skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost of reading may be lower than ever, but people read less than before. And there's no need to compare current figures to the 1850s: the 1970s will do fine.
> Real situation: in India, Western companies paid so much above the local rates that qualified doctors were working in call centres because it paid many times more than working in a hospital or clinic

I'm gonna call BS on this one. Do you have a source?

> Because what might be a casual £1 tip to you, might be a months wages to someone else.

I'm not seeing a problem with that. Why is it bad if someone gets a random bonus; an occasional lucky windfall? Where's the harm?
Very cool project, I’d be interested in something like this for RNN/LSTM inference. Nice work!
Ask HN: How do people make money in the cryptocurrency industry?
Aside from running a cryptocurrency exchange, what are some interesting ways to make money in the cryptocurrency industry?
It's not about finances.

I also grew up relatively poor (we had food, but couldn't afford e.g. school books) and am currently pretty well off (saving more than half of my salary while enjoying a decent quality of life).

Such an upbringing leaves a mark. The other day I was thinking how it's been going too well for too long and I probably have, I don't know, ball cancer which is going to bring my situation to a more familiar level of misery.

I've lived my life having a plan B, C and often also D for every situation.

When you're not used to the good stuff, you become suspicious to the good stuff once it comes along.
> She's not a victim. She was an employee who sent in her resignation/ultimatum letter and then blasted an unprofessional message to a bunch of her colleagues.

The most interesting part of the story is the part that happened before this.
It's more like snowboarding or any activity with a high initial learning curve before a big payoff: It's hard, even painful, at the beginning, and you might come home covered in bruises, but eventually it "clicks" and it's a lot of fun.

Stockholm Syndrome is more about convincing yourself that a bad situation is good because you're stuck in it. I don't think there are too many people "stuck" with Rust yet. On the contrary, I think the borrow checker is a draw.
Because cats don't think in collective myths and build cities.

Humans don't think with insect-like sub-brains throughout their body.

The title of the article has "human" in it so it makes sense to have a human-centric discussion about it.
Already done.

https://www.defensenews.com/video/2019/05/31/watch-this-isra... :

Video: Watch this Israeli robot fire a Glock 9mm weapon

Israel’s General Robotics has demonstrated what it says is the world’s first operational armed robot, the DOGO. (Seth J. Frantzman/Staff)
I wrote something similar a few years back, but I treated it more as a simple capacity issue:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/self-driving-cars-will-not-so...

Even in smaller cities, building transportation infrastructure would greatly reduce congestion, and even reduce the need for future highway expansion. The common excuse is "America isn't built that way" but .. well it was at one time, less than 100 years ago. We use to have more streetcars and passenger rail than EU does now!

I didn't address the technical merits, but we've already seen leaked Google training data on here (that was really bad training data because it seemed to use automated/AI to build the training data and put boxes around a lot of things it shouldn't have ... can't find the link to that now), we know about Uber's engineers screwing up royally and killing a cyclist, we know about Tesla's autopilot getting people killed ... which shows even using sensors as safety features may make people less attentive to the road.

It's a hard problem space. Personally when I get really old and can't drive anymore, I'd prefer to live some place where I could still walk to cycle or take a train everywhere I really need to. I trust that stuff more than us finding the magic bullet to self-driving AI.

And I think what we can get from this article: good self driving AI requires advanced general purpose AI. And once you have that, good luck getting something that intelligent to drive you car. I imagine Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide, "The most advanced robot in the galaxy asked to do the most menial tasks ... fix the engine Marvin. Fly the ship Marvin. Go buy groceries Marvin ... I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."
The thing is specifically not designed to stop coronavirus, and specifically disclaims providing any protection against coronavirus. That’s not an editorial, that’s the written scientific standard for the medical device.

If you could get people to wear them without making people think they were a panacea then there wouldn’t be a problem (it would be a “can’t possibly hurt” situation). Unfortunately that’s not the equation that we’re faced with.

