skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was thinking the same. I wonder if there is a market selling "ready to move in" identities
I did read the entire article, which documented a pattern of back and forth communal violence stretching back decades. My point was that it's odd to focus on the one wave of refugees and ignore the others. Reparations for historical wrongs shouldn't be restricted to just one group.
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The statement was about "not requiring scale" to be viable - not about scaling itself. Scaling is fine - "having to scale" before the money runs out is not.
I couldn't understand why one type of cistern would waste more water than another.

This point from the article which comes further down in the page explains -

>> The majority of them use the drop valve system, which sits at the bottom of the cistern and opens to allow the water to flow out when the flush is pressed. Debris and other issues can cause the mechanism to fail to close, meaning water continually flows from the cistern and into the bowl.

>> Older cisterns tend to use a siphon system, which works by pushing water upwards until it reaches a point at which it can flow into the bowl. Because that point is above the waterline when the toilet is not being flushed, the system is less likely to develop the same sort of leak.
It takes years and years of training in advanced dialectic bullshit to get to the point where you can say, with a straight face, that math is morally wrong. It's utterly absurd to demand that we censor models and worsen their output to conform to some activist's idealized imagine of how the world should be. Only by letting models report the true facts of the world as it is can we optimize for human happiness.
That one really rings false. Minority opinion holders are gathering online in record numbers. I'm thinking in particular of the nut jobs like anti-vaxxers and flat earthers, but also fan bases for obscure culture (reddit saved The Expanse) or the support for non mainstream political figures like Ron Paul or Andrew Yang. If anything, their ability to brigade online forums makes them seem far more prevalent than they really are.
Don't worry, they'll make sure you agreed to it on page 193 of the 365 page ToS that you didn't read but agreed to anyway when you turned the TV on the first time.
Berlin to Frankfurt is also 4 (ICE) to 7 (IC) hours, and has a bunch of trains every day, and in my experience (pre-Covid) was usually pretty full when I took it.

Lots of countries have good rail service that people actively choose over cars or planes between major cities. I find it maddening that my own country can't bring itself to really want that.
Budgetwise this is not feasible without raising taxes across the board.

We already have safety nets in place to aid people. EBT, WIC, Medi-Cal, Lifeline phones, discounted/free home internet. I’m not sure what giving money to someone does. I would use it buy crap that doesn’t make me better off which is supposed to be the point of the program.

In my 20s and 30s, being wise with money was not my strong point. Giving me free cash every month wouldn’t help me but aid me. I probably would buy cigarettes, alcohol, and gas. How does that help me better in life?
I would probably recommend using Workers KV for a tinyurl clone. Consistency is not important for this use case.
> True statement, but what does that metaphor-analogy have to do with server side JavaScript runtimes

Seems pretty self-evident that there are more considerations than "literally the fastest" to be made when the decision is "how do I get from point A to point B", or in this case "how do I execute my javascript". Vehicles and runtimes can be considered fast [enough] regardless of the existence of faster options.

Also, QuickJS is not a "server-side JavaScript runtime". Not all programming is web development.

> Given Fabrice Bellards other projects, I wouldn't be surprised if a JIT landed in QuickJS.

Personally I would be pretty surprised considering that the aim of the project seems in part to be as small as possible.
It's gained a lot of attention. Is there any real evidence that it's gained traction?
I think you're talking about two different systems and two different problems. First, there's the core service code, the AI system in Python you're talking about. Then, there's the web platform or service that you monetize. But there's no reason why you wouldn't just use both.

Write the core AI code in Python because that's what's practical to do. Write the app code in JS because that's what's practical to do. Sell the product to customers that want to use it and probably don't care what's underneath.
You must be an NDTV viewer so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDTV
Developers still have to store application specific data on their own!
> I've banged my head against the wall many times trying to figure out which line in my 500 line YAML document is not indented correctly.

How are tags or brackets better here? The "urgh, where's the missing bracket!?" problem has been with us for decades and it's not likely to go away until we move from text editors to structured editors. At least you don't have the problem of misleading looking indentation when the indentation itself is the single source of truth.
I don't think that would really fly. You may get served a higher class of ads, but if you go apply for a loan or a job, you still have to disclose your real self.
On phones, Symbian and Blackberry were about as open as Android is currently (though signing apps was partially required IIRC). iOS/iPhones has always been closed except for the web browser.

I think there are completely valid cases for having a locked down phone, but it should be up to the user, not the device/OS maker. In this case, I don't think a phone developer can negotiate fair terms until the users have choice.

