skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm generalizing here, but many Americans don't trust the government with surveilling the general populous. What if they use facial recognition to arrest you and that facial-recognition is flawed? How do you prove it?

If a corporation uses facial recognition to count how many times I walked into a 7-11, I care much less about that than I do about the authorities building a database and watching every step people take in public. Yes maybe it's a little tinfoil hat to say, but the police/district attorneys are people and some of them are good, some bad. Why give them a tool that can be abused and misused against you?
My "404-pests" fail2ban-client status, which drops everything making *.php requests (This machine has never had PHP installed...):

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>you can still, after all of this, conclude that the piece of art is snobbish, artless garbage.

>I "know" it's worthless to me.

So long as one understands the "to me" is implicit, and so long as one understands that POV to be one of countless POV's, I don't see any issue with criticism.

For myself, if something doesn't work, and I see that it's not the work of a novice, I tend to default to, "It's not for me right now," rather than, "It's garbage." I can still discuss the reasons it doesn't work, but I find this perspective to be more helpful. It makes me more curious about the opinions of people who like it, which gives me more access to more perspectives. When something doesn't work for me, I want to know why it works for others. I don't mean this to come off as a game of semantics.
What would be fascinating is to reconcile how dissociatives (Ketamine, Salvia, etc) and psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin, DMT, etc) produce a similar end-states, despite operating primarily on different classes receptors, and most fascinatingly, having the _opposite_ "high-level" effects on the brain!

Psychedelics operate primarily on serotonin (5HT2A) receptors, and are said to "increase connectivity" and brain activity when measured via fMRI. Dissociatives, on the other hand, operate on NMDA receptors, and _decrease_ brain activity when studied.

While the actual qualitative experience may differ, it's fascinating how "more connectivity" and "less connectivity" both lead to the same place - ego death, depersonalization, feelings of connectivity and one-ness, experiences of seeing gods/aliens/the universe, etc.
The always-classic "what color are your bits?"

https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
It's more than racism. There are plenty of cases where police brutality was exercised against "white" people. There's a consistent theme of police using violent force as a first resort rather than a last resort. Police are armed to the teeth and trained to preemptively strike at the faintest sign of trouble.

There's a gif that humorously demonstrates this mentality [1] and shows a police officer instinctively pepper spraying the air around him in response to falling down, even though there's no one around him.

Personally, I blame the laws & culture that encourage excessive civilian gun ownership. The common excuse for preemptive police brutality is the fear that a civilian could be reaching for a gun which puts the officer's life in danger. Without guns, police have no excuse to strike preemptively and it'd be much easier to gain political support for de-arming the police.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/mx6faSk.gifv
> Would it actually be fine to stream an OTA channel? I don't actually know. I'm not sure it would be a business model for anyone but would that be considered a public performance?

The answer is no, and that's why Aereo lost their case.

It is important to note that Aereo lost their case under a specific carve-out for broadcast transmission. Back in the 70s there were a few cases around CATV operators doing the exact same thing Aereo did. The end result was a series of regulations that made rebroadcasting in the fashion you describe an act that required licensing from the original broadcaster.

This is also why the Slingbox back in the day survived legal challenges (if there even were any.) The Customer had to have their own physical hardware at the location receiving the signals.
I never looked into the TARPIT option in iptables before reading your comment. That seems really useful. I've been dealing with on and off bursts of traffic from a single AWS region for the last month. They usually keep going for about 90 minutes every day, regardless of how many IPs I block, and consume every available resource with about 250 requests per second (not a big server and I'm still waiting for approval to just outright block the AWS region). I'm going to try a tarpit next time rather than a DROP and see if it makes a difference.
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Yes! So perhaps one way to make the machine more efficient, is by one of pre-programmed “general” models, that can be attuned to a particular problem in a much shorter time?
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Digital Signal Processing by Alan V. Oppenheim and Ronald W. Schafer

Microelectronic circuits by Adel Sedra and Kenneth C. Smith

Introduction to Linear Algebra by Gilbert Strang
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This thread would be a good opportunity to promote the app/CMS/service I'm working on as another option. I wish I could share already
What do you think people thought about the telephone or internet 500 years ago? What makes you say such a tech will never exist?
"Defund the police" is very unfortunate terminology. It is viscerally appealing to the groups most upset about police brutality, but can scare away potential allies, who might get the impression that "defund" means doing away with any kind of armed law enforcement and leaving society at the mercy of violent criminals.

