skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.. more cameras introduced in London

now: recording who the people MAY talk to

- with excuse of Covid-19 and some buzzword ?

(Shall ethical programmer be not proud but worried why
his work found some use?)
Ansible is okay for stuff like that.

I very much don't like that it does the YAML-as-a-programming-language thing that's way too popular nowadays but when judiciously used, Ansible can be useful.

I really want something like Ansible with a real declarative programming language. Puppet is the closest nowadays to having a sane language, but it has its own issues.
Pretty sure that's how facebook was actually built.
Probably nadi shodana. You shouldn’t start this one right away, but only after you’ve already slowed down breathing.

I agree there’s also other techniques first, and if it is uncomfortable, stay away from it. That said, it’s a pretgood technique to know.
Do you think murderers are killing people all day? No, they only do it sometimes, that doesn't make it ok.
See: "violence interrupters"

> Despite the uptick of crime in his ward, Cunningham, who supports the creation of a new community safety agency to replace the police department, said it’s particularly important now to start instituting some of those public health-based approaches to violence prevention. Recently, the council took more than $1 million from the police budget to hire “violence interrupters” to intervene and defuse potentially violent confrontations. [1]

> “If we have these systems in place we are getting ahead of the violence,” said Cunningham. “That’s why I have advocated so strongly for the violence interrupters, because if they are interrupting the violence before the guns are being fired, then the MPD doesn’t have to respond to that violence.”

> “What I am sort of flabbergasted by right now is colleagues, who a very short time ago were calling for abolition, are now suggesting we should be putting more resources and funding into MPD,” Cunningham said.

I'm questioning the general competence of politicians when the best solution they have is hiring unarmed citizens to... interrupt potentially armed and unhinged aggressors?

1 - https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/09/15/with-violent-crime-...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24861623.
The point of "Representation" really meant the ability to choose one's representation...
So could cross training police and firefighters. That's what they do in Sunnyvale CA.
Why should a browser allow its own shortcuts to be overridden at all? At the very least, some form of warning or permission-granting should be involved.
Personal investment into the platform has yielded professional returns. If that return dries up or frustrations continue to mount, you will see migration.
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The difference would be that police are privately identifying people.
"I will grant you that allowing police to use tape to cover their name tags is wrong on many levels."

How much "wrong" does an organization have to commit before it becomes a net liability?

"But if protesters use this technology to target policemen's families, why would anyone in their right mind take the job?"

Why would anyone in their right mind take a job where they covered their name tag to protect their identity?

Sunshine is a disinfectant.
Low-cost precursor of an interstellar mission
Besides needing to change the order of multiplication (y = xM vs y = Mx) and use the right transposition of the matrix, do any other actual consequences come from the choice of "row vector" vs "column vector"?
Why can AVX be used during page fault but not during syscall mode?
What you are describing is tax fraud and is already possible in the current system.
It's a simple way of shutting down the customer. Broken: non-negotiable. "Understandable, have a nice day"

As these kinds of places attract the pettiest and most annoying customers anything else would make the customers try to bargain with you, even for stupid crap like that.
From the other taxes? Germany has vanishing property taxes compared to the US. Better roads and schools, no question.
Those who are on Android , can use https://termux.com/ .
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And what happens if indeed the huge matrix elements are all non-zero? Like, let's say, satellite scan data for a given country when you want to spy on their underground systems (think North Korea facilities)? Wouldn't storing that data as COO would actually triple the amount of memory?
Why the shell app needs to use the location services? The App Store description indicates that “This app may use your location even when the app is not open”
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Timely, we are talking about TC in the Cue slack today. Nickel calls out its Cue inspiration while maintaining TC.

https://github.com/tweag/nickel#related-projects-and-inspira...

https://cuelang.org/community
> doesn’t need a bunch of number keys that no one is ever going to click on

Don't underestimate the number of people who like to lean back in their chair and do everything with a mouse.
Well, didn't they fire tech staff and outsource the work? Sounds like it might not have been the best decision in hindsight.
How to Fight Churn with Data
SHOW NOTES

[00:04:30] The fascination with churn

[00:08:04] How much more hyped do you think the field has become since you first broke into it?

[00:16:01] What is Churn? Is that what we do we make butter.

[00:17:27] So why is churn so hard to fight?

[00:21:48] The importance of metrics in our battle against churn

[00:24:01] How do we go from raw event data to metrics?

[00:24:45] How do cohorts help us analyze, predict, and understand churn?

[00:27:22] What are ratio metrics and why are they so powerful?

[00:33:09] Why are outliers so problematic to deal with?

model and get information from them, but without them ruining your numbers.

[00:34:57] What are some common mistakes that you've seen Data scientists make when it comes to dealing with outliers?

