skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels a bit misleading. Both Microsoft and Google still use fossil fuels for their data centers. I understand the "value" of RECs, but it definitely doesn't mean your data center is actually powered by renewable or "clean" energy, despite it allowing you to claim that. I really wish these companies had to publish the real numbers. That would demotivate them to buy RECs though...so here we are.

The climate pledge has started to make an impact: https://climatepledgearena.com/. And there are plenty of articles that seem to indicate the climate pledge is doing things: https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2020/06/30/amazons...

These might be puff pieces, but at least from reading them, it seems like Amazon is actually moving towards doing things. Not only that, but they are getting other companies to sign the pledge and take action.
The back case is actually the piezo speaker, and it connects with springy contacts not a soldered or wired connection. I would imagine this opens up a variety of easy ways to connect this to a relay for a "louder" alarm.
I was curious about what "pot steel" was - for anyone else who hadn't encountered it before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_metal
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Its not a moral truth, its an economic one. If you want to charge a premium price for your labor, you had better be offering a premium product, or your customers won't buy it.
If you believe this then write to your congressional representative and tell them to repeal accredited investor rules.
There are two layers of elected government between Congress and the Minneapolis police, and several layers of administration between the elected representatives and the police on the street.

Ever hard-head in Congress could have a conversion experience this week from attending John Lewis's funeral, and somewhere next year some guy with a gun or knee could repeat the Floyd killing.
Documentation as a sales and SEO tactic has been undervalued for so long that it's surprising it's taken this long for projects to clock onto the fact.

It's definitely a great trend for questions to be answered by the right communities up front rather than endless SO questions asking slightly different variants of the same thing.

(And if you run a project and aren't thinking about your documentation in that way, do start!)
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A few years back I stayed at the Nugget in downtown vegas. I hate vegas but friends wanted to watch the sweet 16 there. I was actaully somewhat happy with the nugget, it was freshly upgraded and pretty nice. Food was ok and ok priced, and the vegas main street is a better feel for me than the mega hotels.

My friends paid, I paid cash, I skipped checkin and went right to the room.

What flipped was my friend walked up to a blackjack table and the dealer greeted him by name. Another friend who had also checked in was greeted by the cash out teller by name. They didn't seem to know who I was.

I started paying for everything in cash and was like "welp, guess I'm definitely never coming back to vegas"
Data based algorithms can only get better when you feed them data. Google makes sure that the data only goes to their own algorithms. Its a chicken and egg situation IMHO.
The democracy of Britain was foisted upon us by D'Israeli following his deposition of Robert Peel.

The teeth was taken from all monarchies, or BDFLs, after Bolsheviks were sent from Germany to murder Tsar Nicholas and his family in an act that ultimately condemned 66m Russians.

In my opinion if you want a stable democracy you enfranchise those who would look to a future beyond their own. e.g. one vote per family. If you franchise those who live for today with not a stake in the future democracy becomes not a viable form of governance.
It just feels more likely to me that the answer you got ("you just need to turn off this feature totally to avoid this") didn't mean Google was using it themselves to generate that "ad," but that it was someone basically taking advantage of the existence of the mail-to-calendar feature unscrupulously, and Google didn't have any controls you could use to stop that other than just turning the feature off.

That's still Google's fault to a degree, since that's pretty predictable behavior they'd need to account for, but it wouldn't be the major intrusion that you're interpreting it as.
There is a problem with buying the most expensive tool.

2nd or 3rd most expensive can be just as good if not better than the most expensive.

Quite a bit of research might be required.
(Speakers, Laptops, Bikes, Watches it applies to most consumer goods)

It is like that joke about two rich people comparing the same tie:

How much was that tie? - $500

You fool, you should have gone to the store across the street it is $1000 there!

src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_jokes#New_Russians
I hear this all the time.

"All the smart guys are spending money on it, it must be valuable!"

You could use this logic to invest in real estate in 2007. Or you would've been eager to invest in WeWork had their IPO not been fucked. You would also believe self-driving cars are a good idea, but I'd bet my life savings against it knowing what I know.

Don't assume you're playing the same game as them when you can't actually provide any data that what they do works. Where is the actual "X dollars of surveillance turns into Y dollars return" data points? You're just providing speculation no better than the person you're arguing with, and honestly your argument is less compelling.
Congrats to the SO team. That said, I'm struggling to understand how/why a they could possibly need to raise now a total of $153MM.

All the content is community generated so there's no costs there.

The core Exchange product is extremely templatized and I would assume be quite scale-able to spin-up as they need additional ones.

I don't believe they have much in the form of paid outbound marketing initiatives.

