skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s a nice story, but of course it means, even in this best case, that the people around her who had previously done what she now does have been pushed out of business. They need to find a new job.

This is the lump of labour fallacy[0]. There’s a whole body of economic theory but generally arguments against the fallacy are that lowering prices is likely to increase demand (so competitors could make the same investment and compete for the increased demand and be better off as a whole; productivity increases may lead to new ancillary or similar products that were previously not cost effective to produce, again increasing the pie; those increasing their income have to invest or spend it, so those put out of business could start a new business taking investment or spending from their previous competitor. Reality is obviously much more complex and definitely in the short term it can lead to real misery for those losing the competition and not having the time or savings to wait for a new job or for an investment to start paying off. But that doesn’t mean that we should just stop innovation and stop trying to become more productive.

The rest of the arguments in the article against micro finance seem to be issues with underperforming legal and governmental institutions that fail to prevent and remedy fraud and abuse of people in precarious situations. In these systems/countries, there will always be fraud and abuse no matter how you try to help people (including charity, starting real companies and trying to give people real jobs with reasonable pay).

That doesn’t mean you should stop these initiatives. Hopefully, improving conditions for individual people will help improve systemic conditions and vice versa.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
10 years ago out of college I helped set up some microfinance banks in Coffee producing communities in Honduras. At first your taken aback that people are paying 40%+ annual interest rates on small loans for these banks. But when your in the communities talking to people you realize their opportunity costs are like 400%+. Example is in most coffee producing communities in Central America farmers have to sell their products before they even grow them for 4-10x bellow the market rates if they just waited and banded together as co-op. Their issue is no access to financial products and they are substance farmers with no option but sell to coyotes to get money for food. In this world micro finance is a game changer in their quality of lives for it creates options
> Take the foot. This is twelve inches.

I think the foot is the only unit that is useful, otherwise converting between inches/feet/yards/miles get a bit ridiculous.

Also doing mathematical operations gets weird if you have to add/subtract 4' 3/4" and 2' 1/8".

Surveyors, the subject of this article, actually use decimalized feet on their rods (IIRC) given the errors that inches and such can add. So while inches-feet may be useful in the wood shop, in other places it's a problem.
This doesn’t make much sense. If you are not already trained in vector calculus, functional analysis and basic classifier and regression algorithms, then most of these reading list items are completely inapplicable (or even dangerous, like when someone reads some blog posts about slapping together neural nets in Keras and suddenly thinks they can build a model suitable for production).

On the other hand if you are trained in ML, most of these are not detailed or extended enough to give you anything useful. Doing “a hacker’s intro to X” over and over really, really doesn’t give you any skills. This is particularly true for deep domains like reinforcement learning, computer vision / image processing, and natural language processing.

Meanwhile, basic design of experiments for A/B testing, explanatory modeling and simple regressions is a fraught area. Not understanding extremely rigorous details about hypothesis testing, model checking, limitations of statistical significance, etc., can lead to wildly incorrect inferences from poor models that non-experts will completely fail to detect.

At best this list seems like “special topics to seem trendy in AI without getting deep / practical insight into any particular area.” There are one or two minor exceptions in the list.
"This has already been solved... a true phone for "minimalists, athletes and kids""

I believe this was solved more elegantly by the MOTO FONE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone

... which was a beautiful piece of design and minimalist functionality. I used this as my only phone from (roughly) 2014-2016.
Has this been verified / confirmed by a second or third sensors location? Wouldn't multiple locationns help pin point the possible source?
Is this from the company that did the Palm line of PDAs?
It wasn't that hard as I remember. I didn't hit anything but the Objective-C libraries though.
I have hyperoptic, and i will never give up fiber. You will have to pry it from my cold, dead hands!
Standardized tests are tools of inequality, not equality (2017)
MAME should only read from the PTY at 9600 baud to fix the buffer problem.

It will lead to another problem that you have also with real terminals connected to UNIX. The tty driver will buffer lots of data (or worse, the chain of ssh connections will do it). This can be annoying: hold PageDown in an editor, then hold PageUp. Ideally, you should instantly see the top of the file, but instead you have to put up with potentially minutes of buffered data going by.

The editor should output only the latest screen contents when there is type-ahead. But it has to defeat the output buffer to do this properly. The text editor JOE does it: it does not feed data faster than the baud rate to avoid buffering. This allows it to detect type-ahead and only output the most recent screen contents.
I was obsessed with this phone a couple years back, but was annoyed that it was only available as a companion and locked to Verizon. I'm a Google Pixel lover because of the simplicity, software, and size. But I have always wanted a phone that was super small and was for essentials.

