skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> making account creation more costly doesn‘t stop spam... it just makes it more expensive

But that's the only thing that has ever been effective against spam. Spam exists because the marginal cost of spamming is 0. This puts a floor on the marginal cost of spamming; if it costs at least this much to spam, then only spammers that make back that much will exist, which eliminates most spammers.
> I've seen code that makes assumptions about how much real time must have passed based on PAUSE loops.

Note: here, the PAUSE instruction is not the problem at all, but the "code that makes assumptions."

Because the "seen" code is not named, I assume it's something internal for some company?
Pentagon chief breaks with Trump over using troops for protests
I recently tried to do some work on making a virtual camera, and was shocked to see just how difficult it is, let alone making something cross-platform. Anyone know of any projects that are trying to make this easier to hack on?
They may also discount their care if they get paid upfront and don't have to submit the claim and wait for reimbursement. But it might also violate their network agreement with the insurer to not do the submital?
I believe Canada held her because an extradition treaty with the US required them to do so.
You can advise them to do all that you want, but I don't expect them to comply, nor would I comply if I were in their position.
Another interesting thing is how they managed to acquire assets - somebody had to transfer source code, art, specs, etc.

Also, by this locally-optimized move they sacrificed ability to work with other independents in the future, ie top independents will less likely to work with them.
The government directed Facebook to suppress Snap?

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/04/snap-ceo-isnt-expecting-mu...
Looking through non-traditional channels for talent does not mean you are lowering your standards.

Claiming that standards are being lowered without any evidence is actually super racist.
Agreed, though be careful what you ask for. If you're not a publisher (press), you can't libel. Slander, sure. But libel, no.
Don't forget a certain F word is still used as an insult in English. And don't forget there are places in the world, where being openly gay is definitely not accepted (like Russia). Or even parts of the world, where it will definitely get you killed.
Edit: I'm wrong. See below.

The reason they have special protection is because the constitution grants them special protection. The question of who is "the press" in this day and age where anyone can publish anything is certainly up for debate though.
Snapdrop.net[0] is a similar PWA that specifically avoids using Firebase (or any db). I saw it on here some time ago, but don't recall if it was a Show HN.

[0]: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop

Edit: just seen this was mentioned earlier down thread.
I feel like Pardus project has lost some momentum. Maybe I feel like this because there was a lot of publicity and hype around Pardus project when I was growing up.

What interested me most is that Pardus project had its own packaged manager called PiSi, which was then adopted by Solus.

I bet Pardus project had their own reasons to adopt the apt system and rely on Debian volunteers for all packaging support. As the OS is largely maintained by a government institution, I'd imagine it doesn't have the large userbase as Debian does.

There are also some other cool projects made for Pardus, for example Zemberek, a spell checker for the Turkish language that uses natural language processing for Libreoffice and Openoffice: https://github.com/ahmetaa/zemberek-nlp
Available without paywall at the Manhattan Institute:

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/myth-racist-cop-939...
I suspect once you realize the release date is gonna be missed no matter what, you might as well go for a year and uncut all those extra things that were sacrificed in an attempt to make the original reelase date.
Read the transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s tense meeting with Facebook employees
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> I believe the US media were shouting the HCQ will kill you

Mainstream media sources in the USA were mainly warning not to obtain HCQ without a prescription (as several people did in various countries and killed themselves/spouse with overdoses). And also that people shouldn’t rashly expose themselves to the virus, believing the president and his political allies that they could be “100%” cured using HCQ. For instance, https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-twitter-deletes-... “Twitter removed [. . .] In the tweet on Friday, Giuliani quoted conservative youth activist Charlie Kirk, who claimed that an unproven anti-malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine "in at least three international tests was found 100% effective in treating the coronavirus," according to screen shots of the message published by Mediate.”

HCQ continued to be used under emergency authorization in hospitals by doctors fighting the coronavirus, because it’s possible it somehow helps although it hasn’t been proven to work.

However, the media attempted to fight the spread of misinformation which claimed a 100% effective treatment was available, which was leading to issuing unneeded prescriptions for HCQ and a shortage for patients who actually needed the drug for other conditions. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/us/coronavirus-trump-chlo... “ And the nearly 32,000 prescriptions came from across the spectrum — rheumatologists, cardiologists, dermatologists, psychiatrists and even podiatrists, the data shows.”
German sex offender identified as suspect in Madeleine McCann disappearance
I guess that's a question of what the purpose actually is. If you only take out $50k, then you're living on $50k that year and you pay the same amount of tax as if you had worked a regular job for the same amount. If you want to live a more extravagant lifestyle, you take more out and are taxed more.