I’m sure EN14683 IIR is somewhat better than nothing, perhaps shifting the odds of infection somewhat lower depending on the circumstance. But if people slap one on and then feel they can’t be infected while standing in a room with people outside their household, that’s a mistake.

I think it’s blatantly obvious looking at flu vs. COVID numbers that it’s not that the precautions people are taking are not totally ineffective, they are just not nearly as effective as we need them to be against COVID.
This is one of the most illuminating assessments of Twitter. It’s virtue signaling , as cliche as it sounds to use that term - that’s what Twitter has become. No fault of Twitter, we’ve created a culture in our society where persons with their open identity cannot easily voice dissenting opinions and going against the grain without getting cancelled.

What a fucked up world we live in.
Neural Reverse Engineering of Stripped Binaries Using Augmented CFGs
Thank You Mask Man and Mask Woman
This is super cool! Congratulations! I am doing sth in the same space but related to recording - check out Band Studio app. My Show HN post is couple of items below yours. I am thinking how those two things could play together...
apple uses this technique on non-HDR displays tho.
Having worked in this kind of customer support, the issue isn't that technician doesn't understand DNS, but rather that the end user frequently hadn't even heard of it. It's a massive pain to troubleshoot something like that remotely when the caller is non-technical. Not impossible of course, but frustrating and requiring a great deal of patience on both ends.
Did you actually do the math on efficiencies?

You can select your state here to see https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric_emissions.html

Remember your bmw doesn’t have regen braking.

Apparently Evs are even better in Kentucky, although hybrids are better. But also once the energy mix shifts, because it will not be coal forever even in ky, the pure ice will become even worse. I.e your bmw.
There are not major flaws in human thinking there is human thinking, framed. There are thousands of years of human thinking on human thinking that one could refer to, and do. Ignoring the question of what is a human subject, reality and thought maps it as another polemic cultural battle of the Global West. It's super fun. Start maybe at Plato, Kant, Hegel, Foucault, Badiou, Ljubljana school, Mbembe, Moten/Harney/Undercommons, Agamben, Butler, Spivak, Hall, and on and on. So many people dedicating their lives to this question always seems like a good place to start, if one is seriously asking the question and not just reproducing status quo. Which, if that is the purpose of this forum, I apologize.
"On these non-HDR displays, Apple has remapped “white” to something less than 255-255-255, leaving headroom for HDR vales, should they be called for"

What is the source for this? I don't see any justification for this claim in the article. There are plenty of ways to implement this feature that don't involve permanently throwing out dynamic range on all your SDR panels. I'm not even convinced from reading this that they aren't HDR panels to begin with - the idea of an iPhone having a 9-bit or 10-bit panel in it isn't that strange to me, and while that wouldn't be enough for like Professional-Grade HDR it's enough that you could pair it with dynamic backlight control and convince the average user that it's full HDR.

Considering Apple controls the whole stack and uses a compositor there's nothing stopping them from compositing to a 1010102 or 111110 framebuffer and then feeding that higher-precision color data to the panel and controlling the backlight. Since they control the hardware they can know how bright it will be (in nits) at various levels.
I’m Autistic. I Didn’t Know Until I Was 27
The gaming industry in one chart
Now that’s just crazy talk!
> "Any sufficiently complicated model class contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a state machine." (not sure where I read this quote).

Can’t tell you where you read it, of course, but believe it originates from Braithwaite/raganwald:

http://raganwald.com/2018/02/23/forde.html
Android isn't a Linux desktop environment. I'd barely even call it Linux. It uses its own drawing layer that's not X or Wayland, a mounting system that makes no sense and changes with every release, is filled with tons of proprietary stuff ... I mean, it's the Linux kernel and pretty much nothing else.
You’re not answering the question. Is it possible to delete or not?

On GitHub yes someone might be watching, but deletes are still possible.
Sure, milk whatever they have the political or economic clout to achieve.

