skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beyond it being 200+ years ago - it was one guy, not state sponsored, who remembered things he saw...versus whole scale theft of documents, designs, blueprints and other IP byproducts. I hate to say it but I can't believe you are making this argument in good faith.
I am against this one. If Congress comes with a bill which clearly defined which companies can be banned or forced to sell assets, I am ok with it because the rules are clearly defined.

However, with an executive order as this one, the rules of "national security" will keep changing with the political desires of the president in charge. Maybe someday a President will come and ask you to divest your Tesla shares because the President at the time doesn't like Elon musk. This is too much power in the hands of one person, especially an erratic one as the current POTUS.
For those still wondering, 'In Pekingese, "BB" apparently means "nag; complain"' according to:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=12358
The article is only tangentially about Covid test reliability. It's actually a "reopen the UK" thinkpiece with some poorly-drawn conclusions to support that stance. While it points out the obvious insights you get with testing unreliabily (which anyone who knows anything about statistics will nod along with), it mistakenly uses it to reach this conclusion:

...if something causes test numbers to rise then so will case numbers, which in turn will cause a further increase in testing, causing the rise to continue, triggering local lockdowns and pointless evidence free rituals, until people get depressed and stop trying to do things causing numbers being tested to fall again...

Health is run by people who suffer no consequences from policy over-reactions. Lockdown induced job losses won’t affect them, as they work for the government. A larger-scale case of “one rule for them and another for us” can’t be imagined. It’s thus no surprise when we read things like Public Health England defining a COVID death as anyone who has ever tested positive and then died, for any reason, at any time i.e. the UK being supposedly “one of the worst hit countries in the world” is a statistical fantasy. PHE officials defined it this way because they didn’t want to be accused of being a nasty libertarians who were underplaying the problem just to help capitalist workers. The idea that they’d create other, bigger problems simply didn’t occur to them — or worse, it did but they didn’t care.

The key to this is the over-estimation of deaths. If cases are up, but deaths are not, the author argues, we should reopen everything and stop large-spread testing, because those cases are false positives. And that's a reasonable stand, in the abstract, and the discussion of false positives is worthwhile.
Unfortunately, the author uses this in combination with the possible (and unsubstantiated) over-counting of deaths (and some weird libertarian persecution complex) as a way to justify reopening the country and stopping testing. That starts to sound like a claim toward "Covid is not a big deal" at best (and "Covid is fake" at worst).
I don't see how this article supports the idea that "unsoundness" is state of the art?
Thanks for the feedback. It's still a buggy work on progress.Will add that to my to do list
I guess Mozilla's own speech to text (https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech) isn't good enough, so they have to use Google's?
You can get them, but they are about $18 each.
> And two of your baseline costs (barracks and prisons) are silly because the cost includes total control over the lives of the people in the facility.

Those were examples, but when I wrote literally anywhere at any time I meant, think of anyplace where the government puts people up and feeds them - even just the cost of putting an employee up at a hotel and feeding them for a day - and use that as your baseline. The government just cannot do this cheaply, and changing the government so profoundly that this becomes their job is a weird idea.

Creating a new form of housing for millions of displaced people instead of simply preventing them from becoming displaced in the first place is tremendously expensive, immoral, and disruptive. There's just no reason to do it except sadism.

> I've helpfully offered a bunch of suggestions where nobody has to suffer.

You believe displacing millions of people rather than just giving them the money they need to make rent is not going to involve suffering. That is not "helpful," it is delusional.

> Moving home isn't so bad it counts as suffering.

The entire population does not consist of college kids away at school, or whatever you're fantasizing about.
Maybe it was a lawyer doing their required pro bono hours (I think large firms require X hours of this kind of public work).
Cause it's still profitable to them and good business.
What weird definition of "found water" are they using that makes the finder Chandrayaan 1? Apollo 14 detected lunar water vapor in 1971. Lunar samples obtained both by the Apollo program and the Soviet Luna 24 probe in 1976 contained water.
Forgiving the debts of the irresponsible effectively punishes those who are responsible with money, and leads to a society with no trust.
The market rate for a single N95 mask in the US is approx. $18.
One is a current account, one is a capital account. The US has been running a current account deficit, and the only way to sustain that is to have a capital account surplus, which means foreign investment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_account

Just like a business, a country can maintain short term losses by accepting outside investment, or debt. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Almost all companies take on debt and investment to fund their growth.

Also, just like a business, you can’t do this forever. At some point the debt comes due, and/or you end up selling the whole business.
Well nobody saw the opportunity..
Don't forget the Banana Junior 6000 Self-Portable Personal Computer System!

(this is from Bloom County)
"extremely optimized V8"

JS code is always slower than native html parsing code. No matter what.

