skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is certainly an interesting read, but it seems like the only idea proposed is a higher minimum wage, the results of which seem to be mixed (https://grow.acorns.com/how-seattles-minimum-wage-has-change..., https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/7/13/20690266/seattle..., https://publicpolicy.wharton.upenn.edu/live/news/2303-effect...). From what I've read, the academic study that paints the best possible picture says that for a 10% increase in the minimum wage, Seattle saw a 1% increase in wages (one would presumably expect a 10% increase in total wages, unless there was a decrease in total hours worked). There are partisan arguments for and against raising the minimum wage (which the author does a good job of summarizing), but from reading those studies it seems not obvious what raising the minimum wage will do at the macro level.
At the risk of veering slightly off-topic I really dislike the modern internet culture that judges that it's perfectly acceptable to post people's face on public websites for all to see without their explicit consent. I'd hate to find myself at the top of the Reddit frontpage or in the latest viral video, even if I don't do anything particularly embarrassing.

Although I suppose that if you're participating in a protest that's not really the same thing, the whole point is to be seen after all. And signal is generally used for private messaging so it's less of an issue. So overall I guess I agree with you, I guess the Signal devs feel strongly about the current events and wanted to do something to help.
Ouch: gaussian blur might be invertible if you are not careful. That is why you need the explicit parameters of the convolution.

Thanks for digging.
I don't want to do a negative review , I think the value they provide is great, but the actual product is not very good. Like no api, low customization of text in the editor, ux of header difficult to understand, I did not like using the product
Well newspaper companies are kind of special, no? They very often have vocal and official slants.

But I think it's questionable if beverage or kitchen appliance companies should align themselves with a political party. That will by definition alienate some customers. And historically I have a hard time of seeing this prior to the last 10 or so years.
Criminals will still get weapons without restriction if you ramp up gun control. They don’t follow the law, why would they follow gun controls? All gun controls do is make it harder for lawful citizens to protect themselves.
If you are not familiar with them, the comparison is useful to help you decide which one to choose?
>Quite a lot of this argument boils down to political philosophy: Personal Choice vs Nanny Knows Best.

Framing the argument in this way is the source of the problem every time this comes up.

Solutions don't adhere to philosophies. Some situations call us to work together, and sometimes the best way to work together is for everybody to cede a little control and defer to somebody doing the coordination.

That's all there is too it. We should agree to let everyone live their lives without unnecessary limits, but we should also agree that when collective action is needed, we are also prepared to accept that and to make it work.
No. Moral posturing would imply hypocrisy. Virtue signaling describes the act of making a communication of ones own self-believed virtues.

The article's argument about the word "signal" always involving sacrifice is incorrect on the face, and even if it were not, ignores the face that many acts of "virtue-signalling" do involve sacrifice.

Consider not being the language police any longer.
wouldn't it be easier and more secure to put a noise filled rectangle over the faces?
> All I mean is: anecdotal evidence and social bubbles

Sure.

However, there is usage data available if one's interested.

https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2019/02/whatsapp-fac...
Not what I wrote. I never send in untested patches, because I don't start writing patches if I cant easily compile it myself in the first place.

Also, this was not specifically targeted at llvm but all open source software which may not even have a build-bot or published regression checks.

All I'm saying is: Please keep master clean so it always compiles so people can easily pick it up and contribute.
Yeah, it is often a mystery just what options I have available to use in matplotlib, and it can be tricky to find which one is the one I actually want!
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Undercounting of Covid-19 deaths in India is enough of a concern that ICMR (India's state organisation for biomedical research) is/was planning to undertake a massive survey on excess deaths to determine if people were dying outside hospitals. The issue is not settled at all.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/2020/may/...
I'm on the other side of the spectrum. I converted all my units to luxury units, and have had far far fewer tenant problems after the renovations and rate increases.

High paid tenants seldom miss payment - I've setup automatic EFT withdrawal from their accounts, so I don't even need to process checks, and they aren't really impacted by the rise in unemployment right now - most just work from home.

I think the bitter spot for being a landlord (especially now) is to manage low-mid income units. ...it's just a constant stream of problems - people moving in and out - single mom's that chronically cannot afford the rent - unregistered tenants - people that refuse to pay and refuse to move out - drug and police raids... like it was a total total nightmare.

