skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe because some of the more successful VC companies grow based on moralicly questionable practices and circumvention or outright breaking of laws and regulations.

Practices with which you can get away much less in the EU.

But this also means that US companies have a somewhat unfair competitive advantage on the global marked.

Combine that with the US having the first wave of big tech companies due to other circumstances and some other thinks and is not really surprising.

I mean look at FAANG:

- Facebook, repeatedly and frequently acted in bad fate wrt. to privacy, non us social issues and copyright protection. Lied to monopoly watchdogs.

- Amazon, know for taking advantage of workers (through had gotten better), know to not talk effective actions against massive counterfite good, know to use unfair competitive advantage for their own Amazon branded products, questionable privacy practices for user facing products like the fire ebook reader, knows to enable (not cause) environmental problem through mainly throwing away returned products, probably missed some points

- Apple, well less to say here except how it hinders/prevents repair shops while not returning thinks themselves (just replaced parts). Also there where repeatedly bag reports about the workers condition in the factories whey Apple products where produced, but that probably applies to most tech hardware companiesway. Still the way they undermine the marked with vertical expansion is dangerous, but I don't know if it had already caused damages.

- Netflix, I don't know much about them tbh. Seems fine but I might be wrong.

- Google, repeated acts in bad face for user privacy. Had been good for the first half of their lives but now turned bad and might very well try to literally take over the internet (or what users price at it).

- YouTube (now part of Google) grew partially because of disregard for copyright and then forcing copyright holder into compromises with it.

- Uber, disregard for regulations for commercial public transport and labor law. Had been banned multiple times in some EU countries, now tend to operate under different terms in some EU countries then I'm the US. Had the same problems as the Taxi industry but sidesteps responsibility by putting it into the customer and drivers.

- AirBnb disregard for (the EU version of) zoning regulations and similar. Caused damages by implecitly constraint available and affordable apartment space in some EU cities. If heard estimates that a non small amount of AirBnb apartment providers are acting illigaley with the way they provide apartments in the EU, sadly non where reliable estimates.

But here is the thing both Apple and Google come from a time where a lot of things where just different. But now Google turned bad and Apple is increasingly becoming a latent danger for a fair marked. Meanwhile both Facebook and Amazon had been moralicly pretty bad from the start. Only Netflix seems fine but I don't know anything about it so, duh.
Why not hire 5 good devs for the price of 1 abroad?
> Internet discussions in the late 90's probably had more good faith participants

Not probably. I think definitely. There were tons of trolls back then, but they were trolling in good faith as well! (I mean that. They just posted shocking and vile things, for the lulz. They didn't promote their corporate brand or try to influence other nations' elections. They were good faith assholes :)

I think you're right. It's a really hard problem to solve; anonymity and reputation are difficult to combine. And meta-moderation itself could be seen as giving even more influence to the power users of these platforms (i.e. /u/gallowboob).

I kick around some ideas now and then about alternative rating and voting systems. Usually in the context of fake Amazon reviews, but the same general problem exists here.

What if users were limited to just 1 vote (up or down) each day? Or x ups and y downs? Whatever. Would that limit the votes on silly one-liner puns and encourage people to spend their precious vote on something more interesting? If you combine that with minimum account ages and maybe some minimum karma, I think it could work. Hell, you could vote more than once if you're willing to spend it out of your own karma. I'm sure I'm missing some aspect that tanks my idea. (Is there something for this like there is for spam-fighting ideas? [0])

If I don't stop tying now, I'm liable to bring up some sort of blockchain solution. And nobody wants that.

[0] https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
Yeah, I don't think the parent post is right. Doom always required 4 MB RAM. This seems to confirm: http://www.classicdoom.com/doominfo.htm

Doom was good about not requiring conventional (under-640k) memory or any other tricky system configurations; overall it was pretty easy to get running on anything with 4 MB RAM. Which most 386 systems had as the minimum to usefully run Windows 3.1.
If only you'd gotten to me when I could still edit it. :( Add it to the wall of ignominy.
What's the difference between a click and an upvote then? It can still be gamed as easily (maybe even easier).

Also, it has a major problem: if users know that popularity is based on clicks, then they can't click on anything they might disagree with (to simply learn more about it) without amplifying the signal as well. The incentives of user behavior are changed in to a self-censorship of what the user allows themselves to read, likely enforcing bubbles even more.
In armed conflict/warfare, if one deliberately hides or removes one's uniform, or pretends to be a combatant of an force other than one's original allegiance—and if caught by one's enemy—then one is deemed to be a spy and the usual penalty is death.

If one substitutes one's original uniform for the enemy's (or another) to pretend to be other than what one is then the Geneva protocols don't apply—in essence, you're shot rather than be taken prisoner or war.

