skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the the word “guidelines” usually implied something more flexible. Thank you for the clarification (I certainly appreciate the limited snarkyness and toxic sarcasm within the hn community).
I've always been sketchy of Zoom after finding out it was started by a Chinese national when this is one of the top recruitment avenues for Chinese espionage agencies.
We should be positive about public pressure having an effect on large corporations. We should not be positive about a large corporation making the calculated decision that a tiny drop in revenue is worth the advertisement and good press that comes with it.

What percent of AWS revenue is from Rekognition? Probably a rounding error.
Thanks while I don't fully understand what this means I think I get the idea. I assume it's a proof that has the "n" over infinite many cases (primes) but not all of them? Googling it was hard because there are other Lamé things. I'll just imagine he wrote this proof. Not the full proof, but not lame!
Is there a reason you don't simply put them on a virtual desktop and switch to that desktop instead of turning your head to look at a different monitor?

Maybe it's my slightly lowered perception threshold, but having a screen in my peripheral vision where e.g. new emails could be seen wouldn't be useful: I'd still see that a new email has arrived and would still need to decide whether I want to look at it now or whether that can/has to wait. And that's only a small step away from having a popup notification on my main screen about a new email.
https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2018/10/29/global-kernel-locks... is an interesting write up about the problem.
I'm fine with the US Government printing money when it makes sense to, such as during an economic downturn. However, since 2016, generally regressive federal tax policies without commensurate spending cuts during an economic boom have un-necessarily increased the national debt.

(To be clear: I don't think we should have been cutting social spending. But we definitely should not have been giving huge tax breaks to the most wealthy.)
Third party apps link Sync for Android still work
At the current level of spam link posting, sure. But if getting spam links into Wikipedia were more valuable -- say, if they stopped using rel=nofollow -- I wonder how much the amount of incoming spam would increase.
I would not describe Zoom as polished. The video quality is horrible and the interface could be from 10 years ago.

I had a difficult time getting Jitsi to work with a friend. Also, despite using more bandwidth the video was inferior compared to FaceTime.
RGB-D based semantic segmentation is certainly a thing. I'm sure it's also been done with video sequences as well.
Agreed, financial market structure is often intentionally obfuscated by incumbents. The worst public example is undocumented equity order types [1].

The Fed's monetary policy models are another story. If you drill down on the internal politics of the FOMC, you start to see the "research" as Kabuki theater which exists to justify whatever decision the big people upstairs want.

It is this political dynamic, rather than the reduced compensation, that deters most talented people from public service.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443989204577599...
Simple Android application sandbox file browser
I just published my first tool that helps to reverse engineer android apps by directly viewing files (SQLite databases, images and more) in the application sandbox.
I'm not a programmer but know enough to copy paste to create something that works so please let me know what you guys think.
Try it out, open an issue if you find any problems. PRs are welcome.
Really cool idea! Good revenue model too, I can easily see $1/job being an easy value proposition.

One thing that gives me pause as a prospective user is that I don't know what will happen if there's any "essay response" style questions in the job app. Given that the jobs I'm paying to apply to are probably jobs I'm interested in, I'm less likely to risk using it on an interesting looking job.

That said, I really dig the minimal look of this website. The gifs are a great way to show program flow and are much easier to read than a jumbotron.
It stands for Software Development Engineer, but Google use SWE instead, as though "software" is two words.
Thread migration only costs on the order of 100 microseconds, including the effect of cold caches. If you keep the AVX thread on the big core for at least 100 milliseconds at a time, you only lose ~0.2% performance.
> 1. HTTPS everywhere has zero impact on the usability of a website, but makes visiting those sites much more secure.

You have to install a plugin on every browser and device. That's not user friendly. Also some sites break and you have to understand why.

> 2. Apple's App Store model for installing applications improves security and is also easier to use for the average user.

You have to have an account on the app store. You can't log into the same account on more than five machines. You have to put your password in every time you install an app.

That's all a lot harder than clicking on a link in an email.

> 3. 1Password with Touch/Face ID can actually be easier these days than entering emails and passwords manually.

You have to install 1password on all your devices. You have to mange your passwords with 1password. I'm an expert and even I have a hard time getting it to catch every update and every password field. 1password is a usability nightmare. Having the same password everywhere is a lot easier (and obviously less secure).

You're looking at one aspect after the initial setup and ignoring maintenance.
>what moral obligations do corporations have beyond following the law and trying to provide the optimal product to their consumers?

Corporations have no such morals. They are profit seeking social constructs. Breaking the law is often a profitable cost of doing business, as is making an ever increasingly shitty product when there is little to no competition.
What is even being discussed here? A subreddit?
I don't use it because development team is based in China.
To be fair, I think every financial instrument works this way (the transitive property of assets which own assets) all the time.

