skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.losinglena.com/

As a woman in tech, it's actually the discussions surrounding this proposal that I find most telling. The use of Lena is a waterline. Most women (my personal standpoint bias) probably find it inoffensive at face value, and vaguely grating when they learn that it's a centerfold. It's a reminder of a time when porn in the workplace was rather common; one component of a baseline of inescapable sexual harrassment.

We've made progress, and sexual harrassment is less socially acceptable now. Some of us would like to erase that waterline, because it's a reminder of an ugly past. But what of the people, mostly men, who cling furiously to using that image? They make me uncomfortable, because it's an indicator of where they stand on pervasive sexual harrassment.

Unlike changing terms like master/slave etc, this is a zero-cost proposal (where those are very nearly zero themselves, but more pervasive). Replace the image with something that's got high contrast and color variation. I'd say you can even keep the old name so it won't impact your tooling.
Thanks for the explanation. I had some vague sense something like this was the case but wouldn't know where to even start looking for a confirmation of that sense. This makes the pieces fall into place, thanks!
I liked FFP's main UI, but that was it.

Major websites wouldn't work properly (Twitter) and sharing images directly from a website (memes are my bread and butter) also didn't work.

I use Chrome with NextDNS on Android.
"Those not comfortable with toxic language should pretend this is a religious text."

I'll definitely be borrowing that at some point.
So Apple finally wakes up and tells us that camera covers ruin displays, why now really?
You're entirely without blame because you were only quoting. I just think TorrentFreak themselves should do a better job.

Edit: It looks like the DMCA notice[1] itself misgendered CoolStar, so it probably is malintent that TF didn't pick up on.

[1]: https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/6b964c150db5840bc9820e...
Only hard switches can guarantee blocks to equipment. Any soft switch can be overridden.

I use electrical isolation tape on all cams pointed at me, always on androids & even on linux notebooks.

I always physically disconnect mics I dont use, if in notebooks I put a blob on removable glue on them
One cool company working on this in the UK: https://projectwren.com/projects/regenerative-agroforestry
I've been using the same tiny square of black electrical tape for nearly 2 years without issue, just slides across when needed, the tackiness hasn't noticeably degraded in that time, it's barely noticeable to outsiders unless they really look for it and it hasn't let me down yet. When it does let me down, it basically zero cost to replace and it definitely won't crack my screen either :)
I’m a huge fan of dropbox, partially because I’m an enterprise user of all their features (including paper and transfer!). In addition to Discord, I feel that it is one of the few companies that has kept their product simple and streamlined. Even modern tools like Airtable, Notion, Miro and of course Slack feel bloated and complicated. It’s a genuine challenge for large organizations to maintain simplicity so I respect what they were able to do.
The problem with mobs is distinctly not that they don't attack the "right" races (or whatever else you might've meant by 'minority'). Perhaps our disagreement is representative of a broader disagreement between (philosophical) liberals and progressives, in which case this might be enlightening. In any case, the reason societies for thousands of years have evolved away from mob rule and toward rule of law isn't that mobs endanger minorities, but rather that mobs are happy to extract their vengeance on anyone who is a suitable token irrespective of whether or not that individual or group has done anything wrong. Mobs also lack any sense of proportionality in their "sentencing"--it's always as severe as the mob can get away with. Further, mob rule always results in multiple mobs exacting ever-escalating vengeance on the other group or groups.

> Again, you're welcome to actually support that assertion, but drawing the metaphor without backing it up appears to be more of a veiled attack at my morals than any attempt to discuss the merits (or lack thereof) of these movements.

I mean, it really sounded like that's where you were going. Even now it sounds like you only disagree on the issue of violence, but that harm to one's livelihood and psychological well-being are all well and good. I'm happy that you draw the line somewhere before violence, but I would take more comfort knowing that you took issue with the "mobs are terrible at justice and always end up perpetrating more injustice" aspect.

Lastly, I invite you to have some empathy for the people who are being targeted, even if only for those who aren't powerful. Imagine if you felt as though the prevailing public debate was avoiding obvious questions or being framed in a very limited scope that disenfranchised you and people like you; imagine that you wanted to raise those questions, but were told your views had been determined in advance to be racist and hateful (and then being told to go read a book which purports to "take down" your views, but really only takes down a straw man). Imagine going so far out of your way to avoid offending anyone in a social media post, but a colleague gets whiff of it and begins a campaign to ruin your reputation in the company and the broader industry--you know you'll bounce back, but the sheer trauma of being targeted by strangers and acquaintances, to have work friends avoid you for their own personal preservation. You rationalize with yourself that you'll bounce back economically, but you're just so shaken to think that there are people out there who don't know you but have such an intense hatred that they'll spend their time and resources to ruin your reputation. Now imagine the same thing except you don't make a cushy 6-figure salary at an in-demand job and you have a family to feed and clothe.