I'm assuming that I'm completely missing something here. Educate me. ;)
yeah, but its usually a cash deal on the side of the road where its broken down /s
I always thought this has to be cover for people sending drugs - it would be dumb to send dozens of packages all full of drugs, instead it would be wise to send many packages all over the world and have only a small handful of them with drugs.
Am sure this will be downvoted but just commenting that I find discussion in these threads fascinating, terrifying, fundamentally foreign.

Having lived in large cities all my life I cannot conceive of owning a gun, or of other nearby city dwellers owning guns, or even being allowed to in a non law enforcement capacity. There are apartments in NYC with working fireplaces- seems almost equally insane to me, though gun more so because of the active harm it can induce.

Please- no disrepect intended, and not interested in starting argument/debate. Know all the arguments and the history and not advocating any position. Just sharing experience, my own lack of slots for this very large component of american life. Cheers folks.
kudos @ launching, impressive
I thought it was bought by Microsoft but I guess it's just Mandela effect playing trick with my mind.
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter Censor Viral Video of Doctors’ Press Conference
Fricking bevmo makes you get a SMS message to confirm your phone number.
I had a Remington 700 SPS – most inaccurate rifle I've ever owned. I couldn't believe it. Sad to see what's happened to them over the years.
There are more recent examples, I'm sure you could find several on a few minutes' search.

A common element to many is protest not simply of some policy or political issue, but where the aggrieved group is seen by The System as non-persons, and the protest is aimed at the system itself. Most especially at how The System exerts its will, which is to say, through police forces, courts, and corrections. When the institutions of law and order themselves are questioned, common ground is thin, and dialogue gives way to protest, suppression, and violence.

The wave of George Floyd protests in 2020 is a continuation of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013, itself evolving from the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, with its own history of violent outbursts in every decade since, many provoked by police brutality against minorities.

The principle distinguishing characteristic of the current protests in Portland, Seattle, New York, Chicago, and elsewhere is that the movement has general support well outside specific oppressed populations.
This sounds good in theory, but my corner store sells a bottle of soda for $3 that I can get at Safeway for $1. Or a bag of chips for $2 that I can get 2 for a dollar at Safeway or Target. Sunscreen for $12 instead of the $6 (or as low as $3 on sale/clearance) at a big box store. And most of the stuff I want they just don’t have at all. It’s not like a 10% “shop local” tax, it’s really unjustifiable the insane price differences. I’d be better off just donating to a local charity.

And to the original point of reducing tracking, for Safeway/etc rewards numbers just use random local phone numbers and pay cash if that’s your priority. Better than paying more than double price for limited selection.
> people started writing higher quality documentation

I think that's certainly the case. We went from raw, technical-specs style documentations revolving around feature description towards a more usage-based documentation style, which is far more effective at answering the most common questions when approaching a new software: "How can I do X using this software? What if Y happen when trying to do X?"

Also, projects like Django and companies like Stripe provided great examples to follow when writing solid documentations for respectively frameworks and APIs and led the way to an overall higher quality of docs, by mimetism.

It also doesn't hurt that a well-documented product sells better and has easier adoption: maybe the popular software/frameworks/languages/APIs of today are not exactly the "best" of yesterday, but people naturally gravitated towards the better documented ones.
Gee, you're the first in the whole thread to have actual arguments instead of "B-B-But, you're wrong, I can tell because school told me !", thank you for that (and making me reconsider my position) !
I'd say most people come to SO from Google searches and are not following any of those politics.
You might need to offer more than $10k (or not, maybe enough fellow HNers are interested!) but 'investment clubs' could let you.

I gather it's a bit out of fashion (retail investing got easier, basically) but perhaps it's due a revival with a focus on private equity.

(The difference from an investment trust being that the club's members, the fellow HNers, vote on where to put their pooled money, rather than each mutually anonymously trusting the manager to do a good job, based on reputation or whatever.)
Growth Mindset might be a bit of a wooly term but that tends to be what I look for. I want people who continually get better. There are lots of resources on specific things you can discuss for this. For me, I think simply asking "what was a recent new thing you had to learn" opens up a good conversation.

For ascertaining whether someone meets a technical bar -- the gold standard has to be facilitating some way where they can do some actual work with you. That might be v difficult depending on nature of stack, tech debt, etc. But the closer you can make that sort of process to what would really be happening, the better. Coding exercises really only prove someone is good at coding exercises -- that may or may not have any relevancy to what you do I think.
FWIW, but I've had pretty good results from GNOME fractional scaling since like Fedora 26, across a wide range of hardware.