"10000 rows in a table"

This:

element.html = 10000 times "<tr>...</tr>";

is by order of magnitude faster than

element.appendNode( document.createElement("tr") ... ); // ReactJS code

no matter how optimized JS runtime is.

array.forEach(func) is 30 times slower than plain for/at loop. Because of function call.
I have often wondered how much of their billing system remains unfixed on purpose, as I am sure there is a non-trivial amount of "screw it I am just going to pay it so they leave me alone" payments they would lose if they had accurate and easy to understand billing combined with good customer service
That such heroics are necessary to stave off illegitimate claims is utterly infuriating.
Sets and Frozen Sets in Python
One thing that struck me was listening to a pitch to a VC, where the VC responded, "If there is no competition, there is no market."

So I figure the shortcut is to look for competition first. You want to see something in a large market, which makes you scratch your head why such a shitty app has so many users. Or if you think customer service agencies are doing such a horrible job that a robot can be more polite.

The next thing is ask yourself how you can make something 10x better than it is. This is where tech really comes in - if they have a long development roadmap and are slow, see if you can use tech to outpace them. If they're being held back by a middle man partner, see if you can use tech to automate the middle man (like taxi companies). Or if you're lucky, it's an app with hundreds of thousands of monthly users that crashes all the time.
https://usesthis.com/interviews/shiro.kawai/
> conscious capitalists

would still be running corporations beholden to company & shareholders before all else. Ignoring that (to be nicer than needed to employees or to over-hire) triggers automatic lawsuits from your institutional investors. There's a bit of wiggle-room for decision making, but why do good for the little people unless it's in your charter?
Because turing complete macros are super powerful. See lisp
Those with a lot of assets tend to be able to find yields to offset inflation. Stocks and real estate tend to adjust with inflation regardless of yield.

Inflation mostly encourages lower/middle class people to consume every dollar instead of saving for the future.
>...3 years later when I did get another loan, the banks saw my foreclosures and short sales and were more than happy to give me a mortgage that was 50% more than my prior one. It was just business to them too.

FHA loans are guaranteed by the the federal government. During the next recession if you default on this loan because you no longer want to pay the loan, it will be the rest of us taking the loss, not the bank. So, not very surprising that the bank was willing to give you the loan.
"All roads lead to Rome" is the reference
Haha, I go beautiful mind on occasion. As a system administrator, I see the entire world as systems. Everything I do is for attainment of a higher state; smooth, functional, beautiful and no wasted energy. From Unix server design, the flow of home office and way I hone my body. " want a perfect body, want a perfect soul. Want you to notice... " It' my swan song to humanity. Mostly love, with a tinge of hate at times...
10000 person-hours to create a wedding dress
I've been working on this exact thing for Chrome the last 3 years: https://www.lipsurf.com Anyone can make an open source plugin for it to do anything with voice (https://github.com/LipSurf/plugins)

I've wanted to port it to Firefox, but the HTML5 SpeechRecognition API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecog...) is still not available. Why not just make the API available and leave this in addon territory for all developers?
Is there a preference to have text to speech via another service provider?
$10 per mask seems reasonable in the current environment.

I consistently see them priced for around $18 per mask.

In March, I bought a 2-pack from Tractor Supply for $8.

It took 2 months for me to receive a tactical gas mask, but it also has eye protection, and a variety of filter options.
Why do you do clean installs? I've been moving the same MacOS image since 2006. Four machines, without any issues using whatever MacOS provides at the time.
Agree, though Maybe google is giving them free/barter compute credits?
What is not moral about collecting money people borrowed but didn’t pay back?
Wire transfers are literally nineteenth century technology. They're a bad choice today for transactions of any value.

They're amazing if, in fact, you don't yet have the Public Switched Telephone Network, and so ordinarily data moves no faster than a horse in your culture. And they're completely astounding if you do not yet have the Universal Postal Union and so ordinarily data doesn't move over long distances at all.

But if you live in the mid-20th century or later you can do better. "Let's make wire transfers free" is one of those ideas which you'd come up through lack of imagination. There's an apocryphal Henry Ford quote about customers wanting "faster horses" but more recently when people had no idea they all wanted a handheld computer we told them it was a "mobile telephone" so they'd buy it and we could let them discover they've never wanted a telephone anyway but they did actually want a handheld computer.
Legitimate first party debt collection is.

