skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But is deblurring from handshake or lens out of focus or even a Gaussian blur the same as some random gradient blur they seem to be using?

Edit: The images in the Signal article don't look like images of blurred faces. They look like blurry images overlaid onto faces. If you don't blur the face, how can it be unblurred?
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I don't understand the need for this. There is nothing criminal or embarrassing about being in public or participating in a peaceful protest. Why is this feature needed?
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That's all right you just pass some new red flag laws.
> It will make your evaluation a game where the student challenge is not understanding the concept of the class, but instead, understanding the rules of the various test you put in place.

I agree with most of what you have to say, however you're arguing for replacing one 'game' with another. If the goal is not to understand the grading engine then by the same logic the goal is to understand what appeals to whom is marking it.
Okay, I'll bite - when was this time? Because I can't think of any.

Consider how many companies were not politically neutral on the issue of worker's rights and unionization. Or neutral on employing members of the Communist party.

Or, quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_newspapers - "The Republican party was especially effective in building a network of newspapers in major cities to broadcast its statements and editorialize in its favor."

That certainly sounds like the newspaper companies of the early 1800s weren't politically neutral.
They'll turn the antennas in the satellites off when they're not above a region they're servicing. That's both for legal reasons (you are not allowed to use spectrum you haven't licensed) and physical reasons (less energy usage).
It's kind of annoying that you can't even trust the anonymous groups anymore. What's left? Vegans?
Yeah, I know. Just added the gambling bit to emphasize how cynical it is.
It’s intentional, of course. Suppressing the vote of young or nonwhite people is a well established practice in America. Oftentimes voting districts are so gerrymandered that everybody knows which way the district will vote anyway so why bother? And voter registration laws make it very time consuming to prove residency for people who have to move often.
I'm unfamiliar with this scandal and am having trouble researching it on Google. Can you explain it in simple-ish terms (I'm weak on economics) and/or provide a source?
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Yeah, and all the submissions from this user are for the same domain.
Well, I'm in the EU (France/UK) and do not know a single person that doesn't use Whatsapp. I'm also not even completely sure what iMessage is, nobody ever mentioned it.

All I mean is: anecdotal evidence and social bubbles
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That's my impression too (see my other comment).

Each package published to Deno could come with a set of declared permissions (similarly to Android apps).

When importing the package in a module, Deno should detect that permissions scoped at current module level are wider than what the package requires, and automatically narrow down the list of authorized calls.

This would probably be very costly. Suppose that I'm importing a function from lodash (that requires no permissions) and my module calls it repeatedly while also accessing the file system...
> the problem is _private_ APIs

There's nothing wrong with private APIs.

There's a very significant difference between releasing an API publicly, and having a few internal users.

Public APIs have a high communication burden, but "fixed cost" if done right -- it shouldn't go up much as the number of users increases. They also have strict compatibility requirements that greatly slow, prevent, or complicate changes. They require more stringent security review and comprehensive tests, etc.

Private APIs can have a low, informal communication burden, but it tends to increase exponentially with the number of clients. They can be changed quickly, but clients have to be changed or and/or tested as well, so again the number of clients is limited. Tests only need to cover use cases the limited set of known clients actually need. It works best when clients are part of the same release cadence, since the price of managing branches is high.

Also, you can't separate the idea of fragile private APIs from private APIs in general. Private APIs are fragile. That they can change quickly, including breaking changes, is the whole point.
Would this imply that the democrat party does align with the majority? If you believe that, this is not my experience.

For me personally, as a libertarian, I would say I agree with about 60% with the GOP platform, and about 20-30% with the Democrat platform. this used to be higher but the recent misadventure of the democrats in to "democratic socialism" and other left authoritarian policy positions has seen me really want to pull back from and oppose the democratic party more so then I have in the past
I think that's generally false. Policies are generally written to cover a broad set of risks (which would include riots, terrorism, and acts of war) and then have exceptions listed specifically. It would be rare in my experience for property insurance to itemize the types of losses they cover.

As an example, my policy covers general losses arising from physical damage, but then explicitly excludes losses from earthquakes, floods, oil spills, and acts of war.

If I buy only that coverage and a flood or earthquake damages my property, it's not my insurance company's fault that I'm not covered.
I don't think it's Perth, the address has ".vic." in the name, which implies that the router in question is located in Victoria.

My guess is that there's a private network involved.

If you use AARNet's looking glass [0] it shows that its route to GEANT's London router goes through Singapore.

