skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with you. What's childish about filing an issue with something that offends you?

> it's not something an engineer should ever do.

But what if it wasn't Santa but it was like a different religious icon - like a menorah? I feel like literally thousands of American christians would have banned using VSCode or even Microsoft products for something like that.
More:

> It was important to understand the timing of the outbreak as part of this investigation. Health officials wanted to know when exactly the problems first cropped up, and whether they had missed many cases before those initial reports. That's why they turned to the surveillance data, collected from more than 3,200 emergency rooms from most states.

>They found a gradual increase in emergency-room visits among people who vaped or used e-cigarettes, starting in January of 2017.

> The surveillance system doesn't automatically flag health concerns – often scientists dive into the data once their suspicion is raised, as it was in this case. The outbreak only became apparent in the data once researchers defined more closely what they were looking for and focused on one age group.
It's almost as if... both have a role to play. It's a wonderful illustration of how disparate people come together to produce something.

At the same time, it's also nice to have some rules and regulations and people who enforce them so that, say, one of the suppliers tries to start using toxic ingredients in the pencil's paint, and gets thrown in jail for it.
We Left Our Jobs at Tech Companies to Sell Farm Fresh Cocktail Ingredients
I'm on Linux and I quickly tried some of my most commonly used software, such as Firefox and Deluge, but they did not seem to be supporting this, unfortunately. Only the menus get their access keys highlighted.
Training the model would be computationally intensive, but deploying that to use Tensorflow.js and predicting a single datapoint in the browser shouldn't be as much, right?
Colombia orders Uber to suspend operations in the country
The fact that there is a world champion Excel user tells me I suck at excel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SysRS3lZm98&feature=emb_logo
WTF man? Not everyone has read everything already...
Professional journalists have abdicated that role, and can no longer said to be "reputable". Plausible deniability that they were working in good faith was irrevocably lost when they failed to adapt in response to the valid criticisms they were receiving on social media, not because "fake news" trolls took over. Twitter did indeed kill the newspaper star, just not in the way they think.
Just think about this for 2 seconds: What would this all have been about if the original icon was a Menorah? Just really think about that.

Or heck, how about one of the few icons used for Hinduism if you want to go for popularity.
The Weird Economics of Apple Upsell
Moore's Law and its many relatives is the result of two phenomena working in parallel.

1. Improvements tend to be of the form "X% better by the way we are measuring it."

2. Improvements tend to come at a consistent rate.

This means that the overall trend includes many one-off improvements which do not look related to anything else. And indeed are not except that business pressures say, "We have to figure out how to do X by time Y because that is what we expect our competitors to do" and therefore create an environment where people are constantly looking at the next barrier to improving at the expected rate and are finding improvements at about that same rate.

The Innovator's Dilemma has a good deal to say about the ubiquity of exponential improvements in various fields of technology. Moore's Law is by far the most famous, but is also not unique. Whenever an industry has agreed on a clear metric for "better" and is in a race to deliver it, they tend to get exponential rates of improvement until they either hit a physical limit, or sufficiently overdeliver customer needs that nobody cares any more.

Historically at different times we have had exponential improvement on everything from producing batteries more cheaply, being able to scoop more dirt with a backhoe, or increasing the range of steamships.
I was forwarded Sacha Baron Cohen's facebook critique (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/22/sacha-bar...) by a friend, as an argument to outlaw facebook. I brought up how Bush swiftboated Kerry and won the election. Media has always been used as a political weapon, it seems. Is FB much worse?
> The whole story is nothing more than an attack on an implied strawman.

I think when it came out, the world was a very different place. A large chunk of the world lived in command economies (USSR, China, etc...), and even in the west, where WWII and the massive government involvement in the economy was a very recent memory, the notion that someone could just calculate all the pieces better than the market probably wasn't quite so foreign as it seems today.
If anyone's interested in neural networks and how they work, you should check out victoR. VictoR is a powerful tool which utilizes file storage size to modify specific neuron mapping components and optimize processing power. It's still quite experimental, but here is a download link for an installation wizard if you want to check it out: https://bit.ly/35mtZZj
Yet gun related deaths in the US are still MUCH higher than other countries[1].

22,938 (76%) are by suicide which can't be prevented by gun laws.

I beg to differ. Gun laws that reduce the number of firearms in homes, and/or reduce the number of guns sold to those with mental health issues, would almost certainly reduce suicide rates. A gun is a dangerously quick, easy, and effective method that sits in the closets of many Americans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
I could make an argument against that:

The factory workers are leaving underutilized what is by far the most useful tool in the entire process, the human brain.

A cottage worker has sight over the whole process and is directly empowered to make adjustments to it that increase efficiency or improve the product.

