skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm interpreting this correctly, it seems that the author falls victim to the same fallacies he mentioned in his post. By assuming that all discussion of politics inherently devolves into tribalism, he invokes the all-or-nothing attitude which, as he mentioned, is often present among politically "engaged" people with minimal experience with views outside their sphere of opinions.

It's also worth noting that I notice some people will often conflate, usually accidentally, holding strong opinions (politically or otherwise) with not being exposed to a wide enough range of opinions/not being educated enough.

In addition to this, people will often hold a series of political views out of ideological consistency, rather than tribalism, a factor which strangely is minimised in the discourse surrounding it.

I find that, as long as you're with reasonably politically aware adults, you can have positive conversations as long as you are both aware of your moral bases and discuss in good faith.
>“We only access your camera when you tell us to — for example, when you swipe from Feed to Camera. We found and are fixing a bug in iOS 14 Beta that mistakenly indicates that some people are using the camera when they aren’t,” the spokesperson said. “We do not access your camera in those instances, and no content is recorded.”
You could make the same argument against any definition of neglect.

I think that this cutoff point is in there to make sure that the law gets evenly applied. Otherwise CPS would have to make a judgement call and you can't guarantee that everyone gets equal treatment that way.
Ask HN: How would you build a text to speech startup?
Since Google's WaveNet TTS systems shouldn't sound robotic but they still do. Third party TTS engines for Android aren't good and those who did sound good have been bought and shut down.
Which markets would you approach? What problem of yours can be solved?
Part of the backstory is that in 2010, they fired all the Garmin Connect staff [0]. More recently, they've been shut down [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1196996

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926289
VSCode: The Biggest Threat to Innovation of Our Time [video]
For those inclined to watch a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwDPwLE7DBw
> "I am going to be teaching you science and math."

And then:

> "But institutional racism..."

Stopped right there.
Exactly this. Vrchat had chromium for a while, but exploits got it removed. Itd be great if it was just a static browser engine, no Js, with a strong sandbox. So at most all that can be done is messing with the browsers runtime memory itself, not the system it's on.
That is some terrible writing. At least use the spell checker.
Almost funny to see that people are taking a feature from an unreleased, beta version of iOS as certain proof that companies are acting mischievous.
There's always volleyball, where competitors don't share the playing space.
Thanks for asking. I'm the founder of NOVID. Our app has a pet mode if your pet does not like it. This doesn't seem to have been a problem. The microphone is also not always listening. It turns on for 2 seconds when needed. The complete app source code has been given to a university security research team for review, and they will see that the microphone is used only for its intended purpose: to process ultrasonic frequencies.
Dance (at least dancing with a partner) is also very much a social activity, and social activity has very good effects on cognition.
Translation: White leftists need to burn down more democrat run cities.
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They are figurative paintings.
As figurative art, they’re at best mediocre, maybe slightly above average. So if you value them based on their intrinsic value as paintings, they definitely can’t stand on their legs. That is why I elaborated the concept further, saying that their artistic value comes from them being remnants of a multimedia performance, which is indeed of astounding artistic value if considered holistically as Bob’s lifetime-long work of art.
I think it's a principle thing - community police shouldn't have that kind of weaponry, no matter how responsibly they use it or not use it at all. It makes any interaction with them always half-a-second from being lethal. No thanks.

> I currently live in a country with a much lower police shooting and killing rate than the UK

There are only four countries in the entire world where the police kill less than the UK according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc... if that's accurate. It may get lower but can't really get much lower can it!

Even countries you think are as-safe or safer have insane rates of killings. For example French police kill almost 8x as much as British police do. What on earth are they doing over there? Maybe take away their guns to stop them slaughtering so many people?
https://archive.is/Rfcha
LOL sorry for the length on this comment : )
Putting it bluntly, it looks like a scam. The broken english, the amateurish design, the stock photo, the requirement to give a WhatsApp number, the (fake-looking) testimonials, the video, the lack of any relevant information (technical or otherwise), and the fact your HN account is essentially submissions to dead or “coming soon” domains. Everything about it screams that we shouldn’t trust it.
At least unions grift to build a strong blue collar middle class. That raises standard of living and creates a strong consumer economy.
It's too bad most people who try partner dancing don't stick it out long enough to break through the awkward stage to where it gets to be a lot of fun.
Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now?
I've been programming since middle school, and have been working as a software engineer for the last 5 years. The pay is great (FAANG-level comp), but I'm extremely bored and considering leaving software engineering altogether.

I'd like to better understand what career options other software engineers have explored.

