skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an example from today, wouldn’t ejecting people opposed to Trump from the CA GOP be a clear-cut example of “cancel culture”?

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-07-22/california...

Except I promise you that you’ll never hear one of these pro-bigot pundits oh-so-worried about creeping cancelism complaining about that. Because again, they have no problem with things being “canceled” for political disagreement, and indeed are themselves constantly demanding various “cancellations”. It’s only ever a problem when someone calls out bigotry. “Canceling” someone as part of a defense of bigotry is considered by these pundits to be perfectly fine.
Only a matter of time before low pay adjuncts get told to grind out content.
They are lucky in this case because compression does defeat the cloak to some degree— However, compression at those levels also defeats the ability of Facebook to accurate identify you.
Perhaps that supports OP's general claim though?

I've been excited about what the general 'chat UI' can accommodate and love API's like that of Telegram that allow a ton of custom UI and functionality that augment chatbots.

And it's been frustrating to learn how in Asia this unified interface offers portals to tons of stuff that in the west I need to visit (shitty) websites for (putting aside the issue of the web technically being more open than something like WeChat).

My impression is that Slack hasn't really done much to try and bring the 'chat UI' to the masses, even though they have a lot of power to try and do so. Telegram seems to have done more, including of course native desktop apps that I feel comfortable having open all the time.

While it's true that other chat-offering companies haven't done much either (WhatsApp doesn't even have bots?), or perhaps it's just really hard to change a culture, it still feels like Slack could've put a ton more effort in trying to bring what's clearly working in Asia to Europe/US/etc.

I might be wrong though; I've mostly been reading up on this on occasion and never really dove into any of it beyond building Telegram bots to scratch my own itch. But I picked Telegram because it has much better apps for all my devices, so there's that at least.

By all means correct me though. I really, really want chat-based solutions to so many things. It's nice, for example, to be able finally order most of my takeout online with so much less friction than in the past. But it feels silly to have to make an account with at least two providers, open their 'bespoke' apps or website, learn their UI, and so on, when I'd much prefer having an ongoing 'conversation' with the restaurants of my choice where, say, I can re-order an earlier order or pre-populate an order by scrolling up the chat history and picking an order I liked. or to be able to chat with the courier/restaurant about delivery rather than having to deal with whatever shitty home-built interface the restaurant or delivery service offers.
Just dont forget the good old purge of exif as well.
Yes, sorry, I figured that in this thread (eyyyyyy) it would be unambiguous, but probably should have elaborated anyway. Thanks.
white man bad.
If I buy Adobe Creative Cloud for Photoshop and Illustrator is it anti-competitive that I get Premier for "free"?
> * How can you possibly predict the future that way?*

100% of pre-vaccine, pre-containment pandemics ended in herd immunity.

The science is clear. If left alone, COVID-19 would rapidly burn itself out (and take about 0.5% of the population with it).
There is a free version of Teams now:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-team...

Office web apps also have free tiers, although I don't know if there are business licensing restrictions.
>ARM was co-founded by two American companies and is now owned by a Japanese company, so that's not exactly a shining independent example for the EU (past or present).

ARM was founded by two American companies and a British company, Acorn Computers.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers
Maybe LEGO do care about what children’s toys represent and the consequences of that in the real world.
You're using S3 for the first time. Twilio has the capability to hire Ops staff that have used S3 for 10+ years. Throw a penny down the street in any major city and you'll hit a DevOps person with AWS experience. It's amazing to me how often I hear a company not set up s3 properly, or not enable budget alerts on AWS, etc. This is all day 1 AWS stuff. If that means taking away the ability for your developers to even create buckets then do so. A lot of you should just focus on development work and stay far away from operations/sec tasks, and that's fine. I'm going to assume most of these buckets aren't even made via code and are manual. That's bad enough.

I understand someone brand new to S3 being in the dark but someone in your PRs approval chain should have enough Ops skill to know to check these things if you're not going to hire an actual Ops person. And no, none of this is hard for anyone who has ever touched S3. Ops teams have known about these issues for over a decade. It's practically a meme at this point.
Maybe the Great Filter is global warming, or other similar planetary pollution. Once a civilization ramps up Moloch[1], the self-reinforcing self-perpetuating structures necessary to organize industry at a planetary scale, it becomes too difficult to pull back and stop it before it's too late.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TxcRbCYHaeL59aY7E/meditation...
> When you have so many menu items, how do you ensure consistency and train cooks how to prepare the recipes?

usually when a restaurant has a large menu, each dish is just some combination of a relatively small set of ingredients. like if you go to a typical pizza/sub place, they'll have a cheesesteak, steak sub (cheesesteak with no chees), italian cheesesteak (cheesesteak with marinara sauce), and a chicken cheesesteak. each will be available with your choice of toppings, most of which are also ingredients for the salad options or toppings for pizza. the total number of combinations is huge, but it's really not hard to consistently make a bunch of variations on the same core idea. chinese takeout is the same deal; three or four protein options combined with a bunch of different sauces/vegetables. having a large menu shows a lack of creativity/focus, but the way they're constructed makes it pretty easy to train cooks how to make them consistently.
You have to keep in mind, if they aren’t a UI designer, then aren’t trained to pinpoint they key factors of an interface that make it different. They just know one feels better than the other.

