skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see no problem focusing on the largest companies that rely on personal data.

The "10 entities limit" doesn't seem like an inappropriate use of a loophole here. You have draw the line somewhere. Look at the largest and use them to make the general guidelines (or new laws) that will govern all companies. Then look at other companies as needed
I regularly take the Berlin - Budapest overnight train. Usually it's lovely, but now during Corona times it's an absolute nightmare. There are no sleeper trains, because something something infection, so you get to sleep in normal compartments. Also, the train passes through five countries. Normally you don't notice, but now they'll wake you up at every single border too look at your passport, say hmmmm and then let you sleep again.
> I would switch to native Linux in a heartbeat if Davinci Resolve worked well on my hardware (a video editing tool that runs on Linux)

On what kind of hardware are you right now?
We've had chroot jails, freebsd jails, and a ton of other options in 1980/1990s. Then someone decided to create a landing-page with a lipstick, and an SV pitch, and viola, docker is the revolution!

We've had make, autotools, ssh-expect/pexpect, pxe-boot, not to mention, shell itself, and a ton of other options. Oh but a few folks decided to create landing pages with lipsticks, and SV pitches, and viola, we have Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, the whole IaC revolution!

The same folks who shitted on autotools all their life without investing time in learning it properly, now are willing to invest 10x more time, putting up with all the warts and bugs and crap documenation of neo-IaC, and all-in-all being carpet rag fanboys of the new tools.
Yes, having even just a starting point for numbers on this would be very helpful. Part of the issue is people won't even countenance the concept of reparations, so no one gets as far as saying, well if your great grandfather was enslaved for X years under system Y, here's an estimate of the value of their labor that was stolen by that system.

What are the limits? Who will be excepted? How will it be enforced? All good questions! But we can hardly answer them if we refuse to engage with the idea of reparations to begin with.
Because we've seen this so clearly with fake celebrity porn?

And those are folks with the actual resources to go after it in courts.

> In most cases, the people with the motive an ability to make machine-generated porn of a particular person will be relatively easy to find.

I just find this incredibly difficult to believe, unless this "ban on user content" extends to a ban on general computing. And maybe that's where we'll end up, but I think that's a much more malicious result than generated porn. Or maybe anonymity will disappear online, which I find fairly scary, but is another clear thrust we're seeing.

Also - What about the absolutely bonkers industry that will be consent based generated porn? We're already headed that route now with 3d scanning of actors/actresses, and lord knows - I think a lot of folks in the porn industry would be happy to get digitally imaged and then not have to actually engage in the physical process of making porn.

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I think this is a real and genuine ethics question that we don't have good answers to right now.

I don't really have a problem with PH pulling down anonymous user content (hell - private company, they can make their own decisions) but I also don't really think it's going to stop this kind of behavior, and it certainly doesn't untangle complex social questions around what's right and wrong in this space.

I will say - I think we're undergoing another sexual revolution right now, it's just more subtle because it's less about what folks do or wear in public, and more about what folks do in private.

I'm not entirely sure how you legislate on this topic either - What's art? What's porn? can you really "Know it when you see it"? What if you unintentionally make imagery that just resembles a real person?

Those are all questions that depend on social context at the time they're legislated on, and they set a tone going forward.

Basically - My whole point is that this is not some clear win, and again - I'm not entirely sure there's a win anywhere in this discussion. I think this is just PH skirting around the issue for monetary reasons because they happen to be big enough at this point that they can do without anonymous submissions.

I will say - I'm fairly sure any "it's simple and this will solve it!" response is utter bullshit.
That’s really interesting to read about. I always recall an early case in my career, where a customer’s storage device crashed, leaving a unikernel core file. They suffered data loss so it got a lot of engineering attention. This model was old even circa 2001 and ran a DEC Alpha processor. After a week of full-time investigation by our best engineer, the conclusion was that the processor...took the wrong branch. That was it, it just failed like a broken machine. Which I guess is what it was!
Facebook’s growth has stalled and Instagram is overshadowing its parent, hence the efforts to integrate it so completely that it cannot be divested. As a separate company it would be a tremendous check on FB’s market power.

