skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But RMS is de facto leader and public figure in movement that is also political. He does not deserve the same level of consideration as normal HR headache would. Even if everything against him would be completely unjust, there is no requirement for just treatment for top leaders. They can be sacked for any reason whatsoever.

If his past behavior was sufficient justification for his sacking, then that should be enough. However, that is not why he was sacked. He was sacked on the basis of false allegations, and as an attempt by MIT to deflect from their own complicity in the Epstein scandal.

This is not (only) about finding a place for weirdo super-hackers to contribute to society (without bothering people too much) but about the truth dammit.
We have Java and .Net Core (trying as a replacement) internet facing and Node.js for internal APIs. All on Linux. Some of this is due to organizational reasons, not technical.

As for the "content" side, it is pretty stereotypical: Sass, TypeScript, AngularJS 1.xx (not a typo!), and too many npm dependencies. But there's too much NIH[0] between teams, which is why our structure is so important in other ways.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
I have never seen the claim that cell service providers played an active role in this. Do you have a source for this info? I am curious to learn more.
What you will hear are actual U.S. fighter pilots,
who are highly trained observers and weapons systems operators (WSO),
in an excited state over the experience.

"What the [expletive] is that thing?"
"Oh my gosh, dude"
I thought we were over the fact that news agencies don't need any help to discredit themselves.
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Doesn't this show that the map is actually 3d?
Perhaps it was the brightness or contrast of the sensor autoadjusting?
>It’s a funny fear, because today, being in the US vs. some other developed country takes about 7-8 years off your life.

Does it actually?

I assume that disparity is more to do with the populations of impoverished people around this very diverse country that can't compare to smaller European countries that just don't have those populations.

There is no Mississippi in Germany, those populations are in other countries.

If you compare the whole European Union to the US the disparity is much smaller.

>It’s a funny fear, because today, being in the US vs. some other developed country takes about 7-8 years off your life.

I think that is an exaggeration, I can't find that statistic anywhere.

But you have to look at people in your demographic, not the entire country.

The US has the best health care in the world if you can afford it.

Just about anybody can get insurance and set aside the max out of pocket costs to insure themselves and their family, but they will take a considerable hit in quality of life, home size, luxuries, etc. In other countries that health care is paid for with lowered salaries through taxes and quality of life takes a hit anyway.
> Who gets to decide who is a neo-nazi though?

> I’ve heard jordan peterson and steven pinker called neo-nazis.

It still isn’t clear to me what this brings to a discussion. It seems like such a strange question.

Are any of us under the impression that label misapplication somehow means a label is no longer used? Of course not. After 30 years in the same house, my partners mother still calls the tree in her front yard an oak tree despite the fact it has always been and will remain a maple. Her misapplication of the label doesn’t mean oak trees no longer exist. Tree experts, dendrologists and arborists aren’t throwing their arms up and declaring their entire fields deprecated because a random person, in a casual setting, uses the wrong term.

My father still calls disk storage, RAM.

My partner still calls the serrano peppers she grows, jalapeños.

I regularly see politicians who lean to the right call obvious capitalist liberals, commies.

I still sometimes call giant ships, boats.

None of these misapplications matter, there are still an awful lot of people who rely on what words actually describe, despite a random old lady calling a maple tree an oak.

As always, casual conversations with casual people will at some point lead to casual use of words. It will continue to happen, for as long as we’re a species.
> Also a Fi user, and the quality of my internet is almost entirely based on whether the carrier is Sprint or not. Sprint, at least around here, almost always has no upstream bandwidth, so you can't even get a request to go out.

I had a Pixel 2 XL back in the old "Project Fi" days, I had to manually switch basically every time my phone selected Sprint as the carrier because it was so slow. After the rebrand and the expansion to allow other phones but only route them to T-Mobile, I switched phones, and I genuinely get better coverage. (This isn't too just due to the phone hardware, either; on my old phone, the data speed would be fine after manually switching from Sprint to T-Mobile, so the benefit seems to be that I don't actually ever get routed to Sprint anymore)
Because it interferes with the idea of a TV being a display. A TV should not have apps. If it does have apps, these apps should not communicate data to the manufacturer. It shouldn't send back data about the operating system because a TV shouldn't have an operating system.
File complaints with any state and local govt agencies that will listen. SOS, ATG, UTC, etc.

The more complaints they have, the more regulators are empowered in taking action.
I was thinking it could be an anomoly of its signal processing (eg fusion) system. Look at the failures in AI systems posted here. There could be some inputs, bad training, or logic errors causing this.

