skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this generally. One thing to consider is how, specifically in the case of homeless with addiction issues, how the distribution of larger amounts of money affects violent and non-violent crime within the homeless population. Especially in relation to profoundly addictive/dangerous illegal drugs. Seems like there’s pretty large opportunity for exploitation by drug dealers and opportunists, if you know the most vulnerable in your community who are already excluded from the legal system have received an influx of cash. Perhaps this only works with other changes to policy in tandem.

I don’t know enough about the issue to predict if this potential risk is significant, or outweighs the substantial benefits.
The problem is that "less accessible" for some users is "completely inaccessible" to others. That's against the intention: the goal was to make it easier to ignore, but not vanish entirely.

A higher-contrast option would solve it, but configuration always introduces new headaches. It's best when all users can be satisfied with the same display (using their own configurations, such as browser settings). Which is too bad, because the low-contrast display is a clever approach to de-emphasize poor content, but it doesn't work for all users.
Client <-> Evil Middlebox <-> Real Web Server

Client establishes a tcpcrypt session with what it thinks is Real Web Server but is actually Evil Middlebox replaying the request to the server and the response back to the client.
Robust regex builder and analyzer would be awesome. I already use some form of this in my editor but it would be cool to see it native as part of this application.
> If you can be convinced that the status quo is oppressive to racial minorities, then it serves to perpetuate white supremacy.

This is assuming white privilege is the same as white supremacy, when the term white supremacy has been used for KKK and neo-nazis groups, not mainstream white society since after the civil rights era.

It also assumes that most whites and only whites benefit from white privilege, otherwise it's not so white, and may be more a combination of class, culture and/or historical consequences. Also the fact that white people are still a majority in countries like the US, where a majority in any country likely has similar privileges just by being the majority. One last assumption (in America) is that white culture is a certain way, when in reality the US is primarily an English dominated culture historically, whereas Europe has a lot of cultural variation.

A related issue is that white supremacy is sometimes extended to considering an entire economic system as racist, just because history went a certain way. But there's nothing about an economic system that says any one particular group need benefit more than another.
If the flight-booking website offered a "sort by legroom", I'd click that. The trouble is there's no good way for me to know as a consumer which planes from which operators (and which affiliates) have which legroom, so it's not a meaningful choice I can make.

If someone would roll out such a feature, I'd use the hell out of just as soon as I feel like packing my butt into a petri-dish again.
Note that Google experimented with preventing read receipt tracking while allowing images to load, but eventually decided against it as it affected tracking data for their partners.

ProtonMail claims to be working on a solution as of 2 years ago[1] but has not yet shipped anything in this domain.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17611361 (ProtonMail employee, responding to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17610732 )
Yeah, this is super annoying, especially considering I bought an expensive flagship model.

My s8 will be my last Samsung phone unless they stop shoving ads into everything.
It’s most likely drip marketing systems at work, and no human was ever involved. They are just systems that respond to certain triggers, such as “read 3 emails without answering”.

So right now you’re hindering the algorithm of making these decisions, which leads to more generic emails. Consider it the email equivalent to blocking cookies. :)
I don't agree. I have many very interesting conversations with people that I do not agree with politically, but I respect their intelligence and point of view, and vice versa. It is vastly more realistic to have a nuanced and respectful debate in private, versus a public discussion which will inevitably devolve. If you would like proof of this, open literally any twitter thread about politics with more than a few replies.
I must agree. Princess Mononoke is the the best I watched till now.
Flexible SSL/TLS is useful as it truly does provide some of the benefits of a secure connection–it certainly prevents ISP ad injection and casual coffee shop network sniffing–but its major problem is the one you've identified, which is that it's difficult to distinguish from a "true" SSL connection. I suspect the people who are using this feature are doing so because they won't be using a secure connection at all otherwise, not because they are somehow unable to set up Let's Encrypt.
yes, why would an employer want employees who have the capability to write a book on the payroll? That's time that could be spent heads-down coding!
Can only agree. European governments lobbied to keep weak emissions tests to keep their car industries churning along (The Guardian has an annoying soft registration wall that you can bypass by clicking "I'll do it [register] later": https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/uk-franc... ).