"Defund" is a good example of a term which has a precise, nuanced, technical definition to its main users but which shouldn't be used in common speech because it is so easily and terribly misunderstood. For another example, think about the word "intercourse". It can just mean "communication"... but what is the first idea that comes to most people's mind when people come across that word?
Pretty much every research grant that feeds university researchers (as opposed to industry researchers) will require that the results of the research must be published; often with some more specific criteria - e.g. a peer-reviewed journal with an impact rating in the top quartile, not just on your webpage.
"President Obama signed an executive order outlining emergency control of the Internet, and thus the Internet kill switch was born."

WTF?? Is there an Internet kill switch capability? Will it work if invoked?
I just noticed that too. Hmm. Maybe not the best thing to submit today.
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What's whit china and big 3 initial orgs
Well I really take issue with the idea that IP is "other people's stuff". I might say they were giving away copies of data that the government had granted others a monopoly on. I am being intentionally pedantic because copyright is much more harmful than people give it credit for. The internet archive is desperately trying to give people free books and others are trying to stop them.
I use UBO a bunch but I've not considered to focus on linkedin. This is excellent. Thanks so much!
Did you mean to say “not everything”? Much may be, but certainly not everything. As you said, operating or maintaining software is not generally considered R&D. Development without the Research component is just Development, not Research and Development.
Worth noting that some of it relates to seasonality - compare October to July in each year, for example.

It makes it a little tricky to draw direct conclusions without more analysis, but it's still an impressive visualization to have available.
Chris Bourg sent the email announcing it.
Such a police force only exists in fiction novels and on TV. It's not even just corruption that we have to be concerned about, it's just general incompetence - which exists in every facet of life. The problem is the police can arrest someone who has done nothing wrong and there are very few meaningful consequences. Once you are embroiled in the system, it is an expensive, slow process to get out of (if that's even possible.)
Have you tried feeding this to GPT and seeing if it continues it in a way that reveals understanding?

It sounds like you're saying "It doesn't work because it can't work", but you haven't actually shown that it doesn't work.
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Wow, conducting this study (and the IRB review) must have been great.

Hm, okay, at first I just saw the very linear response and wasn't sure how that translates low dose still helps build immunity, but then went back and read your comment up thread, which captures it better: the partial sickness gives partial immunity, thus "priming" the body for the full-blown thing.

Though getting the active transmission rate down could be more important in some places.
I think the writer doesn't mean financial debt, but problems accrued in society due to lack of responsible maintenance over many years, so to speak.
Looks to me like the more you use the word "racism", the farther from the solution you get. Not because it's not there, but because the word simply prompts mental models that are very entrenched and it's unlikely they'll lead to much change.

Trying to go for approaches that reframe the problems might be more productive. One point to take from this article is that there are interest groups that will lose power from any meaningful reform. Saying they're "white" is... just the same as usual. Saying that chief among them is quite likely the top management of law enforcement institutions is a lot more conductive to new solutions. And so on.
It did not work on this - https://www.wsj.com./articles/zuckerberg-lieutenant-returns-...
I don’t necessarily believe this but it’s fairly easy to craft an argument for arming military forces separately from police forces. In a well functioning government the police would operate in completely different theaters & under completely different rules than the military.

One can easily argue that many of the US’s current problems have to do with getting that blend incorrect but it doesn’t obviate the idea that done tech should go to one but not the other.
Super optimized with Facebook button on each post then. Not my definition of 'super optimized', but you know.
It was a $32B typo that only cost them $20M
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The map at https://maps.s5p-pal.com/ allows you to change the date. Comparing the 30-12-2019 - 13-01-2020 data to the latest makes a huge difference in certain areas.
I like OSM as much as anyone, but out of those four, it'd be fourth by a mile or two in terms of usefulness. The English Wikipedia (especially if including other Wikimedia projects) on its own would be practically enough to get humanity back to the current day if things were set back a few hundred years. The Internet Archive would be, too, and probably a bit further. OSM would just get you a slightly better map.