[00:39:14] How to be more thoughtful when it comes to feature engineering?

[00:42:31] Debunking the common misconception that the choice of algorithm is the most important thing that contributes to model performance.

[00:43:56] Your features don’t need to be the most creative

[00:45:28] Your job isn’t over once you deploy the model

[00:49:05] What are some things that we need to monitor and track - the context of churn - to make sure that our model is doing what it should be, that is performing as we've designed it?

[00:50:26] How COVID is messing up everyone’s churn models

[00:53:14] Is data science an art or science?

[00:55:24] What are some soft skills that Data scientists are missing that are really going to help them take their careers to the next level?

[00:56:51] How could a data scientist develop their business acumen and their product sense

[00:57:44] What to do with these crazy job descriptions

[00:59:27] What’s the one thing you want people to learn from your story?

[01:00:39] The lightning round
As an avid cyclist, I can say that wide vehicles with high acceleration are my bane. When a vehicle is accelerating, the driver is intending to make it move both faster, and farther. It takes the driver time to shift their intent, then time to shift their feet, then time for the vehicle to stop. This is exacerbated by fast acceleration, is that the vehicle will gain both more speed and more distance by the time the driver shifts their intent, and their feet, than slow acceleration vehicles.

Also, wide vehicles have a much harder time dealing with pedestrians on bike lines and shoulders. I've been forced off the road so many times by Hummers and their ilk, and almost never by a sedan.
What exactly are these security "pros" doing? I just don't understand how the ransomware guys could destroy the snapshot backup copies of the database in my desk drawer. Why don't companies with this much data to protect have air-bridged offsite backups?
PooTube would have been a better name than Quibi
DuckDuckGo's organic results are just as good and the 0-2 native ads above the organic results can be permanently disabled with 3 clicks on their own site: 'Settings > Advertising > Disable Ads' and intentionally made easily identifiable to respect ad blockers.

Meanwhile, Google search traps me in a loop of the top ~5 ad spenders in a given industry VERY frequently.

Used the phrase "public records" anywhere in your search query? Now the first page is all click funnel blog posts by the same 5 background check companies and ancestry.com.

Mentioned the term "VPN" somewhere in your 10 word query? Clearly you wanted a page full of sales funnel blog posts by the same 5 consumer VPN providers with big marketing budgets.

Want to disable Google Search ads? You can't. You can only make them less targeted, until the ToS changes in a month, and only if you log into a phone verified Google Account.

Want to use an ad blocker on Google Search? Too bad. Google's native ads continuously define the state of the art in evasion of end-user controls through endless evolution and complex adversarial misdirection even within the same browsing session.

Just use DuckDuckGo, and disable ads, and donate. It's a much better user experience (even with ads).
The actual map is at https://mcbroken.com/

And this headline is spectacularly un-useful. It's a map of which McDonalds have a working ice cream machine, obtained by attempting to place an ice cream order at every single store through the API.

(The order doesn't actually complete if you don't pay for it, so no ice cream is wasted.)
So, what, we're just advertising products on HN now?
Nothing is "often missed" about this.

Mozilla has already written a blog post asking the court not to go after Google on this issue because it might hurt them. I am sure Google is all too happy to promote this angle, suggesting we should protect Chrome out of some misguided attempt to protect Firefox.

If Google is stripped of Chrome or prohibited from using various tactics to promote Chrome over alternatives, Firefox will benefit, massively. Revenue may drop in the short term, so it may not look great for Mozilla-the-company, but Firefox usage will soar, and revenue-generating strategies will follow thereafter.

It's sad Mozilla is hurting themselves here by coming to Google's defense, but that's how whipped Google has them right now.
It's generally assumed a corporation would be more interested in positive returns on it's investments. Seems like if a company stops investing in positive ROI projects, it won't grow, and then won't survive as long? I haven't thought about it much, but I think on a macro scale even a negative return project still circulates that money back out, in the form of salaries or materials or something, but that may be a naive thought.

Obviously there are ways to break that, like tax evasion, but hopefully there are other ways to deal with that.
On one hand, it's incredibly annoying. On the other hand part of why you'd choose RDS over deploying MariaDB yourself to an EC2 instance is to shift some of the responsibility of testing & configuration over to AWS. If AWS is disabling features on instances that don't work, this is actually a benefit that they're providing to their users, as you can better trust that any feature enabled on a given product & instance type will "just work".
It is likely the only way to stay active as much as possible in the background so the process doesn't get killed.
It's spelled YamHell ;]
It doesn't sound like the university publicly and transparently revealed this -- the BBC wouldn't have to be cagey about how they listened in on the chat if that were true, they could just say "according to UCSF". But it wasn't that, it was an "anonymous tip-off".

