skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're very welcome. Another recent Zweig reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23777984

(and, for the pre-Great War predecessors of OnlyFans, see p.122 "...it held no less than twenty-seven pictures of famous dancers and actresses in extreme décolleté, as well as three or four nude photographs..." or p.67 "“Art” and nude photographs in particular were offered to half-grown boys for sale under the table by peddlers in every cafe.")
The real footgun in Scala, to my mind, is implicits.

They are inferred, and that's the point of their ergonomics, but when they are inferred incorrectly, it becomes pretty confusing and sometimes cryptic.
That isn't "holding people accountable for their actions". It's applying today's societal standards on historic commentary. That isn't fair, that isn't 'woke', it's retribution and it's wrong.
Covering the camera is so silly. Do people also stuff the microphone hole with glue? Do they reinstall the keyboard and look for trackers. Do they think about all the software they use which is collecting far more information than grainy shots of your face could ever provide?
Yes, but the "functions" in the paper are implemented as two extra types of instruction- one representing a function call and one representing the "return" point of the function. So again, the difference is not clear. An instruction is an instruction, but some instructions are function calls (or returns). Why not just call them all "instructions", or all "functions"?
I've used various HP scientific and graphing calculators that have functions to convert a floating point number to a symbolic representation of a rational number, or a fraction of pi. These functions are approximate, and their tolerance for how large the denominator of the fraction may get is determined by the current setting for how many decimal digits the display of numbers is rounded to. In practice, this works pretty well, and they implemented this capability long before they had a full CAS on any of their calculators.
The meat of this article is its last paragraph or two, and particularly in the observation that modern "woke" culture is humorless and incapable of parsing sarcasm. I disagree however that this is peculiar to "woke" culture. Literalism and humorlessness are everywhere.

We are living in a profoundly conservative era whose deep conservatism is masked by the triumph of certain select socially liberal causes such as partial drug decriminalization and LGBT rights. IMHO those few specific victories are on the inertia of a previous era.

I am referring to the 60s through the 90s, the era that created modern rock and roll, techno, hip hop, burning man, and rave culture, some of which is now decidedly retro. Very little culture of this sort -- or of any sort really -- is being created today. Ours is an era of sterility.

You can really see this in how the "alt-right" was able to look hip and edgy with nothing more than shitty memes and ideas like "alternate reality gaming" appropriated from old 90s issues of Mondo 2000. Everything else is so damn sterile and dull that the sorts of aesthetically tone deaf CHUDs that hang out on 4chan /pol could sort of look cool. It doesn't take much color to grab attention in a monochromatic world.

I'm not really that pessimistic. This stuff is very cyclic and the pendulum will swing yet again. I'm thinking COVID marks the end of the post-9/11 era and things will start getting interesting again in the mid-2020s. COVID has also crashed the Trump train, which is significant.
Someone goes through all the trouble of typing that explicit email and it's a mistake?

Sounds more like 'pulled after huge feedback'.

Though personally I'd agree with this decision. TikTok seems to be a particularly bad apple: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...
In Linux, I use Softmaker FreeOffice. A free (but not open source) office suite of excellent quality.

Looks as polished as MS Office, works perfectly with HiDPI, and is much faster than both MS Office and LibreOffice.
But we're seeing the opposite. Speaking against counter-culture and being cancelled.
> because the clearance between the display and keyboard is designed to very tight tolerances.

Sounds like engineering excellence to me.

But I agree with you that there should perhaps be some kind of physical block/switch built in.
Same for the Linux kernel. It includes all drivers.
Taibibi is good at resonating when you are predisposed to agree with him. Mostly because he is good at finding funny sounding insulting but still right below line sentence.

He is good at emotional level, but less good with actual rational arguing.
What is the difference in these cases you're referring to between "appropriating existing words" and "using words"?
TransferWise doesn't send FFC payments
does anyone use transferwise to fund their Interactive Brokers account here? If so which method you use how you put your account's reference number?
Why especially in Macs? Were there any particular horror stories?
Non-paywall link: http://archive.is/XboPO
I’m not a high profile writer, so no whines from my side.

But I don’t like Cancel Culture. I don’t like mob justice, I don’t like it being ok for people to express outrage and dismissal of other people’s opinions, even controversial ones, when they are respectfully posed.

To me, key to polite debate is to accept a very wide range of opinions, so long as they are phrased with respect for other people, in particular those who disagree. This is precisely what is missing when you “cancel” someone. At best, it is counterproductive, at worst, actually damaging to societal debate.
I generally favor free expression. I'd rather an ugly, obnoxious and pernicious idea be expressed - so I can or others can be free to dismantle it in the arena of ideas. Obviously there are tremendous shades of nuance here. Free Speech does not mean free speech on private platforms. Still, if most or all major platforms constrain what can be expressed, what we end up with is a functional chilling of speech.

