skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in preventing financial crime, so I have some useful context on this.

Unless your hitting the big leagues (stealing millions to tens of millions of dollars) then the odds of you actually getting caught and prosecuted are basically 0.

This sounds silly, but it’s mostly driven by the fact that most traditional law enforcement agency (i.e. the police) don’t understand or are interested in preventing financial crime. It’s too abstract, doesn’t have a physical component, and frequently the criminals will be completely different jurisdictions to victims.

Even when you provide the police with the home address and photo ID of a financial criminal to the police, they usually won’t do anything. Again they don’t understand the crime, they don’t have the training to investigate and they don’t know what evidence is needed to prosecute. Finally the police are usually rated by the public on the number of shootings and stabbing that didn’t happen, rather than dollars not stolen.

So the only agencies that actually pursue financial criminals are people like the secret service in the US, and the City of London fincrime team in the UK.

Both relatively small agencies compared to a national police force. The end result is they only pursue whales, people and organisations that have stolen millions from one person or organisation.

If you’re not a whale, then no ones gonna chase you. You can spend years ripping off grandma‘s at $10k a pop, and no law enforcement agency will care.
5. Dan Abramov (https://twitter.com/dan_abramov) is sponsored by FB to work on React. The case is similar to Victor Stinner (https://github.com/vstinner). He is paid by RedHat to work on Python.

6. Kyle Matthews works on Gatsby by VC's money. The business model is premium cloud service for incremental build.
The actual part of the OS providing that is a small fraction of the number you quoted.
This is basically a convoluted restatement of Searle's Chinese Room argument. To me yes, since I think conciseness is an emergent property of the matter in my brain, and the behavior of matter is in principle computable, I think this is the logical consequence.

I don't think that this is practically possible though. Even a single brain cell is fantastically complicated and attempts to simply model neuronal behaviour from gross chemical simulations have failed. We can't even reliable model the behaviour of a single neuron yet. That's biological systems for you they are insanely complex with mind bendingly subtle feedback loops and cross-talk effects between seemingly unrelated systems that produce the macroscopic behaviour. That doesn't change the basic principle though, yes I think we're physical systems.
The number of sexual relationships that start off with the explicit intention of being sexual are vanishingly small. Grindr is an exception because it's aimed at gay men. Most other platforms provide at least a small amount of reasonable doubt. On Tinder you merely select which demographics you are "interested in". There is absolutely no mention of sex or sexual preferences on the app. And Tinder is considered one of the more obvious ones.

If Couchsurfing was truly about meeting people then the profiles wouldn't have gender and age on them. But they do.
> My brother had an AWS Lambda error message when he tried to access his exam the first time; CollegeBoard had surpassed their Lambda service limits (Fortunately he was able to access his exam after trying again).

This is absolutely hilarious. Did they not realize the concurrency limitations?
I got my first smart phone around 2011.

In 2011 I was a student in university and I had friends in my circle from Erasmus so they kept their phone number from their own country. In 2011 it wasn’t even free for me to send a sms to people from my own country so I couldn’t even imagine sending sms to people internationally even though they were physically in the same city as me.

Well one day a friend told me to download WhatsApp. So I did. All it wanted me to do was verify my phone number and that’s it.

Now suddenly all of my friends with smart phones could just sms me for free. And I could sms them back too. For free.

That was the value of WhatsApp. The fact that all you needed was a phone number, which you already had saved in your phone. Now instead of opening your phones messages app, you just open whatsapp.

There was no extra step of signing up for a new account or telling people “search for my name on Facebook my profile picture is blah blah.”
> What Google is asking of Podcast Addict would be comparable to Google asking a web browser app to remove references to all the websites and social media posts that reference the coronavirus unless the reference comes from an official government entity or public health organization.

Give it a few years
fundamental difference between a business being co-opted by an autocratic state (do x or we take you over/arrest your families/...) and a business choosing to create a certain product that they could simply not have created.

A better analogy might be a weapons company that chooses to make cluster grenades or chemical weapons knowing that they are not ethical even as far as weapons (machine learning) go, but it pays well..
A minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements
> And the rewards are not big.

At least in France you and VideoLAN are generally one of the first replies when someone ask about libre software and opensource in general. But yeah exposure don't pay the bills, unfortunately.
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> Where is the proof of inefficacy?

