skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! I remember someone asked me one time, "What do you want?"

I said, "I want to create synergistic relationships with other people."

I despise advertising too, but I realized I have to advertise so people know about my products. There are people who want them. Advertising helps them find my products that solve their problems.

And then I realized the advertising platforms like adwords and such were also deceptive. So I stopped advertising.

It doesn't help me though or the people who I could help if they knew.
Your second approach is almost exactly what I've done in an iPhone video editing app I've been working on to deal with video previews.

Rather than reencode the video just to preview it, I can just apply the same transforms (scale, rotation, translation) to the view that's displaying the preview. I then mask that view with another view of the same size so it doesn't go outside the edges.

Of course I still need to encode the video with those transforms if I want it to show up in their camera roll later.
It’s difficult to know what kind of politicking led to this though.

It preposterous to think that all the physicists were on board with string theory. Do you really think the experts in the field didn’t have doubts and it took an non physicist to work it out?
A dividend is not "new value" or "unrelated to your ownership stake". If you hold stock worth $100 and you get a $2 dividend, value of the stock drops to $98. Just like a stock split, or a cryptocurrency hard fork: before the event you had some assets worth $100 and after the event you have some assets worth $100. (Plus some -- mostly random -- fluctuation in asset prices.)
With LBOs, much of the outperformance is due to leverage. If you could lever up the s&p 500, say 25%, you’d likely get much better returns. Because PE firms don’t aggressively revalue assets, they don’t have to face margin calls the same why someone would with an asset that is priced daily.
Had I done this to any of my bosses I'd have been fired
Just going off the titles, at least 1, 4 and 6 are possibly not bs.

Laser augmented combustion is a thing, compression fusion like general fusion or first light fusion is a thing and if you use piezoelectricity to induce pressure, then at very high pressures some materials become superconductors near room temperature
Also known as "programmer error".
Not only "back in the day" – those COM bindings for Python were most recently updated last month: https://pypi.org/project/pywin32/#history

I highly recommend using them if you're ever forced to work with VBA and need to implement some non-trivial functionality.
Oooh. I was imagining a compass like you're given in school, with labels on it, and ditto a ruler. :-)
I read panpanna's post as saying that it's not common to have different units, not that there's no price per unit value next to labels.
> Ahh but those machines are constantly becoming simultaneously more efficient and more powerful.

There are limits to efficiency due to fundamental laws of physics. We're already hitting some, we might be far from others, but a) we may not hit all of them fast enough to met the demand of exponential growth, and b) after we hit them, we can't improve those machines/processes further.
You need to read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union

Contrast how the current Chinese economy is far closer to an average OECD economy to the USSRs economy.
Free Tibet never seemed to be controversial here in the US, makes me wonder why supporting Hong Kong is.
I encountered something similar almost a decade ago on this forum when discussing the halting problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1322901
I may be wrong as well, but here's another attempt to explain myself:

1. (If I understand correctly) Straw man is when you say someone supports an argument he actually doesn't

2. (If true, I don't know) Developers say he's the rightful "leader", but their definition of leader can't be the one Wingo says it means for them. The GNU licenses forbid that.

3. Stallman also has a definition of "successful GNU leader" that is not the one Wingo believes in: we know because he invented it, implemented it and considers himself successful

4. We know that Wingo believes Stallman shares with him his own definition of leader because Wingo claims that Stallman needs to pretend to do things he doesn't to continue being considered successful

> If Stallman doesn't "run things" at least to some extent, then what decisions is is referring to when he writes at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-10/msg00005.... :

Surely not ones that go against GNU licences, since licenses are legally binding (in theory) in guaranteeing that software, developers and users keep their "freedoms" and are not a matter of any leadership, be it GNU leadership or any other.

Your link is interesting, I'll read it tomorrow, but at least for me the reason I care about GNU is not to be a part of a group but the opposite. I dislike being around most people, from my point of view distrust is a virtue. But as an individual, if it's part of a GNU project I can still contribute to build something that is both ethical according to my values and bigger than I could achieve alone. It's a way to contribute selectively only when I know that, once in a while, I agree with what those people are doing.

(It's not like I have developed a dislike for Wingo now, I admire him and his work even if I don't agree with the fact Stallman has had a greater negative impact then the false claims made against him in the past)
> Execs should think “what will I wish I had done when I’m 90”

Probably "made enough money so I'm not tucked away in this low-rent retirement home with Nurse Ratched beating me when I don't eat my soup." ;)
The servos are certainly where you can spend most money when building a robot for research. I tried building small research robots with small servos ($25 each), see results at the end of this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q8jgu-EtCFc

The total cost for one robot was well below 1k. The servos are $25 each (Turnigy 306G if remember correctly), all connecting parts are 3d printed, the electronics and batteries are about $50, and you could add a raspberry pi for $50. So in total <$500, depending on number of DOFs.