Part of what makes the current debate over cancel culture so difficult is that most of us, even those who love free expression, would not be comfortable with giving space to certain assertions even in places that are meant for intellectual contention. As much as I believe a University should be a space where intellectual debate is welcomed, I don't think any University should give a platform to, say, a holocaust denier. We all draw the line somewhere. Permuting where that line gets drawn is very, very difficult. Especially because morality evolves, and our convictions about certain things are constantly changing the light of new evidence, new understandings, especially re: traditionally disenfranchised peoples.

The real danger of "cancel culture" is rhetorical, I think. People need to be persuaded of an idea to really accept it. They cannot be hectored into acceptance. You can shove them out of platforms, but they will hold their beliefs, and externalize them at the ballot-box, or elsewhere. Moral development takes time, and it takes suasion.

There's a lot more to unpack here. A part of me wonders if cancel culture is just another expression of a kind of acrimoniousness that has always accompanied political life. Or maybe not. I don't have all the answers. But on balance, I still believe in favoring a space for debate.
Actually, digital computers can compute over the real numbers. They can compute quite a lot over the real numbers, even. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_analysis#Basic_resu...

This even has some concrete applications. See this: https://icfp19.sigplan.org/details/icfp-2019-papers/15/Sound...

Finally, saying that digital computers can't compute functions of the form Real -> Real is like saying that a computer can't compute functions of the form (Int -> Int) -> (Int -> Int). In other words, it's like saying that higher order functions are impossible.
Everywhere I go I see this comment. Competitors are literally being made daily. Hell, even instagram has one now. The problem is money and technology can never buy a community and that's really why vine and tiktok were so successful.
I find it impossible to take any position seriously when someone tweets “the system is rigged”.
Lol I have electrical tape with a piece of paper on the part that goes over the camera lens. Use both 2015 and 16"

Also not sure about this "tight tolerance" as there's a rubber seam all the way around the screen that would have a gap between the camera and laptop body right?
As a tech-savvy person, I definitely don't have the skills to make sure of that on a laptop. I might be one brew install obscure-util-from-random-HN-comment (or npm install ...) away from inadvertently giving away all my privacy.
This blogpost claims to have a message from an apple engineer stating that it’s now hardware level:

https://daringfireball.net/2019/02/on_covering_webcams
Amazon says it sent the TikTok ban email in error
Can't speak for everyone, but since pretty much everyone seems to have unlimited data and the speeds aren't that bad the consumer behavior probably doesn't change at all if you're on wifi or not.

That said, 35GB average still seems rather high. I'm interested how much I'm using, but I only have usage data from the past four months and those months aren't really that representative of what I would call normal use.
The problem with a physical cover is that if the bad guys can install software on your computer that can access the camera without setting off the LED they can also install just about anything they want. At that point nothing on the computer can be trusted.
I opine that "accountability culture" is becoming quite hyperthrophied, and support my opinion with an excerpt from Taibbi`s other article:

"A bizarre echo of North Korea’s “three generations of punishment” doctrine could be seen in the boycotts of Holy Land grocery, a well-known hummus maker in Minneapolis. In recent weeks it’s been abandoned by clients and seen its lease pulled because of racist tweets made by the CEO’s 14 year-old daughter eight years ago."
> I'm a fan of using painters tape.... pretty low profile, easily removed, stays on really well

The cleverest solution I've seen that is 1.) easily toggled, and 2.) harmless to screens is a coworker who built a little vinyl veil that attaches to the top back of their monitor. They can flip it forward to cover the camera, or flip it back to use it. But if you close even the tightest of lids with a couple microns of vinyl in there, it's harmless. Bada-bing, problem solved, and they only used a penny or two worth of materials.
There should be roughly ~0 cost (maybe a few cents?) to tie indicator LEDs to the camera and microphones's power supplies, and make it independently auditable by anyone with a multimeter (and maybe a magnifying glass?)

Is there a database of laptops that do this correctly?

I guess you'd also want the microphone physically disconnected when the cover is closed, or at least have the LED visible when the cover is closed.
That's no different from The US's 'Manifest Destiny' and displacing of the Native Americans.
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How could it be equally lucrative? The amount of information someone can gather from a camera is much smaller than what you could gather from a microphone in a given room.

If I am in a conference room talking about strategy, an uncovered camera will just pick me up. The microphone will capture everyone’s conversation.
Some guy builds a VR time machine that lets them relive their past
A Finn here. I regularly use more than 300 GB of mobile data per month. I pay 35 eur/month for unlimited data, including three SIM cards (Saunalahti MultiSIM). Makes roughly 10 cents per gig.
Plot twist: the slider material could be opaque in the visible spectrum but transparent in IR.

