skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Like with Pocket's Chrome extension permission model[1] that has a "read everything on all websites", when really it only needs brief access to the URL when I want to save something.

I tried changing the "Site access" setting to "On click" -- but then the extension started acting funny or not working in some cases.

Chrome has added a more limited "activeTab" permission[2], but even that might be too much since it grants control to the tab and continues to allow permission on the same origin.

Like the GP said, even if the extension developer isn't trying to exfiltrate data, they should do more to protect users from a compromise of their extension, and browsers should give them the models to do so.

IMO, good security models can be a foundation forward to better overall security compared to desktop apps since it seems that browsers are becoming an OS of their own.

1: https://help.getpocket.com/article/912-what-permissions-does...

2: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/activeTab
Seems like a good opportunity for a pure market exchange solution. Just have a service that lets drivers charge a flat fee or maybe use taxi rates... then take a cut.
Quality enhancement of the face region is to my knowledge the best use regarding ML and real time communication.

The idea is to detect the region where the user's face is and then transmit that region at a higher quality than the rest of the video image.

This vastly improves the video call experience as the face is almost always the most important part of any video call.
If you think the price of housing has anything to do with the craft and materials involved, versus zoning, mortgage policy, the race to get into “good” school districts…well, I have a bridge that goes to the newly available land in the Portlands area of Toronto to sell you.

(The absolute drama that involves building anything in Toronto would drive you mad. Gaze upon the NIMBYs fighting tooth and nail to prevent high-density housing on the Danforth and despair.)
100%. This is the exact playbook they ran in Austin.
Lately I have been trying to be more in tune with the more sensing/feeling part of me (as opposed to the logical thinking).

The croissant is something that brings me disproportionate joy in life. Something that means a lot to me. And I decided to spend an entire morning writing about it :)
The law is not "fair and objective". It is a representation of the morals of the particular group holding power at the time of its writing.

It will never be "fair" because it only very rarely take all of the circumstances into account - as Anatole France put it: "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."

Neither is it particularly objective - its application, especially in a common-law system, is extremely subjective. (You're bound by whatever the judge in previous cases thought the law was - E.g. in the US "stare decisis" is enshrined pretty much as an immutable rule)

It has never been a framework of "right or wrong", either. It is a framework on how disputes get settled. There is no interest in "right" beyond "the authors of the law at the time thought it was a good idea"

To take a trivial example: Slavery was recognized as morally wrong long before the law actually made it something that was not allowed. The law still allows carceral slavery, even though there is growing consensus that that's morally wrong.

As for "better" systems - there's certainly a large faction of countries making the case a civil law system is better than a common law system. But you don't need a "better system" - the law can only be meaningful if we accept that at all times, it will be flawed, it is not "fair and objective", it needs to be tempered with compassion, and it is our job to improve upon what we have.
Even if its all true, its irrelevant.

The CEO has no fiduciary duty here under any law whatsoever.

The NRA is a private organization. The morals of corporate decision making (or lack thereof) is an internal matter that should be resolved internally according to org docs in a civil court.

There is nothing criminal to hire your wife as an employee.
There is nothing criminal about using the company issued credit card for expenses.

The company is of course free to bring litigation for malfeasance of company assets, but that would be the company, referring to the contract between employer and employee that defines what is allowed and what is not. The DA is nowhere to be seen.

If either was the case, 20% of corporate managers would be in jail.

The DA has nothing to do with this. Except of course its a political overreach which is repugnant.
That's not what the OP said, though. You can't just carry an argument to its complete extreme - that's not how it works.

OP said that THIS law wasn't too much, not that over-regulation doesn't exist. Please reply to the opinion that this law isn't too much. I would be interested to hear your thoughts.
> That's too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to.

I'm aghast. How could anyone survive on $500k?! Everybody at the yacht club would laugh at you. It would be simply beastly.

I know they play this game against the likes of Google and Microsoft but they have favour with people because they're not Google or Microsoft, because their product is driven by engineering, not repeatedly tainted by management.

These job losses shouldn't be at product level, they should clean out management, restructure to bring engineering up to board level, kick out the suits that are only there for the cheque.
Is there a way to check local insect levels without harming their populations?

A lot of comments in here have been anecdotal observations of pretty big population swings and I too (in the northeast of the USA) have noticed the insect populations have increased over the past two years after a nadir in prior years, but I have no real way of determining what's going on scientifically.

Wondering if anyone has experience doing something like this:
https://rodaleinstitute.org/science/articles/how-to-monitor-...
It is Android, but is it Google's Android, with Play services etc?
Voicemail goes to a different place and may not even get you routed to the user’s cell.
I read it so: of all the people who can work from home at all, 70% require an internet connection.

