skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty good dictionary definition, I suppose, but I have no idea what that might actually look like in practice, which is a shame.
> That's an assumption of yours.

So is the opposite viewpoint. Neither of us has a solid study that's directly relevant such that anecdotal info is all we have here either way. A good study would probably require millions of dollars. Yours is NOT the default position given the lack of such studies.

> Layout of code is more than indentation.

Same issue: both can do it so it's not a difference maker in comparisons.

> We can write Lisp code any way we want...one might introduce the variables first and then set them...or use LET*...or I could use local functions...etc...

But that's part of the "lack of standardization" that contributes to Lisp being more difficult to read. Standards and conventions are somewhat counter to "flexibility". We typically don't want overly-detailed standards (hard to remember) nor want excessive flexibility because then everybody and every spot may do things different.

There is an optimum balancing point in the standards vs. flexibility spectrum. Goldilocks. And the balancing point probably varies per individual.
Adobe.

Lightroom 6 is the last standalone version that doesn't require subscriptions. It won't run on Catalina and has no good substitute on MacOS (I know about http://darktable.org/ but it is not performant or Mac-like on MacOS).
The internet was originally (for good or bad) the wild west. You could be anyone you wanted on the internet and for a lot of people it was an escape from ordinary life that may have been suffocating.

On my Discord. I have a HomoSexual Nazi (I don't think he is a real Nazi I think he is larping because I believe works in a very PC environment), A socialist transexual woman, a half Mexican / Chinese American Immigrate who just got his first job in the USA after he got his Green Card and many other personalities. These people can be who they want and if they want to stop being that, they can just leave and it is gone forever and it is all harmless.

Flamewars, Trolling and some Drama (before the likes of actually harmful stuff like doxxing, swatting etc) were sometimes kinda fun.
If what you're saying is true, then my pointing out that they're responding to the wrong person should be an indication that they need to take a closer look at the conversation.

Besides which, I don't think expecting a moderator to look at the context is unreasonable.

The only one that needs to be told not to enter threads looking for ideological arguments is the person who reacted to a username with the word 'celtic' in it.
"What do you see as the requirements being implemented by the new platform?"

Yes, that should be my question for you! :)
In the early 2000s my entire state was littered with "pain clinics" which were just fronts for medically licensed drug dealers. Those are all gone now.
May I kindly suggest a watch of the movie versus a read of an abridged plot from Wikipedia to see the associations I’ve drawn between this story and the movie?

The parallels aren’t complete nor exhaustive but the way Gere’s character repeatedly parlays his relationship with Roberts for professional and social advantage (which is only one instance talked about in said wiki article) is one of the more prevalent themes in the film I and presumably the commenter I relied to are alluding to when connecting these dots of “art imitating life”.

This isn’t an ethical argument about how effective sex-workers are in non-sex work careers but a critique of the power dynamics between two individuals. One who merely happened to be a sex-worker.
A parent/child relationship is crystal clear in the genetic data (barring the case where what you're actually seeing is an aunt or uncle and the child of their identical twin).

And I'm pretty sure paternity tests have a lot of precedent in US courts.
I wonder how many people are more of the author's mistaken bots, like Mike mentioned in the article?

If you were to join twitter for the purpose of campaigning, I imagine you'd have a lot of bot like behavior. Activities the author describes as bot-like to me seem like activities a noob on twitter would engage in.

Twitter itself does a lot to self-create these node clusters, with a circle jerk of recommended followers based on your activity. If you have a bunch of twitter noobs, all liking and retweeting Yang and his surrogates, they will inevitably get clustered together via twitter's own algorithms.

I think it's a mistake to assume that politically disengaged folks who would like to stay anonymous online, and are only joining a social media platform to promote their candidate or two, would behave like "real" users.

I say this as someone who converted an old twitter account from 2011 I used when I was a teenager for spam purposes, to become a Yang account. I'm sure I'm considered a bot by the author's software.
This is no longer the case.

While we do have spring applications running on PCF, we have a significant and growing number of services and applications that are not built on PCF and PCF isn't required to build a production application and be CATO compliant. In fact almost all of the applications and services in my branch are not.
Analogue TV encoders took a signal with a dynamic range of "black to white" (e.g. 0V to 5V) and, before modulating it onto a carrier frequency, first compressed the signal upwards, making it into a smaller range of e.g. 1V to 5V, making it into a signal that's actually more like "dark grey to white." Analogue TV decoders did the opposite, treating 1V as the "black level", stretching the 4V "dynamic range" back into the full black-to-white intensity range.

Doing this allowed "true 0V" (i.e. gaps cut out of the modulated signal by electronic post-processing, below the "minimum" intensity of 1V, where you're just getting carrier) to act as a form of in-band signalling. 0V was used "outside" the image to both synchronize the TV's raster electronics, and inform said electronics of the period of time they should be off altogether, rather than firing even a weak electron beam. (This most noticably prevents your CRT from drawing a subtle diagonal swoosh when it starts each new frame.)