/s
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I don’t think diving into reports is the right step for someone who’s asking where to start.

You need a lot of context for what you’re seeing in your average quarterly. Perhaps start with reading something like The Intelligent Investor to understand fundamental analysis, then read them.
Three church buildings have been sold within 20 miles of me the last few years. One is now a brewery / bar, one a town library and the last two offices, They all still look like churches outside, one just has to think outside the box.
And if the domains are registered out of the country?
There were 9.26 million mobile plans in Finland in 2019 (against a population of 5.5 million), and of those 70% had both calls and data features, 7% only calls and 23% only data. So if those 23% data-only plans are the home connections, that'd be roughly two million home connections.

Of course, it's probably not that clear cut. There are probably people who have a fixed line and then just have a mobile 4G hotspot when they go to the cabin. Impossible to tell really.

Data from https://www.ficom.fi/ict-ala/tilastot/matkapuhelinliittym%C3...
> If Uber drivers become employees, I'd expect Uber would have them work fixed schedules rather than have free working hours.

That's a weird expectation, because millions of people work jobs as employees without fixed schedules, and in areas with similar rulings, this doesn't happen with gig workers.
OK, time for my pet theory on this.

It's not the picture itself that creates an obstacle. It's that emotionally-aware people want to go into a career where they like being around their co-workers.

So if they get the impression that many of the people in the field are completely tone-deaf about basic stuff, they start asking themselves questions like, "Since I have limited time on this planet, why would I want to spend it where a good percentage of the people around me are insufferable asshats?" And then they pick some other field. Not because they can't handle it. Because they know they can do better for themselves.
#8 here.
> Why are camera covers not just part of the design?

I guess Apple are going to say that they'd rather focus on the security of the OS and computer to prevent unauthorised software from being able to access the camera than on a mostly cosmetic doodad.
The much more real-world use case for me is guaranteeing I won't join a video conference call with my camera on. In light of all the WFH zoom accidental nudity videos going around, its no surprise camera covers have become more prevalent.
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And those are just the failures you see! Friends in the industry tell me there are many more failures behind the scenes where shows can get arbitrarily far down the production pipeline only for studio execs to come in and scrap the whole thing.

We're not so different from those 1000 monkeys writing shakespeare :)
You could use ReasonML in JS projects. It's even compatible with the rest of your codebase, if you don't want to start by rewriting everything.
>grades from past grads at their school to predict what they would have scored had the pandemic not prevented in-person tests

Wait, this is like reverse affirmative action, no? Students at schools that previously performed badly will have their grades downweighted?
Looking at the comments here, I guess I'm the only one who finds sadness that Apple even has to publish this document.

Some of those novelty and promotional camera covers are really quite thick. And it just seems like common sense to me that you wouldn't close a laptop with one of those things on. Just like I wouldn't close my laptop with a pen or a ham sandwich tucked into it.

But I guess Apple has had enough complaints that they had to issue something. I can only hope that the department that writes these things was shaking its head the whole time.
The Cambodian plan can serve as your mobile and home connection, while in Aus, you’ll likely need a home connection too, so your costs are at least double.
I don't feel answering your questions would help much in making progress towards creating intelligent machines.

Being able to create machines with human level intelligence would be amazing. I took AGI as a shortcut for meaning that. If it doesn't, ok, whatever - I think human level intelligence should be the next goal, no matter how you call it.

Many people contest that human level intelligence is impossible for machines to achieve. Imo existence of humans demonstrates it is possible.
I've got Dell XPS 13. The only camera indicator I trust is sticky tape on top the camera every time I don't need. Little blinking lights I trust not.
There's a reason Zukerberg's laptop has its mic and camera tapped up. It doesn't matter what device you use unless there's a physical switch to disconnect it'll never be safe. Software can ALWAYS have zero days, just because it hasn't been exploited yet doesn't mean it can't be.
I manage phones for a big corp. Just want to clarify what's possible. Google highly limits what you can do in Work Profile mode, you can't control much outside the work profile.

We can't see the app list on the personal side in work profile mode, BUT we can specify some that are a no-go. I'll show up as a compliance violation. But we can't view the list anymore like we could do with the pre-work profile Android Device Admin management (and still can with Apple).

We're not blocking any apps ourselves right now but it is possible. We do grant all BYOD phones access to our network, so for that reason we would want the capability to block any known threats if they are around.

We can also control some minor things on the personal side, like a pincode requirement and forbidding of sideloading and rooting. But in general we have very little visibility and control, which is the way I (as an admin) like it too. I only want to know what I really need to know especially on the personal side. We can (and do) also block copy/paste from work profile to personal, as data loss prevention, but we allow it the other way around.

