skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont buy that. Vision developed for different purpose than to provide full HD sharp vision across entire FOV. It has great pattern recognition and peripheral motion detection. It heals itself. It has low power consumption. It does not overheat and can work in many environments, even under water.

Modern competition like Go PRO require too much baby sitting, and can hardly work for 2 hours without maintenance.
I mean to say - if you take market share into account we have less diversity in important systems people use.
Quick correction; I've never been to Scotty's Castle, but I've been to DV a handful of times and that all struck me as slightly off. It looks like the distance is 117km (73mi), and actually that route is denser in terms of services than any other part of DV. You'll go past Furnace Creek which is the only place in the park with premium gasoline, and you'll pass the major junction with Highway 190 which means regular gasoline is available at Stovepipe just a handful of miles west of that junction.

(The only other place with fuel that I can think of, offhand, is Panamint Springs, and is quite a bit more pricey than the other areas.. and also, a mountain crossing away)
Ohhhhhhhhh! So that's why whenever I stop and look up at a traffic light with a timer, the first second always seem longer than the subsequent ones.

This is so cool. It's one of those mundane things that you think only occur to you, when in reality it's way more common and intriguing. Like those eye floaters.
> selling information of every passerby

Or products based on that information, e.g. a list of people who appear relevant to an ad campaign.
It's not an accident that the South is like that. I suggest reading some of the "Daughter of the Confederacy Catechism" booklets you can find online. Here's a transcription of one: https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Children_U_D_C_Catechis...

As the word catechism suggests, the Lost Cause view of history [1] is basically a folk religion. The modern version of it quite often includes a denial that the Civil War was about slavery at all. "States rights!" they will cry. When you ask them what right exactly was worth going to war over, the answers quickly get hazy. But contemporary documents like the Cornerstone Speech [2] and many of the declarations of secession make clear that it's slavery and violently enforced white supremacy that are the core.

And it's not like those views went away. The building of confederate statues was popular [3] during a period known as the Nadir [4], an extended period after Reconstruction when white anti-black sentiment took a turn for the worse. That peaked of course with the Tulsa Massacre [5], which white people covered up for decades. But it includes widespread violence and ethnic cleansing across the US, and even includes the only successful coup against an American government. [6] Historians are still finding smoking guns that the statues are monuments to white supremacy. [7]

So when the inheritors of the Lost Cause talk about heritage, it's necessarily fuzzy, because they can no longer just come right out and say it's about protecting white dominance. But you'll note that they aren't celebrating certain major cultural heritage elements rooted in the South, like the blues, jazz, and soul music.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech

[3] https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/com_whose_heri...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir_of_American_race_relatio...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_189...

[7] e.g.: https://twitter.com/ProfessorTwitty/status/12722193227656724...
Speaking by the book less competition lower prices more competition greater prices.
I think the problem with your argument is that most people don't think those things would apply to them, or they wouldn't care if they did. And in their defense, at least in the the US, most of the examples you give are hypotheticals. Possible rejoinders:

1. In the US, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act already prohibits this. For other things, like "are you a skydiver", the insurance company already has the right to ask you that.

2. I mean, sure, I'm sure I've broken some laws, but I can't think of any examples of overly agressive prosecutions for people who weren't already guilty of bad shit.

3. I mean, people are already used to creepy hypertargeted Facebook ads, most of them have don't really care anymore.

4. I mean sure, but how does this affect me?

5. This just sounds like a hand-wavy slippery slope argument.

I think the issue for most people in the US is that they still fundamentally believe that the justice system is generally "just", at least with respect to themselves, though that is obviously changing. Contrast that with Germany, where people are vividly aware of what happens when the government uses personal data nefariously.
Why do people sprinkle curse words pointlessly over otherwise useful information?
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It is entirely their responsiblity. There is a reason why most societies/religions encourages only sex after marriage. To engage in sex before marriage then blame the birth control products or lack of an education doesn't really add up.

The rape pregency is a different matter. Before safe abortions the mother had the baby and treated it as an innocent child. Some would be given up for adoption. Some societies force the rapist to pay. No society killed the baby when it was born.
If you really think anyone is going to start riots and revolutions because Facebook and google cant stalk them online, I think you have a skewed perspective.
For the first year, anyway. If the project continues to grow, next year they would be called to deal with the enormous spaghetti mess that has resulted.
I meant is it easier to say "a nvidia" or "an Nvidia", assuming you are pronouncing nVidia correctly.
Agreed, mostly. Throw the game? I'm not sure they even know where the game is, and what's being played. Too often they're at the wrong venue suited up to play checkers. That's no way to win a chess match.

