skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Facebook is only in this tone-deaf quagmire because they got in the business of censoring at all.

Being the antenna for Donald Trump to broadcast constantly to the internet was going to be a quagmire no matter what.
State of the Market – Infinite State Hidden Markov Models
The Ricoh GRiii might be a better fit if carrying it around with you is the biggest challenge. Same sensor size as the X100 range, 28mm f/2.8 lens that's incredibly sharp and small and light enough to fit in a shirt pocket.
It cannot be an example of any narrative you refer to if beepboopbeep isn’t a member of the media.
I wish there was analysis on the number/size/market cap of software companies per country. That seems like a fairly likely driver of higher salaries because of increased competition
You can buy a used Crown Graphic with the stock lens for a few hundred, used film holders for $20-40, $50 for used tanks, etc. A frugal/patient person should be able to keep it to under $500 total - I went a bit over that because I bought a new Sekonic light meter. $2-3k is more if you're doing the enlarging yourself or shooting larger film like 8x10 where the costs rapidly grow out of control. However, if you're handy it can be a lot cheaper. Except for the lens and billows, which are relatively cheap on ebay, everything can be made out of relatively cheap material available at hardware store. The tricky part is leveling the lens and film planes.
>any of the languages I work in today (Swift, Kotlin, Python, Dart, C)

Have you done any work in Ruby?
While I disagree with @collyw, what you're proposing is based on purely touchy-feely claims. BTW I don't 'empathize' with products, I use them. They're tools, no more.
For that price one can buy maybe five Android phones (with comparable or better hardware). Then install Lineage. Or maybe more than five.
While this is certainly true, I've felt for a long time that the Peter principle is missing something very important:

"Doing the work," "managing the people doing the work," and "making the decisions about what work should be done" are not simply three ascending levels of expertise in one domain. They are three completely different domains. All good so far; the Peter principle takes this into account. Someone who's good at "doing" gets promoted to "managing", and doesn't have that skillset, and gets stuck there.

But it's also true in reverse. Just because a particular person is not good (or, more generally, less good than the best) at "doing", that doesn't mean they'd be bad at "managing". And just because someone is not good at "managing" doesn't mean they'd be bad at "deciding".

So you've got people who are good at working being promoted to manager, people who are good at working and managing being promoted to decider (which, I admit, is a bit more likely to work out than the others)—or, in many cases, people who were simply hired as managers being promoted to deciders—and then people who are good at managing or deciding, but only OK at working stuck at the worker level forever, unable to use their skills to help make things better.
Interview with Donald Knuth at ACM ByteCast [audio]
"Why would a dedicated camera need to take huge numbers of photos to overcome sensor noise when it's not there in the first place?"

You have clearly never looked at unprocessed RAW data from the sensor or you wouldn't be saying something so completely wrong.
A Linux Dev Environment on Windows with WSL 2, Docker Desktop and More
Amazon's unrivalled power threatens jobs, communities
In case of search results? Then Google should pay websites for displaying their content.
I'm always building something I've never built before. And the requirements always change as you go.

So knowing what I'm building in advance never really happens.
Making a car cheap is the hard part. You have so many less known "luxury" manufacturers who will build cars on demand for tons of money. The scaling and cost management is the hard part.
Free calls: unencrypted, content tappable, participant list subpoana'd

Subscriber calls: encrypted, subscriber list subpoena'd

no real thoughts on it, there wasn't a real expectation for me that Zoom was private, only convenient.
And this seems to be fairly consistently true although there are other factors (e.g. does your culture attract talented people to technology or do they work elsewhere? Is there a consumer market for software in your country, etc.).

Other countries tend to use communication applications and platforms developed at or near their country (WhatsApp seems to be one of the bigger international exceptions from my experience).

There are a few exceptions to this where massive US companies have the scale to setup native teams in markets that understand culture well. Outside of that, it tends to fall apart. Some examples come to mind:
Taobao, QQ, Baidu, Yahoo Japan, Weibo, VK, Aliexpress, Line, TikTok, etc.

(Note not all of these examples may be good because I'm not intimately familiar with all of them--since I too tend to use systems developed in my country).

Facebook, Google... they seem to span cultures probably due to providing services people fundamentally want to have across cultures. Large businesses typically have the capital to invest in addressing the cultural barriers and developing solutions.

Apple has a massive share world wide but when you look at Samsung in South Korea or Huawei in China, you'll see more adoption. Some of it may be nationalistic preference but I argue much of it is due to developing products/services that properly address demands in the market (which is tightly tied to culture).
I mean, Twitter have explicitly said in the past that they won't suspend national leaders for breaking the rules, so this is entirely consistent with this policy, as the reposter isn't a national leader.
Have you considered a mirrorless setup?

