skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment points out that internment "is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges, and thus no trial. ... Interned persons may be held in prisons or in facilities known as internment camps, also known as concentration camps."

It then quotes The American Heritage Dictionary's definition of concentration camp as: "A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a group which the government has identified as dangerous or undesirable."

Ergo, prisons which only contain people who have been convicted in a trial or agreed to a plea bargain cannot be regarded as concentration camps.

By comparison, the US held Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WWII, and held Filipino civilians in concentration camps ("reconcentrados") during the Philippine–American War. These can be distinguished from prisons as there was no trial for those held.

As I understand it, if the people being held at ICE are asylum seekers, then entry into the US is not illegal (even if they are not granted asylum). The US instead argues that they can be detained until that process is finished, even if that is indefinite.

This certainly sounds a lot closer to the definition of a concentration camp than US prisons containing prisoners who have be convicted in a court process.

In any case, we're talking about people in an organization which argued that the requirement for "safe and sanitary" conditions was so vague that it was okay to refuse toothbrushes, soap or adequate bedding to children.

Are all US juvenile prisons the same way? No. The 'typically under harsh conditions' is yet another distinction between "concentration camp" and "prison".

That said, many US jails and prisons are horrid, inhumane places.

"No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones." - Nelson Mandela in Long Walk to Freedom.
I agree that making money by effectively making it harder for the original content creators to make money is not super ethical in my book and as such I'd refuse to use such an app.

That being said:

>If we do stuff like this, the podcast industry will switch to a closed system which would require you to install proprietary apps to listen to stuff. Likely several different apps for different shows and companies.

You can dismiss all adblockers that way. Except it's not really how it'll work: if people really make it inconvenient to access the content people will pirate instead. Podcasts are also generally small audio files which makes them super easy to share.

Instead I think that blocking ads (which, IMO, are a cancer for our society and I have no moral or ethical problem blocking everywhere) will incentivize podcasters to find alternative schemes to make money. For instance you could have a "Spotify for podcasts" that lets you watch podcasts ad-free with a subscription. There actually already are a few services for that (Stitcher comes to mind). I actually pay for a Stitcher subscription to listen to my podcasts ad-free.

I want to believe in a future version of the internet where everybody and their dog aren't spending their entire resources conning me into watching ads I don't want to see.
Starting a consulting company to help companies “leverage this transformational game changing innovation opportunity.”
“I don’t believe the data because of a couple anecdotes.”
Here's the direct link to the video:

https://youtu.be/cM8DcCoZulw
orElseThrow does return a String, not an Optional. You also could use orElse(null) or orElse("null") depending on the use case (eg. using as a part of toString).
I was about to write a snarky, contradictory response to this, but I think you have a point.

When a normal ad comes on, it's outside of the "content" you're used to. A different voice, a different presentation style, a different part of the webpage, a different section of the newspaper.

When the content producer themselves is presenting the ad, however, you feel a bit more subconsciously inclined to trust them. IMO this is why YouTube ads have taken off so well.

Obviously I know that it's just an ad, but in the back of my head I'm paying more attention to it.
I agree that regulation is probably needed to curb the excesses of a company Amazon's size. It doesn't follow to me, however, that you and I must continue shoveling money into their coffers whilst we complain about how bad they are.

Is there some reason you can't vote with both your dollar and your vote? Most of us can still buy our toothpaste, toilet paper, headphones, and cat litter at a local pharmacy, electronics store, or mall.
> Stock price is valued as more important than choice for the consumer.

By who? And why should those that value it more than choice for the consumer value choice for the consumer more? And how would they even go about doing that?
I've been using https://pixabay.com/ for website stuff
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If people stop worrying about forever offended people and someone announcing that they're offended becomes a headpat instead of attention then we will all be better off.
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Canada -> I only pay in CAD.
REMOTE OK

Must know PHP, Laravel (spark,nova), vuejs, postgresql.
Have a good understanding of using and building API's.

I'll pay per project I need help getting a couple mini projects off the ground for my companies.

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Let's see... a search on "Apple Sells Data"... oh those lawsuits and investigative journalism from different media outlets in the past calendar year is all bullshit. Because Apple wouldn't lie in its PR and advertisements! No lies are able to come out of the mouths of people when they're on stage at tech conferences. I'm so silly. Totally forgot all of that.

Hell, here's a fun read: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/apple...

PS. Apple's anti-consumer practices are really messed up.
Old people can be actors to. I think it's unknowable really, whether or not it's real. And I think that's part of what Zardulu wishes to accomplish.

