skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well all the other children and past children have drawn it yellow, so it is a part of the culture of children's drawings. The culture really does matter, for example young children in different cultures draw human figures quite differently. As someone else noted in these comments, you can't draw white on white paper well, and yellow is the closest thing really in a box of crayons, so that probably has a large effect as well.
as Zizek would say, "And then you use this as the basis for a GAN that optimises for faces that do fit, making better deepfakes and so on and so on"
Mass protests are only about the bad cop bit. You guys have given up everything. Conditions are far below what Europeans would accept. Better late than never, but very late.

It's damaging to other countries, for example in the UK emploers are always trying to lower standards to align with new USA lows.

Downvote patriots, instead of fixing your country.
Ah, yes, but all software is 10 years old and full of exploitable security holes and weak algorithms if you're constrained to FIPS, so the kernel isn't a special case :)
You've built quite the straw man there.
Sure why not? As long as no data ever leaves the device unencrypted and the encrypted data can only be decrypted by the client at the other end. Of course you'd probably have to take the app's word for it that that's actually what it's doing if you don't have the source, but that's no different from current E2E encryption offerings from WhatsApp etc.

The part I'm not sure about is whether the on-device certification that the message is "clean" couldn't be (easily) spoofed. But it would probably help curb distribution of illegal material anyway.
similar to QAnon, there are a lot of offshoots of different ideas that all stem from people not understanding 5G and thinking that it's unsafe, despite a lack of scientific evidence to support that.

Pre-covid it was that 5G was making everyone physically ill. Post-covid it's that the radiation is mutating the virus to make it more deadly or spread it more quickly.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/conspiracy-theorists...
> What is baffling is how the delinquency rates for credit cards have plummeted.

Mortgage deferments! If you can stop paying your mortgage for a while, then you have more money to pay down your credit cards.
> Which if it had continued, could have consumed far more lives.

Everything along these lines are counterfactual excercises and a nice way of justify the crime of dropping nuclear bombs on cities full of civilians. I don't buy this. And something we all know is that history is told by the victors.
>Women have an expectation to express themselves and their personality.

Personality is expressed through choice of cut, material, and color of cloth?
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I'm expecting you guys to give up on this, just like all the other stuff. Downvote away, but you've lost so many rights since the 1960s, with barely a peep.
Hear hear.

UniFi's DPI is garbage.

Look at this screenshot of it for my Synology DS1019+ NAS: https://imgur.com/a/DfPWOTB

361GB to Let's Encrypt? Uhm... No...

That about correlates with the amount I've shipped off to Backblaze from it. I don't even have Let's Encrypt doing anything on it, as it's fairly firewalled off from the rest of the world and thus can't pass the cert installation checks.

The UniFi DPI is worse than useless; it's misleading. Hell, you can't even see the time period those counters are for. It provides nothing actionable.
It’s not bad. It is simply a product of its time: according to planet money in that 2013 piece, ACH batch processing runs only once per day and only during bank hours (no weekends, etc).

Presumably, increasing that frequency would break something in the system or it would already have been done.

In the ‘70s, no one predicted 24/7 banking or even ATMs let alone internet payments. I remember my father using an ATM for the first time in 1981, I think. Perhaps it was 1980. But we had to drive 7 miles to get to it.

Stocks were still traded in fractions, not decimals!
I really like that no single thing stands out. It shows that a lot of people were working on a lot of different things, which is a sign of a healthy project... not that I would otherwise think of Linux as an unhealthy project.
That wasn't an excuse. It was an explanation and context for why it is bad and why it was acceptable when created.
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Passports are not required to access (pretty much) any Public Service in the US. Passports, Drivers Licenses are optional, as are State IDs.

If you _want_ a Federal ID that is accepted by all states, you can certainly get a passport. It's what I often use for ID.
> This thinking is why the men’s section is 1/4 as large as the women’s in most stores.

This is so true, and it annoys me for reasons I'll mention later.

> Contrast this with the women’s section. Women have an expectation to express themselves and their personality.

I'm a young man, but I also like to express myself by dressing a certain way, which is why I'm especially disappointed when literally three whole floors of a relatively mid-high-end department store are dedicated to women's fashion, while half a floor is dedicated to men's.

I enjoy shopping for clothes in person - this way I can feel the clothing I'm actually going to put on, I can try different sizes on, see how it looks with my jacket, etc. So it also annoys me when a greater variety of men's fashion is found online, where I can't observe the physical quality of the clothes I'm about to buy, making it a hit-or-miss in most cases.
Its because a generation or two of Americans were propagandized heavily that anything socialized will immediately lead to Soviet communism. If we build infrastructure Lenin will rise from the dead and transform into a giant mech warrior and wade across the Atlantic to destroy us all.
When a company wants to hire a remote worker in a country in which they don't have a local legal entity, they often turn to an agency which does have a local legal entity and acts as the official employer (covering pay, tax, benefits, etc) on behalf of the real employer. Do such agencies have branches in Japan? How do the Japanese immigration authorities view them?