Also, that fits with the jammer hypothesis, too. People are experimenting with feeding malicious input to NN's. They've messed them up with tiniest changes to image. One could probably do something like that with these techs, too.
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No, I just already use almost a terabyte with no backup activity at all, and how much I download is something I have to be conscious of. Having to balance that along with upload usage would be a significant hassle for me.
Could your system break the back of r/sanfrancisco? It has turned into tourist pics of the GGB, sunrises and double rainbows at the hands of moderators that want no dissent
I do not sense that you've read my comment critically. Because, for one thing, it says nothing about adverse effects increasing. Rather, the idea proposed is that effects can cluster together in time, without increasing in absolute quantity.

When a vaccine is administered, the probability of some reaction follows some kind of curve that initially rises, and then drops off. If two weeks have passed and no reaction has occurred, then the probability has already fallen off to a long tail that is next to zero.

With me so far?

So now if several vaccines are started at the same time, the "payload" parts of respective curves are superimposed now. If any effects occur, they will almost certainly occur within the next few days or couple of weeks of the administration. And that is the same period for all vaccines in the bunch.

It's almost unimaginable that synchronized start does not create a clustering effect of the probability of adverse effects.

However, in most cases that clustering probably desirable. If the adverse effects are boxed to within the same week for all vaccines, then people will experience less overall "down time" like fewer days off work or school.

Thus, don't have three vaccines just before going on a dream vacation booked months in advance. In fact, maybe don't have any vaccines at all (other than something related to the vacation destination!)
CDW sells them for pretty close to the comparable smart tv: https://www.cdw.com/search/Monitors-Projectors/Large-Format-.... They sell them for use in enterprises, but they have the same HDMI ports as the regular one.
This backend work has already begun (and can run posenet, albeit still slower than WebGL): https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs/tree/master/tfjs-backend-...
West coast right?
Weren’t there other similar stories from ATC and commercial pilots? https://www.foxnews.com/science/ufo-evidence-recordings-reve...
We use machine learning to extract the content of the page, which means when the webpage changes you don't have to update your selection like Octoparse.
Joshua Gans (my old economics Prof) did a study of births by day of week, and showed that the fall in weekend births was explainable by the rise in inducement and cesarean section procedures.

https://www.academia.edu/2808187/What_Explains_the_Fall_in_W...
Why is the best interpretation that she was a prostitute of questionable age as opposed to just... a prostitute?

Legitimate question, I haven't been following this closely enough to know. If it was reasonable to assume she was an adult I don't see an issue with it, but I don't have a moral objection to prostitution
I'm not insisting on specific source of bacteria. I mentioned it only as illustrative detail/example, and it only distracted (who knew that here would be a medical professional for whom getting such details right is naturally important - the same way like it is very distracting for coders when movies get computers related details wrong :) from the main point that baby coming out of C-section may have antibiotics in him/her which would screw with whatever gut microbiome "priming" scenario pre-/post- delivery he/she would be going through.
I can't watch more than 5 minutes of any YouTube video on my Samsung smart TV before an advertisement interrupts the video. Often several times for short videos. The ads are the same ones over and over too at the moment it's the J-Lo Hustler movie. If not that it's an ad from my local tourist board advertising my own home town.

It's getting to the point where it's not even watchable. I click back to exit and maybe go back later but I have hundreds of partially watched videos I've forgotten about.
New incubator to fuel life science innovation in Stanford Research Park
That doesn't work, because no one file exists in isolation. If you're using version 32.14 of this, you want version 32.14 of that, and this other thing. Versioned directories make this kind of grouping natural and easy, co-mingled hashes do not (and you could do both but you have the downsides of both and no real upsides).

Plus semantic versioning can help cross-team communication, there's no human understanding of raw hashes.
Uh, wouldn't the same thing happen as you enter a dead zone, or go underground? I'd sure hope that my phone isn't at risk of exploding in those circumstances...
No, the US is likely to be the other side of whatever the next major conflict is. If it's a major conflict it will likely end in nuclear war, even if it doesn't start that way. The US is the last place you want to be. Australia, New Zealand, or South America would be much safer, and the climate still amenable to growing food during the nuclear winter. In Australia and New Zealand the land area to population is also very high, which helps in a famine situation.

I like to think (hope? Dream?) That there won't be any more major conflicts now that we have nuclear weapons. But betting against the stupidity of politicians seems like a risky proposition.
It moved way beyond super sonic speed and had the movement pattern of a “ping-pong ball bouncing off invisible walls”, while hovering. Capt fravor saw this with his eyeballs, unfortunately we can’t record that, yet.
So a commercial display at a commercial price, but with a commercial warranty and support.