IMO this is where UX often goes wrong, many people have a feeling for something but they don’t have the terminology to articulate it, nor the skills to reproduce it another context.
Everything is dependent on decisions made by humans
In theory, yes, you can feed these new distorted images into a new model and defeat the cloaking.

In practice, building new training sets is much more expensive than slightly changing the cloaking algorithm.
Isn't G Suite fairly popular these days as well? What's the market share for these productivity suites?
It looks like this is just an api for exchange rates vs sendwyre, which has exchange services.
I would suggest starting from the basics of quantum physics if you don't already have a solid foundation. MIT has several excellent courses on the subject [1-4]. The first two are the same course, but taught by different professors with slightly different curriculum.

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-04-quantum-physics-i-s...

[2] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-04-quantum-physics-i-s...

[3] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-05-quantum-physics-ii-...

[4] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-06-quantum-physics-iii...
It's a good source if you know linear algebra. Beginners should know that there are no solutions to check your work.
I don’t think the issue being brought up here is the outcome of the entrepreneur (and their companies) but moreso the Well being of the entrepreneur
Can you acknowledge that people have different preferences, some of them including buying food instead of spending time cooking (and learning, if applies)?
I see this IRC argument come up quite a bit every time Slack or like thereof are mentioned, especially on HN because - you know hackers, quite a few of us used IRC and still have a bit of nostalgia about it. However, please consider this as a thought experiment - how many of your family members, co-workers (especially people from non tech/non STEM backgrounds) were able to successfully use IRC or you used IRC to communicate with. When we had IRC server at my current job before we switched to Slack, it was an insular club of engineers with a high bar of entry - you need to know how to setup clients and create alts if you wanted to use on multiple devices and know decent amount about IRC to use IRC. Now contrast that with Slack, it is used across Sojern by 100% of our team - commercial, marketing, product, c-staff, and engineering alike. UX is designed to get out of your way and make it easy to communicate rather than act as a "filter" or "bar" or "must be this haxx0r to use", in addition my family has a slack workspace we use for various things and that includes - again the least technical member of my family - my mom, who is a Pharmacist but not the most tech savvy - she has zero issues using Slack.

It is easy to dismiss something as "just a chat product" but then again, it is incredibly hard to make a product that is so easy to use that everyone can use. Reminds me of that comment about Dropbox from years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Feature Flag Use Cases for Better Deployments
I'll admit I haven't necessarily changed my coding practices directly based on posts like this, but they do help me formalize the things I've learned in my own experience.
JPMorgan has open-sourced a DOM based table that might work for you: https://github.com/jpmorganchase/regular-table.

Here's their excel like example showing 200 columns:
https://bl.ocks.org/texodus/3e0e3d6f8bf8b47294a7847b402b55fb
They've toed the line carefully, but this is nonsense and you won't be able to convince me otherwise. Plenty of lego sets project violence and violent actions more than an Osprey.
So this is a problem with the branding? They didn't have a presser for their F-35 clone https://brickset.com/sets/31039-1/Blue-Power-Jet
That even depends. In San Francisco, where there is extensive rent control, I've noticed even renters tend to also be extreme NIMBYs, because any change to the neighborhood might result in them losing their $500/month legacy rent-controlled unit.
Indian here. This piece may sound biased, but it is true.

The lockdown was a good step. But poorly enforced. /people think it is against their prestige if they are home quarantined/. Not much of rationale could be seen even during the lockdown. People always put emotions above logic and screw up everything.

People also stepped out of homes unnecessarily because they don't understand the seriousness of the situation. But it is like every other country, only that we have much higher population density and disorganised public.

But the darker side is that there are lot of people in India who Cannot afford to stop working and stay at home. And this means lockdown can't be completely obeyed at villages, where most of agricultural activity happens. Village people are harder to keep aware of social distancing as well. (No offence intended, in fact I am from a village). The agricultural activities confined to villages wouldn't have been a big issue if people reduced other methods of contact with cities / other villages. But they don't understand.

Since there is no Govt. support for COVID-19 patients, it costs some multiple times of a village person's income. That means people won't get tested even if they have slight idea about the pandemic and suspect they are infected - because they can't afford treatment even if they get tested.

