skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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There aren't millions upon millions of ferrets kept at this density though.
It’s suspected that something similar like this happened to create the 1918 Flu Pandemic, except the theory is that it was a human (and maybe a chicken too) giving the flu to a pig where it mutated into something much more virulent than normal.
That’s unfortunate. The libraries I’ve lived near all have used OverDrive and Libby, both of which are great experiences (and it’s also relatively easy to get at the raw epubs).
I was nodding along until the author talked about taking issues that are rightfully the government's responsibility into their own hands. This is exactly the wrong thing to do -- to usurp power from those who rightfully wield it, whether they wield it well or poorly. This is like Uber doing the government a favor by taking over the responsibility of public transit. Sure you might get where you're going, but you've undermined the democratic institutions that allowed everyone to participate and privatized a portion of the public realm.
And I’d argue the barrier to entry for taxi businesses should be higher. More cars on the road doesn’t help the environment, or speed up anyone’s commute. Allowing Uber to circumvent this is moving our state in the wrong direction. And uber’s experience while better in some ways, is only better at the cost of the environment, and workers rights.

If we don’t allow artificial scarcity/restrictions on number of cars on the road, maybe we should stop subsidizing fossil fuels too.
Time to engineer some humans with lustrous fur then
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Quite far away but that’s because we’re in lock down.
This is sound and realistic advice. Certain kinds of change are possible within the system, but perhaps some useful changes are not? Is there a middle ground that would allow for experimentation without the hazards of revolution?
For inference, not training. Sorry for the confusion.
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I’m not doing any of the things you say - I don’t equate the accusations, and I agree that Trump is much worse than Biden.

However I do think the perceptions of the two sides of one another are more equated than you do. That’s in fact my point - policies matter more than attacking Trump’s character.

As for Guns, you’re just wrong.

Biden tweeted about banning assault weapons repeatedly, even at times when it was absurd - e.g. in response to two police officers being shot with a pistol. This has absolutely been echoed in conservative circles, and is an accurate reflection of his stated policies on his website. Kamala Harris is also one of the most fervently anti-gun politicians on record.

As to “Gun owners favor gun control” - if you believe that you are just misinformed.

The only gun control that gun owners (or the population as a whole) favor is background checks, and even this gets weaker when the actual implications of the schemes are explained.

It simply isn’t fear mongering.

All of the things that gun owners fear are in fact being demonstrated in California.

I think these are stupid policies that don’t save lives, and have definitely helped Trump both in 2016 and now.

I pick gun control because it is so ineffective, and it’s easily substituted with better polices if you want to save lives.

I.e. you can change this policy without betraying democratic values.
Furs can still be collected and sterilized maybe?
Seems people are disregarding this vote based on hypothetical loopholes. Instead, i am focused on the awareness this bill represents.

Facial Recognition and Right to Repair improvements both ended up on state ballots and came away with citizen/consumer wins (as opposed to gov/corporate).

HN comments are usually quick to point out that "normal people" don't have a clue about these issues. I tend to agree. I for one am happy to have such objective data points that the public is sensing some urgency here.
US be like: "you're not allowed to see the live position of aircraft"

US also be like: "let's make it super easy for anyone to tell where every aircraft is"
For context: this is basically the Dutch John Oliver, so not necessarily "the news" but arguably more reliable in terms of information.
Yeah, instead I'd rephrase to: 'state-enabled monopoly'. It is enabled through Patents and Copyright laws that keep knowledge, in the form of IP and 'trade secrets', artificially scarce and limited to American/Silicon Valley corporations.

"How can politicians look into TV cameras and say we have a free market system when patents guarantee monopoly incomes for twenty years, preventing anyone from competing? How can they claim there are free markets when copyright rules give a guaranteed income for seventy years after a person’s death? How can they claim free markets exist when one person or company is given a subsidy and not others, or when they sell off the commons that belong to all of us, at a discount, to a favoured individual or company, or when Uber, TaskRabbit and their ilk act as unregulated labour brokers, profiting from the labour of others?" [1]

+

"The IP system is an artificial construct that excessively rewards owners of intellectual property, granting them monopolies over inventions and ideas that in many cases are the product of generations of thinkers and/or publicly funded research.” [2]

[1] https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-08-03/book-day-corru...

[2] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/the-precariat-populis...
Looks good but shows that text-wrap: pretty [0] and MathML Core [1] cant’t come soon enough.