I think I might buy it!!!
The race is on :) I'm live streaming myself sailing against you guys. https://www.twitch.tv/ikrisoft
What does reddit do based on psychology?
while your description of the phenomenon may be somewhat accurate for some subset of news consumers, the implication that this is a reasonable position is disturbing.

truth and trust do intertwine deeply in the subconscious, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't use our conscious brains to disentangle them when it leads us astray.

we should seek a variety of reasonable perspectives, especially including differing ones to our own. trust the reasonable, even if disagreeable. that's what get us to truth, not a flight to homogeneity.

and that's the lament here--it's getting harder and harder to find reasonable perspectives because every media outlet, even the venerates like nytimes, are leaning hard into partisanship and tribalism.
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Yes it did. "Stalker" is the name of their profession in the book.
Nteract: Building the Future of Interactive Computing
As someone who's very much an introvert, I far prefer beaches over mountains, and my top moviegoing experiences have all been with packed cinemas.
What if the communication were stored on a digital device, embedded in a person's skull, which they were able to interface their brain with?

That may sound like an unrealistic scenario, but there are already people with medical implants that record digital data, and there has been a case of using Fitbit data to help convict someone:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/us/fitbit-murder-arrest.h...
I see these kinds of comments all the time here on HN “X developer colleague of mine was really clueless about Y technology they were using” and they are so unfathomable to me. I’ve worked with bad colleagues & people who made foolish comments but usually the worst colleagues I’ve had err on the side of immensely increasing complexity. And generally everyone I’ve worked with had a basic understanding of the tech we were using or was a junior with some curiosity.

Who are these completely clueless developers? How do they get hired?
So today is HN thinking “we trust the government to regulate tech” or “we don’t trust government to regulate tech”?
Tim's thoughts dovetail nicely with the Mathbabe "Microfinance is mostly a scam" story also on the front page at the moment. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23662482)

Technological change always causes collateral damage, and, having been in the business for 25+ years, I can't say people were previously more tuned into the negative consequences of our creations in 1994. With every passing day, however, our power to quickly and sweepingly change the structure of physical and social reality grows, and too many investors give their ethical and moral obligations no more thought than an eight year-old does while burning ants with a magnifying glass.

There's a place for thinking about the world through a spreadsheet, but before pouring tens of billions of dollars into science experiments on human civilization, as a professional and a citizen and a human, you have an obligation to pause and look around before pulling the trigger on a deal.

Taking an example from some time ago, I believe Groupon was a singularly ill-conceived and pernicious business akin to payday lending. And perhaps there's a place for payday lending (or microfinance) but the ability to wave your hands and exclaim "(fin)tech start-up!" allows you to avoid the reputational damage usually associated with working in such milieus.
Never autocomplete a URL, just offer suggestions that the user can select manually
I know. Author should have mentioned the unused body parts came from livestock because that is NOT the image that popped into my head at first.
In an age with RGB monitors and displays, I don't know why such a project could be useful.
Microsoft is closing all of its retail stores for good
If the only physical evidence of a crime are a bunch of encrypted bits on someone's iPhone, was there any actual crime?
Adding HTML preview to SerenityOS [video]
Designing Libraries for Async and Sync I/O
Thanks for this write up. I have also been nervous about the companion part. I was annoyed when I first learned that and it was locked. I've been wanting a small phone that was android just for things like Spotify, taxi, Gmail, gps, and text/phone. just essentials virtually.
The military may have laws/rules to report misconduct, but structurally, units are incentivized to hide misconduct

The key word seems to be structurally. The US have this much copied feature of decentralization. Every town elects his sheriff, judges, a lot of the administration is local, then statal. Federal bodies are a far away, mistruted entities. Police is local.

It made sense for a huge country developed at the rhythm of railroad. Law and order must exist near the place where the crime is. I'm not so sure that it's still the case with current connected world. Maybe the US still needs a level more decentralization than most other countries. But if you look at other countries where police is less corrupt and citizens trust them, it's usually an entity dependent on central government, not the city council.

Making the investigative entity as far as possible from the investigated is much better for imparciality. Also involving judges, not in the same branch. Local police here has limited competences. Any serious crime goes to national corps. Police needs to go to national academy and get certified for the whole country.