So we already know the university was not being transparent and open about it. When I say "whistleblower", I mean someone who secretly gave the BBC the info and remains secret because they weren't supposed to and would be disciplined at work for it.

The university has PLENTY of incentive to obscure facts here, because the official line is that it's immoral to pay hackers like this (it encourages future hacks, law enforcement says not to do it), and because it reveals them as having made IT mistakes that led to a ransomware takeover where they decided their best/cheapest recovery option was to pay up (instead of restoring from backups etc). It does not make them look good to have paid up, that's plenty of incentive to not want the BBC to report it.

Also, having spent many years working for universities, I think it's kind of cute that you think they "have to operate in a transparent manner." Would that it were true.
I ran the McBroken data through the Spatial Equity Data tool. It found McDonalds are slightly overrepresented in white areas while locations with broken ice cream machines skew Black and low-income.

https://twitter.com/MarkStosberg/status/1319363954385297411
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Yep, as I said in my last sentence, Snowden's "sentence" cannot be commuted since he was never tried in court and sentenced. But he can be pardoned since there are pending cases levied against him.
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No, that's by no means originated with computers.

People have said "the phone lines are down" for years, meaning landline phone service was temporarily unavailable (often when no actual physical cables were knocked down off of poles, etc, though that might be where the use of the term originated in that case).

I'm sure there are plenty of other examples of using 'down' to mean the same kind of thing (all of which predated computer use being common in a regular person's life).
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That just leaves me with more questions. What does he mean by "executing" an order? He used the word "placing" before. Is he placing the order and then immediately cancelling? Or is he just putting items in his cart? Why such the high dollar total on the order? Is it a single order at every store every minute? Does it really need to be that frequent?

Regardless, it annoys me when I see developers abuse semi-public APIs as it just ends up being a motivating factor to close things off more. There is most likely some developers working for McDonalds who have been scrambling as a response to what this guy is doing. It isn't nice to create unnecessary work for others just so you can have a little fun.
Exactly. Except perhaps for aesthetic reasons. But much of the old stuff was grotesquely ugly.

A loaded entry-level car has more luxury and performance than an old land yacht. My phone has more computing power now than the Pentagon, then.

When books began to printed, did people long for hieroglyphics?
Because some protesters will use that information to go to the homes of police officers and continue their vandalism there.
By being part of Facebook, gathering data about whom you communicate with (that works even with end-to-end encryption), combining this with the profile Facebook has about you, and selling this data to third parties.

By using WhatsApp, you become their product, and they are making money with you.
I have a wierd question. How likely is it for Twitter / facebook to ban Trump's account during contested election?
Sure it's useful, if not earth-shattering - another way of saying it is that a vector maps scalars to vectors on the same line.
It depends on how much trust they put behind the domain name and operating company. People trust amazon which trickles down to sellers on it.

People trust few domain extensions more than others even though many of them are similarly priced and available. It's all about who else is using the same extension. .com? Used by most companies. .news ? no one? not trust worthy then.

It's somewhat fascinating to me that the bigger the company, the more trust people put in their verification of actors employed on the platform. Intuitively, I would think the more actors in a company - the less trustworthy or verified the actors would be.
My experience has always been the opposite, it's the well heeled guy/gal who has had one too many drinks and wants to bum a smoke. Go, buy a pack, not giving you any!
But if a homeless guy asked, always gave one.
Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta is here, and it looks scary as hell
GCL also came up in the Cue slack channel today, and why Cue is intentionally different

https://cuelang.org/community
Termux is great, i second this recommendation
Why? What are you going to do different if you are told it is broken versus down for maintenance? You're still not getting any ice cream?
I agree that the solution to housing crisis in California is not by reducing taxes. I'm pointing out that progressive taxes on those who, on a cost of living adjusted basis, have less than their less progressively taxed peers.

I full agree that housing costs should not be deductions.

Another way to think about it is that in a high CoL markets, not only does a marginal dollar buy you less marginal goods (such as a burrito), but you also are likely in a higher marginal tax rate making it geometrically worse.
Consent of the governed is not the same as consent of the criminal element.
Well, OP is very bad at finance, and his points only apply to certain investments. For instance, most jurisdictions treat capital equipment as retained earnings (it gets more complicated when you get to devaluation and re-sale, but those only matter if the business survives).
a few thousands dollars this year from a linkedin course I made
Then just wear a mask.

Editing: I'm sorry to be cranky about this. Different strokes for different folks. It's one thing to do something, it's another thing to force other people to do it because "it doesn't bother me." Maybe it bothers other people.

People don't like to be told what to think, how to feel, or how to act. Maybe mask wearing is justified but you can't just hand wave it away as "no big deal" because it doesn't happen to bother you, when it obviously bothers plenty of other people.