[0]: https://lg.aarnet.edu.au/cgi-bin/lg
The article on vaccine from 7 years ago? There are too many virus articles competing for attention to get traction and too much virus fatigue from the spam.
With global CO2 emissions of 36 gigatonnes annually, it would take 1.4 terawatts or about 7% of total annual energy consumption (i.e. not just electricity) to absorb all our emissions. That's a lot but fixing a problem for just 7% of the energy we used to make the problem strikes me as pretty good.

A gallon of gasoline produces 9 kg CO2, requiring 3 kWh to absorb, at a cost of 30 cents. There'd also be capital cost.

Avoiding emissions will often be cheaper, but for many sectors that's not so easy, so direct air capture could end up being an important part of the solution. We've also got a lot of excess CO2 right now that we'd be better off removing.

Sequestering CO2 seems to be a solved problem by injecting into basalt formations, where it turns into rock in about a year.
> Programs are not designed to be readable, they are designed to solve a problem.

This is 100% incorrect. If a developer submits a PR that works and if fast, but cannot be understood by the rest of the team, it can, should, and will be rejected.

80% of software's lifetime is spent in maintenance. That clever hack or ugly patch might work today, but you're going to hate yourself for it in a month.

There are exceptions, but they're by far the minority case and should be clearly marked as "deep magic".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(programming)
A very sweet hack, but I think the concern was based on the example image provided in the link posted. While the face is blurred, there's still a lot of information you can glean about the person: their haircut, their neck, the clothes worn etc. -- so I'm guessing the threat vector here is that if you also have a general set of pictures from the same demo, you may be able to automatically identify who the blurred person is.

Blurring is better than nothing but the best picture when it comes to avoid being traced is the picture that was never taken.
You can be identified by gait alone.
Back when I taught CS, I had a colleague who did this. He ran the program and compared the output char by char to what he expected. The assignments went into great detail on the expected format of the output (column-by-column). I believe this was all he did, no check of the source code. The sad thing was he was the chair of the department when I first got there. Fortunately, he retired soon afterward.
Their success is, I think, highly correlated to their mass testing campaigns. South Korea had drive-through testing facilities up within 48 hours of the outbreak, so they knew exactly how the virus spread and who to quarantine or not.

Add to this an existing culture of using face masks and gloves in public (i.e. supplies of those things were already in place), and you've got a very different scenario compared to most of Europe for example.
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Lower life expectancies and lack of elder group homes might also explain it. For the first one, those with pre-existing conditions that the virus usually has more of an effect on are mostly already dead. For the latter, a lot of the cases in the west have been in nursing homes that simply don’t exist in poorer countries.

Or they might just not have the resources to get accurate statistics and ascertain cause of death due to the virus.
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I'm sorry, I've seen far too many smirks when explaining why my keyboard doesn't do the keys they want as I hurridly re-enable qwerty, or why I type like a 5 year old on their qwerty keyboard. And there's no way i'm getting someone to facilitate my keyboard fetish by installing/enabling any layouts. Plus, it's just _better_ when you can read the keys, and I can't go disassembling keyboards all the time to put the keys in the right place.

There's just too much friction. Only Apple has the power to re-educate the world's typing habits, only then will I get back on the train. I say this as someone who used Colemak for 2 whole years btw.
>"Critical theory" isn't even a thing

Weird. I wonder why there's a Wikipedia article for something that's "not even a thing"[0].

> It's just a repackaging of Marxist ideals applied to other demographic groupings besides class, and it's just as easily disproven.

Can you cite a single critical theorist who simply transposes class analysis to "other demographic groupings"? The theorists I've read actually stray pretty far from the concept of class conflict, and they do not construct, for example, "gender conflict" or "race conflict" out of the "ideals" such as class conflict. Is there any evidence for your claim at all? Or are you claiming that any analysis of conflict between demographics is simply a repackaging of class conflict?

You fail to recognize the specificity of the idea of class conflict, and why it can't be "repackaged" as an abstraction. As an abstraction, all you're left with is "societal conflict", but nobody would deny that there is some conflict in society of some kind. The concepts of economic exploitation, alienation, historical and current primitive accumulation, base and superstructure, etc. are all core to class conflict analysis, but from what I've read, few if any of these are present in the literature on race and gender.

And while we're on the topic, can you point to which "easy disproofs" you're talking about as they relate to class conflict or "other demographic" conflicts? Ironically, the same critical theorists you claim "aren't a thing" were the same ones to argue against the traditional conception of class conflict (e.g. Marcuse).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
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Most cases in Sweden are in the age groups >70 since the elder care homes and elder care workers.

