skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only winners in class action lawsuits are the lawyers. It seems like class actions only exist to effectively serve as law enforcement ie the private-sector version of attorneys general.
Echo Show camera can identify items thanks to Alexa’s Show and Tell
Why would you feel the need to defend it? It's your bandwidth. Your paying for it. Filter the content you access however you like with a clear conscience.
Preventing the search may be hard. But I don't see a problem with disallowing hiring discrimination based on such information (which is likely already the case).
That's a pretty pessimistic view, with no basis in reality.

Fact is, the world has more people than ever, yet is richer than ever, there's less poverty and hunger than ever, the world is more peaceful than ever, and there's certainly no signs of collapse and certainly not in 1 decade smh...

If you truly believe that we're a decade away from collapse, why aren't you stockpiling food and weapons in a bunker? Because there's no sign of political will from the major CO2 emitters to curb emissions so your worst case scenario is definitely happening, right? People say these things, yet I don't see any of the climate alarmists actually doing things to indicate that they're alarmed...
Datacenter Hardware Is Changing
I fight this urge every day because of pain and have great empathy for both you and your wife. I was left in constant pain by badly done and, ultimately unneeded surgery. I have been off and on medication for many years now and have fought the system the entire time. I was recently cut off again after a long term doctor retired and the new options are all fairly hostile to pain patients.

The thing that is the hardest is that ultimately the best pain control for me is a safe and calm lifestyle and decent healthcare in the right conditions I can survive without medication, but with the loss of health and money goes your access to that lifestyle and healthcare, increasing the need for meds, at a time and situation in which you can least get them. I've tried nearly everything, at least that I can access, and that access, mainstream and alternative just gets worse here in the USA. I just need a small flat and a simple life in a city with connections and resources. I am stuck in the opposite.

I had a great, once in a lifetime, accomodative job opportunity abroad from a member here that I couldn't get to because of worsening pain and life stability and I sunk further as a result. Should have just gone and failed and gotten it over with rather than suffering more in worse conditions. It's a pit of quicksand once you get in it. It's hard enough in countries with good systems, but in the USA it's hopeless. I am now stuck in rural nowhere in so much pain with no good healthcare and transport and a horrid quality of life. I am over the debate and the "opiod crisis" and people's judgement here...I just want out and stable if thats even possible anymore, or it over. Tired of suffering every day.
Thanks again! I might just try this out. Just one small thing: I was expecting this to be a wlroots PR. Why would it be sway-specific?
> The thing that bothers me the most about framing this as "foreign influence" is that precisely no one knows even remotely accurately how much foreign influence is taking place in Western countries, but this meme has been repeated 24 x 7 for years now, typically with hat tips to "evidence" (which is usually just a narrative based theory based on some inconclusive circumstantial evidence, if you follow the thread of evidence through the articles), that the majority of the population seems not just completely convinced that it is an epidemic, but they will passionately argue against anyone who asks where's the beef.

But that's the thing, if people don't really know how much trolling, extremism, and disinformation is real vs. manufactured, Russian intelligence services have achieved their goal. People will argue over nothing, accuse others of being bots, and imagine new conspiracy theories based on the idea that foreign hands are meddling in things.

The goal is to sow chaos, so if people respond with hysteria, that still achieves the goal. Understanding and not reflexively reacting to trolling, regardless of the source, is what can blunt the influence of the behavior. If people are not even aware of the deliberate trolling attempts, it's less likely they'll be able to counter it, or at least ignore it.
This seems more like a movie script expectation of what doomsday would be like. Doesn't history show that in most cases of natural disaster, communities tend to come together rather than devolve into violence? We always assume it will be everyone for themselves, everybody armed to the teeth, etc. Even in America I doubt that's how it plays out.
> They always do these domains for settlements.

I know that. It makes me twitchy every time.

After the big Equifax breach, someone made a spoof site of their informational page, and Equifax themselves accidentally linked to it. (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/business/equifax-fake-web...)

> there doesn't seem to have been many issues before.

Again, sure. I'm surprised scammers haven't changed that yet.
I agree. Fair or not, I associate that with being rather sheltered. They’re just words, and a “bad” word uttered into the void, not directed at anyone in particular, has no power over you. To see people recoil over a simple “fuck!” when I stub my toe suggests a naïveté that I don’t have time for.
Lately Google and Bing have been pushing searches for medical terms away from Wikipedia and towards WebMD, but that article says WebMD is funded by drug companies, and is itself suspect.