Of course, these servos don't have the same torque as Dynamixles, for example. But they are lighter!
You know, your reply sounds reasonable, but if you really dig in, it starts to fall apart.

> Twitter [...] So if you consider email to be a weak link in identity verification/2FA, adding SMS verification as a secondary option alongside email still doesn't do anything to increase your security.

I agree, and your comment's parent (my comment's grandparent) specifically went out of its way to agree: "as you said, many big tech companies say they have 2FA, when they really are just giving you two ways of logging in, where one of those ways is incredibly insecure."

> switching your number to Verizon only requires information that you know (account numbers, a SSN) [...] hacking two accounts is often harder than hacking one, and in practice, I suspect breaking into someone's Gmail account is harder than stealing their phone number

I think the number of people who go to the trouble of using like, a Yubikey or something for their Gmail but won't use it for anything else is vanishingly small. People opting for password + SMS 2FA (NOT the SMS 1FA that let @jack get hacked) are probably using the same thing for their email.

I'm sure it's true that it's easier to steal someone's phone number than break into their Gmail account, but afterwards you can go into Verizon's physical store with your physical government-issued ID and get your phone number back. That's not an option with a Gmail account.

No one is saying any of these are perfect, and everyone agrees SMS is less secure than email. The question is whether password + SMS 2FA is less secure than email 1FA, or whether password + email 2FA with no account recovery pathway is workable—doubtful, and definitely not.

Let's agree that out of password + SMS 2FA, password + email 2FA, and email + SMS 2FA, the first one is the weakest link, because SIM-jacking is terrifyingly easy and people choose terrible passwords. Just for account recovery, though, email + SMS 2FA still provides security benefits over email 1FA (you can guarantee a second factor, even if it's a weak factor, whereas you actually have no idea how strongly or weakly their email account is protected, you're just assuming) and usability benefits over email + TOTP apps/Yubikeys/paper backup codes.
Take Android for example: there are multiple competing app stores in China, many very shady by our standards.

This has also created a market for very cheap uncertified Android phones+ accompanying malware.
Parents can be marked confidential. There is a special process for filing patents surrounding national security.
> I haven't really heard or seen much usage of it since.

I think COM is incomprehensible to most developers today--it certainly is to me, and I maintained a .NET application with COM components for several years! COM is so arcane and verbose.

Why invest hundreds of hours learning something with no clear benefit or future? The documentation introduces COM as:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com/component...

> COM is a platform-independent, distributed, object-oriented system for creating binary software components that can interact. COM is the foundation technology for Microsoft's OLE (compound documents) and ActiveX (Internet-enabled components) technologies.

What does that even mean? It sounds obsolete.
spacetime can be warped out of a normal geodesic and provide propulsion or other energetic beaming. approximately 2 milligrams of mass in a plank volume will produce singularity, but a singularity weapon is not the goal, its the directed warping of spacetime that is being sought out for now.
I've opened 200+ panes across 3 monitors, broadcast to all of them to update a configuration and saved.
That saved me a lot of time, either building automation or ssh-ing to all of them one by one.

I don't know an easy way to do it in Terminal.app
It's a lot easier to fulfill the requirements of a thermal reservoir than it is chemical battery.

The former can just be a chunk of repurposed garbage.
It looks nice and I can appreciate the story, but saying « discarded » makes it sound like it has no value, but Scrap structural steel definitely does.

> designed the Wikado Playground to address the issue of saving out-of-service wind turbines from landfill.

Nononono.
> Last week Rogan had Capt Fravor who was one of the alleged witnesses to the "tictac" video that the pentagon confirmed the legitimacy of 2 years ago. Worth watching if you're into this kind of thing.

On Rogan's forum, I posted an explanation of how these Navy "UFOs" work. I've included a history of their progress and citations:

https://old.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/dfehjt/an_explana...
I got tired of waiting for PG&E to fix their site.

I might be in the affected area but I was unsure. It took me forever to get through to the PG&E website. It seems that they aren't doing anything to fix it so I dug into how they were making requests and hacked together a front end site really quick.

They might shut this down at anytime – and their API end point has been flakey all day – but it works by using their API for checking outages without trying to load their site.

You can view the code and file issues for the site here: https://github.com/francisschmaltz/pge-status

Demo: https://imgur.com/a/k0sRFEP

This site is hosted on DigitalOcean and results are cached with Cloudflare for 1 hour so this site might fare a little better than theirs.
That's just not true. Look at the statistics for hiring faculty in theoretical high energy physics [1]. String theory was never more than half, and usually much less than that. (It is true, though, that for a while they had a near monopoly on pop physics. But that's totally different from physics.)

