skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is something worse than gulags.

Telescreens, watched by "AI".

They can arrest you on trumped up charges, but it's not really feasible to do that to everybody, and extreme heavy-handedness promotes resistance.

Once they reach inside your device, they don't have to murder or imprison you, they can just give you a little slap whenever you try to stray from the garden path. Let you know that they're watching so they don't even have to censor you, and can claim that they don't, because you censor yourself.

Crimethink. Doubleplus ungood.
I honestly don't see much issue with them. I like companies where everyone isn't just a cog in the system. If the system filters me out when I'm qualified, then there's a culture fit problem.

There's a reason startups are able to compete against companies like Google, and it's because they pay a lot more attention to their recruiting pipeline as well as their product.
In addition, fingerprints and faces are particularly bad biometrics for keeping secrets, because attackers can get hold of them without you noticing.

E.g. anyone can take a picture of you in a crowd, or lift your fingerprints if they can get to somewhere you've been. But they can't do a surreptitious retinal scan on you.
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That's interesting. I can imagine in cases like this it's not necessarily that the doctor doubts their own diagnosis, but rather the AI is essentially offering to relieve them of responsibility for it either way.

It's like in human hierarchies - it's often not the person who is more likely to make the best decision who gets to decide, it's the one who is going to bear the consequences of being wrong.
Well you may know some people are not a match because you know where they were, for example pictures could be of people who were incarcerated at the time of the crime.
Elm meltdown?
So everyone in your family should be beholden to a for-profit data scraping company and advertising platform? How about use old fashioned ways to keep in touch with your family like phone calls and letters. Text pictures via a group text.

Facebook can decrease family cohesion and alienate family members as well. I stopped posting on there and stopped logging into my accounts after too many Fox news brainwashed great aunts and uncles ranted about how minorities should get out of the country or the NFL should ban black players who kneeled.

If you're lonely and isolated, consider moving closer to family and interacting with them in real life instead of expecting your family to sacrifice their data privacy to make Mark Zuckerberg more rich.
This has become a problem because the internet social networking has opened up the potential of mob justice tar and feathering that is causing people real harm in terms of their livelihood and I'd imagine mental well being.
Accurate IMO. You can get the components or organs but they don't snap together, more careful integration required...like surgery
My experience from previous solo projects is that it's surprisingly much work to build and deploy even simple CRUD REST APIs with basic things like jwt authentication, permission checks, filtering, sorting and pagination no matter the language/framework. I've worked with Vert.x, Play Framework, Express.js, Go and the Serverless framework so far.

That's why my current solo project is actually a generator for basic REST APIs, it's currently in beta [1]. The idea is to describe the API you need in YAML, it is then being deployed directly from that.

Under the hood I'm using the Serverless framework with TypeScript which works quite well for me. Everything you need is available as npm packages these days and I found that since switching from plain JavaScript to TypeScript I'm finding errors in my code earlier on.

[1] https://stackprint.io
I don't really know, but I can assure you we had great products before Google Analytics existed and, fwiw, an advertising industry existed before tracking.
I've never seen a "I will paste your clipboard for you" feature be used in any app, ever.
I don't think you understand what the HSM does. By design, the HSM's secret keys cannot be extracted. Not by the physical possessor of the HSM, nor the manufacturer, nor designer. That is the whole point of using an HSM for this. A subpoena cannot compel the impossible.
Quite a bold title. My understanding (while limited) is that the human ear senses sound by means of tiny hairs in the inner ear that vibrate in resonance with incoming sound waves. I've always believed that the reason certain intervals are more harmonious to us than others was because there would be some overlap in hairs that resonated for the different harmonious pitches. The same way guitar strings will resonate with other strings that are tuned an octave, or perfect fifth, or fourth higher, these ear-hairs ought to behave by the same physical laws and principles.

As such, I'm a bit skeptical of the method and conclusion of this research. It seems like physics to me, not psychology. Ability to reproduce pitches and intervals does not strike me as entirely related to what they were trying to find out.

How about instead playing different soundbites, of consonant and dissonant pitches, and asking for their opinion in some way? Maybe even allowing the participant to find a relationship by some sliding instrument themself? That would seem more aimed at studying the Tsimané's ability at "perceiving octaves."

Maybe my interpretation of the header and conclusion is wrong. Perhaps the idea is that _some training_ is needed in order to perceive octaves, the same way _some training_ is needed in order to learn how to walk. That I might be able to wrap my head around.
COVID19 tracking app analysis by MIT
> Sarcasm is nearly impossible to detect in writing.

SaRcASm iS NeARlY ImpOsSibLe To dEtecT iN WrITiNg.
Then the early black lives matter protests were nothing but a bunch of anarchistic rioters and looters. And every cop in those police departments is racist. And all those city councillors too. It isn’t true though and the point is you can’t just go around labelling people like that willy nilly. You can’t just group everyone together based on what the worst of them do.

