skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't disagree, but the GitHub project seems to be run well from a quick glance. Maybe the team is small enough.
Try Jitsi: https://jitsi.org/
my small city wastes money on much less useful stuff... like fireworks and such
Makes you wonder if Microsoft had conducted them selves better with Windows 10, then they might not have been looking at doing this. Windows 10 has been a total mess.
> Not sure what there is to be worried or outraged about here.

That's a CPC threat point. They frequently put things like: "if you do this, the Chinese people will be very upset," they always use strong emotional language like "outraged" or "angry" - it's non-subtle code for: we'll force the Chinese people to harm your commercial interests. Almost any time you see something about how the Chinese people are or will be outraged, that is what is really going on. The party constantly uses that tool against any foreign entity that steps out of line. It's how they have threatened & browbeat everyone from South Korea & Japan to Britain and various large corporations. It's meant to inflate the size of the opponent on the other side, because upsetting 1.4 billion people seems a lot more intimidating than upsetting a small collection of authoritarian bureaucrats in Beijing.

If an airline refers to Taiwan, the CPC will say that the airline has upset or outraged the Chinese people, and then follow with subtle descriptions of the consequences. The Chinese people are typically overwhelmingly unaware of what is going on. What they mean is, the CPC is upset and will force the Chinese people to do something bad to hurt your interests if you don't get back into line with what the CPC agenda is.
It's bad news for the protesters where police departments are corrupt; if the cops are dirty, they will fight hard against reform and accountability (because if someone actually audits them they might go to prison). I suppose it's the same with the Trump-enabling GOP politicians...

The book "Thieves of State" (a long review/synopsis of it: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/corruption-rev... ; an AMA by the author: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2t244h/iama_anticorru... ) is eye-opening; as an example, in Egypt police officers had to pay their higher-ups monthly a cut of their racketeering money, and this continues all the way up to the minister level. So when the revolution happened, the police fought hard to keep the regime standing, because they would've been personally held accountable too.
>explicitly state they can't/don't stop websites from logging information.

Because it's not about the logging, it's about the linking to a cookie/information they do not have access to in incognito?
Here you go: https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/
Just FYI, I was agreeing with the parent (and I agree with you). QE is free money for rich people, and a big slap in the face to the poor.
I'm a pro, and I absolutely despise going back and looking at images of mine that are just a few years old. It's amazing how fast that eye develops when you're doing it often. I bet if I posted all of last year's weddings in full people could judge which ones were earlier in the year vs later. In Minnesota that's just a 4 month window, and I've been working professionally for 6 years.
Machine Learning in Google Sheet with Tensorflow.js and Google Apps Script
> but the teacher & school insist that I need to authorize them to post to Instagram if she's in the group pics.

It's ridiculous that students are now forced to be part of a school's marketing, or get excluded from class activities.
But why did worker power decline?

I think that a major factor is the increasing number of roles occupied by workers. Workers were easier to organize when large numbers performed similar job functions in large manufacturing industries. Now manufacturing that requires a large number of one type of worker has been offshored. The residual manufacturing is either highly automated, or it is producing a large array of higher-tech products requiring a wider variety of skill sets.

The new service economy also requires a vast number of different roles fitting into partially automated business processes. As the degree of automation shifts, roles change rapidly. This makes it difficult to engage in union bargaining to arrive at contracts that define wages and benefits for specific jobs.
"Why would you be angry at US?"

Because 'The West' is making the argument this is a matter of legality and due process - that people have commit crimes and must face consequences irrespective of the political situation.

We perceive China as having a politicised Judicial system where people are arrested charged and punished often based upon their feudal status, not objective facts.

China probably has a more cynical view of the West, which is fair, because no justice system is perfect.

If the US released her on the basis of some kind of 'Trade Deal' then it completely wipes out the credibility of the justice system in the US (and therefore Canada) and demonstrates that she was held on what were political charges not real crimes.

Without saying anything about politics, I basically hate Trump, but ironically the only thing he's doing close to 'right' are his actions on China trade. That said, I don't think he cares a single bit about the credibility of Western institutions, and if he can, he will use her as a negotiating pawn in a heartbeat. I think Trump is so arrogant and lacking in self-awareness, that he doesn't really even understand the concept of 'objective justice'. I think he really sees the world in terms of 'making deals' and apart from that 'who cares / what's the point'. The obvious opportunity to user her as pawn makes perfect sense in his mind, I think.