Managing 12 low-mid income apartments was a full-time nightmare. Managing 12 high income lux units now takes about 4 hours every other weekend and is usually a pleasure to do.
Are you open to the possibility that those proponents actually have considered those viewpoints and come to a different conclusion than you for reasons other than being too stupid to understand math?
We don't know yet. That is the idea about research.

When the microscope was invented, people made the same question: What is the use of it? Just watching things we already know bigger?

That is a recurring question. So much that Aristotle created the book MetaPhysics(meta meaning different from the Physics book) with the idea that this particular book did not need to be useful to be created. It was a compilation of non useful things.

This non useful compilation helped create science as we know it.
Wod Blocks – a full workout timer
I built this purely on personal need. Since the pandemic, I've been working out at home doing mostly Crossfit workouts. These have different parts, usually including warm-up, a strength portion, some rest and then what's called the WOD (workout of the day). For each part you have to configure a different timer, for example countdown, TABATA, EMOM (every minute on the minute), etc. Since I didn't want to interrupt my workout constantly, I thought about making a timer that would self-adjust. More so, I've been sharing workouts with friends and it's usually a big chunk of text that we send back and forth, so I thought why not just share a link that opens in the app and you can start doing right away? Lastly, I included hundreds of preset blocks for those that need a great workout but don't have access to great programming.

Essentially that's what Wod Blocks is, a workout timer that adjusts to the different parts, allows you to share workouts and includes preset programming.

Hope you like it and I'm absolutely open to feedback!
«Adopting the Swedish approach» after three months of expanding test capacity, ensuring PPE availability, instituting WFH routines where possible, adopting slightly-inconvenient disinfecting routines and having everyone know to keep distance and report cold symptoms, is not following the Swedish approach. It is something completely different.

The R number will be lower at this later stage than they were in an early-hit country with no preparation.

The biggest mistake Tegnell did for Sweden, was wasting the first month of the epidemic out of hubris. This laid the groundwork for the persistent epidemic they have today, which stands in obvious contrast to their neighboring countries — most of which now have a daily life similar to Sweden, except with the epidemic under control.

10x per capita difference in deaths as compared to Norway, 5x to Denmark. Similar for other markers. Initial conditions similar, except for different response from leadership.
> I see analogy to guitar playing here. No matter how well you figure out finger positioning for a complex passage, you won't be playing with ease unless your elbow, wrist and spine are also positioned properly.

This is a good analogy, and instrument players all hit the fatigue issue.

On top of posture, a lot of the pro players seem to manage it with a mix of:

- regular muscle training to protect articulations

- regular resting periods and avoiding activities that hit the same moves

- medication as soon as there is any sign of things going wrong

I think there is no magic bullet (or magic keyboard/mice combination), and switching to an "ergonomic" setup is only a small part of the solution for most of us. ATP had a pretty good take on this in their 'ask app' section https://atp.fm/377
Ideally you'd run something like thispersondoesnotexist to generate random faces to paste overtop people before blurring it. That way if you somehow manage to revert the blur there's still no chance of revealing the original person.

Of course humans are pretty good at filling in detail, so with a sufficient blur you can get away with surprisingly poor approximations of a human face.
GP isn't denying they have more immigrants, they are saying it makes more sense to point to their reaction to the pandemic than to point at their number of immigrants. This explanation is both more simple and it doesn't have strange racist undertones.
I think when they say Asia India is not included.

I usually find that India/Bangladesh/Sri lanka/Pakistan etc are categorized as "the subcontinent"

That said, infection rates in India have been weird.
I saw a similar thing about China in the beginning. When Wuhan went on lockdown something like a million people fled.

Some of my Indian coworkers said their relatives said a mysterious flu was killing some people but they hadn’t made a link to Covid. This was months ago.
It doesn't take much Delta v (energy) to move a low Earth orbit into a suborbital collision course. You don't kill all of your velocity, just enough of it that your orbit intersects Earth.

The orbital period for low Earth orbit is closer to 1 hour than 24, and you further reduce that to only a dozen or so minutes by spacing out rods over the orbit... Much like starlink satellites.
It seems that there is currently no clear answer to this [0].

Couldn’t find the forum post it’s referring to.

[0]: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/15425#issuecomme...
I love it.

Accountability of submissions and recorded specific feedback for each assignment is great way to learn.

