skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do something similar. Fanless PC (but I do have a heppa filter pointed at it for hot days) running CentOS 7 and El-Repo 5.2.x kernel. I enable power management on everything except for the network cards and disable most other devices on it. On UPS it can run about 3 hours.

I have unbound DNS and iptables to intercept all DNS requests destin for the internet, so I can block some ads. I null route the DoH servers and some hostile countries. Works great.
Shackletons boat jouney by Frank A Worsley [1] is the single best book I've ever read. If you like reading about Antarctica, adventure, survival etc, I believe it's as good as it gets.

Edit - the author was on the trip next to Shackleton the whole time.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Shackletons-Journey-Frank-Arthur-Wors...
That’s like saying poisoning is good for people because the sicker people are, the more hospitals and doctors you’ll need. The money has to come from somewhere. There is no profit in cleaning up messes, just loss reduction. The money, trillions of dollars just for climate change alone, has to come from somewhere. If past generations had not been so greedy, that money would be in our pockets. Instead, it will be burned because we have to clean up the unfathomable messes older people have created.
I know a family that own a parking lot at LAX, as well as a parking lot across from Staples Center in LA. Safe to say it is their crown jewels of assets.

The irony is that the father didn't want these, but they were thrown into a financing deal that he was on the other side of.
The idea is that a self-driving car rarely has to park, it can simply drive around for your entire 8-hour work day after dropping you off. Or, maybe provide some ride-sharing services instead to be more useful and profitable.
"In my case, however, a pair of 48"x10" granular activated carbon filters ..."

Are those backwashing filters with a head unit that contains a pump ? What level (micron) of filtration does just that unit achieve ?

Just curious ...
i_am_nomad is. If the NBA didn't do anything in North Carolina, he wouldn't have a problem. If his issue were purely about how they dealt with China, the NBA's actions in North Carolina are not related. He says they should go bankrupt because they took action in one instance but not in the other.
By "booting" do you mean "towing"? I'm from western Canada and have never heard the term "booting" before in relation to parking lots and what I assume must be towing.
I agree with your first point. My anecdotal experience of talking to people from China is that there is a very real sense of nationalism that results in deference to the government. The idea is that under this regime the economy has grown strong, and everybody has jobs and food. That is worth the silencing of dissent in a country where mass starvation exists in very recent history. But how long does that last? At some point the people no longer agree with the censors, but the censors likely don't step aside and relinquish power. And to be clear the point at which this happens is probably not losing access to the NBA, but it does exist, and this NBA situation is an interesting barometer.

As I said in a different comment, Alex Jones is not that relevant to this discussion unless somebody can show that the United States government had a role in the deplatforming.
That's what your brain tells you. Is it reality?

A better explanation: China is much more unstable than Russia, and revolution is a much more dangerous and consequential threat.
Yep. It's not much, but I cancelled and was quite explicit on why.
In terms of the licensing debate... Did you bother to actually read the Common Clause FAQ? Here are the first 2 FAQ entries:

"What is Commons Clause? The Commons Clause is a license condition drafted by Heather Meeker that applies a narrow, minimal-form commercial restriction on top of an existing open source license to transition the project to a source-availability licensing scheme. The combined text replaces the existing license, allowing all permissions of the original license to remain except the ability to "Sell" the software as defined in the text.

This Clause is not intended to replace licenses of existing open source projects in general, but to be used by specific projects to satisfy urgent business or legal requirements without resorting to fully "closing source".

Is this “Open Source”? No.

“Open source”, has a specific definition that was written years ago and is stewarded by the Open Source Initiative, which approves Open Source licenses. Applying the Commons Clause to an open source project will mean the source code is available, and meets many of the elements of the Open Source Definition, such as free access to source code, freedom to modify, and freedom to re-distribute, but not all of them. So to avoid confusion, it is best not to call Commons Clause software “open source.” "
Also to be clear I don't support China's activities or posture around the world. I think they are building an empire, and its execution and culture are antithetical to western values. I'm just saying that the West cannot claim a moral high ground in how we've treated China, and in the US, Chinese immigrants.
maybe they re also doing it because of usa doing it to huawei???
I wrote a command-line Ruby program to manage EC2 instances for me
Foxconn is Taiwanese company. They could figure something out if push comes to shove.
I believe GP is referring to the idea that when self-driving cars make up a majority of transportation, the cars can just go drive for someone else instead of sitting in a lot.
What’s hilarious is that deletion of account might require government issued photo ID.

The last step for me to stop doing business with a bad actor is by giving up my privacy.
Is it just me, or are there a lot of stories now about China throwing its financial weight around to influence speech?

