skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not at all difficult to drop a background out to black if that's what you want to do. But that's not what "portrait mode" means to most people - that would be more about shallow depth of field and lighting emphasis - and you mentioned nothing about background swaps in your original comment. (By the way, background swaps were something I could do with film and proper shooting. Masks are easy to make if you're shooting with them in mind, whether they're layer masks in software or litho masks in the darkroom. We weren't exactly snapping with our Brownies and sending things to the drugstore back in the old days either, you know.)
> too easy to walk down a slippery slope

Which, as you started to say it, is the slippery slope fallacy.

I don't see what the problem is with embedding some factchecker work beneath content (NOT "censoring" it, which is a ridiculous statement since I haven't seen this at all) that is making claims unsupported by literally a single Google of the claim with evidence provided by reputable sources. Bad information is harmful, and the vast majority of social media consumers are lazy and reactive and not very good critical thinkers. This wouldn't even be necessary if any sort of critical thinking was taught before college, but it isn't. (And that might even not help, according to some other claims, which again, necessitates the people with the voice being heard giving people good information.)

Do you think people have the right to convince other people of something that would be harmful to them, like a charlatan or snake-oil salesman? Ethically, I don't think so, and I don't think it's a "slippery slope" to anything that is an overall bad.

Plus, private companies can do whatever the fuck they want. If they want their content to be factual, they have the right to enforce that according to their criteria. Anyone is welcome to create a competing site that allows any and all harmful bullshit to flourish.
I'm not sure this ratio is very useful unless you also account for dividends/stock options paid out to shareholders.
This is what happens when politics starts to invade scientific pursuits.

People ask the question "how can I use this to help me politically?" versus "how can this help fight the epidemic?".
I'm not a lawyer but reddit's r/legaladvice seems to enjoy referring to people to tree lawyers. From what I gather there's a lot of money involved in tree laws. And if you've got picture evidence that's especially loved by lawyers.
That link is paywalled but from the title it appears that discusses CEO pay but not so much median employee pay.
Also, I want to take this time to point out that this post originally had 3 upvotes, and now it has -2 votes.

This is going to sound a bit conspiratorial, but I've long suspected that there is a bit of astroturfing happening on Hacker News and this doesn't alleviate my suspicions.
You are probably right except on the point that Trump "studied" Nixon. But Trump doesn't study anything. I think that's clear.

He has little more than a "skimmed the front page and looked at some of the pictures" understanding of any topic he talks about.

What Trump has is no shame and a willingness to just keep doing whatever gets a rise out of people over and over again.
No, but it means the law was expressly with to account for this circumstance, so it isn't a "loophole".
The low ratio end up being founders since they benefit from large ownership share.
> That is a failed acquihire. The whole point of an acquihire from the acquirer's point of view is that while business-unit-specific OPEX budget is used for salaries, bonuses and other overhead, retention packages and equity arrangements are generally covered by the central budget. Otherwise you would just hire people directly, possibly using special packages.

Are you saying the whole point of acquihires is essentially an accounting trick?
I lends this leads credence to the go way. Verbose because than its hard to mess up
I think people who can work from home and who didn't get laid off are fine and the stonks appeared to mostly recover (which may explain some of the money sloshing around the market).

I think there will be massive economic damage in 6 months that we aren't focusing on right now.
After my father died, my mother rented out the lower floor of her home. I think your definition of desperate is unfair it it includes only tenants. Not all "landlords" are taking on the headache of renting out units because they are professional landlords -- many are similarly disparate, have mortgage payments, property tax, repairs, utilities, etc.

I'd be in more favor of rent control if it would also freeze property taxes, electrician bills, utility costs. It is turtles all the day down.
I think you may have misunderstood the point of lockdowns.

Lockdowns are/were intended to prevent jamming hospitals with COVID patients which would lead to non-COVID emergencies being put at risk.

The idea is to lockdown an area not to STOP, but to SLOW the trickle of new patients into hospitals at a rate they can be serviced: e.g., balancing the pipeline. In anticipation of the huge surges seen in the North East US, many hospitals built-out their capacity but didn't need it. Thankfully, and hopefully they will not.

As for "natural repercussions," the different phased-reopening plans that governors are drawing up all share the same thing: let's try opening a little, and if the cases shoot up again, lock down if hospitals are at risk of overflowing. We just don't have a national policy, it is patchworks of different state alliances.