One feature I would like to see is peer reviews. Although it might cause cheating or plagiarism, it could be useful tool for peer learning. Probably can add it as post assessment step.
Candace Owens Monologue on Police Brutality
There is no wrong answer in the trolley problem, ethics are subjective.
Pros: more insight in your advertising performance.

Cons:

* Facebook now stalks every visitor of your website, regardless of whether they have an account or arrived from the ad

* Not GDPR compliant unless you ask for opt-in, and nobody in their right mind will actually opt-in

I suggest against using the pixel and instead making your ad point to a dedicated URL (https://example.com/?source=instagram_campaign_id) which will allow you to measure ad performance on your site (through server logs or whatever analytics you already have) without compromising your visitor's privacy.
How about China or North Korean will they be able to operate there and sidestep the firewalls?
I get it because I do something similar: I discover I have some command (`annoyingly long but repeatable command `) that I run in a particular repo (`repo\over\there`) frequently. For me, I then alias switching to that repo with a 1-3 letter sequence: `rot` and the command to `alc` (annoyingly long but repeatable command). Often I want these to be semipermanent so the aliases are added to my bashrc.

This project looks like it is streamlining and organizing-per-project this kind of workflow / preference for short aliases, with helpful conventions like "?" that act sort of like a tab-completion hint.
> I tried Sunlight, but Sunlight in northern latitudes is a joke.

hahaha, brilliant!
TK frequently cited Jacques Ellul's "The Technological Society"[1]. This book gives a decent treatment of whether technology is part of the problem or the solution and also helps explain TK. Considering how Ellul's writing influenced TK it's also more understandable (though not forgivable) why he radicalized himself (after withdrawing from society and living like a hermit). Ellul makes you realize the problem isn't just a recent one, and that there is no "easy" (peaceful) way back ... E.g. the Luddites resorted to violence because they already knew and understood this - they knew that attacking the tools of power (science/technology) amounted to terrorism.

[1] https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci...
a lot of dirt poor countries have closed EVERYTHING, and given jack to the people. Complain to the hand. Obviously low deaths--on Covid, and so far. Not something to be proud of and definitely not long term. Virus is still around, waiting for the opportunity.
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What kinds of people get doxxed? Your average protester in a march or the independents who go off script and attack bystanders, observers?

The ones I recall like the bike lock incident in Berkeley was that the extremely violent get doxxed on the chans but not your average protester who isn’t smashing things.
The UV responsible for vitamin D production effectively does not penetrate glass so it depends how much time people actually go outside.
There's taxes on gasoline in the us and most other countries as well
Well, that's a kind of Stockholm Syndrome, if you ask me. I've never personally known of a developer who's switched from MacOS to Windows without immediately going back.
I fear that we in the west will simply not even know that this catastrophy is occuring all over the third world. Maybe in a few years we will find out just how terrible this pandemic was.
I was just replying to the idea that the demographics are the same.
I've recently got a good old fashioned desktop computer, and switched to Thunderbird over webmail (ending a decade-old GMail subscription in the process). If I want to check emails or do admin, I have to do it purposefully and situatedly.

It's really thrown into contrast the temptation of quickly flicking on a mobile phone or work laptop to check something. There's a mental geographic context as well — I have to go to a specific place to do a specific task, and it can't follow me round the house. It also makes the work / life boundary a little bit clearer.

It's a little inconvenient, but the whole point is to underline the trade-off of that convenience. A week in and I'm tangibly feeling the benefit.

To the original point, I'm parted from my computer for hours rather than days, but it still helps.
Karl Friston: up to 80% not susceptible to Covid-19
F15 Strike Eagle certainly helped me with my Eastern Bloc geography!
Would you mind sharing some starting points for a reading list? I'd be curious to read some of the source material you're talking about.
Why is encryption needed? Or privacy in general? If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.

/s
> Remember all those years when we dreamed of a Unix with a proper UI? Well, it exists. Windows doesn't even come close.

You should reconsider Windows. A full Linux kernel and apt-get is way better than Homebrew will ever be.
"because there are still a lot of people who submit quality blog posts every day on HN"

I'd like a follow feature.
Mumbai and Delhi are also massive hubs for international travel, they were going to be the gateways for the virus.