The situation would probably be very different if they have the equipment and training to deal with it. Many were even threatened to be fired if they put on face masks.
Yes. Your mass in low Sol orbit has a much higher specific orbital energy, so thrusting a rocket or ejecting mass while at or near perihelion makes more of a difference than doing so in deep space.
I wouldn’t be overly surprised that if there were protests on the right (return to work, for example) which resulted in violence that that would end up with calls for pulling this feature —maybe I’m too cynical due to the nature of the politics of speech over the last few years.
We had a partner that bought a redundant mpls service from their DC to another DC (not their own) and to AWS direct connect via that DC. Their mpls provider was a SPOF, the provider for the second DC was a SPOF, then the direct connect circuits terminated in the same AWS router, another SPOF. All 3 had SPOF's had caused its own significant downtime within a few months.

This was designed by the partner, contract signed by us, the whole solution paid by us, without consulting any network engineer on our side until 1 week before it was supposed to be implemented. We proposed two different solutions that would cost less than 1/20 of the cost their solution was costing us ($20k/month), while providing real redundancy (yet to be implemented, though some SPOFs solved by now). Never enjoyed outages as much as this as we got to explain why their solution was so bad each time.
If you have darker skin yes. But I always thought that white skin is an evolutionary adaptation to the reduced levels of sunlight available at Northern latitudes.

It's more about the colour of skin * place of residence interaction than anything else.
Not an expert, but as far as I understand it, both, i.e. atoms are ("physical") manifestations of (probabilistic) quantum fluctuations.

If I'm wrong, it would be great if someone could ELI5.
I see it as the exact opposite: giving up freedom for the illusion of safety. Using the tear gassed protesters as an example, when there have been protests where a large number of protesters were openly carrying firearms, nobody gets tear gassed. Neither the cops nor the protesters get remotely violent.

The people with the guns aren't attending the current protests, and you can see how that has worked out.
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Because people fear retaliation from both the cops and their fan club. We’re talking about the police that (in my city) flipped, ransacked, and destroyed tables set out by volunteers to give protesters food, water, first-aid, and sunscreen.

The last thing you want is to find photos or videos of yourself on a right ring YT channel because you will get doxxed, harassed and threatened.
> I didn't leave anything out. Read it again. But it is interesting how your reply is full of problems that are easily solved without inconveniencing the majority of society (the majority being under the age of 42).

Care to tell us about these easy solutions?
Interestingly, I remember this exact scenario was a noted problem for some sort of computer-controlled shock absorbers that I saw on the "Beyond 2000" TV show in the mid-90s. In many scenarios, the shock absorbers could detect bumps and holes in the road and compensate perfectly, resulting in a ride that was smooth as glass.

But they still hadn't figured out how to differentiate between a crumpled paper bag and a rock, or a pothole filled with water vs a smooth surface. Otherwise, it was really impressive.

Found it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KPYIaks1UY

I feel like Level 4 or 5 Autonomous Driving will be the same -- there are just some problems that will never be solved well enough to make it work acceptably.
≤ "expands" in J to <: Definitely not more verbose.

J uses . and : as modifiers to a base operator to create a pretty big set of primitives. See https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc
This has almost nothing to do with the post.
But you've still got no idea how much inequality is present - you've got a lower bound and 3 orders of magnitude error. They might have 30x or 30,000x times. You could take an action, halve inequality, and not be able to detect any changes. If you can halve the problem and not detect any change I don't believe you've identified the problem.

However if you doubled your living standard you'd know all about it.
> The outbreak is likely most defined by how large the initial/seed outbreak is, which depends on how early it happened (how ready people was and how much they had changed behavior already).

But that was absolutely a part of government response. In Romania, isolation of travelers from Italy and China began on February 21st, before any confirmed cases. Travel and meeting restrictions started when we hit 10 total cases. The lockdown measures increased significantly when we hit 100 total cases. This was in the same time that France was holding general elections with a few thousand cases.
In the context of national lockdown, Amazon is basically of national security importance right now as Amazon not working right would’ve killed any lockdown strategy. America doesn’t have enough slack for Amazon to bow out in any way.

