skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think locking the account was a political decision, you're paranoid and wrong. They broke the rules on publishing hacked materials. They openly did this despite the rules.

You want them exempted from the rules on political grounds, which is a problem.
> Where possible, we have only included public CCTV cameras, including cameras installed on public buildings, cameras used by law enforcement, cameras installed on public transport, and traffic cameras with surveillance capabilities (i.e. automatic number plate recognition). However, in some instances, it may not be clear what cameras are included, meaning some private camera figures may also be included in the totals. We believe this may be the case for London and Sydney.

https://www.comparitech.com/vpn-privacy/the-worlds-most-surv...
Do you think that fake news websites (websites that intentionally post falsehoods to drive traffic) should be allowed to post on social media with impunity? How is that workable? Many people cannot distinguish fake news from legitimate sources of information.

Increasing noise (disinformation) is just as damaging to free speech as decreasing the signal (censorship).
Clearly I meant the whole constitution, including every accepted amendment; I suppose they become part of the constitution as soon as they are accepted?

Anyway I think this should be obvious. The subset of people who has long time accounts on HN and who also are for slavery is really small, possibly non-existent.
I would guess that camera manufacturers can't afford computational photography—certainly not in the same way Apple, Samsung, and Google can.
I would like to see its performance over time as it gets dirty. How often must it be cleaned?
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I don't see how decentralization is feasible. The current technological trends are all towards more centralization.
HN, Twitter. I’m not sure I would bother with Reddit these days. There are probably relevant Facebook groups. Maybe write a blog post that people can link to.
You can step out of your bubble without deliberately jumping directly into the manure pit.
The emotional raction is the resistance to Java and the assumption that it will break and you will need a Java expert to fix it. I don't know much C and I use MySQL and don't need to worry about C internals at all when using it. Just some configuration stuff, and maybe install some C build tools. I wouldn't expect it to be much different for this project.
They don't want to seem like they're waffling... ZING!
Idea of a pear
Tack "claim" on the end. The title here was edited from the original.
This is the acquihire model. You don't actually have to do the acquihire.

A company could just offer folks jobs directly (CA frowns on companies working to block employee mobility given employers can also fire folks with basically no notice). But it smooths things to wrap it up in an acquihire.

Startups often get offers like this.

Wasn't there a recent case on HN where google or apple after the company rejected the aquihire just offered the positions to staff directly? I think they got sued?
And good luck with auto-focus
Exactly. The NYPost (or basically any news outlet and their readers) became dependent on Twitter on their own choice (or on their own laziness), and one of the consequences of being dependent on an external platform for your traffic is that you are subject to their contract. If you don't like the rules, you find or build another platform (and put in the money and effort to make it work).

This is basically the NYPost crying because it wants free stuff with no strings attached.
Just say "Hey Google, open Live Transcribe" (assuming you had that app installed)
Purely out of curiosity, why is the dependency on VS Code an issue?
All: don't miss that there are multiple pages of comments in this thread. That's what the More link at the bottom points to. Or click here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894622&p=2
They can make it infeasible to compete whenever they feel threatened.

The alternative is Linux instances --- which Azure also provides. In fact, as I said, Linux instances outnumber Windows instances on Azure.

If they have a huge advantage, the numbers don't show it.
Amazon Web Services claims to host 57% of all Windows instances in the cloud.

....getting that they're working towards making in free?

Win10X
Generate thousands of new 2D images from a small batch of objects and background
> If a company does not figure out how to hire, retain, and promote people who are not white men

Agreed. Not hiring the best talent is always bad for a company. If you are biased against your best talent, you've selected worse talent.

However, diversity goals keep moving - they are well past bias issues. Note that tech companies aren't hiring mostly white men at this point - they are in fact outnumbered by Asian men (Google was at 30% and 39% in tech hiring respectively last year.). And yet, we are still talking about the lack of diversity in tech (women remain underepresented, but in terms of ethnicity it's a very diverse place)
>That should be illegal with few exceptions.

And thus the right wing comes around to centralized government control of companies.
In a hypothetical alternate world in which individuals / organizations were publishing the raw Panama Papers? Yes, I would think their accounts should get banned.

Fortunately, as with the Trump tax returns, the journalists handling the Panama Papers did not engage in such unscrupulous behavior.
Huh, my bad, I missed that it was night mode.
Optalysys. Optical computing is very interesting. It uses less electricity and has the potential of supercomputer speeds.
No, that's not at all what you said.

The cost of entering the mass-scale social media market is basically zero, since you can do that in a day with minimal cost other than a domain name and a server (or VPS or AWS/Azure account or similar), and you can scale your costs as you grow, but your costs don't grow as fast as your customer base.

