skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You imagine a 'thinking' machine all you want. Doesn't change to reality of the situation that no digital device comes close to thinking.

Doesn't it though. Someone from the 1800s would probably absolutely think it does. We have computers that can identify what is in a photo, computers that can do complex math problems (pretty sure historically, the ability to do logic was considered first and foremost what made humans intelligent and not simple "animals", its only recently with the rise of computers this has taken a back seat), computers that can translate between languages, etc. That's not the same as being human, there is no sense of self or independence of action (nor are we anywhere close to having that) but we've made amazing, almost unconcievable strives, in only 100 years. So i think its unfair to say computers dont think at all.
I saw recently in an HN comment a job someone looked at where they would do maintenance on remote computers for the park service, requiring trekking and such to reach the computers.

I would love to do this. It covers most of the things I enjoy doing anyways.
So please explain to me why the same poverty trap doesn't work on whites ?
The good old time when businesses could enjoy hundreds of millions of cheap, educated workers won't likely be back; the political stance against CCP is bipartisan while China is seriously turning back to more planned, protective economy. Probably investing into South/Southeast Asia would be a more reasonable option for those CXO, rather than expecting Biden to solve all the structural issues lies between the West and China.
Your argument to not having a cover is that some people will occasionally forget to use it. That's preposterous, and I can't imagine applying that argument with a straight face to something like seatbelts or gun safety mechanisms.

> The LED indicator is all you need as long as its hardwired like Apple's is.

An LED indicator does nothing to stop someone from snooping.
I think the removal of iphone buttons is for water resistance which I don't think applies to laptops.
Robots aren’t the cure for lockdown isolation
Developer experience needs to be good enough. Beyond that it’s in the platform owners interest to keep them on a tight leash.

The android ecosystem demonstrates that freedom isn’t necessarily creating a materially better ecosystem.

Blackberry was a different problem — they saw themselves as a messaging platform that did some other stuff.
Yeah, I started using to LARP, but it's actually huge for peace of mind. When I'm in meetings and I want to make sure that nobody can see make butt naked, I place the webcam cover. The person caught peeing on a zoom VC[1] would never have happened with a webcam cover.

Also, I am really worried about microphones. I have 2 google homes, 6 siris (iPhones and apple watch), a portal, a number of macbook pros and airs, a PS4, ... any of these devices could be listening to me at all time :/

[1]: https://geekologie.com/2020/03/poor-jennifer-woman-takes-lap...
Split it into 32 4 core VMs and rent it out for 30$ a month?
Bizarre sentence structure you got there! 'You inlined at all' is very aggressive. It's a question, nothing is being stated, it's a question. Your hostility and ignorance lead me to believe you're just a troll.

Automobiles and Bitcoin are both Objects. It's not right/normal to have feelings about them like they care.
I've actually been on calls when the person did not want to show their webcam (and I had never seen them face to face) and did not notice they were showing their webcam due to having several screens.
TikTok has been caught slurping data on a level that’s an order of magnitude worse than Facebook, etc. Add its close ties to the enormously corrupt and evil CCP, and I find it easy to see why Westerners are unnerved by the app. Perhaps Tiktok could open-source its tracking library as a token of good faith.
I was about your age when I founded a startup about 8-9 years ago . One thing I did was never went to a full time job and the safety of regular an income . I took freelancing jobs and consulted few odd jobs for about 2 years as I worked to getting a MVP out and get seed funding .

I did have student loans pretty much like anybody else , and it wasn’t easy certainly . Trying to balance working on consulting gigs and building your app at that age there is lot to learn to become better developer and also figure out how a startup works is hard.

My reasoning was financially the older you become more it harder to quit a full time job and do what you want. A house mortgage , family, kids their education etc keep adding up , your lifestyle may make it hard to quit .

The downside to the approach knowledge and experience helps a lot . While I learn a lot fast, with my current understanding I could perhaps do what took 5-6 years in a year or two. However I don’t think I would get remotely same knowledge had I not been working under that kind of pressure .

