skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a recurring story. Crime goes up and down with the economy. Bad economy? More crime. Great economy? Less crime. And yet everytime we're 5 years or so in a boom "prevention" becomes "important", and of course the lesser offences (like small drug offences) become important. Exactly when crime is close to the lowest level it'll be that decade.

This is very hard to explain, except of course when seen in the lens of "we must provide jobs for government workers".

The same is true for things like juvenile justice. More kids than ever locked up. And yet ... less abuse than ever, less youth crime than ever before.

What these systems are for, I don't know. But their numbers make it pretty clear what they're not for. They're not for protecting anyone in society.
!= "luck"
I've used RTrees for this too (In Java) and they're great.

Hundreds of thousands of queries a second per cpu core on millions of data points.
the models to detect if it's fake are used to reinforce it's training https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network
Computers were also used to control the physical camera.

Captain Disallusionment does a video on Back to the Future special effects when he talks about how this was the era before CGI but that used computer controlled cameras to achieve certain special effects.

https://youtu.be/AtPA6nIBs5g
Countless solutions have tried to solve the problem of counterfeit goods by using some kind of unique identifier but I don't know of any that has seen widespread usage.

The difference is that Amazon is exceptional at tech and has the marketplace to implement and improve their solution over many years. Hopefully Amazon's solution becomes cheap and easy to use for even small brands (but realistically it only needs to be less expensive than the cost of counterfeits to be adopted).

If Amazon's Transparency is REALLY GOOD, they could offer it as a service through AWS. There's an enormous demand for this sort of solution.
The internet? People like to abbreviate things.
All easily avoidable.
I think somtimes it's difficult to pin point how far we can go with not telling the truth.

For example: I create photorealistic product pictures in 3D (Blender). This saves my customers a lot of money. But the thing is: we present fake pictures to the world looking very real. The products look perfect as render but in the real world this can be a little different.

Another example is IKEA. Almost everything you see in their catalogs is 3D rendered.
In those renders everything fits together perfectly. But when you build it at home you might see millimeter offsets.

Maybe those are exteme examples but truth is not black and white.
Yes, in this case. On the other hand, it's not hard to see that we're probably increasingly headed towards a future with more rigorous identity and authorization verification for at least some actions and purposes. And those more rigorous processes will inevitably lead to more edge cases that force people to go to a lot of trouble to verify who they are. (Yes, of course we can get your access to your Google account back. Just bring a notarized birth certificate and two other forms of ID to our Mountain View office between 10-11am on a Friday.)
One property of these charts is that the data is normalized so that the 'winner' takes up 100% of the width for any given time-sample. This is useful if you're trying to imply that the data is zero-sum, but not useful if you're interested in understanding the changes for any one participant relative to itself, or two participants relative to each other. I think in the example, Apple's growth would be far more dramatic on a simple line chart.
Protesting and other symbols of resistance are fine but it won't change anything until they form an insurgency. If they are serious about change it will take a violent course of actions to make it happen. Kosovo wouldn't have become an independent country if it weren't for citizens arming themselves and waging a guerrilla insurgency against their enemies.This of course means many thousands will have to die.
It sounds like they could have already done that given the success of the company? A company that's been profitable for 14 years has likely made its owners rich.

Is it really a matter of getting $4X M instead of $X M?
Electron finally added support for TouchID a few months ago (version 6), so hopefully that's coming
Cuban cigars have this: http://verificacion.habanos.com/

The biggest issue is with people taking authentic packages, filling with fake cigars and selling it.
> They delivered value to the business. That's the only thing that matters.

Except this is an engineering blog post, so the engineering part actually matters.

And, as demonstrated in the article [1] linked around this discussion, there were better engineering approaches that would have been even "better for business", as being more efficient means lower costs per transaction and/or higher throughput.

[1] https://medium.com/@buckhx/unwinding-uber-s-most-efficient-s...
Yes, have corrected! Yeah, I just thought PKD liked that Horselover imagery so much, that Greek version of the name. (Philippos, lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"). Just thought this might have been a bit of a nod towards that! Guess it's a bit of a stretch.
> Capitalism itself is naturally centralizing. That is why we have anti-thrust laws. We don't just leave it to consumers to make sure centralization does not happen in the market. It is the job of the government to prevent it.

