skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good to see people in the tech circle thinking about China. China's rise to dominance is unquestionable now. The current US administration has failed miserably. In the past 4 years, China has made gains on all fronts. I don't think they suffered any setback. The US does not seem to have a coherent strategy to counter this trend. The trade war was lauded as an achievement. But it has failed. The US is now going back to something similar to TPP, a policy championed by the previous administration. One step forward, 2 steps backward.

This pandemic started in China. But they somehow turned the table back to the US. The virus has done more damage to the US than China. The US leadership is incompetent. The government and the Fed are fixated on keeping the S&P 500 index. Tech investors make calls to build. Then, they invest in the next app trend. People seem to lose their moral compass. I think in the near future, the US won't be able to print money to fix its problems.

China seems to play a war of attrition. It engages the US in small conflicts and tends to drag them out. The US is the top dog. So it wants to win all of its battles. These conflicts distract the US from the big picture. The US is fighting fires on all fronts. Then China slowly makes gains.
Agreed!

Google worked hard to set all of this up. Apple should pay Google for using the Google global platform.
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> After some years however, consensus amongst designers formed that what they've created was a pile of illegible garbage

Really? Citation needed?

I guess I have never heard graphic designers say anything about David Carson except that he's one of the most innovative and influential designers in the past 30 years. IMO his graphic design was amazing and perfect for the context (music and surf magazines). I loved getting my monthly issue of Raygun and marveling at what neat designs they had done this time.

The decline of it is pretty easy to explain: the same thing that killed print altogether also killed print music magazines (i.e. the internet).
> Will re-encoding all externally sourced videos work or do you have to do something else?

Re-encoding involves decoding, so if there's a vulnerability in the decoder used there (which may or may not be the same code that would be used to just watch the movie), you're still sunk. I suppose doing the re-encoding in a VM or at least a container would offer some protection.
There's No Substitute for Prudence
Doesn't the label have to list the total amount of carbs though? Even if they list the sugars separately the carbs are what you care about anyway.
Okay.

Question:

What laws, policies have you passed?

Who's on your board of directors? Who's advising?

What's your fund raising experience?

Suggestions:

#1: Focus on one issue. Or create one org per issue. You can't assume allies will support your entire platform, so remove deal breakers.

#2: Pace yourself for a marathon. For example, a friend of mine worked EIGHTEEN years to get the first statewide family leave act law passed. Had to build the coalition one vote at a time.

#3: What are you for? Where's your model legislation? Be specific. Offense beats defense, have an affirmative agenda, etc.

#4: Start locally. It's easier to move the needle, one jurisdiction at a time.

#5: Why not partner with existing orgs, create a local chapter? Is there something wrong with the current public financing advocates? The people fighting for RCV?

Bonus #6: Pick a strategy for privacy. Like extend property rights to personal data. Like new accounting rules to make data aggregation a financial liability. Something, anything that people can wrap their heads around.
> for someone just starting out

I'd hope that the barrier to entry for starting ML practitioners isn't easy environment setup, as Google cloud, AWS, even colab exist with easy to use environments.
Some people here seem to be responding to all of this inappropriately.

The simple fact is that Apple is injecting itself as an intermediary in the payment process and extracting a preposterously oversized commission for no meaningful added value.

And it's easy to see that Apple knows what they're doing is wrong. They strictly prohibit developers from signaling that there's an extra cost for purchases made through Apple's system or that there are alternative payment options available. A well-informed consumer would be a clear threat to Apple's gravy train.

This system should have never emerged to begin with. It's highly unethical and, given the direction things are taking [1], will likely be found in violation of antitrust laws.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/supreme-court-rules-agains...
Wasn't there a privacy problem because of the Australian encryption law [1] and the company being based in Australia?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18636076
It's not missing that analysis. The GP said if given $400K cash you could buy $200K worth of stock. Yes, FB stock will appreciate during vesting, but that's no different from me buying $200K of FB stock and simply holding on to it for a few years. The benefit of cash up front and you buying the stock is you can buy any stock and play this game, not just your own company's.
> Who defines "similar"?

A court of law.

> Is a study performed in Texas similar to one performed in California? Is a study performed on land that drains into the municipal water supply similar to one performed on land that doesn't? Are two studies performed near each other location 10 years apart "similar" if new laws have come into existence, or a local species has been declared endangered in the meantime?

I don't have the answer to these questions but I wager that we can find experts who do. Presumably firms exist that do hundreds or thousands of studies annually, those firms could testify how they would bid such a project. What the cost structure typically looks like.

> How do you prove that those who ordered it did not read the study?

A government employee could send a email to the effect that the report was not considered that is later discovered. Alternatively, a whistle-blower may clandestinely gather evidence in order to collect the bounty for themselves.