In my country I would trust police much more than the military.
How Does Sqlite Work? (2014)
while true, it's also formally trademarked and GitHub and GitLab etc. have explicit permission to use the term. It's a trademark violation to use "Git" in reference to software products without the explicit permission of the Git project unless it's a mere reference in the direction of "Zinq is a tool that helps with Git etc" (it's not a trademark issue to mention interaction with Git, only to use it in the name as branding)
Scaling Write-Intensive Key-Value Stores
Not having children is a form of privilege
I assume it's animal's head processing.
While your opinion is appreciated. It would be more helpful, if you could point out sone of the reasons why it was so bad in particular.
To be honest, this check deserves to be in clippy.
There's no material difference but a huge one in presentation, and also in detail: the second says what, the first says how.
The Forbes game reviewer was less impressed.[1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2020/06/26/i-am-watch...
If your company looks like it may be successful, trademark squatters will trademark your logo/name in non-US countries before you get there.

I am personally aware (clients) of several times this has happened. Settlements to get your TM back start around $100,000.
AI fairness is really, really bogus as a research field.

Understanding and reducing negative impacts of bias is important, but the current research field of AI fairness does not do anything like that and has not yet reached any state of maturity where it can be considered a serious subset of research at all.

I would really say even one mention of it on a list like this is purely to do virtue signalling.

It’s the same for “explainability” of models too, another totally bogus field that gets treated as being worthy of attention or societal prioritization purely due to politics.
It is not perfectly explainable by us, though.

And it may not actually perfectly explainable ever. Nothing guarantees we can get a perfect understanding of physics.
Check out the CAs your browser trusts. It's a tire fire. People should be a lot more worried about corporate shenanigans than government.

One of the more interesting things you can do with a network tap is take a look at the certificates crossing the wire. Suricata has a tls-log section.
Many if not most people believe payday loans are predatory practices that prey on people without access to capital and/or financial literacy.
Yeah, but my guess is Kingston's fabs are primarily geared towards Memory (i.e. NAND Flash and RAM) (much like Micron).

Memory is fairly easy to fab; in fact memory was one of the first things we saw Asian fabs rise up and overtake US/EU fabs on.
I'm not a huge film buff or anything, but I did watch Stalker. The music and cinematography was captivating in a way I rarely get in anything but video games or books. Usually movies don't capture me that way, they're far too fast, literal and descriptive. Stalker left so much to the imagination that I was constantly engaged in trying to figure out what they were thinking, where they were going, and what it was they expected to find. It gave me all the time I needed to think about it too.
Have any additional FRBs been detected since the publication of the paper?
Here's some interactive mathematical gizmos:
https://www.tungsteno.io/
>These Tweets are protected
Hopefully FB goes the same way AOL instant messenger did.
When politicians don't represent voters, chaos is the only way to get representation.
I guess it's not 80's, it's a silly mistake of making an assumption that "now we are living in the different times".
Well, for what it's worth I've been programming professionally for 4 years and never had to write fibonacci even one. I think doing something that's more immediately alike what you'll be doing in the project is more productive for both sides.
That's a fair comment. I mostly think the MIT press release is pretty good and doesn't go down that route, except for the title, which is definitely hinting at it.

Also agree that it would make sense to replace the link with the actual paper, or an article about it. University press releases are mostly there to play up their own contribution.
What are the chances they'll keep the crappy little facetime camera?
Ultrasound Networking (2014)
Z++ is the best programming language ever
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I have no idea about the specifics but from what I've heard developers really liked the XBOX (despite it's unholy internals) so I'd say the API was actually nice.

As for HLE based on the API it's definitely possible but there's probably tons of nasty corner cases and that's my theory on why it's never been done. That and the chance of games with their own proprietary APIs existing and thus they won't work with that solution.
Federal officials knowingly allowed distribution of flawed antibody tests
> I’m guessing everyone here seen Contact.

More than once
The point I was rather explicitly (if you go read the original comment) making is that mpgs are bad for comparing fuel economies regardless of differences in what is meant by "gallon", because it's intrinsically not a good unit for comparing fuel efficiencies.
Would it be an overreaction to not want to touch this licence with a barge pole?

Even ignoring the “We may change this licence at any time and it applies to you” parts, there seem to be serious restriction on usage and basically have to ask them to do _anything_ beforehand.