An Olympus OMD with a fast prime will fit in a purse or other small bag. The PENs are smaller yet, though you give up "prosumer" features. I can fit 2 bodies, 3-4 lenses, and accessories in my carry-on (mid-sized backpack), along with my iPad or laptop, windbreaker, snacks, and other normal travel stuff.

The Fujis are a bit larger (body and glass), but with a larger sensor. But, they are really, really good. The X100 line is amazing for what it is - several friends use it as their main carry-around camera (even thought they own XT bodies and nice glass).
> The Republican Party fought hard in the '60s to get the civil rights bill passed, as well as the voting rights bill. Percentagewise, more Republicans than Democrats supported it.

Yes, that's why the major turning point is Johnson's support for the bill and the subsequent exploitation of disaffection within the party with that support by Republicans in the Southern Strategy.

> Not only is the party switch theory rather absurd

It's not a theory. The Southern Strategy starting at least with Nixon’s targeting Southern racists with the well-worn code words of the movement in the 1968 Presidential election is a well-documented fact. The body of anti-civil-rights, especially Southern, Democrats (both in the electorate and, even more clearly on an individual basis, in elected office) moving to the Republican Party over the period of 1964~1995 is a documented fact. That some of the leading wave of those (like Strom Thurmond) who left before 1968 were instrumental in the 1968 Southern Strategy is a documented fact.

> In fact, all but three prominent Southern Democrats remained Democrats

The list of noteworthy Southern Democrats figures, or even just incumbent officeholders, that switched party from 1964 to 1995 is much longer than 3. [0]

I mean, when you see a taking head in the media today arguing that slavery was beneficial to blacks (as you do), they aren't Democrats. When you see someone arguing (or ruling from the bench) against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, they aren't Democrats. When you see former Democrat and former KKK leader and still proud racist David Duke endorsing a major party candidates for President (or running for office himself), it's not for or as a Democrat. The switch of the parties on this issue isn't a mere theory, it's one of the clearest and most readily directly observable facts in American politics.

[0] It's not specific to Southern Democrats or Denocratic >> Republican switchers, but this page has a section for the latter and enough descriptive detail to use to identify the former in that list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_party_switchers_in_t...
Why is it a disaster waiting to happen, according to you?
> Either shut down completely (maybe based on origin region or recently visited regions) or be prepared to handle afterwards

If you only shut down based on recently visited regions, you're likely to import cases anyways. With CoVID-19, it takes several weeks to identify an outbreak in a region (especially without extensive testing). By the time you shut down travel from a given region, you've probably already been importing cases for weeks.

The WHO has gotten a huge amount of flak for not calling for travel restrictions during this pandemic. But their recommendations were based on the ineffectiveness of travel restrictions,* according to previous research. They recommended screening passengers for symptoms, but also told countries to take measures to limit spread (like testing and contact tracing), on the assumption that countries would import cases.

* The WHO's recommendations were also based on the International Health Regulations, an international treaty that basically every country on Earth has joined. Most of the public is unaware of the IHR or what it says about travel restrictions, or of the history of the WHO (one of its founding goals was to stop countries from automatically shutting their borders whenever there was an outbreak, and instead to take rational, evidence-based measures).
In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed
Terrible analogies. Those are mostly planned things which give people opportunity to plan for.
> There's lots of demand for labour, just not from people/companies/industries that have the means to the pay for it.

I agree, but I think you mean income distribution and latent demand. The idea is that a lot of people would be consuming more goods and services if they weren't so cash strapped. Some of this is also affected by wealth distribution also, though.
> Not everything has to be an "agenda" by global elites to damage your favorite politician.

Not everyone who objects to frauds being used to bring down Trump likes Trump. Some people are very, very upset about how things like this hand him easy, unambiguous wins, and make it seem as if he can be trusted to the same degree as nominally legitimate sources of information. Also, whatever extent that those institutions compromised their own processes in the name of these attacks, for what other interests are their processes compromised?

Should we just trust these institutions because they've been labeled "trustworthy" or instead turn our trust to institutions whose processes are more transparent, responsive, and formally isolated from outside interests?

edit: It's important to note that this means that a majority of Americans will never believe that this drug is not a legitimate treatment for the virus, no matter what further studies say. That's an abject failure for the scientific establishment, and a victory for the anti-vaxxers of the world.
When Trump eventually loses his position as POTUS (as everyone does), will Twitter ban his account for previous TOS violations, or violations after POTUS?

I wonder how this will play out once he one longer holds the 'in the publics interest' badge.
Astroscale expands into geostationary satellite life extension with acquisition
Your friend is dangerously misinformed. There is no need to pull off the road to fix any problem with the screen. There are physical controls for everything essential to driving and they work independently of the screen. Dragon is reportedly the same.
Trying to break the conditioning here but government should always tax in a way that it incentive WORK. The way things are Wealth is no longer being produced, so those who have it will be on top because income will never be enough to prop you up.

