skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting far away from the original point here but I'll address it.

The statement was reported in full - technically correct but my claim references the summarisation of his remarks that is made frequently, even to this date, which omit important context.

You are correct that the remarks made immediately after the event referenced violence on many sides, this is an entirely different topic, however. Like I said, this too is technically correct, and readers and viewers are free to form their own opinions about the fact that he chose to frame it this way in his initial remarks. This is not, however the "very fine people" statement, which is a reference to non violent people who were having a debate over removal of the statue in question, many of whom were not white supremacists.

As for "night before", this too is very clearly qualified:

"No, no. There were people in that rally -- and I looked the night before -- if you look, there were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I’m sure in that group there were some bad ones. The following day it looked like they had some rough, bad people -- neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them."

Now you might ask yourself which group of quiet protesters he has been shown by his staff, but it's quite clear that he is of the impression that they are not white supremacists.

Again, this is not a defense of the statement or a defense of the man's eloquence, which he obviously lacks to an incredible degree. The allegation that he called neo nazis fine people is bad for your country. If people in your country believe their President actually said that, isn't that terrible for your society? The American media should not be above criticism for playing these kinds of tricks.
The simple fact is that no people have been killed due to a protest blocking the road. People have been killed by police violence.

Theoretical grandstanding over an unlikely hypothetical scenario to condemn protesters is being obtuse.
I'm sure they know this. The problem is that n-body simulations don't scale well with simulation speed. In KSP you can speed up time by up to 100,000x, which is essential for gameplay. If you want the same accuracy for n-body at that speed, you'll also need to do 100,000x the calculations. Whereas with KSPs simplified model you can calculate the position in orbit at arbitrary points in time, making 100,000x just as computationally expensive as 10x.
Nobody would really be talking about this treatment if Trump himself hadn't given a completely unjustified endorsement among the stream of misinformation he relayed in the early days of the pandemic. HCQ only ever had the thinnest scientific justification for study combined with huge political pressure. Further studies have shown very little in terms of effectiveness and the dangers were already known. The media has been giving Trump's nonsense far more credence than it ever deserves. Media reporting of the Lancet study and the fallout has been factual including the stopping of studies. The suspicious nature of the study is still nothing more than suspicious. There isn't proof that it's wrong. And the media most definitely have been reporting on the questions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/health/coronavirus-hydrox...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/may/28/questions-ra...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-29/scientist...

It hasn't top headline news since there's no resolution yet to the questions and because something else has been eating up too many headlines in the last week.

And, Trump has done himself no favors by constantly suggesting nonsense treatments like "strong flu vaccines" or injecting disinfectant. It's pretty conclusive at this point that he isn't very smart and his scientific opinions should be ignored and ridiculed.
Could you apply the bugged profile to any image and cause the crash?

GIMP sees it as a JFIF (apparently a predecessor to EXIF) with

"Google/Skia/E3CADAB7BD3DE5E3436874D2A9DEE126
Copyright: Google Inc. 2016"
We had a similar technology for a long time. You give the computer instructions and explanation in a language, as clear as detailed as possible and you get back machine code.

It's called a compiler.
Get your public IP in 15 lines of code
Detecting when users of any browser are using Incognito mode goes against the spirit of privacy, even if it’s not being done to directly track people as such, and any information that some browsers share and others don’t helps add to a browser’s fingerprint.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/07/22/chrome-76-blocks...
Zuck will follow the ad dollars. If revenue drops due to the Trump hate speech then it'll be gone already.
"Out of expected range" values should be the very first thing to test for...
I would vote libertarian if I didn’t have to buy into their vision to eliminate “burdensome “ regulations like environmental protections and their pipe dream of free market healthcare.
Well, ideally yes, but let's be honest here. If we can't trust websites to not abuse data, how can we possibly trust them to respect a polite request not to gather the data in the first place? I would personally rather have an incognito mode feature that I have confidence performs the task it claims to do without alerting the website, than one that loudly announces its presence, on the hope that it might be respected.

I don't trust Google, but I certainly don't want Google to trust random websites on my behalf.
This is the reason why professionals don't engage in politics. In the short term it lends cover to the political actors of the day, and in the long term it destroys the credibility foundation of their own profession.
> Superiors are generally better about considering the advise of their experts because the decision maker owns all risks and consequences.

Even though it still does not literally happen anymore, there is still the tradition of the captain going down with the ship. The captain's authority was unchallenged on board the ship. But, if the ship sank, the captain paid for it with his life. This would inherently cut a lot of the bullshit. If you are the captain, your life depends on your people telling you the facts, not just what you want to hear.
> I have only rebooted the touchscreen a couple times ever

0 of the OEMs I worked for would consider this acceptable.