Of course the government officials probably weighed between jobs (employed voters are happy voters, and happy voters won't vote you out) and the environment, and, well, as the saying goes "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.".
You can "tag" people with email. Lots of people use this highly effective pattern:

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Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

This message (including any attachments) is confidential and may be privileged. It may be read, copied and used only by the intended recipient. If you have received it in error please contact the sender (by return E-Mail) immediately and delete this message. Any unauthorized use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Please note that, for organisational reasons, the personal E-Mail address of the sender is not available for matters subject to a deadline.

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Ooo, and one more: Depth of features.

Software that achieves my goal in a focused manner is something i typically enjoy. I don't want it to do everything under the sun, i want it to do one or two things well.

These days, to me, a "lightweight" alternative to Dropbox would be one that focuses on filesharing with none of that other junk.
Washington emergency responders first to use SpaceX’s Starlink in the field
Off the top of my head: cameras are, and will remain, a lot more common than palm scanners.
Since I don't see anyone mentioning this yet, I want to emphasize the recommendation for open-back headphones. This is by a large margin my favorite piece of hardware for making video calls tolerable. I never deal with echo, noise cancellation, or shitty speaker output. But at the same time I can hear myself perfectly fine when I speak and I don't get the claustrophobic feeling of having the external world shut out.
Agreed re the concept of [1]. Since the link in [2] was from 2013 I was curious to see if there were any updated PR releases but couldn't find any. I did stumble across [3] which seems to be the successor which uses a 3 cylinder diesel engine as the power source

[3] https://wiki2.org/en/Siemens-FlyEco_Magnus_eFusion
You use italics for the word “billion” but JPMorgan doesn’t.
I very much believe in self-belief.

I don't have any problem, if people convert to Christianity with their self-will and knowledge.

Look at this handle, https://twitter.com/noconversion

How many kinds of deceptions are being used by Christians in order to convert native people:

Money to Defend rioters and convertions: https://twitter.com/Satyanewshi/status/1310562881469952000?s...

Backed by state government in Andhra Pradesh: https://twitter.com/Ashwinkiing/status/1310856515838865409

Deception: So native people don't know, it is some other religion, act like Hindus but convert to Christianity: https://twitter.com/noconversion/status/1310376999148494848

Fake promises of healing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyyQj1Z25eI
It think it is intellectually dishonest to cast Arya Samaj in the same category as Vedic Hinduism. Considering Hinduism's age it was an very recent revisionist reform that happened yesterday. It was nowhere close to main stream Hinduism and wasn't the only such attempt at a reform. Existence of such reforms does not take away the well entrenched nature of the caste system and how far back it goes in time.
For some reason I thought Spotify and Google were united against Apple on this issue. I guess not anymore!
This is a fantastic piece of news.
I follow news daily from various sources.
in real-time? Well, I have thoughts, but I'm not super familiar with Ardour itself, so I'm not sure if you're trying to merge during a live performance or if you're talking more of a distributed studio recording session type situation. I have working knowledge of Reason and Logic and ChucK (which I use with JACK and do some networked OSC stuff with, although I haven't touched it in a few years).

The approach we use at Jackbox for making the state of an xbox game mutable to thousands of live viewers on twitch is to have lots of little CRDT values, mostly just counters and sets of strings, and you merge the little values independently of one another, which is very different from the situation of editing a text document, which is typically structured as one big value. I wonder if, for a DAW, you could merge at the track or control level instead of the workspace level. E.g., communicate as an independent value the state of an individual fader, and communicate either states or operations on that fader and have each client merge them. In this example, the fader's state would be encoded as a PN-counter with a range condition, and you'd replicate increment and decrement options, like it was a networked rotary encoder. So every mutable thing in the DAW would be a value having operations that can be merged, instead of having a single big value representing the entire state of the DAW. My use-case is also funky because I have potentially thousands of writers writing to the same key, but only a single reader, and the reader doesn't need an update at every change, so I use state-based CRDTs, but I think most other people using CRDTs use operation-based CRDTs. Also not sure how you would mutate two separate values transactionally or if that's a thing you even need.
Key Points

* Washington’s state military, which includes its emergency response division, began using Starlink user terminals in early August to bring internet service to areas devastated by wildfires.

