skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it more or less concerning than when humans do the same?

Autonomous driving is still a relatively young beast. I don't have specific numbers infront of me, but I imagine mile for mile, autonomous vehicles are still safer than humans.
If you comply with China's laws you can operate there. These US companies just don't want to deal with that.
> Why is the US always focusing on individual companies instead of working on laws to protect them from all companies invading the privacy of their citizens? Banning one player isn't going to help much in the long run I would think.

The matter is whether "is is ok to do business with a company from a communist country for as long as you are not dealing with the state itself" vs. "it is ok to do business with a communist country in general, just not with their dangerous businesses"

Given the context of the issue, one whats to ask why now the later is fine, and the prior is not?

It also does sound, and look completely schizophrenic when the same part of political establishment vouches for both at the same time.

It feels the establishment is still very, very eager to keep doing business with China, just as much as they are eager to keep insane profits that come from the trade with China, and they will immediately run back to Beijing to bargain for concessions right after the elections.

Remember, the establishment has collectively sank legislations barring companies from dealing with labour rights abusing contractors abroad.
> He also launches supposedly self-driving passenger cars into concrete barriers.

Planes used to fall a lot in the beginning, computer hardware was once finicky and unreliable, even rockets used to blow up before they got it right. Takes time, and sometimes it takes early adopters trust to get to safety.
A tendency you say?

https://elonmusk.today/
Slack pays stingy $1,750 reward for a desktop hijack vulnerability
EU citizen also...

Why is our politics/legislation in this space derivative of the US? Isn't the point of the EU to get a large enough regulatory block to be effective at (among other things) regulating multinationals?

So far all I've seen is minor bureaucratic layers (eg gdpr) and rulings (eg the adwords antitrust case) that change nothing meaningful. I don't even know who to complain to.
Cynical answer: This is about creating chaos and allowing some buyer to get a really good deal. The hoped outcome is that that buyer will support trumps re-election and the headlines about china will rally support but that the damage won't be enough to cause China to act back.

Less cynical answer: wider action would require congress to be involved and congress is permanently gridlocked
...by governments motivated to have launchable nuclear weapons, not by private citizens creating profitable companies through venture capital. Reusable rockets put his companies work way ahead of government rocketry capabilities.
You obviously do own your own content. But you usually do not own the platform used to publish it.

I think that's the main distinction that is often overlooked and, indeed, what makes having an independent copy very important.
> That's the first time I've heard this theory.

More than just a theory. When we were clearing out my grandparents’ house we found a pamphlet (I think it was Civil Defence, but it could have been a different agency) which was basically the paper equivalent of a government-issued FAQ about nuclear war. From my own 2020 knowledge of what they knew then, it was remarkably good stuff, written for a general audience. I remember reading it and thinking that the mockery we have for ‘Duck & Cover’ really isn’t fair, at least with respect to this pamphlet: it didn’t claim that a desk would protect at ground zero, but did (correctly) note that the harmful effects of a bomb decrease over distance. I think it was from late-40s to early-50s.

I recall that one of its points was that tightly-packed cities had been susceptible to the conventional bombing campaigns of the Second World War and would be even more susceptible to nuclear bombs, and consequently it made sense to spread cities out.

> if the USSR already managed to evade the defenses and other obstacles and destroy the city center in a nuclear strike, it wouldn't be a lot of additional effort to send multiple rockets instead of only one and also target the suburbs.

Well, it would be superlinear: if you imagine a hex grid of blast radii, the centre radius is one, the inner ring is six (cumulative seven); the next ring is is twelve (cumulative 19); the next ring is 24 (cumulative 43), and so on. 1:7, 7:19, 19:43 — it adds up!
Sort of like a Smart watch?
If you are syncing your databases with friends and colleagues, then there are multiple places to hack.
>But that didn’t stop me from getting hyped up to the point of forgetting that Musk is a con-artist at worst and just some dude with a bunch of money and charisma at best.

Seems a bit harsh.
Uh, no, you don't ever overwrite a release. You build new versions, test them, deploy them, and if you find a bug along the way, you roll back. You can pin versions of base images and update them when they have security patches, or you can rebuild a base yourself and patch it yourself.

This isn't containerization best practice, this is just plain old Ops best practice that we've been doing for decades. The new part is doing it with containers and building immutable images rather than continuously muting state.
Eclipse thea is a wrapper On Vscode for users who want to build upon it.
> It got featured on BetaList and Product Hunt.

A little detail here is that BetaList just happens to be OP's other project.
Countries blocking companies from operating on national security grounds is hardly new in the US or anywhere really.

It might be the first US mobile app however I will grant you that.
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boolean grouping sounds neat, thanks!
It's truly appalling that many small company start out with good intentions then sell out as soon as they get larger, not only that but usually to a government or other nefarious actor who uses the company for surveillance or other evils.
so I spill hot coffee on my laptop and brick it I lose my entire Facebook history? Not seeing it really.

