skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the "slippery slope" argument is also a logical fallacy.

> With a doorbell cam, now you’re involving everyone in your neighborhood. They don’t have a choice. With a phone, I can at least make the choice whether to track myself or not (by using the phone). With a doorbell cam, now you’re involving everyone in your neighborhood. They don’t have a choice. I have no doubt someone is going to say that those people are in a public space, but there there is a huge difference between the theoretical concept of being in public, and the actual reality of public spaces being under video surveillance 24x7.

I'll say it. There is nothing being tracked that isn't public information. There is no information being revealed other than the fact that someone was walking by house A at time Y, which is information anyone looking at the street at that time would have. What is the meaningful difference between the "theory" of being in public, and a particular area being under surveillance 24x7?

> Also, in the US, there is the Third Party Doctrine. Any data you give to a third party can be given to the government without any Fourth Amendment protections. By using these services you are giving up your Constitutional rights.

Again, what is the worry about the data a doorbell cam generates falling into the hands of the government? I do not argue that it can be dangerous to serve up private information and data in a way that can be obtained by undesired third parties and the government. I argue that a doorbell cam doesn't generate any data of the kind people need to worry about. Hence, why these articles are largely sensationalism in my view.
OSs didn't implement it though. And they never would unless browsers forced it on them. The right approach is for browsers to bring it in and then when the OS supports it, default to the OS version. But right now I don't know of any OS other than I think android that supports it.
I feel like, from the "individualism" perspective, Forth is really a tool for hackers.

Hackers usually work alone or in very small groups, and the tools they need are usually handcrafted. They do not need corporate-level software, and long do they strive to be left alone, without being bothered.
Usually when people say "bad for the economy" they mean bad for the bottom line. Sure, my health and the health of those around me does effect the economy, it effects how much money we have to spend on luxury items compared to health costs, or how much we get paid due to time taken off due to sickness etc.

And sometimes the well-being of loved ones means you are happy to sacrifice your own health. e.g. working a second job to pay medical bills for a loved one. People do it. But very rarely is the bottom line the prime motivator.
It's not like pure CIL or JVM bytecode when the language can be extended. The process is to make what you need and only then write the program. It's remarkable how fast you can move up language levels once you grok it.
I've caught them not delivering stuff before (opened the gate at 7am to go catch the train and an AusPost fella was just putting the card in our mailbox - those gates were very loud when they opened up + I was in the kitchen getting ready to go, so there's no way we missed them)and they didn't even apologise, just looked sheepish and got my parcel out of the van.

That said, the current AusPost delivery driver assigned to my neighborhood is a nice African (Sudanese?) chap who always at least tried to deliver stuff, will try and hide it from the street if it's marked safe to leave by the door, etc. and if you go to a post office they're usually pretty good.

If they treated delivery drivers like human beings I'm sure auspost's customer satisfaction would greatly increase
Wait until you see what some 3D artists work for. Due to the fierce competition, many of them consider themselves lucky just to be working in their field of choice, and getting paid a minimal wage is just an added bonus.
OK, so this will all be anecdotal. But what I am describing is not that uncommon. And I only worked for a very short time in the US. So if you plan to stay in the US for your whole working life than this advice might not even apply to you at all.

What you are asking and describing is happening right now. In some places around the world the industry is already an unsustainable shit-show, which offers zero financial incentive to a CS undergrad. Some such countries are Japan, Germany and Hungary.

The working hours are extremely long!!! You have to work 60 hours or more most of the time, but managers will try to sell it as a big plus (like, look you can go to all these flashy conferences and you can have kicker table + free buffet, you just have to work hard in exchange) even in face of concrete evidence that the industry in large is to the detriment of your well-being mentally and physically. This management technique is also called stick and carrot.

Also there is real age discrimination. Especially in startups. So it's really difficult to get work-life balance if your life does not revolve around the actual business that your company is doing.

If you can put up with all this shit, and you can save enough money let's say in 10 years so that you can quit, then it might be a good idea to pursue this kind of "career". But again, what kind of career is that sets it's goal as quitting in a reasonably short time.

Salary-wise your payment is gonna be slightly higher then let's say a simple journalist, accountant or let's say an average salesman, but not that great, and because of the long unpaid overtime you will basically get a quite low amortized salary.
I'm not sure the SEC would necessarily make their tools publicly available, if keeping their techniques hidden gives them an edge over fraudsters.
You should really consider picking a standard open source license if you want people to try your work out. I personally wouldn’t consider building a business off of a license like that.
Smartphone tracking only works on people who voluntarily carry their smartphones around and enable tracking features. Satellite imaging is an interesting example - the level of detail at present is roughly the same as what you'd see out of a plane window. But if it gets to a level where facial recognition is possible, that would be pretty worrying. And "anyone on the street with eyeballs" (law included) cannot identify people by sight alone, unless they're already aware that they need to look for that specific person.

