skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've not yet found that to be the case, although I fear that one day it will.

I generally find that all you need to do is tell people their solution is not acceptable. All the banks in Iceland are trying really hard to convince people that phone based 2FA is the only option. However, I went to my bank and informed them that I don't take my phone with me when I travel overseas and I require another option. They tried a few other variations of "but you could use your phone this way", but once they realized I wasn't joking when I said "I often just don't have a phone with me, find me something else" it turns out that the physical 2FA tokens totally still work, they just don't like telling people.

Generally speaking, the people providing these things have a boss who expects them to make sure things run smoothly. They'll try to force you to use the app if that's the easiest path, but as soon as they realise that trying to force you to use the app will be much more painful for them than just giving you another option, they'll find another option.
The treatment of Roma people (Gypsies) is a great stain on contemporary Europe. They face massive institutional racism everywhere on the continent, from Finland to Romania to France.
> If you detect such bias, your wife may be able to earn $1M prize for her supernatural abilities. [1]

This snark seems unnecessary, given that magnetoception by bats and birds is unlikely to win said prize.
Isn't it the same number of wires, since you still need to run a usb cable from the computer to the monitor? So then really all you get is not needing a separate box for the hub. That's admittedly nice -- I have a Dell monitor with usb ports and I use it, mostly because I'm not going to buy a standalone hub when I don't need it -- but if the monitor had a way to mount the external hub on the back, I think that would be the best of both worlds.
Lichess is a superb website which combines online tournaments, game studies and tactics. It is all open source too. A great example of people coming together to create something great.
The reasons are simple: to gain more control over the secondary market and to get a piece of the action in case of repairs out of warranty.
Yeah you have no clue how bad it is in Romania tho. There still is actual slavery with people being bought and sold and public places where they are not allowed in. Including schools and hospitals. There are frequent reports of them being rounded up and beaten and a walk around places where they live - see Cluj pata Rat - will give you a sense of the scale.

Edit: i witnessed all this and recorded it.
What devices support that/
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Good for him.

milk.com was registered back in July 94, same month amazon was created. I suspect that many people have attempted to get control over it via naferious means in the past, however I also get the feeling the value of domain names has decreased since the early 00s -- how many normal people still type in domain names, rather than typing in "milk" and clicking the first result.
I suspect the Venn diagram of people who read Nature and people inclined to altogether lose their faith in the concept of science if they encounter a scientist's opinion they dislike consists of two separate circles that don't intersect. It would certainly be odd for Nature's editorial priorities to focus on the latter group.
I'm sorry for not being clear on this but I'm not sure how to name it in English. I was referring to those wireless devices with a small USB receiver.
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Is seems that they really do not want to admit that they have been bought. They make it sound like that they are in a partnership or something.
Earlier discussions

2015, 1 comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9723065

2016, 61 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12019567

2019, 38 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19263057
They take loans to pay for the world class education. If they have no option to repay those loans would they come to US?
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Never heard of Mapillary, but does that mean that web requests to OSM shovel data to Facebook now? The article is too opaque and euphemistic to allow practical conclusions.

Mapillary can “journey” wherever they want as long as they don't take me, as their non-user, with them.
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maybe try a different builder then.

those are cables and sockets, standardized to the point of beeing a commodity. no magic involved at all.
Things have slowed down enough in my company that we're back in the office. WFH is sub optimal for a lot of people, especially senior programmers who also tend to have several kids, or those who can't afford a house that fits a computer desk.

However, in places like the US, it looks like the pandemic isn't going anywhere soon.
I grew up in the 1970's when environmentalism was just getting started (I can recall the 4th or 5th Earth Day[0] being celebrated). Back then the concern was population growth[1] and the consumption of resources.

Fossil fuels were a major concern then as well, mostly because of automobile exhaust. During the current pandemic, people have posted before/after photos of their cities. But places like Los Angeles had smog so thick that the skyline was hidden[2]. Since then, better engine controls and catalytic converters have reduced emissions to amazingly low levels. If you're behind an older car that has a carburetor some time, you'll definitely notice the smell of raw gasoline. Imagine millions of cars emitting that!

There's no question that the more people, the more resources get consumed. However what is an important question is: Is world population growth exceeding our ability to engineer lower per-person resource usage? Right now, that curve has positive slope, and we need to get it to a slight negative slope, without losing the advantages of a technological civilization.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth
[2] https://timeline.com/la-smog-pollution-4ca4bc0cc95d
This isn't amazingly relevant to your question, but I'd like to throw it out there....

If you haven't read this - I highly recommend you should.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-so...

I've been meaning to make a serious post about it on HN for a bit, have just been quite heavily procrastinating.

