skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use that as a general term to encompass all the ways you can lose yourself to institutionalization. Some join gangs. Some get lost in stealing and selling inside of the prison economy. Some "play" religion. Some pimp themselves out. Some play politics and become informants. This isn't all inclusive, nor does anything mean you'll lose your character and personality, but institutionalization is real.
Zoom is a multinational company.
> We've been shutout of the good money, we only get to pick up the crumbs

Yeah, I think my biggest complaint of the private market / public market is the accessibility gap and the face that the actual valuation of a private company is extremely skewed because there is such little public info for due diligence and the company is so rarely re-evaluated.
Replace “fair” with whatever word you would use to describe your steamrolling example, then.
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You don’t know because you clearly don’t read!

Two comments bellow I have cited multiple scientific papers. Stop linking fake news :)
I've been monitoring what VPSs are an option. I'd like to have something faster, because it'll be cost-effective, but I don't want another headache.
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Do evolutionary biologists generally agree with what you are saying? Is it what I would be taught if I took a course in evolutionary biology?
Been seeing a few app crashes on the Android 11 betas. Hopefully they've been addressing API bustage. Unfortunately the Android bug tracker seems to be a black hole for reports.
I keep mixing up his name with the rails guy
Also, don't most x86 CPU's support being powered off entirely during standby? Ie. flush the caches, write the registers back to RAM, set RAM to self-refresh, and then write some config registers in some power control IC to cut the power to the CPU.

Then it doesn't matter what the standby power consumption is - it simply matters how quickly it can get back into a working state from OFF.
I'd say "better" as in "more likely", but I'm still not a fan of a handful of SV folks being the moral decision makers for the world as the general order of things.

I'll gladly accept additional benevolence from them though! Just not as the sole power in the area.
I think the main thing is that even if the technology were improved and it could be proven that the biases were so low as to be negligible or that it basically identifies people equally well, the opposition would be on the technology as a tool.

People want some privacy in public. A tech that can track or backtrack people's movements is kinda creepy in a few ways.
I agree with you.

But, tell me if you think I'm wrong: I'm arguing that most software companies have a mentality like you describe: "you can discard everything else, this is the magic" about wikis, PRs (so they generally ignore mentoring and training, or at least don't want it on their employees schedules).

I think you are saying I'm saying that I think that mentoring and training allow you to throw the rest away. I'm not saying that.
What do you mean by "unbalanced" and "balanced" here? I'm curious because I've recently started to suspect some neck pain may be due to the way I have my two desktop monitors placed.
You could make the same argument for presales vs postsales.

There are numerous examples of this:

The look of the apple keyboard in a store, vs day-to-day functionality (or admittedly many apple products, such as a glossy display)

Any RGB product for sale now -- RGB keyboards, RGB mouse, RGB computer, RGB system memory. (get it home, turn it off)

meanwhile, a trackball or weird vertical mouse might be completely unapproachable, but for the folks who need them they are usable forever after putting in the time.
Chinese trolls actively monitoring posts in Hacker News
Has anyone noticed in Hackernews, if you mention something about China, which is harmful to its reputation, you will automatically get decreased in points ? I have seen this happen many times.
it does work that way far too often, and that's exactly the problem. financiers are no smarter than other kinds of market participants, and that's what this shows.

markets require relative participant independence for pricing and allocation to function properly, otherwise we get bubbles. and now, we get constant bailouts (of capital, not labor), so on top of that, there's no downside risk to provide any counterbalance. it's corrupt.
Their pricing is quite interesting comparing to Firebase/Firestore.

$10/500 hours of request runtime Excluding Sync
$0.08/1M minutes of Sync runtime
$2.00/1M application requests
$0.12/GB for egress
> 128GB MMC

Why MMC when there is NVMe?
https://goteam.video/ (Disclaimer/Plug: I work for the company that built this). It's WebRTC based but should work fine in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and latest Edge (ie the Chrome variant). We've just added optional end-to-end encryption for multiparty sessions based on the recent "Insertable Streams" feature available in Chrome M83+.
> I mean, come on, who would ever name a function "real", and why?

While that's a great question, the answer is "not the people who wrote PHP":

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-real-escape-st...

PHP has its issues (boy howdy), but sometimes those issues are being propagated from other places.

Also, I'm gonna (very gently) push back on "evangelizing it then not fixing it," at least with respect to this particular boy howdy issue. PHP may have been late to get on board with bindings and basic DB abstraction, but they've had PDO since 2004. There are a lot of things like this in PHP -- big problems with its original conception/implementation that have been tackled in later iterations of the language, but that people seemingly won't forgive either because they're offended the sins were committed in the first place or because PHP preserves the stupid ways to do things for years and years in the name of backward compatibility.

