skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point really wasn't about discussing grey-area NDA stuff in an interview or with my family. It was about contributing upstream, publishing my research, and interacting with the communities of projects that we use as components of our systems. I'd ideally like my industry to be more open with its exchange of information, best practices, etc, but it's literally all competitors unless you're a university.
"America [...] takes working democracies and replaces them with military dictatorships."

Kindly provide 2/two examples. I bet you can't.
Is this a game or a "video toy"? A game should have a goal and maybe a win/lose condition. I saw a streamer playing this a couple weeks ago and it seemed that the only thing you can/have to do is to build random towns.

EDIT: Nevermind, it is mentioned in the first paragraph:

> When Oskar Stalberg announced the release of Townscaper a few weeks ago, he made a point of calling it a “toy” rather than a video game — because it has no goal apart from the sheer enjoyment and satisfaction you get from seeing a pretty town rising from the sea as you click.
It's not about power dynamics, it's about liberty. And ultimately, liberty is about autonomy. Having the freedom to do what you choose if you so need to. Free as in freedom right? Stallman was always talking about liberty.
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Really, what language in prop 8 might he have disagreed with?

Being a CEO of a large organization is not a human right. Part of the job is being the public face of the organization, and that means that, if you’re a CEO, you can lose your job if you say or do something stupid in your personal life. Everyone knows that when they sign up.

Brendan knew the stakes, messed up, and now has to face the punishment. Which is being the CEO of a slightly smaller organization.
Ian Goodfellow is at Apple but doesn’t appear in any of these papers. Interesting.

Is he on something too secret to reveal? Leading the SDC effort? The Karpathy of Apple?
Can you get AGI from a Transformer?
I learned about this recently at the Chicago Maritime Museum (a fascinating small museum that I hope will survive the pandemic).

One of the most interesting things they have on display is a dive suit that was used in search and rescue efforts for the Eastland disaster.
On concrete policies along these lines many poll in the majority. They don’t get implemented not because the American people are against them (they’re often for them) but because powerful interests are against them. (Corporations and some portion of the very wealthy.)

Just as a recent example of the influence of money here, there was a vote to reduce defense budget (which is at record highs) by 10% and reallocate that money. It was voted down. But those that voted against the reduction got 3.4x as much money from the defense industry as those that voted for the cut.

The same dynamic plays out on issues like single payer health care, with those against it getting major contributions from health insurance lobbyists who want to defend the status quo even while the policy has a large majority approval across both democrats and republicans (and a whopping 88% approval among Democrats).

[1] https://readsludge.com/2020/07/22/dems-voting-against-pentag...
> Ultimately, Strava is trying to provide you some more insights using your health data. It ultimately depends whether you want it or not. Isn't this the same with all the services these days?

If this were all, they wouldn't need dark patterns to manipulat you into giving them their health data even though you actually want something completely different from the service.
So relying on informal networks to pass on the key information? That's actually a really sensible strategy. I retract my argument.
Fakespot is my go-to for some kind of signal to noise for real vs. fake reviews.

Example results include a letter grade, and a few fortune cookies of content like:

Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 58.7% of the reviews are reliable.

This product had a total of 511 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 19 2020.
> controlled digital lending

That's pretty much what I was suggesting, mentioning copyright rules wrt fair use etc.

Does it make sense that a library has 3 digital copies of a book so that only 2 readers and a single teacher can check it out at once, with other teachers waiting for a spare copy for lesson preparation? Some update or codification based on the status of the borrower might be useful.

I think it makes sense for society to have unlimited copies available for teachers, journalists, etc as necessary to perform their roles. So this would mean some borrowers can borrow regardless of the stock on hand, while others have to wait in line.

The logical extension of this is we could have titles where the library has paid nothing or a nominal bulk fee, meaning regular users cannot check out copies but the above users could.
It was true. This is bootstrapping you make it false.
According to the AD this is the 5th stage bleed air valve, so on the compressor side and cold air.

>Bleed air is tapped at the 5th and 9th stages of the HP compressor and from the fan.

https://hursts.org.uk/airbus-technical/html/ar01s19.html#idm...

(Airbus doc but the engines are CFM56 on the 737 models listed)
Also according to this page the CFM56 doesn't have a turbine bleed air takeoff.
> It later emerged that liberal groups had been targeted, too, although in smaller numbers.

Yes, because if you look at the targeting criteria they've obviously been targeted less. Just going off wikipedia[0]:

- referenced words such as "Tea Party", "Patriots", or "9/12 Project", "progressive," "occupy," "Israel," "open source software," "medical marijuana" and "occupied territory advocacy" in the case file;
- outlined issues in the application that included government spending, government debt, or taxes;
- involved advocating or lobbying to "make America a better place to live";
- had statements in the case file that criticized how the country is being run;
- advocated education about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights;
- were focused on challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—known by many as Obamacare;
- questioned the integrity of federal elections.