A natural monopoly's costs start high, and just scales from there. It costs tens of millions for a utility just to enter a small market, and with utilities, growing may actually increase their costs (see, for example, power and water utilities).
Ninja: A simple way to do builds
Nope, all you get is exposure controls. Third party apps like Halide fill in the gaps here quite well, but sadly you can't make them your primary camera.
You don't even necessarily need the temporal interference--we got it to work reasonably well in awake, behaving monkeys (where we could measure single-neuron activity directly).

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/12/5747.abstract
If a very small number of platforms control essentially all of the content people are exposed to, the distinction starts to blur.
But every side faces the sun at some point. The first paragraph of that article even says so.
"All the worst and most time-consuming troubleshooting experiences of my life have involved Java" is simply a statement.

All the worst and most time-consuming troubleshooting experiences of my life have involved dealing with a legacy VB6 app with a truly terrible MSSQL database structure - that's not an emotional statement, it's a fact.
It like the printing press, more wide spread availablity of content distribution is not going to go away.

For all its flaws abilty produce content cheaply has created value too.
Your NS example shows why Twitter isn't common infrastructure and wasn't an effective method for getting information out in life-or-death situations:

> .. many questions were raised about why Nova Scotia failed to use Alert Ready, Canada's mandatory emergency population warning system, to warn the public about the attacks but instead chose to use social media platforms Twitter and Facebook to provide updates, RCMP officials said they had been dealing with an unfolding situation and details were being updated frequently. However, the areas affected had poor cellular Internet service and were mostly populated by seniors who might not have used social media. Relatives of the victims pointed out that the use of Alert Ready could have saved lives.

I stopped using FB 8 years ago because the attention-seeking design was making me depressed, always wanting to check was was going on.

If we say that Twitter and FB are the places to get information about official government policy then 1) we need to let minors under the age of 13 have Twitter account (not allowed under the current ToS), 2) we need to have some way to ensure that personal information is not sent outside the country (currently allowed in the current ToS) or sold in any form - basically, the same protections as if you were to go to a government-hosted site - and 3) we need some way so people can see only essential government information, without advertising or viewing other sources designed around "engagement".

I don't think Twitter wants to take on this role.
Some Advice About Ghosts and Ghosting, from a Paranormal Investigator
My point was not to this project in particular, but general. I have seen this reaction towards Java often. Java is not familiar, for many people Java is inscrutable. I think this is because of the existence of the JVM and the need for the user to be aware of its existence. Rust is not simpler than Java, but the user just deals with a compiled executable, he doesn't see any complexity. Maybe GraalVM with nativeimage will help Java in this regard.
Seems like discussing burnout and disillusionment with tech is a perennial HN favorite. I've bookmarked a lot of great threads and comments on this topic. Some of my favorites:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22862570

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21645117

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16483241

Going to bookmark this one too :)
In the UK 60%+ of people have consistently supported reducing immigration, over decades.

It's more correct to think that when 60% of the elites support something change occurs.
I do want to mention that of all the 30+ options I've researched, sish looks like one of the best. Even though in the end I decided to implement my own[0].

[0]: https://xkcd.com/927/
"ZH was talking about coronavirus way earlier than anyone else"

I've seen that claim too and found it questionable. Almost every major news outlet that would cover international news I found had some story about coronavirus pretty dang early. It wasn't a breathless story predicting the impact, but they covered it.

I feel like most media "media does this" or "didn't do that" is mostly just what passed in front of someone's nose.

Purely anecdotal experience of mine was a reddit story ages ago that was "The Media is too busy covering X to cover this story Y."

Purely out of curiosity I turned around and flipped on the TV and checked the news channels. The first 3 news channels, 2 were covering Y... but the claims about nobody covering it were constant.
> I also can't remember seeing literally anyone complain when browsers start adopting tabs, even though people complain about anything.

Not complain per se, but people were commenting how tabs were a crutch for poor top level window management, and how their WM of choice had had tabs for ages. I'd say they aren't wrong about them being a crutch, but I guess crutches are useful at times.
I assume they took offence with the "you must be very paranoid" just because someone feels odd about surveillance. It certainly seems pretty rude to me.
As someone who has worked in the publishing world, including erotica and "romance" novels, a lot of the retrograde attitudes you see depicted in this article are very much alive today in the US. Perhaps not encoded in law, but it is difficult, for instance, to find a distributor for this material that also caters to a more urbane audience.

Romance / erotica books do not have to be trash, they can very much be moving works of fiction in their own right. But places like McNally Johnson won't buy this kind of stuff even though it does sell very well online. Platforms like Instagram make it difficult as well - Twitter is really the only remaining mainstream platform that will not censor images for pornographic content. You can't use payment processors like PayPal or Stripe either, at least not if you want to keep your money consistently. You have to play a war of attrition with keywords on your site so you can hit SEO thresholds but not set off any content sniffing that payment processors do.