It doesn't work that way. New drugs are assumed ineffective until proven otherwise. A government official with no medical training recommending an unproven drug based on a few anecdotes is the height of irresponsibility.
Sweden and herd immunity is official government source? Also this is the only country where scientists are in 100% control, politicians don't make these shots what so ever, this is their policy for this pandemic. So all these anti lockdown folks can always have that as an official government source and possibly also scientific because of the way they set it up there. Of course at least in Europe all the countries are moving the same direction anyway.
I also went from 8GB to 16GB recently (virtual machines are hungry); but I had gotten rid of Slack even before that. I mean, yes, it has round edges and goes ping and has all those cutesy animations - but 2GB of RAM for a glorified IRC client, excuse me, what exactly is it doing with billions of bytes worth of memory? ("Don't know, don't care" seems to be its developers' mantra)
OTOH, deep-black backgrounds and green letters (with red/yellow/white highlights) is perfect if you're using an OLED screen. Maybe browsers need adjustable (and site-specific) brightness and contrast knobs, like monitors and TV's.
I think an important part of the equation would be knowing the weight of the boxes you're using as well.
This reminds me of an experiment I'd like someone to run on Strava. They had this big scandal some time ago where People identified US military bases simply by having a lot of activity in an otherwise empty area.

Now they've added some mojo to prevent this but still sell location data.

So how about running the same attack but instead of using the browser and their own website just use the bought location data.

I suspect they didn't fix that as I've disabled appreaing on their heatmap but they still sold my location data when I forgot to disable my vpn during a run some time ago.
OMG, they actually fixed the a + b + c... issue I assume in version 5 (5.1.1 is what I have available in NixOS).
I read this -- very proud of the efforts of the Irish but proud also that they didn't forget those small acts of kindness. Showing gratitude is important and I think this shows gratitude for the solidarity shown in the past.

We're also aware 'Choctaw' and 'Hopi' and 'Navajo' are all different tribes and Native Americans aren't a monolithic group. It's just hard if not nigh on impossible to give back to the exact people that helped us. It's the sentiment that counts in this sense.
This reminds me of this rumour about how someone used tinder to triangulate opponent units during an exercise and arty them to shit. Supposedly Finns outwitting Norwegians, but is a anon text so who knows: https://imgur.com/gallery/bySUH
Solidarity Economy, for People and Planet
Use the code <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://newcss.net/lite.css"> for the lite version, which uses the system font stack rather than importing one.
Surely it's cheaper to just pay someone to do data entry at that point.
"We ended 2019 with people around the world in the process of waking up and appreciating the fact that surveillance capitalists have amassed these immense empires of unaccountable power. They have been given a free pass to do whatever they wanted: to steal our experience secretly, and combine that data to predict our behavior, then sell those predictions and become trillion-dollar companies."

People are voluntarily surrendering their data to FB. The author brands this surveillance capitalism. The post 9/11 expansion of the police state is invoked. It seems a bit of a non-sequitor to blame capitalism for government overreach. Even more so to opine for further government power as a solution to government excess.
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If you want to watch something one-off, some interesting tidbit outside of your curated feed then doing it in incognito mode is required, otherwise, as you noted you are doomed.
I think there is another way to make it work.

Time is a source of wealth production, always was and always will be. We produce wealth by devoting time to something that creates value. Just promising future value is enough of a backing for money to be printed. We will realise this soon.
My two cents (as someone who also has a medical condition, albeit not as life threatening as yours, that is not taken seriously by many and who makes much of their living by writing) -

People don't necessarily believe what others say about their own medical condition. My doctors agree about mine, I have tangible measurable results, yet some people, both online and in real life, don't believe me. Getting spun up over that is not the most effective use of my time and energy and it may not be the best use of yours.

On getting paid, I do get paid enough to live on, but I have worked for hire and haven't put content in the internet and expected that it would get monetized. Maybe finding more ways to work for hire (which iirc you already do)? I don't know much about the Patreon model, but I checked a YouTuber I follow with a very large subscriber base as an example. His Patreon base is much smaller. If that is representative that might not be a good way to get a reliable income.
You can do a lot with UDP packages as Mateix is proving

https://matrix.org/blog/2019/03/12/breaking-the-100-bps-barr...
I think new.css is themable.
Eclipse interestingly uses native controls which it hooks up to Java, while IntelliJ draws everything essentially.
If it's not, let the guy just say on his profile that he's looking for something more, and see who comes along.
I remember Sergey Brin (Jewish) defending the fact that the second result for a word jew was some nasty conspiracy site that ranked well. Thought he had big balls to defend it especially considering his background.
A css framework for communists?
Model airplanes have Center of Gravity, Center of Pressure, stability, lift, drag, weight and thrust - just like real ones.

If you have to cheat to design model airplanes, you have no business designing real ones.
i have exactly the same issue. so many websites nowadays choose to have dark themes which are essentially black backgrounds with white text and it is physically painful to read. if i'm invested enough in the article, i always try to change the user styles a bit to make it more bearable.
Maybe a relative gets sick in a foreign country and you'd like to see them? Maybe you can't afford health care and you just get sick and die if you're in a first world democracy with American-class health care, or if you're in a civilized country, maybe they just treat you? I don't know, man, use your imagination.
Absolutely! Sometimes it's hard to balance the open-source aspect with the business side. I'm burning through my savings right now so the focus has been to find paying customers.