The problem emerges when the debt is sold and resold for pennies on the dollar to unethical people that use unethical means to collect on debt that may not even be legally actionable any more (i.e the debt was paid off, written off, or other wise cancelled by a number of programs or other factors but still ends up on a list some where)

This is one area that needs more regulation, and personally I would like to see these 3rd party debt collectors stopped as a industry, if the bank does not care enough to collect on the debt personally then it should simply be vacated
Maybe you want to try a fountain pen? For me my handwriting legibility differs greatly between using it compared to a ballpoint. I don't like the scratching or more pressure needed when using ballpoints.
How's using wget for standard web browsing? I've thought about trying but haven't had motivation.
yes they can be used as well. In fact Phone number can be used to discover UPI ids connected to them and if user has signed up via NPCI app BHIM then <phone_number>@upi is a valid VPA.
https://bridgeconnector.co/our-solutions/integrations/

https://www.redoxengine.com/

Redox looks great but they didn’t work with our specialty focused PMSs.
That's not the kind of "stuff" I'm referring to. Any visit to Japan will reveal rich history full of incredible craftsmanship and attention to detail - engineering, arts, and design.

A similar visit to China - not so much. They have so much ancient history - but their modern story is not as pleasant (for various reasons).

I love China and have traveled across it multiple times. I think it's a beautiful country full of wonderful people - but they just don't have any kind of desire to achieve perfection like the Japanese do. And Japan was able to exit their "goods shunned by international markets" phase very quickly (Tokyo hosted the Olympics and started running the Shinkansen in 1964, less than 20 years after the war).

When will china stop making "cheap stuff"? When will they create their own proprietary tech and license it out to us?
Agronomics baffles me, so I'll admit to not having read the paper. But for those of us just reading the comments, can someone expound on the complaint? If the yields only work in tiny spaces, why can't the hectare scale facility be divided up into tiny spaces? These are indoor farms, can't they just replicate the lab conditions?

I can understand the argument "it isn't economic", but the process to make something economic is do it once -> do it many times -> do it many times cheaply, so the paper could be part of the process that ends with mass vertical farming at absurd yields.
That’s the same question I had when I read your comment!
It would be nice if the links are clickable and a randomized order of videos.
>>If you're really helping someone, how can they end up ripping you off?

So you believe scams only happen on one side of the equation? No one has ever faked being homeless, having a medical condition, or faked some other loss or emergency to get money from people under false pretenses? You believe this is never happened in all of history?

People have never borrowed money from friends and family for "food" or "housing" only to find out they spent it on drugs, alcohol, vacations etc?

Debt Collectors are not the only scammers out there
Google charges 2.4 cents per minute for STT so there's no way Mozilla could afford to offer this service if it actually got popular. I mean, that obviously won't be an issue, but still.
Government prosecutors tend to have a very limited interest in any one case. Generally speaking if they put up any kind of fight it’s the defense that’s willing to outspend the prosecution due to the incentives involved.

That said, the overwhelming majority of defendants chose not to defend themselves.
Sure, installing the updates may be simple, but getting the OS installed in the first place is not quite as simple.

Also, many Android devices don’t even have unlockable bootloaders. This makes your first statement patently false. There is no way for me to install any updates to my abandoned Acer tablet as the bootloader is locked and the device is abandoned.

It may be true to say “many Android devices can be updated through community projects” but you’re glossing over a lot of complexity.

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yes but if you have read the next few words the author links to this exploit https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/01/new-unpatchable-exploit-alleg... which is highly problematic
> Available as an extension for Firefox on desktop / laptop

According to article, Firefox is offering this through an addon... obviously not using the SpeechRecognition API, however.
The touch bar is a no-go for me. I really use the F-keys a lot, so I have it on F-key all the time.

My ideal setup would be to make the trackpad a tad smaller, add the physical function keys again and the touch bar above.

I don't think it was a good tradeoff for many use cases.
There is Paul Graham: computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)
Probably "to come upon by searching or effort" instead of "to discover by study or experiment".
Where to Start? (UI/UX)
A friend of mine and I are starting a new project. We have some prospective clients/users as some high touch beta testers before we launch publicly. We don’t want to put something totally unpolished in front of them - but neither of us are designers or experts in UI/UX. Are there any services or resources y’all would recommend?
Next to the post it says 1894, which is decidedly, uh, odd, if Wozniak wrote it.
There are multiple groups working on reimplementations of GPT-3. It's not that difficult, just requires a certain level of compute resources which a lot of BigCos and large organizations have on tap already.
Thanks! Yeah, it is, at least for a while since it will take a very long time to reach expected maturity. You can adopt as many or as little pieces as you want. The idea is that once you adopt one of the "tools", you can use the others and reuse the exact same configuration, and ideally you shouldn't even need to do anything else.

ie. For linting we also do dependency verification. So you might need to configure Rome if you put your dependencies on some weird non-standard place. Once we open bundling up, we'll already know how to resolve everything.

