skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly it's not true that "there is nothing really impossible for a sufficiently motivated government". Governments can and do succeed at some things, but the scope of things they can do without negative consequences is very limited.

History shows that very clearly, including the examples I suggested (which as you point out were messaging labels, but they all have had real and vast interventions to go with them), that you attempted to refute with more examples of government interventions playing out badly.

To be clear, I'm not any kind of anti-government anarcho-capitalist or anything like that. I'm from Australia and am supportive of the mixed economy we have here.

Also, please stop blithely invoking 1930-40s Germany as an example of governments achieving intended outcomes. It's not what I come to HN for, it makes my skin crawl, and even if you insist on a dispassionate evaluation of that system, our ability to determine how it would have played out long term is obviously very limited, but even then we know for sure it was horrific and not at all the kind of thing that should be described as "desirable", which is the very word that kicked off this subthread.
Except Molyneux is not a "literal white supremacist and nazi". He is a conservative.
localbitcoins. It's like craigslist: you find people you meet up with, give them cash, they transfer you the BTC (through escrow). No KYC, no shenanigans, you just need to be willing to pay their few-percentage-point fees.
I just don't want to live in a divisive and post-fact world. It is both sad and scary that this is "fascinating" and "clearly an agenda".
This was a talent acquisition from the looks of it.

North had failed and this was an exit that was better than bankrupcy.
I don't pay Substack anything. In fact they've paid me.
IIRC the reviews for the armband were unanimously bad, with the device barely working. If the device wasn't fit for gaming, it definitely would not be fit for any medical or industrial use at the time.
It seems these days opaque machine learning models means transparency.

I would prefer they would say that they're down grading their preference for user engagement, and time on platform, for what the trained model says it's original reporting.
Sign in with Apple asks for your normal iCloud email address. It's Apple's servers that look up your app-specific obfuscated relay email address if you've used one for the app.
An e-mail address is as close to a unique id of a user as you can get online.

It makes cross-site/service tracking very easy.
Discounted Rent Special
Sad. Love the Cirque aesthetic.
Thanks so much for sharing your experience! I'm very much considering this procedure (have been on the fence for a while) so it's good to hear about how it helped you. It's great it helped your headaches too.

Thanks!
Thank you so much for a description of what it actually does which the website seems to struggle so much to convey.

One thing that I'm still trying to figure out is, if you do happen to know: how does it handle data deduplication (if at all)? How about redundancy and backups? I've been glancing over the docs and I do see mention of replication to another Perkeep instance but that's not quite what I'm looking for.
AWS Lambda and Serverless Events – Pulumi
There's something to be said for the intimidation of physical presence, as well. The stature and physical proximity of the individual being spoken to is not a factor in video chats, and I imagine the absence of those factors would have an impact upon solicitations of services which wouldn't normally be forthcoming, like donations.
In my university physics course, we did a project where we made our own physics models of car crashes and compared with crash tests and statistical data about real-life crashes. Our conclusion at the time was that crash test results matched our models of collisions with identical vehicles of opposite velocity (i.e. a head-on collision - the most complex case we could solve analytically), which, if you work it out, should come out the same as the normal force when hitting something stationary like a concrete pillar. In this case crumple zones are the most important factor, as they allow you to decelerate over a longer distance. The real life data crash reports though matched the result we got from simulations (which is what we resorted to when the models got to complex to solve analytically), in which case by far the most important factor was the weight of the cars involved in a given crash. Whoever is in the heaviest car will tend to win the game of conservation of momentum. Kind of a sobering conclusion tbh.
"You must keep at least one part of a multi-signature key with us for the insurance to be valid".

Then the insurance is really cheap... Either the insurance companies systems stay secure and there are no losses, or the insurance company is breached, and they claim bankruptcy...
This has been done in a very real sense [0]...
Defiance was a video game/tv show combo where actions in the game influenced the next episode of the TV show. This included things like 'which side was winning' and who lived/died, etc.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Defiance_(video_game)
I was very surprised yesterday to see that Reddit, YouTube, and Twitch all took major actions to censor "hate speech" all on the same day. I am personally against censorship from big tech companies, in large part because they control so much of societal discourse that such actions have the same negative impact in stifling expression as a government censoring speech. I also believe that the term "hate speech" is vague and has ever-expanding definitions, and it really just disallows dissent.

It seems like in 2020 these companies have all shifted from being more hands off to being very hands on. It's also apparent that the bans mostly impact one political side, which I think is proof of how vulnerable free speech is when big platforms are located in cities with strong political biases. To illustrate how far this has gone, consider that Reddit's new policy actually allows "hate speech" against majority groups (https://reclaimthenet.org/reddit-hate-speech-majority-groups...).