At the moment I'm supporting some external contributors who are working on the self-hosted version. If things go well, we should have a first release next month or so.
"But such decisions could become counterproductive and hurt rather than help", it makes me feel that they are only worried because it could hurt that plan but not as an intrinsic concern to uphold the rights of people.
No, we understand this objection, we just don't think it's valid.

Your thought experiment postulates a pattern of matter that is identical to conscious matter but lacking consciousness. But the fact that you can imagine this does not mean it possible or even meaningful. You give no proof that such a distinction can exist.

"Consciousness" is a label humans apply to a pattern of matter that behaves in certain ways, in the same way "liquid" is a label we apply to a pattern of matter that behaves in certain ways. It makes no more sense to imagine a being that displays conscious behaviour but lacks consciousness than it is to imagine matter that acts identically to liquid but is somehow not a liquid.

In your example, if there is no observable difference between the supposedly conscious and non-conscious beings, then there is, scientifically speaking, no difference at all. They are both conscious, in that they both exhibit the behaviours that we call "consciousness".

If you hypothesise that there is a difference, then the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate it, via measurement — again, your imagination does not count — at which point we can use scientific enquiry to find out exactly how this difference arises. However, since the difference is measurable, it is part of the pattern of matter, and so the outcome of this process will simply be a more refined definition of consciousness.
Love dark blacks on OLED.

However sometimes a dark navy blue would be better.
Plenty of paid Linux kernel devs, for instance.

There's loads who work on the kernel as part of their job, but that's no different to any other dev job. I think the question "how do I get paid to work on open source?" is subtly but very importantly different to "how do I get a job that includes working on open source?". The former implies the person asking wants to get paid directly to work on an open project in their own right rather than being part of a company's team of contributors.

That might not be the case here but it's how I've interpreted it, because "how do I get a job at a company that contributors to open source?" isn't very interesting. You find an opening at a company that works on open projects and apply for it.
That sounds like it’d probably be slow.
VLC is awesome, thanks!!!!
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You can add privacy zones around locations so when people look at your activities your line just disappears inside the radius of your privacy zones.

I have ones around my home and where I work. No idea if that affects whatever data they sell (I doubt it, since you can still the full activity yourself even with a privacy zone), but stops people finding where you live/work and nicking your bike
Using it now on my blog: https://natalian.org/

Nice!
I theorize nothing is truly tomato. There are just atoms, the space between them and forces that act on them.
Black holes and neutron stars merge unseen in dense star clusters
This won't kill Huawei at all, and instead of manufacturing chips with TSMC, won't they'll just switch their HiSilicon Kirin chip manufacturing to SMICs' 14nm process? I know it's no longer useful to compare process node sizes between companies anymore, but for what it's worth Intel is still stuck on 14nm and they're still considered by many a competitive chip-making titan.

Also remember when United States pulled a similar stunt on ZTE a few years ago (banning us of American parts), only to reach an agreement and walk back the decision?
It’s really simple, really.

When WhatsApp first came around sending SMS in many places like in Europe was not free. It wasn’t free to send SMS to other people from the same country, and Europeans, especially European Students going to university will typically have friends or contacts with different country codes because they didn’t get a new SIM card for various reasons. It wasn’t free to SMS people in the same country, and it was not free to SMS people from other countries.

WhatsApp changed that, without needing you to sign up for an account somewhere and telling people “my AIM is this” or “my email is that.” You were already giving people your phone number when you met them, and WhatsApp was compatible with that. So it requires no extra steps. Just download the app and go and now you can SMS people for free using the contact information you already have, using the contact information you were most likely to give to people you just met.

That was the appeal.
> Those companies are now paying around 25 FTE. It's not too bad, but not impressive either

That's actually really impressive, that software of such outstanding quality can be built and maintained so efficiently. It means that great things could be achieved if people bothered to fund FLOSS more, or if effective funding models (a combination of paying for ongoing support + crowdfunding for general development, most likely) became more widespread.
Didn't China require any foreign company to be controlled by Chinese to get access to the Chinese market?

I heard that they relaxed those restrictions a bit to appease the WTO but in practice are often still denying basic permits for foreign companies until they can show to have a ≥51% Chinese share.
I ended up writing a custom browser extension to handle one particularly annoying login process for a site I need to use regularly that in addition to asking for password asks for several other pieces of information on a "1st character of ..., 3rd character of ..." type basis. It's infuriating.
My statement was a bit generalizing, sure, but good to know things are moving faster in times of need.