As for FB’s attempt to create an irreversible fait accompli, it’s easy enough to address: Instagram gets all the shared infrastructure and its transitive closure, and it’s Facebook’s task to replace it for itself, not the spun-off Instagram.
Is it an official Rubik's one or some other brand? I've got about 15 of them (Mostly from QiYi and GAN) and all of them have the yellow/white opposite. Of course they're all made within the last 5 years so maybe it changed at some point.
Civil Asset Forfeiture is one of the greatest constitutional crises of the modern era United States. It's existence is evidence that the federal government plans to continue furthering its encroachment on civil liberties and I truly hope that the people can find a way to get rid of it. 84 percent of Americans reportedly oppose it, and I often have a hard time understanding how the Supreme Court hasn't struck it down (outside of the obvious reason they don't, which is to continue to have stronger federal power).
More importantly, Jesus is considered by many to be the son of God, as well as God himself. Otherwise Jesus would just be a victim.
AMD is definitely recommended these days, but Nvidia GPUs also have excellent drivers but may require some work depending on which distro you are on. As for eGPUs, please carefully check how to handle that on Linux as it's not always supported out of the box.
> This can have a subtle effect on your culture. Engineers who don't want to get into a budgeting conversation will end up avoiding using key tools, and this can cost you a lot of money in terms of invisible lost productivity.

For exactly this reason I wanted to build a developer screening tool from scratch [1]. In all the companies I worked for, I never got the budget to pay for one of the available tools in the market (most have "contact us pricing"). The result is that most teams I've met spend a lot of time manually evaluating coding challenges. This is a waste of time both for the company and the candidate. A custom screening tool allows the company to calibrate it according to the perceived average candidate level, and avoid those algorithm questions that are useless for most small to medium companies.

In my previous company it was used in a few hiring processes and it worked fine - both for back-end and front-end development. It is not open source yet because your need some basic Docker and Rails skills to use it - even though the screening test can be in any language(s) you want (that runs on Docker). If it matches your experience and you want to try it out, please contact me.

[1] https://github.com/skilltest/skilltest
and to add to that - if you package the code and we can self-host it and connect with twillio api and all that, I could see spending a couple hundred bucks to buy it and not have to worry about the politically-correct wanna be cancel police getting it pulled.. that way I don't have to worry who gets nervous about content complaints and how that gets handled at your place.
> But we can hardly answer them if we refuse to engage with the idea of reparations to begin with.

That's because the first order of business is to demonstrate that reparations are even a good idea. Engage with those who don't like the idea, and address the concerns they raise, if you can; then deal with minutae.
Amazon owns Twitch... which is a completely different beast than Amazon Prime Video.
This brings back memories. I used Seat61 to plan a 40-day-long trip across Europe and Asia back when I was an undergraduate, and it was an invaluable resource.

There was even a planned TV series based on the website around 10 years ago: http://www.guerilla-films.com/man-in-seat-61.html
Because Japanese house is traditionally built to be able to pass winds for natural wind cooling in summer. It was fine for summer but bad for winter, so we love Kotatsu.

Now, we can't live with natural wind cooling in summer (A/C is the only option), it's bad in both summer and winter.
Yes it's unfortunate that these tutorials and WWDC transcripts are effectively the replacement of core documentation, regardless of their quality. Overviews, code listings, and conceptual docs are being added, but at a slow pace and it's hard to find which ones have been updated outside of some people posting about it on Twitter.
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Amazon owns Twitch, which is both a social media site and a video streaming service.
Online harms law to let regulator block apps in UK
Civil asset forfeiture makes it really annoying to travel through some of the prettiest parts of America.

Say that you like the parks and forests in places like Montana, Arkansas, Utah, New Mexico, etc. You're going to do a lot of driving along state highways with a lot of nice things packed away, and maybe a small water/dirt vehicle.

Most of those state highways have small towns every 20-80 miles where the speed limits briefly drop in increments of 10mph down to 30-40mph. In these towns, if you have out-of-state plates, you will regularly be pulled over for doing 5mph below the speed limit. You can expect a dog to sniff around your car if the patrol has one. You can feel the desire to just take everything that you own; it's palpable. I've gotten enough "warnings" to make a suit out of carbon-copy paper.

That's to say nothing of racial prejudices in many areas of the US, and you'll probably have to stop for CBP checkpoints in states like New Mexico, even in the middle of 80mph+ interstates.

It was a bad situation in 2018-2019, and I can't see it getting much better when restrictions start to lift in 2021. We badly need our courts to strongly re-assert the 4th Amendment.
The following is all just an opinion, and obviously this type of subject is a discussion. Doubly so because I'm white.

I don't think anyone should pay any more than they benefitted from slavery.

The average person has no ancestors who owned slaves, and the only benefits they got were things like cheaper goods and services. Added up over a lifetime, it's probably not a lot.

But some people come from ancestors who made a LOT of money off slavery, and the benefits of that have been passed down to them one way or another.

So I think different people should be in different brackets based off how much they benefitted from slavery, and those brackets should be proportion of wealth tax over 20-30 years. Not so much to bankrupt anyone, but enough to pay the off the debt.

Also, I think it should be treated as the alpha version of UBI. Basically, the ancestors of slaves should be the first to get on the list for UBI because they're kind of opposites of each-other.
I didn't see the other post and I believe you. If you say you deleted it, and they didn't, I think we'd both agree that's a problem they should fix or change.