Centralized social systems such as Governments, Banks etc exist mostly because we need someone we trust (Bank) to arbitrate interactions between two peers, if you remove these kind of trust with the help of tech (eg cryptography) the bank and governments become obsolete because we can now verify things for our self without a 3rd party.
Go is fast. No interpreter, no JIT, plain machine code combined with the ability to lay out your data like you can in C.
So the internet didn’t turn out the way we hoped. Where do we go from here?
I use the same solution (not hub like you, but USB 4x switch, originally intended for printers, with an extra hub for have keyboard/mouse). Not all brands work for keyboard/mouse, but I have several that do.
let's not go into whataboutism. Amazon is the biggest player so of course it has to be scrutinized the most.
Those "Grandma send money to your grandson to bail him out" scams are about to get a lot more interesting. It's one thing to convince your grandparents never to send money to random people calling on your behalf, but if the conversation happens in your voice? How do harden against such an attack when dealing with people who are technologically illiterate?

Perhaps this opens up a market for secure identity verification that is accessable to the layman...
Menlo Park Police used city funds to taxi homeless woman to SF
But it’s just for Apple users? A terrabyte per user is surely within Apples reach? I can backup my phone to iCloud, but not my MacBook. It’s a glaring hole in their end-to-end experience.
My cat loves sweet things, regardless of the presence of fat. I need to make videos of this to post.
WSJ’s editorial staff must really want to avoid upsetting anyone in the CCP. Following tweets from people on the ground, like AFP correspondent Xinqi Su (https://twitter.com/xinqisu), Quartz reporter Mary Hui (https://twitter.com/maryhui), academic researcher on networked protests Zeynep Tufekci (https://twitter.com/zeynep), or quite surprisingly Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski (https://twitter.com/pinboard), paint a starkly different picture from the article.
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Isn't that the same as Tesla?
This.

The influence of Conway’s law is underappreciated. We are all trained to see hierarchies as the only principle for building structure, it’s a dominant normative ideology. Once we see how to build decentralized systems, we can discover they are often more resilient and more effective. But we have to overcome the current centralization of power and our own tendency to structure the world in hierarchies.
The water system I worked out had their largest wastewater treatment plant discharge at the head of the reservoir for their (admittedly smaller) water treatment plant. If your primary water source is a large nearby lake, there's a decent chance that your wastewater treatment has its output pipe poking at that lake. And if it's a river, even if your output is downstream of your input, chances are that you have a downstream neighbor who is going to be drinking your treated wastewater.
Didn't downvote, but I can see how you might come across as being disingenuous or trollish by saying it should be designed for a particular use case (which implies it isn't), observing that it doesn't work, and suggesting it be redesigned. Most people have learned that it's a bad idea to keep your phone in your pocket while charging, decide not to do that, and subsequently don't have this problem.
> and he is willing to be in a foxhole with someone like John

I resent this attitude, which has become too popular these days. I can defend someone without "being in a foxhole with them", if I think they're being treated too harshly, being misunderstood, ect (and it's not necessarily the "hill I want to die on either"). I might not even like the person, or agree with them. In fairness to you, in this case he does seem to be going out of his way to ally with him.

I find myself skeptical of everyone in cases like these. The linked article has some serious issues in my opinion. Cher makes some good points, but is clearly very biased. That's understandable, however, some of the language she uses is warped to the point of being deceptive. I still feel like I'm not getting the full story here, and getting the full story requires wading through hours of social media drama. I certainly don't trust Lunduke either as there's also issues with his narrative.

I still haven't seen anything that should be a violation of policy worthy of being disinvited. It still seems very much like politically motivated punishment and optics. Inviting someone to engage in a "civil conversation" as Wood did is pretty weasly, but I don't see any harrasment or abuse here.
To your point, it is getting much more difficult to find heavy duty cases that are 100% shielded. I prefer heavy duty cases both for shielding, durability and the benefits of being an additional heat sink.

Case manufacturers could just add their LED lighting outside the case in a clear plastic lining, since it is just for effect. Or if they want to get fancy, put a slim LED screen on each side so you can display the inside of any PC, or make it look like you have a RasPi in the case. Or make it look like you have vacuum tubes, or perhaps a fish tank, or an animated hamster wheel with tiny humans running fast. And don't link it to the OS. Just put a USB port that reads a directory of animated things or pictures, much like modern LED picture frames. Come to think of it, just buy two LED picture frames and stick them to the side of the case.
Right on. Yeah, I got into them in the 90s thanks to the odd way in which Napster introduced me to new music. Typically I'd find an electronic artist, search for them, and find songs by them on compilation albums or on mixtapes that people had painstakingly separated into tracks with good ID3s. Download those whole albums, listen, and then whatever was good from them, I'd put back into the system. It was sort of like manually crawling through a curated recommendations graph.

Ironically, it made me buy a ton of CDs, so the industry probably made more off me than if I'd had no access to this sort of thing. $50 import British double-CDs off Warp Records et al? You know I was shelling out for it. Beautiful Warp20 collection with an unheard, virgin-vinyl cut from Boards of Canada? How could I not, back when I was younger and had disposable income?