Wikipedia has remarkably fair treatment of controversial topics such as rBST.
an ad-free version of Facebook

Are ads the problem, or is mining and selling your personal information? I'm more afraid of the latter, and even if you're paying to remove display ads, your data is still going to be mined.
Related good read: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/16/against-against-pseudo...
Yes. Radio and podcasts aren't entitled to their business model working, especially if their business model involves purposefully exposing their listeners to harmful material.

I believe ad blocking is ethically justified on the grounds that it's just defending yourself from other's unethical behavior, and that you're entitled to do so - claiming otherwise would imply you're supposed to be forced to sit through entirety of a performance. That would be absurd invasion of your autonomy.

Also note that you are not paying radio hosts/podcast authors through advertisements. The ad network is. The exact payout structure is complicated and agreed upon without involving me the listener, but it boils down to parties speculating that a fraction of ad impressions will turn into eventual boost in sales, and money flowing from advertisers, through networks, to publishers, based on that expectation. At no point was I consulted in this, so I feel no obligation towards participating in whatever deals these parties set up between themselves - doubly so given that I'm being harmed by those deals.
I don't think anybody has shown that NNs produce better predictions of protein models (yet).

The limitations of MD aren't well understood. We don't know the implications of using a polarizable water model other than to say "it should be more accurate".

All the statements you make about NNs apply to MDs since MDs are basically feedforward ASTs with the same level of complexity and non-linearity as NNs.
Thank you for sharing this.

Someone I love has chronic pain managed with (legally prescribed) opioids, and they have constant low-level anxiety that a bureaucratic mixup will result in their medication being denied (or heaven forbid they lose a prescription, or that they'll need a refill when their doctor is on vacation and the locum will be 'suspicious of drug seeking behavior'.

They had to sign a document that if they lost a prescription, they understood that they would be denied a refill, even though (a) there isn't actually any reason to physically hand them the piece of paper, it could all be done between the doctor and pharmacy, and (b) people with chronic pain typically also exhibit various degrees of 'being distracted' due to that same pain.

I could go on, and TBH, my friend hasn't had any gaps in getting their medication, but the current wave of anti-opioid hysteria is concerning.
The problem with Greta Thunberg’s sea crossings
Where do you think those differences in social status competitions originate from if not from brain differences?
This is not a good thing.

Ad-blockers on the internet are justified because of invasive tracking. Radio and podcasts have no such thing, and ads are are central to their sustainability.

If you want to push the world to improve, you can't just rage blindly, you have to identify and move towards a solution that's sustainable for everyone. In the case of ad-supported businesses and services, this means non-tracking, non-intrusive advertisement (combined with subscription models, but that doesn't work for everything).

If you want to push back against tracking in ads, you have to support non-tracking ads. Otherwise there's no incentive for anything to change.
A good strategy is probably moving to a rich country now, before the unprecedented refugee crisis starts.
https://gharpedia.com/stamp-paper-judicial-non-judicial-stam...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamped_paper

Quote from wiki - "The use of stamped paper in the American colonies was so unpopular that it has been credited with sowing the seeds of the American Revolution"
Suggestion: Read Foucault.
Adding Trigonometric Optimizations in GCC
A short video explaining Internet Data
There's also an important difference between recess and progrogation.

Recess is just a quick break for the conference season, and is normal at this time of year. Progrogation brings all parliamentary business to an end, bills are not carried over to the next session (so work on them has to start from scratch), and select committees can't sit. That's a very different state of affairs.
Ask HN: What are some gray area industries you know?
Examples of what I mean by gray area industries:

- Programmatic advertising with its privacy issues

- Cryptocurrencies with its KYC issues

What else?
I accidentally became a self-taught web developer
I agree. I actually started using FB again (to a small extent) because I bought an Oculus Go, then an Oculus Quest. The Quest is such a good product and some of the material produced for it is so very good, that it is something I am going to use.
Podcasts are RSS feeds. Not "like" RSS feeds, literally RSS feeds. There are are dynamic ad inserts on some (usually from bigger companies), but they're limited to GeoIP and time. The OP is absolutely correct in that podcast ads cannot use cookies or device IDs.

This is in large part why we're starting to see companies make "podcasts" that aren't podcasts at all, requiring proprietary players. At that point they really don't need to sell ads against their shows, because they're collecting data on you in a way that a podcast you're listening to on a typical podcast player absolutely cannot.
There are over 100 million farmers in India. If India farmers had the US suicide rate you would expect ~40 suicides per day.
Multivariate Calculus for Data Science – Ankit Rathi – Medium
In general, people find it difficult to fairly value the enjoyment they get from consuming arts and entertainment, compared with other uses of their time.