That actually sounds like the dream.
Slightly off topic, but the author of this article is Derek Lowe who I know from his series called "Things I Won't Work With" which contains some amazing facts and hysterical observations. He wrote a new entry in August that I hadn't seen (the first in a few years). Definitely check it out.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thin...
Minimum 4 pilots saw it, but only fravor and his WSO have been willing to speak about it.
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Correlation =/= Causation

There are way bigger fish for the US to fry other than Switzerland. FATCA wasn’t created because of Swiss banks. Claiming otherwise is ignorant.
Members of the military are required at times to lie to preserve secrets. Anyone in-the-know asked about the F-117, for example, would've been required by law to deny its existence.

There's another possibility, too; he's human, and humans frequently make mistakes. Eyewitness reports are incredibly unreliable.
I've made a point to not enable or connect my smart TV to any network. I'd rather use services over other devices anyway.

Granted there are plenty of other ways to get that data.
Thanks !
1. It changes the user experience but the underlying model stay the same and will allow our user to record session with inputs and clicks in next releases.
2. Indeed, if you can replay a session you check the data is what you expected. What solution have you tried so far ?
Are you sure about this? If the TV really is phoning home with whatever is on the screen, including anything personal the owner might happen to be displaying, that's a vast set of lawsuits waiting to happen. The GDPR fines alone could be staggering. I could easily imagine spyware logging whatever TV shows you're streaming and the like, but it's hard to imagine any business in this industry having lawyers dumb enough to allow sending actual screen images like that.
It's possible that it may have cleared its settings after being away from power for that long.
In my experiences in Sweden and the Netherlands, it's a struggle to use T-Mobile's 2G international data to perform simple tasks, even using Maps and sending messages on Signal.
Trying way too hard
Have you actually listened to any of his long form interviews? He’s either lying or telling the truth. No way, he just made a mistake. Oh and his WSO is lying, people on the Princeton, people in the DOD, etc.
Where did you find these numbers? From what I've seen Reddit never released any sort of metrics other than saying one specific Audi ad campaign did like 10x better or something. And Alexa showed lower traffic, higher bounce rate, fewer pageviews per visitor after the redesign[1].

[1] https://i.imgur.com/6dMCwoJ.png
> Even if it goes wrong, as long as you can roll back to yesterday's build, you are OK.

Except that when the versions are coming out too quickly, you don't know to which version you should roll back, because it took longer to encounter the problem (let alone pinpoint its origin) than the time between releases and several or even many occurred meanwhile.
How do Doctor's that use TVs like this in meeting rooms get around HIPAA? or other places with PII, etc? With so much stuff being thrown to TVs now, a lot of times they are inheriently monitors, and there are very few people who think taking a screenshot of a monitor is not invasive.
This sounds super cool! Can you say a bit more about your OpenSfM + OpenMVS stack? I've been idly interested in building 3d models from cell phone video for a while.
> they could have rewritten the site from the ground up, including any sort of data migration, multiple times over by now.

Sigh, every. fucking. time.

> I have never worked there, ...

or anywhere else where high traffic is involved, right? It's always the people without any real world experience who come up with these BS claims about how everyone else is stupid and how it could be done differently.

> ... but outside looking in, it seems like there is a significant lack of technical vision from them.

Exactly. You are looking from the outside at it. If you really think they lack vision you could make tons of money working for them and fixing their site, but you already knew that since you're not lacking vision, am I right? Seriously there are lots of good engineers working at reddit, learn about their constraints first before pissing all over their work in an uninformed HN comment.
I completely agree. I clean up with Emin and rubbish, and this project was initially inspired because I have a corgi vacuum cleaner who eats everything on the ground. Once I started scanning, it's impossible to unsee the litter. So we started cleaning and recording it!
> ". If not that it's an ad from my local tourist board advertising my own home town."

And they're paying for that. Well, more like, and YOU'RE paying for that.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en
People who are genuinely mistaken about something may talk very earnestly about what they believe they saw.

And, again, the military lying to uncleared civilians is hardly without precedent.
I think it's worth discussing this comment instead of downvoting it.

Fortunately, we can do both. Despite being nearly white, you can read the comment by highlighting it and it is still high the page, so it can be discussed. Seems like a model of how strongly oppositions should be treated.
But people aren't usually quibbling about it's misuse. They are objecting to unjust censorship, regardless of whether someone is called a neo-nazi or a flarndingle.

If someone was being harassed and censored because they were accused of being a flarndingle, I would have a problem with that. If corporate America were calling for mass censorship of "flarndingle" literature, I would be opposed to that.

I would not like being called a flarndingle if I knew it would mean that I would be censored. It does not matter that flarndingle is a meaningless word.

The term neo-nazi is actually quite abstract. For many younger people and activists, it has just become a synonym for "person I do not agree with".

It has become a catch-all insult that can be applied to anyone. There is nobody who that insult won't stick to. You can be a Jewish academic with controversial opinions about society and have "anti-fascist" activists target you for being a neo-nazi.