Single purpose locked-down devices are all around us from ereaders to TV streaming boxes to game consoles, and here I think it's important to distinguish by purpose from the more general purpose of a phone.
That is my number one pissing point right now in higher education.

Every company has a predictive algorithm to use on students. Every startup that's stepping into the space is pushing the data and data scientists.

But they all have the same-old, usually decades old, baked in biases. AND they're not doing anything to address it!

Just because it's math doesn't mean it's not biased. I hate it more than anything professionally, right now.
Yeah. I HAVE done major auto repair in an apartment complexes parking lot, but a lot of buildings do not tolerate that sort of thing.

I have also done an oil change in the parking lot of a local auto parts store, and they were totally cool with it.

$140/day seems steep but kudos for taking the initiative.
The only time I've found the train beneficial for me is rural/suburban -> urban travel, where the train ride itself is about 3 hours. I live in the middle of nowhere and have gone to NYC via train many times. The train is about 20 minutes longer than driving, I don't have to drive in NYC, and I can park at the rural train station for $5/day. Now granted that could very easily go out the window if there are strict time constraints around when I can travel, and I end up driving because I can leave when I need to, and it's actually faster.

Agreed though that car or plane beats train 99% of the time.
My job overlaps with microwave and millimeter wave RF engineering somewhat. R&S also has no qualms about selling high-end spectrum analysis equipment to authoritarian regimes. Probably done through middlemen. For instance, you can find the Iranian government using their equipment in Tehran to hunt down things they don't like.

To be fair, there's probably less than ten manufacturers of their category of spectrum analysis gear (for commercial/non-military use) in the world, and their stuff is top quality.
i actually use fragmented mp4 streams as a method to live stream video directly to a browsers video tag. I can point any common browser directly to that stream and it will start playing immediately... ive written a small utility to proxy requests to an RTMP server and repackage the stream for HTTP clients using just a little bit of overhead.
How do you know it was a trivial demonstration? As far as I've seen the details of how Epic did it aren't known.
I would caution against such statement “this is just shopping”.

Social media also used to be underestimated in the damage they can do. Privacy information brokers are like an Hydra, you cut one head, 3 new ones grow... and before you know it, your biometrics, bed time conversations, source of news, children habits... are up for sell because someone thought “it’s just X“ and underestimated what someone else can do with all the data they collected.

I believe we need to change our optimistic attitude when it comes to individual privacy as we are nothing if not seeding the world of tomorrow, the world of the generations to come.
I tend to use phones that let me turn off all the notifications from a central part.

I only check email a few times a day.

Time and focus are too valuable to be wasted on social media and distractions.
> It's partly the reason why these screens rarely hit above 400nits of brightness

Can you give a use case for brighter displays? I usually keep my Macbooks at 3-5 bars of brightness. The only time I turn them up higher than half is when I'm in direct sunlight.
I agree. Even though he was extremely controversial, and though I can see why HN banned him, and I disagree with his views, I don't regret reading his comments, they were thought-provoking.
Where and when did this govt deny education? Do you have any evidence or are you just grappling with straws here?
Don't get out much, eh?
Uhh what? How is the US buying goods/services from India infringing on their sovereignty?
That doesn't sound right. You do need an iCloud account to enable some functionality, for example to enable seamlessly switching AirPods between different Apple devices.
I am looking for a small non-smart TV for a workout area in my home. My last TV purchase was around 2010.

The options seem very limited. I may end up using a computer monitor with a streaming box and or a tv tumer card on an old computer. I already have a good OTA signal from an outdoor antenna that is used by the main TV in the house and can easily run a splitter.

Any low cost recommendations?
Inflation has two definitions. There's monetary inflation and price inflation. The former refers to an expansion in the money supply. If you fund any social program purely out of tax revenue, then there is no monetary expansion.

But monetary inflation itself doesn't necessarily lead to price inflation. If you have a quickly growing population, but a money supply that is growing slowly, then you would need faster monetary expansion simply to maintain price stability.

Price inflation is what people really care about. But it is also not just one uniform thing. We know that healthcare, land rent, and education are what have been rising in the US over many decades, while things like food, clothing, electronics, energy, and raw materials have been pretty flat or even decreasing in price.

The distinguishing factor is that the former tend to have both inelastic supply and inelastic demand, while the latter category has elasticity in both. What this means is that the former category is characterized by economic rents more than supply costs. Easy monetary policies may inflate bubbles in these targeted areas, but the fact that it is so localized gives a clue as to the real cause: economic rent-seeking and landlordism. Pre-capitalistic and parasitical sorts of business models, often relying on the government to create artificial scarcity. If this stuff happens in essential industries then it also means the demand is inelastic, and we're forced to eat the higher prices, which are whatever they think the consumers can afford.