If you are a former software engineer:

1. What are you doing now?

2. Why did you leave software engineering?
Contact Tracing is not recommended (and basically pointless) for mild respiratory illnesses like Coronaviruses because for the vast majority of people, they are asymptomatic or lowly symptomatic, and the spread can be extensive.

Its only recommended for more serious viruses like Ebola.
One of my hopes is that my article gives an idea of what one would be getting into. That someone without the dedication or rigour to do this would notice right away and back off, with no hard feelings.

My other hopes is that it would help newcomers focus their learning. Had I read this article 4 years ago, it would have taken me less time to design a reliable enough test suite.
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> Programming shouldn't be (just) thought of as engineering, but also as simply giving the computer complex instructions.

I really like this phrasing. I'm not really an engineer. My code is mostly rough, but it is functional and does what I need it to. I don't program to build a skyscraper, I program so my computer can do a thing I need it to do.
Again, control (attempt to help) the actor and not the means.
No you're right. I put it badly. I meant not that they should be, but that in many cases they usually are[0] therefore we might look at this not from an idealistic viewpoint, but knowing it happens and taking a minimising and harm reduction approach. Which is what the article is discussing, and what I agreed with.

But keeping drugs away from kids (a good thing) was being mixed up with a general anti-drugs message which I didn't like and which may prove counterproductive in the same way the extreme view put around in the US about no sex before marriage just didn't work.

There was a case in the UK a few years ago of a man who allowed his kids and their mates to smoke weed in his house. His reasoning was that they wee going to do it anyway so he'd prefer to have it happen somewhere safe and where he could monitor it. The judge didn't look kindly on that I recall. I'm really not sure where I stand on that either.

[0] Not in my case I add, the kids around me were getting pissed, smoking, smoking mj, trying other stuff, I didn't.
Higher frequency transactions between high frequency traders trends towards zero-sum, or at-least very-near-zero-sum. It's a bit of an edge-case, but relevant for what GP is talking about.
On a related note, for better or worse, social studies seem to be the main driver bringing people to study statistics.

Indeed, that was what popularized IBM's SPSS tool, originally standing for Statistical Package for the Social Sciences.
FWIW, I read that as

> We found and are fixing a bug in [the instagram app for] iOS 14 Beta
Iceland is small with no land borders, making it less profitable and more difficult to sell drugs there. Similarly, alcohol is incredibly highly taxed there, perhaps more than any other country outside Scandinavia. Very different conditions to e.g. the UK so it's not clear any of these initiatives would be portable to other societies.
Thank you for sharing this. I'm the founder of NOVID. The problem has been that no other app provided direct value to the user. Other apps are designed to protect other people from you if you get exposed (they then tell you to isolate to protect others). NOVID directly protects you from others, by anonymously warning you of COVID's approach along your relationship network.

This reversal of incentives is critical.

On top of that, NOVID also actually demonstrates the necessary accuracy to function. It is the only app which dares to report estimated distances to every user on their screen.

We are trying as hard as we can to let people know about these two major points of differentiation from the rest of the contact tracing app space. Thank you for helping!
You're right, I wonder why they didn't harden it just a little by transmitting less and listening more, or by changing keys more often.
Power to the people is Amazon's worst nightmare.
> embed invisible yellow dot patterns...

Whoa, is this a thing? I know gov surveillance is in depth, but wow.

I'd love to read more, is there a good place to read about this?
That doesn't sound likely.

Complaints like this never come with links, because supplying the relevant link would reveal the untold part of the story and allow readers to make up their own minds: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Dancing isn't easy for folks who are rhythm-challenged like me.

Try the Jerusamela on for size. Warning: make sure the vase, and precious items in the living room are packed away before you practise.

Some attempts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePuGjRRin3c

Official video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZVL_8D048
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And crash in the most spectacular way.
I was reading In Praise of Shadows (1933) by Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki recently, and his comments on paper made me want to go out and buy some vellum or other expensive paper to use for mundane, everyday notes and to-do lists.

Paper, I understand, was invented by the Chinese; but Western paper is to us no more than something to be used, while the texture of Chinese paper and Japanese paper gives us a certain feeling of warmth, of calm and repose. Even the same white could as well be one color for Western paper and another for our own. Western paper turns away the light, while our paper seems to take it in, to envelop it gently, like the soft surface of a first snowfall. It gives off no sound when it is crumpled or folded, it is quiet and pliant to the touch as the leaf of a tree.

