skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only flew over the comments but I miss references from the past like Software through Pictures (STP, from former Aonix, riding the wave of CASE-tools) or the even older block oriented software. The latter thought of objects forming blocks that offer or consume interface and join each other through matching like LEGO.

Even big companies like Rational tried their best to generate boiler plate code from UML diagrams. Also BPMN incorporated findings from the early days.

But after nearly 30 years of programming experience I know one thing for sure: when it comes to real use cases beyond counting letters in a string only dedicated generators or very limited general ones continue to work. If it were the other way around there'd be product turning natural language directly into at least a single formal one.

And every (Java-) programmer who still repeatedly writes down lines of code doing the same boring input-processing-output did miss at least aspect orientation, Java agents and this is the most powerful of all: ANTLR. Runs right away with your BNF-grammar from Maven or a plain JDK. But be warned, this is like any other complex craftmanship, you need to start with cleaning the workshop before you can operate the heavy machinery.
That letter says nothing of the sort.
Software like motioneye (motion detection) doesn't work on Rpi as it needs a lot of CPU (my experience).
Yes, Norton Commander was my go-to utility during the DOS era.
A lot of people saying this, but the games could still have to connect to SecuROM who would then approve them all. Of course, it won't protect customers against SecuROM itself shutting down, but that's not the problem here.
But please be careful because if you use anything based on automatic synchronisation, such as RAID or a DropBox-like service, there is also a danger that anything you accidentally delete or corrupt will then propagate. If there’s no historical version saved as part of the system, or if there is but you don’t notice the problem before it disappears, you can end up damaging your “backup” copies of your data in exactly the same way as the original if something goes wrong.
Its actually Win10 that people hate, dev tools are just fine
That's a reasonable point, but it's not the argument that was being made (and that I was responding too).
Yeah, that's all fair. Of course we're here on HN and natural tinkerers so the first thing I did was dial in the zones. Most people, as you mentioned indirectly, won't ever do this, and it'll just keep recording all day.

That being said we've had surveillance systems for ages and no one's ever thought about them, but I definitely get why people are nervous in some situations.

I kind of alluded to this but I even questioned my own ethics for a while with this thing. I lambast people for trading convenience for security or privacy all the time - the justification I give for having this myself is that a) it's not in my home (so I don't consider it a personal invasion), and b) it's restrained to my front porch and yard (so I don't consider it a public invasion).

Again, I can see why others would question my logic here.
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I've successfully worked remotely from New Zealand in several different roles. I am available to travel up to 30%.

I have a wealth of experience building, scaling, and supporting large web applications and API's. As a full stack engineer, I tend to focus more on quality driven back-end development. But I also dabble in the front-end and go deep on infrastructure and platform concerns.
The last few years my primary technology has been Node.js, but I'm very open to other ecosystems. Especially Python, Go, Elixir.
I set one up with R pi before.

Use the ubuntu "motion" package and record pic/video when motion is detected.

Use some python script to auto upload new files to google drive. I can use any google drive sw in ios/android to view pictures in some folder. The folder can be shared with family members can be view remotely. Kinda fun project.

Works ok - But it used a lot space. Have to actively manage share folder.

I am looking for similar setup for quite a few of old android phones laying around. Plan to write one myself when I have time....

If anyone know a good solution with old android phone HW + G Drive, please share.
definitely. i'm personally so inspired by Comcast's awesome breakthroughs and super duper customer service inspired by all of this wonderful free market competition and efficient allocation of resources that i figure we'd be fine letting them handle social security payments, Medicare/Medicaid, defense spending, and all of that stuff. imagine the overhead we'd save by just having Comcast running the government!
I don't know. I like Wikileaks. I'm not convinced Assange's so-called crimes are the reason he is being detained. This type of thread always seems to be crawling with spooklikes aggressively defending the state.
By those definitions, detention facilities where people await their asylum hearings are also not concentration camps. And the people in detention are free to leave if they wish, they're just not free to remain in the US without a hearing.

As for the harsh conditions, I completely agree they should be improved. But that would require funding that the Democrats refuse to provide, and services from other companies that Democrats like these activists are trying to block.
MLE is not invariant under parameter transformations because it's just the argmax of the likelihood!

Take for example x~normal and exp(x)~lognormal. The maximum of the distribution is at mu for the former and at exp(mu-sigma^2) for the latter, instead of exp(mu).
>I was trying to make a profit is pretty constraining. You have to satisfy customers or you go out of business. [1]

Hehe this one was pretty good.

[1] https://www.parrot.vc/-LuhxfJS6wU2jI7ulPj0 via @parrot_vc
There are only 6 labels to choose from. They actually couldn't have picked a different label without making up a new one, or without making their choice of label even more misleading than it already is.