It was the best idea at the time, and we all know the only other proposed solution was to NOT lock down and let those who are susceptible pay the price. Some people on the news vocally approved of that idea, most people did not according to surveys.
These stories that come out of the woodwork every time tenants are mentioned are why I’ll never be a landlord.
This is nonsensical. Someone with less capital is at far greater risk of crime or personal harm than someone with more capital. A reduction in police presence makes life easier for criminals, which disproportionally will affect people with lower capital and less safe living environments.
If a rich person or rich person's kid cause this damage. Expect them not to pay and expect lawsuits.

You have to be careful who you rent to. Sometimes someone down on their luck would make a much less demanding and better tenant overall. Be careful chasing away the poor because they actual need your place and may take better care.
On Twitter I've seen too many celebrate that Trump was wrong. While this is about saving lives.

It's the same with people that were applauding healthcare workers but now have no issues with protesters that don't take any COVID measures.

It's terrible that health is politicized, it should be above all parties.

I also have a bit of an issue with your statement about Trump's motivations.

Just these presumptions are why some people didn't want the medicine to work, while in reality we can all only just guess about his motivations.
Actually, if anybody knows why Ebola keeps re-occurring every 2-3 years (according to the CDC), I'd be curious to know why.

You'd think a disease that fatal (over 50%) would wipe itself out. Or maybe, horrors, it's really that bad!

In 2014, the US had a cluster of Ebola cases, and was totally unprepared, with one patient and 2 nurses getting infected:

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/nurse...

"[nurse] went home in the scrubs she wore while treating Duncan [for Ebola]."

That transmission was via an airline passenger from Liberia.
Buying time seems like a good idea
You're right; the immediate response is driven by cash flow. The situation im talking about is likely a year or more away as many commercial firms are in longterm leases.

I'm just saying that its definitely on the horizon given the conversations I'm having, even if evidence at the moment is scant.
The need for hyperrigour is one thing, but I think that unfamiliarity with the literature and poor science communication comes in play as well. I'm a biologist, so I have access to the scientific literature. When the mask debate came up, I did a small literature review to see what the science said. I was surprised to find that the science was pretty nuanced and subject to debate. Some papers suggested that masks are ineffective,but others suggested that they could play a role. Many of these studies had strong limitations and only provided insight for very specific scenarios. For example, some papers treated infections as a binary (they either prevent infections or not, rather than looking at reducing infections), many papers looked at preventing the mask wearer from getting infected, but not at reducing the spread by infected mask wearers, etc.

Any scientist can tell you that it's hard to keep up with the literature, and it's very likely that many of them spoke out against make without reading the papers. I was taught as an undergrad that they don't work. Many of these things are passed down uncritically.

This issue demonstrates that we need to improve science communication. Many scientists and public health professionals declared outright that make don't work. This shows that they are either unfamiliarity with the totality of the literature or that they feel the need to give definitive statements. When some people provided evidence in favour of masks, some of them switched to saying that make are needed by medical professionals and that improper usage can increase your risk. A better approach would be to acknowledge that there is uncertainty at that in their view the evidence against masks outweighs that in favour. If they took this approach, it wouldn't seem like they just flip flopped when they started recommending make. Also, it's not hard to train people to use them, and condescending to treat people as being too stupid to wear them.
Start out with an Arduino, or ESP32/ESP8266. The ESP boards are probably the best bang for your buck out there if you're just playing around— you can start out with the Arduino environment (C++-ish), or use something like PlatformIO to interface a bit more directly with the hardware. It's not as low level as an ARM board where you have to worry a bunch about setting up clock multipliers and all that jazz, but the power to do so is there when you're ready for it.

The best way to learn is to solve a problem that motivates you. Maybe you want a phone notification when your laundry is done, or when a room in your house exceeds a certain temperature. Work on some little projects like that

If you want to get even lower level, then try out the ARM boards again. Someone else mentioned STM32 boards, which are great in many ways but IMO not very user friendly (Their STMCube software actually makes me mad). You can also try your hand at FPGA development. Verilog and VHDL are both popular languages, and preferences between the two tend to depend on domain. There's compilers that let you program FPGAs in C, but shying away from that.

If you want to look for work, probably the big industries to check out are:

Consumer embedded hardware: companies that make printers, cell phone radios, etc

Medical devices

Aerospace/defense
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How can anybody still be pro-censorship in 2020, especially using such vague and malleable "standards"? Trump's tweet was flagged for "glorifying violence"? Are you kidding me?

Should we ban war movies and cop dramas for glorifying violence? And ban video games too while we're at it? Should we ban tweets linking to bail funds for arrested protesters since that's "glorifying" breaking the law? Should we ban commercials for fast food and high sugar products since they glorify unhealthy lifestyles and are a "public health risk"?

I can hardly believe how myopic some people are when it comes to free speech principles. Imagine being so afraid of an idea that you'd rather ban it than debate it.
> You're heavily penalizing CEOs who lead companies with low median wages.

