skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you can compress the issue down to a "government" vs "corporation" binary.

There are some powerful benefits of free markets over command economies, such as decentralized self-organization, tendency towards the maximization of total surplus, and dynamic adaptation to changing conditions.

But those benefits are conditional on, for one thing, the rational behaviour of individuals.

There are ways to "hack" people such that they stop behaving rationally (with respect to the economy). The threat of violence or incarceration (maybe one you are equating with government intervention) is one of them.

But there are plenty of others: chemical addictions (e.g. cigarettes), systems that prey on the susceptibility of our dopamine-reward pathways (like slot machines, or your perhaps your facebook feed), etc.

Good policies in a free market economy are ones that make it more difficult to disrupt the beneficial aspects of a free market. I'd say good policy-making actually increases the free market-ness of markets in a messy, imperfect world.
A bit OT: I've always wondered - you see a lot of relatively young engineers and devs doing work in what seems to be cutting edge DL work, and some of these are even self-thought, with sometimes only a few years of experience (at least if their open github accounts and blog resumes are any good gauge of experience).

On the other hand - the only (really) talented people I personally know, that are working on Deep Learning problems, all have heavy and very solid academic backgrounds from Math / Physics / CS / etc., and are either finishing up their Ph.D's, or were done the past few years. Most started studying (or working on) ML before the Deep Learning craze took off. All in all, these guys have at least a decade of solid experience - but in return, know a metric ton of classic ML / stats / grad. level math / etc. by heart.

Obviously, in probably most cases, one can't compress 10 years of hard work experience into 1-2 years, even though that's what a lot of these "roadmaps" seem to promise.

Makes me wonder if the internet-world of deep learning is filled with savants that are able to catch up with decades of research and best-practices in only couple of years, or if these are people that are really, really specialized in some niche application of DL.
The expansion chips were in the game cartridges, though. This article is talking about how you could potentially make a game cart that you could plug into an SNES as normal and have it play with real time raytracing.
"We're all individuals!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbzSif78qQ
They should drop their custom ASICs and just stick a Qualcomm Snapdragon as a replacement. They could use Android and create a platform with an app store with APIs to access their sensor. Opening up the hardware in this standard way to developers would really add a lot of value to their cameras.

I have no idea why they haven't done this already.
Thanks for being such a long-time reader!
While I get the sentiment, this activity is what is killing open source. If you like a tool, contribute or license it to keep it a float. Don’t just rip it and do your own thing. There are maintenance costs that aren’t associated with the feature development. There are liabilities, legalese, indemnity, etc you should worry about.

Support open source.
It is 10% users, not people in general if I understood correctly.
I think your comment was downvoted because it's a silly thing to focus on.

> but maybe Wikipedia is leaving off a lot of relevant history on the Chaos Engineering article then.

This is certainly true.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo

he has hundreds(?) of examples if you scroll, but to save some time here's one from portland police

https://twitter.com/PortlandPolice/status/128725192442150502...

Edit: ok searching "press" on the feed maybe like more like tens rather than hundreds with actual video evidence, but im sure i missed some
That's not precisely what I was trying to say. Another attempt: Flash was bound to go away when it was supplanted by something else at some point, and it is a good thing that that "something else" was open standards, and that most content has been built on those rather than Flash for a while now, because the same is unlikely to happen for that.
This attack and Van Eck phreaking are why Edward Snowden, while typing passwords and other sensitive information, would pull a blanket over himself and his laptop.
I dunno, MSNBC and FOX news seem to come from very different viewpoints.
iPhones make good photos because they stand out from competition. People look at them and see they are different. Soon everybody is going to be fed up with dramatic lighting, extended dynamic range because competition will be doing the same.

Good photos stand the test of time because they are interesting, not because they have pumped colors and HDR.
Thank you for the suggestion and kind words.

Do you have any thoughts on how to find someone like that? I've had mixed experiences with marketing people.
I do admire it!
everyone loves to believe they think for their self, especially those who belong to teams and it is everyone else who are sheep(le).
> California's answer to everything is raise taxes.