Whether the keyword "progressive" was really being used in the same manner has been called into question too. Again quoting off wikipedia:

On June 27, 2013, responding to letters from Rep. Sander Levin, the ranking member on the Ways and Means Committee, Inspector General J. Russell George's office released a letter to Levin about the scrutiny of groups with "progressive" in their names. Contradicting earlier claims of George's office, the letter acknowledged that he knew that the word "progressive" had appeared in IRS screening documents. However, he said that the "Progressives" criteria was on a part of the "Be On the Look Out" (BOLO) spreadsheet labeled "Historical", and, unlike other BOLO entries, did not say how to refer flagged cases. While he had many sources confirming the use of "Tea Party" and related criteria described in the report, including employee interviews and e-mails, he found no indication in any of those other materials that "Progressives" was a term used to refer cases for scrutiny for political campaign intervention. The letter further stated that out of the 20 groups applying for tax-exempt status whose names contained "progress" or "progressive", 6 had been chosen for more scrutiny as compared to all of the 292 groups applying for tax-exempt status whose names contained "tea party", "patriot", or "9/12".

And on top of that applications were on hold for 2 years (!) for some organizations with conservative keywords. While liberal organizations were being processed in weeks. No liberal organization, even those subject to extra screening, was put on hold like this.

Also it doesn't seem like there have been any major lawsuits over this by liberal groups.
Conservative groups (total of 469 in 2 lawsuits) have sued and settled, with IRS acknowledging misconduct.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
The JIRA culture would be fine if the software wasn't a total piece of crap.
This looks awesome!

Heads up that it's only available for Windows at the moment.
Attempted unjustified use of donation funds is not really any less questionable just because it didn't get past the treasurer - especially if the treasurer is, uh, constructively dismissed right after.

Holding off on the purchase after that event is the least they could've done.
New technologies expose new low hanging fruit. The act as what Taleb calls "half-invented" in AntiFragile, a working implementation applied to the wrong problem. The approach of "service first" or concierge or Wizard-of-Oz is still viable and widely used. I agree it does not work for all product types, but it's still a very useful way to defer a lot of implementation expense but still determine product desirability.
One trick is to leverage the fact that you have 1 type domain, and to develop a common persistence abstraction for the entire enterprise. Then, all of your business entities can be pushed through it for a consolidated replication flow. This can be [a]synchronously replicated to additional node(s) as required, potentially with replication rulesets defined in application code as well.

It sounds like a complex monster until you build it one time. Then you are basically done. The leverage you get when you have 1 way to do everything is extremely powerful. I do recognize there are scenarios where you cant force one persistence abstraction on all use cases, but there's no reason you couldn't have a TimeSeriesEntity (keyed by time) in addition to a typical BusinessEntity (keyed by a unique integer). Both could have unique replication implementations, but it would still be standardized and all nodes would be speaking the same protocol because they all derive from the same source.

The monolith only remains a monolith in operational terms until the engineering team develops some imagination.
The strava rant was a clear example of both surveilance capitalism and dark patterns in action. That was very clear demonstration why you should not trust public clouds.

I also don't see how any of it is "unsubstantiated".

> the reason I'm downplaying the attack on Strava, is that it doesn't really know that much

Oh so they only steal a little bit of the cash I have with me, not the whole thing. That's great!
I had the same thing happen with a Canon 50mm lens, I was starting out with photography and thought I was just bad, until I realized two years later that the lens would not focus properly, and never did. After testing it, I told Amazon, and they asked me to send the lens back and sent me a full refund.

In my case, the product was legitimately broken ever since I bought it, but I dislike people abusing the system.
Newsletter subscriptions + other random stuff = Gmail

Bank + stock investing account + other valuable stuff = own domain powered by O365 "Essentials" mail for ~$2 pm. Working well :). Didn't want Google snooping on these. So..
Yes nurture has an effect, but the current science suggests that our DNA has an even greater determination of who we are than we ever imagined, the degree of which is incredibly surprising and non-intuitive. It would suggest that we become who we are determined to be, no matter the early childhood variables.

https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93YWtpbmd1cC5saW...
To the question in general: watch American Factory on Netflix for a good documentary on the efforts of spinning up a US based factory. Basically this company found that American workers were more expensive, had higher safety standards, and quality control was a struggle. In the end the company started to invest in industrial robots for automation.

To this specific case: it's probably to avoid the 22% import duty that India places on products not assembled locally. I suppose the US could pass a similar law.
I remember seeing this on r/proceeduralgeneration a while back - it's hard to forget an art style as distinct as that. I'm really glad he did end up putting it on steam, because it does look like a really interesting toy, even if there's not much game to it yet.