Let's try a different approach. How about this: I've carefully read over both the spec itself and everything Apple and Mozilla have to say on the matter (that I was able to find anyway), and have come to an informed conclusion: both Apple and Mozilla are wrong. (That's actually a rather poor, oversimplified summary of my position. But no moreso than "harmful" is a poor, oversimplified summary of Mozilla's position.)

You are making an argument from authority. I consider myself sufficiently well informed on this particular topic to be making arguments based on facts and reason. I don't find you repeatedly citing a one-word summary of Mozilla's position on the matter (which is actually quite nuanced, and not at all able to be summed up by a single word) to be particularly convincing.
Never said I don't believe the data, I just think it's irrelevant. If 10 people had their phones stolen out of 10,000 that doesn't justify draconian anti-consumer measures.
Isn't it only geo-based though? Of the IP you are downloading from? Fine. Do that. That is still very unobtrusive
A Liar, a Con Artist and a Snitch. His Testimony Could Send a Man to His Death
I clicked through like 15 of these and they were all pretty nonsensical. Not sure if this is more damning of tweets from VC's or the bot itself...
1. Let photographers license their photos from a list of standard licenses

2. Let photographers set their own prices

3. Let buyers search by budget and by license

4. Startup charges a X% platform fee

The market will take care of the rest.
I'd have to do the math but to me it seems like ridiculous housing prices make up for prop 13, while also pushing the tax burden to those best equipped to handle it (people in the position to afford to buy expensive houses)

So while grandma's only paying taxes on a tax-appraised value of $200k for a home worth $1mm on the open market, people who buy today are paying tax on $1mm+ for homes that "should be" (or would be in other states) worth $200k.
Show HN: Whotracks.me - Tracking the Trackers
>I used Crashplan now.

Do you pay for their business plan?

They killed their consumer plans a while back and told me to go to Carbonite. I was a bit bummed by that as I liked CrashPlan's client.

I went to Backblaze instead, not a fan of their backup client though.
Ugh my grandparents gave me a modern 36in Trinitron when I was in college. I ended up leaving it with one of my old roommates when I moved out, mostly because I didn't want to move it again. It felt like it was made out of solid glass, it had to be near 200 pounds (probably exaggerating, but it was heavy and extremely awkward to hold while moving with two people). I'm kinda wishing I still had it now.
Many analyses of the world aren't bayesian /or/ frequentist, they use much simpler pattern-matching, with feedback loops that update the approach used as well as the conclusion. Problems start w/ assuming you have to choose one of those approaches to estimate the future...
Just click on any link inside of chrome's "articles for you" on your phone and look at the url.

I haven't seen a single non-AMP article there, and I've been checking for a year.
Another major shift that the article neglects to mention is global arbitrage. The advancement of camera + software quality and accessibility means people can make great pictures anywhere.

These days there are a lot of studios in the stock houses like Getty and Shutterstock that are based in Eastern Europe, or Asia, where the small amounts of money from stock images can really add up over time.

Copying styles, compositions and concepts of historically successful stock images means these producers make out quite well for their regional market by selling to more expensive markets.

Photo prices are going down for American photographers but it's still good money for smaller economies.
>It's rhetorical tactic, not an argument.

It can be both, and it is hard to determine what the intent is. Was it a propaganda tactic to link two unrelated groups for political goals or was it an extreme counter example?

>In this case, the extreme example was in support of the proposition.

Could you go into this further? As far as I can tell, the original idea was that it was okay to do business since it is just business, and the argument ad absurdum was to bring up Nazis.
We didn't have a major terror attack in the US using airplanes before 9/11 either. For what it's worth, I've never spilled coffee on myself when wearing my lucky blue shirt either.

People should defend their liberties, whether that's a right to privacy or a right to own firearms. Having a camera is not de facto bad - but having a camera whose data is controlled by a for-profit company is a shift away from liberty.
It's damning of VC's. Most VC tweets pretty much look like that.
Ok. Even so, very nice development, this is exactly how I think it should be done, most other dual-language environments where you use one language for structure and another for speed tend to completely lose the context of the code for the optimized part. Having them blended in like this ensures that they are viewed as a whole rather than as two loosely coupled parts.
The problem is with the environment cost. Let's tax manufacturers for every device found whole in the trash. See how fast the problem gets solved.

(And yes, there are implementation issues to solve with this approach. But none unsolvable.)
> If any iOS 13 devices hears them

Even devices turned off.
It almost certainly wasn't - I went to a no-name tiny state school with a crappy CS program and had a mediocre GPA. The most relevant thing which probably got me an interview was merely being employed at another FAANG company when the other FAANG company contacted me.
How Poverty Ends: The Many Paths to Progress–and Why They Might Not Continue
Important to know Arq only runs on mac/windows but has an open source client for mac/windows/linux that can do restores. So if they go out of business your data isn't lost (presuming you used a cloud backup that still exists).