> “I don't do animal fauxtography any more,” she told me offhandedly. “So, I've been talking about some of my pieces.”

What over purpose could be served by revealing the deception?
Their homepage shows you the few podcasts they support which suggests some sort of manual pattern recognition per channel. It's clearly not a general solution like adblockradio.
They did not fix it by putting only
"© OpenStreetMap".

From https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright/en

> How to credit OpenStreetMap

> We require that you use the credit “© OpenStreetMap contributors”.
When a word is used to the point of meaninglessness (when "expected synergies" don't exist), or when its use is really a euphemism for "we're going to fire a bunch of people" then it exposes itself to mockery.

Synergy's eventual heat death was, I'd hypothesize, greatly accelerated due to its preponderance in merger announcements and consulting decks in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.

Would be nice to use it again without caveats. Maybe one day.
The biggest issue here for me is that you're charging for this app. You're basically asking me to pay you for your hard work of removing ads from someone else's hard work of creating content.
I agree - thank you!
So now the mugger has a reason to beat me senseless so they can sell my phone before I wake up and report it stolen. I really don't want to incentivize a crackhead physically attacking me.
Exactly. Almost anyone would much prefer to lose $100 to a scammer than someone who breaks into your home and takes it. The latter is far more violating and scary.
The twist here is that he's make a profit from automating that process. It's not necessarily unethical, but it's morally dubious, at least.
Doubtful. I'm interested in that as well.

If I were making it, I would listen for keywords (ex: Cash App, Onit, MyBookie.com, Manscaping, Dollar Shave Club) that could be updated like an AdBlock filter list. Combine that with obvious changes in inflection, notable differences in the waveform, etc.

I would also assume my implementation would cut the podcast down to about 4 minutes with all the false positives.
I do a bit of work in Angular (2+) at the moment.

And that involves a lot of boilerplate code; in fact so much that the framework comes with a tool (ng generate) that generates the code for you. A single component is split in 4 files and needs to be explicitly wired up in another file (the module). An empty test case is more than 20 lines of code.

The point is. This is not really due to the language.

Angular is written in JavaScript which under other circumstances can be a very condensed language.

It is not really the language that mandates verboseness and boilerplate but the conventions, style, framework and so on.

Java can be low on boilerplating and a lot more condensed; though one has to look outside the big mainstream frameworks for that.
You don't need an IDE in any language I'm aware of beyond exotica like language workbenches. People are using the word "need" here to mean "is really really useful".
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> The idea of fair or unbiased does not exist.

I've probably said that in the past but after a fair amount of thought it isn't true. It is pretty clear that there is an objective truth out there somewhere and we occasionally uncover bits of it as we muddle along. In maths even if nowhere else.

So although there is some theoretical level of purity that cannot be reached, for the English-language meaning of 'unbiased' is totally achievable. We just don't have a test for when it has been achieved. And it probably upsets everyone; because reality tends to have frequent disagreements with politicians and ideologies of all stripes.
Bayesian modeling can be very powerful when it works but it can also be catastrophic when it fails. It helps to think about this in an adversarial decision theoretic context where you play a prediction game against an opponent (usually called Nature).

We can think of the game as discovering the best model to explain a set of observations. The Bayesian believes that Nature picks the true model that generated the observations by sampling the prior. This is actually a huge assumption to make, which is why Bayesian methods work so well when the assumption is close to the truth.

Frequentists make the assumption that Nature chooses the underlying true model from a set of possible models. Beyond restricting the set of models Nature can choose from, frequentists make no further assumptions about the selection process. This is a strictly weaker assumption than the Bayesian makes, which means frequentist methods will do better when the specified prior grossly misrepresents Nature's decision making process.

There are even weaker assumptions that can be made about how Nature chooses the data. Regret-based model inference allows for a more adversarial game with Nature where the data may not come from the class of models considered at all. If Nature truly behaves this way, then Bayesian decision making can catastrophically fail.
I see it as a meaningful discussion, not necessarily hate, but I see your point! I can't tell how it works, just that it is pretty cool!
Lets say that the developers were calling for Github to stop any associations with hospitals providing abortions, would you still say that it is fine for companies to join in on politics? This is an extremely slippery slope, if you want your democracy to function then you don't want this kind of activism to exist.

It is warranted when the democracy is failing, but as far as I know USA is still holding fair elections at regular intervals.
My point is that almost all consumer cameras these days are good enough to be used in a professional shoot—GoPro, heck even cheap consumer point-and-shoot cameras from Nikon or Canon can produce the same (or usually better) images, and are much cheaper than an iPhone.
Snowflakes are usually hard to capture. Most of the time very snowy scenes in photos or movies have some sort of post production or visual effects that either adds them or enhances them. Does iPhone render them differently in post processing or was this done in post production editing?
I agree somewhat with you, but might be able to put a bit more perspective on this.

