skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although the author mentions using outdated and unsupported software to transfer the text, it isn't actually required.

These also have a mode where it just "types" the text into the program of your choice, via the usb cable. No drivers required and works with any OS that can recognize a usb keyboard.
And the counter-point is: you learn one time that it's not instantiation and remember it forever, and you get to resume reusing/overloading muscle-memory syntax to get the job done.
I don't get it. What happened and when? I am running Win10 on all my computers in my house and none of these happened to me. On the other hand I don't run an online but local account and I've disabled Win10 all crap by using WPD.
What's sad is that a tech entrepreneur will definitely add that feature and sell it to law enforcement agencies that believe in CSI magic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk
Visit for a time and hear...
I for one am thankful that thanks to facebook there's not only google.
https://outline.com/PzjuRt
Thanks. I guess I could have spent a few minutes reading the wiki, which has a pretty good section on it.

>The 1619 Project has been criticized by some American historians, including historians of the American Revolution Gordon Wood[6] and Sean Wilentz,[43] and Civil War experts Richard Carwardine[5] and James McPherson.[7] McPherson stated in an interview that he was "disturbed" by the project's "unbalanced, one-sided account, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery, which was clearly, obviously, not an exclusively American institution, but existed throughout history." McPherson continued, "slavery in the United States was only a small part of a larger world process that unfolded over many centuries. And in the United States, too, there was not only slavery but also an antislavery movement."[7] Historian James Oakes criticized Hannah-Jones's assertion that "Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country."[44]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project#Criticism
What sort of hidden knowledge do you see in the flushing mechanism? It’s pretty straightforward.

(If you don’t want to go into how plastics are made, &c — but that stretches the metaphor way too far)
Ethics and morals are not the same thing. Morals are not universal.

Ethical frameworks were created specifically to be an objective standard.
Context not required. A knife isn't a form of communication so mailing it to your lawyer doesn't make it privileged.

Also, his comment is not FUD. It reflects the original state of things. The attorney client privilege is an exception to the norm, that created the civil right you claim you wish to discuss.
In Canada people can pay you by having your email or phone number in their bank app.

Works really well!
Very excited about this! Looking forward to using these super switches when they are released.
I am not OP.

But an example that I once used to explain to my wife why I don't trust TikTok and whatnot:

Some time ago (I obviously won't say when) we interacted with a person, that had a bounty on his head, setup by Boko Haram, and people DID tried to kill him before. What if for example we had filmed him and that information leaked or got intercepted?

Me, and my wife, have no enemies, done nothing illegal, and so on, nothing to hide personally, but about other people we interact with? What if some day a friend on internet, maybe a gaming buddy, tells me a important secret out of the blue because he needs urgent help, and that secret gets intercepted?
EU "faster payments" system. We don't quite have the last mile of hooking it up to apps with QR codes, though. To add another to the list, see Norway's VIPPS.
Not all companies equally, though, and I think that's the point here.
I think it's fair to say that Blizzard is a shadow of its former self. No argument there.

But there are (IMHO) at least two companies that still put out outstanding games.

1. Nintendo. I can't speak for the Zelda remasters that have come out. I never played the originals so had no nostalgia to draw me in. But Breath of the Wild... that was simply amazing. I bought a Switch just to play it and don't regret it at all; and

2. Rockstar. This one is a little more difficult for me because GTA3 and 4 blew me away at the time. Like they're actually satire. I think they lost that soul with GTA5, which people rave about for some reason. For me, it was a massive disappointment I never went back to after finishing the story missions. Sure it looked pretty but the writing was lazy, the characters were absolutely two-dimensional and off-putting (eg I almost stopped playing entirely when it came to Trevor) and all the humour/satire was just... gone. Plus it became less "slapstick". Like I drove a bus the wrong way down the ring road to see how far I could get before blowing up. I actually did a complete loop. There's no way that'd happen in GTA4. Your car would blow up long before then. In San Andreas you could cause massive car pileups that would chain explosion and I'd sometimes do that for giggles. I'd gotten >20 cars to blow up that way. I really do hope GTA6 finds its way back.

But Red Dead 2... that's both a massive technical achievement and a great game.

I'm also not opposed to reskins of old games. But they have to be right in exactly the way Warcraft III (Refunded) wasn't. It's too easy to lose the magic and the feel by carelessly updating graphics. Oh and Blizzard's IP grab on player maps (aka we're not going to let Dota 2 happen again) is downright disgusting.

But these franchises and companies are (unfortunately) exceptions. Too many games now fall into two buckets: player-generated content (ie PvP) or pay-to-win (ie mobile games). Neither particularly interest me.
The whole process irks me but I have yet to put my finger on what specifically about it is so bad, probably because it's many aspects.

When you install Chrome or Firefox something similar happens, they ask to be default. Same thing happens on Android.