Cancel culture isn't a theoretical debate for some people; it's a reality. Consider those people when you're tempted to tell yourself that it's just the rich and powerful who are affected.
Having worked with TradeGecko a lot through customers, you guys seem like a good option for anyone on Stitch currently (And yes, I enjoy your API so much more than the Stitch API).
How about a truck driver that was accused of racism by a Twitter rando and was quickly fired from his job?

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...
> Once grown, this brain knows nothing about objects in the physical world.

Unfortunately this experiment has already been done, on an abused girl named Genie.

> one can imagine, the know-nothing brain will learn to

She was never able to learn.

So does this refute your premise, or will you say "that's different"?
Apologies for the late response. I've been a tad busy :)

https://tocofashion.com/ is her site. You'll find it's mostly high fashion designs for women, but she has (and can) design and make hats for men.
Wasn’t that Marissa Mayer?
It is everyone’s land if it is not owned by a specific person or entity. That is what is referred to as the commons.
Anyone here have some woodland and use it for growing food crops (mix of fruit trees, nut trees, root vegetables, berries and mushrooms?) This is something I've been thinking about trying for a while. Or maybe converting pasture land to more mixed purpose?

I realise it's not something you can scale or automate easily, but I'm not really looking for that. Just a few hectares for personal use. I understand it will take many years for the trees to grow
I'm not sure how you can say computers have no body and no childhood. I think someone who doesn't know computers very well just doesn't see it, but they actually have both.
> This isn’t speculation.

He didn't say it was.

What he said was that his threat model doesn't include state agencies. Many people use their laptops in bed and they probably don't want random people using their laptop webcam to take random nudes.

And, while I hear the NSA being quoted a lot, let's be fair, how many of us have the opsec to stand up to a genuine NSA attack?

A reasonable goal in thwarting the NSA should be to stop some random bureaucrat from typing on a few keys and getting access to your stuff without a signature. As long as some bureaucrat has to put their signature on a piece of paper and get budget to get my stuff, I'm safe against random trawling.

Besides, if the NSA really wants you, they'll just fabricate the evidence. It's way cheaper.
I'll look into it, thanks.
So basically I have to check the light every 3 seconds? That seems .... unrealistic.
On a similar note, is there any way to get money to fund amateur crop research? I know you usually need to plant at least 1,000 trees to have a decent shot at creating a new commercially viable cultivar, which I'm not interested in doing at that scale, but I'd plant and monitor 100 as a hobby if I could get someone to pay for that as 1/10th of a research plot.
The point isn't bike riding. Bike riding is an example of a class of problems, and your solution begs the question.

The point is that humans and computers operate differently. The human approach is based on adaptive experiential heuristics.

The computer approach is based on explicit formalism. (Even in neural networks, there's still a formal model. It's just made of weightings instead of logic paths.)

The epistemology of these approaches is completely different. The problem isn't getting a computer to ride a bike, it's getting a computer to learn to ride a bike how a human learns.

Why would anyone do this? Because adaptive experiential heuristics are far more flexible and generalisable than explicit formalisms. And - it suggests here - you can't have real AGI without them.

So the problem then becomes unpicking what "adaptive" and "experiential" really mean. Both rely on huge accumulations of tacit knowledge and tacit motivations.

If this isn't obvious, consider that a human child will learn how to ride a bike and then go and have a lot of fun with it. An ideal bike-riding computer doesn't even have a concept of fun.

The human experience of fun is a complex system of experimentation, exploration, reward, and challenge, combined with physical, emotional, and mental correlates.

This matters because play in childhood helps develop the heuristics that adults use for problem solving, and for personal motivation and satisfaction.

Even more simply, the problem is the difference between building a workable but dumb bike riding machine and building a machine that will improvise bike riding as a goal for itself, will "enjoy" the experience, and will generalise from that to mastery of other domains.
US$80-180 per ton of CO2 * 16.50 metric tons of CO2 emissions per USA capita (2014)

= between 1,320 and 2,970 USD per year for keeping our planet in check. Maybe multiply by 3x to exclude children, retired and unemployed. Not too bad for a median USA income. Same for Indian - 10x less emissions so about 130-300 USD per year.
The big advantage is they're one-way, so their range is much further since you don't need the pager to send stuff back to the tower.
To me that question sounds like asking how I differentiate "eating a pizza" and "petting a cat". They're obviously not the same.
Some of my friends asked me whether they should start a company, I typically suggest them to answer these questions first:

- Have you ever made over $10k on your own?

Not from your day job salary. Not from public stock market. Making money needs practice. You start a company to make money. You’d better have some experience of making money first. Without working in an established company, are you able to make a meaningful amount of money and survive in this world?

- What’s your longest project?