That said, 'jacquesm's comment is beyond stupid, really.
Online dating stands on its own in that it is a very front loaded experience in terms of getting to know another human - the judgement begins much before any interaction occurs. That is not the case in any sort of similar degree when you meet someone say at work, or in a sports club, or even in an online game or internet forum.

And as you point out, that makes the notion of a dealbreaker a fairly nuanced one - e.g. I might tell myself that I would never date someone who doesn't want kids because I do want kids, so why would I waste my time? On a website that shows these preferences, I will likely not engage with profiles who mention that they don't want kids, and ignore their messages.

But of course when the new guy shows up at work and he turns out to be really cute and interesting, I may be interested in him/we may start a romantic relationship before these preferences become apparent.

Which can then go in any number of directions - the relationship might fizzle out really fast. Or it may engender personal change for the partners. Or it might lead to many decades of bitter resentment. Who knows! This could make the rational argument that one should accept to chat with anyone on a dating profile regardless of their displayed preferences, but of course that's not how humans tend to reason.
Why a sphere and not some other shape?
I'd send them a bill. And a debt-collector.

But I'm curious, was the marketing campaign successful?
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Has that ever worked? I can't find any record of judgments one way or the other, on their website or elsewhere.
The Fountain is just one in a series of Duchamp's 'readymades' which are found objects that became works of art when the artist identified them as such. Duchamp was not doing this to be a snob but rather to draw people's attention to appreciation of the design of everyday things.
You'd think JavaScript's used more by devs than Java, but it's not
> I'd like to prepare, just in case, to have technology to reproduce her voice from keyboard or other input.

Is this something that she wants? She's got a lot on her plate (emotionally and logistically) to prepare for this surgery, and maybe doesn't need a big geek project inflicted upon her just because there's a small chance of a bad outcome.
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I'm staring to find out (due to some interviews I have), people get confused that I can program given that I'm a PM. I code mostly in Ruby, and do data analysis with SQL but I can also use Python.

I usually code either because I need to automate my QA with Selenium/Capybara, do SQL queries for data analysis, but also because it's a hobby: so I can create MVPs at anytime.

I think that is a benefit, what other PMs here think about? Are there PMs interested in coding? Why?
Another options for typed actors is Akka for Scala and Java: https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/typed/actors.html
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Interesting to see this kind of work coming out of China.

> The founding team of EMQ hails from Huawei, IBM, Amazon, and Apple with years of experience and a deep understanding of the industry.

https://www.emqx.io/about
In one particularly embarrassing example, in 1994, a diabetes care journal published an article which described a novel method for estimating the total area under a metabolic curve:

https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152

(PDF: https://math.berkeley.edu/~ehallman/math1B/TaisMethod.pdf)

It wasn't until some months later that a response pointed out that the author had rediscovered the trapezoidal method, which was known to Newton and is typically covered in precalculus courses.

https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/10/1224
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The US opened its businesses after cases started to level off. There are some strategies where this isn’t the right time to open, but we’ve achieved what most people understood as the original goal of keeping hospitals up and running.

I don’t think many Americans didn’t take the virus seriously. What they were scared about is what we’re seeing in India and Mexico, where lockdowns had to be rolled back before they accomplished any suppression at all. This is just a complete disaster, sure to set back their economic and political development by decades, and I don’t think lockdown advocates had good reasons to believe it couldn’t happen here.
Just one more thing, I noticed that companies that are trying to hire Technical PMs tend to be more familiar with the idea of PM who can code.
False. It is no coincidence that as we enter an unprecedented period of economic depression, all the liberal media wants to discuss is racial disparities.

The ruling class is winning the class war, and as long as they can keep the working class fighting the race ware instead, nothing will change.

These protests are being milked for every last drop by the liberal media, in cooperation with liberal activist NGOs on behalf of the Democratic party.
Super optimized in a SEO sense, not in a pleasing the HN crowd kind of sense I'd assume ;)
My understanding was that open hardware stood for "open PCB design", with the idea that a community could be made around it to improve the design for later revisions.