It's not perfect, but it's fine. WSL2 is also great for some use cases, but for anything JVM-based I expect first-class support for JetBrains tooling and that really doesn't work well. Keeps me solidly on a Linux desktop for now.
We're talking about individuals in Congress. They absolutely have the funds necessary to influence their own behavior.
Any ultra cheap (sub €1) MCU can be programmed to wait for long times and activate a load, and several dedicated even more cheap chips can be used as well for the purpose.
If any 3 letter agency visited my home lab they would find enough parts to build at least one hundred different timers and remote controls to activate bombs. One thing is a tool whose primary purpose is to harm people (guns, bombs, etc.) and a different thing is something that can be misused as such (kitchen knives, screwdrivers, electronic parts etc.). Criminalizing or even restricting the possession of the latter would be a very dangerous practice that could backfire by creating a world a lot worse than the one they want to protect people from.
Shop at local businesses as much as possible. In my area, this is somewhat viable. I'm not holding my breath on much of the populace actually doing this though. If we haven't boycotted Walmart by now, we're not ever going to.
Ive experienced the same thing, but have attributed it to gaining more experience. I feel like the questions answered on stack overflow usually are ones that one can trivially solve by knowing where to find documentation, and the questions I end up wanting help with are too specific to bring up sensible search results. Maybe I'm just bad at using search engines though...
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you mean that they should have ipo'd earlyer or that we should have an exclusive stock market for devs ?
this is an awesome product. I could see tons of businesses using this to reopen safely during the pandemic. +1 for making it anonymous anti-camera
Disclaimer: I only realize now that my comment is about images returned in image search results, not about reverse image search.

Bing definitely uses facial recognition: faces of celebrities are detected, there is a bounding box around the face, and their name and a link to Wikipedia. It does so for clothes as well.

Here is an example (fully automatic):

- the two faces: https://i.imgur.com/bfVNvW6.png

Here is another example, where clothes and items are automatically found in the image, and a bounding box is automatically defined:

- the necklace: https://i.imgur.com/vfhvY0T.jpg
- the suit: https://i.imgur.com/AqS3qBV.jpg
- the other suit: https://i.imgur.com/jTgRwpb.png

However, for the faces in this second example, I have to draw the box myself:

- the face: https://i.imgur.com/Pe1RLLm.jpg
- the other face: https://i.imgur.com/LHOOwnW.jpg

So, what do you mean? What makes Yandex special with respect to facial recognition?
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Yeah, it only stores the objects in the .git directory once.
It seems to be using the HTML, instead of focusing on the text (for some URLs). Have a look at this result which includes HTML in the generated output.

https://gunargessner.com/tldr?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tec...
This a crackpot idea.

The Irish government's reply is going to be: "Very interesting, we'll call you back".
In fact, from the article it seems that the actual reply has been that but without "very interesting".

This is only getting airtime because any piece of news with "HK" in it is hot property (pun intended) at the moment.
Wow thanks for digging that up. My dad was a “regular contributor” so it’s really cool to see his work. Računari also, IIRC.
https://k8s.af prod incident stories.
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The thing that was controversial about George Floyd's death wasn't how he died. It was whether people should be out protesting during a pandemic.

When the government had forbidden every other form of public gathering for months, and suddenly seemed to make an exception for these protests, that was the wedge issue.
That is a perfect analogy!
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The stack of a major site could include words you haven't heard yet, prompting urgent studying. Or it could be a bunch of traditional stuff like here, implying a whole lot of new tech could be overhyped. If they can do it with PHP and MySQL, why not your project? :-)
It's plausible but hasn't been adequately tested to say one way or the other.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40265-020-01365-1
>complaints about the nastiness of their mods,

I didn't downvote your comment but I think it would be better if we don't phrase it in a "us vs them" manner such as "their mods".

The mods are _us_. The mods are mostly unpaid fellow users that passed a points threshold[1] to do certain admin tasks. E.g. 3000 points to cast "close votes" isn't that high.

If we don't like what the "mods" are doing, maybe that old saying is relevant: "we've met the enemy and the enemy is us."

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges
In other words, shop at the places where they already know you and they won’t need facial recognition software.
Oh if that's what the commentor I replied to meant, I misunderstood completely. :thumbs-up:
I tend to shoot at f/5.6 unless the light is low.
My experience is much the same, they always want to be seen arriving early and leaving late but are happy to do fuck-all in between.
Congrats!

Also thank you for your awesome blog[0]! It's really the kind of technical gem I enjoy reading late at night :)

[0] https://questdb.io/blog
ARM 32 bit is supported by OCaml. Just not for iOS/MacOS since the 32 bit iOS devices are ancient by now.
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I tried Kubuntu with KDE (on Macbook 2015) and am amazed at how good and polished it is, even compared to later versions of macOS. Fractional scaling works perfectly, even on NVidia cards (my desktop).

Even the Windows issues with HiDPI are non existent on Kubuntu. Really a good OS.
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- Dunno what bluetooth you're using, but cheapo USB ones off Amazon work as well as my laptop's Intel built-ins.

- `radeon` is in the box (for Fedora, I assume Ubuntu) and has worked on half a dozen different cards over the last decade. I've never installed `amdgpu` but it looks no more difficult than nVidia's proprietary drivers?