(I mean, I don't want to overstate anything here. PHP basically started out as a cargo cult version of Perl, and the PHP community collectively decided a few years ago that the proper thing to do to move the language forward was to turn it into a cargo cult version of Java which seems, well, debatable.)
Again, I stopped messing with PHP at 5.7 and have watched 7+ grow. My daily language is Go, which I like a lot. Had or have runs with python, asp!, Perl, c#, node, delphi and used rust and Java for personal projects.

I can find warts in all of them. At one point I'd have put PHP right above JavaScript and ASP down at the bottom. Now? I don't see it. Legacy issues are still there, like inconsistent standard library function names, but otherwise I don't see it - as a whole - as any more 'warty' than most of those.
This xkcd comic didn't age well: https://xkcd.com/1357/. Liberals used to cheerfully link to this whenever a conservative was deplatformed. I don't think they'll trot out this xkcd anymore when their favored people are being censored.
Clash of Clans Hack
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Since Google has incredible amounts of money already and are therefore not imperiled by my refusal to given them even more money, the relevant question is why I should give them more money. There is no rational reason for me to do so.
I agree to a large extent. I think EC should be part of a larger set of changes, but it is understood by a reasonable amount of the public, so it’s arguably the best starting point.
So Amazon can do face recognition but police can't? Bezos doesn't need police work, he can hide behind his walled house with a private security which he will no doubt will sell his recognition software to if required, but the rest of you plebs, we will throw you to the hands of criminals and predators because of some anecdotal incident with a black guy.

Why not stop selling equipment also to hospitals? I have heard they also make mistakes, even sometimes negligent doctors killing people, only Amazon are pure and don't do any evil.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23461326 is large, recent, and related.
> Yes, it does. Which part of "there is no alternative to natural gas for base-load" are you purposely ignoring?

I'm not ignoring it. I'm telling you it's false. I've pointed out to you how one can design a 100% renewable grid without natural gas. You believe something that's just not so.

It's not possible to have an intelligent conversation with you when you're the moral equivalent of a Flat Earther.

As pointed out below, hydrogen would not be stored in containers, but rather underground, as natural gas already is.
Anyone with a modicum of skill and a few GPUs can do what Rekognition does using code freely available on GitHub and public datasets. This cat is _way_ out of the bag.
I just tried it with the domain rakso.at and when I enter rakso.at. there is an htst error. Shouldn't it work because it is technically the same domain?
I believe PHP will still be relevant and a lot of the fancy frontend frameworks out there won't be around anymore. Some kind of lindy effect in place.
>What's the fundamental difference between a lobbyist for a cause you like "save the whales" and a cause you don't like "make noncompetes enforceable"?

The difference is money. Lobbying is effective for groups that have a lot to spend. So for almost any pro-business issue lobbying can have a strong effect. That might be ok, but there's no similarly effective mechanism to push issues that don't result in direct profits to the people that care about them.

There are countless issues that are very important and should be addressed, but that don't have any direct financial beneficiaries and so are often ignored in US politics.
I'm a big ACLU supporter, but thought this was poorly done. They never released either the database or the code for this testing, and had configured the recognition level against Amazon's recommendations.
Bingo. Finance is just about allocating risk. When it goes wrong, it's either because 1) the risk taken was misunderstood, and/or 2) too much risk was taken.

Fraud falls into category 1 (as do many other things, like correlation of loan defaults), and leverage into category 2.

The mechanisms by which risk is allocated are generally quite simple.
Dart is simpler and more regular. Kotlin's couroutines feel much more complex and mentally taxing than Dart's implementation.
I hope this project gets more users, seems a nice tool but need a user base to work
The technological implementation is almost certainly an honest mistake but the marketing and sales around it is not. We've known about the importance of lighting in photography for more than a century and the computer vision industry has been battling the issue for decades in manufacturing because metal is shiny. Kodak even used to manufacture different films to better represent non-white people and camera sensor manufacturers today have entire teams with a swarm of diverse models dedicated to accurate color reproduction of skin tones across races. It's been an ongoing issue for people of color ever since TV became a thing because those technologies were initially very poor at color reproduction as well, but that didn't stop newscasters from jumping face first into televised manhunts.

We've been around this block several times before and while the quarry may change from photo accuracy to ML driven facial recognition, the hunt does not. There's no excuse for selling technology to industries facing (or creating) life and death situations when the bugs are so obvious.
That's actually surprising; Texas has no such access. Hell, they even recently restricted mail such that you can't get greeting cards (I don't know all the details, but I know it involved people putting drugs in/on the cards, probably via ink)
I'm scared of that outcome. I'm glad you donated to them in the past so you obviously valued them at some point. Do you have articles to back that up? I'm not trolling; I wonder if this is the message that the "powers-that-be" want us to think.