The cult aspect of BoC is what turned me into a follower, because there's all these insane references that add a ton of depth to the music that still isn't really there with most of the artists that have filled the space they carved out.
Last time I checked, motherboard's for thread ripper cpus were around 200~300$, is that still the case?

The motherboard cost really erases the budget for entry, as that's the price of a decent ryzen cpu.
I've often wondered why it wasn't more common to integrate solar water heating within the solar electric panels. My understanding is that as the cells heat up, they lose efficiency, so keeping them cool is important.

So - mount them to a heatsink (waterblock) with a water (or more likely coolant) loop running thru them to transport that heat to a water tank for showers or other heating use.

There's got to be a good reason why this isn't done that I don't know about (maybe it really isn't that efficient, or solar cells don't heat up that much, or something else)?
at least in advertisement people are aware that they're looking at curated content, even though it still might have a negative effect because you can't escape it altogether even if you know it.

But these deepfake scams or fake news or what have you goes a step further because it intrudes into what is supposed to be authentic and genuine.
How on Earth would that work without guns?
Excellent point. Authoritarian workplaces worked adequately in the industrial age. But they've had a hard time keeping up with the modern world, where you get better economic results by empowering workers and investing in social systems. It's especially obvious to companies like Google: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-lear...

This deepfakes stuff can only help accelerate the move toward bottom-up power and process-oriented thinking.
Spider Robinson's novel "Telempath" [1] concerns a world where someone released a virus that made everyone a super smeller, increasing human sense of smell hundreds of times.

So many people were not able to tolerate the smells of our civilization that the result was widespread rioting and mass insanity, pretty much bringing down civilization.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telempath
You can use the same method with uBlock on Firefox Android. For iOS I don't know any way.
While he was a bit rude I wouldnt assume he hasn't built something at this sort of scale.
HK police are PLA soldiers.
And in addition to that, we have Open benchmarking and Phoronix for that. :)
If working at your org requires me to spin up Docker containers to write, test, and commit code, I'm changing jobs ASAP. Docker is a tool for CI environments, not for developer laptops (or production, for that matter).
It varies in how well it’s done - much as with windows, some are very sympathetic and others not. It’s also particularly noticeable for people who occupy higher floors in other nearby buildings and I’m not sure this is often considered in the planning process.
If you meant “some daily activities make more showers required”, you worded it in a weird way.
Bluetooth used to be mostly optional, now that some people (not me) are forced to use it for audio, things might get better in years/decade.
Are there alternative companies to GPD with similar x86 platforms? They look pretty great, but like to shop around a bit
your* ?
Also, nice to have that socket compatibility. I imagine I'll upgrade to the top-of-the-line CPU of last AM4 iteration in 4-5 years when their prices have dropped to a reasonable level. Let's see if that actually happens though as changing a CPU is work wise about the same as a full rebuild.
There seems to be a lot of confusion in the comments here. At one time, GCC had three-part version numbers: major.minor.patchlevel. Starting with gcc 5, they switched to a two-part scheme: just major.patchlevel. 7.5 adds nothing but bug fixes to 7.4, there are no new features. That's why the changes page pointed to on gcc.gnu.org only describes gcc7 changes.

https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#timeline gives a good picture of how gcc releases work.
I like that keychain is limited, at least it makes me feel like there’s fewer possible vulnerabilities.

KeepassX and minikeepass on iOS are my go to for secure notes. I don’t see the need for super convenience with my credentials, I’m willing to do some work to access them.

Either way, I’m not handing over a database of login info to a SaaS company. Might make sense for large companies though.
IDK the gitfluencer moniker makes me think like youtubers always ending the videos begging for likes and subscribes

> If you liked that commit don't forget to merge in that PR and smash that follow button!
Well, switching from nodejs to Go for this use case was probably already a big win even if the algorithm didn't change.
For future internet-searchers that stumble upon this, it might be helpful to point out that better solutions exist..
>What about IEC cables? They're super rugged and virtually impossible to break. Proportionally downsizing that connector to be small enough would likely maintain the same level of ruggedness while being small.

Those are only designed to carry power though... not a complex list of protocols...
It has nothing to do with your experience being 99% good enough and more to do with the size of the revenue opportunity that could be lost messing up 1% of requests.
I used to think my kitten was after the sweetness when i noticed that she only likes/prefers milk based sweets. But then she does have same affinity for chocolates and strawberries too.
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They need to begin by finding sympathizers that will smuggle weapons into the country for them. As a resistance begins the enemy is sure to create an atrocity which will inspire many people to fight and make for foreign (and native who live abroad) sympathizers to fund and smuggle weapons into the area to equip the forces.
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I don't bother with dynamic DNS- my home IP has never changed, and if it does change- I don't host anything where some downtime would matter much.