We had the Blizzard/War of Omens thing [1], and the Houston Rockets remark being rescinded [2], and the South Park cancellation [3], and now this, all in the span of about a week.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/blizzard-removes-blitzchung-from-h...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/07/houston-rockets-gm-morey-del...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/dek3kl/south_par...
And Google. Def possible to be a high performing L4 or even L5 at 24.
The UNIX philosophy comes down to making tools that each do one thing and do it well. It's already the same philosophy as a workshop full of hammers, screwdrivers, squares, saws, planes, etc.

Put them together and you can build a cabinet. But you probably wouldn't want a "cabinet making tool" that tries to do every job required in the cabinet making process.

If anything, all of the philosophies that we apply to computers and technologies are taken from other areas. Of course you can take them back out and apply them elsewhere! Computers are a very recent addition in the grand scheme of things.
Yeah I think you are right. But that populist support is not guaranteed forever, and I wonder what happens then.
Well, we'll have to agree to disagree there. Whereas you find what I had written unhelpful and I found it useful in communicating specific details, you found what you wrote a helpful critique and I found it the very opposite. I would say that the unproductive part was the presumption, but your mileage may vary.
Old soviet joke(s):

Q: Is it true that there is freedom of speech in the Soviet Union, just like in the USA?

A: In principle, yes. In the USA, you can stand in front of the White House in Washington, DC, and yell, "Down with Reagan!", and you will not be punished. Equally, you can also stand in Red Square in Moscow and yell, "Down with Reagan!", and you will not be punished.

Q: What is the difference between the Constitutions of the US and USSR? Both of them guarantee freedom of speech.

A: Yes, but the Constitution of the USA also guarantees freedom after the speech.
Thanks.

> The reason latency is a factor is that it affects how quickly data leaves your computer and gets to our data center, so if you're far away, it can play a factor!

Not to be an ass.. but.. uh, there does exist ways to defeat latencies in order to bring up throughput. But Backblaze isn't aware of them after more than a decade in the business?
> Does florida not have a database of who is or isn't on probation?

Apparently not when it comes to fees owed as part of that.

> Tyson searched court records, first on his own, then with the help of a nonprofit legal advocacy group. They say that because Florida has no comprehensive system for tracking such fines, the documents don’t make clear what he owes. The records, viewed by Reuters, show potential sums ranging from $846 to a couple thousand dollars related to crimes he committed in the late 1970s and 1990s. Tyson says he won’t risk voting until Florida authorities can tell him for sure.
False dilemma much?
Do you really believe that the only definition of "open source" that any honest person is referring to when they use the term is the exact definition that you subscribe to?
Of course it is. Nations regulate lots of imported goods, from foodstuffs to cars. Nations also have the power to impound cargo deliveries if the importer is notorious for not validating that their cargo is compliant with local regulations.
Seems like you could continue to take advantage of individual agents by bootstrapping the CBA with billions of dollars and offering insane salaries to slowly lure top NBA players over and creating your own league.
Mikrotik or Ubiquiti. My >10yo hardware still receives updates (latest version, not a few backported changes).
Unsupervised Discovery of Gendered Language
Show HN: Website to compare sofas, kitchen and dining room tables, beds and more
Maths tackles an eternal question: where to park?
Its curious how could you pitch the cancellation of these NBA games to the audience expecting to watch these NBA games without causing a Streisand effect [1]? If you mention the tweet, will they want to seek out and find the tweet?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
> efficiently designed, easily understood (regardless of complexity), surprisingly brilliant, fault tolerant in a clean manner, very insightful on a problem area, etc.

I think your description of elegant is good. One more aspect of elegant is: doing all those things you list here in a manner idiomatic to the language and paradigm you're working in. So for example, regardless of how efficient or easily understood your solution is, if you're using loops and mutation in a functional language, it would rarely be considered "elegant" by experienced people working in that paradigm (that's not to say that loops and mutation aren't very occasionally a good idea in functional languages, but they'd still not be considered elegant).
The US government is the biggest polluter of them all. The US government does not care about human health or environmental preservation. Yet Americans in general cling to some deep belief that their government cares for them, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
It's OS-level. macOS, iOS, Android, and I believe Windows 10 will all send this signal now to whichever (modern) browser you're using.
Booting refers to wheel clamping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_clamp
“While almost everyone has some areas that they get overly hung up on, some people also get sloppy instead of getting stuck”

So true
The Map, the Terrain, and the Role of the CFO – Andreessen Horowitz
For anyone interested in knowing more about the bonkers rocket research that went on in the 60s and 70s, I recommend the book Ignition! by John D Clark.

Publisher's Site: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/ignition/978081359583...

My Review: https://sheep.horse/2019/3/book-_ignition%21_by_john_d_clark...
Same reason that while DnD is an invented game, some actions are allowed while others are not. To be coherent, a system (invented or not) must remain consistent within itself.

In math, a wrong answer isn't so much "wrong" as it is inconsistent with established mathematical properties/rules.
Thanks for the HN link, that's what I looked for but somehow algolia wasn't giving me the result at the time.