It's a really good essay, I highly recommend reading it if you have any interest in architecture, art, or the differences between traditional Japanese culture and the (circa 1933) West.

https://misfitsarchitecture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/I...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Shadows
The infamous "Works on my laptop"
Easy: restore from backups.
GP is in agreement with you on the last point, and the highlighted conflicts of interest are not related to DE Shaw:

"brokers and exchanges are much worse [than DE Shaw] since they're fiduciaries and semi-regulatory entities, respectively, and riddled with conflicts of interest."
This is precisely what I was saying above: unable to separate the phrase from the organization. BLM is an organization. It was created in 2013, way before the recent protests, on tumblr and later got its own website and funding (via Susan Rosenberg, former ally of the BLA). BLM seized the opportunity from the current protests to put itself into the spotlight - not black lives, but their organization, which they've openly declared as anti-capitalists who want to abolish existing institutions of the state.

The media are at fault for making BLM the "face" of the protests. Not the phrase, but the organization.

This is no accident. It has been done deliberately so that if you criticize the organization "Black Lives Matter", you are seen to be criticizing the phrase "black lives matter", which suggests you don't care about black lives. BLM are using people's natural sympathy for the black cause to promote another agenda, which has little to do with black lives and a lot more to do with communism.

The vast majority of people, left or right will agree that "black lives matter", almost to the point where even saying it is moot. The tiny fraction of actual racists might disagree, and it might seem like there are many more of them than there really are - with some celebrities having to manufacture hate crimes because the supply of racism isn't meeting the demand that the left-wing media needs.

If I refuse to shout "black lives matter" or take the knee in solidarity with the mob, it isn't because I'm racist or think that black lives don't matter - it is because I don't agree with the BLM and don't want to endorse it in any way. I also don't owe anyone anything - nor do I believe most of these modern day "victims" are owed anything by anyone, and they're certainly not going to end racism by trying to swing the pendulum the other way - they seem to be stoking the flames (Both by increasing anti-white racism and in turn causing a reactionary rise in racism on the far right).

I can understand the historical plight of blacks and how some of that persecution still bleeds into modern day institutions - but I don't agree with the BLM on how this should be solved. Obviously, my opinion doesn't matter because I must "shut up and let black people speak." See where this is going? The BLM make the rules, you must conform or be "cancelled" by getting labelled as racist if you don't agree. No room for debate, no discussion on how we might actually fix the issues - just empty demands to shut down institutions and bring about a communist revolution.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23946658

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23923172
NAIP has 1 m/pixel imagery, only over US.
I think that's true for most hobbies, though. It's easy to bounce off anything that takes a bit of skill, because it can be a fairly large time commitment for an unknown payoff.
Internet is only a small part of the equation here. Banks are constantly giving back to customers in other ways, such as free checks, ATM fee refunds, and sign-up bonuses.
For what is worth. Boxing (without actually being hit) and climbing is practiced as therapy for Parkinson's patients. Probably because they require a lot emphasis on coordination and body awareness in general.
Do we need more cryptographers? Do you have a sense of how easy it is for strong cryptographers to get meaningful work in industry doing this stuff? We all know cryptography engineering rates are very high, but that doesn't mean there's a surfeit of open reqs for them; some high-value specialties are performed mostly by consultants because most companies don't need them full-time.
Dont give into your lower instincts as a company to centralize all the things. Air-Gap them in the architecture?
Sample size is pretty irrelevant on its own.
Nobody actually posts directly through their camera, but rather uploads preshotted pics
Order flow has been sold for much longer than the more recent commission-free trading trend, which was primarily driven by Robinhood. Robinhood just decided they'd sell order flow without also taking commission.

More to the point: the primary consumer of order flow is market making HFTs, which DE Shaw is not. Stat arb/quant trading firms don't rely on market making rebates for trading profits.
> police with no identification

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/feds-unmarked-vans-portlan...

If this happened at all, there have only been 2 possible cases, and given that extent, we are not talking about a widespread phenomenon. The scope of the discussion and ramifications should account for that.

> police with no.. planning, or accountability?

Yes, I think an institution has a lot more of those things than a mob does. And just because that is true doesn't mean police need to be reformed. But i'm responding to your direct coments.

> And assault everyone?

Are they 'assaulting everyone?" I don't know what events you're talking about anymore.
Last time I drove through Detroit at night was a decade ago.

I distinctly remember it being past midnight, and there was an 8 year old kid, sitting on his bike, along, going nowhere on the corner of the gas station.

I also remember thinking WTF? If there is one, small seemingly innocuous thing that could 'tell you a whole lot' about a neighbourhood, it's definitely children wandering around at night. Forget curfew that kid should have been in bed.
Whilst this may be too critical, I find that if you wish to use Anki for proper "learning" rather than simple memorisation, cloze deletions are the wrong way to go about it.