This could mean that they have $1 million of unrealized gains that year. You're not really able to tax unrealized gains most of the time because they could disappear or go negative. That would go untaxed until they sell, but it would eventually be taxed.

At the same time, they're not going to be able to enjoy their wealth only taking out a small amount every year, so I'm not entirely convinced that this behavior of living frugally to pay less tax is something we need to 'prevent'.
>We still have no idea whether hydroxychloroquine works or not for COVID19

Don't we know to a first approximation that it doesn't work? This because it has been widely tried and there wasn't an "Awakenings" experience where the patients obviously got better. So if it works at all, it only does so at the margin. So hard to tell that it's necessary to gather a large statistical sample to know one way or the other.
Typo in title (not in the actual article headline)- should be 'its', not 'it's'
And crop growth, ocean photosynthesis? How are those affected?
Adding Stoller's 'Goliath" 100 years of monopoly vs democracy book. Highly recommend along with his substack and strongly agree with @rmrfstar

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Goliath/Matt-Stoller/...
Update: full-time work is fine too.
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While your comment is valid to the the person you responded to, consider:

My older car with no touch screen has a custom stereo installed - everything with physical buttons. And it can do more than my other car with a touchscreen. Its Bluetooth capabilities are superior. I can set it not to auto-play, etc.

Yes, no need to go old school. But no, you don't need a touchscreen to get a radio/stereo with better features.
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wow, check out this guy who figured it out. damn, never thought about that. i guess all the people who get paid alot to do fun things, and all the people who get paid shit to do horrible stuff were in my imaginiation.
>your argument is that Obama should be more like Trump?

No. I even pointed out that if you were to consider that type of move to be unlawful there were still PLENTY of other legitimate actions he could have taken.

Again, the President is in charge of the entire federal executive branch. That means the FBI, DEA, DoJ, Homeland Security, ICE, and others. There are numerous changes and reforms he could have enacted at the federal level.

>Also as Obama pointed out in his medium posts, policy positions get converted into action through electoral wins.

Obama was elected President twice. What more of a mandate did he think he needed to feel confident enough to take action?
Can't do the maths at the moment but you'd probably need a lead spacecraft to get close enough. Getting close to the sun also means you'll be going ridiculously fast e.g. Parker Solar Probe will hit something like 200km/s and it's still millions of kilometres from the sun
Right now there is an open issue about a performance degradation in the last versions of OBS for macOS.

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2841

I don't know if it is correlated to your problem though.
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox is what I use. Works like a charm.
The suit is only asking for some money and for the Court to order the state to stop breaking the law even though the state presumably believes it is not breaking the law

It's almost entirely symbolic.
It’s only failed from the perspective of the acquirer and the employees. The founders made off. Sometimes it can still be considered a gain by the acquirer if it prevents a competitor from acquiring said talent.
Multiple monitors are not a problem, but mixed DPI is. It supposedly works fine in wayland, but I tried and failed to switch over to wayland. In X apps always appear the wrong size on one display or the other.
I love that Mumble has that, but I wish it were possible/easy to enable it without a video game and manually position participants.

As for webapps, I think Mozilla Hubs does this: https://hubs.mozilla.com/#/

...as does Freeswitch I believe, though I've had a heck of a time trying to get that up and running: https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/mod_con...
No thanks.

We already have tons of statutes for all sorts of assault/battery with modifiers if they are done using lethal weapons.

Police have already been demanding that "hate crime" laws (which are historically limited to who you are, not your profession or your choices) be amended for extra harsh punishment for attacks on police officers (despite many other existing statutes with similar purposes).

In the end, prosecutions of police with harsher statutes don't matter unless the conviction rate goes up. Right now, convictions of officers for actions done while in uniform are astronomically low. We need to work the other parts of the problem (gathering evidence, getting police to stand witness against other police, getting DAs to actually charge and push for convictions, firing of officers for conduct unbecoming an officer, etc).
Why not a voice menu? In addition to a physical interface. For most functions recognizing just a handful of words would do the job, like <wakeup word>, one, two, three .... You could shut off the air conditioner like

you: "hello hal"
hal: "say one for radio, two for air cond..."
you: "two"
hal: "say..."
you: "three"

You wouldn't want a voice recognition app to steer or brake, but it would be reliable enough for changing the radio station or toggling overdrive. Are there high end cars that have voice control stock?
FWIW HSBC has also 'actively circumvented rules designed to “block transactions involving terrorists, drug lords, and rogue regimes.”'. I don't see their CFOs arrested.