See also: the terms "front porch" and "back porch" (in e.g. https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/201011/what-...), referring to the parts of each scanline that are 0V.
> “Some people think it’s good, but it would be especially good if it wasn’t in their [former] house,”

This implies that some of the people expropriated didn't their get homes back. Instead of getting new families to move in why not simply return these people their homes.
WTF makes you think I'm a bot? Because I took the time to write a full paragraph and tried to promote the presidential campaign I have invested my time and money into?
I like Yang, but I've never been one that idolizes another person. I would 100% vote for Yang above another candidate (I'm actually even surprised HN, which is pretty pro UBI, isn't Yang Gang), but I've never been passionate about another person. I don't understand people that will move to another state to campaign for a candidate. I've never been part of that kind of movement before, and in it I don't understand it. So it is weird to me. I will describe people in Bernie's camp, Trump's, and others the same way. Fanatics confuse me in the same way. I do also have a religious past and it reminds me of the fanaticism of that as well. But we're all humans and see through different lenses. It just is a lens that is odd to me.
Combat iPhone is ok only in asymmetric warfare. Near-peer adversary will quickly figure out how to exploit it. Russia has already successfully targeted artillery strikes using location of Ukrainian soldier's phones (Android, but this difference is not very important).
> All of their games have worked flawlessly with proton or wine

Is that due to active development effort or is it just chance?
Also see the discussion 4 days ago from the same essay published in the nytimes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22098021
There are. For example, if you were to put your phone in someone’s face as if you were recording, most folks would have a problem. Now where I might agree is if you meant there is no expectation of anonymity.
> action against face recognition is also worthwhile.

there's limited resources for political action. If you focus on facial recognition, may be it succeeds. But the data brokering industry will continue on unabated because there are plenty of other sources of data other than face. And now there's less political capital left to fight the fight again.

Best to deploy the limited resources to fight the root cause - that private data and correlation is unregulated, and put limits and transparency laws around it so that no matter what source or what type of data is collected/correlated, the outcomes for citizens are still good.
Do you think the same downward pressure on costs applies to schools? What about fighter jets?
The Dolphin emulator uses it. I think some of the recent Valve games do too.
“Train sets” is not a phrase I’ve ever heard outside the context of toys.

The trains are expected to improve reliability, service, safety and capacity. What about comfort? Capacity is up “25%”, and if that’s per cubic meter or other constant measurement, then comfort has been thrown under the bus.
There's a few theories out there around sensory processing difficulties, which I've been looking into a lot lately to pretty good effect. Check out The Highly Sensitive Person. (Seriously. get yourself a pair of earplugs and see how that alters your sense of focus on moderately interesting tasks, if it does anything, you should read the book). The TLDR is that when engaging in a task you have to reach the correct activation level to perform it, and it's a struggle for some people.

Some people think that a lot of ADHD people or misdiagnosed, others that it's just another symptom of ADHD.

Which is why some people have to fidget, or listen to music, or move around in order to get stuff done. Or why I'm a worse driver if I can't have the radio on.

The pinnacle of this for me was about half a dozen years ago, I was slugging out some code for a personal project. But I was also feeling nostalgic for an old movie (can't recall which, but let's say it was The Princess Bride). So I put it on in the background. But this isn't quite getting me in The Zone, so this is the scene my partner walks into:

I'm sitting on the couch typing. In all likelihood my knee is bouncing (makes laptops a bit tricky). There's 90's music coming out of my laptop, The Princess Bride is on the TV.

Her head is about to explode. You would think I was killing kittens. She has an ADHD diagnosis, and this plan I have enacted is so anathema to her coping mechanisms that she can't even bear to witness it. Which is too bad because I was getting rather a lot done.
I stand corrected. (That link doesn't work for me, but the one below does.) I guess I'm a recent enough customer that there's no need for me to upgrade.

https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025014...
Twitter in 2020 seems to be a seething mass of agenda driven automation. I am a Tulsi Gabbard for president supporter and am aware that 'like' counts on pro Gabbard posts appear to be regularly culled, presumably by Twitter themselves. Gabbard's team have complained loudly about this on Twitter (@CullenYossarian for example, Gabbard's press assistant).
I recently started reusing Twitter, partially to explore this election cycle and am struck by the number of dissenting tweets appended to pro Gabbard posts (Russian asset etc etc) from obviously recently created accounts with very low 'followers'. (These posters almost never create an original post but retweet other posts 'as themselves' on their main account).
If you challenge a comment, asking for proof that Gabbard is a Russian asset for example, the effect is similar to responding to a robocall, with the account suddenly being manned by a human for a few hours. There is typically a hail of abuse and denegration of the candidate, then the poster falls silent again, presumably going off duty.
Regardless of who you are rooting for in the election I find this alarming. It is very difficult to know how to go about investigating these networks and who the actors are.
500ms disk latency caused by vibrations in server rack (2014)
Wonder what a 6M set would cost these days, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia
>No such expectation exists in a public space.

