skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But is it actually serving a purpose if not enough people are actually going into the stores, at the demos and playing with the toys?

I don't think this is abandoning consumer tech. Their ~90% domination is still a thing. They gained it without stores, and the stores weren't helping them maintain it.

There seems to be this cognitive lag where it seems like the stores should be a big deal, should be significant, giving them up should say something about Microsoft's position in the industry. A lot of commentary can't shake that perception. The reality though is it never was any of those things.
Agreed. I backed an 'alpha' book 3(?) years ago now. First 2-3 chapters were pretty good. Unfortunately, those first few chapters were all I ever got. The book never advanced beyond that... so.. money not well spent.

I'm now in the boring "I give you money, you give me finished product" camp.
Or maybe they simply didn't agree with the premise of the protests.
So mostly young white males trashing black neighborhoods? Who is exploiting who again?
It's supposed to be:

Woops, HN filters the emojis. The eyes and mouth on the page.
Totally makes sense. Fun fact: In the past i was involved in a company where they implemented anonymous feedback system. The feedback system did so well .... that they shut it down in a month and never discussed the results. It uncovered too many problems that nobody in the management wanted to address. This company is on the verge of bankruptcy now, 5 years after those surveys..

When people are allowed to speak up freely - truth will come out quickly. (Yes, you will get some noise too, but id rather adjust my signal to noise ratio then just deal with meaningless noise all the time).
Don’t know where you’re from but as a an average Swede I consume about three to four earths worth of resources per year.

It’s unsustainable on a fundamental level, driven by a consumerism that triggers primal behavior.

You might not have to cut down, but someone eventually have to. There’s no way around that.

https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days...
Yes, it is specifically about civil suits. It is no shield against criminal accusation - it only protects them from their victims, not their masters.
My opinion is that government may 'enact' things, but they don't produce anything, and given the two sub-par candidates from the two-party system currently running to govern this country, I think the only way, at least here in the US, that change is going to happen is from the ground up; I'm not holding out on the US government, or any other government in the world to improve my life, our lives. You can't legislate intelligence.

I've always lived a very low-impact life in proportion to my rise up in economics until just this very year or so, although I am going on 6 years as a vegetarian. Not bad for 56 years I think. I even lived a year in Indonesia in a rice-farming village with predominantly dirt floors with electricity equal to one US apartment (not house) running the few bulbs, radios and TVs in a local population of 100 plus people. I was very happy, and maybe I will go back there, and wait out this disaster (Covid-19, modern life!). I am capable of doing high-tech work, or fix-anything work, so I don't need to be tethered to the internet or a computer to earn my living. I like to think of what Harlan Ellison would write about all of the smart phones, tablets, etc. in the same vein as he did in "The Glass Teat" about television and its sequel "Another Glass Teat". I like Scott Locklin's disparaging term for these and many other modern must-haves as "nerd dildos".

Change will happen by you and I making personal choices and changes and coming to the realization that all the things we think we need, we don't, or at least not in the quantities we believe we do. Eventually lack of outdoor life, sitting all day hunched over a screen, and avoiding reality will have its consequences with bad backs, hearts, minds and spirits, so government or no government, individual lifestyle changes or not, consequences will come a calling and give us feedback whether we like it or not. I am a believer in what the author attributes and quotes from Ghandi, but here's the actual quote:

“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.” – Mahatma Gandhi
I agree with you. Instagram was an excellent acquisition. WhatsApp was an OK acquisition, not because is not a great product or good ecosystem play, but mostly because it came at a premium price and it hasn't been monetized yet.
China does it for decades.

Every any kind of activist should know online privacy 101 and use burner phone/sim.
It's not illegal (though unethical imho), it's the actions taken using that knowledge. Most effective if combined with parallel construction [1] that allow police to issue a trumped-up charge on a specific target.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Neither is black a race. Black people are the most ethincally diverse "race" At some point we are grouping people based on the way we look or the continent we associate them with, in order to have these conversations,
Physics is fundamental.
To each their own. If you're in vim, you don't need to leave your editor if you prepend an exclamation mark to the above expression. I often do a lot of prototyping with:

!gcc main.c -fsanitize=address -Og && ./a.out
> So all claims on it are unsubstantiated

> I at the very least provide logical reasoning, while you fail to provide anything other than vacuous conclusions

At least you're admitting to a priori reasoning and using that to conclude generalizations about an entire profession.

A cursory search tells me there's around 1 million law enforcement officers in the US. Like all conspiracy theories - what are the chances there's widespread and indefensible corruption such that all of them are complicit but very little ever leaks?