A person who will gladly pay $15 for a table-service meal, and add a $3 tip to it, for roughly 60 minutes in a restaurant, or pay $12 per seat to watch a feature film lasting 90 to 180 minutes, will nonetheless complain bitterly when paying $1 for a 60-minute podcast or e-book novella, or grumble about a $20 ticket for all-day admission to a museum.

If you don't pay for the content you enjoy, you are driving the content creators into the unctuous arms of the advertisers, and forcing them to keep their day jobs. Paying direct to the creator is one of the best ways to support their art.

$1 per podcast episode is not egregious, presuming it contains some scripted content or guided improv and some production polish, like editing and foley. It does, however, limit the number of podcasts one person can follow on a median income.

It might be a better model to lower the price of the admission ticket for podcast followers, and then sell premium physical-goods merchandise using the brand trademarks once they are in the fold, for those who can afford to spend more. That is, charge $1/month or $10/year to listen, and also sell limited-edition t-shirts, or figurines of the characters, or laptop stickers, or autographed episode scripts, or backpack/keychain fobs. A higher cost to access the lowest tier of fandom also limits the growth of the fan-base, and having a big fan-base is where the money really is, not from the mass-market canonical art, but from the exclusive perks available to richer and more dedicated fans. The end-goal of building a brand is selling one or more Veblen goods, and one of the ways to get there is by accumulating so many fans that some small percentage will be willing and able to subsidize all the others.
Context helps. A good friend is probably not cursing at you when you walk into the pub and he yells “how ya been, you old asshole?”
Kik chat app shuts down as company goes “all in” on Kin
If you die, you don't have to watch them starve to death next week.

If there's a 90% chance you die storming the compound, a 10% chance you survive storming the compound and obtain food and a 100% chance you die if you don't find food soon, why wouldn't you take the chance at survival?
Why, the patriarchy of course
Civilized Internet economies have moved way past people giving every service or merchant their credit card numbers. There is a number of alternative payment schemes which share less information with the money recipient, and doesn't let them pull money off one's account.
Thank you! I agree, mobile design will be the next thing up for sure.

That would be sweet! Shoot me an email: hello@stack.app and we can talk about an API!
You appear to have confused BoJo with the ONS. I did not.

> The nation isn't tearing itself apart

We'll have to disagree there. Granted it's not actual civil war but it's politically stressed badly.

> We lost. It's over. The vote was to leave. Let's leave.

What is so terrifying about having a 2nd (and final) vote to check we haven't changed our minds? Specifically, what is wrong with it? Are people not allowed to change view in the light of new information?
Tilde.club (a shared server offering web and gopher hosting) is back Online
Rude Couple
There is a white guy who is with a girl with light brown hair at a 99 Cent Store in a white shirt who is mocking people's faces for no reason.
At least Guto Bebb, Phillip Lee, Dominic Grieve, Sam Gyimah, Jo Johnson, and Justine Greening (there may be others I’ve missed).

May’s majority including the DUP at the time was 7 (I think - this was after the defections to the Independent Group) so those 6 would have tipped it into a loss on their own.
This is the "rugged individualist fantasy" that the author talks about.

I admit many of us have fantasies of climate-change-apocalypse working out like that, but the author is correct: we will not be facing a sudden collapse of society allowing small bands of survivors to go live on farms, at least not in the first world.

Instead, in the first world, the effects we'll feel are billions of climate refugees moving across the world in search of safety and arriving at our borders. There will be there current border arguments x1000, and we'll either have to deal with the economic impact of having refugees or the moral impact of not. But those aren't the kinds of triggers that will suddenly lead to people going and founding communes in the remains of society.
> Maybe I’m missing something.

That the entity was never capitalized and the 60% founder paid for the app development out of his own pocket and plans to just reincorporate another entity and sell the app that way
Thanks for the suggestion. Very appreciated!
there is also 2 memories: one for your work, one for "apps" or even like a repository for dormant apps to be installed.

You can move your stuff to the frozen app part, do the default reset and than moe them back.

Not that I ever did this in biology class, but you could, even with images. I also never used it as a chat with my neighbour.
Do you know how Cloudflare picked up so much market share even with 8.8.8.8 around?
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> Do you die if you don't consumer pain killers? No you don't.

Do you notice you are replying to a comment about somebody that did, right?

Not every problem is simple.
YCombinator Winter 2020 'Sorry' Popup
> How do you know when people are seriously cursing at you

Because there would be violence involved.

Seriously though, the tone, context and body language would be completely different.
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Fast.ai vs. Deeplearning.ai
To clarify: I'm a Remainer, and not a Tory supporter.

However, I remember discussing the issue at referendum time with my Leave voting neighbours who were very much the supposedly angry working class type that have been ridiculed and condescended to repeatedly by the liberal media.