* “I have spent the better part of four or five hours with some satellite equipment trying to get a good [connection]. So, to me, it’s amazing,” Washington state’s emergency telecommunications leader Richard Hall told CNBC.

* Washington has used Starlink to get regions “zero day communications,” Hall said.
report them (or have your EU friends report them) so we get the case law quicker.
this is interesting... never seen anyone offer unlimited digital marketing advice at such a low flat cost.
And we might as well assume the sun rises in the west.

Saturday I saw a hospital worker (role unknown) with his mask in his hand. Not only that, but he was heading into the bathroom--a place you should be extra cautious about.

Other than that I have seen very good compliance by all medically trained people in healthcare facilities, sloppy compliance by those without medical training (receptionists etc.) I rather suspect he was not actually a medical worker despite being in the treatment area.
I don't understand.

How is it better privacy-wise to give your users' data to big tech company B from California (Cloudflare) instead of big tech company A from California (Google)?

I as your user did not consent to you giving my data to anybody in the first place. In fact I did not even want YOU to collect data on me.

Surely the privacy problem is collecting your users' data and giving it away in the first place, not who you give it to?
I always thought gmail requests the images whether you open the email or not since they moved to the image proxy in 2015 or so.
To play devils advocate I guess you could argue that Facial Recognition is passive. Finger print, and by extension palm, requires proactive participation of the user.

I.e. you choose to hand over your palm to be read, you do not make the same choice in Facial Recognition scenarios.
Do they still have trouble with the memory limits on browsers? A couple years ago I remember they couldn't handle more than 10 minutes of audio, which was the dealbreaker for me at the time.

And did they kill Cakewalk's products or just transfer ownership? I was never a user, just remember the acquisition.
>LIKE OIL LEADS TO GLOBAL WARMING...
DATA LEADS TO SOCIAL COOLING

I feel like the Venn diagram between climate change deniers and the "I have nothing to hide" crowd who doesn't care about privacy has a very large overlap.
My dad always bought used cars. He avoided chrysler. It's not like their used cars are somehow the only cheap ones.

These days I'd say the highest quality cars are definitely not the most expensive. At least in the US where it seems like the biggest luxury brands require the most maintenance and depreciate the fastest. If you want to lose the least money by depreciation, buy an unimpressive used toyota.

For that matter I can't really think of anywhere significant that the little parable applies. The way to get rich is to spend like you're poor, and save your income.
If you're going to do fixed price, you really need a proper spec, change management process and approval process defined up-front. If the project isn't large enough to justify that or the participants aren't willing to do it, going fixed price is almost inevitably going to cause problems.

On the other hand, if you do have a reasonably clear idea of what you want up front as the client, and if you do have a reasonably clear idea of what it will take to achieve that as the service provider, a fixed-price contract on reasonable terms can work to both parties' advantage. The client gets a degree of certainty from early on that they would not have with time-based pricing. The service provider assumes the risk but is better able to judge it, and can price based on the value they are offering to the client and the degree of risk involved, potentially increasing their margin considerably while still having happy clients.
I won't defend those words/actions: I don't agree with them, and they're definitely hurtful. But I don't believe that being hurtful necessarily means that you haven't made a serious attempt to understand the other persons point of view. I guess whether that is sufficient to count as empathy will depend on your definition of empathy.

My wider point though is that both sides seem to be failing to sufficiently take into the other side's perspective. The point about same-sex attraction in the second tweet you link is a good one IMO. I can't describe my sexuality without referring people's physiological attributes. Doesn't that make them socially relevant? A view on gender that completely eliminates the physical components of sex/gender is denying people's realities just as much as one that doesn't account for people's "feeling of gender".

Trans people are absolutely right that people like JK Rowling are treating them poorly. But they can't claim the moral high ground until they stop completely dismissing the viewpoints of anyone who tries to tell them that the physical aspects of sex/gender are important to them, and labelling such people as transphobic. That's not very empathetic either.
Most diesel-electric trains are not hybrids, they have no batteries and therefore always get power from the single source, the diesel engine. There have been attempts to make them hybrid by putting a car in that contains a lot of batteries for say storing power down a mountain to use going back up the next mountain rather than converting the power to heat in the dynamic braking grid. My understanding is so far it is not worth the cost or complexity for the minimal savings.

