skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For the same price you can get a nice DSLR and the iPhone SE 2.

DSLR vs. iPhone is apples and oranges. Two devices with completely different use cases.

If your primary goal is to buy a no-compromise device for photography, obviously you should get a full size camera.

But 99% of the time, you're going to have an iPhone in your pocket and no camera on hand. That's why it's great to have an excellent camera in your phone. You can always augment with a DSLR for special occasions, but it's not like a DSLR and iPhone are interchangeable.
Stoped reading after the author made an equivalent comparison between NYT and Brietbart...I mean, you're not fooling anyone with the "un-biased, unaffiliated voter just searching for the truth" shtick. It's 2020 buddy, we see what you're doing.
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Indeed!

Yet, while I lack any deep understanding why they would re-emerge, paleontology seems to show a long history of mass extinctions down to very low levels, then re-emergence of more complex forms.

One theory that I read of a few years back posited that life, and higher forms in particular, are more efficient at increasing entropy, i.e., diffusing heat, and so are systemically favored (seen nothing on it in a few years, so no idea of its current state; if anyone recognizes it and can provide a link, thanks in advance!).
Twitter shouldn't decide for me what I may or may not read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...
>That to me is an extremely damning view of the common person.

But fake news has been spreading a lot, while maybe not in your circles it does still happen. And retraction or an apology article will not be spread as widely due to the fact that a lot of fake news is specifically inflammatory to be spread quickly and widely.
The 12 Pro does Night Mode on all three lenses. The 11 Pro only does it on the "regular" wide.

The 12 Pro's "regular" wide also has a larger aperture to improve low light capture, so Night Mode can stack fewer / shorter exposures for the final image.
It's really a special place in the internet.
People don't like information that contradicts their convictions. You question the "narrative" and they get upset. Somehow epidemiology became a political question I guess in the us.
I've been wondering if the combination of remote work and self-driving cars will counteract the increasing surveillance of urban centers. Does suburbanization/sprawl make surveillance too expensive to be practical?
Do you get to know, at the end of trial, in which group you were?
If you abandon something you have no expectation of privacy. It's why both the FBI and private investigators can go through your garbage.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/public%20square
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> I do not think that we host the kind of data that a hacker would like to acquire

Please don't minimize this. You lose trust when you minimize a valid concern.

> Risk 0 does not exist

If someone is willing to educate you on the matter, they might already know such trivial things. Which is why I initially said 'what are you doing to minimize this'. You mentioned some above. I'd encourage you to look into more techniques to minimize it even further. This would build trust with whom you are asking to spend money with you.
Can you say more about how this violates 230? That wasn’t my understanding of how the law works, but I could be wrong.
I don't know much about far infrared, but the 6-7mm penetration in this paper seems deeper than the ~4mm penetration I recall reading about for UCNP-NIR.
I mean, CNN and WaPo have admitted to lying about Nick Sandmann, but their accounts are still there. Clearly, Twitter is not interested in whether news outlets sometimes publish fake news.
super interesting subject; can anyone recommend resources for self learners?
Read the wikipedia article on Ratcliffe and see if he is such a great source for your rebuttal.

But even if this is not Russia material, the NY Post story is very suspect. Even the WSJ wouldn't touch it.

Social media is a very toxic force in our society. I applaud Twitter for taking these very modest steps to correct the flow of propaganda. I'm sure Hannity and Fox are shocked that Twitter actually has a spine. They weren't expecting that.
> SOFIA’s publication rate is now starting to creep up, and last year it was 33 papers. The ultimate goal is 75 to 100 papers per year, says James Jackson, associate director for research at the Universities Space Research Association, the Maryland-based group that manages SOFIA. “More than 150 was a stretch goal,” he says.

I don't think a number is the right target here. Discoveries or theories might be a better goal, not just the number of papers published
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No. Unless they want to be sued, like with the Covington kid...
>I personally find lower time-to-publish immensely valuable

I am curious why this is so valuable to you. In my personal life a delay of hours in the news cycle would have no effect. How does it generate value for you?
Being reputable and being perfectly accurate all the time are different things. Listing a handful of cases where a reputable source was not accurate does not prove the source is not reputable. It's like trying to prove science is a sham by talking about phlogiston.
It's a bit of a catch-22 for twitter. If the material is fake and proven to be false, then I don't think it can meet their definition of "hacked" content (unless some fake stuff is mixed in with real hacked data to make it appear more authentic). Even if it's real, it's a bit debatable whether or not it meets their definition of hacked content, especially since the rule has been ignored in the past (I suppose for tweets that were deemed in the public interest?)