All of this means that without tackling the economic rents, such as by raising tax revenues that target them, then we cannot solve this problem. And if people can afford more, the economic rents will increase. For instance, via a basic income that is not funded out of economic rent. But if it were funded out of rent, then it would be fine. Taxes that are placed upon economic rents have a curious property where they cannot be passed onto anyone else. Zero deadweight loss.
No evidence? Every release it gets slightly more difficult to download apps from non apple sources. If you download an app you need to know to go to the security panel, log in, and then click allow. It's only to get more difficult. Apple has so much to gain by pushing osx to be more like ios.
I'm admittedly skeptical of MMT, but turning that argument around, IF it were true that the US can never run out of money, then why worry at all about the cost of things? Why not just print 100% of the money to provide 100% of the things people want?

WRT providing homeless with housing and birth control specifically, I think a very strong argument can be made that a government agency is not the best provider of that service. Why wait for a slow, inefficient bureaucracy to waste a bunch of the money and time on admin costs? Every athlete and actress telling us from their multi-million-dollar homes we need to help the homeless could pool their excess money in a non-profit trust and just do it. They would help way more people with way less effort. People unable to do so need not be coerced through the tax system into participating in a less efficient program.
This is a similar argument lawyers made.

And the judge explicitly disagreed.
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That was the plan. Got to get the 220v run done first though. :-) Or find a cheap generator that will do 220.
Algorithm Spots Covid-19 Cases from Eye Images
precedent is law in a common law system such as our own.
Absolutely. Can I have a few minutes before I come to your office in order to come up with a list of things I least like when I see an ad? This is a great opportunity to increase engagement from the likes of me by considering what improvement can be made in your ad campaign.
The Customer and Boring Tech
The penalties on cargo timing are pretty severe. If that cargo train is supposed to be somewhere to load / unload, it really is a problem if it doesn't arrive on time and costs the railroads money they do not want to pay. Cargo, as many SV startups have discovered, is much more profitable than passenger.
They should drop the buzzwords and call it what it is: A mobile app for creating music with other people.

I've used the iOS version and as a collaboration platform it works well. My garage project turned to it during lockdown and it was pretty amazing what you could do when it came to making demo versions of songs even without specialized interfaces ... I literally placed my phone on a chair with the mic facing the bass amp to record my take over the existing drum and guitar tracks. That sounded good enough to me, but one of the other members was able to extract all of the tracks including vocals into some other app and do an amazing job on the next mix.

For recording ideas, I have found it and similar apps like GarageBand less useful as they're loop-based and that's not how I approach writing music.
Writing a book: is it worth it?
>There's massive wealth in the US, and it could absolutely subsidize a different kind of education which is intended to produce an educated and informed citizenry.

No. It couldn't. You certainly could make a 4-year degrees ostensibly an extension of high-school - where the school is fully paid for - and some countries do do that. There's still opportunity cost of not earning an income for those 4 years. There's no getting around that.

>One could also imagine a hypothetical culture that does not prioritize earnings so highly, and could value other attributes of service or community more highly than earning high incomes, but let's not get too crazy here...

Plenty of people do that already. In fact, most people balance out income with other life goals whether it's through career choices, deciding to stay home and raise kids, or even deciding to stay in some city because your entire family is there. So I don't know what you mean by a "hypothetical culture that does not prioritize earnings so highly", everyone already makes those considerations and though income is important, for most people it is not the most important thing.

>At the highest tier, the expensive schools protect the oligarchy by keeping their children in different social spheres than the rest of the population. At the level of state schools, it's a zero sum game that people feel forced to enter because their ability to make a living is otherwise severely impaired.

I don't agree with that characterization at all. For one thing, state schools provide quality education (that is as good as any high-priced ivy league school). I'm not sure what the zero sum game you're referring to is. Many people do see university as a vocational institution and what's wrong with that? Making Nobody is forcing anybody to do anything, and most people are excited about becoming teachers, or software developers, lawyers, nurses or architects.
Aaaaand this is why I buy gold. Eventually your USD will be toilet paper. None of these stimulus measures is being funded by real economic growth, its just "printed". In the end the poor will have as many dollars as they want...problem is, no one will want to accept them.
Okay, reply was long. tl;dr, just watch this video: https://conf.tube/videos/watch/18aa2f92-36cc-4424-9a4f-6f2de...

Hi! Spritely's main author here. Spritely is taking on quite a few things, so it's understandable that it might not be completely clear what from the tagline.

Here's the short version: we'd like to bring better security, privacy, and rich interactions to the federated social web. I was one of the co-authors of the ActivityPub standard so I have some strong opinions about what it's capable of that isn't happening yet.