Having regulations which restrict which companies are allowed to trade specific classes of instruments/services (eg. Glass Steagall) helps mitigate this, but doesn't even approach eliminating it.
>I love the idea that the entire global economy is fake, artificial and zombie-like, because it doesn't operate the way you think it should. A reasonable person would take a step back and question their premises and understanding.

The new part is the expectation that governments will prop up companies during bad economies.

This is bewildering to anyone with a naive view that believes America is a purely capitalistic economy. Surely if a company prepares enough for the storms, it's worthy of surviving them. Running thin savings is now more risky, but it means more profit. That's fair.

From another perspective, it's economic innovation where unpredictable disasters don't kill huge companies or industries. This can be a good thing, but it's not really capitalism any more.

So the person taking a step back will ask, "How far will the government go to protect large companies? How large do you have to be to get this protection? How does all of this work?" This is what we can't answer.

This is where people (rationally) start to believe things are fake, because the country's leadership gets to decide what happens to companies during these times.

Now this company knows the government is likely to bail them out, what reason do they have to plan for the worst any more? This gets even more uncomfortable when they get bailouts for causing the disaster themselves.
The key offering here is a tangible metric for real costs: dedicated FTE positions.

The questions of what debt is, what systems are, and what systemic debt are, deserve deeper inquiry, I'll allow. The notion of techical debt's been floated going back at least to Ward Cunningham (http://wiki.c2.com/?TechnicalDebt), and strikes me as highly useful.

Obvious cognates to both financial and evolutionary systems. As well as, as you note, Tainter's work on complexity.

Another point I've seen increasingly made of late, particularly post-Covid19, is of the conflict between efficiency and resilience.

Other references:

Martin Fowler, TechnicalDebt
https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html

Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt

The Technical Debt Community:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180718121933/http://www.ontech... (archive).

Numerous HN discussions:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Reddit search:
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q="technical+deb...
I hope that at least one executive ends us spending some jail time, instead of settling the case (which I think is most likely). Price fixing generic drugs will leave out access to those that are most financially vulnerable, all while coporationss make big bucks.
sounds like your friend was targeted by the gov / crime org
Yes, you’re right. That was a bad place for the passive voice.
... or efibootmgr
> Yes. MSM generates its own narrative to fit left-wing politics.

Did you pick up that talking point from Fox, also a member of MSM?
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Addresses
Ask HN: What open source projects do you sponsor?
With the rise of fundraising platforms like Patreon, OpenCollective, and GitHub Sponsors, it's now more common to see open source projects to get funded this way.

What interesting projects or creators do you support personally? Which projects deserve more visibility and funding?
There was a discussion on HN last week that I can't find where I was enlightened to find out that one of the big problems around doing facial recognition is proper lighting and without it you can't really build good models and be able to really use the image.

As an extension of this photographs of individuals with darker skin required more lighting than photographs of individuals with darker skin.

I don't know all of what goes into the ML for facial recognition and I am sure there are people far smarter than me working on it (and making way more money than me to boot), but I guess my thought here is that some variation of Poe's Law applies. I know that people are quick to jump to condemn something as racist but sometimes there really are just honest mistakes.

I have a hard time believing that anyone at any level of the AWS structure set out to produce a racist facial recognition, but rather it may have just been an honest over site and rather than rushing to crucify them we should instead look at it as a learning opportunity to help develop further the field of facial recognition.

EDIT: I wanted to clarify that although I don't think it was done purposefully I don't think it doesn't bespeak a problem; my intention was rather to serve as a suggestion that we should sometimes temper the often strong reaction produced when labeling something racist, and focus our efforts on identifying and solving the issue rather than trying to act punitive. To forestall objections I do recognize this is an issue that does require correction, and that it does bespeak a larger societal problem that has real consequences for real people ever day, but in my experience we will get more progress by attempting to work together in a spirit of cooperation rather than a spirit of anger and vengance.
>we couldn't bring doughnuts to a morning meeting with NASA because they're government officials and that could amount to bribery.

Were you a government employee? If so were you in a different agency? Can NASA employees bring doughnuts for other NASA employees?
The stock market used to be a way to raise capital for profitable business ideas. Now, private equity has enough capital, they don't need to raise money from the general public. We've been shutout of the good money, we only get to pick up the crumbs, if we're lucky. The only businesses that IPO now are sure money-losers.
>what moral obligations do corporations have beyond following the law and trying to provide the optimal product to their consumers?