Photographers use their work product as advertising, so attach their name to their work. They also often do any retouching themselves. This, along with copyright preventing modification of the images, allows those images to accurately reflect the abilities of the photographer.

It's a lot like software licensing in that way. As a company, you don't necessarily want someone tweaking your software you've sold to the and either expecting support, or even just possibly leaving a bad association with your software for the people that use it that don't realize that the reason it may be unstable is because someone has made unstable changes.

That doesn't make it good, but it does explain their thinking somewhat. Photographers are like software consultants, but because of the different time they came to prominence, they've managed to make it the norm that they retain rights to their work product. This is changing though. It's not too hard to find photographers that are willing to just dump the images to DVD pre-retouching and hand them over for you to do with as you wish. It won't be cheap, because they are losing out on being able to upsell you albums and video collages, etc, and their cost reflects not just the time they spent there, but their experience in knowing where to be and what to do to get the best pictures (in the same way that someone that pays my consulting rate is paying for my decades of experience).
> it makes it very explicit that you pick a prior

But you don't, in general, pick a prior. You pick a procedure that has an expected loss under various conditions. It's one player game theory.

If you happen to have a prior, then you can use it to choose a unique procedure that has minimal expected risk for that prior given the loss function, but even so that may not be what you want. For example, you may want a minimax procedure, which may be quite different from the Bayes procedure.
How would you keep the footage secure? There is zero point in cameras if the HD's can just be carried off, a decent safe will cost > $1000 and be ugly as all hell.
I guess I'm not an everyday programmer then? I want the machine to work for me, not the other way around. I find it absurd when I find programmers actually arguing for less power and less abstraction, it's like arguing for less free speech or less freedom: contrary to your own interests.
Anything free is going to ding your search ranking - just reverse image-search any image from Unsplash and you'll find thousands of content-farm clickbait adware using the same image. If your revenue is dependent on search ranking, that can get expensive really fast.
Did not downvote.
But this solution would make the rich try to hide their true wealth, so basically it becomes picking randomly from the first 0.x percent.
Also do you agree your solution has zero chances of ever being implemented?
For Super Smash Bros Melee (released 2001), it's an existential issue. Many high-level interactions in the game move so quickly that issues playing on modern LCD TV's a non-starter. 1000 entrant tournaments need enough CRT TV's to support them. Tournament organizers often will keep a cache of CRTs specifically to host melee tournaments.
As much as I would like very much to have an open source hardware token, there’s a major downside to the nitrokey start and other STM32F103 gnuk devices. The microcontroller itself is not hardened at all in hardware. It would not be remotely infeasible to extract secrets from its hardware using relatively available tools. This is in contrast to a true smart card or a yubikey, which have tamper evidence.
"I want people to spend the equivalent of a full-time job researching content, writing shows, organizing guest appearances, producing high-quality audio, and marketing/distributing it to me. I'm prepared to pay exactly $0 for this, and I can't not be entertained for a 30-second sponsor spot."
Couldn't we address the real estate problem by having (more) property taxes? I wonder how much impact prop 13 alone had on the problem (I also wonder how the US analysis would look with California subtracted)

Of course such taxes wouldn't automatically create housing, but it definitely disincentivizes hoarding it, and allows the state to capture more of the accrued wealth to redistribute it. It makes real estate look like a less enticing holding and would make people less entrenched in defending its value, etc.
> They’re far too vertically integrated.

You really have to be ignorant about that industry to say that.
> Why this Hanukkah photo is better than others, I don't know, but Shutterstock is featuring it right now so I guess it sells well and the colors and tones capture a popular trend:

It perfectly captures an advertisement aesthetic.

When I visited your link, I spent several seconds thinking the page hadn't loaded properly. I could see the caption, but not the image.

Then I realized that the image was in fact there, but my eyes were skipping over it in the exact same way I ignore banner ads.
SpiderOak, Tarsnap.
You might be the one drinking the kool-aid if you think either one of them will get a fair trial.
Also, you might be interested in brow.sh, as it should provide easily readable, clean HTML that only contains visible elements. It should be better than dumping pages from links, as it supports scripting.
Sure, but the 2 major components I can think of -- building more housing that would use that freeway, and shifting trips from transit to cars -- are not things that are likely to happen with trips from the Peninsula to Marin, where there are no transit options, and where housing is already restricted.
YouTube, mostly; if you've ever watched SloMoGuys videos where they do things like explode paint or liquid things, you can watch the YT compression algorithm go bananas.