Reminds me how Tesla ranks high with customer satisfaction but had objectively low quality vehicles.
> Where do you see this? I can't find this anywhere.

Maybe check real sites instead of your usual racist ones? Google is a good start. Here's the first link! https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/un-report-on-...
Q: Won’t criminals use the paid tier?

A: No, because crime doesn’t pay

I’ll see myself out :-)
How do you legally distribute financial contributions? Who will be eligible to receive funding for work on a particular project? Who figures out the tax issues across jurisdictions? How do you become a relevant site representing such projects?

I am not saying it cannot be done. It definitely can, and the more options we have the better. Sites like https://www.opencollective.com are trying. Github has a bunch of new Sponsorship features. They have the audience.

Sites like https://www.libaries.io and https://www.repology.org are building dependency graphs. There are other places which can help to identify the recursive structure you are after.

Fiscal sponsorship entities like https://www.sfconservancy.org and https://www.techcultivation.org, apache.org etc are trying to tackle some of the issues to legally represent projects (and receive donations for them).
... and to help funnel investments into promising web properties giving us an insurmountable competitive edge in search. While we could use this as an unfair advantage in any takeover talk, we have a motto and a friendly logo which clearly signal our benign intentions.

Side note, we are spinning out Google into a separate entity, because we are growing so big. The new conglomerate is called Alphabet. It's just a silly accounting action, nothing to see here.
This is great sci-fi fodder, imagine if you could land a tiny craft on that thing and then use the hydrogen as fuel without having to haul all that fuel into deep space (very unlikely to be practical but the idea is exciting).
... yes? How many people did they shoot? AFAIK it was 0, in which case how many guns they brought is irrelevant. Likewise spitting at police officers is pretty peaceable by the standards of the current riots.

To be clear, they are total and complete idiots, but unless I've missed something they are peaceful idiots.
When people collaborate the work-product is 10 IQ points higher than max(IQ1, IQ2) than when people work alone. Therefore remote work is likely less productive as there are less face-to-face interactions and serendipitous interactions, and co authoring is harder. Also today USA software engineers are greatly rewarded for self-initiative vs other countries. These initiatives might be culturally more difficult to gain from foreign born workers.
I wrote a lot of the Skia color management code involved here, and I think maybe I can clear some things up? I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have, either here or on https://bugs.chromium.org/p/skia/issues/detail?id=10301 where we've been trying to think about how much Skia's involved with the root cause of this bug.

There's no "Skia color profile" per se. When Skia's asked to write a JPEG from a pixel buffer tagged with a color profile (SkColorSpace), we auto-generate an ICC profile programatically from the parameters that describe the color gamut and transfer functions we use to represent those color profiles. That's what the code in this file is up to: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:t...

So this profile is one of infinite possible profiles that'll have "Google/Skia/..big long MD5.." somewhere in them.

This profile in particular looks like it's probably describing the ProPhoto color space, which is very, very large and uses imaginary colors outside visible light to increase its gamut. While the JPEG itself is always storing values in range in the ProPhoto gamut, when you convert that to another gamut (say, to match the display, or to sRGB) it's very easy to end up with logical color channel values less than zero or greater than one, which do make a kind of sense, but not to code that expects colors are always sRGB bytes.

It's unclear to me what gamut the colors being read in that Java code are in,
and that'd very much affect what the appropriate values for that LUMINOSITY_MATRIX should be. Those are the correct values to get the luminosity for sRGB colors (though I think what's being calculated here is subtly-different gamma-encoded "luma" instead), but they're not likely a sound way to get luminosity if the image is in any different gamut. A typical strategy is to convert any image you load to the display gamut early, since you'll need to do that eventually to display it. And it's more and more common that phone display gamuts are not sRGB, usually something wider now like Display P3.
Which papers? There are thousands of papers being published.

There are a couple potential reasons. Powerful GPUs accelerate research and iteration. Some state of the art problems have hit the limits of current theory and make up the deficit by building massive nets - but even there we already have multiple automatic pruning/optimization algorithms to shrink those nets so that they work with smaller resources.

Make no mistake, the field is advancing exponentially. The state of the art googlenet/inception that arguably kicked off the whole craze with image recognition are laughably obsolete now and easily outperformed by simpler nets.

MNIST was the gold standard for recognition problems just a couple years ago, and now it's considered a solved toy problem.
It’s pretty well established that he’s dead.
Trump showed us that the old guard is less powerful than we\they thought. The zuck could absolutely win and facebook would be his tool to do it.
So what would be the point?
WHO set to resume hydroxychloroquine trial
I liked. More 1000 levels, please.
> The war on drugs has taken a wrecking ball to the Fourth Amendment restrictions on search and seizure.