Would I do it again ? I don’t know. I did a miss lot of typical twenties life , most of my peers / friends are in very different stages of life then I am : financially stable , found their life partners, have kids and settled down on life goals on what they want to do. While my startup is doing pretty well , until there is an exit , financially I am probably not far a fresh graduate, never could spend time in relationships , this despite being perhaps one of lucky ones still in the game and part of something fairly successful, there are many founders who had to face hard truths and try to get back to regular jobs or dig deeper and deeper in still lost in their ideas and having lot tougher time than me.
I also noticed this was from 2007/8, just as the financial crisis was getting started. I'm looking forward to watching this series and then finding some sort of update for the last decade or so. To the extent that finance professionals and investors would have taken courses like this one and learned things like this, it will be useful to have a similar foundation.
I would humbly note that, by volume, almost all of what generic lossy image compression algorithms are applied on, is in fact some form of erotica. A better compressor specifically in the domain of pornography—if widely applied—would probably do more to save total global Internet bandwidth usage than, say, better compression for YouTube videos would.
Except that would then not count the many times where they 'weren't' required to write explicit type annotations solely because they had already written those annotations. Which is not necessarily a unreasonable distinction to make[0], but I can say the same even about C: there have been less than ten times that I got a compiler error because I declared a function or variable without specifying a type for it.

0: There are plenty of places where not supplying a type annotation is more trouble than just writing it. Eg (Haskell since I'm not familiar with OCaml offhand):

data Foo = FooBar Int String
| FooBaz [Int]

I'm not even sure how to avoid writing explicit type annotations for Int, String, and [Int] there; maybe OCaml makes it easy, but I doubt I'd bother literally all but less than ten times.
For point 2, you could put the very local questions on a separate ballot with a separate unique identifier per voter. It would be mildly inconvenient though.

Someone should be observing the voter taking the strip of paper, but it would be done in a way to prevent them from observing which one was taken by the voter.
Just don't masturbate in front of your laptop.
Academia dropping site licences due to reduced student count, lab usage count per PC, etc?
Another example of loan word not meaning the same thing as the original word: ズボン means trousers, comes from the French jupon, which means... underskirt.
I put a piece of Scotch tape and blacken the area just around the “pupil” with a permanent marker.

This way, I can still see the indicator light.

You could use something like acrylic paint if you are extra cautious/paranoid.
I wonder if both "right" and "write" in the card titles should actually be "rite"- they make a bit more sense that way (not for creature names, still, but better than what it produced)...
I hope Turkey does what you're suggesting with lighting.

There's also an ayasofya in trebizond that was converted back to a mosque in 2013. That building is still open for visitors but unfortunately the main dome and its mosaics are now obscured by barriers put up during the conversion.

It would be a trajedy if the same thing happens in Istanbul. Hopefully it's enough of a tourist attraction that it doesn't happen.

Ayasofya is an incredibly impressive and beautiful building. There's nothing else like it in the world (even though it was a major influence on subsequent buildings for a thousand years.) Far more beautiful than European churches.
"Hey man, even if you're sure your gun isn't loaded you still shouldn't point it at people. Can never be too careful".

"YeAh but wHaT if tHerEs a sNipEr alReaDy PoiNted aT yOu??".

Makes most sense to secure the camera that you already know exists and is looking right after you. Then you can spend energy on other things.
the whole efficient markets argument requires pressure in both directions. no one is short selling farmers.

just like how if a house is overpriced and real estate investors believe it that doesn't mean there's going to be adequate downward pressure (in expectation) to prevent an unlucky family from overpaying on the house. (there is upward pressure, though, because of house flipping)

and since entry into the agriculture industry is pretty steep, it's not like anyone who has an idea can just build a farm with a cool robust idea that is more optimal than the current solution.

the other difficulty is the extensive time horizons to implement the solution suggested by hosh. farmers can't just drop everything they're doing this season, implement regenerative ag ideas today and reap the benefits come harvest this year.

it's the same issue with organic. transitioning to organic is a time and cost intensive process for farmers (it can take a few years to be fully certified). only a small percentage of farms produce organic even though it commands a higher price.

edit: added this year to end of paragraph 4
It's only .o2 incheas!

LOL. Needs to be zero.
I think this will depend on how much of an ally they are in the future.

If they are seen as an economic threat, like Japan in the 80s, the media will probably start to report more on the atrocities committed in Kashmir along with the new Citizenship Law that appears to target or disadvantaged Muslims.

Vietnam might he another alternative, but they are also a communist country, so the optics might not be better than China.
As a Brazilian I agree completely. You see, a story told several times is a very powerful thing. And Brazilian people have been told such a story by our government for so long that people not only don't realize how broken the system is, but they fight to protect it.
To quote the best movie ever made:

"You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it."
Biden just release his Build Back Better plan and it basically puts defence against Chinese espionage and predatory economic practices as a centerpiece.
Emerging field of quantum biology if fairly new, there numerous processes in neural networks for which current understanding of chemistry and mathematics is not sufficient.

For example, how transfer of functions emerges after hemispherectomy (half a brain is removed), to best of my understanding is unknown.
Is this in response to FlexGate?
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/08/flexgate-class-action-l...
Can someone knowledgeable explain how are lisp REPLs different from Python / Ruby REPLs? What is the differentiating point of REPL driven development?