Meanwhile, sell a book about serial killers and everything's hunky-dory. That book can even include heinous sexual transgressions depicted in gruesome detail but as long as you don't have nipples on the cover or 'erotica' in the copy Stripe will cash you out all day long
Personally, if [company] wants to filter or censor, go for it if and only if a) they disclose it and b) I can turn it off.

We have a model for this already, it's called "safe search"

When you filter without disclosing, you're stealing my agency and creating a situation for near-undetectable abuse.
Filemaker is a desktop database with some scripting tools; Hypercard is more fundamentally a GUI builder where graphical objects have scripts attached.
Well, that's how Intel describes for 4th gen, and I had assumed more recent gens: "Intel Platform Protection Technology with Bootguard works with Intel PTT..." on page 8. They mention both Windows and boot protection. How does it work with Bootguard? Does that mean bootguard bootstraps PTT trust?

Have a look:

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...

If you have more recent documentation, I'd be interested. It's hard to learn about this semi-internal Intel and AMD stuff.

Edit: Also, you write "with a key that's flashed into the chipset". Do you mean chipset (which could be on the motherboard) or on the CPU itself? Where do you find this information?
Agreed, but there's conflation in these reports between cognitive diversity and demographic diversity.
He says it’s “Portrait mode”, so it does have the fake bokeh on the background in addition to any smoothing from night mode denoising. That’s why he also mentions the depth map for the fuzzy hood.
> All the sugary drinks that just give you health issues (...)
> Evil is everywhere, really.

i know, i live 10km from Nestlé HQ. and the banks in my country manage a significant part of the cash in this world.

> Our brains are not made to really understand these things well.

Agreed. I was recently reading several text saying that our brains are adapted to small hunter-gatherer communities of 300 ppl max.

> The easiest thing is to resign yourself to at least make you and your familys life easier.

Not now i know how the Earth System react, because a look at the latest IPCC projections doesn't make me want found a family.

> Which is acceptable enough.

Listening to some climatologists, there is a chance i see a world with less than a billion person from my own eyes. My brain cannot accept such a perspective acceptable (without actively fighting it at least).
This is kind of clumsy in R5RS Scheme:

((eval (string->symbol (string-append "dis" "play"))) "Hello world")
Yes, people distribute mosquito nets to reduce incidence of malaria. It's a thing.

> The most effective means of preventing malaria is sleeping under a mosquito net, specifically a long-lasting insecticide treated net (LLIN).

~ https://www.againstmalaria.com/WhyNets.aspx
But that's all compile-time. Someone else very smart can do that and give me an optimized binary. JVM tuning needs to be performed by the end user.
These are around 15 years old (example: they say that CMOS sensors are mostly used in toy cameras - how the world has changed in the meantime...). On the other hand, optics did not change so much (they actually skip the whole DSLR years, as now the mirrorless cameras are the same as the ones they present). But now there are a lot of better resources, with videos and way better examples.
>They are acting differently for Biden.

The difference is that right-wing trash usually comes directly from Trump, then republished in the tabloids. We've seen that get reined in a little in annotating his worst tweets and FB posts, but don't pretend there's an equivalence between their public communications.
Perhaps Hunter Biden should send out some DMCA claims. Then twitter/Facebook/etc could have their cake and eat it too, censor that content without getting blame for it being censored.

But perhaps there is a fair use argument to be made?
Marpa meets 2.a) 2.b) 3.

1. is subjective.
These look great resources for transformer, thanks!
Trump gets most of the attention, but this whole pandemic has laid plain how liberal republics have been hollowed out by neoliberalism over the past few decades. The capability for broad, fast, collective action has been all-but wiped out, even in the supposedly enlightened and well-run countries of Western Europe. The nations that defeated fascism are crippled by a far weaker threat.

I can't think of another liberal democracy besides NZ that has handled COVID well, and they are a small island country. It's embarrassing, because the response has been terrible on both purely financial and humanitarian levels.
> The idea that elite schools are purposely excluding Asians is absurd on its face. The people pushing the idea have an axe to grind and it usually isn’t actually in the interest of Asian-Americans.

My high school was 70% Asian. Projections are that getting rid of the entrance exam will drop it to about 30% Asian. (Ironically, the group that will benefit the most from the lottery is white people.) The elite schools are capping the percentage of Asians--you can see this by comparing against schools that don't practice holistic admissions.