The "war on terror" is probably even worse, given how many citizen rights were all but wiped after 9/11 across the world.
This is a pretty simplistic view, the article talks about a different Surgisphere study where the conclusion is that a cheap and widely available drug is effective against covid-19 (the study also has its problems though):

"A third COVID-19 study using Surgisphere data has also drawn fire. In a preprint first posted in early April, Surgisphere founder and CEO Sapan Desai and co-authors conclude that ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug, dramatically reduced mortality in COVID-19 patients. In Latin America, where ivermectin is widely available, that study has led government officials to authorize the drug—although with precautions—creating a surge in demand in several countries."
This sort of exists, actually... use hover focus and eViacam (https://eviacam.crea-si.com/) together. Of course, that doesn't give you separate control of the mouse, but I'm not sure that's a bug.
While your first statement is true, in this specific case, you actually need a "big science lab":

* lasers used to heat up the sample (at least a few 10k$),
* the actual X-ray source (i.e. a synchrotron, which costs hundreds of millions to build and millions annually to run, albeit for thousands of experiments a year),
* surrounding instruments (such as X-ray detector for diffraction and spectrometer+camera for temperature measurements)
* people who actually makes things work

This kind of experiment is far from being cheap technically speaking. However, access to beamtime at such state-run X-ray facilities (CERN job's is not to produce X-rays) is often free of charge, at least for academia (or as long as you publish your results). You "only" have to apply for beamtime.
"By knowing what people search for and modeling our behavior, they have unprecedented ability to forecast future events. I expect Facebook and other, lesser known companies do the same. I believe it is dangerous for a company to have this ability."

I have thought of this as "search-based front-running". How much of it goes on, I would like to know.
I was asked to provide examples of the Lancet's poor track record, which I have done. I am not trying to prove it is better or worse than any other journal.
What exactly is Canada's locus standi on this? Is anyone sanctioned/wanted by US liable to be arrested if they land in Canada?

On what charges was the Canadian warrant issued to arrest Meng?
FYI, it is not bricking phones, but that doesn't make a good headline.

It is making some of them unusable, requiring a hard reset.
Active Desktop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop
Playing devil's advocate for a moment, information from unrelated cases is often excluded from trials. For example, you generally cannot discuss a victim's prior sexual history in a rape trial, etc.

The debate, then, would be about which cases such exclusions should be appropriate in and which not. There's general agreement that neither "all" nor "none" is an appropriate answer.
> You simply can't trust the government to respect boundaries that they created but have the ability to breach, especially when it can be done completely surreptitiously.

No, but in a functioning democracy we can vote them out. Democratic governments by definition have an large concentration of power, otherwise they can't fulfill their functions.

But this is bound by laws, time, and the ballot box. Surreptitious (warrantless) government surveillance should absolutely be illegal. Searches with a legal warrant (through an accountable, non-abusive, warrant granting judicial system) are absolutely necessary to gather evidence for prosecution of crimes to take place. Without trustworthy investigation and prosecution of crimes, the social contract
will fail, and this has already started happening in many areas, as we are seeing in a way right now

However, this goes both ways - the populace should get far more transparency into the functioning of the criminal legal system - especially in to the training and conduct of physical law enforcement (police officers).
The closest to an enlightened, benevolent dictator in modern times I think is Lee Kuan Yew.
There's no reason for the DSLRs to be abysmal in any regard. Google, Apple, and Sony have shown what's possible with a tiny sensor and lens when you add in computation. Can you imagine what they could do with a big sensor and big lens?

It feels like that's the space Nikon, Canon, and the other big camera companies should be working on. Is there any innovation coming out of the camera companies?
"by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty" - Will Durant
Just yesterday I pointed out how a teal wall had a similar color to the Windows 95 background. To me, it's as iconic as the hilly Windows XP scene.
Exactly this. End to end encryption does NOT mean "Encrypted on each end but not in the middle".
This not from incognito that’s just one piece.

It’s against the practice of fingerprinting users across products and services.
Could you share that makefile? That sounds exactly like how I'd like to manage my desktop.
It is absolutely true that poaching is a common term in sports[1].

[1] https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2023482-5-milwaukee-buck...
The capabilities of a dedicated camera do help learn about all these concepts. How do you even begin to learn about aperture & depth of field or motion blur if you can't experiment with it? A great chef can cook an amazing meal in a pie tin over a camp stove, but that's not the best way to learn.
You're glossing over the details of my post for the benefit of your position.
Why wouldn't 49% qualify? And then, 48%? Where do you draw a line and why?
MDN: Getting Started with React
The Democrats are the spineless party. They have no courage to take a position. It’s all wishy-washy trying not to offend anybody (especially not their donors).
That it doesn't already work this way, or something similar to this, I find bizarre.
> But when he was running things he basically did nothing to improve the situation although the issues with police were well known.