I have a feeling that this is the entire point.

edit: to be clear, I disagree with it because it's a terrible way to measure what I think OP is trying to measure. As another commenter mentioned, this simple ratio doesn't tell the whole story.
> You're heavily penalizing CEOs who lead companies with low median wages.

Which would make CEOs who outsource lower wage work to vendors and contractors look better.
I have a Model 3 Performance. The text readout did work for a while, then it stopped. I haven't been able to bring it back. Unpair, re-pair, make sure bluetooth notifications are on, etc. Texts just don't show up any more.

My car is a little psychotic, perhaps :-). Probably a coincidence, but I also can no longer get the dashcam to work. Tried an exotic solution first (Pi Zero emulating a drive, with WiFi uploading at home), but it wasn't reliable, so then I switched to just a regular USB drive (adapter + high endurance microSD card), which worked for a month or so, but has stopped working and I haven't been able to figure out why.

I'm hoping the newest update with the Sentry updates will fix that last problem, since apparently it can format the card now. Though I did hear something about the last release also screwing up sentry for some people, so who knows. I'm at 2020.16.2, so there's at least one more point release that I haven't gotten yet.
And you still haven't told us what your solution is. It's easy to criticize. "it sucks" . ok, so?
> If you make that their only job you'll be in a situation of hammers seeing nails wherever they look.

That depends entirely on how much power you give them, and how much accountability you impose upon their use of it. The primary role of police in society is to simply be the wide end of the funnel for the incarceration pipeline. Trying to give them duties that conflict with those objectives is simply always going to fail. Personally I wouldn’t want my children receiving civics instruction from somebody who has to hedge against the possibility that one day they’ll be trying to put them in jail.
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I agree. A good portion of the 40m job loss are not gonna be fully recovered even if the situation improved a little, not to mention it is getting worse by the day.
But section 8 tenants don’t have money to compensate either.
> I very rarely agree with everything my company does and yet I don't feel put off by that.

This situation is different in that the people who are agreeing with what their company does are feeling afraid to voice their agreement.
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But in this case, the US entity is being victimized. Specifically, they were tricked into violating US sanctions, which can carry criminal penalties for them. I guess you argue that we can simply decriminalize this for the US entity, but that opens a huge loophole for bypassing sanctions. Say you're china and you want to buy some American semiconductors (which are currently banned from being sold into china). All you need to do is set up a company in Russia, buy the semiconductors, promise that they won't be later transferred into china (wink wink), then import it into china.
> I'm not particularly aligned to either democrats or republicans, but I've looked at "fact-checks" by supposedly neutral parties and they're often absolute garbage.

Got some numbers behind this?
No, I don't need to do that to be honest. A 2% increase in food prices while the general price levels fall is not an indication of inflation unless someone redefines inflation and cherry picks data to advance their cause. (In this case the annual doomsday prediction about inflation, which is normal on HN with its substantial contingent of people who rant about fiat money).
Ha. I'd say it's almost the opposite.
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It probably isn't worthwhile to litigate against Section 8 voucher recipients. Not much in terms of assets to recover for your monetary damages.
But whenever one of the crew members are hurt? Fuck the prime directive!

Couldn't you argue that is what motivates a lot of cops to act more violently when they see their fellow officers injured and killed?
Yea I'm kind of besides myself about how "abolishing police" is treated as a serious proposal, when the most deaths and violence occur in profoundly vulnerable communities where disbanding police would almost certainly result in innocent people having no protection against criminals.

It's pretty clear that police unions allow for a lot of this institutional rot and inability to address abuse. I fear that the left doesn't want to recognize that unions are capable of becoming institutional agents of oppression and injustice. Yet reforming public sector unions is perhaps one of the most practical and effective steps to correcting the malfeasance of police as we know them today without fundamentally changing how they operate.
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Exactly. It was time to get our feet under us, get PPE, get testing capacity up, get contract tracing in place etc. Kentucky, my state, has started opening up but is watching the numbers closely. No one wants to stay locked down.

It's going to be very interesting going forward. The American public (myself included more times than I would care to admit) is really good about moving on and having a short-term memory on things (Lots of these things happened back in 1918 with masks, social distancing, lockdowns, people hating the lockdowns, etc). I worry what happens when you couple that urgency to move on with something that, from all indications, cannot be swept under the rug.
Why wouldn't it be? Would you consider Steve Jobs' "pay" back when he was running Apple for the second time to be $1? I consider Jack Dorsey's entry to be an error, or a case of incomplete data.
Yeah, sports riots are actually just dumb.