Compare with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21435572
The thing about "classless" CSS or auto-generated class names is that it becomes much harder to customize a website via user scripts. Its not a good trend.
Nice idea! A couple of months ago I read a book from Stanford professor about design thinking method approaching to live. Almost the same - to understand would you love this work or not best to speak with people who already working on this position.
At that level of detail, it also requires the seller to give an exact weight for the goods they are selling, and update it each time it differs by even dozens of grams.

It can be done, just not sure the parties involved are willing to commit to that level of accuracy.
If its something like modifying a string literal then I can’t see the problem. If the program is too obtuse to permit that then its a major concern on its own.
The grandfather is also notable. Sir Oswald Mosley led the BUF party -- the British Union of Fascists -- was imprisoned, politically disgraced, and lived much of the rest of his postwar life outside Britain.

Some flavour of the utter repellence of his character comes through in a famous exchange with Bertrand Russell, in which the latter elegantly but unequivocally rejects an invitation to debate:

https://lettersofnote.com/2016/02/02/every-ounce-of-my-energ...

Max Mosley worked for his father's political party. He's also well known for a salacious S&M sexual scandal (Mosley denied allegations it was Nazi-themed). One outcome was a successful lawsuit against Google suppressing search results associated with the case.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/07/max_mosley_hookers_...

Louis's current associations become the more notable in this context.
> > The appeal of WhatsApp was free text messages
> Except that this is a feature of every messaging app.

No it isn't. WhatsApp is a replacement for sms, while other software is (or at least was) always some kind of internet messenger that now also runs on your phone.
On macOS Qt doesn’t really use Cocoa, it use Quartz/CoreGraphics (the drawing rather than the application layer). Note that Apple’s pro apps are native controls with a UI theme: they usually behave like their unthemed counterparts.
> Estimates are that China is 10 years away to be able to build chips domestically that can compete with TSMC.

10 years away from making todays chips? That means they are extremely far off.

10 years away from competing with what TSMC is putting out in 10 years? That would mean their pace of development would be much faster. Putting any kind of accurate prediction on that is absurd.
You can try Pocket Casts [1] who are my favorite and only

Of course that's assuming that they don't get the same play store treatment from GOOG

It's a little too ironic that Goggle, who has countless times made the argument that they aren't responsible/liable for what their users do on a service ("honestly senator its just a platform we provide"), and then here they are the ones calling for some downstream accountability. Not that I agree at all with the logic- you may as well say that a bank is responsible(liable) for the use of any money they lend out ;} -- but its the hypocrisy that stinks to high heaven here!

[1] https://www.pocketcasts.com/
For the record, I don't think any piece of software is beyond criticism, including Kafka. That said, I frankly have no idea why this sub-thread has meandered into the topic of Kafka the software! :)

You could replace Kafka with Pulsar (or DistributedLog for that matter) in my comments above and it would stand.

Is using a distributed log as the WAL component of a event-sourcing or distributed database entirely a bad idea? I am of the opinion that it is a viable but sophisticated approach.

Peace out.
And they did, what governments do, they failed...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/19/security-flaw-in-french-go...
Maybe there are so many triggers that they can't keep up.
...though when I say unsuccessful I should clarify I'm being tongue in cheek. Sharing ideas makes me happy whether or not it brings me any material benefit :)
this is a powerful comment. thank you for writing this (from a father of 2)
The drawing is native and the interaction is handled by the browser.
Therefore, by induction, infinite subscription services at $25/year can find customers! Convenient for pitching to VCs no doubt, and how fortunate for us that no-one ever wants to travel to America from anywhere else, because that would be unthinkable.
Yes a monolith is good to start small.

With this thread I’m hoping to find real production systems. To learn and be inspired by them.
How is it unconstitutional? Google/Youtube is not a neutral carrier and can pick what gets broadcasted - just like Fox or CNN.

For the record: as a paying Podcast Addict user, I think this is a shitty action by Google. I just don't see how it is unconstitutional.

NB. I hope something good comes out of this, like more people discovering and using third party app stores, or being able to run apps on android auto even if google hasn't approved such apps (hello TomTom).
I prefer https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Opteron+6272&id... vs https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+EPYC+7351P&id=3...

AMD Opteron 6272:
Multi-Core Score 4368, Single Thread Score 741

AMD EPYC 7351P:
Multi-Core Score 15792, Single Thread Score 1691

So the AMD EPYC 7351P is more than twice as good in Single Thread usage and more than 3.5x times as good in Multi-Core computation.
900 INR

https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/Indias-cheapest-Android...

And there's a fair choice for under 1500INR

Now sure you can get a non-whatsapp phone for half that price, but it's pretty cheap
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