Remember how McDonalds was the victim of a baseless lawsuit? Well, it wasn't actually the case, but that sure benefitted corporations who can now assert most lawsuits against them are frivolous.

https://www.caoc.org/?pg=facts
In case anyone was wondering the actual definitions:

An edge case is a problem or situation that occurs only at an extreme (maximum or minimum) operating parameter. For example, a stereo speaker might noticeably distort audio when played at maximum volume, even in the absence of any other extreme setting or condition. [0]

A corner case (or pathological case) involves a problem or situation that occurs only outside of normal operating parameters—specifically one that manifests itself when multiple environmental variables or conditions are simultaneously at extreme levels, even though each parameter is within the specified range for that parameter. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_case

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_case
Those were running emulators though, running native software will be more efficient.
This feels like the opening to a movie that needs an intro to the variability of human societies. Love it!
Yeah I wish the flagship phone manufacturers would put the hardware back into the phone to take 3d photos...even better if you can get point cloud data to go with it. The applications right now are kind of cheesy but they will get better and if the majority of photos taken pivot to including depth information i think it could really drive better capabilities from our phones.

Eyes are very hard to make and coordinate, yet there are almost no cyclops in nature.
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> This is a borderline semantic argument.

There's no borderline, once the issue was raised of, to paraphrase “what does the term ‘socialism’ encompass”, the discussion was inherently one of semantics.

But that hardly invalidates a response once the term of the discussion are set.

> There is very little difference between banning almost all private businesses, and banning all owenership of private capital.

There's a very big difference, especially in the way socialists (who established the term) define “capital” (the definition is used in finance within capitalist societies is broader, expanding the original by metaphor, and useful for its purpose within capitalist societies, but it's not what socialists seek to abolisg. The socialist use is strictly limited to the physical, non-financial means of production.)

> Everything that everyone does, relates to capital. If I write code, I just produced capital.

No, you didn't, as socialists define the term (whether or not private ownership of IP is recognized—on which socialist preferences may vary—IP is not capital in the socialist sense, being decidedly non-physical.)

> As far as I am concerned, banning all private ownership of capital, is only very slightly different than banning private enterprise, given that the main function of many private enterprises is to create capital.

Again, no, what in capitalists societies are called “capital goods” are not capital in the socialist sense until and except as they are used as means of production. Socialism doesn't mean you can't own capital goods, it means you can't own those goods while renting labor to apply to them in the course of production (and many schools of socialism have a principled carve out for means of production to which the owners own labor exclusively is applied, the prohibition is most centrally about the separated relationship between labor and capital, which does not exist in that case.)

And this is all strict-sense socialism, which much modern developed-world socialism is decidedly not, being largely instead mixed economy ideology with a preference for more restraints on the power of capital owners over others in society than the dominant status quo in modern mixed economies. Your precious code and capital goods are even more safe there.
Oh maybe I didn't read parent comment thoroughly enough I was talking about having a UI with defined buttons you click and it sends the http request.

Yeah missed the Kanban part
The only reason that 3/4 (conservatively) of the population isn't walking around with their Borg implant Bluetooth earpieces these days is that, in most situations, if something is actually important someone will send you a text. And, yes, I clearly recall when being affixed to a Bluetooth earphone was widely viewed as douchey behavior outside of certain circles because it implied the person was just waiting for a call that was more important than you.

This has pretty much been normalized as more and more people expect immediate response to whatever trivial whine they have.
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I agree that 10 years (any years) in prison is excessive for what he was accused of, but the term being thrown around in this thread was "victimless crime". The mere fact that someone had to pay to clean his botnet from their systems means that this crime had a victim.

A more reasonable sentence would have been 2-3x the cost of the cleanup—and details on the systems that were compromised—plus a certain amount of (extrajudicial) social ostracism along the lines of ISPs not being willing to sell him Internet access based on his past history of abusing such privileges.
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I first heard about the Lindy Effect from Nicholas Taleb -- for those who don't know it:

The Lindy effect is a theory that the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things like a technology or an idea is proportional to their current age, so that every additional period of survival implies a longer remaining life expectancy.
1. Go find someone that has the authority to pay you money to build something.

2. if you think someone else might want that thing build that thing for person 1 and get paid while building it.