But I would say that the argument is even less favorable for them that Apple exerts an unfair monopoly over the outlets for them to publish their works. They have a world of ways to publish their content and simply want a bigger cut of this one. No principles about it.
I have not. Does the borrow checker make things difficult? Isn’t there a weak_ptr equivalent?

Though honestly, in C++ it is very rare I use something other than vector (potentially wrapped for specific use case, like boost flat_map)
> No. The US does not criminalize thought, and doing so would be tyranny.

That's why nobody takes Americans seriously and they need so many guns to get attention

Fascism is a crime in Italy, it's in the Constitution

Nazism is a crime in Germany as well

They are not opinions, they are crimes

Of course not for the US that saved lots of them and brought them home

Or supported them when they literally destroyed South America instating far right dictatorships...

> The very purpose of freedom of speech and the press is to maintain channels for criticism and change

Says the country where every year tens of mass shooting episodes happen and never changed anything to prevent them, despite being the only place in the developed World where it happens and an insurmountable amount of criticism

Do you mind if I don't buy your BS?
(Small periodicity note here: Rust 1.0 was in 2015, not 2012. This makes your point even stronger, imho)
But would you then be debugging the automatically-generated C++ code, which is presumably harder to read than the original Nim source code?
Speaking for myself, the biggest problems in my thinking are as follows:

1. Thinking you know anything with an even remotely high degree of certainty.

2. Confirmation Bias - thinking you are right and searching for evidence to prove you are right, reaffirming your own beliefs in the process and actively ignoring or providing excuses for counter examples and contradictory evidence.

3. Difficulty/Inability of looking only at the facts without interpreting them as you would like them to be or not to be.

3. Inability/Difficulty of admitting you are wrong/made a mistake and also remember it and learn from it.

4. Inability/Difficulty of acknowledging you are an irrational, flawed monkey stumbling around trying to make sense of about a billion things you don't understand and never will understand.

Trying to still make progress given all the above.
But if (in the U.S.) you hollow out and defund the public education system and cultivate a lower class of the unthinking and uninformed (presumably part of a ploy to create more Republicans that'll keep voting for your side), you have to take great pains to protect the general public from misinformation. If the anti-vaxxers or QAnoners can take refuge in your decentralized, uncensored platform, that platform now acts as a vector for great social self-harm.

There's also the "what if you could 3D print an extinction-level, bioengineered supervirus with an open source genome in your garage" argument, where our values start to break down, and that might not be too far away.

BUT other kinds of censorship are also horrible, and, for my part, I love privacy, so fight the good fight fam <33
I remember that(I applied twice. Won’t likely do it again because YC isn’t a good fit for me) and I wrote something to fill the blank..while thinking why on earth would I put that in writing here for the off chance that I might be get into an accelerator program.

I don’t expect anyone to answer that truthfully, but the ability to come up with a convincing and impressive response would score major points for creativity.
“Confidence”—there is no such thing during a global pandemic. There is lower risk and higher risk.
You're right - usually insurance will call crashes 'accidents' in order to reduce perceived liability, although the word does have a place for incidents where it wasn't preventable (such as a sudden hail, or a billboard falling, or any number of outside factors causing someone to hit another car to avoid their own injury).

https://www.patrickdaniellaw.com/crash-vs-accident-differenc...
I have a car with these sensors; they don't work, probably batteries are dying (car is 14 years old). Just another nanny lamp on the dash that I ignore.
I see what you mean here, but I think the shift in mode of analysis from moral to scientific blunts the force of the critique.
Nicotine is not harmful. It's a stimulant, like caffeine. https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine

I propose an alternative - a charity should just give nicotine gum or patches to smokers to help them quit. For many smokers this is enough (it's how I quit) and would improve their lives. Nicotine gum is cheaper than cigarettes, too.

