skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if there were other jobs than tech jobs and people were forced into those.
Thank you Edward Snowden
I think the Globe and Mail article referenced at the end [0] is a much better source. The BoingBoing article has less info and as far as I can tell their claims that these ideas are/were planned for the Toronto development is unsubstantiated. The globe and mail article quotes a spokesperson as stating:

"Many, if not most, of the ideas it contains were never under consideration for Toronto or discussed with Waterfront Toronto and governments."

It's definitely concerning that Sidewalk Labs ever had (or currently has) some of these ideas as part of their vision but it's not helpful to sensationalize or misrepresent the actual plans for Toronto.

[0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-sidewalk-la...
How well would that work for binary files though - most documents in the "corporate" world are not simple text files.
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"panic" means to react in a counterproductive way because fear overwhelms.

It's different from a mere adrenal response that has short term gain at long term risk.

Adrenaline makes you jump higher. Panic makes you jump off a cliff.
> And what would the benefit be from that?

Some assholes operating a digital signing authority get rich; good for you if you're one of them.
Signal also features multi-device end-to-end encryption.

This non-technical argument feels more and more a shill talking point because the claimed constraint is NEVER provided with technical arguments.

However, it feels intuitive to non-techies: "End-to-end means only one end and I have many devices therefore I have many ends so I can't end-to-end with every end, so better not end-to-end..."
>I still can't figure out why someone hasn't added computational photography and a smartphone-like user interface for the enthusiast crowd

This has been tried and it didn't sell well, see the samsung galaxy cameras, and the nikon coolpix s800c. Also smartphone cameras have gotten really good, and in practice a fully fledged cell phone with a good enough camera is not that much more
I'm using them all the time for entry and shortcuts. Cmd + 1 for switching to the first tab/item/thing.

Even bought a tenkeyless gaming keyboard. I was having the opposite thought that we should deprecate the number pad and just leave it as an additional hardware add-on for accountants
Deadspin was the ONLY sports site I would go to, largely because it was the one place where you could count on the writers to examine the context that sports occurs in. Sports doesn't exist in a vacuum. Deadspin was the place where we might get the next Cosell.
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Years ago, WinAmp on Windows was exploitable through a maliciously prepared .m3u playlist: a simple plain text file expected to be filled with pathnames of songs, one per line.

If you're so scared, don't browse anything with your mobile device; browsers are exploitable through pages they land on.
Imagine if someone discovers a flaw in any library that your web browser uses, or the browser itself or is JS engine ... oh no!
Throw a warning? C compilers require additional parentheses of you want to use the value of assignment as a conditional. It's impossible to make a mistake there unless you're dumb on purpose that is disabling or ignoring compiler warnings.
That being said I think it matters little if it's a separate operator or not. It solves a real issue I'm the language caused by assignment not being an expression. Better later than never I guess.
Oddly was never much the case for me. I ended up never experiencing some of the "harder" or more "dangerous" parts of the playground because I just wasn't interested if it seemed too risky. I'd see other kids climbing to a dangerous spot and think they were dumb.
Most of the images in that article were outdoors with lots of natural light, stationary subjects, wide angle compositions, and a large depth of field. Basically ideal conditions for smartphone photography.

I find that in many everyday situations my smartphone just doesn’t cut it. Trying to take photos of my kids running around at dusk or indoors, for example. Or trying to take a decent portrait.

I bought an A7iii to take photos in these situations, and I’m really glad that I did. I don’t always take it out with me and there are lots of situations where my smartphone strikes the right balance between quality and convenience. But my a7iii has allowed me to capture great images that I will cherish for the rest of my life and probably wouldn’t have been able to take with my smartphone.
They will slowly craft some national security or human rights narrative over a 2 to 3 period after which the public, both left and right, will be begging for a firewall.
There were a lot of people who could claim hipster cred on the TinyLetter boom, because they’re talking mostly about when a community / use case decided to use email as a platform. Email was so obviously the most effective way to sell professionally-oriented content that when I started my newsletter in 2012 I was kicking myself that I had waited so long. The seedy side of Internet Marketing, and many less-seedy users, had been doing it since before the dot com bubble. And that was decades after people sold newsletter subscriptions on paper.

Everything old is new again, sometimes.
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What's the ultimate end game though if you're one of these future (not so distant?) powerful elites in control? You turn everyone else into slaves? Will they remain happy and productive? Will they still invent shiny new things for you if they know they're slaves? Is your only job now to prevent the slaves from figuring it out? Is that even a fun job or is it sort of like a prison? Can you still find meaning? How long can you conspire with your peers until some of them get bored and rock the boat?

Sounds like a moronic shit show to me. We either find enlightenment before the earth swallows us up or we don't. I think it'd be cool if we figured it out.
Wow. I honestly never expected someone in a thread about git to be promoting the views of that homophobic, hypocritical, racist, sexist, lying sociopath.

Rand is the absolute anathema of open source, as well as the root cause of most of society's ills for the past 50 years. How anyone could write, let alone read a book about her pseudo-intellectual bullshit is beyond me.
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The problem with this idea is very simple: code bloat.