I think the issues you're describing don't have anything to do with the social media service aspect, but more like bad practices of an online company. So I'd agree we should push for online tech companies to fix many issues, including security issues and offsite tracking and proper attribution, etc.

But I don't believe in your original argument that we should abolish social media, because a lot of people want to use social media and it's not your right to stop them.
Good luck showing that when all graphics code is designed to be run on CPUs, nobody has spent more than trivial effort making GPU-compatible graphics algorithms, you can't afford new nodes, your GPU is first-generation (and so far from optimal), you can only use CPU memories (who would invent HBM if GPUs didn't exist?), you can only do fixed-function logic efficiently, you have no demos that don't look like programmer art, and you have no way of getting past the adoption hurdle.

Even realtime RT, which is mostly just a compatible add-on to raster, only managed to get off the ground when NVIDIA decided to go all-in and tank the criticism for a generation by effectively forcing it on the customer. No other company could have done that, even though Imagination was pushing for RT hardware for ages before NVIDIA.

> Do you follow the 'Mill' architecture?

Yes. https://medium.com/@veedrac/to-reinvent-the-processor-671139...
Other people haven't been as lucky.
At this point, I must post the classic "Why I Hate Frameworks" rant: https://web.archive.org/web/20130430052914/http://discuss.jo...
As someone in their mid-40s I can attest that random pains seemingly caused by nothing are part of the journey of life.

A few days ago I got out of bed and couldn't straighten my leg without insane knee pain. It lasted about a day and now it's absolutely fine. Yesterday I was vacuuming and my ankle just starts hurting like crazy. Fine in about 15 minutes. The other day I was bending over the sink washing dishes and my left shoulder blade gave me 7/10 pain. Seemed to be caused by an aggravated neck extensor but IDK.

Getting old sucks but I suppose it beats the alternative.
Uh, if you keep taking shortcuts (like we did), then it shortens it to Feb 21.
And also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skatole

Skatole or 3-methylindole is an organic compound belonging to the indole family. It occurs naturally in the feces of mammals and birds and is the primary contributor to fecal odor. In low concentrations, it has a flowery smell and is found in several flowers and essential oils, including those of orange blossoms, jasmine, and Ziziphus mauritiana.
Training itself can take 6 weeks+
You wouldn’t with only 35 people. Wait until you hit 350.
Lots of railway equipment (vehicles, signalling systems) is designed and manufactured in Europe, and obviously the construction and maintenance staff have to be, so I don't see why this decision would have been done for Airbus.

I think it's more likely to have been convenient for the politicians, who had incomes that fitted with taking weekend breaks to Paris or wherever, and good for their voters, on a holiday package to Greece.
...Brexit...
Do the people who had their property stolen by the Nazis have to pay the US for liberating the death camps?

Yeah, no. There are simple answers to several of your questions.
Many, many people struggle with dry and cracked skin (hands, face), blood noses, etc.

For me personally I do notice it whenever I leave and come back, though I seem to adjust OK. I use moisturizer a lot.
Humans secrete pheromones, can detect them, and respond to them.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987372/

https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/15/4/579/205993

We use our noses to detect them.

It is a wonderful article.
Even the most experienced people told us it'll take 18-24 months. This kind of progress is unprecedented and frankly quite amazing.
2020 Was Especially Deadly. Covid Wasn’t the Only Culprit
> The signals that a mouse detects are very specific to other mice. Humans and other higher primates do not have this organ for sensing pheromones. However, the areas of the brain controlling essential behaviors are thought to be conserved in evolution in all vertebrates, particularly the parts of the hypothalamus that control feeding, reproduction, mating and parenting. It is therefore very likely that the neuronal populations and associated circuitry that we discovered in mice also exist in some forms in the human brain to regulate parenting behavior.
Sluggish UI, dark patterns, OS rebooting when it feels like it, OS waking up during the night for some shenanigans, surveillance, nagging, ads... I don't know how people can have so little self-respect to use windows. Feels like living in a rental apartment with a creep landlord, while with linux you own the house.
Yeah, I think that every time someone/some org knee jerks "it was russia" without at least acknowledging there could be a variety of well funded actors interested in compromising the US Treasury [or any other target] for a variety of reasons and/or having the incentive to make it look like someone else could have done it, just pours more fuel on the attribution fire.
TypeScript and modern JS are doing more than ever to get away from classes. Not sure what libraries you're using but it's time to reevaluate.
> Windows is way behind the curve with tiled window managers

Just use one of the third party utilities.

> it forces updates on you.

Prior to this, Microsoft received over a decade of scorn for not forcing updates for 0-days and other RCEs. RCEs in the wild on Windows make the news. RCEs in the wild for months on end are bad for the entire world.