The factory worker is helpless to do anything but repeat a repetitive act as according to orders, leaving their mind to rot.
Note: The article is about the high-school math ("College Algebra" and "Finite Math", material covered in "Algebra II" and "Precalculus" in high school) that is taught in remedial classes in community colleges.

From my perspective as a tutor of several students (one who was a libarian, another in nursing school), it's a very popular but strage class to offer, as it's of no use to the nearly students who take it after high school -- it's too abstract for those students, which is why they didn't learn it the first time they saw it in high school, and aren't going to use it in their careers as nurses or office workers or other community-college careers.

"Business mathematics" and "personal finance" would probably be more helpful to these students.

Of course, it's not the OP's fault that community colleges demand these weeder courses.
Baltimore Police back pilot program for surveillance planes
I have spent significant time being car dependent and not owning a car at all, and I don't think it had any effect on my levels of isolation. Walking around strangers didn't make me feel less isolated than driving around them.

Also since when did the US not have city parks filled with people?
I find it strange that the article says that Java uses /dev/urandom by default. When I've been having to configure Java to use /dev/./urandom for years to deal with the fact that it defaults to /dev/random and setting it to /dev/urandom doesn't work because the Java code treats the two as the same.
All keys appear to be on the same plane in the video.
I don't think this is a failure of OOP itself, nor does it come down to any language's shortcomings.

I think it's mostly a market failure. The units of trade were complete software products and/or services/apps these days. Mostly because that's what the end users actually see on the desktop, the atomic unit of software is huge and perceptible.

Once upon a time, it looked like it could be different. Component-oriented systems arose. COM, CORBA, CommonPoint, Taligent, D'OLE etc.
(Heck, one might even argue for Amiga filetypes and embedded X windows to belong in the same category)

But apart from UI Widgets (ie. windows controls for VS or Delphi), it never seemed like there was a marketplace for it. It also was quite hard to sell to managers, as it's something you can't put in a box or have a big trademark for it.

So we ended up with fast food joints and black-box-systems, no ICs, condiments, recipes etc.

Open Source could've been an answer/alternative, but the OSS world mostly copies stuff from the programmer's day jobs.

(Gnome actually started out with CORBA and KDE had some component structure, too, but that doesn't appear to be anyone's focus, compared to copying notifications and doing flat redesigns)
I see your point regarding a double bind, and it is something we see a lot in blogs I guess with conflicting viewpoints?
Its true that there is a significant effort involved in formulating the question properly, but it also ensures getting a chiseled answer. Something we noted as well with paid questions: the amount of detail provided improves dramatically.

One thing that I have noticed working legal questions in the past weeks is that people more lost than they were when given all possible viewpoints and given the possibility to choose. More often than not they are looking for someone to tell them what to do. Makes sense though if you think about it.

Not sure I entirely got the 'Education against them.. ' point, could you elaborate?
Fully automated issuance and rotation on the order of hours. Use stuff like SPIFFE [0]. Won't help you much with 3rd-party proprietary hardware but you can at least avoid dealing with long-lived certificate management for your own software.

[0] https://spiffe.io/
I have a couple fake profiles I setup. Pretty easy to do!
For those of you aren't particularly interested in Ember or frontend development in general, here is a tidbit that may be of interest to you.

While revamping the tutorial[1] to showcase the new features and idioms, I worked on this tool[2] to automate the generation of the tutorial.

Every page of the tutorial you see is the output from markdown source files (like this one[3]) which contains executable instructions for the steps. The build[4] system will run these commands and edits the same way an end-user would, capture the output of the commands and put them in the tutorial. It also takes the screenshots by opening a real browser (via puppeteer) and navigating to the actual app that we are building as part of the tutorial.

All of these ensures that the tutorial content and screenshots are up-to-date with the latest blueprints (the files used by the generators), config files, etc, and that everything really works as-expected. It makes it much easier to maintain and QC the teaching materials, but also servers as a very useful end-to-end smoke test to ensure all the moving pieces in the ecosystem (including external components like npm, node, etc) are all working together.

Right now the tool and the tutorial content are in the same GitHub repo, but the code is actually written to be completely agnostic to Ember.js (or JS even). It just runs shell commands, edit files etc. My intention is to separate out the tool to its standalone thing, so more communities can benefit from this approach.

[1]: https://guides.emberjs.com/release/tutorial/

[2]: https://github.com/ember-learn/super-rentals-tutorial/

[3]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ember-learn/super-rentals-...

[4]: https://github.com/ember-learn/super-rentals-tutorial/commit...
FYI, I actually just published a guide on how you can help ensure that ("deepfake") tools that you make are less likely to end up misused like this: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614912/ethical-deepfake-t ...

(Also at /newest; 3rd page now, and the other submission. Ideally those topics at least would be merged?)

Summary of mitigations:

# Limiting users or use cases

- User Vetting: Carefully vet those who can use a tool (Example: Synthesia only working with vetted enterprise clients.)