Amazon, on the other hand, has put a great deal of time and energy into facial recognition software. They will be able to identify virtually everybody that walks by - even if they don't know a person's name at first, Amazon will keep the facial data and build a profile for that person over time as it accrues more data. That data will be correlated with other businesses and facial recognition software, and Amazon/Google/FB will all profit from the data exchange (especially if they can sell it to advertisers and law enforcement). At no point did the person being recorded agree to have his/her information used for this purpose.

Also they can be hacked and used for harassment, too. We already have the tech to prevent this - it's called "closed circuit".
Can you please give some examples on those who are extremely productive using FORTH? I'm intrigued. I think FORTH could be very useful to someone who prefers to work alone or in small group, but I'm not sure how do they use it in daily life.
>My friends have switched from finance & medicine to CS majors - for the money
Don't worry, something tells me they won't get very far.
This. I worked at a small cell phone repair store. We could replace lots of parts in say an iPhone 7, but nearly no soldering. Parts are relatively cheap (lcd might be 35$ for the 7 when I was there) - and we were only paid up to 12/14$ an hour (that's nearing McDonald's level).

There is little proper education for something like BGA soldering, and if there is then you're more likely to get a job as an engineer.
Reminds me of Gary Kasparov vs The World, which surprisingly turned out to be a better game of chess than you might have guessed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World
GCP has a free billing chat support open to every customer, big or small. It's open 24/7, they can reverse charges (although obviously you'll need a pretty solid justification for 4 figures), and they'll happily jump on a call if you ask them to.

https://cloud.google.com/support/billing/

https://console.cloud.google.com/support/chat
Jeff Bezos in 2002:

“All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.

Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.

There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team's data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.

It doesn't matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols -- doesn't matter. Bezos doesn't care.

All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.

Anyone who doesn't do this will be fired.

Thank you; have a nice day!”

https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
1. Nobody was stripped of citizenship. They couldn't prove they had it in the first place.

2. You won't learn this from the media's narrative about it, but: the reason why most protestors are protesting the Citizenship Amendment is not because muslim refugees (from Pak., Bangla. and Afghan.) are excluded, but because everyone else (non-muslim refugees [i.e. persecuted religious minorities from these officially "Islamic states"]) is now automatically granted Indian citizenship. Protestors are worried about loss of jobs and demographic replacement by these new citizens. So, most protestors are not protesting muslim exclusion, they're protesting anyone's inclusion.
All of my climate researcher friends have stopped reading "The Farmers Almanac" and have flocked to "The Old Farmers Almanac", which has a much more rigorous peer review process, and better impact factor. (/s)
Simons doesn't do insider trading.

Arguably he paid long term capital gains on a basket that should have been short term capital gains.

But his system of short term, automated, stat arb / signal detection based trades are clearly not based on classified corporate data.

I suggest you read The Man Who Solved the Market for more info.
Hi Folks,

Since additional details were requested, I'all add them.

I'm not quite sure how many users this will pickup, it depends on how on demand the site is, but I do YouTube / Twitch reliability and quality.

I can't quite say much more as I haven't fully thought through all the details, as I just want to put my foot into the water and know how much money it would take, before I invest any time.
"Criminals aren't smart" is the textbook example of anti-survivorship bias.
Yes. The only reason people are still doing it...
Yep. Gender-neutral pronouns is the way to go. It's about more than just offending people. It's also about (mis|under)representation and subconscious biases.
> Friend says it is insane how advanced the whole manufacturing is in China. It is engineer's paradise. Of course one has to be smart as they do not mind stealing the design and doing it themselves.

It is possible that these things are related.

Everything is so efficient because rent-seeking on "intellectual property" is not an option. You have to execute well or somebody else will do it better.
Exactly! They got you too! A reasonable bill that would marginally increase the cost of skyscraper developers and improve downtown is being represented as a bill that would let the homeless swarm because one person verbally made a suggested change.
We might be alone in the universe
The biggest problem with door cameras is they're 24 hr survellence of the houses across the street without their permission or a court order
> It'd be fine in Manhattan, but it makes it look like the Queens and Brooklyn lines are super close, even walkable, when in fact they're miles apart.