Modern software engineers have very little connection to low level code; what actually happens at the processor level.

If you are even in a position to interview someone for a software dev position, try this:

- Have them write a small program do to something simple; find a sub-string in a long string

- Now have them take their program and convert it to pseudo assembly language, explain what goes on in memory, where, how, etc. In other words, it doesn't have to be real assembly from a real processor, yet it has to resemble how things actually work.

From my experience most applicants flunk this test. They have no clue whatsoever.

And so, we produce tools, languages, libraries, and all manner of "pattern matching in modern high-level languages", they use them without a single clue and the resulting code is bloated and slow, to say the least.

Many years ago I wrote a genetic solver as a part of an iOS app that ran on an, at the time, iPhone 3S. It was an absolute dog. Unusable. You simply could not get results anywhere close to real time. An iPhone 3S, in the context of what the code entailed, is a massively fast computing engine. There was only one reason for which this code ran like crap: Objective-C and all the truly unnecessary "modern high-level language" garbage that came with it.

I re-coded the genetic solver in C++ with great care to manage the entire process efficiently. It ran THOUSANDS of times faster. In fact, it ran in real time (in the context of what the UI had to do) to the point where there was no lag and the user could interact with it as needed.

A lot of this stuff comes at great cost. The problem is modern programmers don't have a clue.
What is anyone doing with bare feet at a playground anyway?
Can you give some practical examples of where that would be useful? Honestly curious, don't know much about this space.
I send out a newsletter, but it's about the newsletter app that sending out the newsletter itself.

So, yo dawg.
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SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP hybrid files
By my observation anger is addictive - previously normal people get angry for maybe a good reason, and subsequently they start looking for something new to be angry about. It’s a real problem because when they can’t find something worth getting worked up over they pick on a random subject and try to convince everyone their pet issue is a huge deal, and everyone who disagrees is a very bad person indeed.
The argument you're making here is 'I don't believe in copyright'. Which is fine, but doesn't really negate my point.
++ India. QR codes are everywhere for payments due to NPCI's (national payments commission of India's) efforts with instant payments. Shops small and big today display a QR using which you can pay bank to bank without credit/debit card charges and interoperability between payment processing companies like Paytm is mandatory.

The ad network and renting bikes and more recently charging electric scooters cases are also catching on.
It really depends on what you count. Are we counting finance industry newsletters that charge hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to subscribe? What about large venture backed newsletters like Thrillist? Or newsletters by a single author, but where that author is someone super famous like Lena Dunham or Kylie Jenner?

There are lots of examples of newsletters that make money, but if you're only counting single authors who aren't venture backed and who don't have a following from some other medium and aren't already famous within their industry, and who are making money off of paying subscribers or ads rather than from consulting, the number is fairly low.
How old is your smartphone? My wife just upgraded from an iPhone 6S to an 11 Pro and that new camera is impressive. Things have come a long way even in just the last few years, we should assume they’ll keep getting better for at least a little bit yet.
I mention Sapper above.

Sapper adds a great deal of additional functionality and a framework layout that Svelte on its own does not. All Svelte needs is its own router to be the complete package.
Using the author’s projects, I believe you can make your own “effort map” and run the genetic algorithms to make your own optimal layout.

c.f. http://nikolay.rocks/2016-10-22-keyboard-analytics
I remember fairly early on someone complaining about not having the right cereal in the lunchroom.
I wasn't going to say anything here, but MechanicalKeyboards is IME the absolute worst--it's an impenetrable echo chamber for keyboard OCDism, and I say that as someone who owns several mechanical keyboards and has nerded out in more than a few related categories.
Futurists have been talking about computers or "AI" creating artwork for many years. They traditionally reference music, visual arts, and occasionally written prose, but these en-devours have hardly caught on beyond niche whimsical amusements.

It's pretty clear that the first type of "art" created by computers or "AI" on a large scale is photography. Today, smart cameras don't just assist with objective factors like lighting and focus, they make subjective decisions on which areas to highlight, skin tones, shadows, parts of the scene to blur, and a variety of other details that are typically in the realm of artistic component of photography.

As a society, we have essentially determined what a "good" photo is, and have programmed that into each camera that we carry in our pocket. There are many upsides to this, but it raises an obvious question: are these cameras really being programmed to create the "best" images, or are we being programmed to believe that the images they create are the "best"?

Automation and AI are not a one way street; we don't just create machines that think like us, the machines we create change the way we think.
Thanks for the clarification. My first thought was that manual installs were disabled ala the android manual install sideloading concept.
Kids have horrible judgement and do things like bike down steep roads (true story of how some dumb neighbor kids got me to crush my wrist and develop weight problems) and play with snakes. Just for that reason I'd never really feel comfortable letting them go around outside on their own below around middle school.
Big sensor, more photons per mm^2. There will not ever be a computational substitute for a quadrillion additional photons.