[0]: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-4/#text-wrap

[1]: https://mathml-refresh.github.io/mathml-core/
You couldn't. An easy guess is that every bitcoin mixer is compromised. You could maybe withdraw $100 at a time from bitcoin ATMs, until KYC/AML forces ATM operators to maintain a coin/address blacklist.
> Maybe india needs more "premier engineering schools" if the acceptance rate is so low. Harvard and MIT have acceptance rates near 5%.

The acceptance rate is not a "real" metric in the way that, say, the acceleration due to gravity is a quantity you can measure. Harvard and MIT do not have acceptance rates near 5%. They have an admission quota. If fewer people apply, more of those people are accepted. If more people apply, fewer of those people are accepted.

The reason for high acceptance numbers is that people perceive they are not Harvard/MIT material, and act on that knowledge by not applying to Harvard/MIT. Applicants need to clear a threshold well above the 95th percentile; the selectivity number is an illusion.
House arrest? I can understand the point. Its a cheaper form of prison. All prisons have cameras.

How about, they either go to prison, or agree to have their home fitted as a prison. Is that less dystopian?
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Syntax-wise, MANOOL is a homoiconic programming language. It has its advantages and drawbacks, as everything, but it is definitely not designed to cause first good impression to those who are not familiar with such concept (seen, e.g., in CommonLisp, Scheme, or Clojure, which are considered incomprehensible by some people).

But what do you think about the article idea itself (apart from the syntax matters as it is orthogonal anyway)?
E.g. Trafalgar, who also got it right last time. There's an interview with the guy who runs it here:

https://unherd.com/thepost/robert-cahaly-how-we-got-the-poll...
Though I suppose it's possible to switch to Computer Modern via the CSS, the equations seems to be included as PNG's. The font of those would not change simply by modifying the CSS.
> China did not commit to begin any restrictions until 2030

Is this factual? They committed to peaking in 2030. Stopping at the stop sign is a radically different concept from starting to brake at the stop sign.
Maybe 1/4th of the papers I read end up at https://arxiv.org/. I rarely just surf there, but when googling around looking up interesting cutting edge topics often a paper hosted on https://arxiv.org/ comes up on google search results.

Also, there are communities that share a lot of papers. Eg if you're interested in ML (which, if you didn't know, is a CS topic), https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/ posts a lot of papers.

edit: I just searched for a random CS paper for you. I haven't read it. Are you feeling lucky? https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2772
They already can with barcodes. It's harder to forge an RFID then a UPC 128 barcode (print as sticker, apply at store)

Reading a shelf full of products isn't an issue, how do you think they can wave a wand over clothes and know the exact sizes they have and quantity?

They should double down on RFID but many of the manufacturers don't want to incorporate it in their process.
I've wanted to do something very much like this (vimflowy) in native vim for a while, but as a relative vim-noob I haven't found a way to do any of the following without going down the vim-plugins route:

- Instantly collapsable/expandable lists (I guess maybe vim folds by indentation could be used?)

- Open sub-list in new window

- Mark a "task" as done

- Basic text formatting (italics/strikethrough/monospace)

- Easy way to "search everything, show a list of results, jump to the context of the chosen result".

In contrast, vimflowy makes all of these quite easy and intuitive.
I’m expecting more of a locust type situation next.
So does other food.

A fur coat provides a lot of warmth. So does other clothing.

Let's not go down the motte-and-bailey rabbit hole of suggesting our vices are simply utilitarian.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... According to HN, AI winter has already started in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020...
The benchmarks https://github.com/ncm/computed-goto/blob/master/benchmarks/... benchmark is not applicable to this discussion because it compares _too_ small state machines. I reference my talk and presentation once more: http://www.tempesta-tech.com/research/http_str.pdf - slide 23 discusses that the goto FSM makes sense for _hundreds_ of states.
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Not that I disagree with you, but did anyone say that that’s what this is?
Yes, cable adapters are plentiful. There are also dongles, but the two ports are too close together to fit dongles in both ports (at least in the Raspberry Pi 4B).
From a practical point of view, isn't the growing use of satellite ADS-B tracking making these types of devices less important?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aireon
Google is new money, these fucks are old money. Print establishments are older money. Print doesn't care about piracy. Print has a good academia racket going.
Mr. Rossmann has a nice clip of his retort in the committee meeting for this:

https://youtu.be/8XN98T0KLGI?t=234
Are you referring to the Catholic church? Most religious organizations are relatively small and independent from one another.
The issue is very much analogous. Lots of pigs getting culled (in many cases burned and/or buried alive on a grand scale) because they are infected with diseases that are dangerous to humans. Corona included.

