skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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American military doctrine is about being the superior force via tactics and equipment, being able to easily dispatch a larger or less trained enemy.

American policing has inherited this idea.
Yes, a tiny cell phone sensor with a tiny lens will never come close to a large sensor with a large lens, if they are both based on the same technology.

You can buy a Canon camera with ISO 4 million. Slap a f1.2 or f0.95 lens on it, and no phone in the world can compare with, what is essentially, night vision.

The optics will not compare as well. The fake bokeh is cute, but it's full of errors even in flagship devices. And it can't possibly fake the complicated situations with multiple layers, especially if some are semi-transparent.
I work in the martech space and surprisingly adblocker usage is still not that high from what I can gather (I am pretty new). I dont necessarily think of ads as evil but since it is the way we are paying for this service, its a good way for us to use it as leverage to see desired changes in the platform.
>Democracy in the workplace comes from voting with your feet and taking another job at another company.

Democracy is about voice, not exit.
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All three major Canadian telcos are going with Ericsson (and Nokia).

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bce-5g-ericsson-1.5594601

This is a good summary:

https://www.lightreading.com/5g/goodbye-huawei-hello-ericsso...

> Goodbye Huawei, hello Ericsson: Swap-out gathers pace
The War on Drugs was really just a casus belli on black males. The civil rights movement had eroded the Jim Crow system the authorities had set up to keep themselves in power, and were seriously worried about more educated well spoken minorities starting movements in the country. They needed a way to suppress their minority populations without drawing the ire of the rest of America, so they manufacture a drug crisis by taking a small problem and blowing it way out of proportion as an excuse to crack down on their potential political opponents. It has worked amazingly well.
As you wrote, they might care about their cloud and AI sales, but for linux desktop and OOTB experience? If they do, they hide it very well.
depends. is the beard or Italy the thing that makes you more happy.
> Instead of apologizing, I think people need to understand the system doesn't work.

You are claiming Obama didn't affect change, he absolutely affected exactly as much change as his office and the law allowed. Nobody is apologizing, its simply the way our system is designed.
> It's way to easy to "create jobs" which are essentially busy-work with 0 to negative productivity.

If firms have workers with negative productivity, aren't executives incentivized to fire them?

And if so, why are there negative-productivity workers?
> They have electrical equipment that can track or jam civilians phones.

A thought popped into my head as I read this, how would the founders apply the right to keep and bear arms today? Would it extend to digital weaponry? Both offensive and defensive?
A contrary opinion - a tool/framework used and tested by billions of people every day is a lot less prone to crashing when used for its intended purpose than something custom-built. There are tons of developers out there building complex apps by following beginner JavaScript tutorials, but SpaceX is obviously going to enforce better standards. HTML/CSS/JavaScript/V8 are all extremely solid technologies that have stood the test of time, and there is nothing better to build a user interface with today.
In isolated incidents, perhaps. As a general rule, no. Police officers are not evil and crooked as a general rule - only the paranoid or willfully ignorant believe that.
I just went through the last issue and enjoyed it quite a lot. Good stuff :)
I don't think, "we've mostly gotten rid of actual leg irons" is the paen to worker's rights you think it is. To the extent slavery was outlawed, that happened 150 years ago. In many ways, things have gotten worse for the average worker since that era. (If you don't believe me, read Lincoln himself. [1])

Fair conditions grow out of equal power. But a fundamental problem with managerialist capitalism is an imbalance of power that will never be solved with vote-with-your-feet slogans. You have one job. A CEO has tens, hundreds, thousands of employees. It's always easier for a boss to fuck you over than it is for you to push back. Individual action is not enough to fix that.

[1] Foner's "The Firey Trial" is a good look at Lincoln's ideas, including what he has to say about labor. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0044XV6G6/
Well, actually, quite the trouble makers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoic_Opposition
Let's be very clear. Bloomberg has a lot more charisma in public than Zuckerberg. And so does Hillary Clinton! That's not saying much! Any elected official above a certain level has some amount of charm.
This was a nice writeup!

I know there was an explicit mention that non-standard library packages were omitted due to fiddlyness in installation, but with Julia using the manifest system, providing reproducible setups should be easy, and for things like this, Chris Elrod's LoopVectorization.jl [1] should offer substantial speedups with some simple macro annotations.

[1] https://github.com/chriselrod/LoopVectorization.jl
Locks in PostgreSQL
Oh true. Sounds magical, man.
There was the tea party movement that did shift the GOP and then later there was the election of Trump as well. These were reactions against the RNC establishment.

The democratic establishment has not had to deal with any thing like this. With the rise of AOC, Sen. Warren, and Sanders it seemed like the DNC was going to lose some power, but alas.

Nominating Biden for President is the same as if the GOP nominated Jeb Bush. A clear sign that change is not on the horizon.