Each part should stand on it's own. It's not as if the linter we've released is worse, and the only selling point is that it's going to be part of a larger suite. It legitimately has features and separates itself from the alternatives. eg. extreme focus on useful error messages, powerful autofixes (that operate on an AST rather than insert strings like ESLint), proper caching for even better performance (ESLint doesn't offer a good solution here) etc.

Many are making the mistake in thinking that building Rome is just as time consuming and resource intensive as rewriting each of the tools it's meant to replace separately, it's not. Once we've validated the linter we've also validated the compiler (it's the same thing), our ability to watch files, analyze dependencies, integrate with your editor etc. Sharing so much fundamentally decreases the actual complexity of everything, not increases.

I think it's also important to note that I personally have written an extremely small amount of the implemented lint rules. Our API is just easier to use, and we've focused on setting up the tooling necessary to make writing them easy (although internally in our repo).

Check out https://github.com/romejs/rome/issues/341, https://github.com/romefrontend/rome/issues/20, and https://github.com/romefrontend/rome/issues/159, if you're interested in seeing how the progress was actually made in the implementation of those rules. The work was spread out over a really long time, and if given complete focus and proper coordination (I was not good at this and kind of let it be organized ad-hoc, which is actually how we got some amazing contributors), then it could have been completed in a fraction of the time.

There's been some overfocus on particular things like minimal configuration and the lack of extensibility but those are not hard requirements and will evolve over time, particularly as we get feedback and people demonstrate the requirements and restrictions they're under. The project understandably involves a lot of hubris, but I do believe that Rome isn't only valuable in aggregate and will have significant advantages even if you only decide to use one piece.
Not every agent has to conceal their national identity, the UK had an embassy in the USSR so there were plenty of known Brits wandering around for one to randomly walk through the area. Embassies are classic points to run out of because there's an official reason for being in the country and some protection against retribution.
I use same phone number across multiple bank accounts.
So I create unique UPI IDs to receive in each. So Google pay is linked to icici, Airtel is linked to Canara bank.
When people send money, I receive it in the corresponding one.

With just phone number, I will need to get multiple sim cards for each bank account.

(User of both UPI and PayNow)
Yes, time spent on tooling is time not spent solving real problems. The ability to make unpopular decisions necessary to move a product forward is what separates an expert from an expert beginner.
> While I applaud congress for moving fast in March and April to get money out to people, there were bound to be holes in the act, and paying people more while on unemployment than they were previously making is one of them.

Holes my ass. They're trying to buy votes with taxpayer (middle class and the rich) money.
You are right. This is an early version. Thanks for the feedback. I would have liked to post it to showhn on Monday when I had cleaned it up a bit but fate took it out of my hands.
Fair enough, it might be my own view on what I'd use Julia in a production environment clouding my interpretation of the scope of the text, especially as the author defines this as his area at the start and says how it's what Julia shines at. Julia being an acceptable ("production-ready") language means that whenever my problem hit the areas that Julia shines, it becomes a valid candidate to evaluate considering all pros and cons.

And while right now I wouldn't recommend Julia for that web domain unless you also need it's number crunching features (which is more than just scientific computing, I work with large finance systems and there is definitely a lot of that stuff), I do think it's more of a library/community problem than a language problem. The language is well equipped to handle it (easy to use from a scripting perspective, easy parallelism, fast after warm-up, allows for clean abstractions to create sophisticated web frameworks, the mentioned easy FFI), what it lacks is the coverage and maturity of the tools and support (so I don't feel like I'm at a risk at any point that I need to do some integration, such as integrating with Kafka or any other systems, without having to write my own solution or integrating multiple languages at every step).

That's different from systems programming, embedded, game development and even GUI development (at least until smaller binaries with less warm-up) right now. Even with good library it will not be competitive with the languages that already claim those domains. Julia is a general purpose language already and more than a matlab substitute, it does not need to be good at everything (and it shouldn't try), but I don't think it should restrict the scope too much either.
Barton Zwiebach makes quantum mechanics pretty accessible https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60cspQn3N9d...
You can also save your signature (draw it with a mouse or take a picture of it) and use it to sign PDFs
Ok, how about "species flaw"
I use the path version of this all the time for some really long path names :) . I keep those folders open just for that particular purpose. Very handy. It also works for selected text. Works on linux too. I honestly don't know about windows.
Shrek! Ogres are like Onions
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I'm happy to not be invited back to houses with Google surveillance hardware. My parents are aware they have that option.
That’s not the way insurance should work. You pay private mortgage insurance. The entire idea of insurance is that it should be priced to take losses into account and break even.

Btw, none of the other loans were “conforming” ie government backed. Especially the investment property. The banks should also take risk into account when deciding interest rates. The government had no reason to be on the hook for non conforming loans.