If you want a friendly, semi-visual overview, here's a video I just recorded for the ActivityPub conference: https://conf.tube/videos/watch/18aa2f92-36cc-4424-9a4f-6f2de...

It goes over (most of) the layers in a fairly friendly way.

Within all the subprojects listed, the most ambitious is the Fantasary one, which is distributed virtual worlds. Not as out there as it sounds, such a thing was built in the mid/late 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNiePoNiyvE

But in the dot-com crash, went up in flames. However many of the ideas were carried forward by the object capability community, particularly the E language, on which Spritely Goblins is heavily influenced: http://www.erights.org/

The distributed games goal then becomes a driver for the other components, so even if that fails we should hopefully still get cool stuff. Spritely Goblins, the foundational layer, already exists and has support for such features as time travel debugging: https://dustycloud.org/blog/goblins-time-travel-micropreview...

and distributed networked programming, safe to run in a hostile network... here's a chat program where the "protocol" authenticates the users joining the channel and also that the messages came from them, with the chatroom and user "protocol" both written in 250 lines of code combined... and without being planned at all for networked interaction, it just worked over the network... here's a gif of it working over Tor Onion Services: https://dustycloud.org/misc/goblins-chat-captp-onion-service...

No code was added to the "protocol" to expect network interactions; Goblins' CapTP (Capability Transport Protocol) took care of that for us.

Already that should sound pretty cool, but that's just the foundation for the system. Look at the other subprojects to see where we're going from there.

Happy to answer questions if anyone has them!
I bought an LG OLED Wallpaper signage display; it wasn't cheap, or easy to get, but it makes a fantastic TV, with no "apps" or "ads", just one HDMI input for an Apple TV (which I run through a Denon HEOS A/V receiver). 1080p, not 4K, but I'm 55 and couldn't see those pixels from 10 feet anyway ツ It doesn't have CEC, but it does wake on signal. Well worth the cost and trouble.
All well and good, but are these kind of 'middleboxes' unequivocally unethical? For example, some ISPs might want to block highly illegal content - let's use the typical examples, e.g. child porn sites, malware domains, and so on. It's not inherently unethical (or, at least, there are plenty of reasonable people who would say it is ethical) to install a middlebox that will make it more difficult for users to access these sites.

So now your company has got a content blocker installed. What exactly are your network engineers meant to do now? Demand personal refusal over any additions to the sites that these boxes will block? That seems highly unlikely to happen, and how could that even work in practice? Are all the engineers meant to vote on blocks, and only those unopposed sites get added to the list?

Can ethical network engineers usefully oppose content blocking?
Yeah, social media profiles are bought and sold like commodities daily. Look for "bots" in the news for examples.
It's actually an arborescence which is a kind of directed acyclic graph (it's a directed graph in which there is exactly one directed path from the root to any of its children).
I'm sorry, but you make it sound very trivial to create an OS. I don't think there's a level playing field there.
I had a top post a few years ago and I think in total I had around ~60k visitors over a couple days. Have a bunch of screenshots lying around somewhere for a blog post that I never ended up writing.
There are probably too many people commenting about Assange for them to do that, although ironically if enough people assume without evidence that they'll get swatted for talking about assange, then that will no longer be true.
You can't stop data collection, people will just do it in secret.
Afzal Guru was hanged for much less.

Letting article 370 reform go unchallenged would be one example.

It was an opportunistic edge case that allowed the federal body to decide on a state matter because the state government was temporarily missing and a caretaker government was in charge.

Court chose to look the other way.

One can arguesuch opportunism is legal as far as the letter of the law is concerned. It is common on legal proceedings for the spirit of the law to be upheld rather than the letter, except for business/commercial contracts.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.DEB.2.21.2007101521290.4...
Also even then, I don't expect people to understand just from hearing me explain about it in words. Seeing is believing, and this is why Spritely is taking a "demo-centric" approach. More thoughts on that here: https://dustycloud.org/blog/if-you-cant-tell-people-anything...
Now I'm curious. Is that Microsoft Office with embedded documents (e.g. a powerpoint presentation with a word document embedded)? I've never looked at how the pptx format contains the docx format internally.
> Just because it's math doesn't mean it's not biased.

When a model produces an unpalatable result, that doesn't mean it is biased. All these algorithmic fairness people are saying, once you peel back the layers of rhetorical obfuscation, is that we should make ML models lie. Lying helps nobody in the long run.
> I try to have my world view serve me and end up much happier and actually much more effective in the long run.

Easy to say when you're a millionaire that never has to work again