People often forget the first versions of Minecraft weren't much more than a toy either, and look at it now.
Singaporean pleads guilty to spying for China in the US
Do you have any evidence for this you could link?
From what I've heard, programmers that are as good as domestic (US/EU) programmers can absolutely be hired in India and lots of other places.

Problem is they are not significantly cheaper than domestic programmers once you add management overhead and then compare the result against equally skilled domestic programmers in lower cost of living places in the US/EU. It's more practical and may be no more expensive to hire someone good in West Virginia, Kentucky, or Michigan where rent or mortgage payments and many other expenses are quite a bit lower than they are in big coastal cities.
It's sad how many stories of these sorts of scams there are, even in this one thread. Retailers really get screwed, and we all pay for it.

Also, I wonder how many customers even failed to notice they wound up with an older card. Probably not all of them!
There's a lot of innovation now happening in the experimental/amateur-built category. Super-capable avionics, GPS everywhere, electronic ignitions and advanced engine intelligence/management. And for reasonable cost (relative to a new Cirrus and even a new Cessna). If you're willing to do the building yourself or trust another builder, you can get a very capable, modern airplane for under $100K that puts the certificated 1970s Cessna to shame in every measurable dimension.
I don't like that they define microservices as components communicating via RPC, because this precludes other models like pub-sub.
If you are sending millions of e-mails, it's very likely not for good.
You can opt into the Mac beta. Apparently it works fine but has some dpi issues
> There is no "what society values" at work here, only supply and demand

That sounds as if supply and demand were laws of nature like gravity or speed of light. They are nothing but forces we create (i.e. purely anthropogenic), and appear god-like only because what society solely values right now is the normativity of the market (as opposed to historical normativities such as the state power, religion, morality and so on).

> You could say the increase in happiness is priced in

That sounds further like market essentialism. "If market is paying you less it means you must be compensated in externalities". If only markets were that good at pricing in externalities, we wouldn't have climate change problems for example.

Markets are great tools for deciding the prices under specific conditions, but it is a grave misapplication to try and orient the entirety of human potential around them.
https://archive.vn/QDNB6
> private property absurd

It kinda is though.

> (why couldn’t I go on your lawn or drink the juice in front of me event if you have this so-called ‘property’ of it?).

Sort of for similar reasons you can't cross an invisible line - though the argument falls apart if you start taking juice out of my hand.

Your argument is interesting, but of course I disagree that the "moral" possessor of the property (nearly every nation on earth) is inherently moral (or even more moral than immoral).

> it survives because of its borders

The issue being that we've described some cells as "good" and some cells as "bad" based on whether they're inside, or outside, the borders, which isn't good enough. Obviously there are good humans outside the USA, and bad ones within. The borders failed to do the job. They're a bad solution.

Also, what definitions of "survive?" There were relatively "borderless" nations in the past, such as roving warbands and the like, that many would argue "survived" just fine (of course, like all nations, they ended or "died" eventually, but all nations do this).
I'm nidnogg and I cracked adobe illustrator
i mean AI. lol
There is also https://f-droid.org/app/de.dennisguse.opentracks
I suspect the same reason it's fairly difficult to get high quality sushi fish as a regular consumer, the high end markets buy it all up.

But you also have the problem that OP described where people literally have no idea what quality actually taste like so they can get away with selling mediocre fish. Nearly all fruit in the United States is another example. My cousin by marriage was born abroad and he absolutely refuses to eat his favorite fruit, mango, because so much of it is outright trash and even a "good"mango sucks in comparison
It's not even just newsletters though. Every legitimate service (even Mozilla!) will spam you repeatedly with stuff irrelevant to why you gave them your email in the first place.

I run a paid service that attempts to deal with exactly this problem - a key feature being to never think twice about giving out an email address.

I recently implemented "one touch" blocking to minimize friction in the process: https://kopi-cloud.atlassian.net/wiki/x/IoCvKg
If it's for security, they should delete the recordings after a while, and only look at them if they need evidence of a crime.

I can't believe that of any given shop, but if I could believe it, I could be okay with it.

If it's not for security, then they probably look at the recordings whenever they want, never delete them, and have no auditing or oversight of who is looking at them.

That's the theoretical difference.

It's the difference between accidentally running over a deer on the highway now and then, and going deer hunting. If I benefit from the deer's death, I have an incentive to make life much much harder for the deer. If I were a deer I would consider hunting and accidents totally different.
US Hatches Plan to Build Quantum Internet
I'm getting an unresolved IP from this. :(
Enaml: Declarative User Interfaces for Python
If recording hasn't begun yet, then it's really an opt-in.

Too many sites do the unethical thing first and then say "Hey, friendly warning :) :) :) We already did something you don't like :)"

Opt-ins should be the standard. Not despite the fact that they result in less data, but because of it.
I feel like I’ve heard so many ‘cheap clean water’ ideas over time that I’m sure it already exists.