I left because Google's rate limiting makes them really slow.

Also they mix together all errors including permission errors and "the file is being accessed by another program" so every run will have a few hundred errors (in fact, if I got zero errors that always a sign that the backup hadn't run correctly).
Photographers should be already looking for another job or try some warzones. Cant beat the variety of AI models and photos.

Also, i think the article is wrong, stock sites have become ridiculously expensive, with shady subscriptions and daily limits and all. Sorry guys, it s a new century. Few people need print-resolution photos anymore
We replaced more than 1 PB of hard drives, while continuing to serve files
"There's no expectation of contribution with open-source software and the vast majority of users don't add anything. That's how it goes. If you don't want to give it away, then simply don't give it away." - Vendors are wising up to it now and changing their licenses. Amazon definitely took advantage of this before the days of AGPL. I agree that there's no expectation of contribution. As I said before, it just discourages open source in general because of what Amazon might do. My original comment was in response to someone asking how Amazon is able to launch these services quickly. My response was that the bulk of the work is being done by someone else. I guess that's not new. On the retail side, Amazon takes products that sell well and then offer an Amazon Basics version of the same product.
It's not a reporting system. I believe that idea has been tried and did not work. This uses all-new technology to find the ads and skip over.
One thing that is not stressed in the article but seems relevant, is that, while being designed to detect and block fraud attempts without de-anonymizing users, the system might very well be super effective against malicious SEO as well. Wondering how techniques to game search engines will evolve in the future with counter-measures such as this one.
This is why I like supporting podcasts on Patreon. They get money each month (yes, Patreon takes a cut), but when you subscribe you get a normal podcast URL you can use in any client.

I wish more would do that.
Survey: Majority of data scientists plan job change in 2020
So they do not have any complaint against Github, but want to engage in political virtue signaling over completely legal federal law enforcement procedures?

For some reason I doubt the group of people wrote similar letter when Obama had caged people. My bet is that they thought the pictures from Obama's cages were from Trump's cages.
I didn't think any of the ones I saw made remote sense, as someone who follows a decent # of VCs on Twitter...
It's strawman to always posit frequentists as unthinking blobs of meat who don't consider the credibility of the alternate hypothesis. In fact, many experimental scientists, physicists, biologists etc. made discoveries using frequentists techniques that didn't rely on boogyman notions of "want to bet the sun just burned out because you're in a closet" nonsense.
I'm still annoyed that Google bowed down to them in their litigation settlement. Getty wanted have their cake and eat it too, by having Google surface the images, but not really surface the images. Google should have treated it like any other DMCA copyright infringement case and removed Getty images from their index. It would have allowed Google users to use more free images, and Getty would have no copyright claim.

Instead Google removed their direct image button, frustrating all users of their platform.
"I stand with the people of China and that they need to hire researchers to design some new architecture, or anything extremely fancy."

This is amazing. Reminds me of the postmodernism generator: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
> Income inequality is an enormous problem. What do you use it for?

... this is amazing.
Yandex for image search
> Pointfree and nameless. Anyone have any idea what it does? Does the subsequent picture help? Anyone think you could modify what it does without a lot of unpacking?

I don't understand why this isn't the only (or at least the highest rated) comment in this discussion. There really is nothing more to say about this article. "4. (3 (2 1))" is not a program. "We apply the second dependency to the result of the first. We then Partially apply the 3rd dependency and compose the resulting function with the 4th dependency." is not an explanation -- what is the "3rd dependency"? Dropping names to somehow implicitly number something does save keystrokes, but it doesn't make for "good code" (the claim from the article's title).
Now train a second bot on parrot.vc advice to make bets via MicroVentures...
I kept mine short so that people don't waste too much time.
I didn't downvote, but while I see the value in a moderate wealth tax, I think cutting the rich down to median salary would destroy a lot of value. Our capitalist system is undergirded by pecuniary incentives to innovate, improve, and produce. If you take those incentives away, the most productive members of society will not produce as much.