> And what if they did not read the study, but instead read a summary of it prepared by someone qualified who did read the study?

That seems like a reasonable use of funds.

This isn't going to catch every case, the purpose is to provide a natural check to government corruption and waste. Discoveries made by this system may lead to the judicial branch investigating those who made these choices. The FBI could use these tips to target sting operations. The voting public may use this information to decide whom they are going to elect, and the best part is it's free.
IMO they're not even contracts. The idea that there is a 'meeting of the minds' when I click through an installation dialog or website privacy policy, without even reading it, while screaming at my computer "I do not agree!" is ridiculous.
That's absolutely hilarious and tone deaf at the same time. Lol.
Thanks, this is awesome! Love that you can add new bikes too.
This looks very cool if it can deliver up to its promises! As a Mac user and ML developer I’m starting to look more and more jealous towards Windows - it is starting to make sense this way.

But I’m also a bit afraid. Has anything related to CUDA ever been easy to install and setup? Anyone who tried this have some pointers on this? For example, I don’t know how many times I’ve googled the CUDA, cudnn, TF compatibility matrix but it must be close to 100. Is this helping fix that as well?
Even if you trust your ISP, and it's not required to keep logs due to local laws, a VPN is often a good idea anyway. Geolocation from IP address can be scarily accurate - mine identifies me to within a mile radius of where I live.
A lot of roads are pure waste and should probably be reverted into simpler gravel roads, or left unmaintained. Take a look at this one in Columbus (1). You have full storm drains, nearly a mile of sidewalk, and generous street lighting, for a road that connects between the highway and the city inpound lot which closes before dark. I'm willing to bet not a single person has laid foot on that sidewalk ever, given that the neighborhood around this road is simply the impound lot and a concrete factory, connected to the outside world by a single highway connection; you couldn't walk there if you tried without hopping a fence and tresspassing somewhere.

1. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9093916,-82.9996459,3a,75y,1...
Can AI restore blurred images?
If you're gonna use him for your argument you can listen to Marco's actual thoughts about this on the episode of Accidental Tech Podcast that dropped today, I won't spoil it but he's not on board.
> I never understand the complaints about investment in infrastructure and having to pay for it in taxes.

In the US, this is largely due to the perception (right or wrong) of budget bloat and cronyism on taxpayer-funded projects. Those projects have a reputation for cost overruns and generally being more expensive than comparable private projects.
Having recently moved my personal domains to FastMail, I'm a big fan. It's solid, reliable, and reasonably priced. I would have happily paid for Mozilla/Thunderbird mail hosting had that been available.
I do agree that Linux has been adding complexity at a good pace the last 10 years.

I disagree about Docker. It's a good tool for reproducible development and production environments. What else should we use? virtual machines?

Scientists and academics are not in general, professional software engineers. At least they are using open source tools! What you rather they write their spaghetti in? MATLAB?

FreeBSD does not have the mindshare and ecosystem that Linux does. That actually does matter.
Siren: Implicit Neural Representations with Periodic Activation Functions
Creating a digital twin of the Earth with computer vision
Mozilla VPN literally _is_ rebranded Mullvad. So if you want to contribute to Mozilla, should be a pretty easy switch for you.
Mexico carrier TelMex is blocking Tor access
I tried Windows 10 Pro and Windows 2019 Server about 2 months ago on a self-built computer (my first in ~15 years). What I found was:

- driver support was atrocious for Windows server, and also for Windows 10. Almost every component from a fairly standard Ryzen build installed some form of custom skinned crapware to get basic functionality

- spyware and advertising was everywhere.

- the UI is a mess of old and new. It's unforgivable that this far from Windows 8 there is still such a mix of metro and older UIs.

- mixed DPI support is poor leading to screens where elements are quite different sizes

These are not specific to coding, but in particular the advertising and spyware removes Windows as a contender for _any_ use from me.

After a brief foray into desktop Linux, I returned all the parts to Microcenter and went back to OS X.
Some of AWS's most innovative customers are using computer vision technologies
If we’re going back to the 90’s let this be your reminder we still don’t have something for web dev as easy to use as VB6.
Money laundering is turning dirty money into clean, that appears legitimate, taxable etc. If the source isn't illicit, it isn't laundering because there's nothing to clean.

Tumbling coins is just obscuring their origin.

The two don't inherently have anything to do with each other.