Not sure how to translate that list of cities.
NZ tourism spending (excluding international airfares) was ~60% domestic before COVID19. (Yes I know it sounds high, but that's the number.) Shifting outbound tourism to domestic will boost domestic considerably higher than that even without Australia.
My understanding is that that was the police grabbing cell phone tower records from the cell service providers -- which they've always been able to do, it is a different (though still problematic) issue. The writers of the article conflated it with contact tracing.
That's correct yes. End of April beginning of May and to my knowledge these are the most recent numbers available, but feel free to correct me.
What would you consider well above if you were to put a number or an interval on it?
Increase position accuracy and GPS distance calculation for the driver's app on Android devices with Kalman filter and accelerometer.
Since I (was) a gamer my left hand rests on WASD. It's just a natural position for me :)
Well it must have been in your web history, I very much doubt she typed the URL in. You could have been visiting anything and she could have accidentally navigated there.

For me, it's a very odd solution to a problem that we have to answer a question before allowing our webcam to be used. I would never set my webcam and mic to be allowed by default, and if I ever give my laptop or device to anyone to search for something I'll put them in a private browser for their privacy aswell as mine.

Either way, I can probably not even begin to understand the responsibilities of being a parent, but if some safeguard is put into this one site, what about the next site you visit that has a similar idea? You're in the same situation again - and there's no shortage of websites for people to chat to each other via webcam.
> I wish I had more evidence-based arguments for my opinion, but I strongly believe text-based interfaces are among the best out there.

That is very broad. The best for what?
Efficient video editing? Music production?
> Seattle saw a 1% increase in wages (one would presumably expect a 10% increase in total wages, unless there was a decrease in total hours worked).

How's that? Why would a minimum wage increase raise the wages of everyone already making more than the new minimum wage by the same amount?
How long does it typically take for both parties to agree to the same question? Some of this stuff I'm not discussing with a stranger that might become a 'friend.'
Chinese statistics is unreliable. It makes sense to compare Western countries, but not Western countries to China.
They definitely exist - just on any of the WSL2 threads on Twitter
Couldn't the hand positioning be mostly solved by remapping the few keys that pain you the most ?

For me it was the control key and escape keys, and the others keys are otherwise standard.

Also I'd argue people suffering from RSI shouldn't be striving for speed or efficiency that much. Some people switch their mouse hand or reverse buttons basically to detune, or split the load to other parts of their body, speed/efficiency be damned.
You can't make data that isn't there. It's fundamentally going to be a guess. You can enhance your way to a face or a license plate but there is zero guarantee it will be the face or the license plate that the low quality image/video is of. This is why solid blocks of color or emojis are so effective at censoring images, it takes the data and replaces it with pure junk.
>> We're seeing a current example of 2/3 with the Coronavirus government stimulus, which went directly into plutocrat pockets while the masses were handwaved away with a token gesture.

This helps to maintain an illusion of scarcity. It keeps the productive working class desperate for fiat money. The realist is that there is no scarcity of fiat at the top echelons; this is made clear by the high valuation of cryptocurrency projects.

The top 1% has so much free money coming in that they can toss it away some cryptocurrency projects with no effect at all on their lifestyles... And in doing so they also hedge their personal risk against the reality of an unsustainable fiat system of which they are currently beneficiaries.
This is more about route finding than anything else. One hour of CPU time to calculate routes for 5000 packages and 30 distribution centers. That's pretty good.
Right! The point isn’t to ban E2EE it’s the design your chat system in such a way that it’s less effort for the worst actors to go somewhere else and pay lip service to the FBI. I don’t think any of these would actually solve the problem. Just that we might have a popular E2EE chat service that could survive the political fight.
So we're just going to pretend that cities aren't going up in flames, businesses aren't being destroyed and innocent protestors, rioters and police aren't being killed?

There is an extremely blurry line between peaceful and violent protests. Unfortunately all of the chaos of recent days that the WaPo and others (Obama, etc.) seem all too eager to sweep under the rug has ruined things for everyone.
I was specifically talking about computational effects like the one Apple calls portrait mode that can black out the background. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear about that.

My whole point in this thread was that nobody in the big body camera world seems to be doing much with computation or multiple sensors. I think it's astonishing what Apple, Google, and Sony have done with small lenses and sensors and would be interested to see what they could do with big lenses and sensors.
> Pour cold water over incipient unionization

I'm generally pro-union, but I have absolutely no problem with an employer deterring its employees from unionising by paying them well and treating them right.