Some people are saying that billionaires shouldn't exist. I'm not so sure. If we create a high marginal wealth tax at each 5 or 10 billion dollar bracket, and someone still manages to retain tens of billions of dollars, then they're producing a massive amount of value that should only be celebrated.
Haha I'm sure it's somewhere in the middle. Never said it was the smartest algorithm. If you hover over the VC's name, it'll show the actual tweet that was sampled.
Cloud Gaming, the art of extremely low latency streaming
Uhhh remind me to check up on my Crashplan backup. (FACEPALM)
Shadowserver runs the sinkhole, its up to the registrar/dns company (in this case namecheap) to point it at the sinkhole. The Feds provide a list of "identified" domains to all the major providers for the avalanche take down. Since this is an on going thing, someone at namecheap blindly ran the list without any verification.
Again: Priors can and are used to mislead. Both methods can and are used to mislead. Just moving to Bayes doesn't assume the finding is free of bias all of a sudden.
Right, photos are average at best. I was looking to sell based on location / area where the photos were taken and it worked to some degree - all 3 purchases are from Germany and France.

It's just that there are too many photos and photographers out there these days. All pro photographers I've met were struggling to make a living off of it.
Nobody tell this person about municipal broadband
More very entertaining evidence of how terrible most antivirus products are can be found be reading many of the Project Zero bug reports by taviso. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list?q=owner... There are a lot of them!
This is really nice, we used lambda for event based ingestion into RDS and MySQL connection limits were such a pain.

However I do wish they’d include how this will evolve alongside last years announced data API.
Thanks, interesting. Do you think this dynamic has already been priced into Boeing's stock now, which is why it did not move much on this 50 plane order?
Interesting.

I mean, I am using it and it is working :)

But yea, it's good that you made your own idea instead.
I feel this post should be considered along with its sibling: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/04/whats-wron...

I think reading either alone is prone to lead readers to a false understanding of Gelman's perspective.
Giving your argument the benefit of the doubt, I think you're saying:

1. Currently no legally recognized right is being violated by police when they are given Ring surveillance footage from a homeowner to prosecute a potential criminal.

2. But perhaps we should codify some right that prevents the police from obtaining Ring surveillance footage from a homeowner to prosecute a potential criminal.

I agree with 1, but I disagree with 2, and further I suspect you're going to have quite the uphill battle convincing the majority of people some right should exist that prevents homeowners from providing surveillance footage to the police.
Wherever you want. That's the great thing about owning your own data.
As society degrades practices like this will be more and more valuable. It's part of ultra urban societies and our inevitable future.
The Aesthetic-Accessibility Paradox
It isn't clear exactly what they are doing nor have they said what their plans are.

I think NPR bought Pocket Casts and I doubt they spent all that money with no plans for a return on that investment.
> Sci-hub's ideology is just continuation of this approach.

Actually, that was the point of what I was saying—the mathematicians had to be inventive and thus passed around preprints that they knew would also be read in the West.
And yet, the data they collect would reasonably be available to those in Google that do work in targeted ads. And they would know what to do with it.
It doesn't really matter what context the letter was written in. It very clearly only takes issue with a particularized sentence fragment used in the museum's initial statement. Nowhere does the letter endorse or promote the idea that U.S. immigration detention facilities should be compared to "concentration camps."

You are claiming that this letter says something that it, quite literally, does not.
As South Park puts it "F" Disney.
It's a markov chain trained on around 65,000 tweets from around 50 VC's.
This ignores the main strength of a Bayesian workflow. You can straight forwardly quantify the effect of your prior choice on your inference - pick a different prior; how much does that change the inference, etc etc. A good Bayesian workflow does not assume a prior to be true; it should be based on available evidence, and then stressed. To be a bit more concrete, let's say we wish to model the height of kangaroos. We come up with a model form, say regression, and a bunch of potential features. If we are Bayesian we might say; "I think nature prefers simple stable solutions, so I'll put a N(0,d) prior on my weights. We then compute a posterior and get a range of credible values. We can then say, "hey, what if I'm wrong and actually it's a student t, or it's flat prior or X or y or z", and use principled tools like marginal likelihood to say which family of models works best, do prior posterior comparisons to see how observations changed our prior etc etc.

If we do this under a frequentist framework we compute the regression coefficients, and can get some confidence bounds with some appeal to asymptotics (and nobody I've ever seen actually makes any attempt to validate these assumptions). And even when we are done, we get a confidence interval that has such a truly unintuitive definition that almost every person who is not a stats PhD fundamentally misinterprets.

To say frequentists make less assumptions is not true- they are just less explicit, and I consider it a strength not a weakness to highlight choices made by the statistician.
what is a VC?

> Canceling sneaky charges is one of the most predictable but consequential developments of the 2020s.

this is pretty cool.
I see a lot of comments here saying that users are buying Rings because they like them, so clearly there must be a need for them. However, in the US, crime rates have nationally been on a downward trend for decades now. Meanwhile, around 60% of people think crime rates are increasing [0].

This is why I'm uneasy with the idea that we should allow revealed preferences to make decisions about the level of ambient privacy we have in US society. There's clearly something pushing people to buy these things, and it isn't a higher crime rate.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/17/facts-about...