3. After you finish v1 for person 1, go find another person that would pay you to use most of v1 with a little bit of tweaking for themselves

4. Build v2 of the app for person 2. Get paid while building v2.

5. You now have most of a product and have been paid to build it. Try to generalize the product in a way that makes more people want to buy it. Build that version (v3) and try to sell it to new people.

6. Continue to develop the product (v3+) only building things that make you more money.
I find this so crazy! It says "Promoted" right there. I can use my browser's inspector to click on the element to select the div and then delete it.

Is there no simple way to accomplish the same in a browser extension without bringing in some crazy AI solution? Just read the webpage as it is rendered to an actual human, identify the x/y coordinates of the element, pass that to Firefox/Chrome/Safari's element selector, and delete. Voila!

I'm sure there's a very good reason why this exact solution just doesn't work, but I'd love to hear it explained, because it seems so simple to me. Then again I'm a backend guy, and I just don't even know frontend.
Amazon Won’t Let Police Use Its Facial Recognition Technology for One Year
The only companies the government is propping up are the airlines and small businesses by mainly paying for their payroll to keep people employed through the CARES act [0]. In what way is the government protecting large companies?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARES_Act
You’re seething, keep going.
This reminds me of an FBI agent who likes to keep his gun in his back pocket and have it bulging out, just to impress people who knew what he did. I can't imagine how a few bad apples within the police force would sit behind a computer playing with Facebook profile pictures and matching them against Rekognition.
Also some of those same websites allow you to change your email address and then lock you out.
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Using Firefox on Windows, doing this this will create a folder in "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[yourname]\storage\default\https+++www.youtube.com." which can't be deleted at all without some kind of hack.
Zoom may operate in multiple countries. But they are physically and legally headquartered in the United States.
> writing to fast

Writing too fast strikes again!
this is the real monopoly in western civilization. the zero click allows google to dictate a narrative on every topic
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So what? There is only one game out there and its called printing money.

We have bad loans on the books? Oops, nothing we can do here and can't have so many foreclosed lower valued assets. Print.

If anyone looked at billionaire net worths, they would know that hyperinflation is rampant. The only reason it doesn't show up in the cost of Milk is because the peasants (we the people) fight for scraps and are willing to take smaller slice of the pie.

In other words, the Bernanke trick of inflating assets in 2008 did its job. It inflated assets and the size of the pie increased. But 90% of the participants still have a lower share of the pie.
Old Saxon will be the closest thing to Frisian for the same time period, and it does look closer to the Old English:

Fadar usa firiho barno,

thu bist an them hohon himila rikea,

geuuihid si thin namo uuordo gehuuilico,

Cuma thin craftag riki.

UUerða thin uuilleo oƀar thesa werold alla,

so sama an erðo, so thar uppa ist

an them hohon himilo rikea.

Gef us dag gehuuilikes rad, drohtin the godo,

thina helaga helpa, endi alat us, heƀenes uuard,

managoro mensculdio,

al so uue oðrum mannum doan.

Ne lat us farledean leða uuihti

so forð an iro uuileon, so uui uuirðige sind,

ac help us uuiðar allun uƀilon dadiun.

[these are all of course translations from Latin, so there are also differences in translator choices as well.]
Why not?

What's the incentive for millions of people working for free on open source projects?
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Amazon Is Suspending Police Use of Facial Recognition for One Year
It's a bubble if investors are irrationally speculating on the future value of the assets, relative to the dollar.

It's price inflation if investors are rationally speculating on the future value of the dollar, relative to the assets.

It is hard to conceive that the dollar is not going to depreciate as a result of monetary policy, or that the monetary policy is going to change. I consider the latter scenario to be more plausible.

> "Fairly priced" is strange because every transaction is "fairly priced" in the moment

To be clear, I'm saying that the price represents fair value.
Here's the Twitter thread (that this BBC article basically copy / pastes from): https://twitter.com/zsk/status/1269960000203563009
Counterpoint: the better you get at copying, the faster you accelerate your ascent towards being exceptional. Copying is generally the beginning, not the end. By this anti-copying logic, practicing scales on an instrument shouldn't have any bearing on playing a complicated piece of music, only playing that piece, right? And yet, practicing scales until they're perfect and mastered pays dividends because the closer they get to second nature the more firmly they can serve as a foundation for second order skills.

Learning how to copy things is an art in and of itself. A lot of engineers (myself included) got into the craft by taking things apart and putting them back together again. It's true that you cannot become a good engineer /only/ by doing this, as at some point, you must learn how to create things from scratch that you've never taken apart and never put together before. It's true that teaches you a lot, but I think it's a little bit of a stretch to imply that it's the only thing that can teach you.
Looks awesome! Curious do you have any integrations?