This should’ve been very clear when we talk about any shutdown — things were never going to work if we all insisted on the same level of sacrifice. Amazon workers must keep working, just as food and transportation workers had to keep going at any cost, and next will be the teachers inside closed rooms with 30 or 40 kids.
If your main issue is focus, and you work/are interested in learing in a suitable branch of technology, you can try going "off-grid":

Download every documentation you might need;

Delete every offline-capable time-waster from all your devices;

Remove your phone's SIM card (don't worry, you'll still be able to make emergency calls if such a need arises);

Unplug your internet router (and store it away somewhere inconvenient).

If you have to sync for any reason, go to a expensive coffee shop or the like that has WiFi and do your business there. You'll soon stop going so frequently because it'll hurt on the pocket.
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Yeah it seems like backpacking is a great opportunity to do a bit of reset in terms of technology, limiting it to those essential logistical tasks, but allowing one to get the majority of their social and experiential needs fulfilled in the physical world.

Do you think if you were to do the same trip today (let's assume no covid nonsense) you would use the same balance of technology, or do you think that things have become much more integrated over the last decade?
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Care homes house at risk people that are susceptible to getting sick from anything. They live in close quarters and are touched by lots of workers throughout the day. I doubt Vitamin D and indoors has anything to do with it.
I agree that the Dutch government wasn't the very worst in the world with handling this. But it was definitely not in the better half. By metric of deaths/ population, we are now nr 9 in the world (counting high to low). And above us are Spain, Italy and San Marino who at least have the excuse that they were hit very early. The Dutch government had time to react.

By metrics of economic loss The Netherlands are not doing great either. Germany, Switzerland, Denmark are amongst the countries that were able to reopen their economies before us. And Sweden left it pretty open all the time.
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Wikipedia has statistics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_in_spaceflight#Orbital_la...

Note though that 2019 was a pretty slow year for SpaceX, they launched almost twice as much in 2018.
You will have a margin of error , my main point is that even if some politicians will push too miss=categorize the deaths, if the numbers are sufficiently large things can't be hidden that way.

Do you have any statistics that show that if I die of COVID then this imply that my probability to live 1 more year was very slim without COVID? This kind of number as less then 1 year seems very non-scientific and more something you would use to push your opinion, like yes 400K people died but 99% of them would ahve been dead anyway in a few months
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The broader theme of that comment was that ‘correct’ is table stakes.

A readable incorrect program is worse than an unreadable correct one. That neither is acceptable doesn’t negate that.
Except for compcert, which is basically perfect.
No? Something serves as a status signal when the person who has it has a high probability of being different from someone who doesn’t. A private jet is a status symbol because you have a high probability of assuming the person who owns it has a level of wealth or influence that most don’t. A degree from Caltech has status compared to a degree from random college because there’s a high probability the Caltech degree holder is more competent.

An iMessage chat tells me nothing about the socioeconomic characteristics of the owner of the iOS device, unless I am missing something.

Edit: although, now that I have read this whole thread, I am thinking that maybe it’s not the economic status people are looking for, but are somehow deriving some assumption about their “socio” part of “socioeconomic” status, as a non iOS user is perceived to be maybe “different” or “weird” in some way for not conforming and having an Android versus an iOS device.

I personally have never thought that, since I use Signal/WhatsApp/iMessage, and if you don’t have iMessage, I just use one of the other two, and I don’t care. But evidently, some people do.
Belgium does not prosecute people not showing up. I can say that for a fact.

But if they prosecuted you, here's what you are facing:

(In art. 210 "kieswetboek" or "voting law book" for our english readers)

For a first offense, the judge may verbally reprimand you! (oh noes!)
In extreme circumstance, they could give you a fine. That fine is less than a speeding ticket or the fine the city council could give you for... let's say... "eating a sandwich while sitting on the stairs in front of a public building" (?!).

Should you persist in your "evil" and "devilish" ways and got called before a judge 4 (four) times for not voting. Then they can take away your right to vote for 10 years[1]. This is the equivalent of saying: "Oh, you don't want to vote! Now you don't get to vote and won't be prosecuted for it"

The low fines, even if the judge imposed them, and the ridiculousness of this article made prosecutors say: "We got better things to do". So the law is: everyone needs to vote, but if you feel strongly about not voting... we're not going to bother.

[1] It is bit more complicated than that. But for most citizens who don't want to vote, it wouldn't make a difference.
You can, and it has been done. But that was with very small, flat molecules. Cryo EM can be used with very large molecules or complexes with many tens of thousands of atoms.
If they look for them
I think they mean that this is the first time individual atoms have been imaged using this specific type of electron microscope. Individual atoms have of course been imaged as early as the 1980s using scanning tunneling microscopy. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_tunneling_microscope