- Thunderbolt is a continuing problem, though TB3 is significantly improved IME. Docks and multi-monitor over DisplayPort MST are fine. Haven't tried PCIe extensions.

- Many-buttoned mice work better than they do on Macs, I'll tell you that much.
Matrix: 'world's biggest' messaging and collaboration rollout is based on OSS
Building an empirical OCR noise filter
>> He did not lose his position due to being Jewish, as his previous service as a front-line soldier exempted him

That's a bit like saying nobody in the US gets shot by police because they're black, since that's illegal. Anti-semites in Germany didn't suddenly start liking Jews who had rights.
> The market research firm analyzed the state of the world’s ultra-wealthy population — or those with a net worth of $30 million or more. The report, which is based on 2018 data, “showed muted growth” in the number of ultra-wealthy people that year, “rising by 0.8% to 265,490 individuals,” says Wealth-X.

> Of those folks, 67.7% were self-made

of the ~1600 people who crossed a threshold of $30M, 67% are self made. this is 1000 people.

does anyone else feel this is a statement intended to shape public perception?

does anyone feel that a reader might be misled into coming to a different conclusion than what the data actually indicates?
The thing is that you eventually get a good answer, and I don't know who, but someone does eventually go back around and delete all the bad answers. I checked all my previous questions. I remember being met with people cursing me out for not already knowing the answer (why would I be even asking in the first place?), and after a few months, when I go back for reference, it all looks peachy.

You're left with a golden nugget of interaction with most answers, and that builds up over time.

I would switch too, but they do provide value as of today, even while your first few interactions might be more unsavory, because at the end of the day, as far as I can see, the people giving terrible first answers are regular people, and if so, the value they're providing is finding the good answer in a sea of awful people.
And how does one know that Google even has a maps service to go to? Google maps didn't start out great or even good (Its pretty good now). Google promotes their beta-level products over other mature products to the point the competition is starved of visitors, while Google iterates their own product. So now, after the fact, you can go "Well, there's no one else, I guess Google does the right thing in showing me Google maps as the first result".
Exactly, free time is a premium and has to be treasured.

I think a quiz like what you meantioned would be effective. The problem is finding data that could help power such a quiz. Example, a #tag of #sad could be assigned to a movie that's just 20% sad, leading to misuse/misinterpretation. What we may need is a variable-tag metric... But I don't think there is any available data for this yet..
Perhaps the QuestDB team could add it to the Time Series Benchmarking Suite [1]? It currently supports benchmarking 9 databases including TimescaleDB and InfluxDB.

[1] https://github.com/timescale/tsbs
I won't buy non-Thinkpad laptops because I'm reasonably assured that they'll work with Fedora, but IME desktop hardware has a much higher chance of Just Working.
No rain! It's a great callout. We'll see what we can do if for no other reason than to understand risk.
> I mean, a spy just has to access whatever systems are already at his or her disposal and listen to your calls. They don't need to do any of that!

perhaps domestically, but certainly not in a foreign country.

>So, they even say that this article is about raising awareness of this kind of attack vector. They are raising awareness. Thanks spies!

I'm not sure what you're are trying to say here. Does this discredit the article?
National average is around 3800. Minimum is 1584, I think.
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It might apply to some extent to some countries Presidents too
I think the second-cheapest is usually the best starter product. The cheapest product requires every possible sacrifice to quality, but the second-cheapest only made the tradeoffs that make sense. You can buy the second-cheapest and still get most of the benefits mentioned in the article without having to become a mini-expert evaluating whether the cheapest option is at least safe and functional.

And I think a second-tier product is often the right high-end product to choose. The most expensive product made the highest-quality choice at every step, but the next-tier down just made as many improvements that really make sense. Luckily, once you are deciding to purchase high-end, you are more capable of evaluating the different products.
Trump-haters supported the retraction of the bogus study showing HCQ increased death rates.

Outside of that, the science has been pretty mixed. There are no gold-standard studies proving effectiveness yet. The Trump-haters are correct to be ambivalent about HCQ.
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Painful. Rifle weighs around 6.5lbs. it needs a stock pad to be usable. And if you go through a box of ammo at the range you will be sore for a week. But it's accurate to around .5 MOA and I stick a giant Burris eliminator 3 scope on there to take some of the bite out of the recoil.
>I think I would argue Outlook is better on the grounds that Microsoft is not an advertising company.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesnt the free outlook.com (formerly hotmail) still have ads for everybody who doesnt pay? When I log in, I have a banner on the right.

But to your point, maybe the ad is there to annoy people into paying, and less as a source of revenue.
It's actually every 4 weeks now!
Time for OCaml mobile :)

This is cool stuff, love to see functional programming growing and developing.