Centralised _is_ what consumers want, without an generalised and public IT infrastructure for users to handle backups, which we don't have.
Im no fan of banning an app just because it’s from another country but

> As a company we have always focused on transparency

Isn’t something you can say when the only way to see something is from an “algorithm” curated feed. Facebook says the same thing and it’s always really upsetting.
Thoughts on Starting Politcal Fundraising
As you say, Musk has been claiming self-driving is 6 months away for years now, yet whenever a crash happens they claim drivers must keep full attention. How is that not the definition of a con-man?
This is the new Coke of programming languages
One small (but major) nuance: the 80/20 rule applies specifically to the _insurance_ business.

So what's another way to increase profits in addition to letting care spending keep creeping up? Add non-insurance lines of business to the company, i.e. vertically integrate by acquiring some of the middle men you're paying.

Insurers snatching up PBMs[1] (or in some cases, PBMs snatching up insurers) is one insidious example. For those unfamiliar, PBMs are the companies that manage your prescription benefits. Insurers negotiate a predictable rate card with the PBM for the drugs on their formulary, insulating the insurer from market and regional pricing volatility. The PBM then negotiates with all the various pharmacies on actual prices. So when you purchase a prescription:

1. You pay your share (a fixed copay for many plans)
2. If the price the PBM negotiated was more than your copay, the PBM pays the pharmacy the difference
3. The insurer then pays the PBM whatever pre-negotiated rate they have for that prescription

With the PBM deriving their revenue/profit from the spread they're able to generate in the process[2]. But when the insurer and PBM are one-in-the-same, that spread is really just an inter-company accounting transfer that ultimately rolls up to the same P&L. But it's a _magical_ inter-company transfer, as the insurer side of the books count it as a medical cost (part of the 80% spending requirement) and the PBM side of the books (that show it as revenue) aren't subject to the 80/20 requirements. And best of all, the insurers spent so many years letting cost inflation run rampant[3] that such egregious slight-of-hand easily passes the arms length test for transfer pricing[4].

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/01/mergers-health-insurers-...

[2] They also have other revenue streams, such as squeezing rebates out of drug manufacturers as well. But the simplified scenario above covers the gist of things, and illustrates the primary conflict of interest involved.

[3] As [1] mentioned with the CVS/Aetna example, PBMs can be far more profitable than insurers. CVS generated 2.5x more profit than Aetna when they merged.

[4] https://blog.freedmaxick.com/summing-it-up/got-intercompany-...
Thing is, humanity (or whatever comes next) will need a way to survive the death of its sun.

Yes we take the risk of stumbling on something so alien that it wouldn't perceive us as worthy of preserving, or that their means of communication could destroy us, but given the alternative is extinction anyway, it's worth a try.

And let's say we're long gone and no other specie picks up where we left off, at least we give a fighting chance to the other species of our planet to get rescued by something else.
> how on earth are you going to think of ANY elephant, let alone my elephant?

Both brains sensors are calibrated on the same images, then a common representation can be found as intermediary. It has been done with neural nets translating into a common intermediary language, thus needing N encoders/decoders instead of (N-1)^2 separate networks. In the easiest case it can be a simple linear transform to map one vector space into another.
It’s probably too late but a good argument for drastically lowering federal taxes is that then states would be forced to raise local taxes as the federal government wouldn’t subsidize as much.

I feel like in today’s climate that both sides would find common ground in this as you often here republicans wanting less federal authority and democrats complaining their states pay most of the taxes that get redistributed to generally republican states.
In this case, it's probably more about the president acting like a "Big Man" and being "tough on China" than actual concern for it's citizens.
I agree, for me it is hard to understand reasons behind it's state - level of stubbornness is almost irrational, it's like project maintainers took some kind of secret oath to never ever surrender and bow to those pesky users demands.
Hm, yes "cleaned up" content for advertisers would fall exactly into that category. I think he should prefer platforms where advertisers cannot make editorial decisions. This should be clearly communicated to users, so that animosity from controversial topics is not directed at advertisers.
That blog is barely readable on my retina display. Font color #373737 font-weight 300, size 15px? Why?
In the APIs of tomorrow clients should ask servers to prepare operations without executing them. Servers should return ids which clients may embed within follow up operations, effectively allowing a client to construct a complex request out of simple operations and combinators.

Eventually the client will ask the server to evaluate the request and produce a result.

This lazy style of execution is what effect systems like https://zio.dev support where a program constructs an effect which is executed later by the runtime.