Really? It's almost the end of 2020 and California hasn't passed a single tax increase. Let's look at 2020 ballot measures:

* Requires commercial and industrial properties to be taxed based on market value and dedicates revenue? REJECTED

Source: https://ballotpedia.org/California_2020_ballot_propositions

And legislation?

* AB 2088 - Wealth Tax? REJECTED

* AB 1253 - Tax rate increase on taxpayers making over $1M? REJECTED

* AB 398 - Headcount tax on businesses with 500+ employees? REJECTED

Source: https://blog.armaninollp.com/tax/2020/09/08/ca-legislative-s...

FWIW, Democrats have held a supermajority (>= 2/3) in both the House and Senate all year long.
liberatii.com has developed a similar tool like Babelfish for Oracle to SQL Server and PostgreSQL in case you're interested.
Should Your Kidney Doctor Have a Financial Stake in Dialysis?
Scaling prometheus across multiple separate Kubernetes clusters is a fking nightmare.
Not sure if you're saying that bad thing or not, but I think the answer is almost certainly no.

But there could be a requirement that Apple open up their laptops to other OSs (and not just via virtualization). And honestly I don't see why that would be a bad thing.
Where's the rest of the quote? Because it's probably something like "but always show your ideas to other people, otherwise they're fucking useless"

Be alone for enough time and you'll be just as insane as poor Tesla. He didn't exactly live a good life.
The problem with censorship is that you must elevate one person into a position of power over another, and give the censor dictatorial powers.

If what you were saying were sensible it would make sense to let AT&T disconnect phone service, or stop texting that goes against the political beliefs of the AT&T executives. That's insane. But yet it's what Twitter does.

I don't want Big Tech execs being dictators. And if they can censor then they are indeed dictators.

If Twitter can say: "We're in charge of speech, because we own the hardware", then so can AT&T (and that's absurd)

We have 20-somethings sitting in their Ivory Towers with the power to censor Presidents and Heads of State. It's got to stop. They're children. Presidents are getting censored by children today.
If people can't follow simple rules, then the state must force them to, under threat of fines, arrest, and prison time.
True.

But the cartridge claims to have IIS and Apache on it. Neither of those can run in 128 bytes.
You might want to explain who Limbaugh, Glenn, Orielly, Carlson etc are for those of use outside of the US bubble
Just finished the podcast.

I thought the husband had an entirely valid request of "Your tulpa can't be in a sexual relationship with someone else"

Obviously I don't know anything about the situation beyond what is in the podcast, but up until that point it seemed like a "my husband won't accept my quirks" type of thing.

After they read his excerpt, I was much more inclined to think she was really the one at fault for their relationship falling apart.

All I can say is I'm glad I'm not having to deal with that situation.
Everyone here complaining about the pricing on the managed Grafana and Prometheus services have clearly never worked at a shop using SumoLogic. Log/metric processing/querying is expensive for a reason.
Are you referring to confusion in the article, or among users?

Everyone spells it with all caps. Browse DPReview for a bit. "RAW" is just the convention, even though it makes no sense.
I love everything about my Pinebook Pro except the trackpad, which suffers from lag. Not much, just enough to be really annoying.
We applaud you for your altruism, but how does this benefit your firm?

It's been established that this may be achievable for a small startup. However convincing key stakeholders that this would lead to an increase in a quarterly return may prove to be a unique challenge.
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Having your communication run by foreign entities is dangerous. it’s no longer even direct communication, it’s curated. It can be used to create political problems, social unrest or movements, it can be used as commercial advantage on other areas.

China happened to actually have a true competitor, TikTok and the first instinct of the USA was to try to ban it or force acquisition.
The GDPR is good in spirit as it forces a certain standard of privacy, but it is extremely vague (which means countries can effectively neuter it, or it could be over-enforced), and there is an extraterritorial component which set the precedent for global take-downs of content.
Looks like they've fixed the link now:
https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2020/12/15/the-new-faces-...
This thread seems to be triggering rate limiting.

I'm sure plenty of people protested peacefully. But how is that relevant? Regardless of the extent of the overlap between people protesting and people rioting, an increase of the latter is bound to lead to more arrests even if the police's thresholds for making an arrest remain exactly the same.