Open toolchains are another topic, and indeed, Lattice FPGAs are now super attractive because of it! Hopefully, project X-Ray will bear fruits soon and I can ditch Vivado, at least during development!

In the end, a hardware design using Lattice or Xilinx FPGAs is not more or less open. Discrete components will always be proprietary (unless your name is Sam Zeloof). What matters is pushing the boundary further and further, and for this, FPGAs are amazing!
Turbo Pascal had a system like that called "Overlays" back in the 640 kB memory days. If you had multiple code modules of which just one was in place at a time, you could overlay them so just one got loaded at a time.

While that's before my time (Turbo Vision in 6.0 was when I started), TP 2 and 3 supported only COM files which could have only 64 kilobytes of code, making overlay extra important.
It says in the post he did this already
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Nasty PR teamses. Trixies. Trixies!
I'm in agreement with you. While its obvious that race is a factor in at least a subset of incidents with the police (and those incidents should be investigated to the fullest), the vast majority of issues stemming from police interaction can effect anyone of any color.

This is a legislative and judicial issue as well. Politicians, a fair number of whom are former judges, pass terrible legislation that is then prosecuted by DA's with little to no regard for justice (only conviction rates matter, right?), while cases are judged by former DA's who've managed to move up the chain a little. The management layer is a circle of incestuous self aggrandizing bullshit, and while cops are the boots stepping on the people, someone else to managing where, and how most of that stepping happens.
Someone purporting to be working in SEO and getting hit by 7M requests, but offers not real proof and cannot link the webpage either?

Am I just getting too suspicious?

Edit: Was trying to make a (bad) joke.
Thanks for your thoughtful and nuanced comment.

> If you take a step back and look at research as an enterprise, the scale is absolutely staggering. Tens of billions of public & private money needs to be allocated to researchers every year & it needs to be done in a way that is insulated from political & social tides, so that big problems like cancer, aging, antibiotic resistance & pandemics can be worked on consistently over the decades it takes to make real progress. You don't want a system like this to change quickly. That said, it is changing.

First off, in reply to this part: "You don't want a system like this to change quickly." ... I don't accept this as a first principle.

It is useful to think about how research and funding interrelates with publishing and peer-review mechanisms. However, I would not advocate a "go slow" approach with regards to modernizing publishing, e.g. out of some concern for the ability of research and funding aspects to "keep up".

Generally speaking, I advocate for finding leverage points in systems to drive change. Right now, there is considerable leverage to apply to the big academic publishers. So, now, we should push. The big publishers will respond; there will be friction and academic and political fighting. If we're successful, there will be change.

I don't worry much about how such changes will hurt the research and funding system. The system will adapt.

I am mindful that people have jobs in these industries, and that change may threaten them. But it would be a fallacy to only blame promoters of change for risking the status-quo jobs. I think a big responsibility falls on the companies, too. They are (presumably) intelligent actors. So what is stopping the companies from reforming themselves internally? Doing so could provide continuity to their employees, preserving tacit knowledge.

When a company can fight change with PR and lobbying more affordably than adapting, I am rarely surprised at what happens.
We will never be all experts on all subjects. Peer review is by peers, not laypersons.
From the STEM perspective, a democratic solution would be a disaster. Two immediate reasons come to mind, the loss of peer expertise in the noise, and brigading.
New York City, which is very dense, uses a lot of public transport and had extremely high infection rates.
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Applied statistics.
I want to take a step further and say that it's the character of the individual, the bravery of the one who's willing to shut out the outer world in pursuit of what's intrinsically valuable to the inner world. It's those who are critical that live at the mercy of the criticisms of others, and those will never be able to live the lives that'll fulfill them. This way of phrasing helped me understand more emotionally.
I think it's a combination. Even by global standards these ones are very big plants and concentrated in a fairly small area. There are handful of other plants there too that I don't recall.

Dirty - yeah that too unfortunately. The plants tend to use worse grade coal (good stuff gets exported) and aside from Kusile they run without SO2 scrubbers, which is quite sketchy given the coal grade. Though this is a NO2 map so unsure how that translates. It's all a bit of a mess frankly
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