It's not tuned for tons of small details moving erratically, and it shows whenever there's rain, snow, fire, things like that.
I've been told by a practitioner that saliva activates the kambo better than plain water, but who knows.

I've been trying kambo for ulcerative colitis over the past year. My gastroenterologist is perfectly happy to have me take a variety of medications for the rest of my life, whose safety has only been studied over a six-month period.

Western medicine gets the job done, it's true, but it's time to open our minds to Eastern medicine and so-called "folk medicine." Many of these treatments can complement Western medicine.

In my case, Traditional Chinese medicinal herbs have been clinically proven to enhance the efficacy of drugs used to treat Ulcerative Colitis
Go uses a very elegant handicap system of spotting stones. The weaker player essentially takes between 1 and 9 scripted moves before the actual game begins.

It's an excellent system for several reasons. Most obviously, it largely preserves the flow of a "normal" game, whereas something like handicapped chess has completely different opening play. But another major benefit is that it remains a good way to practice for equally-skilled play. The skills used to overcome or capitalize on a handicap transfer effectively to playing out a weak or strong position in a neutral match. There are relatively few handicap-specific strategies to play, and "irrational" play is generally less rewarding in handicapped games than simply mismatched ones.

(I doubt this applies in martial arts, but in many games a heavily-outmatched player is actually rewarded for bad play. If their odds of winning on performance are bad enough, they'll succeed more often by making surprising or high-variance moves and hoping for an error. There's an excellent story from DF Wallace about how as a teen he won local tennis tournaments by simply playing safe and waiting for unforced errors, but actually had less upward potential than the people he beat. When unforced errors became scarce, he had no strong play to fall back on.)

Interestingly, the handicap system could be extended beyond nine stones without losing too much elegance, but by tradition it isn't. It's understood that across any greater skill gap, it's essentially impossible to play a real and educational game. The weaker player won't be able to trace why a move is good or causes them to lose, and so handicapped games should be replaced with either direct lessons, or play tailored to education instead of competition. It sounds a lot like the situation in martial arts, and I suspect holds across a great many other games and competitions.
Anecdote here:

There were increasing reports of burglaries in my neighborhood and one night my home was broken into while we were there sleeping. I installed a Ring camera the next weekend and was awakened to the world of my little cul-de-sac on an average night. There were generally multiple cars coming in, looping around, and leaving in the early-a.m. hours. But it lights up bright and immediately whenever someone comes back there, and in a matter of about two weeks, this dwindled down to absolutely no traffic. Now if I see an entry at 2:00am in my log, it's almost certainly an opossum video.
it should also be required to be "reasonably affordable" (this is more for TV rather than online, but it could mean an upper limit on bids)
I can't tell how it works, because I don't want to create competitors.

I don't see why Apple would have a problem with it. Their own "Podcasts" app lets you skip ads. This app finds the ads and skips automatically.
The math parts are good. C++ parts are less so.

Arrays can be on the stack just as vectors. The main cause of performance difference between them is cache misses, stack is almost always well cached, newly allocated heap memory almost never.

It's rarely a good idea to write matrix libraries these days. Eigen switched to developer-friendly MPL license in 2012, I've been using it since then and it's awesome. It has substantially more internal complexity, but when used correctly it's faster that naïve solutions by an order of magnitude. Template metaprogramming pays off for their use case.

Quite often you know sizes of your matrices at compile time. If that size is 3x3 or 27x27 or something else reasonably small, switching to compile time sized matrices can improve performance by a lot. These fixed-size matrices and vectors are essentially value types, they have no pointers to chase and they don't use dynamic memory.

When you have complex formulae operating on vectors and matrices, if you use auto for intermediate variables, Eigen code often compiles into a single loop over the source data. These intermediate things of human-unfriendly types are essentially compile-time futures.
Just bear in mind that your ability to find an alternate source for an image does not mean that the image is in the public domain or that that the alternate source has the right to license the image to you. I'm not saying this is a bad strategy (especially if, due to its age or some other factor, it's obvious that an image is in the public domain), but be sure to do your due diligence.
Why do you think that the human brain is Bayesian?
>I think I would rather not have advertiser influence over podcasts

So you're willing to pay the creators instead?

>many people do podcasts just out of passion or a hobby...they are more like blogs than anything else

...ahhh I guess not. Nevermind then. Ads it is!