The fact that there were more looters and rioters in the Pacific Northwest because of "general anarchy" is supportive of my claim, if anything: There were more arrests in Portland not because police became more oppressive, it was because there were more looters and rioters.
The EU democratic structure is complex, that for sure. But it's hardly undemocratic.

I don't really want to start a rehash of the entire Brexit debate we had in the UK, but the EU does have a serious democratic deficit.

Ask yourself this simple question: Can a citizen who is governed by the EU meaningfully influence who is doing that governing? In particular, can a large group of citizens affect who holds power within the EU and vote out those individuals they don't want, so any individual office holder has some degree of personal accountability to the electorate?

It would take quite a leap to argue that the European Commission, which is where most of the real power still lies in practice, would meet any of those standards.

It is debatable whether even the European Parliament does, though it is at least more directly affected by the public vote.

For example in the UK our prime minister isn't directly elected, the general public didn't "choose" Boris Johnson. Instead the conservative party did, via its own methodology which it can change any time it does.

Our arrangement here in the UK suffers from a similar problem of failing to faithfully represent the will of the electorate. FPTP is a deeply flawed voting system on purely mathematical grounds, and then the mechanics through which the PM and by extension the government come to power once MPs have been elected can be even more distorted.

If you don't think it matters that many of our population have little influence over who occupies Number 10, I would respectfully remind you that one of the first things each new PM does is handwrite four letters that could literally cause the end of the world as we know it.
Is this in any way related to this earlier HN submission about Sony's patent on curved sensors?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25113755
Maybe the takeaway we should try to get out of this is that, with so many people in the world, behavioral solutions -- like social distancing -- are overall superior to thing-based solutions (like masks).

I tried to start a blog about this idea. I probably tried to start more than one.

But with the hysteria in the air, I felt like I was going to attract a lynch mob for trying to critique the practice of turning to masks instead of looking for something better than masks as The Answer. So that idea of mine never really went anywhere.
Your app is focused on privacy, yet you can’t answer these simple questions??? What?
An arrest is merely an attestation, not proof. Police will charge you for anything they want, they don't have to justify it unless you contest it.
Black newborns more likely to die when looked after by White doctors
Many of the sites that are featured on HN are not even the actual source of information, which often gets linked in the comments. As for going more "invasive", it's that exact reason that ads are being attacked, so I wouldn't bet on that working out long term either. I also fail to see how logging in inherently leads to revenue, unless we're talking about a subscription service in which case it'll live or die by the quality of the content....or else no one is going to pay.
Austin's SolarWinds at center of national security breach
I think this comment is dangerous as it legitimises the (clearly documented) widespread arrests of openly marked journalists behaving entirely non aggressively, almost surely because they were pointing cameras at police officers behaving violently. Whether or not you think that the police violence was justified (disclaimer: I don't, at all. I think the psuedo military tactics US police demonstrated were the opposite of sensible de escalation strategy) I'd be surprised if you think that police should have the power to decide whether or not they are filmed.
I won’t complain if it makes it harder for fly-by-night ad brokers to set up shop, quite the contrary. I don’t care if the playing field is not level, and we don’t owe them a business. You’re right, things are moving quite fast, but we are also more and more vulnerable. I won’t hesitate between the human right to privacy and a company’s right to make money.
Study: How to protect neurons and stimulate their growth
Why would you recommend it? I'd give anything to have a normal social life... except something's fucked in my brain and I can't make any connections.

I thought people just don't like me, but apparently some do, except everything ends up in nothing, and I don't know why.
Why are so many people swimming with them on?
> You're conflating several things. Yes, censorship by a third party has similar effects to government censorship, but we treat them differently

My post was discussing whether censorship occurred and whose freedom was affected. While it did mention certain explictly public schemes, it nowhere argued that other schemes should be treated as government censorship, so you are inventing a position here for the sole purpose of claiming it is in error and a conflation of different things.
The first thing Police Officer#1 does when the line breaks is rush over to the cameraman and punches the camerman in the face.

Its pretty clear from Officer#1's actions that he did not like that camera.

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Here's an alternative angle, in case you're confused by the 1st person perspective: https://www.abc.net.au/cm/rimage/12312456-16x9-xlarge.png?v=...