Gitlab [1] uses Safeguard Global [2] to act as official employer in a number of countries (including Japan). I'm sure Gitlab is not the only employer using Safeguard's services, and I'm sure Safeguard is not the only company offering this service.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/blob/master/dat...

[2] https://www.safeguardglobal.com
Only if your organization submits to the stupidity of the FIPS 140-2 consultant scam. Google has this level of certification and they obviously aren't using vendor kernels (or vendor anything). At Google the production kernel was, in many ways, newer than the one you could download from kernel.org
Ah, that's a good hypothesis... I didn't consider that.
My bet is that some of the biggest categories for personal credit card spending are related to travel and bars/clubs, including the specialized clothing and accessories that surround those activities. Folks may have paid some debt off, but not many were spending for these big activities at all. I imagine there’s a lot of cross-over with demographics that tend to carry more debt or be more impulsive to begin with.

Edit: ...also dining out
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> is still not equipped with such a system?

Inertia, at least partially.

It's why chip-and-pin is still not a thing in many places: Old School credit card POS devices were distributed to a lot of places over the years, and those only had the magnetic strip readers. Replacing is time consuming and no one wants to go through the expense and effort of changing it in all the places that they're in (e.g., gas pumps).

Sometimes it's handy to be a late/delayed adopter of technology and to skip a generation or two.
No. They are not a part of the debt highlighted in the Federal Reserve's Consumer Credit Panel.
> Don't focus on semantics

Semantics is the meaning of what you say. It isn't some subordinate type of communication; it is fundamental to communication. If we don't focus on semantics, we don't focus on the meaning of what you said, and we aren't able to judge whether or not what you've said is true.

You used a word, presumably to make a factual statement about a thing. We need to know why you think the word applies given the context in order to know what you're trying to communicate.

If you don't want to communicate with people, you're free not to. But you did try to communicate with people, so don't be surprised when they ask you to clarify what you said.
$180B per week would be $9.4T per year. Almost half of the economy in stimulus seems likely to be quite inflationary.
Private banks create money and that is being pulled back faster than the central bank can try to inject it.
> Buying new clothing because of yearly trends is way to damaging to the environment for what it's worth.

I read this as I rock along on my Thinkpad x200 and read it on a forum where people regularly defend the use of electron apps and gush over the latest sumptuous macbooks with gobs of memory.

"But, but, I need those for my work"

And so might these people who buy clothes because of yearly trends.

"But that's different!"

No, it's not.

It's not up to me to say anyone shouldn't enjoy your latest laptop, but I think it's good to realise that the large majority of people who work in software are in a precarious position to be handing out edicts about what should and shouldn't be considered "incredibly wasteful" and what is "damaging the environment".
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This has been such an ongoing issue in the US that a massive industry has sprung up to fill the void for "instant transfers". Paypal, Venmo, Apple/Google Pay, Square Cash, etc are all because the US financial transfer system is hopelessly outdated.
This is a pretty hostile post that looks like it violates site guidelines to me. Can you express your point civilly?
> Unfortunately, there's no scheme to allow foreigners to stay as a resident if they work remotely for a company that doesn't have a presence in Japan, as I do. (I'd even be willing to pay taxes in Japan!)

That are all countries though and not just Japan.
The day a ratio anywhere close to that happens in the Linux kernel, be alert for all the flying pigs outside.
Not sure how one could make such an ill-considered comment. It is always useful to ask 'cui bono?'. Who benefits the most from e2e? Is it the individual? Or is it Facebook and friends, who can use it to drastically lower content moderation costs, legal liability and the general smell from transmitting harmful content, while making a fortune. To me, they are doing what all 'great' capitalist enterprises manage to do, which is make someone else pay for the negative externalities of their business. For other examples see the fossil fuel industry, processed food, and the grandaddy of them all, big tobacco. Gates is not swallowing the koolaid.
The history of credit cards is also somewhat wild: unsolicited cards arrived activated in the mail, and consequently, a huge volume of credit card fraud was born. Consumer protections came a few years later cleaning up obvious issues. But looking at that story, it seemed awfully reminiscent of the Uber model.
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Good write up with plenty of detail, thanks for sharing.

The gap between highly skilled professional and regular worker seems to be a huge chasm. You can get PR in 1 year with enough points but you must wait 10 if you are a regular worker.