But it's also a separate issue entirely. It's like seeing a scatter plot and being like but what about this point right here ---------------------------->
Containers don’t stop finger printing though.

I.e if you use the same container to read news, google knows your news preferences.
Netflix recently released a documentary describing the survivors’ stories. https://www.netflix.com/title/80224905
It's not low when you first buy, even for years after. Rates can effectively start around %1.5 to %1.2 percent depending on the city.
I fee this way too. If I need to get something done anyway, I usually buy a bag of baby carrots and drink water with the carrots while I work through it. I also have some black coffee at the start.

For time frames longer than a day, for people like us, there is no substitute for going to bed earlier.
Where I'm from, the ambulances wouldn't respond to 911 calls without a police escort. Once the CAHOOTS people start getting attacked and killed, the program will end.
That's a statistical/maths term[1], not an opinion of the number.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_significance
How would you rank them instead?
I love this guy. He proved that it works! Precautionary principle is riskier than it seems?
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As an expat Canadian living in a suburban county in the US, my personal interactions with the police here have always been cordial engagements as peacekeepers and caretakers of the community. I have called for welfare checks on neighbors, called the sheriff when I found a garage opener on the street, that kind of thing. Of course they were present in the aftermath of a case when a highschool kid entered a house and shot another highschool kid (who lived, surprisingly), a real shock in the sleepy community I live in. They asked around if anyone had video of the suspect approaching or departing the home.

But maybe that's just me, as a Canadian, with unrealistic beliefs that the police are on my side.
It doesn't really prove anything. No one expects Walmart to pay the average employee as much as Facebook. Makes for some political rhetoric but nothing insightful
Litigate against the tenant? You're probably right. But insurance? Maybe.
Not a bad metric. Of course there's alot of ways to slice it, but if you compare the millionaire landlord of say low income housing vs the owner of high income housing - same income - people do look down on the 'slum lord'.

Someone making $10m per year paying poverty wages (infer they are getting rich by paying poverty level wages) is going to be judged differently by people then the CEO paying $200k median.
Which further reinforced my opinion, I think.

Why beat the crap out of someone for saying I believe x? It's antithetical to the American spirit, I think.
When I read it it was 50$ per month, so many they have changed their pricing? Or I could have misread?

fake edit: yes, they reviewed their pricing since I read it. the "sync" tier used to be at the 50$ mark.
This has Jack Dorsey's pay listed as $1.40 which puts Twitter down at the bottom of the list, so I'm guessing it only looks at the salary.
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I don't suppose the struggling non state supported private renters whom you outbid to buy these houses, which they might otherwise have been able to afford to buy themselves, but who are now paying rent to some other landlord instead, are quite so enamored with your altruistic enterprise.
This isn't a fair representation of CEO pay. Jack Dorsey is not paid $1.40/year, his share ownership is paying him out millions per year.

What is the validity of this data set? Netflix Median Pay being lower than Google's doesn't sit right with me.

Broadcom's Median Pay is $354k? Impossible.

Again, I'm not knocking the idea as it's a good thought exercise but it's important to be realistic and factual when coming up with conclusions.
> movies, cop dramas, video games

fiction

> Trump

not fiction

How is this even a question? Fictional narratives and real-life actions are incomparable

> Should we ban tweets linking to bail funds for arrested protesters since that's "glorifying" breaking the law?

If they were encouraging violence, yes. They weren't encouraging violence, they were encouraging civil disobedience.

Destruction of property and assault on individuals are incomparable.

> Should we ban commercials for fast food and high sugar products since they glorify unhealthy lifestyles and are a "public health risk"?

Well, we've banned commercials for cigarettes. Lots of countries ban commercials for alcohol. But I would assume you would be against this too, and here I will actually agree with you.

This one is a spectrum. If an adult human being wants to make the conscious informed choice to assault their own body (with drugs, or alcohol, or sugar), we should let them.

What we shouldn't do is target commercials at children that are not fully formed enough to make their own decisions. Which is what most of restrictions about fast food and high sugar products are focused on.
Meanwhile, Bezos's pay on this is listed at $1.7 million/year, which seems off, even if it is some form of technically correct.
Ah yes they did change the ad indicator as you described, but that's not what the pushback was against.

They briefly changed desktop search to include favicons next to every native search result, making it way harder to quickly see what was and wasn't an ad (since every result had some image next to it). They rolled that back and it has not returned (yet).

Check the screenshot from the first article you linked for the difference.
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Apples to oranges. You should be considering salary to salary.

If shareholders want to pay their CEO more directly from their pockets in the form of dilution, it doesn't hurt or affect the standard employee in any way.