's not what I was talking about.)

But parents being required to send their children to public school is a forced removal of control from parents. No, I will not join you in advocating that (not even if you include your restricted version of private schools). I trust the median parent to decide what's best for their children more than I trust the state.
Devils advocate here, is it safe to say that capitalism is a type of credit system that allows upward mobility except for it is based on greed and not being "trust worthy"?

I dunno there is a part of me that wishes the propaganda was true. It would be nice to live in a world where everyone is nice and respectful of each other. No lying, no cheating, etc. I'm sure that it's not implemented well at all in China, and resembles more of a Police State hellscape than anything but there is a part of me wishes that bad landlord I had or that person who ripped me off etc weren't able to get away with it so easily.
God forbid someone not create another Ubuntu derivative that isn't substantively different than every other Linux distro on earth, right?
Yes there is. People are worried about scams all the time, much more often than in the west.
Browsers and extensions aren't black boxes; it's easy to inspect them for this kind of behavior.
Found the China shill!
Personally my issue with my work in tech is the cognitive dissonance between the collective belief that we’re all “changing the world” and the reality that most of us are doing very little to do that and/or that deep down we actually believe that the company we are working for actually has a net negative effect on the world.
Remind HN: Don't put contact info in your profile or else you'll get spammed