I means the next time Canada has to arrest someone on behalf of the United States, and has to tell China that 'we have a legal process' - it will have zero meaning or value. It will 100% justify China's actions in grabbing diplomats or whoever off the street as a tit-for-tat.
My LG G5 in safe mode does exactly that, it sets the user background to a black screen with "Safe Mode" in the corner.
It's funny to say, but I can't agree. I've designed and implemented many custom systems for which there was never a predecessor, and not only did it work splendidly at first release, but have been extended and enhanced many times over the years with no refactoring. Many of these systems have been extended enough to start taking over other systems that were never intended.

Design a system to be modular from the very beginning with only the most fundamental of API signatures and you win. Many of these signatures may even no-op for years, but because they're fundamental to the problem, you know there could be a case where they're needed.

I've never had a failed or late project and most of my projects are ones that were assigned to me because no other team would touch them due to all of the attention and required SLAs.
OVH / Scaleway?
Assange's case is much less bad than what the PRoC is doing here. Assange is hiding from what he views (and may be correct in seeing as) an unfair or biased extradition and charges.

The Chinese are just confining and mistreating the Canadians with no transparency or legitimate due process.
You mean like Jitsi?
Police officers organizations are, as a general rule, very strongly actively supported by police officers, and police officers organizations, as a rule, strongly defend officers involved (demonstrably so, not merely accused) in corrupt and abusive acts, not just in terms of assuring adequate legal and administrative representation, but as far as publicly slandering individuals and organizations calling for the general principal of accountability and advancing specific well-founded complaints.

Police officers, therefore, are generally complicit, and actively rather than merely passively so, in perpetuating and advancing the culture of unaccountability that fosters abuse and enables those officers who are direct abusers.

Most officers may not be direct abusers but that's not the only way to actively participate in promoting abuse.
> You have always had the need to look at the buttons, like reaching out to the radio.

Definitely not true. My last car had all physical buttons, and I could easily, by feel, use all of them with one hand while keeping my eyes on the road and the other hand on the wheel. When you've been driving a vehicle for years you get very used to its controls. Plus, on a lot of these cars some of the most common radio controls (like volume and change frequency) are right on the wheel beneath your thumbs.
In theory, you could develop an app that removes the image, publish it in the play store and then push it to your phone from stores web interface.

No need for dev mode that way :)

Edit: for this to work, the app must act as a service/receiver so it can start automatically.

Edit 2: now that I think about this, Google could easily fix affected phones remotely via their play store services.
Monopolization almost certainly is occurring. The left usually cites weak antitrust enforcement. The right usually cites regulatory barriers that make it expensive to compete without economies of scale. I actually think both sides are at least partially correct.

However what almost everyone overlooks is the demographic transition. The US, along with every other developed economy, is significantly older today than it was 40 years ago. And the fact of the matter is that an older work force almost certainly leads to an economy with larger, older firms.

Most entrepreneurial activity is disproportionately carried out by younger people. Young workers are much more likely to work for small, young, growing firms. That makes sense because they have longer horizons and can take more risks. Older workers, who have higher fixed expenses and are closer to retirement, prefer the stability of a stable, large company with low employee turnover.

Macroeconomists who have attempted to quantify this impact, generally find that the average firm age in an economy linearly increases with the average worker's age.[1] Since older firms, tend to be larger, slower growing, and less competitive, it's not wonder we've seen an increase in monopolization.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w25382
Compact Tree Storage
> lots of studies that don’t necessarily go with their politics.

Can you provide examples? I'm sure it'll be hard, if not impossible, to provide an example that's as emotionally satisfying as directly contradicting Trump, but I'd love to see which studies you're thinking of.
> Taxes are not punishment. Taxes exist because a certain amount of wealth is required to maintain a state.

Who is saying taxes shouldn’t exist here? I’m advocating for a specific form of wealth tax. I clearly believe taxes are necessary. As for them not being a punishment, this is clearly a silly semantic argument focused on trying to frame this emotionally. People respond to incentives and change their behavior when faced with incentives. Taxes change incentives. If a tax disincentives a behavior, this behavior will be done less. Get your moral policing out of here.

> Tax “fairness” is therefore simple. He who earns the most should pay the most.

Why earnings? Why should we tax people’s labor? Your definition of fairness is yours, not everyone else’s.

> You cannot expatriate dollars.

Jesus Christ, yes you can. It’s like you’ve never heard of offshore banks. Where does an idea like this even come up? Go see China’s issues with people expatriating capital and their middling success at preventing it with capital controls.

How someone can speak like this and not see the value of a wealth tax in the form of a land tax blows my mind. By the way, concerned with massive disparities in wealth? That’s all from housing which is of course built on what? Land. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2015a_r...

Tax the shit out of land. The marginal value to a piece of land from the actions of its owner is minimal at best. People gaining wealth from land is the definition of rent seeking.
No. And it's a shame everyone does.
No offence, but even basic perfumeries will clear out their window displays and put them in safes or other secure storage for the night, to talk of a store that sells watches with price tags in the thousands of dollars - unless your argument is that the alleged looters were kitted out for a full-on burglary heist and not, as is usually the case, simply lashing out opportunistically.