The current MTA map is basically just as bad at this. If you look at the two maps side by side, they more or less equally exaggerate the distances between all of the lines/stations.

https://new.mta.info/sites/default/files/2019-10/subway_map_...

http://www.inat.fr/files/new-york-city-metro-subway-map.png

IMPORTANT EDIT: when I wrote the above comment, I assumed that the map shown in the article was the same map the architect currently has on their website. This turned out to be a dramatically wrong assumption. The image in the article is: https://cdn.citylab.com/media/img/citylab/legacy/2014/04/09/...
I’d include Razer in the dumpster fire pile. In my estimation, the custom drivers of most HID products seem to be as bad as printer drivers back in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Actually worse because of all the RGB nonsense and cloud bullshit.
>but of course Amazon could still access it

That depends upon the key management. Even with default encryption, keymanagement facilities available for EBS, S3, RDS amazon can be locked out; the key resides with the owner.
> The US has been doing that for about 15 years

Except for US citizens and Canadians. Interestingly, Canada is the only country exempt from the US fingerprinting requirement, at least for tourism or business entry.
I haven't used it personally but I was told that the RockPi (https://rockpi.org/) is similar to the rpi but runs on totally free drivers. Having a backdoor with full system access is just not acceptable in 2019.
I discovered this on lsd. I could see exactly where it was random and where it wasn’t.
(350/150)^(1/20)=1.04. Slightly better than inflation.
Why would you pursue a masters or PhD?

I was an undergrad in the late 90s, and even then there was no point. It made sense if you wanted to pursue an academic career (barely) and it made sense for immigration purposes. Personally, I’m an advocate for very open immigration, instead of creating weird niche paths to citizenship.
Right, will is a natural, deterministic feature
It depends on if you view freedom of speech as a literal "you won't be beaten up for saying things in public" or as a more general thing like "people should be able to communicate with others, and restrictions on how they communicate should be viewpoint neutral".

I tend to take the more expansive view.

By the narrower view, a country could have freedom of speech if it allowed dissident thoughts to be expressed in person, but never electronically or in print - since those require the use of platforms owned by others. I don't think that's the case.
On the Decline of the US and Britain
Well, they're already being replaced by index funds. I don't imagine an AI would do much worse...
Actually, the fact that he pulled off all the logistics and the service was completed as advertised, and insured, I don't really see anything fake about this.

It is no different than what Talent Scouts / Head hunters / etc do, except he was actually more hands on than they typically are.

Compare with a party planner - they aren't the cooks, the clowns, etc. But they do hire a team to conduct those activities. Their customers hire one main point of contact to do all of it. And if what you and your team do is worth the money invoiced for both the buyer and the seller, we're all good.

Perhaps the guy accidentally did a good job and discovered a latent talent. It might feel like it started in jest, but he obviously got serious quickly, and pulled off every detail. This is more of an awakening than a sin to be confessed.

It was a good experiment either way you look at it.
Alternatively, just use (Google Maps/Apple Maps/City Mapper/Transit/et al.)'s routing.

Their routing will generally be better than what most locals could come up with. Although I have noticed that Google Maps tends to assume that transferring between lines has an effectively-zero wait time which is far from the truth in most cases.
People expect to plug in USB and all to magically work. In this case hardware/firmware get full access and can fry your port.

0-day bugs and lacking updates make promiscuous internet use hazardous, yet people expect browser to do everything a PC can.
Brave has a better track record and Tor built-in: https://brave.com/
I use an MX Anywhere 2 at work and an MX Anywhere at home. I love both of them (so much that I soldered in new microswitches when the original buttons on the MX Anywhere wore out).

I have never tried an MX Master. I have been curious, but I don't need the second scroll wheel.

I think the software is somewhat convoluted. My actual preference is that Mac OS would support all of the functionality natively. I think it's stupid that we need to use extra programs to get the keyboard/mouse to do what we want.
What is doing the choosing, your thalamus?
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This seems like a really misinformed comment.

Why would the protests be occurring most strongly in predominately Muslim areas? This is backed up by numerous international media reports, including comments from people who are protesting.

"NEW DELHI—Protests against a new citizenship law favoring non-Muslim immigrants erupted in violence in a Muslim-dominated part of the Indian capital where communal tensions have flared in the past, as the prime minister appealed for calm.

“People are opposing this law because it discriminates against the Muslims,” said Chaudhary Mateen Ahmad, a former Congress party legislator in the Delhi Assembly from Seelampur, the northeastern Delhi area where protest violence broke out on Tuesday afternoon. “They are saying the law should treat everyone equally; there should be no discrimination.”