Even if you tumble "dirty" coins, you've got to explain to the IRS the source of income behind the new coins. Tumbling, in and of itself, doesn't achieve that.
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Nailed it.
Yeah but the growth rate is half or a third what it once was, and declining.
Of course I'm not sure. But activists are usually a safe bet in such cases. Whoever the reason for the ban they're probably having some doubts right now.
California now requires face coverings in public [pdf]
Apple has an abusive relationship with developers. I bet this harkens back to Jobs being pissed about jailbreaking and having to open up the platform. I think the culture still reflects that basic misunderstanding at the company. It's ironic, because it's the apps and developers that made the iPhone what it is - case in point, "There's an app for that," which they actually went and trademarked. https://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/10/12/app.for.that/inde...
Totally understood for those countries, but it’s still hugely popular in the US. That’s what I’m wondering about.
Warning: trying to read the transcript instead of listening is very frustrating. Tons of words; little content.
I find it fascinating that just a few centuries ago, most philosophers and scientists considered that humans were the only "intelligent" species. Today's research consists of diverse animal species where it is so common to see how even the smallest of species like Zebrafish or fuit-flies possess extremely complex neuronal networks which process external stimuli ranging from visual, audio or social cues and produce very specific ("intelligent") responses. This was thought to be absent in non-human species to a greater degree in the past but now we have so much evidence to disprove that.
The debate is not in “moving beyond init”. The debate is specifically with systemd. There are many other post-init systems.
I'm trying my best to understand what is zuck building. But I can't do far. A global surveillance machine will serve what purpose, and how does he benefit from it? The guy has everything bar being liked.
Sorry for misleading you. You don't need docker to run matomo (docker makes it convenient to install matomo - especially if you are running other containers on your server - but there are shortcomings, mainly the container setup).

Matomo is just a set of php files. Upload them to any php hosting with a mysql database, in a matomo or matomoanalytics folder and point your browser to your domain name/matomo/ and the install setup should begin.

If you have 0 experience with docker and just needs matomo then forget about docker and start from the php file with a standard php/mysql host.
That's presumably to support users who have existing subscriptions. GP showed that they do not allow people to pay for new subscriptions.
Yeah I agree with you. There is a lot of interesting stuff the more you study it. Like Physarum polycephalum, a slime that solves mazes despite not having a nervous system and is used to create better road networks. I really hope in the future we combine bio-tech as things like this already use their form of A* and pathing system. Once plants & slime are used to create logic gates and truth tables start to take off I see that as being the cleanest tech around.

Then you have things like the Turritopsis dohrnii a jellyfish. They are immortal beings that decide to change between child and adult forever... or just basically once they start starving or get too old they reboot their cells and turn back into a baby jelly. It's a pretty fast process I've read. Although apparently it's really hard to rise them in captivity so studies are somewhat limited.

Then you have planarian flatworms that store their memories outside their brain... I think is similar to how plants function in many regards...

Although plant gnosophysiology is a bit different, their "screams" are a bit too ultrasonic for us, but other animals like mice and stuff can hear them. But yes, look up how plants respond to danger and react or warn other plants. It's really cool stuff.

Heck going even smaller and just imaging cells hunting down food or working together to create an organ, or nerve or something is amazing. It's a bit mind boggling to think of all the tiny things going on in just your fingertip.
> You're either exponentially growing or exponentially shrinking.

That's what the math says should happen. It's not what the measurements say. If you look on http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/ you will see country after country goes linear. The USA for example had 30k new infections most day for a remarkable 2 months.

I have no idea what causes it. It could be measurement error (that's what I first put it down to in the USA). But if it is it damned hard to explain why it has happened over and over again. Russia has been sitting on 9k new cases per day for 2 months now. The UK went through a period of 5k new cases per day for a month.

It's not a universal, or even the most common pattern. But it happens enough to make the statement "the measures of new covoid 19 cases always change exponentially" wrong enough to be effectively useless as a prediction of where things will head.
I'm perfect by no means and willing to learn how to change my vocabulary if it's an issue. Grammar has always been a weakness of mine.

Why is this preferred and how would I know it's preferred (absent this conversation)? Is it a well known faux pas or something one person on the internet is nagging about (no offense)? In my mind, "people" is inferred. I think this is how people talk where I live, pretty sure I hear it on the local news/media. When I think of terms like "black college" it's inferred to be a college that is predominately attended by black people. The college is not literally the color black like with phrases like "white house".