Have you worked on anything for multiple years? Grit & patience need practice. Building a successful company takes multiple years, even decades. Be prepared.

- When was the last time you were insulted by others?

If you grew up in a very comfortable environment (rich family, great schools — because your parents went to those great schools too, great companies, …), probably you already get used to compliment for your entire life. Now you are going to face a very very diverse set of people who don’t know your family background or don’t recognize your family name. If you are the kind of people who are easy to be upset by very minor things (e.g., people don’t reply your email or people don’t compliment you), you’d better stay in the friendly corporate.

- What happened when you broke up with your ex or your friends?

People relationship is complex. You’ll experience a lot of bad people relationship if you start your own company — breaking up with cofounders, firing employees, fighting evil investors, fighting con man, fighting bad reporters, dealing with malicious users, dealing with competitors (sometimes in person)… All kinds of drama. You’d better practice this kind of things before starting your own company.
I agree with that but these are specifically RPIs running on solar power (which, btw, will be useless for mining btc), so they will be completly wasteless (the energy goes to waste otherwise). The only exception would be if you somehow rose the cost of mining for others, which would not happen since you're using pis to mine btc. Except I guess the environmental cost of producing these pis, but unless you buy tens of thousands your purchase would be a rounding error
>I've been thinking about privacy all wrong. I thought it was about preventing access to my data... but Apple has cleared up my misunderstanding and now I know that it's just about being notified when my data is stolen.

This comment makes absolutely zero sense in more ways than one.

First, in the post Apple also says how you can control exactly which apps have access to the camera in the privacy settings. And, like, not give access to any, if you don't feel like so.

Second, the green light is not about "notified when your data is being stolen" is about being informed if/when you are filmed. In which case, you can just close the lid, quit the app, or do anything you like to prevent it.

Your reasoning is like arguing ironically against an alert vendor that "I thought the problem was getting my valuables stolen, but now the vendor has cleared up my misunderstanding and now I know that it's just about being notified when my valuables are stolen".
You can’t safely call a method on a nil value in Swift. You need to explicitly force that in your code with an exclamation point to assume that the variable is not nil.

Looks like the server passed empty value in JSON which got converted to NSNull in Objective-C. It's a common mistake to assume null is returned instead of NSNull.

The Swift equivalent of the JSON library should return nil which you then need to explicitly check for non nilness before using unless you use the unsafe exclamation pint.
I came here to post exactly this about my X1E. First laptop I've seen that has a builtin slider (though I'm sure there are others).
>this is a pretty simple way to absolve people of responsibility.

Consider this menu of possible ways to be associated with a human rights violation:

- Do it yourself.

- Be a part of the chain of command that ordered it.

- Be commanded by the chain of command that ordered it.

- Be part of the same organization as the one that contains the chain of command that ordered it.

- Be a member of the society that contains the organization that contains the chain of command that ordered someone to do it.

- Be a member of another society, that could have tried to stop it, but didn't.

Where do we switch from participant to accomplice to bystander to "completely uninvolved?"
Removing components also removes functionality. What if he wants to use it later? I guess he could have another laptop specially for the purpose, he can certainly afford that.

I think the simplest explanation is whoever was staging the scenery around him didn't think anybody would notice the taped laptop. If they did realize that, they probably would have untaped. It wasn't meant to be a detail you notice or centerpiece of conversation. That's my guess.
Or you know, if you never see a green light, you never had any problem.

How about that? Tin foil much?
Probably some are older systems that have some trailing number of jobs that are not worth moving. That would be my guess for why they have both Hive and Snowflake, for example
>There's a reason Zukerberg's laptop has its mic and camera tapped up.

Given the business he is in, the reason is blatant hypocrisy?
Same could be said of an industry, and economy, or even a species. We are all part of systems at many different levels. Our critics might attempt to tie us to the bad parts of our systems and our proponents might seek to separate us from those same demerits. But I think either way of looking at it is just rhetorical.
I have a love-hate relationship with the Hirsch books:

1. Much (all?) of the content covers topics that are useful to know, imho.

2. The whole idea of just spamming content is an incredibly reductionist approach to education. There is much more to learn out there.

3. Hirsch’s approaches to cultural literacy are tough for some folks to follow. On the surface, it sounds very oppressive. A slightly deeper look would say that it is a realist approach. A deep academic look would say that it misses a lot of what is probably possible in education and is focused on looking back rather than looking forward.