Imagine a world where every honest cop quit in order to avoid being associated with the bad ones
Consider this from the perspective of the user's intention. This is the exact behavior I would want if I installed Edge.

Saying this as someone who mainly uses firefox and occasionally brave.
Why wouldn't you? People have used excel scripting for real business tools for decades.

I fail to see how Honeycode outright disqualifies for everything related to vast field of "business" because of its limitations. In fact, I think that is very much, where it will be able to solve a lot of problems efficiently.

All of them? No, just like any other tool. They all come with their set of drawbacks.
He has a child so the natural order of things is not entirely upended.
Yes, it should be. Housing is a highly capital intensive process and done incorrectly, often by government, can lead to disastrous consequences:

http://www.indianapolisrecorder.com/news/article_b27a7cf6-1d...

https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/comments/5gx86v/russian_a...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Petare_Slums_in_Cara...
What is the reason for there being eight notes (or seven? I don't really understand it) in an octave?
>> There is no "right" way to convey the issue above without offending someone.

You are not responsible for those people being offended. If people actually respond that way to your efforts they look stupid. Just carry on doing what is right.

Most of them are not actually offended but are claiming you may be offensive to someone else.
Can you block the entire newsfeed with Ublock origin and only visit specific people's pages when you want to see their updates?
> As the war zone between Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire, as the war zone between Protestants and Catholics, as the war zone between the French and the Austrians, as the war zone between the Germans and Austrians, as the War zone between the Russians and Ottomans, as the war zone between the Germans and Russians, as the war zone between the Germans and Soviets, as the war zone between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. This suffering may have caused a certain melancholic outlook on life which is reflected in the movies.

I think you missed perhaphs the greatest tragedy (apart from both world wars and the Holocaust, which also very disproportionally touched Poland, as Poland hosted by far the most Jews in Europe at that time), which was the introduction of Leninist/Stalinist variant of Communism. Hitler was a monster, by he ruled over us for just a few years, while the communists destroyed societies for decades...
This reminds me of when I made a program faster by adding a print statement to it.
I am not able to find the program but I was able to create a new one as similar to it as I remember and it seems that this weird trick works in this program too.

When I uncomment the puts("hi") line in the code below, the time it takes to run the program consistently changes from 5.6 to 5.4 seconds on my machine if I compile without optimizations.

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
long tri_side = 1;
long tri_area = 1;
long sq_side = 1;
long sq_area = 1;
while (sq_side < 1000000000) {
if (sq_area == tri_area) {
printf("tri:%ld sq:%ld area:%ld\n", tri_side, sq_side, sq_area);
//puts("hi");
}
if (sq_area < tri_area) {
sq_area += sq_side * 2 + 1;
sq_side += 1;
} else {
tri_area += tri_side + 1;
tri_side += 1;
}
}
}
> doing lots of crud

Codeigniter with grocery crud

> building a mini saas app

1. Ruby on Rails

2. Lravel/PHP

> Building a saas that can grow

.net core with ef core

> building a app where domain is complex or want to have fun

1. Clojure with ring or pedestal
Except when loops unrolls make things faster.
Cause the statue was defended by far-right group. It is not act of defending statue that makes him Paul Golding racist, but the fact that far-right groups are defending the statue while left leaning are against it is definitely notable.
I agree they can get messed up, to understand that I am also working on http://ihatemyspreadsheet.com :)

I have yet to hit the issues per se, but what I am partially betting on, is that once spreadsheets are just an interface rather than datastore (where possible), some of those issues can be resolved. One will loose realtime reactivity, but what they were trying to achieve anyway was to access a "canonical" data point.

I should have a video and more details on the website in a day or two
> You are not responsible for those people being offended.

This is objectively false, you can get fired for offending people both at your job or outside it.
Picking products based on feature checklists is how people end up buying horrible enterprise software, and then spend enormous resources trying to make it work. Doing everything implies not doing anything well.

SimpleMDM doesn't try to do everything, as the name implies, but instead they focus on doing what they do extremely well.
> the first 32-bit version of Windows.

Windows NT was released in July, 1993. Almost exactly two years before Windows 95.

In 1997 I joined a company where I was doing Win32 coding, on a Windows NT code base that dated back to 1995. The code base also had parts targeting Windows CE client devices. (The company was an extremely early adopter of that platform; they might have done some of the development before CE was officially released in 1996. Anyway, that's another 32 bit Windows from almost 25 years ago, and less of a hack than 95.)
Hipsters and eco-paying-premium people dont have money, not even close to the money provided to vertical ag tech farms.