What these guys are doing is similar. When a State resorts to such action/deception then it's hard to see how the rule of law can apply. Essentially, anarchy has broken out.

From an outsider's perspective, it seems to me that the US is now so polarized that it's almost become ungovernable.

Heaven help the the rest of the free world let alone the poor unfortunate law-abiding US citizens who cannot help but be caught up in this damned mess.
In that it's not a product for which I would not pay. I do pay to use a competitor of theirs: MySudo.
Do you have a source for your claim that masks are less impactful than distancing?
Oh, I see. Other websites give you the 'password' to this website.

But only if neither site uses salt, so salt all your hashes. (Not even a salt is necessary here, just a site-wide addition would be fine. Or honestly you could just use a hash that wouldn't be used by a site too dumb to salt their database.)
"What about improving education, building functional (and trusted) institutions, and having more independent (non-profit driven) media?"

Oh, my god! You want someone telling us how to think, only allowing the right groups to provide information, and having anyone else under the thumb of some financial interest?
Thats slightly diferent - there is a lot of law about employees status - mainly because the IRS doesn't want to lose out any $ not for any liberal concern for employees
Until I'm free/can work on my own time I'm usually often sleep deprived especially on Mondays and it goes throughout the week until I get back to normal by Friday... crappy cycle. Still I find when I get too much sleep(sleep as long as I want) I feel bored with my life. So slightly sleep deprived seems to keep me in the grind.
One of the main points of the article is that the law is not being respected by those tasked with upholding the law:

> Everyone in the United States — citizen or resident — has a constitutional right to record police who are performing their public duties. The police don’t have the right to stop you as long as you’re not disrupting their business, and they aren’t allowed to confiscate your phone or camera just because you were recording them. This is the consistent opinion of federal courts and the Supreme Court, which affirmed in 2014 (in a 9-0 decision) that cops need a warrant if they want to seize and search your cellphone.

> Of course, the nationwide protests are about the police ignoring civil rights. Indeed, the videos we’ve seen in the past week show widespread police lawlessness, with officers arbitrarily violating the rights of peaceful demonstrators in lawful assemblies.
That's what the author is saying though. The classification of "bug vs. feature" is irrelevant to the user, and trying to convince someone to call it something other than a bug to make the developer feel better is missing the point. What matters is something isn't working for the user, and should be made to work.
> Like you can't just go out for a movie or drinks with the opposite sex and see where it leads?

That is what Americans refer to as a date.

> American's can't do it unless they constantly talk about "daddy this" and "daddy that"

That is by no means typical among Americans. Pornhub's content is not documentaries.
Sure. Multiple Sclerosis. It seems I'm not hard hit in terms of physical symptoms of this, but I had depression, fogginess of the mind and difficulties concentrating.

It is not easy to say what begets what effect, but it's true that sleeping well and working/commuting less has been the only way to take back control of my life.
That site does not load here. I get a CSP error. sigh, nokia.

https://www.nokia.com/networks/solutions/community-hosted-ne...

is this the same?

there is zero information about nokia kuha! interesting if this can hold more 24/7 broadband clients than wifimax et al.
When one says that "masks are not effective", it's literally the definition of "masks don't work." Please don't try to weasel out of it by trying to argue basic definitions of words. That's like Bill Clinton arguing over the definition of what "is" means to try to save himself. Just admit that you're wrong and move on.

It's clear that the message in the early stages of the pandemic was that "all masks didn't work, but you should save it for the health care workers". The absurd contradiction of that statement was what made reasonable people such as myself no longer trust what they said, because it was obvious they were hiding things from us. It's obvious that if you have a respiratory disease, then wearing a mask will be effective.

Since then, it has come out that masks are actually extremely effective in preventing spread.
> There is no scientific evidence they are effective in reducing the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission

It's a disease spread by exhaled droplets. How the heck could masks _not_ work? Why has common sense, as an acceptable way to obtain knowledge, died in the general public?
Do we know that's what he was going to do? It looked to me like the officer could have been going to check on the elderly man who he just knocked down, or he could have been about to follow that up with more violence. Neither would surprise me.
My few attempts to get customer service from AT&T and Comcast went far, far better than the attempts to get help from Google.
Why was Victoria Taylor fired again?
Totally on board with criticism of how effectively (or not) the tweet communicates key ideas. There's some hazards, and we could reasonably expect that people who are appointed to provide clear public leadership would be better at that job.

But that reinforces the importance of well-curated communication, which is the context for this discussion, where apparently some are criticizing Amazon for refusing to release communication that is not only not-well expressed, as the tweet arguably is, but is actively disinformative to delusional.
It can be an ok way to measure procedure call overhead though (between languages with similar semantics)
I don't think you're modeling the cop very well. They're not going to be in a state to reason or debate with you, and the statement "for your protection" if not paid close attention to sounds vaguely like a threat.
I do a lot of LaTeX. With LaTeX there is some attempt to be declarative, to separate layout from context. But I find that while 99% of the time the separation works, there just are times you need to tweak or fiddle.