I've attempted building this sort of effect-based API over protocols like ReST a few times without much success. The biggest problem isn't technical. The hardest problem is convincing coworkers and api consumers of the value of this approach.
Literally any change in your system can break. It matters what you do once it breaks, and what I describe makes the whole thing much more repeatable and easier to recover from.

Docker containers builds are extremely repeatable. You run some software called Artifactory, which keeps the built versions of your artifacts, including base image tags. You store your applications in there, as well as the Docker containers that you built. If you need to go back a version, you pull it out of Artifactory. This is industry standard at this point.
A memory expert shares tips for improving your recall abilities
This article is completely wrong and celebrates ignorance.
Why is this article even being shared on HN let alone end up on the front page within minutes of posting? Anyone with the slightest understanding of this topic can poke holes in every single sentence in this ridiculously uninformed article. I stopped reading half way as it was making me dumber. HN can be so demoralizing sometimes. You'd think this would be the last place to find innovators being smeared but here we are...
I believe, after some conflict with the community, the original author divested himself of all his F/OSS projects. This resulted in pipenv being donated to the pypa GitHub org. Since then, the project appears to be seeing sporadic development through community contributions.
I think Twitter is okay with people using the word "tweet" as it doesn't imply affiliation with the Twitter company, but still clearly communicates that it's related to their service.

Fun side-note: I actually had another service called "EmbedTweet" back in the day when Twitter didn't have their own embed functionality (yes, that was a long time ago). They listed my service on of their official help pages.

So yeah combined with the fact there are so many "tweet"-based names, I think you're safe using that term. Oh, and when creating an app in their Developers portal the require you to enter a name, and they don't flag "tweet" but I think they do flag "Twitter".
The Swedish tax system allow both models and it up to the stock owner which type they choose (chosen when creating the "stock account" at the bank). You either pay income tax when a stock is sold, or you pay the same income tax on the value of the stocks based on a fixed predetermined estimate on how much stocks is expected to increase in value (based on the rate for the government debt and then added 1%).

Each model has benefits and drawbacks for both the government and the tax paying citizen, and both works. Taxing wealth directly has the benefit that it gives the government a more even and predictable taxation each year, and the citizen benefit by gaining any additional profits that is above the rate for the government debt+1%. The downside is that the government may not get as much tax as it could as the yearly stock value increase tend to be a bit above that predetermined value, and citizens may loose out a bit more when there is a significant crash.

The benefit of taxing only when people sell stocks is that the government get the whole income tax, and the citizen do not have to pay any tax if they don't have any profits. However it seems that most people are going with option 1 since people tend to expect that stocks will go up in value when they invest in stocks. Currently, that predetermined tax is (0.51+1)*0.3 or 0.453% per year of the total stock value.
How to Use Google API Vision for OCR (Python Notebooks Included)
It is what intersectionality and "social justice" is continuously trying to teach in the US school system these days.
No. When you have to maintain the infrastructure you're a slave. Freedom is when I pay somebody to do it for me and move it elsewhere if I don't like it.

I'm also tired of the trend of recommending FOSS when somebody is looking for a service. For personal solutions it works only if you are valuing your time really low or if you are having a lot of fun playing with it.

Frankly, if you think setting up your own FOSS is often a good solution you haven't listened to your advice enough times. It works if you have a few things. But if you try to do it with everything you will just give up after a few years and 50 things set up this way, or you will spend considerate amount of time on maintenance (which is fine as long that's what you want to do with your life).
Nessie – Lightweight Web Browser
As 1984 put it ‘oceania has always been at war with eurasia’ edit: eastasia.

Country’s have complex relationships. At the height of the Cold War the US and USSR still had some trade. It’s really propaganda that boils things down to allies and enemies.
Good point, though people with pacemakers and people with smartwatches don't overlap very well.
You can create virtualenvs that can "see" system-installed Python modules, so this strategy does in fact work. System modules can be used as dependencies for non-system applications with this.
Yes, I realized that. I probably misunderstood the user who reported this.
Why is it the job of app developers to do this? Also why can’t apps display lewd content? None of this makes sense.
Cowards love cowardly licenses like BSD, MIT, ISC, and the like.
Keep in mind that it's not just about a Chinese entity. They employ a lot of people directly, and all those 'influencers' on TikTok also make their livelihoods from their TikTok work. Not all could easily migrate to other platforms.

This is akin to banning YouTube. You're not just banning the company. There's a whole community, of content consumers and creators with jobs, behind it.
What do you think Musk’s company relied on for their space program? The novel aspects of that company are a tiny blip on all the government-funded research incorporated into its launch and vehicle systems.

Saying a private company put that vehicle in space is technically true but also at the same time highly misleading.
That is a weird way to say "your concerns were entirely correct". Every single proprietary mobile graphics driver uses LLVM for its shader compiler and the lack of copyleft has severely curtailed progress on open-source drivers.