Beyond that, there are other holes in the story like how exactly the police managed to come up with the $2.4M figure apparently without any collaboration from the store itself, or what motive Rolex SA would have to lie about losing $2.4M in merchandise.

But as always, people are primed to believe that the police _must_ be telling the truth somehow, even in a post about a whistleblower laying out years of lies and deception on their part.
Amazon did turn a profit for many years on an EBITDA basis. They reinvested that profit in R&D, but they could also have chosen to send those profits to the shareholders as dividends.

Tesla has not achieved profit on an EBIDTA basis, so it's not even remotely the same thing.
Frankly, I would take a machine as an leader over a lot of other options we have. Predictability and lack of emotional outbursts would be great qualities to have in a leader.
I have no idea why you are being down voted
The way that cops support the thing that protestors are trying to achieve is not by kneeling, it's by taking off the uniform and the genocide flag.
Are you still using Hugo? I'm thinking about trying Gatsby .
So Jitsi?
If Meth were legalized, somebody would figure out a way to make a safer Meth. Very few people would choose to use dangerous product that is often cut and has unknown levels of the drug in it, when there is a packaged/tested version available. A lot of the really terrible drugs only exist today because of prohibition. Some of them were invented as a way around the laws, and some were invented as an economical way to produce/traffic in the face of extreme danger (from law enforcement).

Most people would opt for safer drugs if they had options. As it stands now you are basically at the mercy of the local illegal drug dealer that you know, and most of them don't have high quality standards.
Some Thinkpads that are not supported provide bootable isos that you can use to update your bios. It is my understanding that it also updates the firmware (but it doesn't explicitly say).

Here is an E model that has a bootable iso: https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netb...
Show HN: Secret – A new tiny command line password manager
This reminds me of the Ramparts Scandal in Los Angeles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal

It's amazing how bad that was. I believe policing in Los Angeles has improved since then. It still has tons of problems, and the justice system in general in Califronia, has tons of problems. But it is amazing how bad it got in this incident.
The Fine-Grained Complexity of Andersen's Pointer Analysis
They are very different though. One can be charismatic and charming, the other is bland and awkward.
On the other hand, we've seen so many cases of people more interested in contradicting Trump than being logical about their positions, that I don't think such theories qualify for "conspiracy" territory. ...just emotionally charged bad decisions.
Seems it's using Esprit (https://github.com/mfikes/esprit) which is using Espruino (https://www.espruino.com/) who in their reference documentation for the API (https://www.espruino.com/Reference) lists methods for both Bluetooth and I2C.

(The submitted project is with ClojureScript that compiles to JavaScript, not Clojure, to be extra specific in case someone misses the difference)
SkoleLinux needs an honourable mention.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skolelinux
It just means western lobbying doesn't have much of an effect there. Japan was going to use their TRON operating system in schools until Microsoft decided they didn't like that.
Any idea how well it works? Are there trade offs, or is it all upside, physics-fidelity-wise?
AI fake. In 2020, people definitely knew they were about to hit the First Climate Disaster. They certainly weren’t babbling about tech all day as if no one cared.
I can't believe that Microsoft is still charging for Windows licenses... convoluted licensing is in fact is one of the primary reasons that I've moved away from Microsoft products and services.
Matching speeds with it for this operation would take much better rockets than we have available.
And you can't put customized ads on a physical switchboard.
"The Cloud" is just someone else's computer, or datacenter in this case. So if they would not be storing it in the cloud where would they store it? That would be either a datacenter from a big party that manages multiple municipalities as well as other government/for profit organisations IT. Most often this will be the lowest bidder for a public tender. I don't know if they would be any better or worse than the big cloud vendors. The only alternative is (shudder) a "datacenter" managed by the municipality itself. For big cities that might work. For smaller ones it's a recipe for disaster.
Touch feedback would be a massive improvement. I've seen countless patents about them but in practice, all we get are vibrators.

The only convincing tactile feedback I've experienced is in the MacBook trackpad, even the much publicized "Taptic Engine" of the iPhone feels like a vibrator. And while the MacBook trackpad is convincing at emulating clicks, it is the only thing it does.
Minorities have been trying to prove their worth to the US since the inception of the country (which was built on their backs). It hasn't changed anything.

And why isn't it that the non-minorities shouldn't be the ones who are groveling and seeking to be model citizens? Remember that if a white police officer hadn't killed a black man in the street, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now. By your logic, shouldn't all white people now be tainted by his actions and forced to acquiesce to cultural standards set by non-whites?