There seems like a market opportunity here for insurance companies who are paying for smoking-related treatments; why aren't they offering free gum to their clients? Even a percentage uptake should save them money if their incentives are aligned.
I exchange please remove DRM from ebooks.
It seems that it is sadly only built for AppImage and MacOS neither of work on any of my current machines. Though I guess it just means that I have to figure out how to build it myself.
Benefits of Walking
Using those terms everyone at least seems to know who we try to talk about and what aspect of their ideas we talk about.
>never believed in the concept at all

New generations come and go. Nobody is born with pre-existing notions of what is right or not, including free speech. It's not a surprise that some values are replaced with others on a per generation basis.
That's incredible, especially given how finicky I imagine porting physics and math from ActionScript to JavaScript to be.
Unemployment exists, so the situations are basically the same?

Take your own advice.
Slackware was my very first Linux (Slackware 3.6). Back then I built a Linux From Scratch (2001/2002) and used it for two semesters and it really helped me fully understand a lot about Linux.

Today I use Gentoo on my main box, Alpine on my file server (I wrote this on using Alpine with full disk encryption: https://battlepenguin.com/tech/alpine-linux-with-full-disk-e...), Void on my router and Dedicated server.

My favorite current distros are currently Void, Gentoo and Alpine.
They were still crooks. Some people have morals
Usually you have a crummy-but-good-enough encoder on the wheel in the form of a steel tone ring and a magnetic pickup. If you know the steering wheel angle and can observe the relative rotation rates between wheels, you can infer which tire is low. How do you determine that all of them are low? I guess you could compare against a GPS velocity?
Yes, and I write about that and Tesla's active safety features here https://jperla.medium.com/tesla-saves-lives-waymo-gambles-pa...
Why is the self driving ecosystem trying to solve every driving challenge, which is very hard, rather than focussing on highway driving, ideally reserved lanes, high speed and close cars. And progressively expand those areas "reserved to self driving card" over time. It feels like it would bring a lot of value while reducing complexity a lot. If this is a silly question, please let me know why.
I would say a couple things here:

- Your argument could be rephrased as "profit-sharing isn't necessary as long as you pay people enough." This may work at mega-successful businesses like Microsoft, but doesn't work so well at something like a restaurant chain (or Amazon), where income inequality is far more pronounced. And those cases are far more common.

- Concentrations of wealth and capital have a destabilizing effect on society. It leads to political corruption. Further, even if we have a handful of companies where income inequality is relatively low, that's not the case for most Americans, even at those same companies. In other words, sure software engineers are doing fine, but most people aren't, including many people working for the same companies as those software engineers.
USA is not the only country in the world!

Do you think that 230 somehow magically blocks decentralized internet all across Europe?

230 has nothing to do with global decentralized internet.
maybe in the first place they would allow me to buy an ebook i want.

Often i want to buy some ebooks in English, but i legally cannot. UK based publisher has rights to the series, but doesn't sell ebooks, while US based one has an ebook but cannot legally sell it to me.

The whole ebook industry is absolutely atrocious from consumer PoV. DRM, locked down systems, the problems outlined above.. and for some reason ebooks usually cost more than physical books over here!

I mean one has draconian DRM and license attached, can be purged from your device and account for no reason.. while other is a physical good without such restrictions, that i can legally lend to my friends.
There could be many other reasons:

- Outside media continues to refer to her as Timnit including NYTimes which affects HN users

- If someone’s name is Gorot Trzebiatowski (please forgive me if you have such a name), most people would go with Gorot because it is shorter and easier to pronounce / write. Subconsciously, these things happen.

You’re right - No need to assume malice where probably there isn’t. This is conspiratorial thinking - find some pattern of data that supports mainstream narrative and make conclusions from it. This is what QAnon conspirators do all day.

Although I’m curious about your motivation for analyzing this :-)
When do I get to own my data?
relevant subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/savedyouaclick/
The truth comes from examination, and the legitimacy of the examiners,

It sounds an awful lot like you are calling for an explicitly elevated class of people, with the sole authority to interpret the literature. Sort of like a priesthood.