What's different here is that the user already has old Edge installed. This is new Edge which is arguably a different app so why not?

Idk... I think the full screen unescapable "Ad" that you have to click through for Edge pisses me off more than all the other crap.
> How many people actually stick to the page and listen to that?

I just did. 3 minutes wasn't that bad and I wasn't somewhere where it would be a problem.

> Why do sites do this?

NPR is a radio network. I have seen that often they do transcribe their clips. I am not sure what the process they have for that looks like, but it seems this particular clip didn't get transcribed.

Edit: looks like they do have a transcription mentioned elsewhere in the thread. So seems like some kind of UI fail.
And that guy is still calling people out for being racist because of “complicity” wowzers..
It is baffling, and I've been expecting a crash for a decade... which is the problem. The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Right now it's kind of persistently slightly irrational. A quick-and-dirty measure of its sanity is the P/E ratio: how much money are the publicly listed companies actually making? Right now, the number is around 22[1], meaning a dollar invested in the market takes 22 years to pay itself back purely in terms of corporate profits.

That's a return of about 3%. Numbers over 20 are generally considered a sign that the market is overheated. They peaked at around 45 and 65 right before the 90s and 2000s crashes. So there is revenue there, and not entirely out of line with stock prices, but not entirely line with them either.

None of that takes coronavirus into account; that's current price with last quarter's earnings. But if you assume that coronavirus is only temporary (it may not be, but let's be optimistic for a second) it means that long term the numbers are calling for a crash... eventually. One of these days. Longer than you can remain solvent while shorting it.

Probably.

In other words, I've got no idea what's going on. The markets have been weirdly stable (in price-to-earnings terms) for the past decade, at a number that's too optimistic, before coronavirus. Surely the inevitable at-least-short-term loss of earnings should have corrected that, but it hasn't. So either people are thinking very long term, or they're just nuts.

[1] https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio
Nope. But It's certainly far more accurate than eyewitnesses. And will reduce the frequency of false positives. Compare this to "suspect is a 6' male approx 200lbs with a white shirt and blue jeans" and then having police frantically pick up everyone in the area that meets this description.

This is the story that gets attention though. Despite it representing an improvement in likely every potential metic you can measure.

The response is what is interesting to me. It triggers a 1984 reflex resulting in people attempting to reject a dramatic enchantment in law enforcement ostensibly because it is not perfect. Or because they believe it a threat to privacy. I think people who are rejecting it should dig deep into their assumptions and reasoning to examine why they are really opposed to technology like this.
From the article: "Garth makes clear that Tolkien’s approach was that of the magpie. Rather than drawing on one particular place or one particular tradition, he drew on all sorts of landscapes and legends. "
You can ask this question about most of the for profit businesses. Apple (Foxconn), Amazon(Warehouse issues), Microsoft(ICE), just a few examples. How many of those who are against Facebook are still using Apple products or buying from Amazon. You can't pick and choose your ethics.
Yes. Her life story is really heartbreaking, wanting to become a classical pianist but being told that being black and playing classical music at the same time just wouldn't do. I'm of two minds on this - as I've written before on HN -, sad as it is that she did not follow her chosen path in the end it gave us her own material which to me is just as dear of not dearer. My all time favorite song is 'wild is the wind'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Gx0wYim8Y

Amazing song, guaranteed to give me gooseflesh no matter how many times I've heard it.
Nah, most companies just want their employees to do their jobs. It's only these Silicon Valley cults that expect everyone to drink the koolaid about "values" and center your personal identity around your job.

If you don't believe this, go get a job at a lumber yard or a warehouse or something.

Related reading:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/558867.Disciplined_Minds

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466958-bullshit-jobs
+100

This is what we do at work.

Unless there is some major database or library or language version change in a feature branch, once that branch is tested and QA’d, the M.O. becomes “merge any feature branches that we’re ready to put live into master and release”.

Long-lived branches are a mess, and rebase flow is crushed by them.

If you can fit this kind of simple Git workflow into your development workflow, I recommend it.
Antitrust legislation & enforcement are inextricably linked, for all sorts of reasons. This isn't just a US problem.

The entire conventional legal approach was (and still is) flawed. First, monopolies tend to form in The way it works is by "proving" anticompetitive and/or monopolistic behaviour, and fining companies.

Take the recent EU ruling (and pending copycat cases in the US) on the adwords "platform monopoly." The idea was that (1) Google controls the search engine marketing platform and (2) they use this control to favour their own search engine. They proved it. Google got a "cost of doing fine."

First, the whole premise is. If a monopoly exists, we state prosecutors shouldn't need to prove monopolistic actions. Monopolistic practices are proof of a monopoly, but the logical premise behind antitrust law is that monopolies are harmful... and we assume that anti-competitive/monopolistic behaviour happens. Let 3rd parties sue privately for specific abuses, but the state should be focused on preventing monopoly not retroactively punishing use of that monopoly.