Factory workers or construction workers can't do any work from home at all. But maybe people who do custom tailoring, or small-scale bakery like custom wedding cakes, can still WFH without a broadband connection being constantly up.
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> This raises the bar to learning the language, but I look at it this way: learning Rust is humanly possible, writing bug-free C code is not.

It's simply impossible to write completely safe c code. Lots of bug like heart bleed, dirty cow, whatever, you name it was write by people that have dozens years of experiment and they still make accidents.

Switch the language is expensive of course. But it might worth it eventually if this project continue to run for a long time (or the project got abandoned before it pays off, who knows?)
All NIMBY power derives from the fact that authority is vested exclusively in the people who already live somewhere, and none is given over to people who could live there, or would like to, if policies could be changed.

The only thing that has eroded NIMBY power in California in my lifetime has been state laws, and only very recently, and only just barely.
I don't know and am curious too, so I'll probably look into it at some point.

But I strongly suspect that this is one of those 'spirit of the law' situations. So I suspect that a company that doesn't want, well, liability, would avoid hiring an LLC that really is just one person working only for said company.
The only difference here is that is has Google's name on it instead of AvalonBay, Greystar, Hines, Simon, Westfield, ProLogis, etc.

People have an opinion about Google, but they have never heard of any of the other companies that would have done the exact same thing, just with shittier neighborhood wifi.

They all get discounted land from the city, modify the original RFP scope to fit their vision, push the city to create an attractive level of services, drop in a token number of low income houses, and flip the houses for a profit.
I still do not understand. Ada is not exactly new. Have you ever seriously considered Ada/SPARK? Might want to give https://www.adacore.com/uploads/books/pdf/AdaCore-Tech-Cyber... a read, or even https://blog.adacore.com/, or my previous comments on Ada. I called Ada the programming language for writing "fast secure code" for quite a long time now, a "better C" in that regard.
System orchestration (docker/kubernetes/aws/...)

This falls a bit under dev-ops and sysadmin but it would unlock your brain to think in different ways.
I know anecdote is not data, but I’ve been driving through rural California for decades. I definitely noticed that in the last few years I have significantly less insects caking my windshield after a long drive than I did ten years ago. This could be explained by changes to windshield design, changes to car lights, and changes to the land adjacent to highways.
If drivers are employees they can only work for one service, which for most of them will be Uber since they'll have the most demand. This law should be really good for Uber, terrible for its smaller competitors.
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Work within the law and everything is fine. Uber routinely tries to avoid that (even when there are escape hatches available to them they don't use them; it really seems part of the DNA of that company to do things as shady as possible without actively killing people), both flaunting the protections intended by the laws and giving itself an advantage over their competitors who adhere to regulations.

Good riddance.
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Not a lawyer, but as a citizen why would we expect a company to be allowed to violate a law for an extended period of time after a court has ruled that the conduct is illegal?

That seems like the definition of capriciously applying laws, and would seem like it would create more problems arising from unequal application of laws.
"Talk is cheap, show me the code" - Linus Torvalds

The author applies the same standard reasons for moving from C to Rust for the QEMU project which are valid reasons. However, I would take the author more seriously if they have done a proof of concept first and then later made their case for this.

Otherwise, it is another "rewrite it in rust" post which is yet to materialise into a real project.
Sure, but the alternative is investing in static analysis for C code, of which there are plenty of tools for.

My usage of rust for now has indicated to me that for most low level tasks you are better of using C or C++. It is more suited to it. There appears to be a lot of boilerplate in rust.
I think there's three key things here:

1. The survey found that only 63.8% said their job required a home internet connection pre pandemic, so it's closer to 40% of Americans with jobs that don't require home internet.

2. Sending emails from your phone at home is for all intents and purposes the same as a home internet connection. If you were no longer able to connect to the internet from within your home, you wouldn't be able to send those emails i.e. do your job.

3. There is a difference between jobs that can theoretically be done without home internet access, but that in practice require it. For example, you could theoretically drive a truck without any home internet. But, in practice, most truckers find loads and contracts via load boards, which you obviously need an internet connection to access.

With all of those considerations, the percentages don't seem too fishy to me. I buy that pre-pandemic, roughly 64% of Americans were in jobs that required them to connect to the internet from home for at least some work-related function, even if it is not the core of their work.
I would argue that this headline is greater for the people who want to hope we haven't solved COVID than those who want to hope we have.
I brought Timescale to my current job, and I have to plug their Helm charts. They have made deployment, backup, scaling, and config so easy on k8s for Timescale. Probably the best postgres chart that exists, period. Great work TSDB team.
I know, however unlike C++ in Ada releasing memory doesn't seem (from the little i've seen) as straightforward as in C or C++ (or Pascal for that matter) so it is a bit safer than those, even if not as safe as in Rust.