If I disparaged your race, would you say the onus is on you to prove me wrong?
You're saying this was in America? Sounds more like Cuba or former soviet states.
It would be awesome if some SpaceX engineers would give a few presentations at events like CppCon and talk about their software development process including some code examples and demos.
I think it's possible to learn it, but a lot of charisma comes from empathy and focus on others. Awkward people can be very charismatic if they give the vibe they care about you. True selflessness isn't something most politicians are really known for..
I've been wondering about this. Competition breeds innovation and all that, but in the end, aren't we ending up with a whole lot of repeated effort for little benefit?
The police can always pick and choose what they enforce. Have you ever called them? I am close friends with people who have, multiple times. Getting them to show up is an exercise in pulling teeth. They respond to calls - all calls - in an utterly discretionary nature.

As they currently operate, they can't even do any part of their job accountably. Drug legalization is just a pet issue for techies, that is a smoke-screen that distracts from the real issues.
Transformers in Natural Language Processing – A Brief Survey
They probably are funding external "startup" style companies which are outside of the corporate HR and union boundaries.
Fair argument. If you are interested in a moved goalpost: If 9 out of 10 officers are black in a black neighborhood, then the majority of victims is shot by black officers. The question is: How are black people treated when they are in a non-black neighborhood.

My 'aetiology', I think it comes down to less opportunities. Without discipline that comes from a stable environment, motivation can easily turn to violence and crime. This leads to difference in police behavior. I have nothing to back this up and I don't know how to 'cure' this.

To bring this back to the start: All I want to say is that the protests are not that bizarre.
America is the cultural center of the West, people are as informed about this incident as they are about their local news. Many don't want to live in a racist future, even more so for their children. So they risk the lives of their parents to improve the lives of their children.

Was this a death caused by racism? I don't know. It appears to be. Thus the protests.
It does normally work because they apply a luminosity matrix to make a "greyscale" version. The actual greyscale value being the sum of the three components, after applying this matrix. (Yeah, I know, the sane way is to use the matrix's inherent ability to sum the values, I mention that at the end).

This is done by using the formula: ".2126f * r + .7152f * g + .0722f * b"
Apparently this will not yield out of bounds values if the colors are in normal range.

Yes, I've got some alarm bells going off in the back of my head about the float to integer rounding (or float multiplication rounding itself), possibly causing a value slightly too high, but it seems like that might not actually happen. Or perhaps it can only happen for some in range values that can only occur after a color profile correction. (i.e. the float versions of 8-bit sRGB never cause bad rounding, but coming from very specific other profiles might create such values). Lastly there is the possibility that the color values started out of range, so after the multiplication they can still sum to more than 256.

In any case, the sane way to do this, would be to create a true grayscale image with the matrix, and pick an arbitrary color component to look at. (I.E. using the matrix for both multiplication and addition, rather than only for multiplication, and then doing addition afterwards.) I'm guessing the `blue` et al static methods clamp their outputs, so this bug would have been avoided.
Obama had 8 years (the first 2 with a supermajority), what's his excuse?
This is fascinating, and seems like the kind of thing a national-level investigative reporter would love to cover. Has it been covered anywhere or pitched to anyone?
Most fingerprint sensors I've run into on laptops use the Broadcom Security Processor, which Broadcom has emphatically stated they will never support Linux for. Just a straight up no on the driver front, and the thing is purposely designed to be a black box so reverse engineering is a huge effort.

For what its worth however they didn't work all that great in Windows either. The sensor was pretty picky about your thumb being absolutely dry and spotless and getting the swipe speed just right. I found it less convenient than just typing in a password. When I switched the laptops to Linux and discovered that the driver situation was hopeless I wasn't too broken up.
To say that drugs were a small problem is rewriting history. We would have all been better off treating it like a medical issue rather than a legal / criminal matter, and the long tail effects of enforcement have definitely cemented a lot of structural issues in society- and admittedly, some drugs are far less harmful than others. Pot and crack use have two wildly different outcomes, obviously.

You can look at examples in history when oppressors used the opposite tactic: wars were fought to force China to keep opium legal, lining pockets of mercantile companies while keeping China hooked (and earning it the old 'sick man of asia' moniker).
This is a 2015 news piece.
Ask HN: If you had idea that could fix social networks what would you do?
Essentially if you had an idea how to fix a social networks, and it could be applicable to any of the big ones as Facebook, Twitter ... etc, and you wanted to get money from it what would you do?
Would you patent your idea first?
Would you try cold email to Jack or Mark or any other founder?
How would you find their contacts?
What is your general strategy to find people you would like to pitch?
This is just an example, I am interested how do you startup founders found your investors especially when you have specific product you want to offer to the specific person?