Therefore we should want a Growth market so that more wealth is produced and risk averse people will still be rich but more people will become as rich as them.

To resolve Inequality we can't just have the mindset of punish the rich for creating wealth. We need to grease up our economy so that everyone else can be rich as well.

Different mindset but this problem is super hard to solve and I don't think anyone has a decent solution for it.
Bro bro bro bro where to start on this one?

The fun loving my hobby is my work technology crowd ever getting serious about professionalism and unionizing when there are clueless eager greenhorns pouring in at an exponential rate who will work for the privilege of wearing casual clothing and pizza once a week? C'mon get serious you expect these people to be invested in their own careers apart from chasing approval?

In other news there seems to be a quiet revolution happening -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404116

As if it'll gain any traction but here's hoping.
The video that says "See the Dyson car on the road" is so strangely fake.

So you're driving down 6th ave away from the Madison Square Garden sign promoting the Knicks? There's not going to be a double yellow line because it's a one way street. Perfectly smooth road in Manhattan? Nope.

Here's what the area really looks like: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7487638,-73.9922756,3a,75y,3...

Credit to whomever thought adding "Modells" would make it look more locally authentic though.
For new hardware Ubuntu isn't exactly the distribution I would recommend. You may have a better chance trying a distro like Fedora or Arch. Speaking from my personal experience I have a X1 Yoga 1st gen and installed then updated Fedora from 29 to 31 it's a pretty much hassle-free process (apart from the fingerprint, which never worked in the first place and I don't use it anyway), I postpone the update from 31 to 32 mainly because I have some serious work ongoing, but I'm sure it will be smooth.
You already shared you thought about "certifications", but I think the fact that Lenovo is starting Fedora Laptops[0] is telling in this regard.

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/05/08/lenov...
Author of MVP.css here. Glad you liked it! If you'd like to share the site you built I'd love to take a look.
This is my understanding as well. I found this video puts together a nice history lesson on how it changed forms and a little of the why as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMVfrvsIfAo&feature=youtu.be
People are losing their heads out there because they don't understand how to interpret studies.

The most infuriating offenders are the media, who have been irresponsible with the presentation of clinical study results. They'll take the results of an observational study and herald it as some revolutionary insight, when in reality the doctors, nurses, and pharmacists interpreting these results are saying "hmm okay, well let's be cautious in our approach and wait for other studies to be done".

Clinical practice should never change, and has never changed (to my knowledge) from the whims of a single OBSERVATIONAL study. But outside medical circles, people will see the results they want to see, and never look past the first 10 words of a headline.
> Like Java, I can write a Go program, compile it on my computer for 3 different OSes, ship the binaries, and I can be reasonably sure that it works on other OSes.

With Java, you compile one “binary” and it works not just on three OSes, but all of them that have a JVM available. The beauty of it is that it’s as portable as an interpreted language, no cross-compilation needed at all.
In what ways do you think publishers are regulated and how would those hypothetical regulations apply to Twitter?

Remember that Sec. 230 is about liability not about responsibility. That is to say it’s about monetary damages and not regulatory compliance obligations.
and both work with law enforcement as they are required to.
A superspreader model for Covid-19
I haven’t noticed that behavior. DNS caching doesn’t appear to propagate outside of a PoP, at least from my testing.
DSLRs are usually superior cameras.

One weak point seems to be long lenses. The Nikon P1000 is designed with a small sensor and an appropriate lens with integrated image stabilization. It can take usable photos with a 3000mm equivalent magnificaiton. The moon will fill the frame edge to edge, maybe a little extra.

(the P1000 is not a DSLR it's an all-in-one)

There's an additional edge to tight sensor-lens integration that camera phones have, they can even use multiple sensor to get extra information to apply extraordinary effects automatically. That's kind of hard for a DSLR to do.

As to "Scalzi's AI can only do so much"...

https://youtu.be/bcZFQ3f26pA

I think AI still has a LOT of untapped potential.
I got police sensitivity training when I travelled to the US - not a joke. How to talk to a US police officer, etc. Make sure you don't get out of your car - a lot of rules that Americans know implicitly.

But police abolition is not going to solve anything for you folks. It will mean an extraordinary increase in crime. I have lived in multiple nations and a strict police is better than police who do nothing. You will be at the mercy of crime lords. And no business store owner will open a shop in a police-free district.

All these rioters for freedom and dignity are fine on the TV. When people are on the wrong side of the mob, they change their minds pretty quick.
Kickstarter recently voted for a union and was able to negotiate excellent terms for their layoffs.