- Usage Constraints: Limit the synthesis possibilities. (Example: Humen is providing only a limited set of movements for generated videos.)

# Discouraging malicious use of flexible and public tools

- Clear disclosure: Ensuring and requiring that manipulated outputs are clearly labeled (including via metadata).

- Consent protection: Requiring the consent of those being impersonated.

- Detection friendliness: Supporting those working on detection and not seeking to fool detection systems.

- Hidden watermarks: Embedding data through robust watermarks.

- Usage logs: Storing information about usage and media outputs.

- Use restrictions: Enforcing contracts that prohibit forms of violative or malicious use.

Not all apply to every system of course. The article has more detail!
!!! SPOILER ALERT ABOVE !!!

Hopefully you saw this before reading the above comment.
"Butterfly effect" refers to chaotic systems, i.e. those where the outcome is highly sensitive to the starting position. They are deterministic, not random, but they are hard to predict because this sensitivity means any small errors in simulation can give completely wrong results.
Whatever. There are ways you can signal that you care about what you're doing, and there are ways you can signal that you don't. Blowing off the grammar of the language you're writing in is one of the latter signals.

In a world where there's always more stuff to read than time available to read it, signals of diligence and competence are important if you want to be taken seriously.
> at or near the top for the global average

Who cares. Why do you want to compare the US to the Central African Republic. At least compare pro teams to other teams on the pro ladder if you want any kind of meaningful comparisons.
Predictive algorithms exist to re-feed us the past. Nostalgia is comfortable, safe, familiar, and easy. Not only do "people who like also like" type suggestions trap us in what we already know and like, but content producers themselves use data of what is liked to make more of the same. Artists have been replaced by marketing data science.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7...
Tech-related trends that shaped the decade
Indeed, and in fact the pixel does exactly the same dark frame trick to identify hot pixels. I don't know that it takes as long though - perhaps it's hidden by the fact you can keep doing other things while the photo is processing.
Every day the NYT sends me a summary email. Every day there is a status on impeachment. They dont even call him president, its Mr Trump. The bias is obvious. They would like me to pay for more!
Right, and the only solution is to audit and compile all the code running on your computer, including firmware. Otherwise, you have no idea what your computer is really running.

In the real world, most people run pre-built software, which is worse than this ideal. I agree that browser Javascript is worse still, but it's still better than sending secrets to a centralized server somewhere.

Security is a spectrum, not a binary on/off thing like this article tries to paint it. Things can still be helpful, even if they aren't perfect.
ruthenium is only $8K per kg.
It's so natural that I'm skeptical that there is any additional cognitive burden for a trained player on the traditional system vs a trained player on the Janko system. Perhaps even the reverse
> You could say that it was “already there” when reality tv started in the 90s.

And those reality tv stars were aping the behavior of the pop stars that came before them. The whole 20th century was focused on moving towards individual gratification.
Oh, by field I meant it as a field in a record, not an area of study. For example in some reports I had to check a box for unambiguous text but I had no check box for grammar or spelling. That's some ambiguous text from my part! :)
Eternal September? :-/
I dont "friend" anyone I dont know IRL and even then I verify that I got the real them via other channels, usually by phone or in person.
Sure, in fact there’s a term for that called Ratfucking.
Having an "elite" job that is very financially rewarding and the lifestyle that comes with, is what a lot of big-tech is offering in exchange for loose morals. Thats how these people justify turning a blind eye for so long.

I'd venture to bet a lot of these folks wouldn't be willing to look the other way for $50k a year.
If I remember correctly, I did it with the ImageMagick "import" command. I found I had to add a wide white border, as Tesseract got confused near the edges of the image (this was over 10 years ago though).
PDFTron provides an SDK and isn't really meant as a plug-and-play end-user application. But it can accomplish what you're looking for.

Here's how to extract text from a PDF based on coordinates (this explains how to do it on web, but it's also possible using other platforms):

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pdfnet-webviewer/h2W3VksbQUI...

Here's how to extract a PDF's logical structure:

https://www.pdftron.com/documentation/samples/#logicalstruct...
Was seconds away from posting this too. Basically, we have a situation where logic voltage is approaching Silicon's threshold voltage of 0.7.

With logic operating at such low voltage, the current you have to supply to the die is very high even in "low power" chips, and you begin suffering significant copper losses over single millimetres.

If you can put a DC-DC converter on the chip itself, that problem is solved.
I tried a few times to explain how Ender's Game was different as they got into "moderated political debates in the higher class nets", but...it's not. We had the 2016 Presidential Debate.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/635:_Locke_and_De...
It cannot do the same thing as an a6000, as it lacks a physical shutter.
That's like saying island countries have more drowning deaths.
Ask HN: How do you organize your music library?
Ever since I started using Spotify a few years ago, I've discovered a lot of good music. Before, I had a pretty small library. I feel like I'm never satisfied with the way my playlists are set up now, so...