The camera industry is totally backwards, though. That is true.
Though I think the onus is on you to demonstrate that it's a myth when you're directly contradicting the first line of the first main paragraph of their wikipage (which is referenced)

"Musical.ly Inc. was founded by longtime friends Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang in Shanghai, China."
Your resume link doesn't work because you meant to put `/resume.pdf`. Not a good look when you're trying to get hired :-)
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Matrix is not usable as it is:

1. Bikeshedding has lead to reduction in security agility: Any change will have to be first implemented for the protocol, then to SDKs, then to clients. This progress can take years.

2. Riot is the only client that delivers proper E2EE, majority of clients don't feature it.

3. E2EE is still not enabled by default.

4. IRC-bridges will break E2EE

5. Decentralization does break large silos and make less tempting targets, but now you have a bunch of server admins who have personal relationships with the people the content (when not end-to-end encrypted), and the metadata (always) of which they have access to.

6. Riot's key management and fingerprint verification has been a nightmare. Thankfully this is about to change.

Until all of these are are fixed, i.e.

Until all clients enforce E2EE, until the protocol design is safe enough, until client vendors are required to keep up with security, until no bridges are allowed, until fingerprints are trivial to compare, I will not, and I think no one should Matrix.
But China isn't doing unbelievably well. Strong centralized near-totalitarian government quickly industrializes enormous population and becomes Great Power is basically half the story of modern history. The question is whether they'll reach first-world levels of (per capita) living and whether they'll be able to do so without transitioning into a liberal democracy. If any country's success is challenging deeply entrenched beliefs it's Singapore.
Would that be a GDPR violation?
I read an a16z blog post on the thesis behind their investment in substack, which is the belief that there will be this big “passion” economy where millions of people will be able to make careers out of making podcasts, writing, etc. I don’t really buy it.

These things are tools that lower the barrier of entry to creating but that alone doesn’t generate mass demand for creators. You will see power laws apply just like it does in many situations, and there will be a handful of people who can pull six or seven figures in something like writing a paid email newsletter.
Yeesh. This is written as if someone is just discovering rudimentary details of technology, manufacturing, and logistics. But instead of learning, they're repeating benign information in the most paranoid-judgmental way possible. "Amazon ... would not explain why tracking is assigned only after a product has left a fulfillment center". heh.

These batteries are made by Fujitsu? That seems quite upstanding compared to what I would guess. It sounds like there is/was a quality problem, but no actual details to put it in context. I don't know Fujitsu's precise reputation here, but it's possible Amazon could have switched to them due to quality issues somewhere else.

Shedding some light on supply chains is certainly a worthy goal, but this does not help.
Toronto harnesses “smart city” planning to the public interest
Private equity is the cancer that destroying this country. I do not care what the free markets people states. The harmful effects of the private equity industry upon this country exceeds any benefit that might help financial struggling companies. In the end of the day, they turn companies that should have gone in Chapter 7 into zombies and do more harm than good. It is time that industry cease to exist in its form and that investment method for superwealthy is taken way. If you invest money in those companies, than you have too much money that needs to go the tax man instead of investing in industry that turn a lot of private industries into zombies. In effect, they are a cancer for capitalism even though they are product of lazziez's fare capitalism.
Which iOS client?
Watch the BBC documentary Century of Self, about Edward Bernays, the founder of propaganda in the US, who learned about psychology from his uncle Sigmund Freud, and happened to be the instigator of modern marketing.

The study and control of group behavior is real. The network of educated and privileged elite is real. The power of the media run by these elite perhaps surpasses that of the justice department. The media can start wars.
and spamming users with ads left and right, Google style, too
1. You didn’t have to be rude, did you?

2. If someone asks where to draw the line along the sequence of a|b|c|d that does not mean they cannot tell these apart, it means they are pondering which of these are ok and which are not. Distinguishing things and bucketing things are not the same activity.
There is totally something wrong with staying if you're underpaid.

There are nice people everywhere. Go meet them, and take the extra to the bank.
I'm not a fan of the image thing as well, but I suspect it's just a learned behavior. Most of us view code like a book, something to be ready in an orderly fashion. But if you view it like a sculpture, an image is like one. You start with a big block of wood, ice, stone and start chipping away and shaping it into what you wish, anytime you come back to it, you have that same exact block with all the things you have done to it.
Moxie has good points about the problems TLS has. And they are not about breaking TLS via cryptanalysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UawS3_iuHoA
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It’s an iPhone X, so about 2 years old. No doubt the iPhone 11 Pro is better. But Sony is due to release the a7iv next year and they have been improving their cameras with each generation, too (though not as fast as smartphone cameras).
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Is there an interface to use transactions?
> You will see power laws apply just like it does in many situations, and there will be a handful of people who can pull six or seven figures in something like writing a paid email newsletter.

Sure, but to create a venture scale business you only need a few hundred highly successful ones; you need around 250 power users to create a $100M business.
Great idea. I just figured out my Xiaomi has a QR code option for each contact. It is also possible to share wifi passwords with QR codes.
Oh they’re always running and on dozens of machines.
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