Does no one remember the complete nightmare that was going to a relative's house and realizing they hadn't updating Windows in 1 year? From bot nets to hidden folders full of pirated files (or worse...), and an overall general expectation that all banking credentials ever entered on that machine are compromised.

Yes mandatory reboots are irritating, yes it would be nice if Microsoft hired back the armies of QA people they got rid of years ago so that the updates were more reliable, but those updates serve a real purpose.
Tried it on my Surface tablet recently. Everything worked on some level, but moving on due to the pen being laggy, no writing app, and an occasional green tint that requires a reboot to stop.
Grinding skills in games turned into running through shot simulations to get the best DPS in world of Warcraft, which turned into me learning to write code. The same obsession is there, just instead of being “the best on the server” I get a paycheck.
I’m working on a library with a similar approach for Node/TypeScript. Obviously the language and platform semantics differ (and unlike several TypeScript API libraries I will be intentionally avoiding decorators because TS/TC39 decorators differ), but it’s nice to see a similar approach validated on a platform with a better reputation for thoughtful design.

I have built another version of this, internal for a previous employer, and it’s been proven successful. It’s really great to have API boundary validation, automatic documentation and static type validation all from a single, simple and declarative source of truth. And I’ve seen first hand how it can improve developer productivity and confidence, project maintainability, and API user experience.

In my experience, Python has a better foundation for this kind of approach: better underlying libraries available in the ecosystem, more likely to work well together. I’ve taken a lot of inspiration from that and hope to at least set a better example for the Node/TS world.
very basicly, civil asset forfeiture, is a crime.
They are profit taking, for sure.
Which proves the value of allowing innovation. When we put in too many regulations, we kill many more people than we save.
One I hope most people would recognize, thankfully. Taking 4 kilos of acetaminophen is something only a suicidal individual would do.
I want to know the principles involved, and the logic behind them, before we talk about calculating backpay. Those should be stated and defended successfully before anything else.

For example, there's examples (IIRC) of former slaves owning slaves themselves; how is that addressed? What moral principles are in play, which can be logically applied to figure out if such a person's progeny receive reparations?
Am I missing something? "The police can take your stuff without proof of wrongdoing" seems like a 100% literal violation of the 4th Amendment's prohibition on, and I quote, "unreasonable searches and seizures".
Literally paying a person for their time. If an employer was stealing money from their employees, why would you have to demonstrate they should have to pay off the debt? There is a measurable financial debt here.

Also, it sets a precedent: if you care about your decedents and progeny at all, there is nothing to gain from cheating. You may benefit and die before repercussions occur, but all debts must be paid eventually. Justice is hard, but not when it comes to hours worked vs hours paid.
Part of that community has done a migration to https://electrical.codidact.com - it doesn't have as much activity or visibility as StackExchange... but its there.
edit: expected downvotes of course; nobody dares to engage on this particular discussion about the vast sums the Europeans must be made to pay for their evil deeds (which they've skirted for hundreds of years now, like cowards)

> Next we need to figure out who profited the most from slaves and where that money is today.

The most? The Europeans. Where is the money? It's in London and Amsterdam among a few other former empires.

The Europeans transported around 12.5 millions slaves to the Americas. They owe so much in reparations it will bankrupt half the nations in Western Europe.

It's very interesting how the Europeans - who were responsible for African slavery in the Americas - never want to talk about it and how nobody in the US ever asks any questions about how much the Europeans are going to pay.

The Europeans transported close to five million slaves to Brazil, nearly ten times as many slaves as were transported to the territory that became the US. One can imagine the reparations tally just for that alone to be in the tens of trillions of dollars.

Britain and the Netherlands should just go ahead and write a check equal to 10% of their entire national wealth to African-Americans. That might get things started on the path to justice. All of the assets of the British throne should be liquidated as part of the process and put into the reparations pot.
I agree that LinkedIn probably has some similar risks to the sites that have been issued response orders. But, if the goal is create legislation around those risks, I'm not sure it is necessary (at this time) to also query LinkedIn (and the many other sites with similar risks). The ones on the list can likely provide enough information for this initial inquiry.
> Does no one remember the complete nightmare that was going to a relative's house and realizing they hadn't updating Windows in 1 year? From bot nets to hidden folders full of pirated files (or worse...), and an overall general expectation that all banking credentials ever entered on that machine are compromised.

When I go to my relatives for which i have installed a version of Linux, even though they don't update it very often it is never infected with anything. No malware, no virus, nothing. Always working exactly as I left it. That's one less headache when I deal with family members.
A dozen deaths in one HS graduating class? Really? That would raise suspicions on 'Dexter.'