Because police laws and funding is a state matter where the federal government can't do anything, and to top that Obama was locked by a Republican HoR in 6 of his 8 years.
Ah, it wasn't clear from the phrasing. I thought he got promoted for being "tough on crime".
Tracking Police and Military Planes Monitoring the George Floyd Protests
I tried for years and eventually it becomes natural to the point that I now prefer it (or rather developed impatience with arbitrary syntax of in-fix notations).

Editor support helps (as it ought to), also the modern LISP style (indenting blocks). I still have difficulties reading ancient LISP style (but that's also due to the functional programming style eschewing temporary variable assignments while the names of those missing variables could serve to document the code).
At GDPR presentation that I attended recently in Norway the message was that IP addresses must be masked if they go to a permanent storage. For IPv4 it could be OK to clear the last byte of the address, but in general the message was to save the least amount of information. For example, if IP is used for locating regions, then save the regions, not the IP itself.
Covid contact tracing app Switzerland:

Android repository:
https://github.com/DP-3T/dp3t-app-android-ch

iOS repository:
https://github.com/DP-3T/dp3t-app-ios-ch

Covidcode Frontend:
https://github.com/admin-ch/CovidCode-UI

App backend:
https://github.com/DP-3T/dp3t-sdk-backend

App config backend:
https://github.com/DP-3T/dp3t-config-backend-ch

Covidcode backend:
https://github.com/admin-ch/CovidCode-Service
Ask HN: Open-source alternatives to AWS/GCP/Azure services
What are the open source alternatives to cloud services that you can run on your own
Yes because the entire Republican establishment changed their policy and objectives to essentially focusing on opposing anything and everything he tried to do - no matter how reasonable or how much compromise Obama made. And they admitted that was their only strategy. Stop governing and just oppose. To try to stop his reelection.

That's when this country went off the rails.
I wouldn't be surprised if over the years employees have been making canny decisions on the stock markets. Facebook also has a lot of information via its portfolio of services to enable this too.
No.
Mississippi will vote Republican and New York will vote Democratic.
They need to run someone that can appeal to the swing states: Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio.
Great response, thanks. The US is definitely a more difficult environment to prove that their privacy violations are not just violations of privacy, but also of law. I wonder if these wiretapping laws are really the best route to go about attempting to prove this.
Foreign companies must agree to those sanctions/restrictions prior to the purchase of equipment with export restrictions.
I drove a Prius where EVERYTHING was controlled a non-tactile touch panel. It was one of the most infuriating experiences with a car in my life and far more distracting.

In comparison my car has physical buttons and dials. If I want to adjust the temperature while driving I don't need to look away from the road, I just grab the dial and turn it a few clicks, same with sterio volume. I know approximately where the dials are so I can reach in the general area and know what I'm doing with out looking because there is something physical to grab.
> There must be some justification that's keeping IBM from firing all it's US staff and cutting costs by 90% + rent by hiring people in Vietnam

Every intervening layer or other impediment between understanding/interpretation of customer requirements and coding reduces efficiency. Language and cultural understanding barriers, whether directly exposed or mitigated by adding an intervening translating layer between the technical team and customers are real problems. And the customers with money to spend are disproportionately in richer countries. So even with equally valuable raw technical skills, programmers in richer countries are legitimately worth more. But the money offered and immigration/non-immigrant worker policies mean that the most valuable workers from poorer countries will, over time, being drawn into the richer countries, exacerbating the divide.

And, in any case, even with neoliberal global trade regimes, there are additional transaction costs to overseas outsourcing, even with programming and other information/intellectual work. So, of course the law of one price that applies in idealized integrated markets doesn't apply.
To be fair, he also had to work with a Republican Senate to get pass any laws.
Traditionally the ruling class has voted against the first and hoped the second wouldn’t happen in their own lifetime.
> So what you're saying is we should never fully trust these journals? We should always be skeptical?

I think that exactly how good scientists proceed. This isn't my field, but my understanding is that research groups don't "fully trust" peer reviewed research, so they usually attempt to replicate the key results they plan to cite in their new research.
This corporate malfeasance seems pretty tame in comparison to what US multinationals regularly get away with. For example, no one has been arrested from Boeing.
The Trump Troll vs. the Mods
"...looking at Mr. Trump as an aggrieved user of a fractious internet forum, rather than a politician making high-minded claims about freedom of speech, clarifies the dynamics at play here."
This is exactly right. At the end of the day they only answer to the people who write the biggest cheques and pay for the fanciest dinners and vacations they get to enjoy.
Do you mind please responding to my most recent questions for you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23398553

Thank you either way.