Which is really what i refer to above - compared to C or even C++, Rust does add some things but other languages that existed for years (decades in some cases) added to C and C++ and compared to those Rust doesn't add that much (which isn't the same as adding nothing). Yet these languages weren't really adopted and people remained with C/C++.

Do you really think that what Rust provides will succeed in making people adopt it when other languages failed (and let's be honest - while Rust adds some stuff it isn't like it has all the features other languages have either)? Is it even a matter of features (be it about memory safety or anything else) in the first place?
Speak for yourself, I've been happier during our "lockdown", which wasn't actually a lockdown. My mental health certainly isn't hurt because of it.

What staggers me is that huge groups of people see countries that didn't take this seriously vs countries that did, and the difference in deaths, and yet still don't want to take this seriously.
Article author here. Thanks for sharing ATS. I will take a look at it.
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I think you don't want the kind of client who wants a website for $150. Good clients will be turned off by the low price. I'd try going for a less bargain basement look and pricing structure.
I am not sure who this is for ?

I don't want to sound negative (and have to admit I don't represent the whole population) so if this appeals to you, can you explain to me why please ?

As much as I dream of the day where you will be able to just change your screen size on a whim, we don't have the tech yet.

And it seems to me that if you need more screen estate, you will just get a tablet, not an hybrid ?
NeRF has a potential to make all those classical methods obsolete, though it requires many input images and I am not sure how it handles rolling shutter and other distortions.
Nigel Inkster works for International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

Transparify gave IISS its lowest rating, 'deceptive', on funding transparency.
That is even less transparent than the Trump Whitehouse.

Here's guessing that some of their funding was arranged by Mike Pompous-Ass.
> our experiments establish that state-of-the-art convolutional networks for image classification trained with stochastic gradient methods easily fit a random labeling of the training data.
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I want a Surface Single-o.

No need for a fragile and hard to hold hinge.

Just a phone with a screen the size of one side of that Duo, offering the biggest single pane that will fit easily in the back pocket of a pair of jeans.

Please.
ACA was extremely unpopular because of how it was characterized. It is extremely popular today.

Have I been to the post office or the DMV? Sure. And when there are a ton of people who want to use a service, you tend to have to wait.

Have YOU been to a for-profit emergency room? Or a for-profit, non-fast-food restaurant? Hell, go to a Fed Ex or UPS store. They won't be perfect, and you will wait in line.
It's single-threaded, it's much slower compared to languages like Go, Java, etc, and for any app that performance needs to be a consideration, Node would just never be my first choice.

If I'm building a blog, then maybe it makes sense, but for high profile web apps/infra I just don't understand the appeal beyond using similar tooling and having the learning curve be the same (e.g. at least on the surface your UI and backend engineers can theoretically be the same).

I guess it generally depends on what you are building, but I tend to prefer something a bit beefier. I also love Go, so I may have a bias there, though the performance bits are data-driven, not subjective.
Someone's job relies on that automation not existing (half kidding).
Not really. I have an 8 year old desktop and a 13 year old laptop with SSD upgrade. They work well enough for me.

I don't play any intense games nor require long battery life for the laptop. If I needed those attributes then I'd start looking.

Is there anything in an AMD laptop that you are looking for? That might help people better answer this question.
Information may be a fifth state of matter
Providing we can stay locked down until the vaccine is ready.
The store page says "full Play Store"
>> I'm an adult, if I want the money isn't it strictly better than I have the freedom to cash in on my human resources [by selling my kidney]?

> Yes.

By this logic, slavery should be legal, because people should have the freedom to sell themselves into it (for instance, to purchase medical care for a loved one).
Congrats on the launch. I had no idea what the actual product was even after looking through the homepage (curated youtube videos?), but this page explains it: https://www.gradschool.co/join
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My understanding is that a separate Rust Foundation has been in the planning phase for some time.
Dropbox’s password manager and secure vault are available for paid users
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Why the bezel on the hinge? That's the one place you actually want an screen-to-edge experience that is terrible on every non-folding phone.
Personally I never have any issue with using keyboard. It's the excessive usage of mouse that is detrimental for my (right) hand (not just the wrist, the fingers hurt more from clicking and using scroll wheel too much.)
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The more time spent typing, the less you have for thinking and debugging.