Two points about a potential trial. 1) Since it's a runtime tool to actually see what it can detect I assume I will actually have to generate some attacks myself to actually see it in affect? It also makes false positive testing a little harder.

The reporting and such is on the cloud I presume? Are there some documentation on what happens at the agent level and what gets send to the cloud?
Like the city of Chicago's parking tax that was cited in the article?
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/fin/supp_info/revenue/...
androidauthority.com has been pretty good about tracking this more recently:

Android Oreo: https://www.androidauthority.com/android-oreo-fastest-manufa...

Android Pie: https://www.androidauthority.com/android-pie-fastest-manufac...

Then they put out this weird update: https://www.androidauthority.com/counterpoint-android-update...
Sounds like the broken window fallacy: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fa...
It is not a matter of whatabaoutism, it's a direct attempt to divert attention from wrongdoings, building a narrative that justifies imperialist actions by the USA.
Why recent articles on HN related to ICE were flagged and this one not? It's political too, double standards?
I did this recently for my new personal website! It's quite easy and really satisfying. I love doing as much as possible in stateless CSS instead of JavaScript.

http://www.brandonsmith.ninja/
Let's think about it in terms of expected return on investment.

For full disclosure: I am an Automattic employee and love working remotely on the side so much that I devote my private time to promoting it [ https://www.quora.com/How-is-life-as-a-web-developer-who-wor... ]. Opinions here are my own.
The way I see it (and this is my private opinion), Automattic can successfully pull off what it does, because we really filter people who are self-driven and NOT motivated by money.

If you want more $$$, Google or Facebook is definitely your best bet.
But in Google or Facebook, your role will be tightly defined. In Automattic you have LOADS of freedom and flexibility to try to have a positive impact. We sometimes succeed, sometimes need to work on something else, but the work tends to be very fulfilling.

Now, back to the money topic. My salary went up about 6x after joining A8C (yes, that is 600%). Part of this is of course due to the fact that I live in Poland.

- I can travel the world without needing more vacation time,

- I have company off-sites in Disneyland, Athens or wherever it may be.

- I can visit my grandpa during the workday because I don't have to sit in an office all day or move to Silicon Valley.

- NOT EVEN ONCE was I pushed to do overtime in Automattic. I did it because I got myself into way to many projects, but I have multiple coworkers that do not go over 40 hr/week

I promised you expected return on investment formula. My calculation went like this:

- My quality of life will go about 80% up for the number of years ( I just clocked in 4 years at Automattic, so lets use that number )

- To achieve that, my quality of life will go down 40% over 2 months, because of the trial

- I have the confidence of about 50% that I can make it.

You do the math.

I learned that to achieve better results that everybody else, you just need to do a little more upront work. People tend to not do that. The funny part is that after you do that upront work you are usually in a place where you have to work less than everybody else.
The case for automated discrimination is made very well by Cathy O'Neil in Weapons of Math Destruction (https://www.worldcat.org/title/weapons-of-math-destruction-h...). I recommend it strongly.

There are several cases of problems. One is of course intentional discrimination. The larger problems are likely either a failure to care, consider, or attend to problems, or most insidious, side effects which arise entirely unintentionally.

The fact that much gradient descent machine learning is opaque to explanation means that such AI essentially becomes a new form of knowledge: like science, it provides answers, but unlike traditional Baconian scientific methods, it doesn't answer why or how, and fails to provide cause or mechanism.

Given use in increasingly complex, large-scale systems, without ready human review or oversight, this creates conditions for numerous unfortunate probably consequences.
>The former beats the latter under specific circumstances only.

A large part of that circumstance being the nonexistance of the former and creation of our urban environments to specifically cater to the latter.
I’m probably not representative of the general dark mode user, I think, but I enable dark mode because I want the UI chrome out of the way to concentrate on the content. I don’t want dark content. Is there a way to disable this media query?
From my experience social, namely the largest one - Facebook - delivers way better results than any solution from DSPs.

People forget that the medium itself is important, not just the data.

(Let's not forget that the data directory reach, from the first page of search results has the reach of part of US Households, it doesn't have the global reach a social network like Facebook has).

So I disagree: some social platforms have great targeting compared to open web.
I think it's an OS setting rather than a browser setting. On Windows 10 I just searched 'Dark Mode' and toggled 'Default app mode light / dark'
No, they're just not going to park in a city center.
In Soviet California, forest fire prevent you!
Brakes last much longer on electric cars due to regenerative braking.
Only realized now that the 100-200ms time you refer to is for a single search and not for 400,000 searches. The package already achieves this brute-force speed. In fact, the package also implements bktree, which, depending upon the distance threshold passed, could drastically reduce the search time. Moreover, the search through bktree is also parallelized in the package(each image's hash gets searched through the tree independently after the tree is constructed). On one of the example dataset containing 10k images, with a distance threshold of 10 (for 64-bit hashes), the retrieval time per image obtained was < 50 ms.
Littlewood’s Law and the Global Media
Computer Vision Can ID Weapons During School Shootings in Real-Time
Not really propaganda. It's real reaction from large portion of people. But the belief of mass is not always right.