We have to find a new way through this problem.

Censorship is hardly "a new way." And this problem only exists if enough people pay attention to it. It's not the freedom of speech that is the problem, it's traditional media that amplify every debate instead of projecting nuance, and it's algorithms that optimize for engagement over connection.
This is including deaths to pedestrians and cyclists
Could you elaborate? You're more worried about three academic theories/frameworks existing than having a jerk of a boss?
> When you map “white” down to gray, you have to drive the LED backlight brighter for the same perceived screen brightness

So that's why Lunar[1] reads a much higher brightness and makes all external monitors as bright as ten thousand suns when HDR content is played.

I wonder if there's any way to detect this and read or compute the SDR brightness instead.

[1] https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/issues/86
Indeed. Modern Angular is a pleasure to work with. You get a lot of value and productivity right out of the box and it really shines for really large apps. The "boring" aspects help me focus on what I need to build and less how.
> At risk for what?

Well, I'm quite confident that death is a possible answer to that question. Also quite likely: a year of horrible suffering in rehab with good-intentioned people sticking needles into you regularly before dying from mundane bacterial pneumonia.
It's related to how the internet ad market has evolved. Initially, sites would run their advertising side kind of like newspapers do - have in-house departments to sell ads directly to the companies that want to advertise, then place the ads on their pages manually and serve them from the same servers. It works, but it's a ton of overhead to have all those ad sales people and find companies one at a time willing to set up a direct relationship with your site and deal with direct billing etc.

It was kind of a revolution to set up these advertising middlemen. Site owners just sign up to show ads and set up their site to load an ad from the ad company's server. Advertisers buy their ad time from the middlemen too. Nobody has to maintain those high-overhead direct relationships. Huge boon for the little-guy sites on both sides. That's the good part. There's plenty of bad parts too, including monopolization of the market, abuse, poor behavior of anti-abuse mechanisms, etc. It's what we've got though, until somebody comes up with something better.
I'd be interested in expanding the library to cover the MENA region.
Yeah, but we are not talking about people in general, we are talking about board rooms in think tanks and cameras of commerce. What is the motive there?
PostmarketOS supports a lot of older tablets and can give them new life.
> These technologies are long deprecated on Apple platforms.

This doesn't matter to the user, who is still using apps like IntelliJ IDEs. To the end user, this is a problem with MacOS, which does not allow GPU vendors to update their OpenGL drivers. Meanwhile, Ubuntu has far superior OpenGL performance and superior Vulkan performance on the same hardware.

> It’s a lie to say “The software adds a 30% performance penalty on top” based on these results.

You keep saying that, but you haven't explained why. MacOS is also twice as slow on git operations according to the benchmarks. Java2D and git are software that people use that are multiple times slower (not merely 30%) on the same hardware.

> I’m not going to watch YouTube videos.

Then I'll post text summarizing them. Android on midtier previous generation phones launches apps to interactivity faster than iOS running on latest generation hardware, and this has been the case for about ten years now. There are hundreds of videos on YouTube substantiating that.

Edit to respond to below comment due to rate limiting:

> YouTube videos, however many, are not a credible source of operating system performance claims. You can find YouTube videos supporting flat earth theories or that Obama is a lizard alien.

The YouTube videos doen't say that Android is faster. They show that Android is faster. You seem to not understand the difference between people claiming things are true and people showing things are true.

It's the same with the 30%. I showed a suite of benchmarks where MacOS is 30% slower on average. It was many times slower on a few specific benchmarks I called out.

> If you are a heavy Java or OpenGL user, don’t by a Mac.

I'm glad we can agree on that. You forgot heavy git users.

Edit 2:

> It creates a dishonest impression of the thread.

How does replying with edits create a dishonest impression of the thread when I very clearly indicate which comment I am replying to? If you would like to respond normally, there is a very easy way to enable that. Simply upvote my comments to disable the rate limiting.