But this site has been recommended to me before-
https://freedns.afraid.org/
passPORT

Also, that whole scenario would have been far less cool if they just recorded the dude for 5 seconds doing anything and pulled a whole CSI-style "put his voice into the visual basic GUI neural network and it works, bro!"

I love Sneakers.
1Password is slowly starting their enterprise game. All employees were offered 'free' 1Password accounts last week for entire family as long as I'm with my current company.
1Password always seems expensive until I remember how much one major password compromise is likely to cost me.
No organization can work if normal communications are hijacked and spoofed by bad actors. This is a pretty severe security issue that no amount "social engineering awareness" training is going to fix. Most businesses can't operate if every decision of consequence needs a face to face meeting to verify authenticity.
It'd be pretty tough for the operator would have to wait for the other party to finish their thought, comprehend said thought, formulate an appropriate response, and then type it out on a keyboard.. Whilst maintaining the expected rhythm of a real-time phone conversation
So the idealized authoritarian CEO must first have ordered you to never bypass it, and then must regularly test you to ensure that it cannot be bypassed.

There's no reason this sort of authorization process couldn't be trivially handled with any one of a number of simple technologies. If there isn't already some sort of Personal Verification Service to do this, well, there's a niche to be had. Come up with a better name.
Are you on an old version? I’ve been using TouchID with 1Password on Mac and FaceID on iPhone for as long as I can remember them being a thing

I think when they switched to subscription model they left people who didn’t switch on an old version
It has the same camera as the pixel 3, but no separate fixed zoom or wide imaging unit like in newer phones. It has the same CPU as the pixel 2, which can be pokey. All the computational imaging features in the pixel 4 are not in the pixel 3a.
Not dismissing, I understand it is a hard problem. I'm simply saying that is the developer job to solve the issue.

Similar thing happen in web development, there are tons of device, screen size, javascript framework, browser, os, all come with its own quirks. Is it suck ? Yes it is but it is my job as as a competent developer to manage all those complexity and solve the issue. From the user prescriptive, all they need to know is the site is working with whatever device they use, that is the goal.
nah i think its a pretty fair assumption
EnPass is my replacement.
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You know I want to be very honest about this (since I've already got a lot of downvotes in this post, no harm in getting more :)

Having been in this industry for 30 years I firmly believe that bugs should be fixed by those who introduced them.

This:

GCC 7.5 is a bug-fix release from the GCC 7 branch
containing important fixes for regressions and serious bugs in
GCC 7.4 with more than 215 bugs fixed since the previous release.

is not normal (215 bugs!) and no, I'm not going to go and pick a bug to fix in this source code. I'd rather contribute to LLVM which seems much cleaner and higher quality overall.
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When you find a computer/dock/cable combination that works, it's fantastic. But, in my experience, it's extremely hit or miss whether a different monitor, or laptop, or cable will work with other components. Particularly with 4k@60Hz.
Artificial voices must have improved a lot in the past 2-3 years. None of the ones I've ever heard would pass muster. Something weird in their intonation, a kind of sameness or monotony in their speech i.e. lack of excitability, a bit too perfect and precise.

I just went to cereproc, one of these companies advertising a very realistic synthetic voice, and none of their voices convinced me at all, though I have to admit it was pretty good.

When they get so good that they are indistinguishable except through Turing tests, and maybe not even then, we'll all be in trouble. I somehow expect that we haven't yet reached that point, though it can't be long in coming.
The presentation is stellar! I love the animated code changes on the side <3
From the article: "Brands are required to put Transparency codes on every unit for every SKU that’s enrolled, whether it’s sold on Amazon or through another channel."

Amazon doesn't want companies to use this to prevent third parties from selling their products obtained via other channels through Amazon by claiming they are counterfeit, and so requires all products to contain the code, not just those sold through Amazon.

edit: spelling
> what has Amazon done to encourage abuse?

Co-mingling of products at the warehouse. When you buy from Amazon, you don't actually know which "seller" is supplying the goods. They all were comingled at the Warehouse.

Even "Sold by Amazon" and "Fufilled by Amazon" products are comingled. Leading to: https://twitter.com/billpollock/status/1183094406573748225

Amazon, instead of fixing the comingling problem, has decided to charge the legitimate companies (ex: No Starch Press) for anti-counterfeiting defenses. Amazon is destroying No Starch Press's reputation by shipping shoddy low-quality counterfeit books, but its No Starch Press who has to pay the price to fix the problem.