Edit-to-add:

I guess the election of President Obama was a reaction against the DNC somewhat and even Bill Clinton as well. But, in the end neither moved the needle.
> Chloroquine and its derivatives were given to thousands, if not millions, of people for years. We know and understand the safety profile of this drug well. To think that all of a sudden it became more dangerous was silly and unreasonable.

Aspirin is one of the most widely used drugs and generally considered safe. But you should never give it to a kid with chickenpox, because doing so is a risk factor for developing Reye's Syndrome, a serious and potentially fatal disease.

It's not that aspirin "becomes more dangerous" in general, but it is more dangerous for those particular patients. And we don't really know why, either; but the data is clear on the correlation.

We don't yet know all the ways that the novel coronavirus makes people sick. Heck we don't even have a reliable inventory of possible symptoms yet.

So it's really not fair to pretend that it would be silly or unreasonable to suspect the possibility of some sort of negative correlation with a particular drug or class of drugs. This sort of thing happens all the time in medicine.
The fact that the fraud was done relating to US dollars does not give the US government sovereignty over a foreign citizen. The fraud was not conducted against an American entity, it was committed against a foreign entity with a liaison towards a US affiliate. In any reasonable world this would mean that the US affiliate would be liable for damages, then hold the mother company liable for it, which would then under local law hold the fraudster accountable for the damages.
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This article was a pretty amazing overview and case study of why people become complicit with regimes that violate their values.

There are obvious parallels to current events, but regardless of your viewpoint, it's helpful to explain what for me was baffling behavior from some politicians.

It doesn't paint a particularly hopeful picture of change, but also doesn't descend doom-mongering.

I recommend reading it.
Because it defeats the purpose of a progressive capital gains tax?

If the concern is that someone is paying less in tax off $250,000 in capital gains when they realize their wealth than someone who is paid a wage of $250,000, the policy prescription (with which I agree), is to tax $250,000 capital gains like income, I.e. at the top marginal tax rate.

What happens if I liquidate $50,000 at a time over the course of 5 years, and continue to pay a net effective tax of around ~20%, which is what the long term capital gains tax is, today?
I still believe it would have. The information regarding COVID-19 has been evolving since the beginning, 24/7 which has lead to the "truth" changing repeatedly. Also, Trump has huge support from his business buddies, including Big Pharma so I would have to assume they would have either protected him or they would have warned him.

If your implication is that the media and the science community conspired to make the president look stupid, I think you've got a big hill to climb to prove that.
If i google for it specificly, the paper in nature states:

"This study had some limitations. Mammograms were downsized to fit the available GPU (8 GB). As more GPU memory becomes available, future studies will be able to train models using larger image sizes, or retain the original image resolution without the need for downsizing. Retaining the full resolution of modern digital mammography images will provide finer details of the ROIs and likely improve performance." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-48995-4

Here they use a Nvidia V100 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336339974_Deep_Neur...

Which yeah okay is more reasonable than i thought. But the advantage will still be at who ever has the hardware and thats just cheap for google.

You wouldn't need a market for models, you would just use whatever research delivers from whoever has the most accurate data & hardware.
> didn't the UK flirt with Huawei for a while

Yes, and it looks like they're rolling it back (interesting): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/22/boris-joh.... I missed that story. I guess there's kinda been other things going on.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12376/windows-10-st...

It's an unnecessary rigmarole to boot into safe mode without OS access, but is still possible.
A workaround might be little more than running a sed command on the html sources before bundling.
Rewilding: Rare birds return when livestock grazing has stopped
Not all newsletters are spam, far from it. Additionally, most newsletters that I subscribe to are likely automated.
So all the code you’ve ever written was perfect in every way from day one?

You’ve never made a suboptimal choice?

And never made a mistake?
I've mostly worked for old-timey telco companies not from CA/WA and they're pretty behind the times on empathetic leadership in my experience. I didn't really start even experiencing what I consider empathetic leadership until I started working for CA/WA companies over the last 5 years.

Any remotely awkward event that popped up you likely had a boss who just didn't say a peep about anything because they didn't want to rock the boat.

Thankfully I'm seeing a lot more reports of the opposite this week but there's still a lot of those companies out there.
I look forward to an AppImage for Linux.
Reminds me of Pragli [1] but without the animated avatars.

How sustainable is this project? I see it's not open sourced, but there is no pricing page either?

Also, how are the connections made, P2P or through a central intermediate server?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22134329
Much more important: Schools are moving to Office 365 in a rush in face of Covid-19. There are data protection concerns but a crisis can shift priorities so it seems.
Definitely on the todo list. In the meantime - https://app.squawk.to
> There is no movie recorded since the prohibition era without reinforcing this drugs as social acceptable every 30 minutes at least once.