Check out their website here: https://kickstarterunited.org/

On another note, unions are a wonderful idea for increasing worker power. I don't understand how people expect others to care about democracy, voting, etc. when we're stuck in a dictatorship 8 hours a day at work. Unions make the workplace more democratic, which will overall make people care more about democracy in general, IMO.
> Nearly every grocery store in every small town in the country is open on Sunday morning. Is it different where you're from?

Yes in France in most smaller towns Sunday most everything will be closed. There are special rules about working on Sunday in the law.
I like how Clojure can be used in more lightweight contexts by using ClojureScript instead. Did you try a Clojure (JVM or GraalVM?) implementation?
Looked at both your links

1. Seems to be saying there isn’t currently a health risk posed by the continuing of their trial.

2. Says they tried using HCQ and PPE together and found health providers were catching the virus less. Nothing in the article attempts to break out whether HCQ or PPE was responsible for it - obviously it’s common sense that using PPE would reduce the risk of catching the virus.

This is hardly a truckload of evidence at all. Also the original study from France was about using HCQ for patients who had already caught the virus, not prophylactic use. HCQ proponents shift around between possible uses of the drug as it becomes clearer that there is a lack of evidence for one way to use it.

Could evidence be found in the future that the drug has some small beneficial effect? It’s possible - but what’s clear is that claims that it was a miracle cure are completely unfounded.
Demystifying Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Jobs exported to countries where the violent suppression of workers rights and of any kind of actual democracy wouldn't cause a fuss at home.

What the US establishment refers to as keeping a country 'business-friendly'.
Consider the opportunities for your children growing up in a developed country with an above average income vs. staying back home. It's the same networking effects you would benefit from by moving, but multiplied since they get them from the start.
> they would have to identify themselves

False. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_fraud

In order to understand this, you really need to start thinking like a criminal. "If I had money, power, maybe guns, and no conscience or care for anyone else, what could I get away with?"
Regardless, the media’s actions are always irrelevant. There is enough unfiltered information published by and about the current POTUS that it’s possible to form an opinion without the media’s help. Their hyperventilating cannot be scored as points in POTUS’ favour, only as points against the media.
You probably don't fly manually, just use predefined abort procedure or receive configuration from ground control. It looks humans now are just another cargo and screens are only for non-critical flight information purpose (in other case I cannot see how they would get away with touchscreen only and software running on Chromium).

It's interesting to wonder whether if Apollo 13 style fault happened, modern ships would be easier to reconfigure and rescue or harder?
Open source's organizational issue is that maintainers tend to prefer what's fun to work on, and often boring administrative work or difficult bugs go unfixed, especially if they have cut through multiple levels module ownership. Maintainers often start to resent the project ("burn out") because they're not paid but are expected to do these things that just aren't fun.

The real power of open source is that there are enough up and coming people who haven't learned this, and so if maintainers aren't supported it doesn't matter, there will be a new library to migrate to in the future by a new college grad, and this is one reason why things tend to be so unstable and short-lived.

The most successful open source projects have large corporate backing, like Kubernetes or Linux. And even Linux is a weird case, as a lot of architectural decisions and feature development are wonky because you often can't get the e.g. IO and Network subsystem guys to agree to the same idea.
Taken from the article: "We leverage C#/MVC4/EF/SQL; Javascript/Knockout/Handlebars/LESS/etc and a super sexy REST API."

Knockout.js, good times.
I am a pro artist and there is certainly some of this going on when I take a photo but to be quite honest the default photo UI is just so shitty compared to grabbing a huge ring to adjust your focus, and snapping a couple quick photos around your estimate of what the right f-stop for the situation is, that I really just don't want to get into more than trying to get a decent angle of natural lighting and some composition I don't hate.

Also as Scalzi notes, the phone's wide-angle lens is rarely the right choice for a lot of good shots, and yet it's all that's available unless I wanna start carrying unwieldy accessories all the time.
That's what they did with the note on Trump's tweet that upset him so much.
Twitter has always been a refuge of the small minded and the most superficial aspects of our society. Couple that with raging narcissism, dog-whistle politics, racism, and you have a weaponized platform. This is the dark side of the tech.
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The light side is that it allows almost real-time reporting of current events, crowdsorcing, and sentiment feedback to allow for responsible action by people who pay attention.
I wouldn't agree with that. Nothing has changed. You should still ask yourself why am I using this in my context. Could save yourself a lot of trouble and make more money. If we were to follow SpaceX we would also be using C#, knockout.js and labview for everything.
I'm also curious about this disaster waiting to happen. They've emphasized an escape capability all the way into orbit. They emphasized various types of automation (also used by other spacecraft).
> Peaceable assembly is what the anti-lockdown protesters were all about, but those people are grandma killers, right?

They came with long guns and spat at the police officers. But, okay, sure, that's "Peaceable".
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