In short tho - the underlying implications of this article really baffle me whenever (which is just about all the time) I think about our ideas of what consciousness/sentience means amongst all of humanity. Like, yeah, this fucked up the South a little bit - but WHO has estimated that ~1 Billion suffer worldwide. Absolutely insane
Well, maybe he'd learn something useful, maybe not. But it is his MacBook and regardless of whether you are glad about it or not he should be able to do with it as he pleases. Clearly, other laptop manufacturers survive just fine using normal screws. Treating computers as though they are disposable appliances that can not be repaired, in fact constructing them in that way on purpose is neither desirable nor does it make sense from an ownership and an ecological perspective, even if there are edge cases where it is beneficial.
Interesting comparison at http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/563/Intel_Core_i7_i7-2600_v...
I could give evidence in court if i had the opportunity. Everyone knows it, but in Romania people prefer not to talk about it - apparently thats unpatriotic. Almost every building project in that city is a result of bribery to allow sub par quality. Down town restaurant regularly pay bribe to health and safety inspectors. Public hospital doctors take bribe or they will let you die. And so on. Office workers may be ignorant of these facts but pretty much any honest business owner will tell you this. The city looks good, compared to the rest of Romania. Want to buy a property, Just declare a low value and pay the rest under the table. There are people who meant to recover communist confiscated land - the mayor’s friends have made sure that judges push trials so far in the future that the right to do so expires, and the list goes on. But hey gotta make it look good for foreign investors so they can bring over outsourcing jobs.
> if a foetus is a life (i.e. a person) from day one, then it follows women shouldn't have a choice

Living people making unwanted intrusions into one’s body, even where one has previously consented, can generally be forcibly stopped from that intrusion. There are basically no circumstances where being alive itself gives someone the kind of claim on someone else’s body necessary to sustain a fetus. So, no, the conclusion you present does not follow from the assumption that the fetus is a living human person with all the rights and privileges usually associated with that status. It still requires assumption of novel, sui generis, privileges.
It will be interesting to see how effective facebook's rampup of"opensource" OSM infrastructure will be.

They have bought other mapping companies, which on the surface look like they are able to generate city scale point clouds. Combine those with mapillary's very compelling annotation framework, and the resources to do street sign detection, it looks like Facebook/OSM will be able to dramatically lower the cost to entry for people wanting high quality fully featured maps.

This is facebook of course, so it equally turn to shit. But one has to at least hope for a better outcome
One thing that bothers me is that papers like this always assume alien life will look exactly like life on Earth. It must be the same distance from the sun as us, have water and proteins like us, etc.

If we effectively limit the definition of "life" to "the types of organisms we see on Earth", then of course we will never find life anywhere else.

Maybe there are aliens that live on a gas giant and they "eat" the lighting rather than food, and their bodies look more like circuitry than the chemical life on Earth.

Maybe there is a planet with a very strong magnetic field, and the life there is kind of like an electromagnet. They have bodies high in copper and the current of the ocean moves them through the magnetic field and generates electrical energy.

It makes sense that we restrict our search for life forms we know to be possible while we are stuck with limited tools at our disposal. But I don't want us to overlook some amazing discoveries because we have put blinders on.
I was helping a friend move from North Carolina to Rhode Island a few years back and he rented a truck that was way too big. From NC to New Jersey we kept seeing "Truck Route" signs and they all referred to trucks that were still taller than our truck (I don't remember the height). So we started to pay less attention to the signs.

Then Google Maps sent us into New York. We saw something about all trucks take some other road, but stuck with the route Google recommended. Then we saw a big "All trucks over X height take next right" sign and the height was like 2 feet lower than our truck.

That started a whole separate adventure, but while there may be some kind of safe route thing in the US, there are plenty of routes that vary from state to state, and at least back then google maps didn't have a way to enter the height of your vehicle.
Country of 97M kept its coronavirus death toll at zero
> but does that mean that web requests to OSM shovel data to Facebook now?

Other way round. Facebook pile a bunch of time and tools into OSM maps.
Be wary of the gradual erosion of standards in sequential decision-making
It's not absurd. Just because it's available somewhere doesn't mean it's easy to find. Also you're having your arm twisted to purchase something that will probably be used very little elsewhere in your life. Why not just use the more common screw and make things a bit easier?!

It's almost like a company using an uncommon electrical plug on their power cable, and expecting everyone to buy an adapter to use it. People would be outraged.
I do not really understand.

Why not sending a cancellation letter (recommended - not sure what the US word for this is, the kind of letter the other party signs when receiving it and which is a legal way to provide letters) and blocking the payments?
It might be unrelated but this page was mentioned in a fairly highly upvoted comment on a recent top story here. Dan Bornstein is also a relatively well known engineer.
“Beware the green tape.”