Does anyone have more information about this sudden transition to heavy censorship from big tech? It doesn't seem like a coincidence that all three would implement a large number of noteworthy bans at once. Are these tech companies in coordination with each other in terms of which content they will ban and how they will time it? Is the strategy that media cannot possibly cover a large number of simultaneous acts of censorship?
Here is the CLI you can run yourself https://github.com/gruntwork-io/cloud-nuke
Exactly, you can't officially reverse wires. You can ask your bank nicely, and they can ask the receiving bank nicely, and if the money's still there, it may or may not be transferred back. But there is no official mechanism for reversing wires, and if the other side withdraws/spends the money before you start the process you're SOL.
Smart glasses were a gimmick back when they were first designed and implemented in the 60s/70s, and they will continue to be a gimmick, especially if G takes them on.

Nothing against North in particular, I just think that it's a recipe for disaster to have every minute of a human's waking life tracked by Google. Color me a cynic, but I'm not optimistic about the future of this technology, especially in the hands of big G.
One thing I appreciate in supervised machine learning is that it's widely acknowledged that one should not test on training/tuning data. For both computer benchmarks and car crash tests, this is not the case. Both fields routinely work to optimize for a test, which leads to dramatic overfitting. This would be like passing out a standardized test years before students take it.

This seems solvable. For benchmarks, there should be held out tests that don't get distributed to (say) compiler authors until after the results are published. For crash tests, parameters like overlap and speed should be randomized each year so that manufacturers are forced to optimize for a range of possible crash scenarios.
I have this: http://petermolnar.net/404.json
It's the data source for a fallback PHP that tries to do magic if the static resource wasn't found.

How to: check your server logs, look for 404s. See if you can set up a redirect, or serve a HTTP 410 Gone.

I agree on the domain problem. It's a big problem.
I use the delays between page loading to contemplate life. This will take that way :(
EFF is on the wrong side of both the law and common sense here and they will lose no matter how much they pay their legal team. Internet archive didn’t just steal from ‘publishers’ they are also stealing from authors big and small. You don’t get to give out free digital copies of books to people without permission and expect to get away with it.

This exact digital/physical equivalence idea has already been through the courts (for movies/television) and it failed miserably:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VidAngel

> In June 2019, a jury ordered VidAngel to pay over $62 million in damages for copyright violations.
>In conjunction with those changes, Facebook will also begin to down-rank news in its algorithm that doesn't have bylines, or present information about the company's editorial staff on the publishers' website.

Will they down-rank The Economist, I wonder? :)
"in Firefox this effect activates when clicking the bar, while the other two enlarge when inputting data."

This difference is why Firefox receives mores complaints.

When opening a new tab in Firefox, the address bar is automatically focused. This actually makes the address bar larger than the bounds of the encapsulating toolbar. This combined with the drop shadows helps to partially obscure adjacent toolbar(s), like the bookmarks toolbar.
Horrible!

Even before Covid I was already going through a bad phase, I think I will never be as good as I once was in my job. I make stupid mistakes, I have a hard time focusing, I used to be one of the top performers of the team and now I struggle to do basic tasks without making mistakes. I stop and check my phone or the news every 15 minutes.

I have a partner, a baby and a small kid and absolutely no family members to help with anything in an 8.000km radius. Kids can't go to school so wife is even more miserable by being stuck taking care of them the whole day while I attempt to work and fail miserably. I feel horrible that she has to take care of the kids while I'm here in the office absolutely failing to do my work.

My mother just did a Covid test yesterday and she is also showing sign of Alzheimer's. I can't travel to the country where she lives to see or help her.

I am honestly afraid of losing my job for being so unproductive. I even like what I do, I get excited thinking about the things I have to learn, but when it's time to sit down 9am to try to do work, I am just mentally exhausted to even begin to start. Then I check my phone.

I can't just quit my job due to the need for money. I don't think switching jobs will be any more helpful since I am in such a bad productivity stage right now that the new employer will probably fire me upon realizing how crappy I am.

I feel I will never be the productive programmer I once was, and this scares me.

Thanks for the attention.
I bet we will be seeing the same product that Myo did but will be built into a particular watch that has the 'Designed by Apple in California, Made in USA' insignia in this decade.
Occasionally I watch the Discovery channel show "Gold Rush". I was watching it the other day and they were saying something about how it was not worth the cost of the Diesel to continue mining because the yield was too low. And it is sort of interesting how Bitcoin and real Gold mining are parallels.
Unfortunately, there isn't really a solution to this problem. Metrics are the only way to measure some things reliably and consistently across users, testers and subjects.