To your point, so often this happens that there's only two possibilities:

- incompetence / negligence
- it's intentional

Either way, we lose.
Why would you assume that your experience isn't common to others with the same evolutionary history and environment?
I said Facebook and Google would turn off their websites - they have zero obligation to keep it running - not that people would like them to breach their privacy and start rioting for that.

I think you don't realize how many people absolutely depend on social media, how many companies are built on income allowed by advertising, etc. Even music events are organized through Facebook around me!

And still, all Facebook and Google needs to do is remind the politicians who gets their advertising done.
The answer is scalable punishment. Punish companies based on the number of users they end up violating privacy of instead of a big constant fine. If facebook violates privacy of 2 billion users, they should get punished separately for each of them.
Yes for sure it does hah
Oddly mesmerising. What did you use to do it?
>Someone who works to stay fit should be rewarded vs a fat individual or someone doing extreme sports.

What about those who work to stay fit but are still fat according to their BMI? Not everyone gets dealt a good genetic hand.
Because it’s hip to be square!
And a couple of weeks ago I was wondering why on earth anyone would want fully homomorphic encryption (FHE)?

So I am wondering if it is possible to do an operation like "add this new address to the record"?
Counterpoint: imagine finishing the job in half the time using two times the same battery power

I would make that trade, I would work less hours and spend half a day, everyday, off

Anyway

My matebook 13 does 15 hours of normal workload on battery while also being very thin and light (and 350 euros cheaper than an equivalent MacBook air)

It mounts an AMD Ryzen

I seriously doubt that I will need 30 hours on battery in the near future

Unless I'm stranded on a desert island, but I guess I'd have to face more serious problems then...
So many websites require Google scripts to operate, even if you personally use alternatives whenever possible you are stuck in their ecosystem.
I don't think that Target thing happened in 2012, iirc I first heard that story in 2010.
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> How is this conclusion different than saying that, say, reading anything in any magazine is a waste of time because the magazine sells advertising space?

It is different because the business model of the magazine is to create some content that people enjoy, so that they will tolerate the ads that come with it.

Here, the content itself is an ad in disguise. That is the business model of SEO, "content marketing" etc, and this is why it keeps flooding the web with mediocrity.
Not the author, but the algorithm is at

https://random-roads--edwardcunningh2.repl.co/script.js
A similar (and similarly good) thread on sensory and motor systems: https://twitter.com/analogist_net/status/1014397203450744832
> "Intelligence research" is, like most of psychology, an elaborate grift designed to give a handful of people cushy tenured jobs. Actual geneticists, that is, people who study how genes actually work, wouldn't touch the standards of rigor of "intelligence research" with a ten foot pole.

Wow, that's... Misguided. Most intelligence research doesn't have to do with genetics at all, to start with. Second, twin studies have shown that intelligence is highly heritable, with about half of variance explained by genetics (and half "non-shared environment", also known as random chance) - we might not know what genes are responsible, but you don't need to know the genes to compare identical and fraternal twins. Finally... IQ is real is one of a very small number of psychology studies that reproduces consistently, so the normal "psychology is bunk" objections don't apply.
I still prefer a wired connection, but I don't think wireless is evil. The main problem is people use crap equipment, most likely provided by the ISP. Most of this equipment has chips that overheat a degrade the performance. Most of the ISP only provides AIO router+modem combos. People use it instead of buying a good router+wireless access point.

This reminded me to this article I read a few years ago:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/review-ubiquiti-unif...
The breathless reports that antibodies fade out are absurd. All antibody production fades, but immune memory cells persist and if the infection is reintroduced the B cells will rapidly trigger an immune reaction. The way that antibody fade out is being portrayed as a loss of immunity is profoundly ignorant of the immune system. You would not want your body to be producing full scale antibody responses to every pathogen you’ve ever encountered as it is energetically intensive and would harm the ability of the body to react to new threats
If you want to get little deeper into this, Thomas Philippon (NYU professor) has nice new book "The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets" https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237544

Here is an interview that gives the outline: https://promarket.org/2019/12/09/the-lack-of-competition-has...
The real world is muddled and confusing... science in its proper form observes that world, attempts to find the underlying facts and make our understanding of the muddled confusion clearer.

It takes a lot of observing, thinking, and testing to arrive at a decent picture of what wasn't known before.

> Science is not the word of God

No, and that's a good thing. Scientific progress depends on revising knowledge as more facts accumulate and point in different directions. Until there's enough information to illuminate things well, there are a lot of questions, missteps, etc.