Clearly we see cases of indefensible abuse (as we'd expect in law enforcement given a population of 300+ million people), but perceived prevalence of abuse seems to be hysterically skewed towards "ubiquitous evil" when social media, etc. broadcasts local incidents directly onto everyone's radar where people are primed to view everything in terms of their preconceived narratives and worldviews.
Here it is: https://web.archive.org/web/20200527204809/https://www.apple...
Building a Cash Flow App with Amplify DataStore and SwiftUI
*vertibrates
https://archive.is/AodQ3
I've been waiting for something to implement this concept for so long, and I'm so happy to finally get a chance to explore how it works in practice!

It's really fascinating to zoom comparing the compressed version with the original -- the "general idea" is all there and the quality is roughly the same, but strands of hair move to different positions, skin pores are in a completely different pattern, etc. -- it's all regenerated to look "right", but at the lowest level the texture isn't "real".

Which is so fascinatingly different from JPEG or other lossy schemes -- the compression artifacts are obviously exactly that, you'd never confuse them for real detail. While here, you could never guess what is real detail vs. what is reconstructed detail.

My hunch is that this won't actually take off at first for images, because images on the internet don't use up that much of our bandwidth anyways, and the performance and model storage requirements here are huge.

BUT -- if the same idea can be applied to 1080p video with a temporal dimension, so that even if reconstructed textures are "false" they persist across frames, then suddenly the economics here would start to make sense: dedicated chips for encoding and decoding, with a built-in 10 GB model in ROM, trained on a decent proportion of every movie and TV show ever made... imagine if 2-hour movies were 200 MB instead of 2 GB?

(And once we have chips for video, they could be trivially re-used for still images, much like Apple reuses h.265 for HEIC.)
OKC's collection was from their own service that people had clearly signed up for and provided data too--even if they released those studies a ways in the past before people were as familiar with privacy concerns, it was at least a more direct relationship with the subjects.

Some aggregator third-party add-on library integrated into other apps snarfing up data is a bit different and more concerning, though thankfully it's the specific sort of thing GDPR and CCPA were designed against.
>Individual choice has a very small role in climate change.

Only if you offload moral culpability onto third parties that are acting on your behalf.

You'd probably say you aren't responsible for the climate change due to power companies that use coal instead of green energy. But I'd argue you are responsible for any non-essential energy use since you know they are going to burn coal to generate it.

If you turn on an air conditioner when your home is cooler than 95 degrees, that carbon usage is 100% on you.

Same goes for agriculture. If you stopped buying meat, they'd stop producing meat for you.

If your point is that the masses won't make those trade offs voluntarily, you are probably right. But the point of the article is that its entirely unconvincing to say society must reduce our standard of living by force when you won't do it voluntarily.
Climate change won't be stopped because the population of the world who care, and the population who might care, is massively dwarfed by the number of people who will never care. And the incentives are aligned such that benefit for humans means detriment for the planet. Thus, it is in no nation's individual interest to actually push for climate change legislation. Because first they would fall behind industrially, then economically, then finally get squeezed into irrelevance. And even if they did hypothetically care enough to make this sacrifice "for the betterment of the earth, humanity, and future generations", it would all be for naught once they fell into irrelevance. Like a child going on a hunger strike, nobody cares and they don't have a say anyway.
Even if the individual is privacy focused, careful with the apps on their smartphone, if the cellular service provider pimps out the telemetry there's little one could do to protect the privacy.

One of the reasons to have 'Non cellular network mobile Internet'[1] via long range hotspots where we could use standard techniques we use to protect ourselves from the ISP.

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/51-non-cellular-network-mobile-...
They use poison powder, not poison gas, which has at least somewhat reduced potential for collateral damage.
Indian government adviser fears coronavirus crisis will worsen
Ah yes, I would love to recompile and run that through libFuzzer and collect all the hidden bugs that were never discovered when it was a blackbox.
I'm very impressed, I was waiting for an image codec that combines something like VGG loss + GANs! (Another thing that I'm waiting for is a neural JPEG decoder with a GAN, which would be backwards compatible with all the pictures already out there!) Now we need to get some massive standardisation process going to make this more practical and perfect it, just like it was done for JPEG in the old days! (And then do it for video and audio too!)

What happens if you compress a noisy image? Does the compression denoise the image?
GitHub Action Hero: Victoria Drake
World’s second-deadliest Ebola outbreak ends in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Widespread antibody testing will not be sufficient to answer that question. It appears that a significant fraction of patients who recover from asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections don't produce detectable levels of antibodies.
No problem at all:)

Indeed! With the current situation going on, the digitalisation accelerated, and the dataset is moving to a large scale, we see a huge demand of services like this.
Dolphins learn unusual hunting behavior from their friends
Why is there so much talk about hypotheses and market validation in the article when the product is a straight up clone of WeTransfer almost down to the name?