They (my friends and neighbours) were adamant that "it doesn't matter what we vote anyway, they will just stop it happening."

At the time, I thought they were being paranoid.

Now they look prescient and wise. Parliament has had 3 years to honour the vote of the people.

Boris Johnson (who I have little like for and am suspicious of his character) is the first leader who has shown the will to make that decision happen.

So, though I regret the referendum decision (and that the moral impetus has been taken on by people I don't feel a natural affinity to), I respect it and support his move to enact it without further delay.
Mugs of tea delivered all over site by robot dog WILL increase productivity.

Interesting to see Boston actually try to get the dogs into the market place...they just need to now be clear what that market is, above monitoring staff.
There's probably a lot of right wing politics being spewed as well, but it's easy to tune out that which you agree with already. For me, social media seems to be a firehose of right wing propaganda. I guess that makes me progressive.
I’m not saying that chronic pain isn’t real or shouldn’t be treated, but many of the abusers are “drug seeking” patients who go to different doctors to get prescriptions and many of the doctors are illegally prescribing the drugs. Opioids also end up on the black market and definitely they all aren’t bought legally.

Also, it is public knowledge that the government looked the other way and protected drug growers in South America in the 80s because it was more concerned with the Cold War.
Is there any information / confirmation what this actually means at this specific time?

I get the 'Sorry' popup.

edit: as mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18290018 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19671556
A song is typically 3-6 minutes, while a podcast is typically 10x that. I think that delta probably can make the difference reasonable.
Show HN: Launch a debugger by adding a single line to any Node.js app
Its unlinking /var from /private/var and laying down a new incomplete /var
Softbank vs. the We Company – The WeWork Saga
If nobody speaks up for being civil, there's no incentive to be civil. Certainly we need folk speaking up for civility so we can keep using our expletives with appropriate conviction. After all, the whole f'ing reason for cursing is to offend.

If you're not offended, I have to try harder to convey my indignity, you naughtyhead.
more like full time job
I disagree. I'd say the argument of sugar versus Tobacco as the bigger killer is a close one.
I don't see such an option. I turned on "showdead", but that seems to be for "dead" posts, not "flagged" ones.

Well, either way, hopefully the mods will come by and recognize the legimitimacy of the post.
god i hate google.
Have any of the people you mention tried it? VR is awesome. A subset of users suffer from motion sickness, and it doesn't help that much of the hardware has a low framerate (I would recommend 90fps at the very least if you're prone to motion sickness, and of course avoid the type of activities that would give you motion sickness IRL). But from most experiences not having motion at all, VR games have been moving towards having motion at least as an option because most regular users prefer motion. For me, it felt slightly disorienting for a couple of weeks and then never again.
Yes, the justice department and federal courts have domain experts who understand the nuances of the tech industry. You are conflating elected officials (Senators) and the staffers in the justice department who are experts in their fields.

The real danger is regulatory capture: the experts come from industry and will design regulations to favor the industry. The best remedy would be to break the companies into pieces rather than try to craft rules for how the behemoths should behave. For example, Instragram and Whatsapp can pretty obviously be split from Facebook. At Google, YouTube, mobile, search and even advertising could be split into separate companies.
Not Paki, but aware of their situation.

It is not "equally" prevalent. It is at least an order of magnitude worse. Almost everything in Pak is about an order of magnitude worse than in India. Almost everything, except civic violence - that's about 2-3 orders of magnitude worse. The establishment has traditionally had other priorities. The current PM is trying to fix some things but faces tremendous pushback.
Have you ever suffered constant pain, of the sort where you really can't think of anything else? I have been fortunate to have such events rarely, and then in spans measured in hours. But the intensity is enough to give me a notion of what others have gone through. The people I know who have used heavy-duty pain killers have not wanted to get stoned--one in particular despised the fuzzy feeling--they have wanted to function.
There's a very major revamp going on of how binary dependencies are handled. I don't know much about it, but it might possibly change this picture.
This is an acceptable tutorial but it could use a bit of editing to make the English more idiomatic. Also, except for the bit on plugins, I don't think it adds to or simplifies the man page.
How to Cold Email Investors [video]
I'm not sure which effect. One very likely still face consequencies anytime there's an incentive to check the person's background, such as when looking for a big company employment, or entering public/political life. Because, it's still few clicks away, and one doesn't need neither costly equipment, nor complex training to reveal it. Random grandma may not find it, but arguments for the law where based on the former, not on the latter.
That's because the point of class actions aren't to make the wronged people whole, it's to form a large enough legal stick to beat large, misbehaving entities about the head with.
You may commit suicide, though.