I currently use a graphics-drawing system that is not very declarative at all (Asymptote). Going to more declarative approach is a very attractive idea, but I couldn't see quite how much tweakability there is in this system. I'd be surprised if you could get away with none at all.
https://www.builtrigs.com/post-your-rig/

fyi: gives me a 404 (404 - page not found)
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> what type of developers are pulling that kind of income?

So, the subset of developers who make this much money basically amounts to "The senior engineers, at top tech companies, such as google/FB/ect"

Which.... is less unlikely than you'd think, if you are talking about the democraphic of users who read hacker news.

500k is still definitely up there, but making even something like 250k, at any of these top tech companies, as a mid level engineer, is completely standard. I'd expect anyone who has 5 years of experience, at these types of companies to be making at least this amount.

So, within that context, the people who are making twice that, would be maybe the team leads, or possible even a bit higher ranking than that.
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I haven't seen any mentions or this extension that allows verifying pages before they are rendered: https://github.com/tasn/webext-signed-pages

Another thing is non exportable WebCrypto keys that can limit the damage even if the page is compromised.
It's completely untrue. Multiple studies have come out afterwards saying that masks are very effective at reducing spread. It is an overwhelming net positive to wear masks.
Yes, those are indeed the reasons they lied about mask-wearing. Their reasons for lying are not in dispute. You may even agree that those are good reasons to lie. But what's also not in dispute is that they did lie. (Perhaps the most charitable thing you could say about your list is that they leaned heavily on the first point in public to justify conserving masks in light of what they believed about the latter two points in private.)

Some of you seem to think lying isn’t lying if your heart is pure, but it’s an ordinary word with an uncomplicated meaning.
Then assume, when I speak to Antifa, I am referring to those who endorse violent action and seek to overthrow the government. Since I don't see a lot of people identifying as antifa that are expressing otherwise.

In my mind, the violent Antifa types, which are prominent, are very similar to Jihadist minded islamic extremists. And classifying them as a terrorist group is not much different than ISIS as a terrorist group.
We are living in an age where you can soon write a service running in the cloud that pulls text snippets from your favorite conspiracy theorists blogs, compiles them into books with sensationalist titles and automatically and constantly submits them to Amazon for publication to have unsuspecting buyers succumb to the resp. promoted world view.

Essentially what people are already doing with public domain works or Wikipedia articles only with the intent of disinformation rather than profit (or at least both).

Then Amazon will need more sophisticated tools to detect and filter those out ... you see where this is going.
Probably an obnoxious https mitm certificate that adds banners to your web browsing, along with a complete recording of your browsing history to sell to advertisers, like comcast does.
The large perspective is that the transition to ev's is happening, with a thousand steps along the way. My guess is that by 2030 a considerable majority of new car sales will be ev's, and governments are going to have massive buy-back programs to get all the ice's off the road.
More generally: government owned. i.e. could be provincial, federal, etc. Like how water pipes and electricity already are (in many places).
Completely agreed. When I call something political, I mean that people are making it into a fight against their political opponents.
Good point, you know if this works for you, that is all that matters at the end of the day.

The tape stays on very well. You want Micropore Surgical Tape - 2.5cm x 9.14m. Also it helps if you don't have a beard. This was the only down side for me, but I will take the better sleep / improved health over a beard.
Passive interception happens. Especially when you're using a cipher that isn't forward-secure; a breach of the server could allow it to decrypt previous sessions.
OK? That doesn't matter. If the vast majority of crimes are not violent, it's not really important what the absolute numbers are. It could be 1,000 or 10, the point is that the majority of responders don't need deadly weapons.
Same for me. It took me 3 goes to get enough data for a diagnosis. Don't give up.
Please elaborate on these cases in which masks have supposedly a net negative effect on the wearer.
I think there is a profound difference between car companies, which produce a "dumb" item that's consumed, and "big tech" companies which have shown they can have a major cultural and political impact both domestically and abroad because their business is information itself. It doesn't make sense to discount an argument because of a similar one which applied to something almost completely different.
When I wrote a small web utility - https://github.com/0x1235/pasHash
People scolded me - https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/a8casj/lets_use_has...
> Defining and tracking the progress you've made eating the elephant allows you to know when you've fully consumed it.

You can also simply keep track by keeping tabs on the work you are doing, which also leads to a better product as you're familiar with what the product does rather than simply knowing that X, Y, and Z issues are closed.