Also, to apply for PR on a regular work visa you must have a visa length longer than 1 year. This can effectively be used to block PR applications. I know someone who had been in Japan for 15 years who cannot apply for PR because of this rule. As the application is never even allowed to be made, these people do not show up in statistics about successful Vs rejected PR applications either
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this topic will probably get flagged, but if you're serious about learning about inflation

look up money supply - m0, m1, m2, m3, m4, velocity of money

figure out how federal reserve "printing money" (what does that even mean) affects the different buckets

look up difference between how reserve requirements affect money supply vs "helicopter money"

look up the federal reserve mandate to target 2% inflation while keeping unemployment as low as possible

figure out how the federal reserve balance sheet works (eg what happens if debt the federal reserve owns defaults)

and you'll be much closer to understanding our current economic situation than you were in high school ;)
Yeah the original 3G (384kbps, before HSDPA) was just about enough to stream music flawlessly. The Swedish public radio broadcaster had 3GPP AAC audio streams and at the time the Swedish operators had all made those streams unmetered, and where I lived the 3G reception was actually better/more stable than FM stereo, so I'd listen to them all the time. This was before or at release of the iPhone, which couldn't do this.
Are you familiar with how much child pornography has ballooned from social media? I hadn’t until I listened to this podcast with NYT investigative journalist. Worth considering how serious the trade offs are https://samharris.org/podcasts/213-worst-epidemic/
I always found adidas really bad for wide feet / same as nike. Reebok or Vans are wider.
Indeed, if you look at what he was saying at the end of February, there was no concern about the way the U.S. was handling the pandemic. Look at what he wrote on February 28th[1] - his recommendations for the current pandemic are for richer countries to assist poorer countries, and for a vaccine to be made.

If someone like Gates sounded the alarm on the poor way the U.S. was responding, it might have made a difference, but he did no such thing. Like most of the leadership in the U.S., he seemed to have a big blind spot with regards to how bad things could get in America. Some people were sounding the alarm early on (take a look at the last minute of this video[2] for an example), but were mostly ignored.

[1] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/How-to-respond-to-COVID-19
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8VImMUvz-A
I'm not sure I'd classify what I read as "outraged" (different people express themselves in different ways, not everyone uses "pathetic" with the same vehemence or vitriol).

That said, that merge log is fairly useless. Whether it needs to be anything other than that, and who generally would see it and whether it's for the person writing it or someone else is something to be discussed, but even in the case it's mainly meant for the author to look back on, is it even succeeding in being useful in that job? I would agree that it appears pathetic, but probably pathetic in a low-cost doesn't really matter way.
I'm not saying everything's good, but those are all very solvable problems in comparison to what we expected. A few months ago, grocery stores were running out of staple items by noon and there were serious concerns of a nationwide meat shortage.
The issue with ACH isn't the batch nature, it's that banks on both sides of the transaction are allowed a fairly long amount of time (upwards of a business day) to decide whether to accept or decline the transaction.

If they decide immediately, it can go faster, but they don't have to, and many banks have no incentive to work on processing faster.

They could still use a batch processing system, and just process the batches once per hour, or half hour, or whatever. It would still be slower than some newly-designed instant payments system, but could potentially be more palatable within the current system.
Are you familiar with how much child pornography has ballooned from social media? I hadn’t until I listened to this podcast with NYT investigative journalist. Worth considering how serious on of the trade offs are... https://samharris.org/podcasts/213-worst-epidemic/
"Inflationary spirals" - as existed in the US in the 1970s, are caused by a wage-price hike cycle. Prices go up, workers demand more money, prices go up more.

The US "fixed" that problem by squashing the ability of workers to demand more money - starting with Reagan in the 80s and extending all the way 'till now. The problem is that increased prices just meant a lower standard of living and more people more precarious. By the time Covid hit, a large precentage of people were living pay check to paycheck. 28% of renters didn't paid rent in July and 30% won't be able to this month. That printed money has essentially had devastating consequences.
Seems like it would be pretty easy to game this sort of conclusion-making based on Google search terms.

For example, let's say I control a popular app which installed on people's devices -- thousands of developers/corporations/other entities are in this position. I insert some new code in the app (perhaps via an automatic update) that sends a Google query for some search term from a pool of similar terms I have chosen. I can easily mimic the HTTP headers sent by a common web browser, thereby making my request indistinguishable from one that is intentionally submitted by a user, chosen from a list of common browser headers.

By having large swathes of users all appearing to search for the same or similar terms I can make it appear to, say, the Economist, that the public at-large is interested in a given topic. From there, the Economist will make assumptions about the population at-large and then make conclusions about what this means. Then they will publish these "findings" as a story. Many readers will be swayed by the Economist's conclusions. At that point I will have effectively influenced what those readers now believe. All it took were some phoney searches.