They suffer from being too easy to get wrong and too hard to get right, as well as your brain often just recognising the pattern of the words in the text rather than the information itself.

If you want to make good cards in general, you need to think more in terms of building up a detailed corpus. Interlink cards, establish key concepts in a field, focus on relations between atomic units rather than individual atomic or non-atomic units. In addition, include images to serve as useful stimulation for the visual cortex. The only real advantage I can see to clozes is a marginal speed increase.
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Questionable Behavior Possible Sanctions:

The Plaintiff respectfully requests from the Court an inquest into the questionable conduct of the Defendants' attorney, David Bodney, as to whether or not there has been any violations or intention to interfere with the judiciary process, by ways and means of alteration of true and correct copy of email communications, alteration of true and correct conversation regarding our phone conference to confer about the discovery process in good faith, advising opponent (unrepresented) of what could be considered improper legal advice, and by possible interference advising or not advising his clients to remove or preserve vital evidence that could have been used (in discovery) to prove actual malice in Plaintiff's case.
All decisions are ultimately made by individuals. There is no such thing as a group. Decisions made by a “group” benefit some and harm others that disagree. It is literally impossible to arrive at an ideal situation when you poll a group. Every individual has unique needs.
Why should they be ? Just because your school wasn't ranked high ?
Caste system in India takes many forms, this one is the most harmful.
Even in the most educated families, when people are dating and/or getting married, caste is one of the big issues. I been a millennial, have seen my friends talk casually about how caste affects their partner choice, either via the family choosing their partner or they been expected to date a person of the same caste.
I mean if I had to do a chargeback, honestly I probably wouldn’t ever shop with Amazon again. And I work there.
Interesting, but isn't it the reverse?
I don't think education can be really free from politics. Thus, if teachers are not allowed to take up "activism" on an individual basis, and are forced to "toe the party line", then that's exactly indoctrination of students, no?
LTCM is example of hubris, not failed mathematical models. If LTCM was given enough credit to stick it out, they would have made a killing. Of course, they didn't last that long, but it's not like their models were completely wrong.
Great work! I wrote something similar at:

https://reg.t0.vc

It's useful if you set up bash aliases like "push" and "pull" so you can quickly move snippets of text across servers.
That smartass comment would work better if it made sense.
> There is no such thing as a group

oof...
> As for the proofs, while they may not be easy to produce, the good ones are fairly easy to follow (though extremely tedious), and the great ones can be checked by a machine, making them trivial to verify.

The main value from protocol level proofs is that since you need to tell the machine your assumptions before it spits out a proof, a careful proof development process can discover unstated assumptions.

The TLS Selfie attack is an example. In principle this attack could have been found during proof generation for TLS 1.3, but in practice the proofs generated during TLS 1.3 development smuggle in an unstated assumption that means Tamarin rules out Selfie even though in some cases it would be a viable attack.

[Selfie goes like this: Alice and Bob have a PSK for authentication, Mallory doesn't know the PSK, but Mallory can interfere with the network between Alice and Bob. Alice intends to ask Bob, "Do you have the car?". Mallory can't read this question or write an answer Alice will accept because they don't know the PSK. However, Mallory just redirects the question back to Alice. "Do you have the car?" and Alice doesn't have the car, so she answers "No" and she knows the PSK so her answer is proper. Now Alice gets an answer to her question, "No" and so she concludes Bob doesn't have the car. But actually Bob was never asked!]

Knowing about this, it can be repaired. Alice and Bob simply address the intended recipient in each message, "Bob, do you have the car?" "No Alice, I don't" - and check for their own name in messages they receive. Or they use a separate PSK for each direction, not just one per pair of participants in their system. Or they can choose only to either be a TLS client or a server and never both. But all these steps aren't obvious if there's nowhere stated the assumption that you did one of these three things. Intuitively it seems as though since Mallory doesn't know the PSK and the Tamarin prover says this protocol works you're fine.
I agree. I think that a curfew until you are 17 is a bit too long.

Elementary school education (which is mandated by law) ends after 15 years of age so I think that would be a more natural cutoff for this law and I think that any curfew after that age should be up to the parents.
One example of many: manipulating people’s feed as a non-consensual experiment on affecting mood.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/06/30/contro...
Mine shows none. Could be because of permanent private browsing. Do people still run browser on their personal computer without permanent private browsing enabled?
There's no reason to believe current admin won't keep creating new enemies to avoid that fate no matter what voters do.
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Economic rights are rights too. The right to bargain collectively is extremely important and should not be restricted to those holding large amounts of capital.