It sure as hell does in any practical sense. I expect that I can walk around town, and people that I don't know, don't know my name, phone number, purchase history, etc.

Let's say I want to buy a butt plug or something. I could go to the sex shop in town, and make sure nobody I knew was around before I went in, buy it and leave. If I wanted to buy a studded electro-shock butt plug, and wanted to take extra precautions that I was undiscovered, I could drive to another town and drop it off.

Now suppose I'm a government whistle blower trying to expose some really nasty government coverup or conspiracy committed by the FBI. I'd definitely take the same precaution. I could leave my phone, go several cities over, walk up to a public mail drop and drop off my envelope of documentation in the USPS box and historically, could fully expect to remain anonymous in doing so. That's still arguably safer than sending an email and hoping I've perfectly configured all my network VPN or tor settings to try to ensure there aren't any leaks.

That's NOT the case with facial recognition. Particularly when that info can be processed and categorized into a form where someone could just query an identity and get a complete historical tracking of a bunch of places you've been prior to any sort of investigative interest.
It’s not that they’re not ready, it’s that they are explaining how asking questions is making an environment unwelcoming.
Julia Roberts was a prostitute which was an illegal job. Stripping is generally not illegal.

I also don't recall anything in the movie about her managing anything, but perhaps I missed that. It was quite awhile ago. And if I recall, she encouraged Gere's character to act in a more honest manner.

Really, there seems to be very little connection here.
The Tactical Service Oriented Architecture[1] has a Battle Command Display module that is built on top of Liferay[2]. There's other C2 systems that use Cesium[3]. I don't think the TSOA devs are pushing their code upstream, but that's just a guess.

[1]https://www.candp.marines.mil/Programs/Focus-Area-4-Moderniz...

[2]https://www.liferay.com/

[3]https://cesium.com/cesiumjs/
Decent used equipment from the 1970s might well have more useful life ahead of it than a brand-new Sonos setup purchased today.
Targeting cross platform anything drives the cost up immediately.

Just building websites that work on different devices if the site is non-trivial i.e. SVG, WebGL etc the cost up because each platform you have to duplicate the QA phase. This week I spent 4 days tracking down an iOS bug in a WebForm. The company had to pay me 4 days worth of work, half of that was reproducing the bug reliably.

People make out this stuff is easy. It isn't and I am sorry but Linux users on Steam is like 1 or 2% the last time I checked. It just isn't worth the effort for most developers.
> If you are from European descent they can practically tell you what village your ancestors are from (how accurate that is I don't know)

Can confirm it was accurate for me based on my own impression of family history, I found it pretty impressive.

My ancestry is from Lithuania and two different parts of Italy.

Lithuania is a small country but they identified my grandparents' county correctly.

In Italy, 2 of the regions that I know I have roots from are in spots #1 and #3. The third one is #8.
Imagine buying a product from a store, taking it home, and having to wonder whether it will one day stop functioning for reasons other than manufacturing defects or normal wear and tear! The fact that it is even possible for a manufacturer to decide to remotely disable or degrade the function of a product after the sale was unthinkable 25 years ago but is now a risk consumers have to seriously consider.
> Presidents aren't kings

No they're elected, which rather complicates the point you're trying to make here. In a representative democracy, the voters speak through their representatives. That is your democracy. Courts would be undemocratic when they intervene based on a "higher" authority (like constitutional rules no one voted for). Not saying it is a bad thing, voters can be dumb and a good code of rules would be better to the degree it is upheld.
What a relevant conservative talking point.
>> date of birth, and sex

That's enough to identify people in some zipcodes.
Yes that makes sense, mobile apps need it! Funny I wrote a node.js HTTP proxy like 5 years ago to run all my browsing sessions through. I downloaded a text file of ad domains, probably from adblock itself. So yeah the benefit is that you don't have to configure each browser.

Well it was an HTTP proxy and not DNS, so it did require some extra configuration on the client. But you don't have to install an extension at least.

But I stopped using it because it was a pain to administer and I didn't spend much time making the code solid. But I will look into pi-hole -- didn't know about it!
Well, yeah, in the sense that a chimp and a human are about 98.5% similar.

But from that point of view, humans are 99.9999% similar.

The other point-of-view is that a male and a female of a species will end up with approximately 50/50 similarity to either parent.

These are different measures coming from different point-of-views. If I were Gengis Khan (and who is to say that I was not!), then I could have impregnated enough women over my days on the steppes, to have, 1000 years late, up to countable percentages of my far-far-far descendents actually detected in tests as being my actual descendents.