Affirmative action and lottery-based admissions in particular is, in at least a narrow and direct sense, contrary to "the interest of Asian-Americans" just as its contrary to the interests of white Americans. Standardized testing offers a direct path to the middle and upper middle class for Asian immigrants (as well as other immigrant groups such as Nigerians who come to the U.S. with lots of education but not necessarily money). Asians have extremely high levels of income mobility in the U.S.--an kid growing up in the bottom 20% has a 27% chance of ending up in the top 20%; double the odds for a white kid born in the bottom 20%. My dad was born in a village in Bangladesh. Thanks to the SAT, my brother and I are comfortably in the top 1%. The U.S. system of "meritocracy" (such as it is) is extremely effective at helping us distinguish ourselves from upper middle class white people who have more cultural competency, social connections, etc.

In "How to be an Anti-Racist," Ibram X. Kendi defines "equity" as the representation of a group in an organization reflecting the representation of the group in the general population. Any other distribution, he declares, is the product of systemic racism. I don't think Kendi was thinking about the implications of that statement for non-white, non-Black people, but they are alarming for Asians, Jews, Nigerians, etc. Imagine cutting Harvard down from 20% Asian to 5-6% Asian. Or Google or Facebook! What do you think that would do to Asian income mobility?

Now, I happen to support measures to reduce disparities for ADOS people, because all Americans have a common obligation to remediate the nation's history of slavery and segregation. To that end, I support things like traditional affirmative action.

At the same time, Asians are a minority and have to be realistic about the fact that they are not similarly-situated to either white people or Black people and do not have identical interests to either group. Holistic measures that limit the Asians at elite educational institutions and businesses to 20-25% may be tolerable. Measures like lotteries that would reduce Asian representation down to 5-6% would be a dramatic negative change.
I believe it is illegal in california to consider race for public universities, so you could look at Caltech and Berkeley which fit most definitions of elite schools.
Caltech is 48% Asian, while MIT is 25.7% for undergrad.

There is the in-state vs out of state tuition distinction, so it's not exactly the same pool as east coast universities.

Sources:
https://registrar.caltech.edu/records/enrollment-statistics
https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/massachusetts-instit....
Good lord, as an example of why it's something we should want?

Each to their own of course, but..
it seems more like a collaboration. the private sector doesnt have the money or incentive to do such a thing (at an individual business level) but they have the ability to execute on it if incentivized.

the public sector doesnt have the agility or flexibility to do such a thing but they definitely have the money and incentives to make it happen.

the two combine to create a big, powerful, fast-moving machine that solves a problem.
Yup. My one beef about the mobile browser Firefox Focus is that it doesn't have tabs.
Coming up with new ideas to innovate using tech is increasingly difficult as we are running out of “Problems to solve”. The video illustrates very well how a number of opportunities are opening in the financial / banking sector. Probably not a very interesting Read for someone not familiar with the sector.
Ah well, F/0.95 is cheating a bit though, I meant assuming you were doing a hand-held three second exposure with another camera.

Of course it's a reasonable point you make that a "proper" camera wouldn't need such a long exposure for the same amount of light.
It's not clear why these choices in phraseology constitute bias when Obama's 2015 budget featured a deficit of 2.45% of GDP[0] while Trump's 2018 budget featured a deficit of 3.8% of GDP[1].

Factually speaking, Trump did blow up the deficit, and failing to report that, instead of reporting it, would be indicative of bias.

Budgets requested by Republican vs Democratic administrations are different as the parties have different spending and taxation priorities. Reporting budgets without acknowledging that the parties are spending/borrowing/taxing in different areas would be a lie.

Printing news stories that make Republicans look bad is not indicative of bias if those stories are, as is usually the case, factually true. The solution to this problem is not to complain about media bias but rather for the Republican party to do fewer things that look bad.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_States_federal_bud...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_federal_bud...
i am using Obsidian to sort of address this problem by tackling it in reverse. my team has a massive project going live and it has to have a knowledge base. we are creating the master in Obsidian, which is just a wrapper around .md files.

the way we are approaching it, which i have adopted for my personal use, is to have a data dictionary file that defines the terms used. that is used as a structural launching point for fleshing out each page precisely once and keeping terminology consistent. then, Obsidian handles the linking between each page when each term appears.

this works really well for documents that don’t absolutely have to be read in a very linear order and users can effectively bounce around to whatever they are interested in. for a published manual, like “how to use postgres” or something, this strategy would not work at all.
Calculus series: Introduction to Laplace transform
Hm interesting idea... but

- wasm has modules, "imports", and "exports" for I/O and host communication. The glue is one of the harder parts of the problem.

- wasm bytecode is sandboxable with a simple MMU mapping. That's one reason it has structured control flow rather than goto. (And this is why you need a special algorithm to compile C gotos to wasm.) RISC V certainly doesn't limit itself like that.

So I think this idea is glossing over a lot of details... not all ISAs are equal, especially ones meant to be transmitted over the network!