(More caveats- I'm assuming you're talking about Hunter Biden although he isnt a presidential candidate and AFAIK the post's article hasn't been proven false, although it's certainly worth being skeptical about. Especially given the sketchiness of the source)
No, Tyler's still correct.

Fair use is still a defense to copyright violations, not a right. The 9th Circuit did not hold that fair use was a right in that case (the dancing baby case), only that a copyright holder must consider whether the alleged violation was potentially fair use before filing a lawsuit.

Importantly, the copyright holder is only required to consider whether the violation is fair use. They can still decide that it is not, and proceed with their lawsuit, with the only additional effort required being to state in their claim that they considered fair use and decided that the violation was not fair use.

(Note: while the 9th Circuit precedent is limited to the West Coast of the US, because most tech companies are HQ'd in CA or WA, so as a practical matter this case governs the internet.)
Is anyone truly surprised? The future looks bleak with China set to become the global leader (it is just a matter of time at this point, especially thanks to COVID).

I only hope for India to also become a major powerhouse to curb China, and for Korea and Japan to regain their footing.
There's a separate flow where they've sent the NYPost an email detailing why their account has been suspended with a link to the Tweet in question and a link saying "Delete this Tweet". As soon as they delete it, their account will be reinstated.

They've chosen not to delete for either "moral" reasons or "moral outrage" reasons, but the ball is in their court.
I'd like to chip in with a slightly different take ... as a minority engineer, one of my greatest sources of frustration and disillusionment is how an occupation that is ostensibly lends itself to much clearer and objective outcomes and approaches is anything but.

There is an unfairness that is so hard to see if you're not a minority in tech, that leads to lots of minority men just saying 'fuck it, this isn't worth it' (there's even an article about this https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/27/toxic-wo...), and recently I've been finding myself on that same path ... at least till my fortunes changed and I got a different more understanding manager.

But the bitterness of my experiences with previous managers, the powerlessness you feel in the face of being treated so differently never leaves you. It really sucks to find out that the whole idea of it just being about the code, meritocracy blah blah blah ... isn't really true. And worse still, that quite a large group of people, don't really buy that this stuff really happens.
That is absolutely not why Twitter acted in this case, and everyone knows it.
https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

'Section 230 says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider" (47 U.S.C. § 230). In other words, online intermediaries that host or republish speech are protected against a range of laws that might otherwise be used to hold them legally responsible for what others say and do. The protected intermediaries include not only regular Internet Service Providers (ISPs), but also a range of "interactive computer service providers," including basically any online service that publishes third-party content. Though there are important exceptions for certain criminal and intellectual property-based claims, CDA 230 creates a broad protection that has allowed innovation and free speech online to flourish'.
I came of age in the era of budding social media platforms, and that was my primary way to consume feeds and news online for the past 10 years or so (I include reddit in the "social media" category, especially more recently). Now, being older and having witnessed the many many problems that social media companies have exacerbated in society, I’ve started looking for other ways to read what's going on in the world.

This search has brought me to RSS. I use the same reader app as the author, and I absolutely love it. No addictive feed design, no ads built to manipulate me based on my mood and scrolling patterns. I hope RSS sticks around.
Can you go into more detail about how java would make the program shorter?
But what computational photography aspects that only Apple/Google provide are going to be useful for journalists or sports photographers?

That was the original question, and I'm not seeing it.

Obviously they're using DSLR's for the manual controls and lenses. But my point stands: if they need advanced image processing for something they're going to publish... they need to adjust it on a large screen. Not on-camera.
Well Apache and Java are like GUI and JS. I'd be shocked if most of collaboration, productivity, editing tools etc is not JS/Electron today.

Not saying that either is good, but it is just fact of life.
I sit next to Ritchie Chen, the first author on this paper. Let me know if any questions and I’ll try to get them answered :)

Edit: for anyone that wants to read the paper, here’s a non-paywall link: https://web.stanford.edu/group/dlab/media/papers/chenNBT2020...
If it is truly foreign influence, then it is on the FBI/DoJ to do the investigation and publicly declare it as such and order it to be taken down.

Social Media companies are not equipped to make that distinction and should not do so.
> Twitter is not a utility. It is not common infrastructure.

Great, then they should not be subject to section 230 protection, which protects them from liability from user-generated content. If they are a private publishing site, they should be entitled to all the privileges and responsibilities of such sites, as well established in the common law.
It's not an "argument" per se, as in whether we should or shouldn't pay the pharma companies. Of course we should pay pharma for this for COVID, and of course it is "worth it." There is no argument (from me at least) about that tactical decision.

My larger point is that for-profit pharma/healthcare is not a healthy marketplace (... or at best, it's an immature one). In the not-so-distant past (in America, up until the Civil War or thereabouts), firefighting was mostly privatized (meaning not government-run) [0], and brigades would compete (literally sometimes fighting in the streets, covering the hydrant to impede rival brigades, etc.) to claim the prize of the insurance payout for saving a building [1], which doesn't really serve the interests of the victims of fires.