No one likes red tape, and I liken the allure of “being more professional in all our operations” to seeking to add green tape to the system. It turns out that if you add green tape every time, much of that turns into red tape. Just asking the question is shorthand for “is the benefit of this newly proposed tape greater than the cost?”

On a related topic, I think few companies should design to ensure greater than 99.95% availability. Giving yourself that generous of an error budget (sounds irresponsible, doesn’t it?) allows you a concrete target to measure against that isn’t 100.000%. If you’re consistently hitting 99.97%, you can push back against some of the stickier pieces of new tape.
I would say ML has blown up in the recent years. In addition to 189, all CS undergrads are now requires to take EE16A+B which, although focused on circuits, teaches a bit of linear algebra needed for ML; and some take in addition 126 (probability) and 127 (linear optimization).

To add on to the parent comment, a 4 unit class is usually considered to have a 12 hour workload per week (180 hours a semester). [1] Two caveats to this: 1. There was controversy in the past from a CS professor that students should actually be putting in 20 hours per week [2]. 2. With some project or pset heavy classes, I don’t doubt that 20 hours was irregular. For example with 162 (operating systems), every week we had a tight schedule of lecture, discussion, homework assignments, group projects, and possibly a midterm to study for.

[1] https://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/coci-handbook/2.3.1

[2] https://www.dailycal.org/2019/03/10/uc-berkeley-computer-sci...
I don't think there is a single "Southern way of life" since the South is a pretty big place.

I'm not particularly interested in history, but from the little I paid attention, the part I grew up in was too steep, rocky, and poor to have (any?) slaves. What we did have was a large number of Scotch-Irish who have a strong tradition of:

- insularity

- contrarianism

- hardscrabble self-sufficiency

- anti-authority

- love nothing more than maintaining a good feud

- religion (protestant roots)

- loving "the land" (hunting, your farm, etc.)

Ignoring the morals of the situation, from an economic perspective the North could afford to give up slavery. They were richer and their more industrialized economy wasn't based on slavery. The Southern economy was (completely?) reliant on slavery, and when the Northerners legislated their economy away the rebellion was somewhat predictable. Painting anyone involved as a racist is easier and true to a large extent, but there were strong components of "don't tell me what to do" and just not having any viable economic alternatives that also contributed.

In my mind at least, a lot of modern day Southerners of a certain type (the poor white trash type, not the Gone With The Wind aristocratic plantation owner type that doesn't really exist any more) just love telling outsiders they can fuck off, and waving the rebel flag/preserving statues are pretty handy avenues for that.
I wouldn't take the outright killings of the Ceausescus as a sign of the Romanian people being so unusually more violent than elsewhere in Eastern Europe. The decision to kill Ceausescu and his wife was taken by a strata of government officials under him, because they wanted to seize power for themselves. In this sense, the Romanian revolution of 1989 was a coup d'etat and we are just lucky that the outcome was eventually a representative democracy and not another dictatorship.

While the Ceausescus were hated, it is definitely not a given that popular discontent would have led to their deaths had it not been for that cabal that hastily arranged the trial and executions.
Not sure what the best way to look for it is, but searching for devices that support aptx low latency might be a decent indication.

https://www.aptx.com/product-listing?product_category=7&aptx...
I feel like a lot of my coursework was overstuffed with learning and re-learning waterfall vs agile, and fluff subjects like 'user-centred design' and 'professional computing practice'.

The latter was basically 'how to make a resumé' and 'how to not be an arsehole in email'.
Good points - I'll be sure to include.
Easy mode: each participant in a dialogue speaks their own language.

Hard mode: each participant in a dialogue speaks the other's language.
Because it's cheap. Because transparency may at times be useful to the owners. Because construction costs are lower. Because it's the fad or fashion. Because building regulations require it. Because of convenience. Because the transparency was an unanticipated side effect. Because it gives houses capabilities previously unattainable. Because the wood-house vendors have driven (by competition, monopolistic methods, patent and IP restrictions, superior lobbying, advertising) all the mud-house vendors out of business. Because ....

A parable is, by definition, metaphoric language. "Mud" and "wood" and "paint" and "tranparency" are metaphors for analogue physicle vs. digital electronic data, crypto, and surveillance.

Why do people choose, or find themselves with no alternative than digital data systems? There are numerous reasons. Many resemble, in some fashion, the list I've given above.

Reading parables overly literally is a category error. All metaphors melt if pushed loudly enough.
Video trainings summit to make a fulltime income at home with social media
You had me until "stop using nuclear fission..."
my favorite was the RV that went through... slowed way down, decided he was good... just fit, but then the A/C on the end got caught and popped off.
> (2) One router per room, alternating channels between rooms.