[1] http://www.particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/rumor/doku.php?id=st...
Surely someone can create a neural network that reorients the image, even if the Exif orientation is wrong (JPEG lets you can do this without re-encoding). Sounds like it should be a very simple problem for the vast majority of "regular" images.
Meaning that the AddRef/Release counter has to be shared between that group of objects?
I'm using it on my fileserver, swimmingly. I build the image on my desktop and then swap the boot drive and restart. It replaced some Arch linux hack scripts I was using to do the same, and with much less external tooling.

I wrote up a general guide here along the way: https://gitlab.com/rendaw/blog/blob/master/how_to_guix_for_t...
What's Stack Overflow deceiving us about?
Love the idea that if an opposing power developed force fields + compact fusion reactors, that the last line of defence would be patent law.
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"It would culminate the ancient human quest for knowledge, which began when the first of our ancestors asked, "Why?""

I'm always baffled when I read these kind of quotes, especially coming from such smart people. Do they just forget that our theories are models of reality? I personally believe that there are no wave functions or vibrating membranes out there, as there are no "triangles". These are just names for our mental models on which we map reality the best we can. Fitting models are very useful, but they certainly don't answer the big "Why?" and are doomed to be superseded by more accurate ones, when progress is made. Is it just me thinking this?
Nope. It is not working because of your own dumb reasoning of not augmenting the training data to produce different orientations.

Dummies.
> Citation needed.

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=china+icloud+encryption+keys

You could also look at some of the other links already posted to this thread in response to similar queries from you and others, like this one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21207931) and this one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208376).
There are a few activist funds that definitely do claim that they help “fix” companies.
Governance reboot keeps Hitachi in the spotlight
As an alternative to the python code in the article, there's this command-line tool: https://linux.die.net/man/1/exiftran
From Shake Shack to Starbucks, the HK-China Standoff Is Proving Bad for Business
>reduced if a phone or app was required

No thanks. I don't want government mandated spyware on my phone. Its shocking that your solution is to try and ban poor people from public transport rather than providing them a proper place to stay.
Related to this, he's made a whole slew of longbet predictions on us consumimg less of these resources.

http://longbets.org/user/amcafee/
Actually, alpha emitters are very dangerous when ingested, for the same reason they are readily blocked by paper - your body will absorb all the radiation. This is why Polonium 210 is one of the most toxic material known to us.

(Not agreeing with Michio Kaku, by the way.)
The distribution of ability is a bell curve (which has small tails, btw) but the distribution of rewards is basically power law. The result is that people only slightly different in ability can have wildly different rewards.
Better yet, open the /etc/passwd and see the root user's password wasn't set...

Back in college I ran ToneLoc overnight and would try ftp on the successful hits. One server didn't have root set, so I telnet'ed, <Enter> when prompted for the password, and I was in.

I ran 'who', saw a user logged in. Decided to wall them a message of "You should really set your root password." and logged out.

A couple of days later, I got an email on the trash email account I would use for ftp logins - dude was super nice but freaked out and wanted to know how I found his server. I didn't reply.
> it's that it's counter to what HN might be trying to achieve.

If HN is trying to achieve a soulless takes-itself-way-too-seriously environment, then I'd agree with you. Hopefully that's not the case (but probably is, per the observations I've accumulated over the years of hanging around here).

> intellectually-stimulating conversation

Humor can be intellectually-stimulating, even in the form of clever puns. Whether or not the pun in question was clever (or at least sufficiently-clever to be amusing) is a different question.

> diverse group of people that have diverse (and sometimes opposing) viewpoints.

Humor happens to be an excellent way to both convey and consume those viewpoints, especially in a way that's actually conducive to all parties actually coming away with a better understanding of one another.
You just triggered some intense deja vu. I had the exact same response after Pons and Fleischman's press conference back in the day.

The lure of the magic-bullet/deus-ex-Machina, (that one device that will solve pretty much everything!), can be pretty intoxicating.
Sure, Congress is in the process of passing the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019 [1] with the stated goal of "countering the totalitarian Chinese government’s widespread and horrific human rights abuses" [2].

The State Department published the 2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices [3] which openly documents China's many human rights issues, issues that China is trying to censor and challenge.

The State Department has additionally announced visa restrictions on Chinese officials suspected of being involved in the detention and human rights abuses of millions of Uyghur Muslims and other minority groups. From the CNN article [4] (Pompeo is the US Secretary of State):

> "The United States calls on the People's Republic of China to immediately end its campaign of repression in Xinjiang, release all those arbitrarily detained, and cease efforts to coerce members of Chinese Muslim minority groups residing abroad to return to China to face an uncertain fate," Pompeo wrote. "The United States will continue to review its authorities to respond to these abuses."