This question just does not work when you consider how much companies spend lobbying.
> there seemed to be no substantive discussion

Just because you don't know about it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Try google "aclu facial recognition", "eff facial recognition".

congress.gov returns 132 bills introduced in the last two sessions going back to 2017. If you read the titles, it's clear many of them are related to transparency and respecting rights to privacy.

https://www.congress.gov/search?searchResultViewType=expande...
Imagine how much easier ending sentences with hyperlinks would be.
> those platforms that endorses pure freedom of speech and ends up being labeled by society as a haven of crime and extremism

Oh, You mean like physical conversations between people?

> Might be required for enforcement against illegal activity

"required"? You mean, it would _help_ governments enforce laws. If enforcing the law is a supreme consideration, then it's required. For me - it is not.
Does Benchling welcome remote employees? I'm in the South Bay.
I have used Graphviz that way. It wasn't too bad. The most annoying part was inconsistency in input and output units. Some properties expect values in pixels, some are in inches, and dpi for input and output are different with only one of them being configurable.
Otherwise code was quite straight-forward: create context, create nodes, create edges, set attributes, run layout, read positions and edge path coordinates, do the cleanup.
I don't think this compares directly to the now-commonplace kowtowing that you are referring to. That would be more akin to Zoom, for example, retracting and apologizing for some public statement that it made in recognition of the Tiananmen Square protests.

Instead, this is a US-based communications platform, barring its US-based users from discussing something that is offensive to a foreign regime, and doing so outside of any official rules that they have made public.

Now, of course, you are correct, this has nothing to do with any kind of deeply held values. It is merely about money. I don't think that makes it better.
Honestly the HN obsession with modifying titles is excessive. I understand not wanting to have incendiary titles which encourage flamewars, but the rest of the policies around title editing / sanitizing don't seem that useful and actual hinder coherence in many cases (like this one)
My understanding is that window scaling and SACKs enable TCP to detect losses within large segments too. The only limitation is that most congestion controllers throttle back when detecting packet loss. Newer latency-based controllers don't suffer from that problem.
What do you mean "now?" They've always had the power to do that.
Unfortunately push-to-talk is not standard on anything. I've hacked together a hotkey to do it, but there's always too much lag. Somebody should make a wired headset with a button and two modes, one is push and hold to talk and the other is push and hold to mute.
Ask HN: How do I get to $100 MRR?
Let's say I'm a web developer, not by any means a senior developer or prodigy, but more than competenent enough to build a reasonable SaaS tool or service.

If you were me, how would you go about finding a project to work on, making that project, launching it, and generating revenue?

My primarily pain-point at the moment is finding vali ideas which I believe in enough to pursue. I try to look at problems and am constantly searching for opportunity, but I must just not have an eye for it as I struggle to concoct actionable ideas.
The social obligation to be bad at things
Got it thanks. And you think that’s something to be concerned about because the ability to print money is reduced by every bill printed and thus should be used modestly / wisely?
I didn't mean to direct that rant at you specifically, I've just seen a lot of usage of the passive voice lately that serves to decouple police actions and their consequences.
Can someone explain what has kicked off this retraction from face recognition from IBM and now Amazon? I mean it’s always had dubious uses. What has made this happen right now?
When we had some very cold winters in the UK I had to wait for the room to warm up for our 8 inch floppys to work in our DEC PDP.
We have used a lot of time making it work on Safari. And we continue to use quite substantial resources on it. Their webrtc implementation is quite new, and not as stable as Chrome and Firefox. And with new code comes new bugs.

There is currently a bug with audio, where it'll crash in Safari, -- and we have had some issues reconnects that was more our fault (though Firefox and Chrome is much more forgiving). We have a workaround for the first, and will be doing a fix for the second once we're reasonably sure it won't regress other browsers.

Is it any of those issues you talk about? Or is it something else? (I'm not personally familiar with the Safari issues, btw, since I'm a Linux user, but I keep an eye on Firefox and Chromium-based browsers)
I use a laptop and an iPad that way. Instead of being fixed I can go to a convenient corner, esp if my gf has a meeting at the same time.

Another trick that works well is to use my phone as the Zoom camera. There are a bunch of apps you can use (why? Quicktime can just connect to the phone) but I simply connect in multiple times.
> through reasoned debate and proper functioning of government.