For those who don't know: compare the visual design of https://www.dropbox.com/transfer with the design of https://wetransfer.com/. Design and location of key elements are super similar.
Someone interviewed white people in New York about abolishing police and lots of them whole-heartedly agreed. They interviewed black people in New York about it, and they said it was insane to want to do that. That would fit these statistics.
GameAnalytics Migrated to Apache Druid
Yeah its likely. The moment I saw the Mainvest homepage I was reminded of the SS homepage when I was there. It looks like there have been changes since.

I assumed a founder or one of the employees was the one to post the link. I was genuinely curious to see how they are different. SS did a lot of things wrong, and there was a lot of room for improvement, but at a glance this place looks the same.

edit: After re-reading the original comment, I guess the "blatant ripoff" line was a bit rough. I probably should have used some softer language
KLM gets 3.4 bn euro Dutch bailout
I really like happening upon USGS/NGS survey markers on mountain summits. Oldest I've seen is from the 1890s (under a different agency name).
The best technical option here is to allow for dynamic payment for cellular services (via privacy-preserving payment protocols like Lightning) and no fixed hardware identifiers like IMEI. You just randomize your IMEI/MAC/whatever every time you connect to a new provider. Many of the challenges here are that wireless regulators outlaw such privacy-protecting measures.
Brexit: UK starts work on buying own sat-nav system to rival Galileo
I'm going to miss this. I was at a conference in San Francisco, dropped my Surface. Shattering the screen. Luckily I could just walk to thew Microsoft Store and they replaced it. I would have been so screwed if that store wasn't there. I liked being able to go in and see the new Surface hardware before launches. Best Buy would usually not get display units until after launch. I've replaced an Xbox that had a bad HDMI unit...I'd had have to have waited a week to get a new unit, but instead I just went to the Microsoft Store and got it done immediately. I wish they would just scale them down instead of shutting it all down.
Especially, even if one were to assume the current government were a perfectly democratic one who would use technical abilities only for good, who can guarantee this for a government 8 years down the line?

To be honest I had expected the GOP to come up with ... let's say substandard candidates, but Trump is on a level no one would ever have thought possible. And there are people way, way more authoritarian than him in this party.
Yeah I can think of a few. Some just couldn't manage expenses, whether it was ingredients or rent.
I came here to share largely the same observation.

Human nature is such that people (in aggregate) don’t take a threat seriously until it’s affecting people they know or places they care about. And when the government tries to force the issue it generates serious backlash.

Case in point, look at Texas pandemic response. The state adopted a lockdown and restrictions pretty early on because they saw what was happening in Europe and New York. But those places are very far away, and Texas is a very big state. No city had more than a dozen or so cases at that time, and a heavy test and trace policy might have been viable for slowing things down for another week or two.

But ironically, because the government locked down before the crisis was acute locally, there was a huge backlash and they lifted the lockdown prematurely - which I think psychologically reinforced the idea that the disease “wasn’t going to be a problem in TX.” Now cases are skyrocketing, they’re rolling back the reopening, but compliance with the restrictions is very low.

In short, I don’t think the majority cares about risks until their own neighborhood is burning.

Thus the effective solution to societal problems must be (1) easy, (2) cheap, and/or (3) come with exciting benefits right now.

You can see this in action with Elon Musk and Tesla. His stated vision is to eliminate the combustion automobile. His approach is to make a “way cooler car” that people really want and that is seen as superior to the old cars, and then over time figure out how to drive the price down to where there’s no reason to buy combustion anymore. It takes a really long time, but it seems to be working.
Because climate always change either mankind does it or not?
I rarely like to trot out the 'correlation is not causation' thing, but that's just what you'd expect given the large population. but it's not borne out in other places, eg Florida has not had massive protests but they are suffering from a big spike in coronavirus cases. And if we look at this stats page focusing on California down to the county level (but also including other state data), you can see that the rate of increase is not really well correlated with protest activity after all unless you cherry-pick the data
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https://ca-covid-r.info/
Some sort of factor, that exists most strongly in large urban centers, that discourages black people from acting out of line?

Perhaps, like, a racist police force?
NIH’s new sexual-harassment rules are still too weak, say critics
Why would I pay for this when my IDE show me this and products like Sonarqube exist which does much more than just checking dead code?
And one way to "push for that regulation" is giving an example that you are not hurting yourself too much if your choices reflect the legislation you demand.