Is it that you interactively test your functions and add them to source file once they work? Or is it that with editor integration, you can load functions to REPL as they are defined? Am I missing something obvious?
I am a fairly happy paying user of Dropbox for what it is, and I do not share most of complaints in the thread. But I think your suggestions are excellent! Please apply to Head of Product there!
> I appreciate how globalization of manufacturing helps lift poorer economies

I really think we have to move to a Commons-based peer production paradigm. Ask yourself, would I want to work for Foxconn assembling $1k iPhones for meager pay? [1] And I am not asking you from a hypothetical standpoint where you pretend to be an Indian in the context of the country India. My question is: would you accept a job starting work at Foxconn today, in the place where you are living?

If not, why not?

I believe the Precariat revolt is imminent.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/foxconn-l...
The stubbornness of iOS is a large part of why PWAs haven't been broadly adopted.

At some point their hardline stance will backfire.
TIL, thank you.

if I were a billionaire I'd basically not stop until I got to the bottom of this one. everyone is vulnerable.
Isn’t that he opening scene of I Am Legend?
Here's the Lua version being discussed: https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware

Here's the Python version: https://cuneyt.aliustaoglu.biz/en/installing-micropython-for...
I hope I can weigh in here as a woman (and I do not think my opinion carries any special weight). I don't mind the image, but I definitely do not cling to it - in fact, I wouldn't mind if it's gone at all, and I would treat as suspect someone who continually argues for its place in tech. Engineering is engineering, and porn is porn.

That doesn't stop the bizarre campaign linked in your post from being rather hyperbolic. The entire premise is that by removing this one image from common use, "millions of women" (their own phrasing in the trailer) will be empowered to pursue and feel welcomed in tech.

The presence of the image (some arguments can be put aside for a moment[0]) is a symptom, not (as far as I can tell) a cause. A campaign like this (and what methods and to whom it is addressed is not clear) would serve better to give a false sense of victory over sexism in tech. Getting the image unused isn't a "small win", I'd say it's detached completely from the battle. A total inversion of the problem, almost comically.

[0] Often people argue for things out of sheer principle, not caring much for the specifics of the matter. This is especially common, in my experience, in tech circles. However, there are interesting questions raised vis-a-vis the intersection of meaning, intention, and purpose. It is suspect to cling to 'original meanings' and intentions, and on the basis of that argument, some could well make the argument that the image is empowering as an inversion of traditional morality against sexual expression which still holds sway in conservative groups today. Just as a slave from the 19th c. would understand 'slave' in Git to refer to them, the Victorian puritan would consider the cropped Lena an abhorrent and obscene reference. They would be happy to see the terminology and image gone, but totally miss out on their situational context.
Lessons from segway.
Paste as Plain Text should be the default. The inability to do so via the right-click context menu in Office (like Chrome allows) drives me nuts. Perhaps an exception if you are copying/pasting from the same document, although personally I'd still prefer plain text.
It can't happen because using Bitcoin for payments will make it lose money.

And with all that overhead of tree climbing and whatnot, I doubt it could ever provide competitively priced service compared to anything running in the cloud and getting data from mobile phones or low-cost sensors
Installing MicroPython for ESP8266
I just wish the read interfaces were better. They could not even build configuration/creation/update interfaces and I wouldn't even notice. In 2020 who is even manually spinning up resources. But looking at lists of resources and statuses is still something I do consistently.
Yeah I wonder what the actual cost is of (2). I know the Standard ML compiler MLton takes the monomorphization (2) approach as well, with good success. I'm currently writing a toy SML compiler for fun, and I'm planning on doing the same, since you get better run time performance, assuming you're using that info to do unboxing.
Yup. At a quick glance I think there are some inconsistencies with the dating.

For example, the map portrays Guanajuato as inhabited by Guamares which hasn't really been the case for centuries, or at least there is no recognized group that self identifies as such anymore.

Conversely, the Huron-Wendat are portrayed to live in the St. Lawrence, as is the case now, rather than around Lake Huron as they did in the 1600's.

So both cases can't be simultaneously correct. I think the map is meant to portray modern locations, but I'm not entirely sure.
I went to law school mid career and really enjoyed property law, but returned to being a code monkey after graduation.