The goal is to have performance on the metric be as close as possible to the desired characteristic. This isn't always possible (and gets really hard when people are involved), but there isn't really any other solution.
Year old iPad runs x86_64 in emulation faster than the Surface natively
I don't understand what you don't understand. I can't harass someone I don't interact with.
Working out is bike rides for me, so that means taking my hand off the bars. I mean, in comparison to a phone, what does the watch offer when you're lifting? How will you dismiss a notification? What's the real difference between just picking up the phone or having the phone or a tablet mounted somewhere you can see at all times?

I do a lot of walking downtown and half the time I have a cup of coffee in my hands or something else. Responding or interacting with the watch becomes impossible without two hands or I guess talking into it.

You need two hands to use a watch: one to bring it your face, and the other to interact with it.

Believe me, I want to use a smart watch; it feels like every kid would have wanted one back in the day. But when you think about them, they're not as useful as they seem due to many factors, and I think most people get that, because you don't see many people wearing them. They're definitely still a niche product.

But how many people wear glasses? What if they did more than help you just see better? How many people might drop contacts for that value, even? (Some people wear glasses over contacts purely for fashion.)

You don't have to do anything to see information in your always-present glasses, and you only need one hand to operate them. Alternatively, a mic would be closer to your mouth so that's more functional than bringing your hand to your face to give commands as well.
If you wire the money to the wrong account? No, you're SOL unless the receiving bank and receiving account decides to reverse the transaction, which is fairly rare.
Even a $1M order has more than 1-2% slippage in my experience... $1B will probably have much more.
> That doesn't feel great. Telling creators that people are paying you for their work but they have to create an account to get paid feels shady.

I get that, but isn't it better than paying for a utility like Pocket or Instapaper that strips ads from writers' articles and doesn't offer them any compensation? Those companies aren't asking writers to opt-in to that. We're trying to do the right thing in a financially sustainable way.

Also just to be clear, writers won't be required to sign up for a paid Readup subscription in order to collect their revenue share. If they don't want to use the platform they can just verify with us via email.

> Do you make it clear when something I read is from a creator who has signed up and therefore will be paid?

Yes! There will absolutely be some sort of "blue checkmark" verification indicator. (To be clear we have not yet started charging users. We're still in the building stage!)

> If one of your users were to read something I published, would they see it exactly as they would if they visited directly? Same ads, same layout? Will the reader look any different to me as far as my analytics go?

On the browser: Initially yes, before activating the extension which will strip ads and enter the "reader mode" layout.

On mobile: No, javascript and stylesheets are not executed while rendering the article.

For your analytics: It depends. If you're looking at server logs then everything will look the same. If you're relying on client-side javascript for analytics then you don't see it at all for our mobile users and the results might be different for browser users depending on how your scripts are interacting with the page.

> Also, how do you manage abiding by all the crazy terms and conditions on different sites? For example, on your homepage is a link to an Atlantic article and their terms and conditions prohibit the use of their RSS feed for commercial reasons or selling access to their site. Do you have a deal with the Atlantic? Have they signed up with you?

We don't crawl any publisher websites or use their RSS feeds. All article curation on our site is crowdsourced from our users - 100% organic human spidering. We just track their reading progress and use that data to rank the articles so that everyone can find the best content. We'd love to eventually partner with publishers but especially larger ones probably won't want to talk to us until we have millions of paying users and can offer them a significant revenue share.
It's long past due that we should move to software which isn't maintained - because there's nothing to do. Adding features could be done either by writing a new one - because the requests don't really fit the meaning of old one, the creators saw that and rejected; fixing bugs - yes, fixing bugs may remain, but are there many bugs in, say, TEX code?

We don't yet know how to write a completed software well - the one which isn't updated on Github for years yet nobody calls it stale or outdated.
I usually get between 0.5% and 1% spread at my bank and my company is tiny so these are list rates.
How do I block you from monetizing my content? "You can't" isn't the right answer.
> John Birges Jr. was 19 years old. He liked weed, beer, girls, and the Stones.

I really like this passage here. So poetic in its own way.
My buddies and I all subscribed to this theory as young kids in Texas, then one time some of us did a trip to the junkyard to get some parts and it was a graveyard of absolutely demolished pickup trucks. Shook us pretty good. The junkyard guy knew what happened to some of them, too, like this one where the passenger compartment was just a block of near solid steel apparently got in a crash with a Camry.