Non-technical stakeholders will not be able to follow it that way, having their focus on other important parts of the business, but that's why you have project managers who can follow what the technical side is doing and provide the necessary non-technical communication to them.

Ultimately, you're both right. There is just some conflation going on. What is useful for some segments of an organization does not make it useful for everyone.
I've been trying to get a FPV drone camera feed into my Windows 10 computer so OpenCV can muck around with it.

OpenCV easily recognizes Webcams, but sucks at picking up 'video adapter' kinda stuff. (That is, I'm going to be using an RCA to USB dongle, such as EasyCap.)

If you can 'trick' OpenCV into thinking a webcam is attached at the USB, everything is golden.

Can you describe this raspberry pi method of 'presenting' the device as a USB WebCam? That sounds promising...

edit: Forgot to mention OpenCV is part of a c++ 64bit program I'm writing.
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Also have a look at the ASTER GDEM data for elevation and water body classification: https://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp. I have managed to successfully use this in one of my own projects, but it did take some processing to get it into a different data format for my purposes. Although this data has only about a 30-metre resolution, all the raw data does seem to be available for the vast majority of the globe (between 83 south and 83 north latitude).
The Volt wasn't a compliance car and the only argument you've presented from what I can read is a tautology focused around the fact that it was canceled so therefore was a compliance car, which doesn't make sense given the factors that were involved in it being canceled. It wasn't canceled because it was a compliance car. It wasn't canceled because the Bolt was successful. It was canceled because GM shuttered their entire lineup of sedans.
We can do both, just like we do for doctors, for example.
Please provide an honest TL;DR of this long aticle.
You also have to use a cellphone number for your apple id and it is always one of the fallbacks for 2fa which is just horrible considering how insecure cellphone numbers are.

Dear Apple, just let me use authy or a hardware token instead of your proprietary bullshit.
Financial safety.

Personal safety is debatable. The city is dangerous, so as any other big city here (>1.5M). I grew up on a very poor neighborhood in south brazil, half way to BA :D, you learn how to manage "dangerous" people and places to avoid.

It's a short term loss if you got robbed or something. I've been there multiple times (ironically not in Rio), I carry a cheap mobile phone and money for transportation only.

The long term loss is not having a chance to make a decent emergency fund, a retirement fund, or a somewhat successful business.

People working for companies here and doing that three things I said are living with their relatives to make it cheap.

Including in Rio where workers for Big COs are living with 2 to 4 unrelated people near Barra da Tijuca or far away (2hrs) with their relatives.

But hey! They have snacks and videogames on their offices, forgetting about everything else on the long term.
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And what is/was the point of locking out the virtual cameras?
I definitely want to, and I'm working on the "if I can" part with some helpful digital archivists/librarians, figuring out how to properly archive and distribute that and any other stuff I can dig up.

The fact that EA recently released the source code for Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert under GPL3 makes me hopeful that they will be open to releasing more old source code like they did with C&C and SimCity!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23249964

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/20/21265663/ea-command-conqu...

Rebecca Heineman has an unreleased version of SimCity for the Apple ][gs that she'd love to see the light of day. And I think SimEarth would be really interesting to release in source code form.

https://www.uvlist.net/game-239645-SimCity+GS

https://www.callapple.org/software/the-long-fabled-simcity-f...
> In some cases, for some people, wearing a mask can be neutral or even net-negative.

If you don't wear it on your face.
> The approved comments are actually the extreme ones. Eg.: Post: "After 10 years of marriage, today my husband didn't say good morning back to me. Is that normal?". Comments:"OMG the monster is probably planning to kill you, you must leave him at once and ruin his life."

Two things:

1. Post: "After 10 years of marriage, today my husband didn't say good morning back to me. Is that normal?"

These should be reported - they fall afoul of the moral judgment rule. The subreddit is focused specifically on requests for advice, not retrospective analysis. Because of the volume of moral judgment posts we receive, we tend to ban submitters for a day simply because it's written both into the rules and as a pinned post on the sub.

2. "OMG the monster is probably planning to kill you, you must leave him at once and ruin his life."

We're not empowered to do anything about these - the only solution we have is to suggest that people try to disregard guidance that screams "dump" without going into why.
So you are going to use absolute numbers vs. per capita when comparing killings by police? And I love the way that you explain non-white communities being targeted as "feelings" and not a historical constant as long as the US has existed.
> It's as if the culture of every business has become captivated by the idea of becoming an oligopoly. My guess is because it's extremely attractive -- once you "make it" you don't have to compete any more.

I've seen the theory that this is the result of QE's massive inflation of asset prices; it is now harder and harder and harder to beat the market, but institutions have ever larger sums of money that they need to park and invest somewhere. Like, Softbank actively managing $100B in startups was never really going to work, at least not without these startups being required to get to ludicrous amounts of scale.