I think the incentives of for-profit firefighters are not all that dissimilar from the incentives of modern pharma companies today (i.e. pay us to save your building from this fire, vs pay us to research this vaccine), and I would hope to evolve this pharma industry and this marketplace (of "demand" for life/health, vs "supply" of pharma research and resources) into something more mature and with fewer perverse incentives in the long-run.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_firefighting#United...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_firefighting#Modern...
That's a quote from Fight Club and more of a joke than anything, IIRC.
Would twitter have blocked NYTimes in response to Walter Duranty or Judith Miller's reporting? Denying genocide or uncritically spreading pro-war propaganda seem comparably egregious to anything the NYPost has done.
Ah yes, no less of an authority than the unimpeachably qualified John Ratcliffe.
There's also https://argdown.org/ -- A simple syntax for complex argumentation
I didn't mention it in the original comment because I didn't want the heat, but the Covington event was actually the exact event I was thinking of. By the time I saw the fully unedited raw videos of the guy and the kid, I'd already seen dozens of memes and many official news articles/videos comparing the "Covington Kid" to anti-protestors during the Civil Rights movement. The full, unedited videos show the truth; it was a complete non-event. Totally changed my perspective on the kid and the protestor; they went from symbols of a struggle for rights to two people who happened to run into each other in Washington, D.C.
The web platform I've created (https://quanta.wiki) has a lot of these same design principles, and I run a local copy of it for my personal note-taking.

Some day there should emerge some kind of de-facto winner in this category, because it's so sad that it's 2020 and there's still not a super wide-spread mass-adoption kind of general purpose app for handling hierarchical data and interacting with it.

When XML was invented I was sure it would change the world (and arguably, enabling RSS/Atom did), but now in 2020 you don't hear much about XML.

All word processors should be hierarchical rather than monolithic (linear), imo, and Quanta endeavors to show one way to do that in a wiki-like app.
Today, in California the percentage of white babies is ~27%. Today.

How on earth can you possibly say that in 2098 that "a huge percentage of white babies ... will be white"?
Are there any demographic studies that say this? Where are you getting this info from? Rarely do projections even go that far.

Even US Census predictions have been off by huge margins within a few years because of unexpected declines in longevity, birth rates, ect.
Good. Please don't. And if you do, please don't do it in an open-plan office next to me.
This site tends to have fairly reliable analysis of media biases, and AP falls questionably between center and leaning left.

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/associated-press-media-...
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dang threatened to turf me from HN because I paraphrased Masha Gessen's views on Trump, which is too political and/or troll-y for HN. This is fine, it's his turf and he can chuck me or anyone else out whenever he feels like it.

Since people here think Twitter is in the wrong, my question is when do I get these protections on HN? Do I have to implement them on forums I run? How big does a company have to get before they have to implement these protections? Who oversees and enforces these things? How is "big" defined anyway? After all, HN is already bigger than Twitter was at some point. Do we use MAUs, DAUs? Number of words/day, etc?
If it was about reducing friction, why would credit card companies make it mostly against the terms of their contracts to charge different rates for credit card using customers?
Lots of well reasoned arguments from some smart russian graduates on this story just 8 days out from the election.
The big problem with Twitter and Facebook is they have massive incentive to encourage lightning fast viral content. But there are big societal problems with viral content which contains lies and incites violence (or voter harassment, etc).

So now they are trying to blame the individual sources which is effective to some extent except when the sources are hugely popular with certain segments of society.

IMO the real solution is to massively slow all viral content's spread. That of course would damage the platforms, particularly if their competitors don't implement similar limits. So all the platforms are playing this kind of cat-and-mouse game and doing a piecemeal approach fraught with ethical and potential legal issues.
I'm glad for you, but it looks very poor to me. I would be unhappy if I got home and this were the only image I had of this scene. For any given image, you'll be able to find someone who likes it or thinks it looks good enough. If that's your standard, then this camera might be great for you. But if you have a higher standard, then you might not be satisfied.

I'd also ask what kind of screen you're looking at the image on. This image looks fine on my phone, but its screen is barely as large as a 3x5, which is essentially the lowest common denominator for printing -- the McDonald's hamburger of photo rendition. The image looks bad on my monitor, and would look awful if printed on 8x10.
Exactly. They are glass half empty paranoids, as are many traders in financial markets, their primary audience.

Most of the corporate media are (sometimes ludicrously) optimistic, the other polarity. I read both.
Unpopular opinon: I've used TCL and didn't like it and wouldn't recommend anyone use it.