That isn't realistic for most people, though.
I'd say that unlike a 'normal' war between countries this was a civil war. This was a brother vs. brother, father vs. son battle. Over 600,000 people died in what was pretty gruesome conditions (lead bullets, the first gattling gun, 23K people killed/wounded in a single day of fighting, etc.). Blood was spilled, homes were burned and not everyone agrees on who the 'heroes' and 'villians' were in this conflict. Most of the conflict was fought in the south.

After the war, there was a need to bring together a divided nation. The divisions were not all territorial. The need to show the courage of the men who died and remember the fallen needed to be done before that generation passed away.

Today the symbols of the south (the confederate flag, monuments, street names) are all reminders of many Americans that their parents struggled though slavery, abuse and poverty. Other Americans that don't have that legacy don't necessarily see the same things and I think the challenge that this article presents, is how to get some Americans to see these problems today.

The sterotypes are not real. Not all southerners owned slaves, most were conscripted, many didn't want to be there, many were kind, many were courageous. I visited a statue of a southern solider that ran out into a hail of bullets to the rescue northern wounded in the "no mans land" and bring them to the northern lines.

George Washington was a slave owner and so was Thomas Jefferson, both unarguably 2 of the most influential men in American history. But, as with so many things in life, the backstory is more complicated than the picture hanging on the wall.

The civil war was and is a divisive issue.

In my personal opinion, like in our own lives, we should recognize and acknowledge were we are wrong and strive to be better. We should also seek to make the future better place to live and leave the skeletons were they're buried. Digging them up will do few people any good.
I briefly had Figma, Zoom, and Slack (three workspaces) open at once on Friday on my Mac. My computer was more or less unusable and sounded very sorry for itself; it was sort of entertaining, baffling, and sad all at the same time.

I ended up quitting Slack and asking the designer if she could show us the Figma stuff over screenshare on Zoom instead. Obviously multi-tasking is too much to expect these days.
Check Dan's responses to emails he received over the years. Hilarious!

http://milk.com/experiments/
>There is no efficiency

There is certainly efficiency to consider when making energy. We can't tap into the full potential of any source, there are "hard limits" to many of our current methods, but that doesen't stop a paradigm shift from happening and making it so.

Many things studied before had no "tangible" use then, it doesen't come like that. It's iteration upon iteration, using previous work to achieve a little bit of something new. You cannot foresee the future beforehand.
If you view the US federal system as a sort of empire and the south as a breakaway region that fought a failed war of independence, it isn't that unusual. Empires don't generally obliterate provinces they maintain control over.
All of it is true, but before going multiple APs, you should make sure you really need it - you would need to manage multiple networks and getting the APs to work together and allow devices to roam seamlessly might be a pain.

This is where the mesh units might come in handy - they are managed and configured in a single place, and can work together nicely - but of course you have to set them up with wire backhaul instead of in the "mesh mode".
I think schedules are either Parkinson's Law (work expanding to fill time) or things too tightly scheduled and about to fall apart. The only optimum is getting the schedule accurate, which causes anxiety.

The other problem is that programming is not simply "development", it's research too. Research can be a bottomless hole, and it's also really hard to estimate how much research is needed.

For example, maybe I just want to add an icon to my social media site that says this was fact checked. That doesn't seem too hard, but it also is, and it's complex enough that it's patented by LinkedIn.
It is not small companies per se, But a mechanical company can never pay equal to FANG.They do require niche engineering skills.

What about academics and non-profits?
That's no snark.

If she can reliably demonstrate sensitivity to -60dBm RF signals (nanoWatts - the typical received signal strength of a Wi-Fi signal), that's the equivalent of having discovered a new human sense on top of the 5 known senses.

This discovery, or the explanation of mechanism underlying this sense, is worthy of a Nobel prize.
This concept of sentience is too broad to be relevant. For there to be linguistic communication between species, both must have language.

When the issue is interstellar communications, the minimum requirements are language and the technology to send and receive information between stars.
From a frontend dev perspective a complex system like a living human being is nature's monolith of legacy hacks on top of legacy hacks, but you're damn right it holds up under millions of requests per second
'Flying upside down' is certainly valuable (I offer spin training to all my students who want it, since it does not require a parachute) but it would not be very helpful in the case of weather related disorientation. JFK accident was more of a failure in decision-making than the piloting skills. 'Do not fly angry or upset' is a basic rule. It is incredible what people decide to do after gaining just a modicum of confidence. Even those who claim they are obsessed with safety. I had an airplane owner and a student who once tried to convince me to fly a twin after one of the engines shut down on take off (fortunately we were still slow)! His family was on board! He was not my student for much longer.