Of course none of it goes back to LLVM because updating your production copy of LLVM is just as messy and broken as the non-stable GCC IR you complain about and the fact that OSS development is still fundamentally incompatible with 1-year industry release schedules that shift all the time.
ye but be realistic. If you're just one dude that has no experience in creating operating systems then you shouldn't seriously try to write one from scratch.

For giggles, sure go into the project with the idea that it will fail, that's not an issue. However if you're serious then what the poster is saying is that its over a lifetime's worth of work.
Plus the horrible quality of of the cars too.
Not sure why you are bringing up the 1st Amendment.

Operating a social network app is not a protected form of free speech.
The silliness in the statement about being "obligated" to the TikTok community.... It's contradictory, just like all ToS would be. Compare:

Public Relations Statement:
"Put simply, we have a thriving community and we are grateful – and responsible – to them."

With:
Terms of Service[1] ( hilariously, TikTok provides a read time estimate on the ToS of "279 - 354 minutes"):

We reserve the right to disable your user account at any time ... in our sole discretion ....

We reserve the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable access to content at our discretion for ... no reason.

You further acknowledge that ... you (i) have no right to receive any income or other consideration from any User Content ... including in any User Content created by you, and (ii) are prohibited from exercising any rights to monetize or obtain consideration from any User Content within the Services or on any third party service ( e.g. , you cannot claim User Content that has been uploaded to a social media platform such as YouTube for monetization).

By posting User Content ... you waive ... any and all rights of privacy, publicity, or any other rights of a similar nature in connection with your User Content.... [Y]ou hereby waive and agree never to assert any and all moral rights ... with respect to any User Content you Post to or through the Services.

I'm sure there's more, but the point is, as far as legal obligation goes, users are the junior partner for sure, and it's pretty silly to claim TikTok is "responsible" to the community for much of anything, as a result of the ToS and other behind the scenes manuvering.

[1] https://www.tiktok.com/legal/terms-of-use?lang=en
@ayewo nails it. See her/his answer.

I just want to add that while it might be possible for you and me to "build this in a weekend" (although in reality it always takes longer considering all the edge cases), for other businesses it might be cheaper than just buying an existing app. They know what they are getting versus hiring a freelance developer, writing a spec, managing them, etc, etc.
I suspect this has to be more to do with particular things said on these episodes that may make Spotify legally liable, rather than a blacklist of people. Eddie Bravo and Joey Diaz have been on tons of episodes other than the ones listed. I can't even imagine JRE without Joey as a regular.

Some people strike me as particularly odd for blacklisting: Louis Theroux, Brian Dunning and Rickson Gracie must be politically uncontroversial, unless I'm missing something.
you forgot to mention that china has hacked google. "In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google" [1]

[1] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...
I assume the poster meant "Debian packaging", but yes. Debian and Ubuntu remove venv support along with distutils from the standard library by default.
Interesting - how does that come about? Do such students flock to that school?
Exactly - Houston probably needs that interchange with their big population.

And not so for a city of 50K like Siena, right?

The whole thing is pointless, that's my point.
The US government benefits from corporate invasion of individual privacy because it can and does coerce corporations to share their information with the government.

The issue at hand is not invasion of privacy, but rather the state's monopoly thereof versus its foreign adversaries.
Innovations demonstrated:

- Coin-sized brain implant, flush with skull, no external wires.

- 1024 channels EEG

- Electrode insertion with minimal brain-matter loss

- Analysis and prediction of brain-activity (node-beep and motion joint positions)
Ironically, distutils is able to produce RPMs, and setuptools dropped that...
Really, a link to a reddit thread? Can't we get something resembling journalism instead of ranting fanboys spreading rumors.

I recognize few people on that list but I can see why Spotify wouldn't want the headache with advertisers over Alex Jones, Milo Y and Gavin Mcinnes. Rogan chose this when he went exclusive with Spotify.
[0][1]

* Change in opinion on a given topic by the intruder group paid off by some government/megacorp/group. i.e., voter/social mindspace on demand.

- Change of opinion of critical lynch-pin individuals.

* 'Drone' soldiers made of disposable 'bodies'

* Personality graft

* Surveillance

- Thought Policing

- (Corporate) Espionage

* Remote Kill switch

etc...

[0] Science Fiction

[1] Ghost in the Shell
If you don't at least tolerate data cleaning, you should find a different job than data scientist.

I would have expected the researchy people to be better at it, as often you'll need to collect and analyse your own data during grad programs, and thus have some experience.
The mountains where manna flows from trees
That's a fair point. Having an established network and reputation definitely goes a long way.

I wouldn't rule our selling a side project if you don't have the net work though. These days there are more and more platforms popping up to help you do that.

Some that come to mind:

https://microacquire.com
https://www.flippa.com