The shell-like "everything is a string" is seductive at first but in practice you spend way too much time messing up your quoting. It's similar to how sometimes people suggest dropping yaml/json for a "simple ini file": it quickly breaks down and you end up with a custom ill-defined mechanism for nesting values.

TCL can handle more than just string variables: you have arrays, dicts and a bazillion libraries implementing object orientation. The result is that manipulating structured data is still more awkward than in any other modern language, except perhaps shell scripting.

Unless you're interfacing with a legacy or third-party system please don't use it. If you think you need expect please just use pexpect.
I haven't read this bioRxiv paper, but what's the difference between it and this Cell paper from 2017?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28575667/
My village has their own road building and repairing department--mostly used for repairing. It's called the department of public works. We have our own utility company too. Both of those end up being cheaper than the having private companies do it.
You live in a large metro area where beliefs are fairly uniform. It would be understandable if you share those beliefs that you wouldn't have any disagreements, right?

And I'm not sharing with HN the details of my family and workplace discussions, sorry. But maybe someone else here will be willing to. If you don't believe me, then that's OK, that's up to you.

Edit: I mean, the media even covers the near constant revolts of activist employees at Facebook, Twitter, Coinbase, and many other tech companies. Do you want me to find you some articles? Is this new to you?
To a significant degree, the arrow of causality runs LALR(1) -> practical languages, not the other direction!

The languages and formats we use have been heavily shaped by the practical parsing algorithms of the 20th century. An example: you can't have a struct field called "while" in C, because once the lexer declares a token to be a keyword, that's that.
The book is OK, his concept is sound. He mixed weak faith based analogies in too much for my taste but it doesn't overly detract from the science. My criticism is not due to an atheistist tilt; the analogies felt forced and contrived, they were poor prose.

Overall his description of, "adaptive dissipation," is pretty solid. Our complex form (life) has developed to increase entropy. Nice discussion of thermodynamics and the flow of energy. We're all flames flickering in the light of the sun.

It would have been nice if he had touched on morphogenesis, proposed by Alan Turing, which also suggests reasons for complex biological forms.
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The author claims to have 200 watts of solar panels but only 420 Wh of battery, and because it's lead-acid only half of that is really usable. Unless they live somewhere that only gets 1-2 hours of insolation per day [0] that is nowhere near enough to store an average day's generation. Likely most of the energy is likely being wasted.

http://www.bigfrogmountain.com/SunHoursPerDay.html
Proven false? What are you talking about? A man is testifying in front of the Senate about the veracity of some of the claims under penalty of perjury...

EDIT: honestly, as a conservative who was supportive of the investigation surrounding impeachment, this kind of obvious media double treatment makes me want to double down -- as other conservatives have done -- in simply not supporting conservatives being investigated. It seems obvious that the allegations, the narrative, etc, is tightly controlled by the media, and conservatives are not given a fair shake, while even the most minute details of conservatives are examined in agonous detail (remember the Steele dossier, which is now confirmed Russian disinformation?). If the Hunter Biden allegations are true around the Ukraine prosecutor, then the impeachment was clearly punishing a sitting president for investigating corruption. That is shocking.
The VC, on the board, has a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders: directly, his firm; the other shareholders, including the founders (!); and indirectly his LPs.

It is the board's responsibility to hire and fire executive management and as both a significant shareholder and board member, has the leverage to do so IF the other board members agree. It is almost never unilateral. Now - in the early-ish days of a company (say,pre-D series), the board is pretty small and pretty acquainted, so the guy who wants to fire you (the CEO) just places about 4 phone calls, and if everyone is on board, gets the ball rolling. Legally, it is a lot easier than it is with a public company or with someone with one of those weird split-stock-right things like Facebook.
40% is still less than the majority, and Wayland chose to break compatibility with X11 drivers, so they get to own half of this breakage
They obviously chose it because it fits their worldview. Their lack of originality is beyond the point.
> Your spin of "it's not the same as the holocaust" (no one said it is) and "yeah but whatabout the US!" is sadly par for the course.

> The US put japanese people in in concentration camps and most US citizens supported it.

Amazing, your lack of self-awareness. Your deflection and whataboutism can't even let up for a second. In case you need yet another reminder, this thread is about Chinese camps.

> There is a huge difference here. When you say genocide, it is equivalent to holocaust

You are saying this. You. You are pushing the argument to the extreme ("everything is a holocaust") to discredit what is actually being said ("these are mass interment camps with systemic violence and arbitrary punishment"). It's an argumentation technique that doesn't work when the other person knows what's happening.
You don't have to imply things, it's more useful to the discussion to just say it. Do say the quiet part out loud so people can actually interact with a comment like this.