Then there's the question of Banco do Brasil, Bank of America, Bank of Guam, Bank of Moscow, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Clearstream Banking, Commerzbank, Compass, Crédit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING, Intesa Sanpaolo, JP Morgan Chase, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, National Bank of Pakistan, PayPal, RBS (ABN Amro), Société Générale, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Trans-Pacific National Bank, Standard Chartered, and Wells Fargo all transacting with Iran (https://archive.is/kyKGf) and not having their CFOs arrested.
Are you planning to open-source this? Will it become a paid product? Is it P2P or are you hosting it?
Perhaps this is the phenomenon behind fake news being applied to medical research?
> Cell phone pictures to me are the equivalent today of what disposable camera photos used to be. They're easy to use and get decent results in the right circumstances. In the wrong circumstances, they're absolutely terrible.

I dunno about that. Disposable cameras got pretty bad results in almost all circumstances, and were barely passable in ideal circumstances. Modern cell phones get really surprisingly good results in most circumstances. Even in low light, I can take passable photos with an iPhone 11.
Maybe they're less popular because they're less well-known, their benefits and downsides are as well, and so they're less likely to be considered by people incorporating a new business? Or maybe they're less advantageous to the founders so that's why they're simply not pursued?
Article Title: How I Setup My Personal Website

https://www.theolognion.com/programmer-starts-a-blog-doesnt-...
More like an issue with social media I think.

What front page carried an accusation of “insider trading” over the HCQ?

It appears to have been a story spread by twitter and facebook posts. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/09/facebook-p...

Using the “Front page” of a newspaper or reliable news source is much more likely to get real news than social media...
> I don't understand how this is supposed to change anything?

Your argument was that those who are ignorant of history are in favor of Communism. This is cast into doubt by the fact that there are respected Marxist historians.

Alain Badiou has some good arguments for "trying" Communism given its history; in particular, he has the example of Fermat's Last Theorem, which for hundreds of years had many attempts at solutions, each of which ending in failure (sometimes disastrous), though many of which opened new areas of mathematics. He argues that previous attempts at creating Communist society likewise have given rise to key insights and questions, which we are in a more prepared position to answer - he names two in particular: the Paris Commune and the Shanghai Commune (two examples you may have forgotten about) which raise such questions.

Many people, communists or not, do not want to suffer under capitalism, and they don't want their friends to do so either.
> Tell me about all of his dirty laundry that he has willingly aired, please.

You just listed nine points.

> I'm still waiting to hear one good thing about Trump

He is pro American manufacturing. Honestly that by itself is enough for a lot of people.

Also this point you made gives many people great joy:

> he says wild shit that keeps the news cycle in turmoil

Regarding "transparency", everyone agrees he basically uses Twitter as a stream of consciousness diary. It bothers people that he puts as a part of the public record things that "should be kept quiet".
This is because class actions are often little more than schemes to enrich attorneys.

This is not such a case and ACLU are not such attorneys.
I think the exact opposite. Taxing capital gains and eliminating corporate taxes would incentivise value creation.
Low tax dividends and capital gains benifit individuals without active participation in the value creation.
Google Faces $5B Lawsuit for Collecting User Information via Incognito Mode
Sad how quickly this data is rejected by people who praise science and research in many other contexts.
Seems more like Discord voice channels. Which I guess is analogous to being in multiple Teamspeak servers at once.
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Yes, I do not want gigabytes of cache files in my homedir.
>"It was somewhat unfortunate that this was called an “AMD fix” (the file containing the solution was called AMDK6UPD.EXE), even though Microsoft was clear that this was not a problem in AMD CPUs but rather in their own code."

I'll bet the AMD name was suggested by producers and/or management at the protest of engineering, with the argument that the public knows this as an AMD problem and so it's better to call it that regardless of the technical reality. I've seen this logic many times in my career and do understand there's some rationale to it.
I’ll admit: I’ve never used Foxit, so I’m not entirely sure what’s different than this: what’s wrong with the OS’ built in “Print to PDF” feature?
I implemented something like this for the uni I worked for a few years ago, basically we wanted to collect 'partials' as we called them. We were paying for web campaigns and we wanted to increase lead intake by collecting information as fields were filled out. We attached this to a cookie that we assigned on user landing and as they typed in the input it was progressively building a profile. If you never clicked submit it was not considered a full lead and ended up in a partials database that got mined by the analytics group.

Modern CMS's, specifically SiteCore have this kind of progressive profiling built in. It was one of the selling points for why we adopted it in our last rewrite.
Keep up the good work, Citymapper is the best way to get from A to B.
Some rebuttals on a more recent article of the author's — https://twitter.com/meliperez611/status/1268045446519443458 — implying that she's cherry-picking data.
But this isn't a case of a journal acting like a "mafia". This is a case where something bad slipped past peer review, because of the inherent limitations of peer review. The reason is that expert time and attention is intrinsically scarce (if you double the number of experts, you double the number of papers produced, and hence double the amount of time that must be spent on peer review), and really properly vetting a paper takes a massive amount of time. This wouldn't be changed by system reform.