If prosecutors have to prove individual abuses separately, they will never make a dent. Most "monopolistic behaviours" are not proveable. They may not even be decisions, they're just what happens in a monopoly.

I totally agree with you about bogus "consumer welfare tests." This is academic hogwash, and it's probably there to provide cover for inaction.

Second, "what to do now" is unavoidably hard, subjective and uncomfortable for a court. Cases vary too much.

From a "greater good perspective," FB could just be shut down. As long as data is destroyed, no one but FB shareholders (and employees) lose. I don't mean that they should be shut down, just that there are no external welfare concerns.

Google is more complicated. Alphabet needs to be restructured into 5-6 companies. Google's (high quality and public benefiting) R&D would be in danger. You'd need to enforce non-collusion between infrastructure, content & ad platforms. It's not something a court can do well, using 19th century case law especially. Case law says nothing about whether or not a ruling was a success.

Mostly, antitrust law should deter monopolies from forming in the first place. Monopolies should voluntarily avoided by companies, because antitrust should be something that doesn't pay to mess with. As things stand, monopoly is the best strategy.

Last, a lot of what needs to happen needs to happen outside of strict antitrust bounds. The phone plans available to you are more closely related to political decisions (eg radio spectrum) than the actions of individual companies. Facebook's monopoly, the most worrying aspects of it, rest on data collection and advertising practices that most people find horrible, and believe should be illegal.

Antitrust may not have even been necessary if (a) those mergers hadn't happened (b) personal data hoarding wasn't a free-for-all and (c) advertising was not so unregulated.

I agree about sleeping on the wheel though.
> The difference is that is a known problem, but with ML, a large fraction of the population thinks it's infallible.

I don't think anybody actually believes that.

I'm pretty sure the exact opposite is true: People expect AI to fail, because they see it fail all the time in their daily use of computers, for example in voice recognition.

> Worse, its reported confidence for an individual face may be grossly overstated, since that is based on all the data it was trained on, rather than the particular subset you may be dealing with.

At the end of the day, this is still human error. A human compared the faces and decided they looked alike enough to go ahead. The whole thing could've happened without AI, it's just that without AI, processing large volumes of data is infeasible.
As ever, the devil is in the details. If you're just talking about using different build tools, sure, maybe you do that at the level of some separate scripts. If you have mostly common code but a few relatively small adjustments you need for each platform, where better to track that you have merged the correct adjustments into any given build than in your VCS? If you have larger differences between platforms, maybe you factor out parts of your code into separate components and then build only the combination of components you need for any given target. These strategies are not mutually exclusive.

Your Linux kernel example might be quite apt here. While the authoritative version may have a single master, how many distros maintain their own fork of the kernel and probably numerous other packages, merging in changes from upstream regularly, but only ever making releases of their distro from their own forks where perhaps they have their own bug fixes or other adjustments applied?
The Shoenfeld/ASIA syndrome hypothesis is fairly new, quite controversial, and so far more or less unsupported by large scale science. It's worth discussing in reasoned environments.

Citing it like you do here amounts to an antivax conspiracy theory. Stop it.
The (legitimate) argument is that freedom of speech extends to facebook getting to decide what, and in what order, information is displayed on facebook.com.

To dictate a chronological order, or to demand that they publish every single thing that is submitted to them, is a restriction of their freedom of editorial expression on their own website.
The noise is by design, signal is drown out, by design. The last thing the ruling class wants is for the working class to put down their idealogical arms against each other and unite around shared economic interests. A poor white Republican and a poor black Democrat have a lot more in common than either would like to admit, but the focus on things like stretching the roe vs wade debate out over the past 50 years, or gun ownership, are wedges to drive apart what should be an overwhelmingly large and unified working class voting block.
You are being downvoted but you are 100% right.

The justification for depriving someone of their liberty lies solely with the arresting officer. They can base that on whatever they want, as long as they can later justify it to a court.

For example, you might have a trusted informant who could tell you who committed a local burglary, just this on its own could be legitimate grounds to make an arrest. The same informant might walk into a police station and tell the same information to someone else, for that officer, it might not be sufficient to justify an arrest.
It's certainly possible! There are many possible futures...
NYC MTA Pulls Brake on All Major Capital Projects as Financial Woes Mount
> Even if this technology does become accurate (at the expense of people like me), I don’t want my daughters’ faces to be part of some government database.