I do recommend folks check out his books and see if it floats your boat, but I also recommend that they don’t assume that they are complete as is in terms of what kids actually need to learn and know.
For fun:

Federal minimum wage in 1982(2020 dollars): $3.25 ($9.11)

Federal minimum wage in 2020: $7.25

So that copy of Pac-Man was 15.38 hours of minimum wage labor in 1982, a $70 game today is 9.65 hours of labor. Minimum wage is slightly lower today than it was in 1982, but video game production has apparently become significantly cheaper.
I love this. Sure, the results are hand-curated and kind of odd, but the fact that some are playable, interesting even is amazing. It demonstrates how important it is to have a deep knowledge of the data and underlying rules before applying AI. Would be really crazy to see this paired with an actual MTG simulator to validate their playability and ultimately their balance. Could be a great case for active learning.
That process is under way, somewhat— I have several CSAs serving my city, and two major farmers markets. But relevant to note: all of those outfits are focused on fruits and vegetables, where the impact of "fresh" is the greatest. All of the corn being grown around me is sweet corn for immediate consumption, or for animal feed.

No one is growing wheat on a small scale, much less in the kind of quantities that would allow me to have several dozen kg with which to bake through the winter. Same with legumes, as far as I know.

In any case, I'm not trying to impose a solution here. Quite the opposite; the food system is a large problem that requires multiple irons in the fire, and that may well look like reinventing large-scale cropping to be less destructive and chemical-intense, while simultaneously moving fruit and veg production closer to home with smaller scale operations.
The camera can't turn on without power going to the light.

The user controls which apps get to turn on the camera...no one else.
If you had to, would you be able to enumerate similarities between the mob rule and the cancel culture rule?
Unless the LED somehow gets disabled, stops working, or something like it.

It's not like the tape is ineffective, so why does Apple care if people use it?
The ferrying part was arguably fine. It’s the landing part that they have to work on.
It stands to reason that some people, for whatever reason, are somewhat less susceptible. It would be a strange world indeed if the susceptibility was exactly the same across all humans.

Many questions quickly surface, though. How can we tell who is less susceptible? How can we mode this variance? A single fixed number from 1 to 100 is certainly insufficient. And even if we can start to understand these phenomena, under what conditions can we actually apply the new knowledge for widespread benefit? What are the risks?
People often mistake covering material for learning. You can zoom through material at any speed you like, but learning is building something in your head.

How fast you can build things in your head relates to what you've already built, what and how much you want to build onto it, inherent difficulty of each specific thing you want to build (easier to paint a large wall than build a small cabinet), your energy level, and some amount of natural talent.

As in any building project, you'll probably have more energy if you do it a bit at a time and either rest or alternate tasks. You might find it better to alternate reading the book and writing code. You might go more slowly through the book but still build the knowledge in your head faster, and the latter is the real job. You might also do better with an easier book. Again, it's how fast and well you build things in your head, not get through a book, that matters.
> Never understood Dropbox

Dropbox is a result of Google and Microsoft breaking email attachments. It was clear that was the problem even back then.

There's no bloody technical reason why you can't send a couple hundred megabyte attachment nowadays.
I work remotely so I'm doing basically the same I did in the past and it's working well. Only thing is that I don't visit my family since christimas.
Funny how people are so worried about the webcam...and yet they don't realize that there is a microphone easily available.

Apple restricts access to the mic via the T2 chip

https://www.apple.com/euro/macbook-pro-13/docs/a/Apple_T2_Se...
Honest question: what is the 'baby' in this metaphor? What in your view is the redeeming quality of cancel culture? The idea that certain beliefs are beyond the pale and shouldn't be discussed? How do you get people to agree with you that there should be prohibited beliefs without actually discussing them openly? Presumably we can agree that creating a climate of fear is bad (and that it only drives those views underground where they proliferate unchecked)?
Not yet although I've been considering it.

There's a lot of things that are really handy but not easily searchable(like din rails, they're the lego blocks of industrial automation) which I think would be neat to aggregate in one space.
I ran an esp8266 running a website on Python, powered by a 9V battery.
> Is there a good reason for this that people without experience at FAANG orgs can't grasp?

I think yes. It's about the scale of teams working on different parts of the products.

Its not like one team runs a DB where all other teams all put their data into. So multiple team make their own choice of DB to use for their own use cases, and with their own preferences and reasons. So as a whole, Netflix or other FAANGS can grow to use many DB, many languages, many frameworks, etc.
Tape? I bought 10 little plastic sliding cover things on Ali Express for <£2. Unless you're on a 100% China boycott (which I assume wouldn't permit a MacBook anyway) I don't see a reason not to use them. They're fine, permanent, had for 3 years and not fallen off or anything.
You’re missing the point. By the time the light is on it’s too late - your privacy has already been violated. Closing the lid only mitigates a camera privacy violation in progress. Covering the camera prevents the privacy violation from happening in the first place. One is a proactive measure and the other is reactive.
But that would be hackable, so still not as secure as just covering the camera, which is absolutely foolproof.
For an example where betting on tech (tech startups, at least, which is considered a hot sector) hasn't played out, cnsider the Vision Fund.