If you ARE in fact hurting yourself too much, then you prove that people can chose one from the following:

A) keep the status quo, but the planet will most probably heat up and very bad things happen.

B) change the status quo to something that really, really hurts. But the reward for your surrender is that there is a chance that the planet does not heat up so much and less bad things happen a few decades from now.

That is what most people perceive in climate activists.
Docker will not run x86 images. https://youtu.be/Hg9F1Qjv3iU?t=3742
I think it's important to understand the extent to which this is a culture, i.e. self-perpetuating in spite of outside influences.

While your comment explains the origin of this culture... it's generally not as easy to change such a culture as it is to maintain it. Once a group of people believe that the rest of the world does not understand them or is against them, they are somewhat inoculated against efforts by the rest of the world to change them.

New officers spend most of their time with older officers, not department leadership, not the mayor, not journalists, not activists, etc. Older officers teach younger officers how to act, and to some extent, what to believe. And, they act collectively to punish new officers who fail to adhere to this culture.

This is well-enough known to become a storytelling trope: a young idealistic officer finds him- or herself facing not only criminals, but also the cultural inertia of the disillusioned existing police force, as they try to do the right thing.

In many contexts, we accept that organizations have to end, and be replaced, to enact meaningful change. Companies go out business; political administrations lose elections.

This is why the idea of "abolish the police" or "defund the police" might not be as crazy as it sounds on its surface. It's not that we don't need people who are paid to investigate crime and keep people safe... obviously we do. But police forces as they currently exist may have too much cultural inertia to evolve the way they need to.
There's a concept known as steelmanning - most people aren't good at arguing their case, but their case usually has some kind of merit. You steelman an argument by trying to build the strongest, most defensible form of an opponent's argument, read it charitably and presume good faith and tgen try to take it down. That usually involves understanding why a stance forms and its emotional truth, and engaging with that has a funny effect of making people feel heard.
Thanks for the kind words!

We hope that the algorithm we presented is a step in the right direction, and we acknowledge that there's more work to be done! Just like with any algorithm there are ways in which it can be improved. Please check out the supplementary materials [1], to find some examples that can definitely be improved: small faces and small text. Overall, as you say, the algorithm does a great job though!

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/hific/data/appendixb/appendix...
The Renaissance happened in Europe. What non-white voices are you adding to that? The Turks?

There definitely was history happening in other places at that time, some of it very noteworthy, but it wasn't the Renaissance.
Ask HN: Can Android phones still compete with the iPhone?
iPhone has the fastest processor by a large margin [0], the most popular wearables that sell like crazy [1], Apple Glasses headset is around the corner [2], and now iOS apps will be able to run on macOS. Is it possible for Android phones to compete with this on anything else but price?

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro-and-max-review/4

"In the mobile space, there's really no competition as the A13 posts almost double the performance of the next best non-Apple SoC."

[1] https://fortune.com/2019/08/06/apple-airpods-business/

"He would only say that the company's wearables division, which includes AirPods and Apple Watch, accounts for more revenue than 300 of all Fortune 500 companies."

[2] https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-glasses/

"Well-respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects the AR glasses to be marketed as an iPhone accessory and will primarily take a display role offloading computing, networking, and positioning to the iPhone. Offering the AR glasses as an iPhone accessory will allow Apple to keep them slim and lightweight."
> In other words, we need an additional lockdown every year, until 2100. That's the scale of the change, and when I see what happens after a single one, it is clear to me we will never reach that +2C in 2100.

I've seen people point out that emissions haven't dropped much during lockdown but isn't that because manufacturing, mining, shipping, animal farming etc. and everything else that supports our personal unsustainable lifestyles would have largely been continuing as normal ready for things to restart?

E.g. maybe you're not going to launch a cruise ship during lockdown or go on a cruise, but cruise ships are still getting designed, ordered and built during lockdown.
Nice, I made a command line version earlier last year, and displays hours until the new year.

https://github.com/proc0/cucoo
Microsoft’s stores were very nice except that they had double the staff they needed and were using headsets to coordinate their sales efforts and pressure me into buying things... several of their main brands also had histories of installing spyware on their consumer devices which made me really uncomfortable and kept me from buying a couple of times (Lenovo, Dell, razer, another I forget)
Show HN: SharedWorkers driven multi browser window Covid app
Female genital mutilation: Report shows 68,000 victims in Germany
If you use 7zip on Windows or just split/cat on macOS/Linux, you can split without compressing or archiving, saving you unnecessary CPU cycles (and space).
they could probably turn half the store into xbox arcades and break even. However, covid19 throws that and probably any other investment heavy retail idea right out the window.
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