I'd love to see similar actions taken by the EU and EU member states. If you have any examples of EU action already, you should post them because I may have missed news about it.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/178...

[2] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3026982/us-...

[3] https://www.state.gov/reports/2018-country-reports-on-human-...

[4] https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/08/politics/xinjiang-visa-restri...
I believe we should also support more open-source software here. Google Docs are in no doubt best and provide a lot of good functionality to its users. Even Office(365?) is getting good. LibreOffice is developing an online version[1] which is at alpha stage I would say.

I recently installed Collabora Online(a packaged version of LibreOffice Online) on my Nextcloud server and it is working fine for basic document editing. And with Nextcloud, I am also able to get comments and chat on the side[2]. Maybe they can integrate this feature more into documents/files.

1. https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/

2. https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-introduces-collaborativ...
Or how about just use the damn exif information to orient it correctly as the article outlines? The actual article is far less interesting than what the title seems to imply. While the title suggests a problem with computer vision. This is more of a programmer logic error.
I did some searching, and apparently lying about this is punishable with up to 5 years imprisonment: https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep-9015-appx-l....
"Gamers will tolerate anything, unless there's a better game that they'd rather play they're not going anywhere."

How about any reasonable replacement game? I'd say the game industry is pretty well saturated. It's not like there's only one great game per genre, or only one great gaming system.
Forcing rotation in the training phase would be a good way to regularize the network. But of course that will lower the accuracy.
Like almost all big problems of our times, this too is a coordination problem.

When everyone around you shouts through a megaphone, you need a megaphone too just so that the person next to you can hear you. If someone took all megaphones from everyone at the same time, people would have the ability to finally have a conversation.

Advertising currently is this. It's oversaturating our attention. Of course, for a market to function, you need a way for people to know what's available to buy. If done honestly, it's totally fine, and I don't have anything against it. My beef is with the existing industry, with all the things I've mentioned here[0]. I want someone to take their megaphones away, so that we could talk to each other like human beings.

--

[0] - http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
I clicked on a tweet in the article and then the tweet contained within by Rob Breslau and the top reply is (with 4.2 likes currently) "American gamers are too busy being horny for Overwatch heroes to hold Blizzard accountable for this."

Doesn't seem that heartwarming at all, just gross.
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One of my pet peeves in ML/stats/data science is people who hardly look at their data. Unless there are privacy reasons not to, then you really need to look at some data. You'll learn so much more from looking at a few hundred samples than you will from different metrics. You'll get a feel for how complex the problem is, or whether something simple will do. Check your assumptions. You might even realize that your images are sideways.
An even better analogy would be a company splitting itself into parts. Gap will do it in 2020 for example.
> Most everything these platforms do is available off the shelf - the differentiations don't actually matter

Except, often critically, the very network effect that those platforms help foster.

Try self-hosting a viral video and see how far it gets you. It's much harder to break through. This very discussion is taking place on a platform that focuses a network effect for a very specific but sizeable audience. How would it take place otherwise?
While I have no concrete evidence, I would strongly suspect you should worry much more about security holes in your OS than in iTerm2.
White-hat hacks ransomware gang and releases decryption keys
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I think it would be better to phrase this as:

Thermonuclear weapons are fusion yield devices using the energetic fission products to confine and compress a fusion fuel so that it can burn.

As soon as the radiation pressure drops below a critical threshold, the fusion reaction ceases immediately. The fusion reaction cannot sustain on its own without this incredible amount of force being applied to it continuously.

This is why we still have not produced commercially-viable pure-fusion power plants. It may still be possible, but if you consider the forces and energies required to create a single-shot weapon that burns its fuel only for fractions of a second, you might start to appreciate the challenge that engineers and scientists have undertaken with the objective of continuously providing fusion power.
Given your money is tied up for 10 plus years and there’s a lot of leverage involved, you need to have a much higher hurdle rate to want to invest. Say 3.50% or more after fees.
This generates a lot of additional questions. What about a multisig situation? Can I have a buddy withhold a digital signature until I want to transact so that I did not own the crypto up until the transaction? Add in multiple jurisdictions of private key holders and things could get really interesting. Maybe it would be possible to pay no taxes at all! What about exchange coins where the person has no private keys and hence owns no crypto at all? Would they still have to pay taxes on crypto they clearly don't possess? What an absolute mess.
It fits pretty well with how the IRS operates. They don't seem to care how money is made - as long as they get their share.