Also here's a study, if you like that kind of thing

https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s00392-020-01704-y?sh...

"The pulmonary function parameters were significantly lower with mask (forced expiratory volume: 5.6 ± 1.0 vs 5.3 ± 0.8 vs 6.1 ± 1.0 l/s with sm, ffpm and nm" (surgical mask, n95 mask, and no mask)
If your partner starts nagging you into buying a life insurance, you should get really cautious.
Because the teenage wage slave at the register doesn't give a shit about your fine distinctions.

When I worked that McDonalds the machine was almost always down simply because the night crew didn't give a shit and it was too much effort to clean. I worked mornings with the old folks because I was too uncool for the night shift.
How hard would it be to adapt this to use when source is available? Obviously one could just use the binary, but being able to skip the lifting phase could reduce complexity. If you can compile code to LLVM IR (say, with Clang) anyway it'd be nice if the resulting tool could take that as input.
> Cars are freedom and power

I respect your opinion but disagree wholeheartedly. When I drive [in the city or suburbs] I feel like my attention is enslaved to the road, to the traffic lights, to the stop signs, etc.

When I'm walking, or even biking, around the city I have so much more freedom to drink in my surroundings and live in the moment. I can literally stop to smell the flowers.

Don't get me wrong, cars have uses that are uniquely difficult to solve without one. As you mention, hauling heavy cargo, transporting the mobility-challenged, and shielding from bad weather, are just a few examples.

But as someone who is not hauling heavy cargo, is not mobility-challenged, and isn't particularly afraid of a little bad weather (and well I tend to not go anywhere during a blizzard anyways), I quite prefer to walk or bike or take a train or take a bus, rather than be a slave to the road.
No, when governments provide public goods (their most widely-accepted role), they are not picking companies out for the gallows.
Hard to say, you'd really need to do both well to compare.

Depending on the unikernel design though, you can significantly reduce user/kernel context switches beyond what you can with a tuned general purpose OS, potentially to the point of always sitting in ring 0. How much difference that makes, of course depends on your application and the quality of your various kernels.
Police don't need to worry about protesters as they are already up against career criminals, gangs, and cartels who have more resources.
Instant RAW is a fascinating feature. If you normally shoot RAW, they'll be a bit "flat" since no post-processing is done, but Halide will post-process them to make them similar to jpg output (while retaining the editing flexibility that RAW gives).

What I can't figure out...are the Instant RAW settings baked into the file as it is captured? Basically, if I open up a Halide RAW in Lightroom or DXO, will they be able to see the edits?
Snowden does not flee the tyranny of Russia, who would have certainly pursued poisoning him if the roles had been reversed.

It looks as though Russia and possibly China have a documented history of targeting westerners with remote energy weapons. This is tyranny. USA doesn't poison nor assassinate its traitors, certainly not to the degree of our global counterparts -- much less do we not point microwave weapons at foreign diplomats. [1]

Snowden's defecting is a larger statement about US hegemony, one upon which China has freely capitalized. A justified fear is that true tyranny will result from a long term outcome favorable to China. Snowden's treason was a step in the right direction to dismantle US hegemony.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/us/politics/diplomat-atta...
Bear in mind, Google is somewhere near 90% advertising revenue. There are other things Google is doing wrong, but they all exist to feed into the ad industry. Search and Chrome and Play Services and everything are about protecting their ad revenue.

You may feel like ads are a dead industry, but remember that via Google's Chrome monopoly, Google can harm ad blockers (Manifest V3) and protect their ability to track and monetize users ("privacy budget"), and that their decisions as such affect the vast majority of users on the planet. Everyone else might be stripping out advertising and tracking, but as long as Google's browsers are protecting it, it'll do just fine.

Breaking the back of Google's monopoly is going to take going after them in many angles, and their browser monopoly and search monopoly are very important pillars of that. But all those pillars are upholding one thing: Ads.
Ideally, running on a hypervisor is absolutely identical to running on bare metal, and any difference the guest can detect is a bug in the hypervisor and/or the hardware. That was the value proposition of CP-40 back in the 1960s, right down to being able to run newer versions of CP (later called VM) as a guest on older versions, in order to develop and debug the next generation of hypervisor in a known-good environment which is, again, utterly indistinguishable from running on bare metal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_CP-40

I wonder how long it'll take the rest of the world to achieve that.
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This seems more accurate than the original post, which seems quite tied to this code/data analogy.

OTOH, it is just vectors in a many-dimensional space. We're neigh-supernatural machines for describing vectors, that's how we throw things better than any other animal, I don't really know why we need analogies here. Why do we want x'x? It maps to a distance...