COVID-19 is currently mostly limited to urban areas. I can't even imagine what happens if it spreads to villages.
It’s a chicken and egg problem: why build infrastructure that is not currently needed. And if try to attach the infrastructure construction to the housing construction, it complicates the process. This reduces supply.

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Everyone and his dog pretends to forget how the riot started.

How do people brush under the carpet the burning alive of 58 hindu pilgrims, which include women and children.

And then have the face to go on to demonise the poor man Modi, blaming him for the riot.

Last I heard it was not Modi running a blood thirsty muslim mob.
> but for each item, I estimate that it was probably 2-3x as expensive as their cheap counterpart.

Maybe in the EU Uniqlo is expensive. But in Japan the prices were lower for what I'd pay for these brands.

For the US, here is t-shirts for Uniqlo vs H&M. Uniqlo is cheaper or at a similar price

> https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/men/t-shirts

> https://www2.hm.com/en_us/men/products/t-shirts-tank-tops/gr...

Edit: Also if you haven't checked the cheaper brands in the last 4 years, you might not be aware that their quality deteriorated rapidly especially for Nike/Adidas.
This article is a good summary and links to several studies. https://qz.com/455109/entrepreneurs-dont-have-a-special-gene...

Here are a couple of the most relevant:
http://www.andrewoswald.com/docs/entrepre.pdf and
https://www.nber.org/papers/w19276.pdf
I don't agree with this viewpoint. Agile is about just-in-time design, not no-design.

At some point, you need to decide what the next increment you're going to build is. Before you write the code for that increment, you have by definition picked an actually known problem to solve, and for that you should write a design doc.

I think what you're objecting to is the waterfall concept that you would write a design doc that covers the whole project, rather than just designing what you're going to work on next. I can wholeheartedly agree with that objection.

However everything in the article is consistent with epic-level or story-level design. As the complexity and cost of change increase, more up-front design is appropriate. None of that is incompatible with the agile tenets of building small increments and delivering them often to make sure that they add value.

If you're lucky enough to be working in the early stages of a project with a few thousand lines of code, and little to no production data on which to maintain integrity, then the value of formal design docs goes way down. But it's important to know that you'll need them later.
They go over the effects of compression - which they say only degrades the protection - but at the same time also degrades the identification accuracy of the AI model.

So if your crappy 6 megapixel camera cannot take a clear shot of the cloaked pixels - or effectively applying a blur filter - would also affect the AI detection.
The canonical Google design doc template is called the Bluedoc.

An example is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18hYAQCTsDgaFUo-VJGhT0Uqy...

Delete everything but the headers and you have a bluedoc.
Giving a discount by bundling products together is anti-competitive behavior? I don't really follow this reasoning. Bundling services together like that is extremely common in all sorts of industries.
They could probably do a bit better, but coming from mbpro land, 5 hours seems to be standard. It's what my old 2013 and my current 2019 mbpro (with 100wh battery) lasts with light use. Nowhere near close to the 11 hours Apple touts and there's no way it would ever achieve that. It sometimes runs out of battery after sleeping just a few hours. Maybe Slimbook's just being honest for once and not claiming ridiculous numbers like other manufacturers, numbers that are simply pulled out of their asses.
This is pretty cool. I sent the link to a professional author friend with a dated website.
My problem is a practical one, not philosophical. I would expect that the computer operations in both cases are identical and thus the performance exactly the same. It is 2020 and optimizing compilers exist, and even JITs. The first code is just a notation for the second one. The fact that the first code is extremely slow (thing about iterating over all the pixels of a video sequence) is utterly disheartening. Of course, in that particular case you can say "just use the vectorized version", but in practice not all the computations that you need to do can be expressed in that form. If you try to iterate, in python, over all the pexels of a realtime video using integer indices you are in for a world of pain; it is just not possible and this is a major limitation of the expressivity of the language.
Is there a service that one could use to check if their bucket accepts public uploads or public ACL changes?
Wait, please help me out here, if the product is clearly in violation of the company's own policy, how is that "cancel culture"?
why not nane and shame?
Even if we passed a Great Filter it doesn't necessarily mean that there wouldn't be an other one in front of us.

Also not finding other civilizations wouldn't be a proof that we passed any filter at all, maybe plenty of civilizations have been incredibly successful already, they're just so far beyond our comprehension of the world and consciousness that we can't meaningfully interact with them.
Come on. I've seen these numbers, they say nothing about profitability. Your assertion was about profitability, not volume.