Reminds me of when I was a kid and my grandpa would use the word "oriental" to describe Chinese, Korean, Japanese. He would use worse words at times but this was his version of the politically correct vocabulary. It was very commonly used as a PC phrase. As I got older, I learned it wasn't really the best word and reasons why. But it never would have been obvious to me that it was a racist term and seen as negative to those it was meant to described.
He's actually technically correct, as that is the very definition of money laundering. The difference is (assumedly) the money he's laundering wasn't obtained via illegal means.
Web 2.0. Such a bright outlook in those days :)
Of late I feel like I care less about perfect languages and more about ABI compatibility. There is something to be said about most of the time you should be using a safe mildly performant glue language with a fast write/compile/test cycle. The big monkey wrench of course is ABI incompatibility. Which has always left you with C and now Swift as the base language.
I didn’t say he was onboard with the decision. I am not onboard with the decision. I said it’s a gross exaggeration to think a competent iOS developer couldn’t get in app purchasing working in an evening.
> At the end of the day, Emperors are not governments

Ah, our old friend No True Scotsman. Sorry, not buying it.
It all comes back to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpdt7omPoa0. It's easy to blame our leaders, but we choose our leaders. The real problem is our culture of entitlement and bigotry which celebrates naivety. Yes, Trump's corona response was terrible, but in the end the problem is the huge number of people who not only refuse to wear a mask/quarantine but put considerable effort into mocking those who do.
Your two options are:

1. Make something up about whether consciousness is fundamental and run with it.

2. Don't make anything up when you don't need to, because we can answer how plants follow the sun without needing to talk about consciousness, just like we can answer how an automatic door opens for me when I get close without deciding to call it conscious.

> From below: Is there an option where we don't act like consciousness is solved when it's convenient for our argument?

You're saying "Consciousness isn't solved, therefore we should imagine that these things are conscious."

I'm saying "Consciousness isn't solved and that's irrelevant because we have purely mechanical explanations for these things that don't require imagining that they're conscious."

Because a lightbulb's glow when I push a button or flip a switch _might_ be a sign of the lightbulb's consciousness, but that's 1) not necessary and 2) purely made up and deep into Russell's teapot.
I would think the combination of windmills and wood supplies should almost always provide a (ssllooww) recovery path.

There will plenty of metals on the surface. Use the wood to melt iron. Use iron to make saws. Use saws to cut trees into beams and planks. Use beams and planks to build windmills. Use windmills to generate power and electricity. Etc.

Using coal and oil we went through the part from using mills for power to where we are now in about 250 years. On the one hand, if knowledge is retained, that can be sped up. On the other hand, it will be a lot harder to go through that process without coal and oil.

I would guess the net effect will be that it will take longer, as one of the effects of not having coal and oil will be lower yields in agriculture and, hence, a much smaller world population that also has to make a bigger effort to produce food.
Why are infinite scrolls so demonized? I like them, especially if they update the url so you can go back to the same spot. Everyone loved it when Reddit Enhancement Suite did it way back in the day, but now Facebook does it so it's evil.
There are four primary reasons to use a VPN.

1) You live in an authoritarian country where mass surveillance is a concern.

2) Evading geo restrictions. Watching US Netlix while in Europe, etc.

3) Evading your work's firewall so they don't know you're on Facebook or whatever.

4) Piracy
Apple's revenue in 2019 was 260.2 billion dollars.
Let them stay in the Niche maybe? I'd rather have a really great safe browser than half a dozen half baked products from the same company.
Well, Marco made a few million from the sell of Tumblr to Yahoo and he is one of three hosts on either the most popular Apple related podcast or the second most popular podcast. I don’t think he’s a struggling entrepreneur.
Whereas the original entire bridge was built in 5 years, ahead of schedule and under budget.

The original Bay Bridge also had 28 fatalities during its construction. Imagine that happening today!
Can’t agree more. Every codec implementation or video-related software package is just a giant pile of pointer-heavy C/C++ code. It’s not a bad thing because it’s fast and practically still the only way to do it. But looking at cosebases like VLC and especially ffmpeg makes me a little nervous. How many bugs like this are hidden in these libraries that we don’t know about?
I thought so after posting it :)
I don't live in SV. Looking at Mountain View, there are quite a few nice 2000 sq ft houses to rent for about $6500/month.
When I compare that to what I'm paying in a cheaper COL area, I can assure you that the difference in pay between me and typical Google compensation, after taxes, more than compensates for this increase in rent.

I won't say it's "luxury", but it's still better than most people get around the country.
I've thought about this as my grandmother has had a host of computer issues, some of them resulting in fraud scares.

The real problem for me is that support is really hard to come by if something goes wrong. Grandma can't access the internet on her Ubuntu system — who can help her? I'm 500 miles away, my parents are equally as far in the other direction. Neither myself or my parents use Linux as a daily driver either. Her neighbors have Windows or Mac machines. Does she drive to Best Buy with her desktop? Call in external help?

If she uses Mac or Windows machines, help is just a lot closer. My dad can replicate her issues on his machine and walk her through it on the phone, or I can. Her neighbor will at least potentially be familiar with the way the OS looks, so can offer greater help.

I'm not sure how you can close that gap if you're not next door to the individuals who would benefit most from it. While it may be a great individual solution, the support burden just isn't a solved problem in my opinion.