Stop using Amazon Ring and similar doorbell products.
I've been using one for long-form writing for about a decade now. Haven't gotten tired of it yet.
I think at this point it's only a matter of time before Microsoft acquires Canonical. They've taken great steps to try to own the end-to-end development ecosystem. Develop with VS Code, host on Github, deploy to Azure. What OS are people building/deploying most of their software on? Linux and Ubuntu. Everything from local docker dev, CI, and production deployment. For a huge percentage of the developers that Microsoft is targeting Ubuntu is the default choice. They're even shipping it themselves by default in WSL..

Canonical's financials will start to be seen as too risky once Shuttleworth decides to stop funding it out of his pocket. At that point Microsoft will jump in with a check for 50 bil and snatch it up. Then they'll even have their own Linux distro to complete their ecosystem. And they'll probably call it something like Azure Linux.
> Does this tool give any indication of a confidence value?

Yes.

> Does it return a list (sorted by confidence) of possible suspects,

Yes.

> ... or any other kind of feedback that would indicate even to a layperson how much uncertainty there is?

Yes it does. It also states in large print heading “THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT A POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION IT IS AN INVESTIGATIVE LEAD AND IS NOT PROBABLE CAUSE TO ARREST”.

You can see a picture of this in the ACLU article.

The police bungled this badly by setting up a fake photo lineup with the loss prevention clerk who submitted the report (who had only ever seen the same footage they had).

However, tools that are rife for misuse do not get a pass because they include a bold disclaimer. If the tool/process can not prevent misuse, the tool/process is broken and possibly dangerous.

That said, we have little data on how often the tool results in catching dangerous criminals versus how often it misidentifies innocent people. We have little data on if those innocent people tend to skew toward a particular demographic.

But I have a fair suspicion that dragnet techniques like this unfortunately can be both effective and also problematic.
Not OC but for example for me I won't like that a list of all my files,app or urls I visited to be saved and stored somewhere. Telemetry should always be opt-in or ask the user (we had cases where for example people were recorded by mistake and the conversations were send to contractors/developers without the user knowing)
What’s more, the NY Times has a strong business interest in convincing advertisers not to advertise on Facebook. I’m a bit skeptical of anything they publish these days about Facebook, Google, and other companies that could potentially threaten their access to clicks, just given their financial incentives to weaken these companies as much as possible.
Yes, but Alphasmart was self-contained, and had 100s of hours of battery life.
> Is it just that pattern matching and enums were first popularized by certain functional languages?

Not only were Sum Types first popularised by functional languages, most imperative/OO languages still don't have them (although I'm not quite sure why not). E.g. none of Java/C#/C++ have them. Neither do Python/Ruby/JavaScript/PHP (although the need is somewhat reduced in dynamic languages)
Great list! Two obvious misses: Tesla and Google.
> that could be viral in nature

Wouldn't that mean there would be a viral load indicator? In this case it seems to mimic it because we see the virus doing exactly that. To assume the diabetes is viral would require a virus.

> The latest clue comes from an experimental study in miniature lab-grown pancreases published last week suggests that the virus might trigger diabetes by damaging the cells that control blood sugar.

That seems like a better explanation - damaging the same elements in an a healthy body that match the same non-functioning elements of a diabetics. Two different causes lead to the same condition.
Facebook and the like have directly driven a huge increase in worldwide division and polarization. And faced with that fact they've continued their course full-steam-ahead. I don't know of any moral framework where that isn't a negative for society. Some on the economic-right might argue it isn't Facebook's problem to worry about because something something The Market. But even they wouldn't say the full picture is a good one, and wouldn't deny the logic that working for the company, in practice, ends up contributing to that outcome.
> Ethical frameworks were created specifically to be an objective standard.

Yes, and there are many ethical frameworks. You and I may subscribe to different ethical frameworks, and that's entirely a function of our morals.
That thing looks kind of like a TRS-80 model 100

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100
For comparison, the liquid air battery in this article is rated at 250mWh.
That code in the comment above isn't actually rust. It's a lisp, I believe.

In Rust, you'd write something more like:

fn f(x: &[i32]) -> bool {
match x {
[x, y, _] if x == y => true,
_ => false,
}
}
And then in some states employers are allowed to ask have you eve been arrested (never mind convicted of any crime) on employment application. Sure, keep putting people down. One day it might catch up with China's social scoring policies.
In terms of not moderating public conversation, I would /absolutely/ be proud of Facebook's stance here.

Compare this to Twitter, where a similar large amount of political discussion takes place, but mentioning that the law will be enforced is considered a 'threat' whereas actual death threats and doxxing are not.
This is written in Go and you should have no issue running it on Linux. It looks like there’s a small setup script you need to run first.
Sorry for the huge delay, I missed your comment. Thanks for the feedback!
- just to confirm: this means your screen is has a height < 800px?
- do you remember what exactly went wrong on windows?
- sounds very weird behaviour, do you have a screenshot?

Thanks!
The Braille example really establishes the importance of that context for me. Thank you!