So I'm not sure "big car safe" is necessarily true.
Labour costs are a factor only when trading internationally or across markets.

Within a single market, they're not so relevant. In this case, everything is cheaper. The furniture is cheaper, so there's less money to pay people with. So the proportion of costs for labour is about the same. Assume 10% of the cost of the furniture goes to paying people - in the USA that's a larger number than in Ecuador, but still 10%. It doesn't really affect the model.

I think the real difference is the consolidation of the supply chain in the US (and other developed economies). In the US, the first "big box" stores were able to squeeze savings from the supply chain and offer lower prices. Customers liked that, bought more, and soon every furniture store had to either go very up-market or adopt the same strategy. A few decades and a lot of acquisitions later, and the entire new furniture market consists of half a dozen completely vertically integrated superstore chains, plus a few up-market retailers.

The second-hand market is not so consolidated. The article doesn't say whether they were buying new or second hand furniture. It'd be interesting to find out why the second-hand market isn't subject to the same market forces. How come there isn't a few large second-hand furniture stores?
kind of terrifying.. wonder how long until a script kiddy finds some access/secret keys in github or somewhere else and kills a company.
Ah sorry, I thought I had seen zen2 measuring lower for idle consumption than comparable intel as well, but some searching says to me you're right.
I was hoping that North would license their display technology to someone that would build practical smart sunglasses for endurance athletes. There are a few heads-up display products available now for cyclists but they are all flawed in various ways, and there's nothing that works for runners. Unfortunately I don't think Google understands or cares about the sports tech market.

From a customer perspective I would pay $1000 today for a pair of smart prescription sunglasses that could link to my fitness tracker as an ANT+ extended display and show a few key data field including speed, distance, heart rate, and power. That would be super helpful for racing and structured training.
Isn't Looker a talent acquisition for Data Studio?
theydidimperialmath. impressive.
Referencing the same line, I remember seeing another article on HN somewhat recently about the downside to taking averages of a human to fit specs since the "average"(mathematical mean of measurements) human never existed in reality. Something about fitting pilots to a cockpit?
Video capture hardware and audio interface
Missing Structure in Technical Discussions
Agreed. However, I would expect the EFF to (possibly) be good negotiators. They might be able to make a settlement that keeps the IA's website open while satisfying the publishers - or at least making the lawsuit complicated enough that the publishers won't keep going.

Without this representation, the publishers could almost certainly bankrupt the IA, even if they are given the minimum infringement fine of $200/ea.
> We do have historical luminaries whose works we save, but the harsh fact is that most people just aren’t special enough where we need to keep everything they generate.

Historians want stuff from ordinary people, because that stuff, though sometimes lame and embarrassing, gives a glimpse into daily life that the papers of more prominent people might not reveal.

History has long since ceased to be merely the study of important kings, queens, writers, etc. Historians want documentation of what life was like for everyone else, and that is why they study old random finds like people’s diaries and correspondence. Now that humanity has moved into the digital era, obviously people’s old websites will become an object of study.
They seem to be targeting very different use cases. Apple looks like it's going for the everyday consumer while microsoft sees AR as a business tool. I think the everyday consumer would be willing to trade off how good the AR is for style/battery life/weight etc. Especially if apple can get around the creep factor that turned so many people off of google glass, which might require cutting out a camera or two and reducing functionality
Easy to say. I live a long walk from work (normally I ride the bus), now they are talking about moving to a different building that isn't served by transit (20 minute walk to the nearest bus stop), since it isn't that far by car they aren't even thinking about offering relocation expenses so it would cost me more than a new car to move (after realtor fees and other moving expenses). There is no reason to believe that this is the last time they move us.
Nearby Sharing – Android's AirDrop competitor – is rolling out now in beta
Detroit police chief admits facial recognition is wrong “96% of the time”
Hayek himself recognized that people are forced to submit to the market. He just approved of that kind of submission.

I got bad news for you guys, Hayek was just making excuses for rich people running the world.
That bank transfer won’t happen for free. Both sides will have to go through KYC procedures and it will take plenty of time if one of the parties is new.
Forbes Censors Award Winning Environmentalist's Apology over Climate Scare
I'm not in ML, but in PL and HCI almost all conferences have proceeded on-schedule, just in a virtual format.

The only exception I'm aware of is HOPL (History of Programming Languages). They still published the papers/proceedings as usual, but have postponed a physical gathering instead of meeting virtually because the conference convenes only once every 10-15 years.
This isn't correcting for whether people can safely drive the biggest vehicles on the road, semi trucks.