I just keep being surprised that there is consensus forming around mink but the hog issue, which is very similar and actually a bigger problem by numbers, is not really part of the mainstream debate. For some reason being against mink farming is much more acceptable than being against hog farming and this is reflected in policy.

It could be because the interests of hog farmers and consumers of hog are a much bigger part of society. But the harm is also that much bigger.
This is a bit self-referential.

'Humans are the best therefore human measures are the best therefore humans are the best'

[Caged] minks probably don't think that humans > minks by any measure that they value.
I hope that, in addition to, improving their recruiting funnel and brand value; this effort serves to improve diversity in tech.
We have talked about tech companies throwing their hands in the air to encourage college admissions rate from under-represented classes. Hopefully, this move to go down the funnel leads to that improvement!
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I am looking for how the decriminalization part of this bill is different than Oregon HB 2355, https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2017/HB2355/, that was signed into law on August 15, 2017. It seems to have the same language and amounts in the bill as Measure 110.

p.s. I live in Oregon and voted "yes" on measure 110 to decriminalize all drugs here!
> Mutation is a big red reset button on the pandemic potentially.

Only on the vaccination / immunity front - the biggest problem was that there initially were no tests or lab capacities for tests, plus a total collapse of PPE stockpiles and supply. That's ... at least decently solved.
At least it provides pleasure

Don't get me wrong, I love vegetables, but meat it's not worse, abuse is.

Like the abuse of avocadoes
Sounds and read more like an very rare case where it is not even clear if this holds up in court.
Interesting domain name
This may need to be modified for the fact that Western 'fake fur' often tests out as real fur with an obscured supply chain.
Denmark announces cull of 15M mink over Covid mutation fears
The 7/8th requirement only applies to the state legislature, not to the people. prop 22 can still be overturned by a simple majority in a new referendum.

AB5 passed with 80% of the vote, so requiring a lower threshold would be self-defeating.
Retraining employees is something that does not require an authoritarian-left dictatorship.

Germany, ruled by conservatives for far too long now, does this too - it's called "Umschulung".
I would qualify that and say: Relations are becoming more shallow and more transactional. Co-parenting with someone is still a long-term relationship, albeit every person in that relationship (including the child) is less close to every other person in it.
At what cost?

Fast fashion and cheap and disposable clothes is many times worse than an animal coat that can easily last 80 years.

Reuse is an important part of sustainability.
From aeyes (distant cousin) comment: “Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said half the 783 human COVID-19 cases in northern Denmark ‘are related’ to mink.” from https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Denmark-wants-to-cul...
Just a reminder that you can simultaneously be against the current copyright system in the US while also thinking Kim Dotcom is a criminal that deserves punishment. Too many people in this thread or forcing this into a false dichotomy. Flaws in the current system don't fully excuse his misdeeds many of which are unrelated to copyright.

Or to put it in another context, you can both be against the war on drugs while also thinking that El Chapo belongs in prison.
I agree with the effort to find privacy solutions, but it seems like enforcement of surveillance bans like this will be an uphill battle as long as the physical video hardware remains present. 2020's cutting-edge facial tracking systems will be 2022's Intro to PyTorch tutorial, available to anyone with a $500 GPU. As long as video is being captured and stored, how do you realistically prevent it from being subject to analysis somewhere?
Amen. Great points.

I hope Cory Doctorow sells a billion copies of Attack Surface (the new 3rd vol in his "Little Brother" series), as it's an entertaining and accessible way to introduce these concepts to said "normal people".
Interesting to see that the top hiring location is actually REMOTE!
It's been my experience that the sort of people on HN who claim the general public don't care about issues like this have a gloating tone which makes their personal stance on the matter clear.
Started going down the rabbit hole of links just after posting this, and yes! I had no idea! Just need to work it out! - At the moment I am using the FR24 image they sent out, but I have spotted that the SD Card is in read only mode at the moment and something doesn't look right.

Maybe its a sign telling me to go down this rabbit hole!

Thanks ;)
Pigs tend to be a high risk due to both their proximity to humans, and because they’re genetically close enough to use that they’re a disease transmission risk. It’s believed that the 1918 flu pandemic mutated in a pig before hopping back to the first human victim.
So much this. Basically his entire life seems predicated on a firm conviction that he's entitled to the fruits of other people's labor: Fraud, stock manipulation, embezzlement, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom

Finally, he hit on the perfect crime, in that a large part of society seems to be willing to take the side of somebody making $200M off other people's music over the musicians wanting to make a living off their music, no matter what the law actually says.