Yikes. Is there a fallback option?
I agree. Utilize your value and renegotiate the terms of what agreement so that you get a piece of the company down the line. Don't be afraid to also demand that you need to approve of the buyer whoever they may be.
No, they have always had that right, as does any other private business. You can always refuse service if it is not on discriminatory grounds (gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion or disability).
Then won’t departments just go to the highly secretive companies like Palantir?
Yeah, this article is almost completely devoid of information.
On mobile you can post a YouTube video in WhatsApp and it won't show you ads when you view it
Youtube Premium is quite expensive for paying to remove ads and to download videos on mobile unless you’re also willing to use Youtube Music as your dedicated streaming service (and last I checked on the desktop there wasn’t even a way to disable the video part, which is an absolutely colossal waste of bandwidth).
But that's why we constantly have to remind these companies that such sycophancy will cost them dearly in the world's largest market.
I remember at the AWS summit maybe two years ago, they were casually showcasing how some police depts were using Rekognition. Oh my, what a culture shock. How can you basically foreshadow 1984 on stage without blinking an eye?
The article isn't clear about it, but I believe it's: https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/
This looks super useful!
Bash and the Terminal for Absolute Noobs
In practice most PM's have a VaR limit and a battery of dollar exposure limits, which are all set by the risk department.

There is some credible research which suggests that large financial institutions act as if they are optimizing mean return subject to a VaR constraint [1].

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w18943
It's chinese. lol
Yup there’s that sociopathic alienation that’s normalized in the tech industry.
Agree with a majority of this. US bank balance sheets are in a whole different universe than they were during the last crisis. CLOs are not only a minuscule portion of their holdings but they also hold a tiny percentage of outstanding CLOs.

Japanese co-op banks on the other hand have huge CLOs holdings and would be extremely exposed if these went sour.
That doesn't address what I said at all. This is about extensions that are in this Atom-class SoC.
Opinion of police departments is falling so this could quite plausibly be the next big battleground.
I don't mean to imply that there wasn't discussion or advocacy around the issue but rather it was not an issue that was high in public awareness or concern.
This is all true and on target. Comparing US federal debt to personal debt beyond anything but the most surface level is inappropriate.

Another class of entities that have a kind of 'forever debt' are large corporations. In general, they never want to be debt free. As I said elsewhere, it's about the percentages and trends.

To be clear: even this comparison has weaknesses. Indeed, US federal debt truly has no direct parallels.
Thankfully it’s not up for individuals to decide.
It's a single chokepoint for all DNS traffic on my network. So I do not need to configure any device or application to use it. For instance, my piece of crap Roku stick benefits from all the same ad blocking that my mac, iphone, etc... do.

There is also a lot that goes on outside of your browser. It blocks tracking logic embedded inside other things, too. For example, my TV cannot phone home to Samsung anymore to tell it what I am doing.

You can get really wild with firewall rules to truly prevent any DNS traffic from escaping your physical network.
My writing (especially in emails) is just TERRIBLE lately. Twice last week I used "You're" instead of "Your" and noticed after I hit send. I don't know what's happening to me, other than writing to fast, but I just can not write like I once could now.
I think it's an absurd assertion to say "there was no substantive discussion prior to this about police using Rekognition". Seems to me that people are now becoming aware of the problem with this, and Amazon has implemented a one-year (not permanent moratorium) in order to allow for more discussion and legislation around the issue. There are much bigger implications than the facebook issue if you are misidentifying criminals as a result of bad facial recognition, so you can't really equivocate the two.

Also, to call this "mob outrage" or "principled consumer pressure" is delegitimizing the entire thing. Do you really genuinely think this happens any other way? Seems like when a lot of people start to have a problem with something, it makes sense to have a moratorium and investigate improvements/solutions.
Some not very technical reasons:

1) Run once, use everywhere. (Including devices without a browser, like an Android/Apple/'smart' TV.)

2) iPhones.

3) Configure alongside rest of networking, not clicking buttons to manually sync within browsers of the same type.
Just curious if anyone has tried creating rooms or logins (or passwords) that reference Tiananmen and had their accounts closed?

I'm imagining that doing this on a company account could be a painful revenue destroying form of protest.
You still need to keep your unacknowledged data buffered somewhere. If the kernel isn't holding it then it's in userspace.
Why aren't all the liberals talking about human rights abuses in china ?
I have no issues actually doing the things you’re mocking. I’m very secure in my own ability to contribute to society.

Oh god not the rules! How will this produce complacent founders?
Pi hole blocks at the DNS later, so non-browsers are also affected, e.g. IoT devices.
It's not nil. For "connected" UDP sockets, it's smaller than TCP's, but not nil because, well, buffers. And for non-connected UDP sockets there's still buffers. The main thing is that you can have much less buffer space because you might always be willing to drop packets. Ultimately you can have much lower memory pressure from those buffers and the smaller PCBs.
This read more like an advert than a comment, and that is certainly the most loaded question I've ever seen in written English.

Giant centralized troves of personal data are a huge risk to everyone. Civilization pivots and mutates rapidly, and it's clear to nobody at any particular time which way it may lean next, or whether it will lean toward them or on top of them. If anyone had told you there'd be global mass beheadings of century-old statues 3 weeks ago, I suppose you'd have been laughing then too.