Hypothetically, someone with a hunt and peck technique might be 40/60. Someone with a self taught but undisciplined technique could be 60/40. Someone with standard touch typing might be 70/30. Someone who does regular typing drills could be 80/20.

Given the thinking and debugging is where are value comes from, the typing is just how we make it tangible, by improving your typing you are improving your value.

I see this comment on almost every HN and r/programming thread about typing. It always puts an idea in my head of a programmer who has to stop and ponder between every keystroke.
I had a friend who told me dont look down at the keys. That worked to, no special keyboard required :). You could also temporary cover keys up with post it notes until you have memorized them.
Stamets is hoping to make smart bee feeders eventually to help count them while nurturing their populations too:

https://fungi.com/pages/bees
In theory, Rust can completely replace C for AVR development. Based on what shepmaster said, certain Rust features may not work yet. I'm also a Rust newbie. This article is a great intro to Rust for microcontrollers (but it's for ARM Cortex): https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/zero-to-main-rust-1
One of our teams set up a remediation service that does realtime tag analysis by following the Cloudtrail API logs. Anyone at the company who knows about the remediation service can simply log in, filter by aws resource type, and find a note indicating either a better configuration, or why the resource just got nuked from a high orbit.

We don't have any issues tracking stuff down - if you create something that can't be traced back your department, it explodes. I've never seen anything more effective at directing a user configuration.

Following through on a threat is essentially magic.
This is a real concern and can be actively exploited against many forums (tested myself). I found one forum that had poor file management and isolation...through this exploit I was able to view an unencrypted backup of the SQL database as well as all of the DB passwords setup in the wordpress config files.
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> Have you been to the post office or the DMV?

Yes, I have. The post office seems to do an EXCELLENT job of delivering mail at an absurdly low price (for standard letters or postcards), although when I lived in Chicago for a few years I found that a certain portion of letters were never delivered.

A number of years ago the DMV (I was in New York and New Jersey at the time) offered terrible customer service; these days the DMV I have gone to (New Jersey and Pennsylvania) seem to do an excellent job.

What I can conclude from this is that quality varies, whether in private industry or public services.
I might have overestimated how smart they were or they managed to strike an agreement with Lukashenko after a live demo of a color revolution.
It's an 8" screen (better than 4" or 6") that folds to a compact size where a tablet is too awkward to carry.

They seem to think people use the phone has a handset without headphones/speaker, which is a bit strange.
How do you know that it's easier?
I haven't checked out expo yet. We have a react component that you can install https://github.com/papercups-io/chat-widget or https://www.npmjs.com/package/@papercups-io/chat-widget Will have to do some testing to make sure it works.
> And then one day there was a figure in the book of a spectrum and underneath it said ‘the relative strengths of the Mg+ absorption line at 4,481 angstroms… of Stellar Atmospheres from the work of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin’.” The caption was a revelation to Joan. Cecilia was a woman’s name, and the hyphenated family name indicated she was married. It was proof that a married woman was capable of doing science.

This is a great example of what people mean when they say "representation matters". Humans benefit greatly from existence proofs that people similar themselves are capable of doing X.
To play devils advocate on your devils advocate, you used Uber and "good faith" in the same sentence, which they definitely haven't earned.
As [3] indicated, have fun/to party is a perfectly cromulent reading. (and from many of the folk songs I've bothered translating, "walking around" tends to produce grass-stained clothing, so I guess we need an etymological reference here.)

(I don't forbid you) makes much more sense. That was what I was reaching for in the post-seeding covering over as protection in [2]. Going pl->ua in wikipedia, I still do get https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broń to https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Зброя , but logic almost demands that's the reading.

I'd figure that google and yandex translate (and their image searches) are not tuned to folk song usages, so your guesses are probably way more accurate than mine.

I wonder if these verses are of highly-conserved vocabulary (then again, being in verse would tend to conserve vocabulary on its own), so they'd be a slavic equivalent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleicher%27s_fable ? Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23667506
If I do a sum and it comes out as something I don't expect I let my intuition guide me to check the sum to ensure no mistakes were made, I don't just accept the answer.
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FWIW while it feels like I'm constantly fighting Spacemacs, it hasn't felt that way with Doom so far. Spacemacs introduces a lot of unnecessary abstractions that are very difficult to perform surgery on whereas Doom seems closer to "sane defaults, but you can modify them easily".
A GPT-3 written nonsensical article made it to the front page of HN[0], so I don't think it's a good measure of value

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23893817
They could even get by without the Internet if such business were all conducted on the phone. So what?