The new law eases the path to citizenship for individuals from persecuted religious groups from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, but only if they aren’t Muslim. That distinction has set off alarm in India’s 200-million strong Muslim community, who say the law, along with a separate national registry, could be used to disenfranchise many Muslims. The law has also alarmed Indians who view its singling out one religious group as betraying the country’s secular tradition of protecting all religious groups.

The protests on Tuesday followed weekend demonstrations by students and local residents near the Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, in which police chased protesters into the campus, fired tear gas and beat them with batons, injuring several students. Students in several Indian cities have been holding protests in support of the Jamia students."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/india-protests-against-new-law-...
I would've agreed, but there are annoyingly arbitrary line breaks in the middle of sentences. A more minimalist approach would call for breaking only at the end of sentences, and letting the user's browser wrap in whichever way they preferred their window size + custom stylesheets + plugins to be
Agreed. The biggest issue for players probably below ~5k tends to be making big blunders, and so talking through moves with a partner would make a large difference at that level but wouldn't be replicable in a normal pair go game.
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This is not a case of `stripped of citizenship`. India just built detention camps for illegal immigrants in the country. I think every country in the world does this to illegal immigrants (and later deported). The protests that are happening in the eastern part of India is against giving citizenship to illegal immigrants.
True story, but who gets news from "ABS CBN"?
Chuck Moore wrote a VLSI tool in 500 lines of colorForth that he's used for multiple chips that he's put on production lines:

(Site mirror as the original site is gone.)
https://colorforth.github.io/vlsi.html

John Earnest has a lot of cool things (his work is incredibly underrated), but an example of something he wrote in Forth is Mako, an entire console:

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako

During the days of the U.S.S.R., the Russians independently discovered Forth in DSSP, an incredibly similar language. Multiple universities were filled with DSSP, and it worked incredibly well for them.

Most of the people I know personally who are stopped posting code publicly when Gitorious died, but they're definitely still around. It's a bit like APL, my language of choice: the communities are there, they're just...in hiding.
This government is going nuts trying to create a hindu muslim divide. They have effectively asked all Indian citizens to prove they are Indians or otherwise be interned. What kind of reversal of roles is that? Also then they make sure that muslims if interned cannot claim to be a citizen no matter what.

If this government now says that everyone has to prove citizenship, how come the results of the general elections are still valid?

Also, the Indian economy is in shambles and digging its own grave. Food inflation, unemployement, and all markers of quality of life are down.

This is a genocide in the making and the shills on TV and the media are not silent, but complicit.

This is the Hitler/China playbook in action and the world needs to oppose this.
> would you rather adopt a accepted bad standard known and used across the industry or a new non-standard alternative which will require 'getting used to' by all engineers but comes with a risk of it being either suitable or unsuitable in the future?

Whichever one works with the hardware? >.> I don't think embedded folks are too used to having choices, usually we just take whatever toolchain the chip manufacturer gives us, so when there's a second option it's scary and strange.
First off it's illegal for them to use genetic information in health insurance decisions in the US.

If it were legal and they did want to do it then why would they need to buy 23andMe to accomplish this? Instead they'd just refuse to insure you without you providing a sample of your DNA.
Indeed. The overhead of a developer is a $1000 for a laptop and an internet connection.

All the other jobs I listed have a lot of overhead. I think barbers pay 200-400 / mo for their chair or a lot more if they are covering rent. Landscapers have equipment, maintenance and fuel. Steam cleaners have equipment and fuel.
That just means Microsoft is using Azure. It doesn’t mean Azure is an internal Microsoft service that was “productized”.

I’m not willing to die on this hill. I could be wrong about the origins of Azure. AWS and GCP are not productized versions of internal services.
The AusPost SMS thing is a bit weird. Sometimes it'll be "You didn't reply in time" even if you reply immediately, and from my message history it seems there's no acknowledgement if you do actually succeed.
Every day that Youtube exists without competitors it further solidifies itself as the only video platform like itself that will exist.

Gmail makes money from business users and I would go as so far to say that if it doesn't make more money that Drive now it will make more money in 10 years from people who have lived their entire lives inside of a gmail account using it for business.
I toured the Empire Mine (CA) some 30 years ago. I vaguely recall it worked something like this:

The ore was crushed by a giant stamp mill. The resulting slurry was mixed with cyanide, which dissolved the gold. The gold was separated from the cyanide by mixing with liquid mercury, forming an amalgam. The amalgam was put in a retort to evaporate off the mercury... by folks wearing asbestos suits.

I'm happy to work in software, thank you.
It is not the citizen's responsibility to prove he is a citizen, it is the government's responsibility to prove that he isn't.

Guilty until proven innocent? How is that fair?