Citation seriously needed. Your link certainly doesn't provide it. Off of the top of my head I can think of countless counterexamples.
Not to mention, the court system in the US is already at capacity, even though the vast majority of cases are settled before reaching a decision. Sweeping in more cases resulting from a flood of new information won't make it any easier to defend oneself.

Then there are the unintended outcomes. What does the correctness look like for those found crimes based on bits from a sea of untapped information when Bayes theorum is applied to an entire populace? And if crimes are prosecuted before being verified using the real world investigation methods already in use?
This is one data point. Saying that that's all of the validation that we need for web technologies being the best way to make a UI is really only proof that statistical significance and science currently has no place in the software industry. It's just a fashion show.
The original Squeak was the very first attempt at Apple to do open source. But the license had some terms that upset some people (about fonts, no export to countries with US restrictions, having to help Apple in any lawsuit against it due to you distributing Squeak). Given that Open Source was only defined a year after this license was released, it is hardly shocking there were issues.

This was a problem with some Linux distributions, but when the One Laptop Per Child project considered rejecting Squeak/Etoys (while embracing the Squeak-based and non open source Scratch) things had to change. Alan Kay personally got Steve Jobs to release the very first Squeak again under the Apple Community License. But people complained about that, so Alan had to go back to Steve and Apple released Squeak 1.1 a third time, now under the Apache 2 license.

Most of the code then in Squeak had been added after Apple. So a letter was sent to all programmers (or their living relatives) asking them to print and sign a form allowing their code to be switched from SqueakL to MIT. VPRI collected the forms. Then the Pharo people did the same for code they had that is not in the Etoys Squeak release.

Only in Squeak 2 did code start getting tagged with author initials. Code added between 1.1 and 2 was sent in emails to Dan Ingalls who personally inserted it into the official release. So I went through the email archives and identified all missing authors and the Squeak Board sent them forms to be signed.

All new contributions are required to use the MIT license (Richard Stallman considered two pieces of code that exist in the same Smalltalk image to be "linked" together in terms of GPL and LGPL instead of being potentially like two programs on the ISO CD-ROM image).

Ian Piumarta used the GPL for some small C fragments that are part of the Unix/Linux virtual machine. I am not sure if that code is still in use.
I'm a professional. I could do most of my work with cheap DSLR without much difference (although full frame vs. a crop sensor has some differences that couldn't be made up).

It's the edge cases where a top of the line camera/lens can become necessary. I've had church ceremonies where I've had to be at 6400 ISO at f/1.4. There are times where you need to work quickly and don't have time to get a perfect exposure, so having extra latitude in post production is key. There are also performance issues such as the ability to keep focus on a moving or dark target.

I'm primarily a photojournalist wedding photographer and I end up taking ~6000 pictures for a 10 hour wedding, and that'll get winnowed down to 1000 or less. The amounts are all over the place but that ratio is roughly what I've heard from other photographers. Don't feel bad about bad photos; the primary advantage to digital is that we can do that without wasting film.
Yes, but I assumed that meant without a lot of work or obscure settings and stuff. This is a headline promoted feature of the phone and its software.
How are they impossible to track? They have serial numbers
Yes, dumping prevention regulations are quite common. In the area I work in they're applied at the SKU level even, not even at the aggregate of the transaction.
Ugh, that joke was thrown around so many times at our office, whenever anyone dared show up to work in a button-down shirt and slacks. Or some variant like "Good luck on your job interview today!" or "Looks like you need to take an extra long lunch today. Let me know how it went."
Can't believe someone is saying this right now. DNC is currently behaving as if they were the party in power trying to fix the corona issues and the GOP is like maybe we will let you get test if you give us tax cuts for the rich. It is completely abnormal that the party in power walks away from any responsibility and the other party has to negotiate to stabilize the country.
I agree, which is why I also think Assange should be released, since he is being subjected to confinement and mistreatment for purely political reasons; this is unforgivable
What ended up working in my case was to install an app called Replay Media Catcher. It is available for both Mac and Windows. It can intercept any video you're watching in the browser, and save it to a file.
Perhaps the way to satisfy the libertarians at Reason is to privatize police forces and let them have unions.
A darkly comical commentary on the state of justice right now: none of the child rapists will face any consequences (well, except for Epstein, though he did get away with it for decades), but the _bank regulator_ takes the accounting issues very seriously!
Why not? Seems unreasonable to expect that every city can manage their own secure data store...
But the vast majority of those problem police are governed by liberal or progressive governments. Those police agencies should be models for the rest of the country and the world absent any involvement by the federal government.
Tangential: Isn't this like a tip? Shouldn't all of it go to the content creator?