Here are some interesting articles I just dredged up if you're more curious. I learned something new from the second paper; that the association of adverse possession with so-called squatters' rights might be peculiarly American, stemming from turn of the century land rushes where news about adverse possession wins by prospectors spread like wildfire. (AFAIU, the actual history was far more complex. Large land trusts were violating their Federal land grant terms, and "squatters" were often well placed to be granted a new title by the government. The politics of railroad land grants also add twists because at that point everybody, including Congress, was pissed with the railroads, so rules were tweaked to favor squatters. I suspect bone fide adverse possession cases may have been fewer than popularly imagined.)

* Henry W. Ballantine, Title by Adverse Possession, December 1918, https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1327641.pdf. From the introduction: "[T]he great purpose is automatically to quiet all titles which are openly and consistently asserted, to provide proof of meritorious titles, and to correct errors in conveyancing".

* Itzchak Tzachi Raz, Use It or Lose It:
Adverse Possession and Economic Development, June 2018, https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/iraz/files/Raz_UILI.pdf. From the abstract: "A reduction in the security of land right is also associated with an increase of investment in farms and improved access to capital markets, as well as with an increase in the share of owner-cultivated farms and mid-size farms. These findings suggest that the effect of property rights on economic development is not monotonic, and that property rights may be over secure." Of course, I wouldn't describe adverse possession as lessening the security of title. In many cases it strengthens title, incentivizing the development of land in your possession without fear of losing your investment. Such fear might exist even if you were the rightful title holder all along. Your chain of title might disappear into the fog of time, as Ballantine describes, and who knows what surprises lie there. Title warrants and title insurance can't compensate for time, sweat, and other reliance interests. (Civil Law jurisdictions' answer was to require title registration--no transfer is good unless and until sealed and formally recored by the government--but as I said that simply raises the stakes and often favors the wealthy, particularly the aristocracy with titles handed down from colonial or medieval times. Adverse possession is a self-correcting mechanism that works even when everything else breaks down--e.g. title archives are burned or forged. Title registration is the type of solution a programmer would come up with, unfamiliar with the thousands of potential failure modes.)
we should not bother to do better and try to right wrongs?

Are we not better than we were 400 years ago? I think we are.

And righting wrongs? Which wrongs? It's wrongs all the way down. Nobody's hands are clean. Humans have been butchering each other since the beginning of time. We do it less frequently now and attempt to put some rules around it, but we still do it.
Foxconn is getting ahead of the curve here. They know its going to happen and so its better they do it and keep the client than letting others get in to the game.

Indian consulting companies use the same strategy. They have offices all over the world and actively go to places where the wages are low and set up shop themselves.
A couple weeks ago I ran into some third party code with translated Japanese comments where "debadora" was left as untranslated romaji. I was puzzled and couldn't find it at first but a little search magic revealed that it is a contraction of "debaisu doraiba" which I suspected was the case. Converting this back to "device driver" is the only way to make it understandable. You can't always reconstruct the original words by playing with the pronunciation.
Mozilla's arewefastyet.com used to show daily benchmark results for all major browser engines. Sadly, it ceased to include Safari after they scrapped the system in favor of a new one.

https://github.com/mozilla/arewefastyet
My company was largely run on dropbox as a crucial piece of infrastructure for many years before my arrival. As of a couple months ago, it has been cut out of our production pipeline entirely, but for many years, if you saw a digital out-of-home ad in certain places, it only got there because someone had added a media file and schedule to a dropbox folder. Looking back on it, it's pretty wild how much of their business relied on dropbox working reliably. Thankfully, that's all gone now.
What happens to the connection if the LED burns out? Is the LED lifetime sensitive to state change such that you could flicker it via rapid camera toggling to burn duty cycle overnight?

If someone had access briefly to your laptop at a coffee shop, could they cover the LED with black opaque cellophane?

This sort of attack is pretty specific, so you figure it’s only done by people who want something from you in particular. These sorts of physical prep steps are what I’d be looking at if someone were relying on the light. Hypothetically, I’d attack the light first then take advantage of the false assurance.

Missing or open cover is a little harder to miss.
> And you're brushing off all the conflict that Native Americans brought to bear against white settlers

Given that you're the first person to bring this up, accusing your parent for "brushing this off" is not coming across as an attempt to have a good faith conversation.

> and the concessions given to Native Americans after they were conquered (namely their own sovereign nations and plenty of carveouts to hunting and other laws so they can continue to practice their culture unhindered).

The US often didn't honor the terms of these concessions.
A peace of plastic in front of the camera is really simple to understand and trust - the rest you need to know about tech and trust someone did it correctly.
> systematic, mass genocide of native people

and

> NA indigenous people are still alive

...is an interesting mixed message.
That is no shortcut, that is an abomination. Basic Ctrl-V should be simple plain text paste. honestly, how often do you want the formatting from the source, vs. seamlessly matching the target?