So, obviously we can't ban anyone that is called a neo-nazi.
Wikipedia is one of the Alexa top 10 globally (above Reddit, which is #20) and has 300 employees.
Linkbebch, to emulate and benchmark the social graph database workload
I already thought of that but it would be difficult because it is far less "believable" if an individual manufactured these things than if the government did it.

That is why things like all those Lochness Monster hotels go broke all the time. People start disbelieving that stuff quickly.
This doesn't even have 10 coins on it! Hopefully they had more pairs soon.
> We can argue about the value of those services but clearly it's >0.

From personal experience, I can tell you that (value of expatriate services) - (cost of dealing with US tax system) is a very deep negative value.
FWIW, I get better coverage with just T-Mobile on my OnePlus 6T than I did from Sprint/T-Mobile when I was on a Pixel phone; I generally had to manually switch the credit carrier whenever it selected Sprint because it was basically unusable due to how slow it was.
No work, no compensation, seems reasonable.
> The US has the best health care in the world if you can afford it

But you don’t need a US passport to access that, just a decent one.
The article cites things like location, IP addresses, and the content being watched.

That's a far cry from relaying an audio recording of a surgical conference containing HIPAA-sensitive data.
> Where is this "7-8 years" coming from?

My poor recall.
Not if they are unmanned subluminal probes that are really old and took thousands of years to get here. /pet theory
Not every network requires a password.
My Kindle's never been connected to the network (always in flight mode) since I got it and I haven't had issues. I use Calibri and a USB cable to load ebooks. Not sure, would it be possible for it to call home through the USB cable?
Did you miss the part where Reddit has 500 employees whereas FB has 40000? There was a point in Reddit history where there was literally 1 engineer.
reddit is going back to the reliability that they had a few years ago
Odd. Most of the discussion here is about the TV and the collection, few seem interested in where that data is being sent? Has the shameless nature of Netflix's and FB's privacy invasions been normalized? Ironic given that Snowden's book dropped this week.
What about a fourth option, multiple lasers projecting holograms.
That's honestly outrageous to the point of scandal. Aside from the point that these are expensive devices, these are devices that you own. You, the owner, should be able to control them to a complete degree.
"I have never experienced this thing, therefore this thing must not exist"
> What is in-vogue, however, is to be a nazi (little n, colloquial meaning, because I know sometimes people like to be pedantic) amongst the American right and alt-right, as the current American President's election has coincided with a revival of right-wing populism and white supremacist identity politics.

Can I offer a different perspective?

A vocal minority on the left likes to assert that everyone on the right is a bunch of nazis but that doesn't make it true nor does it make it "in-vogue". If you move past that broad group ("the right") and just consider the more vocal/visible/strident right-wing activists, they are almost all promoting western civ cultural values, which is not the same thing as "white-supremacy" but irks the multi-cultural crowd quite a bit as it requires making value judgements on other cultures and ideologies (which is not the same thing as making a value judgement on other races or people with particular skin colors). I think the visibility/growth of this group is more of a reaction to the identity politics, multi-culturalism, and intersectionality ideas of the left than to Trump's election.

And if you move past both of those groups to the remaining folks who are indeed advocating for some sort of race or blood based supremacy theory you are talking about a insignificantly small group that has no support anywhere, certainly isn't in-vogue, isn't being "revived" in any substantial way, and mainly serves as the bogeyman that the left uses to smear anyone who disagrees with them.
Documents reveal how Russia wiretaps phone companies
that owl looks pissed
Just this past week China blocked American's from leaving their country (exit bans), even though they didn't commit any crimes. That is seriously tyrannical level activity.

Can a foreigner get a bank account and buy land in China? How hard is it to get a job as an white westerner in China? What kind of jobs are prevalent for foreigners in China?

Look at the videos of people getting hit by cars there and no helps. Why? Because their legal system can end up putting more burden on those that help than those that just leave people to die. Feel free to point me to a video that says this not true, and I can show you a bunch that says it is.

China's policies on the Muslim population being put into re-education centers (remind you of a European country's actions in the early 20th century?) there are videos of these places online of it happening right now, not from clickbait vloggers.

China destroys churches, persecutes it's own people based on many types of religions. It has a social score system that blocks people from travelling.

This doesn't even cover government supported fraud, IP theft, espionage, currency manipulation, etc... The garbage China pulls on the rest of the world is overwhelming.

And you think that a couple vloggers are the cause of this bad press???
Anyone have experience with this? I heard the service is atrocious on iPhones at least.
Sounds like it has potential. Please consider ensuring everything but a very few tasks can be automated (e.g. in factorio the only thing you can't do is place trains).
So this is the excuse they're using to build infrastructure to scan through everyone's code to find whatever they want.