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Well then we’re on the same page: default immutability is better. You’re wording three comments up seemed to say you prefer default mutability
> But at least making coats from them mean they will be around.

Being around means nothing to the individual minks being caged and slaughtered
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what he says.

criminalization should be reserved to actions which cause harm to another person who didn't agree to the respective interaction.

If an adult decides to take a drug - fine.
If another adult sells a drug to another adult - where's the problem?

OTOH I'd like to see the concept of mitigating circumstances removed in criminal justice. If somebody takes a drug and commits a crime - full responsibility.
If everyone is exempt, then AB5 is dead
The extradition case is made in the context of New Zealand though.
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> I also have the impression that CS papers all too often recapitulate the topic's history.

It's not really about history so much as context. Usually, you want to set up a paper with "This is the state of X as it exists right now, but there exists this problem Y. We solve Y by starting from X and making Z advancement."

I think part of the issue is CS is exceptionally young (less than 100 years total, really), and the other part is how rapidly it's advanced and diversified in that time (in terms of individual disciplines even within subfields). Without the context, I can't readily jump to a paper from an adjacent-but-not-directly-relevant subfield without needing to look up a bunch of other stuff. And it's not as straightforward to know where to look to find the relevant information. A paper 10 years old might be state-of-the-art or it might be completely outdated, and it's hard to know which if you're not immersed in that discipline. Having the context in the paper itself is a big help to ameliorating this.
Of course corporations can exist without a government, they predate the current system and the current type of governments.
Dammit, and since years I was thinking that anything related to fur was a closed chapter, at least in Europe. This is horrible and absolutely superfluous, used to produce luxury goods :(
Part of me is like, no way I want that, it isn't natural. And the other part is like, yes way I want that, what I do with indoor lighting isn't natural anyways!
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It's true I may not be, but I'm not sure what the material difference is between real-time facial recognition and performing the same analysis on security camera footage after the fact.

I should clarify, I'm not arguing in favor of real time facial recognition, I'm just skeptical of this move's efficacy in preventing the same outcome.
Let's not be disingenuous. We know what he really means. Everyone wants to end the extreme influence and entanglement that corporations have over government officials and government processes.
What, they found only 3 males and 15 females, suggested themselves it should be considered an endangered species, yet they killed one of each to study???

Also looking at the paper it seems that the female had 7 eggs in her
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It means the virus naturally developed a resistance being incubated in minks and everyone is afraid that it could lead to another pandemic wave where the sunk cost of already stuffing a vaccine early, could be useless.

Country loses, corporation loses, citizens lose if that's the case.

If they just cull the minks, only the minks lose.
By remapping caps lock to control, one doesn't have to worry about it - all the control key available that one could need :)
I rarely read the CS literature so I can't says much about that. From reading cheminformatics papers by CS authors, I see that their history section is often only incompletely understood.

For example, in paper I reviewed, the CS authors misread one a paper completely. They wrote something like "method X has been used in cheminformatics before [cite] but the CS literature has improved on that with method Y." But the paper they cited actually used method Y.

Now, the paper itself didn't need that level of detail about the history. That error, and others like it, bugged me because they came across as dilettantes, writing with more assurance than they actually had, and because their history was biased towards the CS methods they knew, which made it feel like they snubbed the cheminformatics methods and treated the previous work in this field as second-class material.

I can't help but think that the process you describe, where someone new to topic must write a history section just to publish, results in a lot of half-baked history, as new people just don't have the experience to really give a good treatment of the history. Instead, they'll see that 15 other papers covered points A-F so they follow the tradition that they need to cover points A-F but with a different slant.

I'm not saying my field is immune to that! There's a well-known observation along the lines that "similar structures tend to have similar properties." Many people will cite a 1990 as the source of that quote. Except that that book doesn't contain that quote. Most people instead know about it second- or third-hand, which has resulted in the common but incorrect practice of making that citation. It's a litmus test I use to tell if the authors really know their history.

Q: If you write multiple papers on a new topic, do you still write histories for each one? Or can you refer to your previous publications for the history?
Even 50 person seems like a lot. I think people tend to forget that there's a lot of room at the bottom. If you want to give your product away for free you need to accept that there'll be less revenue, unless you can pull off the neat trick of segmenting your market almost perfectly e.g. the only people who use the free version are people who wouldn't have paid you anyway and your marginal cost is zero.

Could Docker as a developer tools business managed with 10-15 people? Quite possibly. Especially if it didn't try to become a generic VM on other platforms.
Thanks, very interesting
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