I would want the government, private institutions, and every individual to lean MORE on actual science than they ever have, and to understand its benefits AND limitations, because that is how the world learns and improves.
That gov is also buying the data. Snowden swept under the rug. The so-called Patriot Act up for renewal. The gov is going to take the position that best preserves its own interests. This is the pattern some of us keep seeing; the rest simply can't be bothered.
We used Figma to design our app[1] (and everything around the app), and real-time collaboration was truly invaluable as a fully remote team.

[1] https://supernotes.app
You can't break down the environmental impact of foods by saying "meat bad, veg good" - it's far more nuanced than that. Most of the environmental impact of any food comes from clearing land for monoculture, subsidized water supply systems, pesticides and herbicides to keep competing plants at bay, labor intensive harvesting, transportation, storage and the distribution supply chain. I could grow my own lettuce (best), buy it from a local farmer (good) or buy it from a supermarket (worst) - how it gets to your table is by far the biggest driver of environmental impact, not the food itself.

Sure, we should be eating less meat. But it's not a panacea, we must address the systemic problems of industrial agriculture that makes veganism possible.
right, i only do vanilla: sites are finished fast and they just work. not someone any one would hire. people are really used to frameworks. it would be a step back for them.

>In one place I wanted to change a button’s HTML contents.

if you know what the hidden elm is going to contain you can just add the html to the page as a hidden elm. if it can have 2 states you can also add both nodes as html. just show only one at a time.

the <i> and the <object> are always children of <button> i would target them as such, no need to have a class. unless you use <i> 2x. (one for each state) but i think the icon should be the button bg.

onclick gives you a reference to the button with which you can change it's class. things inside (now styled by the classname of their parent) will change along. (swap bg, hide/show etc)
It's a common stressor because it's obviously going to be used to assess your job performance, and you need to put effort both into reporting accurately and making you look good. It can get excessive, depending on the quality of management. I've seen bad software managers essentially demand that devs live demo everything they're working on, three times a day, with no notice.

I find good managers are capable of measuring progress without demanding frequent "status updates". It varies from job to job, but I find getting frequent, small PRs (even to dev branches) works well.
Wait till you find out about school forcing surveillance tech from the big companies. You don't have a choice whether you are at home or in school.

During the lockdown, schools decided to force kids to install spyware and malware on their own devices. Literal hijacking of everything you do on the device and then pushed a COC on what you can and cannot do on that device.

In developed countries or rich places, you might afford privacy but free services or traps offered by big companies see widespread use in developing countries. Schooling situation is worse and they are profit seekers who will sacrifice privacy for saving up few $$$.

Privacy is not something to be bought, it's a right.

To give you one example, google analytics and ads. An average person might be able to block that on desktop by simply installing a plugin but on phone, there is no way to install a plugin for your browser. Solutions like [0] blokada are not well known. Most people don't know how to configure a proxy, change dns and they won't install a different browser. And then there are apps which are way worse than websites. There is a reason why companies push you so hard to use the app. Reddit, Imgur, twitter, instagram, facebook etc. Why app?

Also, windows, google captcha, amp, search, youtube etc. You can't escape them.

0] https://blokada.org/index.html
Having an actually solid foundation when you're being paid 300K to be expert isn't "enlightenment". It's "appropriately qualified".

Hacking the hiring process has a good effort vs reward ratio, but it's also high risk. The risk is that obvious gaps in the candidate's background surface after starting the position. Which usually doesn't turn out well: best case career stagnates and worst case the candidate ends up on the bottom of a stack rank when things get lean.

It's a risk that can be taken in a calculated way. Sometimes things turn out well. Sometimes not.
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> Someone who works to stay fit should be rewarded
Rewards to incentivize healthy behavior seems like a good idea.

This study about the impact of an incentive program for preventive care concluded: "Voluntary participation in a patient incentive program was associated with a significantly higher likelihood of receiving preventive care, though receipt of preventive care among those in the program was still lower than ideal."

https://www.ajmc.com/journals/issue/2014/2014-vol20-n6/impac...

> predisposition to disease
What about pre-existing conditions?
Does yours have the discrete GPU option? Mine doesn't, and I imagine that could make a big difference thermally.
I think RSA and DH call for exponentiation (modulo prime), not just multiplication. So multiply by 1024 and some significant efficiency derating as per sibling comment, and you should get close to 20ms.
I'm being sincere when I ask: what would you do with a self-taught CS background? I understand many of the larger companies require an understanding of CS principles, but, if not to be a successful developer, how useful is a self-taught CS education? What do you do with it if not software development? In my somewhat limited experience, the more CS-focused folks hold PhDs, and sometimes I feel it's more about the credentials than the education.
If you had their permission then no it wouldn't be a crime.
Humanity's competitive advantage—the reason we survive, thrive, and outcompete every other species—is that we work together. We cooperate, to balance one person's weaknesses with another person's strengths.