Edit: I see in your other comment you claim a 10% subsidy on marketing mail but I see this no-where in the source you provided.
These are actually things that our current customers have run into; our solution is reasonably generic. I've touched at your points below.

re: databases, one option is pointing your Reploy environment to a common database. The other is to actually spin up a database within Reploy, where you seed data or a do a dump (pgdump, mongodump, etc..)

re: logins, we generate deterministic URLs (checkout https://docs.getreploy.com/docs/links-discovery), so you can tell your auth provider what the links will look like. (Can talk more about this if you like).
Yeah but Trader Joe's are often 1) higher end food (e.g. lobster bisque), or 2) quality basic foods.

Same basic value proposition as Kirkland -- not name brand but consistently good quality.
Database-agnostic querying is unavoidable at scale
It isn't the only opportunity in the US at least (Artisinal miners, tree poachers, dump pickers, and street vendors certainly certainly are an example and can be found), but that it tends to pay the most. In addition to some social baggage that the individual may have had. Drop out (small) business owner who has issues with authority other than their own is a niche stereotype.

Apparently according to some traveler's accounts Ukraine has a lot of "side hustles" due to lower wages of day jobs and lack of consolidation.

I suspect it may be both and a result of culture shaping actions shaping culture. Essentially a more risk adverse culture is more likely to support a strong safety net and a culture with a strong safety net is in itself incentivised to not encourage have people take stupid risks even if the nominal purpose is to allow those risks. (That sort of left hand vs right hand thing crops up every organization large enough with distinct duties.)

Then there is the whole Maslow hierarchy of needs aspect where they would ironically need to be better off before considering anything collective. Revolutions have been lead by disgruntled college students far more often than the desperately poor.
Only you can afford to do something like that or are bankrolled by someone else. I couldn't afford being away from my only source of income at school (student loans) for a year when I was going to school, I would literally be homeless without it. Add on that it's very difficult to get a job to support yourself right now and full time students are not eligible for unemployment. That's not even considering the risks you take academically by taking a year off.

The "just take a gap year" crew are living on a different planet than me. No, a different universe. How do you afford to eat and have a roof over your head while you're learning python from Wikipedia full time?
So his suggestion to improve YC is to increase financial pressure on founders so you filter the ones that ”really believe in their product” , ignoring what would happen with the ones that failed all the same and ignoring that an obvious consequence is also filtering people for who can afford 3 months without pay.

Also, his suggestion is to block the startups that are most likely to succeed (the ones who can validate and gain traction from within YC network). And the reason for that is... a sense of nostalgia when B2C was a majority in YC? He assumes B2C is the spirit of YC and that should be reason enough to make a decision that will make YC select companies less likely to succeed at YC?

Reducing batch size is the only idea there that make any rational sense at least (which doesn’t mean it is correct).
You should double check your link to your Twitter account on your homepage as twitter says the account is suspended.
Depends on the school at this point. One I know usually allows incoming freshmen to defer until April or May or something like that. When they later put out very draconian restrictions for the fall (they're allowing freshmen on campus but basically locking students in their rooms), it took a fairly major revolt from parents and alumni to make them relent.
Smallpox? Polio? Ebola? None of these ended with "herd immunity"

Before vaccination measles epidemics happened every few years, killing over 2 million people each year. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles

> Before the introduction of measles vaccine in 1963 and widespread vaccination, major epidemics occurred approximately every 2–3 years and measles caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths each year.

Where's the herd immunity to measles?
Can’t really shed tears for a company which wanted to kill email and wall off content into their own proprietary product. They have ridiculed email so many times that itself is ridiculous. They are still trying to figure out interoperability of one org’s chat spaces with other orgs when it was a solved problem 40 years back.
Slack files competition complaint against Microsoft
It seems like an educational instituion relying on income from real estate properties points to the greater issue here: General lack of funding for education.

Making money off housing will disproportionately affect students of differing income backgrounds, so this is not the same as moving that cost to tuition fees.

Schools shouldn't have to run themselves like a traditional business, yet that is exactly the model most are forced to follow in order to survive.

Edit: "shouldn't" not "should"
Ask HN: Best books/videos on how to be an autodidact?
Any books/videos/online articles that you found 'illuminating' on how to become an autodidact?
Backpacking doesn't have to mean exotic locales. There may be some bucket list activities that are closer to home, eg: Trans Canada Trail, Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Camino de Santiago, etc.
Wonderful to see the open source Video conferencing app - Jitsi coming together with the open source messaging app Mattermost. Exciting!
How does that work with top-down moderation? E.g. some user X is harassing other users, so the company running the platform wants to ban them. If the protocol is open, isn't banning basically impossible, since they could just change to a client not controlled by said company?

edit: hmm, I guess this depends on what it means for the protocol to be open vs the platform itself...
I've had the door checkers catch double charges on my receipt twice (!) in the last decade or so. They're honestly a net benefit for me so far.
OP/post author here -- happy to chat about this if anyone is curious to learn more or has questions.
Well, he has talked on Twitter about sending federal forces to Portland, so...