Capital intensive to develop the automatic reaping bots, which will also cost more to operate compared to current "pour diesel into tractor and pull the earth up and shake it to extract so many potatoes". Destruction just costs less.
It was kinda funny, and not nasty at all. Let's assume good faith here?
I would love to see police trying to take a crack at this from the other side of things. Instead of matching against a database, Set up a style GAN and come up with a mask of the original photo or video to isolate just the face and have the discriminator try to match the face. Then at the end you can see the generated face with a decent pose and more importantly look through the range of generated faces that result in a reasonable match to give a somewhat decent idea of how confident you should be about any identification.
Naive Realism
I have not encountered any other psychology concept that is so ingrained to almost all people.

Literally, think of every discussion you had related to politics.
Spreadsheets are a very good model, and they have tremendous potential (which has been fully utilized) due to their "visual programming" aspect, but the excel formula language, array formulas and VBA are not the best places to ramp up to when things get more complex and advanced. There's quite a bit of horror stories of Excel gone wrong [1]

I've been positively suprised that Microsoft seems to have started to finally improve this situation with things like XLOOKUP and increasing Python support in Excel.

Disclaimer: I've published in a group doing research on Spreadsheet improvements, this is the professor's publication history [2]

[1] http://www.eusprig.org/horror-stories.htm
[2] https://www.felienne.com/publications
I hope (fingers crossed) that the encryption laws will simply not apply to the EU. I mean most US companies operate via an intermediate company hosted in e.g. Ireland or the Netherlands already, so I reckon legally they can disregard these bills.

Of course, if the US government starts to offer money for data, they may budge anyways. I'm fairly sure MOST data can freely be shared with the US, it's just government data and higher level company data that isn't allowed to cross the borders.
If you follow the link, you'll see that the computer report had this message right at the top in massive letters:

THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT A POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION. IT IS AN INVESTIGATIVE LEAD ONLY AND IS _NOT_ PROBABLE CAUSE TO ARREST. FURTHER INVESTIGATION IS NEEDED TO DEVELOP PROBABLE CAUSE TO ARREST.

I mean, what else could the technologists have done?
That's one of my 'jokes' with my Polish half of the family: Poland chose just about the shittiest place to be in: a plane between Prussians, Russians, Austrians...

By the way, don't forget the most important internal divide in Eastern Europe: orthodox vs catholics.
I deleted everything I've posted and stopped logging in and just kept my shell profile as I figured they were keeping a shadow profile on me. I log in an check messages every few months or whenever I randomly remember. I have all notifications turned off because I found they were sending me fake sketchy random notifications to get me to log in more when I stopped logging in, so now I only log in when I choose to.
> Octaves are just too basic a phenomena to be viewed as a cultural invention.

Octaves are consonant or dissonant depending on the timbre of the sound. For sounds produced by harmonic instruments, like a vibrating string or air vibrating inside a long tube, the sound is a superposition of waves whose frequencies are integer multiples of a fundamental frequency. Then, playing two sounds an octave apart will match exactly all these frequencies and it will sound nice. But there are other instruments (not privileged in the western music tradition) whose timbre is not composed of integer multiples of a fundamental frequency; and in these instruments octaves sound very dissonant.

You can argue that the octave is a "basic phenomenon" inasmuch a vibrating string is basic. Yet, from the point of view of a person who uses a synthesizer, the octave has nothing special with respect to other intervals.
If you liked that, Seksmisja is similar (also a comedy, by the same director) - it's a story of two guys waking up in the future from a scientific project studying hiberation, finding out that all men are extinct (the women reproduce via labs) and the world is a sort of all-women Orwellian dystopia. Very funny.
I think that's the first time I've actually seen farmers have an interest in improving their soil. Conventional practices are basically strip mining fertile land as if it was some finite resource.
Ask HN: Learning Proper Planning
Most of my career I worked on teams in which we roughly sketched things out or drew on a board and often found our way by coding ourselves to a solution. Now I work alone, remotely as a freelancer and after a recent bout of RSI I want to be more mindful about how much time I spend coding vs properly exploring a solution. I understand not everything about a problem can be felt out without implementing some of it but I'm sure I could be more effeicient. So what tools and techniques should I look into for properly planning a software project?
Humans Navigate with Stereo Olfaction
"Honeycode – Build Web & Mobile Apps Without Writing Code"

For the sake of clarity, couldn't they have come up with a name that didn't include the word "code" ?
What I want to see with Contacts is

1) a way for apps to display a view that shows the contact name for a phone number, with specified styling / sizing / etc, but without being able to determine what that contact name is.

2) an App Store rule that forbids apps from requiring contact access unless they can't function without it. WhatsApp forces you to provide contact access, giving Facebook your place in the social graph even if you don't use Facebook, even though WhatsApp should be usable (using phone numbers) without it.
That's far more arbitrary, and there are plenty of other scales that don't conform to this.
I would guess that Apple always had plans to switch to their own arm cpus. Perhaps what happened is that their experience with Intel was so bad that they chose to accelerate those plans, rather than have to deal with AMD.