Maybe it makes sense if you are already in a project that is using this Licenced? Is this intended as a general engine licence rather than viewing the source code?
EY is responsible for Luckin Coffee too I believe
Similarly, the book The Big Short (Michael Lewis) notes that hedge fund manager Michael Burry read hundreds of prospectuses for mortgage bonds in the years leading up to 2008 and was "certain even then [in 2005] (and dead certain later) that he was the only human being on earth who read them, apart from the lawyers who drafted them." He ended up shorting these and profiting hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Auditing big firms is hard and to be honest, there's little general audits can do to detect fraud (nor is it even the main goal, forensic auditing is a different beast) and if management is intent to commit fraud, it will happen. But in this case the fraud didn't involve very complex and very opaque structures à la Enron where normal checks wouldn't have been sufficient. The crazy part here is that EY did not verify directly with the banks if the account statements were real, which is very basic and very easy to audit. They just took what Wirecard gave them to confirm what Wirecard told them for something as important as accounts that were supposed to hold almost all the cash the company had. Absolutely insane.

But the thing is EY , like all the big 4, have totally seperate entities for every country they operate in. Now that could mean EY Germany is an isolated case of incompetence and (criminal?) neglect, which would be very surprising considering that EY seems to be involved in a lot of the recent big financial scandals. But it also means that they can't really be "taken down" and are basically immune from existential threats that could actually hurt them.

Yes, there's a partnership structure meaning people at the top of let's say EY Germany have the incentive to keep their credibility and avoid liabilities since they have a direct stake in the business. But considering how many perverse incentives there are ( one of these are low margins and high competition that can encourage having a cozy relationship with who you are auditing to keep the contract) in the auditing world, this opaque structure where EY itself can't lose much more than what it gained... You start understanding why this happen.

But even then EY still really stand out since the rest of the big firms have similar structures yet manage to be a lot more competent.
Wow. Never heard of the variation selector before.
Someone has suggested publii:

https://getpublii.com/

Does anyone have experience of that?
1 is 1 blip, 2 is 2 blips, etc. just like in the movie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary_numeral_system
I considered using cryengine recently but there was an almost total lack of learning resources: I could barely find a tutorial that was newer than 5 years, especially one that involved it’s c++ APIs.

I suspect that lumberyards greatest advantage over cryengine in the future will simply be usable documentation provided by amazon. Cryengine is simply not usable without better docs or else an incredible amount of time. Crytek is having financial troubles but I bet their engine would have 10x adoption if they hired a team technical writers

Unreals docs are fairly bad also, but at least there are some third party resources to turn to
I'm trying to do pretty much everything it described and have to say the most important part is Rule 3 combined with Rule 4 i.e. one has to limit his/her purposes. Once you can do that, the rest just follow along.

Throughout my life I have been wasting tons of time scratching surfaces here and there but never applied the little knowledge gained or went deeper. A complete waste of time I must say.
> Rule #2: No feeds or social media apps on the phone

Your phone is always within your reach. Access feeds only on your laptop, in order not to condition yourself to constantly check it. Don’t install social media or video apps on your phone.

I used to block HN on my smartphone through a simple URL block rule. HN was only available on my laptop for me. I felt way better because every time I saw the message “page blocked” I realized that I had landed on HN subconsciously. It developed into something like a reflex. Pick up the phone, open browser, surf to HN. Nowadays, I have turned it on only for specific times of the day. But honestly, I feel like going back to blocking it completely again.
I had to edit the headline because the original didn't fit.
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Interesting sentiment, I sometimes wonder if a "messy" codebase can have advantages for performance.

Many very highly performance tuned applications I saw in the wild would fall into the category of "horrible codebase" when looked at through that lens.
another vt100 emulator - https://github.com/phooky/VT100-Hax - actually, 2 - one is ncurses, one is qt.
I agree it's been politicized, which is why being precise is important. The fact that medical authorities made claims that blatantly contradict all common sense and basic scientific facts erodes the public confidence. This has happened numerous times since the pandemic began.

I'm Canadian, so I frankly have no direct stake in US politics, but if people on both sides can't agree on basic facts, then there's no hope.

Finally, I don't think the protection afforded is really all that "minimal" for numerous reasons, but the degree of protection wasn't the main thrust point of my post so I didn't (and still don't) want to go into it.
I don't have to compromise my privacy/identity/values to consume those sources.

So, no. Not the same thing. Not even close.
> Greed and selfish pursuit leads to wealth creation

Yeah, but for the people doing the actual work or not?
It might also be allowed by the fourth amendment, provided the warrant was legitimate, depending on the interpretation of "in their persons."
PCs follow well defined standards. Embedded hardware has nothing comparable.