Iraq was destroyed not only because of WMD as a lie but the biggest factor is that Westners as human rights activits collectively supported their government based on the belief that they own truth and have "moral responsibilty" meaning they are the judge but not god to decide other peoples fate by liberate them from evil human right abuser i.e. Saddam and Gaddafi. They are able to do that because western countries have more bombs while the "evils" can not defend themselves.

In today's world, Hitler doesn't create threat because it's obvious wrong and will be easily destroyed. The real threat is mobs of human activists that believe they stand on a high moral ground. They are more deceptive. They create chaos around the world. They show no remorse for the suffer of Iraq and Libya people because they don't think they cause the disaster.

Blaming the lie of WMD is another lie. The Western people collectively supported their countries to bomb Iraq and Libya that evetually created the chaos and disaster. That's the real root cause.

Human rights and democracy is the last cult in the world after communism collapse. I'm not saying HR and democracy themselvs are bad. But because the believers have done a lot of damages without knowing it's their crime that cause millions of death. The stupidity of mordem human only recognizes direct killing as a crime but never admit bigger scale crime indirectly caused by their "good" intention
Yes. The definition is clearly stated. I don't believe that someone can't be mistaken or ignorant, and I don't blame them for this - but once corrected, their tune needs to change. Less than that constitutes an attack on open source, because it's deliberately dilluting the term to broaden it to include software which is clearly not.
Which is quite frankly bizarre has there ever been a rational argument put forward as to why skeleton are so tabu.

This would be like the USA demanding all mentions and images of Jiangshi - The hopping zombie/vampire undead where removed.
Ubiquiti does really nice. It is not a "here is a pizza box device that does internet" device though.
I would guess that parking in a parking lot is preferable to continuing to waste fuel and make traffic worse for the entire work day. Not to mention the other hours in a day you're not driving it.
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No, the difference was that anyone with a whit of sense knew that North Carolina would bow down to pressure, and had more to lose from the NBA taking a stance.

And now, everyone with a whit of sense knows that China will not bow to pressure, and the NBA has more to lose from taking a stance.

For some reason, they aren't keen on tilting at windmills.
In what way are billionaires such as Mark Zuckerberg, the Sackler Family, or the Koch brothers threatened by anything the common people do? Oil pipeline protestors are facing 100 years in prison. There is literally nothing Trump can do that will cause Republicans to turn on him. Propaganda is rammed down our throats everyday by organizations such as Sinclair broadcasting (see "This is extremely dangerous to our democracy" video). It's pretty bleak if you ask me.
Something to think about:

> “We are strongly dissatisfied and we oppose Silver’s claim to support Morey’s right of free expression. We believe that any speech that challenges national sovereignty and social stability is not within the scope of freedom of speech,” CCTV said in its statement in Chinese, which was translated by CNBC.

Hate speech is off the table in the US because historically it's been used to stoke ethnic tension in a diverse society, people get hurt and die, and breaks social cohesion.

Is it fair to say that criticizing the government is off the table in China because historically revolutions have caused so much death and destruction, and breaks social cohesion?
>> "... kowtowing to fascists ..."

"Fascists" is probably not a good description of the Chinese Communist Party, since Fascism is widely regarded as always and everywhere the diametric opposite/enemy of Communism and Communists. Examples of this include [0] and [1] and [2] and [3], which are the results of me googling "is fascism the enemy of communism?" for 5 seconds.
Probably you mean "Totalitarians" or "Statists" or "Authoritarian Governments" or something like that.

This is pedantic but lots of the discussion downthread seems to hinge on this point of equating "Chinese Communists" with "Fascists," and that's imho a totally false premise.

Oftentimes people say things like "Well the Chinese are commies in name only" and similar, and this might be semi-or-mostly true, but it's a bit of a leap from there to calling them fascists.

[0] "Mussolini, with his anti-Communist doctrines..." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini

[1] "In Hitler's mind, communism was a major enemy of Germany ... Hitler claimed that his singular goal was to assist the German government in "fighting Marxism". Marxism, Bolshevism, and communism were interchangeable terms for Hitler..." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Adolf_Hitle...

[2] "Fascism is often considered to be a reaction to communist and socialist uprisings..." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communism

[3] "...in the early 1920s the Nazis were only one of many nationalist and fascist political parties contending for the leadership of Germany's anti-communist movement" also from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communism
All the brands you've cited are "luxury" brands whose proposition includes long-term support.

It's a different market segment that doesn't refute GP's point.