Later, I could remove the code in the next auto-update.

By the time something like this was discovered by a user MITM'ing the app traffic and reverse engineering the app, chances are I would have already accomplished my objective: to influence people -- perhaps investors -- to believe a story like the one reported here by the Economist. (Note: I am not suggesting the Economist's conclusions are wrong in this case.)
Why can't the same requirement be achieved using meaningful merge messages? I personally usem them.
You’re comparing weekly stimulus numbers to annual GDP numbers.

If you compare the stimulus payments in similar annualized terms it is nearly half of GDP. $9.36 Trillion.

Having said that, the relevance of GDP in a conversation about inflation is unclear to me when GDP does not account for inflation.
> on about 1,900,000 immigrants, over 85% are Europeans, 300,000 are Italians, 295,000 are Germans and 110,000 are French, which are not really immigrants in the real sense being official languages in Switzerland

Who ever said that immigrants don't count as immigrants if they already speak the national language?

My mother's family immigrated from the UK to Australia when she was a child. They all spoke English as a native language. That fact didn't make them any less "immigrants". Back then (early 1950s), the vast majority of immigrants to Australia were native English speakers and had always been (back to the very start of European colonisation). It was only in the subsequent decades that immigration to Australia diversified and native English-speakers became a successively smaller percentage of all immigrants. But even today, the number one country of birth for foreign-born Australians remains England; China and India are in the second and third spots, respectively; New Zealand fourth. (Australian immigration statistics treat the four constituent countries of the UK separately.)

https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/lookup/3412.0Media%...
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/Z80proj/Z80_traps.pdf has very high quality imaging of the doping levels, by Sergei Skorobogatov.

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11143/in-... references "Zilog oral history" and poses the question, but there isn't a strong answer other than the link to the above.

The oral history document referenced is: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201... . The discussion of traps begins on page 101.
I think you're being needlessly confrontational and defensive. There's no need to make personal accusations about my ability to do research.
Transportation costs.
Isn't that a consequence of the lowering standard of living, not the printing money?
Unfortunately....

> Unique to every individual

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3004654/a-tale-of-two-women-...

> assigned from birth (or whenever applied for)

Sort of. Mostly yes, but not for everyone. As social security and medicare are de facto insurance policies, there are populations in the U.S. which object to them, and are not required to register, and therefore do not have SSNs. The Amish are one group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number#Non-uni...

> and which never changes for the life of the person until they die.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number#Replace... Note that one valid, accepted reason for issuing a replacement is when a duplicate has been issues.

And finally, as anyone who has ever worked in records management for a large institution that happens to receive SSN information, an SSN very explicitly is not a candidate primary key for an identifier of an individual. Everyone I've met who has tried has horror stories to tell. SSNs are not primary keys for individuals in the U.S.
This kind of feels like a test run of Modern Monetary Theory. I guess once we have a vaccine, and the full effect of all this stimulus settles, we might find out if our fears are warranted or not.
2G modem tethering to a laptop was usable. I did this all the time.
The latency is only reduced from tower to phone right?

The tower still has to ping the rest of the network to find the service you were requesting to in the first place.

If total latency ~ 500 ms, phone-to-tower is maybe 50ms of that in 4G. Even if it's down to ~1ms, total latency is only down 10%.

Not a networking expert so maybe I'm missing something here. Perhaps better use of CDNs could make this much faster?
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Maybe there are lots of different people on the site who have different opinions and what you’re seeing is not a majority agreeing on an inconsistent opinion but rather many people with different internally consistent (or even internally inconsistent) ideas.
> It’s absolutely not a government agency but also absolutely not privately owned.

The closest analogy is that it's a co-op:

> Some observers mistakenly consider the Federal Reserve to be a private entity because the Reserve Banks are organized similarly to private corporations. For instance, each of the 12 Reserve Banks operates within its own particular geographic area, or District, of the United States, and each is separately incorporated and has its own board of directors. Commercial banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System hold stock in their District's Reserve Bank. However, owning Reserve Bank stock is quite different from owning stock in a private company. The Reserve Banks are not operated for profit, and ownership of a certain amount of stock is, by law, a condition of membership in the System. In fact, the Reserve Banks are required by law to transfer net earnings to the U.S. Treasury, after providing for all necessary expenses of the Reserve Banks, legally required dividend payments, and maintaining a limited balance in a surplus fund.

* https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm
> Wow, 11 years?

As for me, if desktop software can't properly work under Linux on cheap 10-year-old laptop then this is not good enough or not optimized app at all.

> I'm not using the 2D cockpit.

Because it will drop FPS under 30 FPS, right?