Most likely Apple has a contract with Intel for some kind of deal on the price, so switching to AMD would incur a round of lawyers and negotiations to get a similar price. That doesn't come for free, so if they had other plans in the works, it would make sense to move faster rather than try and do something for a short period of time.
Amusing.

At this point facial recognition is fictional software.
Even you have forgotten that it's already happening in the US: you only need to look at the horrendous human conditions and the industrialization of the prison and justice system, which targets minorities for the pettiest offenses to be able to fill the prisons and make profits for their owners. Or look at the concentration camps at the border, where migrants are treated worse than we would treat any animal. Or look at the disproportionate treatment of minorities by police force: they are _scared_ of the police force, to the point the advice is to not trust the police. Is that something a citizen from a free country should face ?

It _is_ happening already, and despite the few vocal people talking about it the news cycle is spinning so fast that it goes out of the discussion in a matter of days and people seem to forget it.
>only metals are able to conduct electricity

The article is incorrect on this. Some non-metals can conduct electricity.
All real estate is sold in a market. The fact that prices may be too high in some places in the U.S., right now, do not change that Japan and America are both subject to supply / demand mechanisms. Foreign investment in U.S. real estate is much, much more common than Japanese real estate.

Japan, is also no stranger to real estate bubbles, having experienced perhaps the worst real estate bubble in modern history in the 90s:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/japan-199...

"At their peak, prices in central Tokyo were such that the Tokyo Imperial Palace grounds were estimated to be worth more than all the land in the entire state of California."
With which JavaScript version? At the time HOP was written I remember JavaScript still doing all it's for loops in C-style and there was certainly no arrow syntax to make anonymous JS functions manageable.

There were also no functional methods available, as related by the restriction to C-style for loops. (Array Iteration methods didn't appear in the spec until 2009, so I don't see how you could have map or select or anything else functional).
Hardly, it only supports basic MFA scenarios with a cross platform Authenticator.

User verification + resident keys were never implemented in Safari 13.
But then how would you know when a given person has updates to see? Sure you could just check periodically, but say there are a dozen people you care about seeing updates for - it gets a lot less convenient than seeing those all in one place. I'd suggest unfollowing everyone except people who's updates you actually want to see, but you'd still have "sponsored" & "suggested" posts etc from FB
It's not "social media". It's Twitter, specifically, because of the design decisions of that platform (obvious things like the message length limit, and slightly more subtle things like the way that replies from other people are hidden, encouraging you to pile in).
> Going after systems that have over a million users would leave a pretty big loophole for niche vendors and open source. But with such a big precedent, those could easily be targeted later.

Smaller just don't have to do it proactive, but can be required to do it later.

> the Attorney General can simply command it to build one, using what’s called an “assistance capability directive.” (If it does already have that capability, the AG can use the directive to command it to maintain it.) That isn’t limited to the million-plus club; any provider can be served with such a directive. That is, the “big” providers have to proactively design for decryptability, and the “little guys” with less than a million U.S. users better gird their loins
Leonard: Hey, Penny. How's work?

Penny: Great! I hope I'm a waitress at the Cheesecake Factory for my whole life!

Sheldon: Was that sarcasm?

Penny: No.

Sheldon: Was that sarcasm?

Penny: Yes.
I probably said a lot of things that would be problematic in this current climate and it doesn't mean I changed my opinion on any of them in particular :)
> Because one of the most basic instruments you can have is a string under tension.

I guess percussion instruments are even more basic. Just a piece of wood or of metal with a random shape. For percussion instruments (unless they are laboriously tuned to be harmonic), the octave is nothing special.
A library (macOS, iOS) that converts the files supported by Assimp to Scene Kit scenes. [1]

[1] https://github.com/dmsurti/AssimpKit
Half != same, and harmonics exist in plenty of other domains.
Android has supported piecemeal permissions for ages (only let app X access this one photo, or this one contact), which Apple seems to be starting to copy in iOS 14 (though, as usual, seemingly without a single thought to the long-term UX).
Same here. It feels like a joke website.
> Does this need to be here? Do we need the equivalent of /r/SubredditDrama on HN?

So according to left-leaning “progressive” people, discussing grave misdeeds done in the name of progressivism is “drama” and should be discouraged.

Do I understand you correctly?
You can install an extension/add-on in firefox and chrome that will block it. That's how I block my newsfeed.
To quote Noam Chomsky, "If we do not believe in freedom of speech for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all." That's not to say you're entitled to not be fired for any reason that makes you a liability to a company, but I'm seeing far too many people applauding political violence. "Punch Nazis" is now the standard internet response to any right-wing demonstration and those who repeat that slogan always fail to see the incredible irony of it.
I don't understand - so they are arbitrary? And so arbitrary that people don't even agree on it?