Diesel-electric is actually less efficient than a mechanical coupling at steady speed due to double conversion losses which is about 80% efficient vs high 90's for gears through standard mechanical transmission. Trains use the an electric drivetrain because they need precise traction control with huge torque to get the train moving, a mechanical transmission with torque converters, clutches and gears would be difficult to route power and wear out too easily due to the low speed lugging. Once up to cruising speed however it would be more efficient.

This is why there are no hybrid semis or even diesel electric semi's, standard mechanical transmission are more efficient and hybrids only have significant gains in stop and go traffic where as for mostly highway travel the hybrid would normally disengage and simply be dead weight in a parallel hybrid or simply a efficiency drain in a series hybrid. This is also why most hybrid cars are not series, they mechanically couple the engine to wheel for efficiency once up to speed.

Planes again would have little gains from being a hybrid as they would spend most of their time at cruise running the combustion engine and a straight mechanical connection from engine to prop is much more efficient and lighter than any electric double conversion scheme.

Electric planes might make sense because there is no double conversion or engine in the plane itself, but you still have the issue of energy density with batteries.
Wow, calm down, CydeWeys, you're scaring me. To be clear: No source, imprecise sentence, should have added a ton of buts and ifs, but that would make the question twice as long and thrice as boring. I meant it more in a philosophical way.

For example: I don't think rockets start on course with a precision of 1e-3, and even if they do, small atmospheric changes will probably cause errors greater than that. I assume the feedback loop of the guidance systems easily smooth over errors this small. So while the theoretical trajectory calculations need more precision, the real world guidance might do not.

Another consideration: Is e.g. the length of the rocket know this precise? If temperature on a day changes over a range of e.g. 10 degrees, the materials might expand and contract more than 1e-3.

Now that's NASA. There are clearly things requiring much smaller errors. My CPU litography being off a factor 1e-3 will not end well.

I meant the quest in my everyday life. If I build a round table for my home, 3.14 will probably serve me well enough on the drawing table. At what point will random Joe Shmoe notice when pi is not exactly 3.14
> there's nothing about an economic system that says anyone one particular group need benefit more than another.

Crony capitalism creates positive feedback loops where the friends of rich people benefit more than strangers to rich people.

I doesn't take a lot of analysis to see how that can re-enforce the dominance of one race in a society if there's any small amount of inequality to start(1) and people of a given race are mostly associating with others of the same race, since the positive feedback loops in capitalism are significant.

(1) And "small amount of inequality" isn't a fair assumption for the US, where one race started out owning people of the other race.
I actually ran into one of these recently. I stayed at an AirBnB which had a super-cheapy small-ish TCL+Roku TV in the living room, with a super-cheapy thin antenna thing. The internet was "acting up" (95% of packets dropped, unusable) so we tried to watch some broadcast TV. You had to either sign in with a Roku account, or as "Guest", but "Guest" had to accept a couple long EULA, and it needed internet for that to work, but the internet was fubar ... I had to use my phone as a hot-spot for the TV to get it to display broadcasts! That left the TV's wifi config such that it definitely won't work for the next person, lol ...
This is not a good experience. Very bizarre choice.
One of my teams did one-week sprints and it wasn't as you describe.

If that scenario is true, then the one-week-sprint did its job - it exposed the problems that need to be solved. That's way too heavy of a tooling/process burden.
I find it interesting that Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is developing this, as opposed to Rolls-Royce plc - the company that works more closely with aviation.
Given that it's a dynamic scripting language, I think double was the best choice they could have made. It gives serious number crunching performance, an integer range up to 2^53, and, of course, double precision floating point math. The only better choice they could have made would have been to make it static/strongly typed with various numeric types.
I have just copy pasted in only two locations.

That too only one comment.
> Ah but universal cynicism and nihilism is also a form of control. When the very idea of objective truth has been destroyed, this makes the job of authoritarians easier, not harder.

Universal cynicism and nihilism may function that way. But that was not the attitude of the person in the description. So I am not sure how that is relevant?
FP64 is not needed for deep learning.
So if they are moving this idea forward, it suggests they've succeeded at solving plasma blindness I would assume. What does "non-kinetic components' survival" mean?
Similar here, however HN doesn't fill me with dread like FB does.