The problem is probably nobody wants to pay for that.
Visa Will Mint Stablecoins on Ethereum
I am opposed to the Gorgon Stare project too.

Reluctantly putting up with one terrible thing does not mean I endorse even more terrible things.
As everyone else has said -- a USB connection is generally sufficient.

If you're looking to see inside the FIT files, here's my (unmaintained, single-purpose) repo for doing so (a wrapper to a perl library by Kiyokazu Suto that does all the work).

https://github.com/4kbt/ParseVivosmartHR

Using it, I've been able to parse the output from a VivoSmart HR and a Fenix 3HR. I was happy to see that the HN-linked article had gpsbabel support; I haven't yet checked to see whether gpsbabel extracts all the other channels, too.

There are FIT files for 24-hr data in addition to activities; the 24-hr data are among the most interesting to me.

Garmin makes really great hardware -- I hope that this incident spurs them to open the SDK and firmware further to improve the resilience of their products.
What Causes the Universe to Expand?
> It's not about power dynamics, it's about liberty.

There's no liberty without the power to preserve it.
It's kind of weird. The archive talks about TikTok potentially moving it's HQ to London, for what seems like wanting to be an EU operation.

But that doesn't really make sense in light of the UK leaving the EU.
I think you massively mis-read the article. $279/mo is what he would have spent. What he actually spends is under $1/mo. Sure a $50/mo Heroku box would do the trick but why spend $49/mo MORE when serverless is cheaper?

What I want to hear is how you argue serverless is “snake oil” when evidence says it’s massively cheaper even at scale. Less than $1/mo to serve 141m requests. How is that snake oil when even you say an equivalent “serverfull” solution costs 50x more?
Why not both?

Yes, it is to protect liberty to do what you will with the software/source.

It is also to make sure that the developers of said software will be in a much more difficult situation when it comes to abusing the users of their software. Stallman talks about this as well.
Yes. Both staunch Republicans and Democrats portray themselves as always being on the back foot, being attacked, and on the verge of losing control from the other party due to some contentious and highly important issue. Each side portrays themself as their views originating from reason (independence of thinking) and the other side as excreted out of ideology (convention).
While reading I though this would be perfect for the Japanese market if he included an art style for the country - and then the author mentioned it himself.
Easy solution: Put everyone under highly-addictive drugs. The addiction will ensure that people value getting more of the drug far more than anything else, so we can consolidate the complete economy into producing drugs and nothing else. It's alright, cause we're producing what people value, right?
> Each one is almost always a direct response to a particular incident that killed people

...in 1970.

Not saying that all aviation regulations are bad, but the fact that carburetors are still used in general aviation is pretty damning.
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Thanks for posting this! Good to have numbers to discuss!

I'm having trouble opening the spreadsheets on my Mac. How do the numbers compare for all races? Do numbers like this factor in things like health insurance or renting versus owning a house?
I sort of understand where you are coming from but my name is Jon and I'm British. Jon, here, is short for Jonathan.

I'm aware that John is an Americanism for the bog (toilet/WC.) John Doe is a person whose name is unknown in the US. A rubber johnny is just one nickname for a prophylactic. My mum used to call me Jonny or Johann or even Johannes as a sign of affection.

I'm not so sure that Karens are offended by the term Karen. You see, very few Karens are actually Karens.
From [1]: "In human metabolism of methanol, given its physical and chemical properties, high skin absorption is expected. Methanol penetration is predicted at 2.0 mg/cm2/h (logP = −0.77). Skin absorption of methanol vapor is another primary exposure route in terms of respiratory exposure."

I had a hard time finding dermal exposure thresholds for adverse effects. Oral intakes associated with severe acute effects were easier to find and could be used to estimate the effects of dermal intake. The smallest systemic oral intake threshold I saw was 3–11 g: "An oral intake of 3.16–11.85 g/person of pure methanol could cause blindness."

From those values, I think you're probably right; at least, death or blindness from dermal exposure to methanol seems unlikely. But the thresholds for less severe symptoms and the relevant intake thresholds for symptoms from chronic exposure are unclear to me.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5625597/
I check the reviews in Google Maps since they’re there anyways, but I don’t use them as a guide. I used to use Yelp as a guide but stopped when I realized how lackluster it was for that, and I assume that applies to probably any rating system where anyone can submit a review.
No, the analogy doesn’t hold because it takes hours to read a book.

If you care that much, you can look up the information within seconds.

Apple even has this nice feature where you click on a word and it lets you look it up immediately.

Telling me that it’s in Chennai, gives me much more information than simply saying India because I know where Chennai is located

And even if I didn’t know, i appreciate the more specific information in the title, which implies the missing information.

Now that the title says India, I need to exert more effort to find the city.

So, does anyone feel like an Ugly American yet?

“Don’t tell me it’s in Milan, tell me it’s in Italy”
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