Social Darwinism is entirely based on misunderstandings of science and history. It is a dead-end philosophy, and needs to be eradicated with knowledge, replaced by the spreading of compassion and cooperation wherever it is found.
Shock value.
After a full year of only working with React, I started working on a few projects a couple of days ago with Vanilla JS only and it is refreshing. It feels like writing Haiku poems.
If you were never exposed to functional programming before, learning Haskell will give you a whole new perspective on how you write code, and I bet it will make you a better programmer just because of that.

With that said, in Europe I ever came across exactly zero job ads that require Haskell, and exactly one in Singapore. In North America / Bay Area it might be more common though.
This is a brilliant but absolutely heartbreaking article. It is so sad to think of all the children who have had their lives changed by such cruellness.
Slow. It uses a selector as an argument, which requires a parse step. It doesn’t take much effort to write something substantially better.
It’s really for both. I’m paraphrasing, but during Araq’s intro talk during the conference he said something like “Nim should be suitable for every task, but maybe not every programmer”. Whatever you’re trying to do, there’s probably a pretty good way to do it in Nim. It can run on microcontrollers or supercomputers. It can compile to C, C++, JS or LLVM ir (via nlvm), and has a good interop story with all of them. You can use it’s advanced meta programming facilities to create specialized domain specific languages, or you can ignore that feature and write code that looks more or less like python. It has an advanced compiler with lots of optimization opportunities, but it also has an interpreter if performance is less important.

You can use it without GC, but the new arc collector is suitable for hard real-time, so I don’t think there are many cases where you’d need to drop to manual management.

The main downsides (in my mind) are the small community and somewhat limited debugging support. I really like the language however, and use it wherever I can.
I think if you make websites at any layer you owe it to yourself to learn fundamental CSS and modern JavaScript (ES6).
Json schema is what vscode uses. It’s a standard nowadays. Just as effective as XMLSchema.

https://jsonschema.net/

http://www.schemastore.org/json/
This gets posted every few months. Every time I wonder how it's not been taken away for squatting. I wonder if (or rather how often) he's had to go to court.

Nissan.com has been the target of a few attacks if I recall correctly and is arguably less valuable and much more defensible (since the person who owns it is actually called Nissan).
I presume the plan was to return to the van as shelter if necessary, as the China Lake[1] military base was "only" 8 miles from the van. Having driven a far down the road as they had, they knew full well they were not going to encounter anyone or anything walking back the way they came.

It's worth noting that China Lake, as original article suggests the DVG may have expected to be fully staffed, is only slightly smaller in size than Turkey. (19,500sqmi vs 23,000sqmi). I don't know much of anything about it, but I'm guessing it makes Death Valley look like a metropolis.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Weapons_Station_Chin...
These are react's dependencies:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react

This repo is proof of nothing and I'm tired of reading those knee-jerk takes. You can't say "react's toolchain is a mess" and "prove" it with a repo that has zero toolchain, no JSX, etc. It's a bit saying "vlc is so bloated!" to someone showcasing "a video player in 30 lines of QML" with no play/pause button.

Not to detract from the rest of your post, the core concept and primitives are great. Would you like them served up in a NPM micro-dependency, maybe? You'll just … add JSX, babel etc separately, will be missing half of react's features like hooks etc and will still have as many dev dependencies as before.
> Many would like to claim that the state should raise kids

"Many"? Justify that. I've never heard anyone make such a broad and foolish generalisation.

> ...There’s certainly a place for that, but it’s at the extremes.

That's exactly what I'm saying, that those extremes do exist and need to be considered. I never suggested it generally. I was careful not to.
> I find that in modern times, people have no idea how much nature is out to kill them.

To get an idea with not much chance of dying, check out the reality TV show "Alone" on Netflix or Amazon Prime or the History channel. On season one episode one there's a rough tough cop contestant that SPOILER

taps out after one night of too much reality in the woods ... and I had a lot of sympathy for him.
They actually raised the bridge a year or so ago, putting it almost a foot taller. There are way fewer collisions now.
I had the same experience recently. I love using lightweight web apps. But I much prefer writing with React-like technology. Inferno is a great React alternative, FYI that keeps the app a little lighter while still providing a sane developer experience.
Their thesis is that many of the home countries of H1B visa holders do not have the social, technological, and economic infrastructure to support lots of jobs with the skills that they are able to use to their potential in the US.

Thus, if they go home, they will not likely be "lifting their country out of poverty"—they will just be stuck in one of the jobs that is available there. Low-skill, low-pay jobs, without any prospect for advancing to something more like they would be able to do here.

I don't know to what extent this is true, but this is my understanding of their post.