Please don't conflate "this dna comparative measure" with "that dna comparative measure". It's all (theoretically) straight forward, and, yes, compounded by empiricism, but these are different measures, regardless.
Schneier's point doesn't have to do with the specifics of, as he says, "identification, correlation and discrimination" methods, but rather he's arguing that focusing just on facial recognition instead of focusing on the larger more important question of surveillance in general is not useful.

If you just ban facial recognition, then you are missing the point Schneier's making.

Also, I think it might be easier to wear a mask than to not carry a phone, walk funny, wear bulky clothes over all skin, and never use a credit card. I don't know how hard it is to constantly wear a mask in public though. I'm sure there would be push back.
Again you seem to think I’m drawing the comparison as a way of making a value judgement about sex work and those who engage in it.

That’s not what’s happening here.
Appreciate the comment and was unaware that it had been edited after your second comment.

I won't be diagnosing myself off of Wikipedia, next to no one in my family has the symptoms that I do so I doubt it's something like Segawa's.

I appreciate the apology and hope my reply didn't come off as too aggressive. Part of my tone comes from personal experience: doctors stating that I don't have a condition because it would be "statistically unlikely"... all without running a single test.
I would need 4 of these things to power 8 speakers...

Why pay $649 for 2 channels versus $250 for 8 channels? My amp is in a rack in the basement.

What’s the benefit of having the AirPlay software integrated into the amp? I already have an AirPlay endpoint in my AV receiver. I just run a $10 RCA cable from there to the dumb amp.

I guess I just don’t get the Sonos value proposition.
Emacs is basically a virtual machine for elisp with a couple of bindings to libraries for drawing things on a screen. Everything else, every bit of functionality, is written in elisp on top of that. For that to be possible elisp has to be a "real" programming language, with all the features you'd expect from a general-purpose language - and it is. It's also a lisp, however, so it has many features not found in most other languages.

Emacs is also an interactive IDE for elisp development. It provides all of the features you'd ever want from an IDE and then some. You get a linter, a debugger, semantic completion, ability to execute whole files or parts of them, data inspector/visualizer, finding definitions and references to symbols, a list of functions in a given file and across many files, shortcuts for common editing tasks, refactoring support, and so on. It's a very featureful, modern IDE with special emphasis on interactivity.

The effect of these two characteristics is that in Emacs you can easily find an implementation of any feature (no matter if it comes from Emacs core or some plugin), then edit it and see the results instantly (without the need for as much as saving the file), all the while having access to all of the IDE-like tools. You can customize every part of Emacs to exactly fit your needs - if there's something you'd like to change, but the feature's author didn't create a setting option for it, you can go locate and change the implementation in a few minutes.

When a computer game comes out, sometimes the authors also release a development kit with things like a map editor, theming support, tweaking AI and so on. Using (most) other editors is like simply playing the game: you can get better at it, but you can't change the rules. Using Emacs is like playing the game with the ability to instantly switch to the dev kit: you can simply play the game, but you also can bend, change, or rewrite the rules as you wish. With (most) other editors you're a consumer; with Emacs, you are the owner.

To really make use of all of that you have to know elisp, which is why knowing it is important. Of course, you can happily Emacs without dabbling in its configuration too much, but in that case, Emacs becomes just another editor with lots of awkward key bindings and a huge amount of cruft accreted during the last 40+ years.
That sounds super scary to me. I mean where do you get the information that informs expressions you might make on the internet? Is it those same newspapers and TV stations? Other places where you self-selected to go? If so, whats the difference between going with the source(s) vs going with your expressions?

I'll agree that voting should be on paper. I'm not ready to boil it all down to something like a dating app.
Stimulants are Schedule 2 in the US
Still driving my bought and paid for 2011 Ford. It’s borderline unrepairable on some stuff but FORSCAN gives capabilities to access most ECUs so barring any major failure I should drive it until it rusts out.

But unfortunately you’re right. It’s probably the single biggest thing keeping me from pulling the trigger on a Tesla.
YAMC? (Yet another mint copy?).

There are a lot of apps out there doing pretty much same thing as mint - can you give us a preview of how your app will be different?
Put in a more trite way, and as an example, in America freedom comes in part from having enough money to pay for health insurance and medical bills.

Which is to say that it's not really self-reliance. It's buying into a system and relying on the indirect support of many others (who buy into the insurance) in a way that frees up your time/worries enough for you do the things you want to do.

The point being that your perceived freedom exists because something/someone else enabled it, and that's freedom earned by relying on someone else.
Yes, but he's suggesting that DoD might not care to, which I can believe. Whether that's out of laziness or time constraints is another question.
Why is it one or the other? IMO, laws against facial recognition would start a national dialogue on data collection.

You have to start somewhere, so it’s better to start with this and then expand, versus trying to pass sweeping legislation, etc.