PS: I think it is a good initiative from Google so not criticizing the company at all (in this specific case). Just thought of the recent controversy about some of the food delivery companies taking a portion of the tips, and want to see whether you see this as analogical.
I believe it was this Marketplace podcast episode[0] that talks about the UK and their relationship with Huawei.
If I can recall, the UK is tied tightly to Huawei across several industries, one including nuclear reactor/plant development that has been in on going for ages and involves packages of training lots of UK workers.

The podcast goes on to say that the UK is in a tough position because to break ties with any part of Huawei could have a chain reaction of cancellations/retaliations that could be extremely costly to UK in a time of uncertainty with Brexit and now covid-19.
"Damned if they do, damned if they don't" was the general sentiment.

[0] https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace/what-weighs-do...
In violent cases they will send out the S.W.A.T. team. Song Writers Against Terrorism.
Right now we need an opensource teleconferencing system much more than an opensource OS.

Edit: I think people recommending jitsi below misunderstood my comment
Agreed. I highly recommend Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel[1] for a great look at the economics behind the drug trade. It's remarkable logical when you just consider the facts.

[1]: https://smile.amazon.com/Narconomics-How-Run-Drug-Cartel/dp/...
Getting some semblance of control over my browsing habits and enabling the implementation of multiple-proxy-based browsing strategies is one reason why I wrote chrome-private.sh [1].

I go through hundreds of disposable browsing profiles every day.

[1] https://github.com/atomontage/chrome-private
Definitely can't blame them for being distrustful. Seems like it would probably be easy enough for Microsoft to hide extra data in the telemetry that Windows 10 already sends home if the NSA or someone were to force them to, and history seems to inform us that US companies have little choice but to comply with such orders.
Yeah, aware of those... But... I wouldn't really use most of the countries on your list to set an example for the rest of the world, if you know what I mean...
Ugh. Disabling that was always my first action on a fresh install.
Your input caused me to google a video about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kswiDQ2aAKA

Very intereting!
Good question: there's no pricing page at the moment because we'll always offer the current functionality for free. We have some enterprise features (freemium) that we're planning, but we also won't charge for those until lockdowns are lifted.

Squawk is webrtc based (audio and data) so it's mostly p2p (except for tracking the swarm).
> People should not be required to work to survive.

What does "be required" mean?
Aren't acquihires really about the IP?
Nobody has ever satisfactory explained where Epstein got all this money to begin with. He seems to have been running some sort of blackmail operation ensnaring wealthy people into criminal activity and videotaping them or otherwise recording it.

His first job was as a math teacher at a _girl's school_ run by the current Attorney General's father, and he seems to have leveraged that somehow into an investment job through one of the parents at the school, despite having no qualifications for that kind of work.

It seems worth noting that he went from working with young girls to sex trafficking them, and that the man who supposedly was going to get to the bottom of his murder is the son of the man who first gave him access to young girls.
And what kills me about this is it almost seems like the big tech companies are just grabbing up engineers to no purpose. When I hear stories about what people are actually doing at larger companies, it often seems somewhere between miniscule and just plain empty. And it's not like a lot of the people telling these stories don't understand that. But they're happy enough wasting a third of their day at that salary.
TIL about the Wakefield incident. TY.
Try one night ultimate werewolf... except that kind of breaks the game
I'm not denying that it is harder to fake a death than to just order a hit. But if he had a dead man's switch, it could be worth the cost.

And with how unusual the whole 'suicide' was, accepting the official story at face value is arguably lazier than suspecting it.
Finally. I‘ve been waiting / looking for a decent solution for quite a while now...
> the Democrats picking a candidate that’s not pro legalization

That's putting it mildly. Biden was an active participant in the war on drugs. He was the primary sponsor of the RAVE Act in 2002: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reducing_Americans%27_Vulnerab...

Nevermind the fact that his home state of Delaware didn't have much of an electronic music / rave scene at the time. Or that the music genres in question were all originally created by people of color. Or that most music venues (regardless of genre or clientele) have been over-charging for water for decades.

It's also cruelly ironic that this act primarily targeted a drug that causes people to become perma-grinning touchy-feely overly-emotive types, which (in my view) is essentially how Joe Biden seems to behave on a regular basis.

Needless to say, as a Democrat I share your deep frustration with this candidate.
Is there really a need for them to create their own distributions?
It's definitely not "clear", but...

https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/500605-antifa-and-a...

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/500764-why-its-...

https://www.boston.com/news/national-news-2/2020/06/02/georg...

https://twitter.com/balleralert/status/1267366989825277952
I wanted say no, but we did get Trump. So Zuck being President seems like a real possibility.
Personally I do not think of trust as binary. If I ruled out every journal, publisher, or news property that published something that turned out to be wrong, I would read nothing at all and wallow in blissful ignorance. Actually that sounds kind of nice right now...