How do you organize your library? Do you have any "workflows" from discovery of potential songs to getting into your library?
Norway recently lost one of their five frigates[1], and a significant factor was the officers on the bridge lacking experience and being overworked due to training new personnel. Nine of the fifteen[2] safety recommendations made by the accident investigation board were directed to the Norwegian Navy.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNoMS_Helge_Ingstad_(F313)#Col...

[2]: https://www.tu.no/artikler/her-er-konklusjonene-fra-havariko...
Wonder – A truly borderless business world
I cringe whenever i see that oval bokeh in a film. It's so jarring. I can't believe a competent cinematographer would ever allow it in their shot.
The thing that worries me is that every year, I find the premise of Neil Schusterman's "Unwind" less far-fetched.

It still seems improbable, but no longer utterly inconceivable.
DOJ investigates SciHub founder on suspicion of working for Russian intelligence
It really isn’t hard, and by leaving you make social media less valuable to the leftovers. I left Facebook and people started messaging and inviting me to events over other means. People value relationships over platforms, a fact the “how am I supposed to engage with my family/friends/events/groups/photos”-excuse crowd often overlooks.
Don't know if any of these will satisfy or not, in advance of a final NTSB/FAA/Boeing finalization/post-mortem (I doubt all the internal docs are ever going to come out, of course):

http://newsinflight.com/2019/03/29/what-causes-boeing-737max...

https://abnormaldistribution.org/index.php/2019/04/30/ieee-s...

https://www.quora.com/Does-the-fact-that-the-pilots-of-the-7...

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4286602-boeing-737-max-misc...
Laws must be upheld and people who break them must be held accountable for their actions. The nations most migrants are running from are lawless nations. Because they are lawless, they are not particularly good places to live. That's why people leave and come to America, which is an amazing place to live in large part because we are a nation of laws.

I want it to stay that way.
Why does this guy run such large sqlite dbs? Must be Ok for read-heavy loads.
Yes you do. If you’re a professional researcher than reviewing papers is part of your paid job.
I would love an online forum with aggressive verification. It would really weed out the noise.
It’s been out for decades, surely spoilers are expired now by any reasonable time limit
Yeah? You feel confident that is going to continue for 30 years for sure?
How bland and boring would this world become if we applied this opinion to everything?
Unified Theory of Nerdom
I hope that Destiny weighs in harshly on the jerks who oscillate between

- virtue-signaling about how diverse they are and

- demanding conformity with some impossible standard of innocuousness.

The Roman alphabet and English language are bastions of intolerance and H8, after all: any one employing these instruments of oppression must be. . .oh, wait. . .
They give you a $50 or so gift card for filling out a form, so at least there's that.
Have a question to rr or any replay debuging tool, does it still work if the program has database access while the replaying machine doesn't have or not have the same database?
Ageism in Tech
I agree completely. I didn't intend to say you were wrong, just that you didn't mention an important consideration.
By now, people have the gaming of Real Name policies and Verified Accounts down to a science.
Indeed it's harder to use false accounts anymore, that much is true.

However, it becomes much easier to Dox people. This allows you to put pressure on work+family+neighbors. Or alternately, if you're one of the more violent groups: you can outright go after your opponents in physical space.
The Janko system would work very well with solmization, as opposed to the usual kind of solfege. The relevant difference is that in solmization all half-step intervals (including those that are introduced via accidentals!) are always read as mi-fa. These half-steps are precisely the intervals that are treated specially in Janko and other isomorphic keyboards, compared to the diatonic standard.
If expected utility is actually logarithmic, then that would an imply that a flat tax is actually fair. But a real flat tax, not the kind some Republicans have advanced in the past. It would appeal to worked/earned income and capital income.

I wonder what kind of findings there are indicating that progressive is actually more fair than flat? Perhaps most of the pro-progressive argument is just to counteract other regressive elements.
Given the bundled nature of mass news media, it's impossible for customers to send a signal for example that CNN news specifically isn't up to their standard. They can cut the cord on a whole set of products or keep their cable bundle neither of which sends signal to CNN about the quality of their journalism.

More niche publications don't have that problem, but I think a big question is how we systemically increase the quality of mass journalism.
What, then, ought people to trust?
I agree, I will happily pay for news, but most of these "news" outlets are just a bunch of opinions and usually they are all one way or the other depending on the editor.
>I'd like to think people aren't as dumb as people think.

It's not really about people being smart or dumb. There's evidence that marketing and advertisements create sentiment, even if you don't believe in what the ads say. It's just the way our human brains work. And these entities are, if I had to bet, putting a lot of money towards getting people to believe certain things and act in certain ways without them explicitly knowing that they're being influenced.