In general users complain a lot about the work profile being separate, and not being able to integrate their personal and work calendars.. But for personal privacy it's a big win IMO. Apple has something similar since iOS 13 (called User Enrolment) but it's still a bit too limited to be sufficient for us. And it requires Apple federated accounts which have some requirements that are impossible for us to meet :(
> Define some

Here, Northgard removes single-player functionality unless it can check on you: https://www.gog.com/game/northgard

> either don't buy the game, or what's the problem?

Well, the problem would be selling a heavily DRMed game while claiming to be DRM-free.
As someone who is currently grinding through multiple interviews, this gave me a much needed laugh.
Blackmail potential. It's not the company meetings that criminals want to hack laptop cameras for.
Few people use them? I really doubt that, especially with so many people working from home these days.
At that stage though all bets are off - the hackers have access to everything you have typed, all your files, all the audio from your microphones, your credit card details, those photos of you and your partner on the hard drive...

Yet the camera on a laptop is the thing that we need to cover? It’s a weird security model, that’s all.

Besides, on a MacBook it sounds like the webcam light is almost impossible to circumvent because of the implementation.
I use a small piece of black electrical tape to cover the camera, and another small piece to cover the mic. It peels off easily and retains stickiness pretty well.
That is not the opposite. That is just the beginnings of what I said - the monster eating the very people who helped create it. Both left and right need to agree that hitting working individuals in the pocketbook over political disagreement is not okay, even if someone says something that is "offensive" to someone else. Obviously there are lines that have to be drawn in the work
place, but the intellectuals signing the Harper letter weren't concerned by non-toxic workplaces. They were talking about something much worse that we can all agree is vile and dangerous.
According to an anonymous Gruber source, Apple fixed the issue by tying the led to the Vsync on the camera board. I have not found a teardown or anything other than this confirming it https://daringfireball.net/2019/02/on_covering_webcams
I seem to be the only person here who actually uses tiktok. What makes tiktok different is the musical background (somehow people never mention this when comparing it to vine), the fyp algorithm being incredibly good, and the various communities built around certain niches. It's night and day compared to other apps.
I actually agree that my original post was needlessly snarky (and I'm disappointed but not surprised that it got far more engagement than the more nuanced stuff I usually write). I believe that post clearly advanced an argument, though, and that the argument is sound. Leaving aside my language, do you think Alexander actually intended to conceal something from the NYT reporter by deleting his blog (while mirrors remain widely available)? If so, why did he choose such a spectacularly ineffective tactic? I think the deletion was just an (apparently successful) publicity stunt, and that suggesting that he was trying to conceal something in doing so is a smear. It seems like you disagree, but why?

And what do you think is grandiose? I think there's a decent chance that Alexander would have been forced out of his chosen career if the article ran, and that he might be yet. Do you doubt this? That seems like a pretty significant life event for anyone, an odd thing to minimize unless you're indifferent to harm to him.

Finally, what do you agree with in pvg's post? I don't see any argument there myself, just a lot of words with negative connotations.
You should try this on a recent (last 4-5 years or so) Macbook! There is a hardware timer that forces the LED on for at least 3 seconds even if the camera only grabs a single frame.
France is 3-4x cheaper than reported (0.25 EUR/Gb for Bouygues for instance)

Plus illimited calls, sms, mms. Beyond 30 Gbps you are illimited, but with a lower speed (not sure which, probably EDGE)
I think standing still with 500 million users in my book is standing way the hell up there. Boosted into space at this point.

Why shy away from competition? Should face it.
>when they are respectfully posed.

This is quite a caveat.
I am so confused. Are you saying your company will reveal personal information, without a users consent? What if the user doesn't want to appear on the winners list? What if they withdraw their consent at a later point? What if they live in California (CCPA)?

In the UK, no such list is published. Nor is it published for lottery winners (you can opt to be anonymous, which is the default option).
> Accountability culture. The argument that "these people came up during the 60's! they're hip!" holds zero sway with me.

I don't totally disagree. My sympathies are generally stronger with those on the "left" of this issue than their detractors, and "came up during the 60s" doesn't mean a lot to me either.

I do have to ask though: what real substantive victory is being won here?

Is taking Rosanne off the air for tweeting some asinine racist comment actually helping anyone from a marginalized community earn better wages or gain more social acceptance? Or is it an empty symbolic victory whose only real effect is to serve as an opiate for the marginalized and a rallying cry for the forces of political reaction?

From where I'm sitting here on the sidelines the impression I get is that these "cancels" do more to inflame reactionary forces in society than they do to improve things for anyone marginalized.

Marginalizing racism and misogyny won't make it go away. It will just submerge it and make it stealthier and harder to recognize and directly address. Instead of cancelling those who say such things, engage them in debate. Make them look like fools instead of martyrs.
“apnoea” is the British spelling.