In my opinion, the best option for everybody who's serious about this is to read a lot of papers, until you become "well-calibrated", i.e. when you have a good handle on the overall chances a preprint is true, vs. a Twitter thread, vs. a paper in a top-tier journal. This has to be learned from experience. Reform doesn't change the fact that you need to do this -- it just adds yet another venue, either more or less reliable than the previous ones, that you also need to become calibrated on.
Rule 1 of orbital mechanics: if you're about to dock with something, you're already on the same trajectory as that thing.

Might make a good radiation shield, though.
It's not clear how that app was violating Google's "Deceptive Benavior Policy".

Whatever one's stand on China, it seems more like an informational app than anything else since user's cannot be expected to find out the origins of a software by themselves.
> Overall, 86% of the total 655 movies included at least 1 alcohol scene, with a range of 0 to 617 and a mean of 68 (SD = 87) occurrences per movie.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4035596/

If we take this mean and use a movie average length of 1.5 hour it was actually 10x worst than my estimation.

Yes you are right it is probably better to take the median.

I think it would be pretty easy for a ML pose algorithm to scan the whole Amazon Prime + Netflix archive for a real answer. Especially series like Mad Men are over the top in conditioning for alcohol and cigarette use. I started noticing when I quit smoking how much this was.
One of the defences Facebook uses when confronted with WhatsApp-orchestrated lynchings in India is that e2e encryption means it can't know what people are talking about or help police track the source of the messages.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-whatsapp-fuels-fake-news-and...
How has the USSR ended up in horror? What about Cuba?

I will give you Vietnam though.
Apologies if I sold your work short. I was sincere in my appreciation for your efforts. The world badly needs more people to tackle issues like these.

Okay, that said. I still think the approach will prove not to satisfy your goals...

> I think the truthfulness information is a
> ‘what’ question, and checking ‘who’ only goes so far.

As a thought experiment, how often would a vote-based system, if our prevailing moral code today were that of the Antebellum South or Nazi Germany, clear up slander and lies against minorities? My guess is pretty much never (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism).

Under a system where the user instead defers to authorities of their own choice, one could easily choose more forward-thinking judges, and consistently get answers akin to those we have today.
Err, the ex-soviet countries are cut-throat capitalist, mostly the same way early western countries were (the "robber baron" era).

Not the best counter-example!
Any Facebook employees want to give us an inside view about this? Throwaway account if needed?
HSBC USA and HSBC in other countries aren't the same company. They are separate legal entities, that might be owned by a company in foreign country.
f/1.8 on an iphone and f/1.8 on a full frame camera might be the same number, but they are totally different animals.

The amount of bokeh you get between the two sensor sizes, even with the same f/1.8, exposure, and ISO, is going to be vastly different.
That is not atypical - countries can and should protect their interests and the interests of their citizens (see GDPR).

Huawei wanted to play both sides, and by doing so, opened themselves up to these charges. They were under no obligation to use the US financial infrastructure, and only through its use did they become covered by its laws.
Honestly, it's not going great for "the greatest democracy of the world"

What I want to point out is that absolute systems (100% this or 100% that) don't work because masses of people are not 100% something

There's nothing inherently wrong in communism, it's a great idea, it's just not for everybody all the time, just like American hyper liberism is good for some and bad for many (redistribution skewed towards the richest, social injustice, expensive health care and all of that...)
I have a little project that I try to keep updated as necessary as an example and blueprint for a lot of this: https://github.com/bluejekyll/kp-chart

I know there are many others, but I had fun doing this one.
Which should be penalized more? Shooting a journalist for journaling, or shooting a Black person for being black?

Ranking victims by status is a dangerous game.
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>even if they were the victims of fraud, the bank would then have to decide if they want to continue operating in the US and try to recoup their losses by going after the fraudster

So you're proposing that the government shouldn't prosecute fraud criminally, and it should be up to the banks go after the perpetrators in civil court instead?
In defense of the devblogger, build-a-blog is like "hello world" for every web framework.
But it would still take way less than 10000 years to cross the heliopshere boundary (it took 40 years for the Voyagers probes).
It is probably referring to the gravitational sphere of influence of the solar system (marked by the Oort cloud) 1 to 2 light years away.
Many here are American, and even when not, they are financially conservative startup / VC / make-it-rich kind of people...