It is very clear that this officer is attacking the cameraman. The only two people on that corner are the cameraman and the reporter, and given their equipment and press-badges, it is very obvious that they're media. (Not "little blogger on random website". Its obvious that they are big-media, ABC 7 to be specific).

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It should be noted that Trump was clearing the area to give a press briefing. The press belonged there, if only to cover the President's new announcement in a few minutes.

The protesters had a right to be there too (but I realize this is a harder point to sell to conservatives and am willing to keep this as an aside). But it was clear that Trump chose to clear this particular group of protesters as an intimidation factor. There was no need for Trump to give a press briefing in this location (when he was already giving a briefing from the White House). Trump knew there were protesters here and wanted to physically intimidate them with a police clearing.
They may even just be using relief cuts in the die to produce the effect. Reliefs have a number of advantages, including reducing twisting and buckling.
Incorporating a Good Samaritan Principle in the EU Digital Services Act
Are you insinuating that any improvement is not worth pursuing? Let's look at this a different way:

I have COVID and I'm contagious. I don't know that, of course, so I go to the grocery store. The same grocery store you're shopping it. We cross paths in the cereal aisle.

Would you rather me be wearing a mask?
AGE 65 OR OLDER OR DISABLED EXEMPTIONS FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/property-tax/exemptions/...
I'm not sure what people expected to happen when we started producing billions of disposable masks and distributing them to everyone instead of just medical staff that have to follow disposal procedures. This shit happens with literally all of our single-use disposable garbage. Any system that requires billions of individual people to follow rules that inconvenience them without any sort of enforcement or consequences that come back to them personally was doomed to fail from the start.

If we had just distributed reusable cloth masks and charged for them so people have an incentive to not lose them we could have avoided the bulk of this.
What could I possibly mean by not native other than not native?

Bugs from a quick play-around (comparing with Microsoft Edge):

* The zoom with touch pad has a weird latency not present in Edge.

* Zoom on touchscreen is janky and jumps around.

* Zooming in and then out often (but not consistently) stops working half way through the gesture.

* Scrolling behaviour while zoomed is wildly different to native apps like Edge. Scrolling is extremely fast and has some kind of acceleration.

* Pinching while scrolling on the touchscreen lags badly.

It just feels shitty. Firefox devs don't care about a polished experience on Windows touchscreen laptops and it's a dealbreaker for me.
While an interesting tactic, I don't think it's a great idea as it may mean a poorer experience for the customer rather than just the development team.
No, Vimeo is based in New York City and I believe always has been?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimeo
The internet is not the only place the social changes happens.

Equally the EU isn't applying the same regulation to every company, the most significant ones only apply to companies with 10% market share. It would be quite plausible for gay friendly social networks to spring up to fill that gap, and I would entirely expect it to happen. Apps like Grindr basically proves it would happen.
The error is pretty trivial:

>“Although we were clear about the quantity we estimated and provide justification for calculating Pr(race|shot, X) in our report (see also 2, 3), we want to correct a sentence in our significance statement that has been quoted by others stating ‘White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers.’ This sentence refers to estimating Pr(shot|race, X). As we estimated Pr(race|shot, X), this sentence should read: ‘As the proportion of White officers in a fatal officer-involved shooting increased, a person fatally shot was not more likely to be of a racial minority.’ This is consistent with our framing of the results in the abstract and main text.
Ehh one of the major complaints about EU legislation is it's left intentionally vague and relies on the companies to guess what the goal is, which of course misses something, take their yearly fines and tweak their system after each round of fines.
Seems kinda like a party line? (not a fun party, I mean, just... multiple people in the same 'room' on a phone).
Did you talk to the guys who did the physical Pong game?
> It's mesmerizing to watch legions of young people defend an undemocratic system that their ancestors literally fought for 2000 years to overcome, with literally millions dead.

It's mesmerizing to watch legions of young people defend a Union they grew up in with no wars, with relative economic stability, with open borders and unencumbered travel. Compared to their ancestors who literally sacrificed millions of people fighting over each square millimiter of land for centuries on end.

> There is obvious need for reform, and if there was, I'll bet Norway and UK would be part of it, and possibly even Switzerland.

Norway and Switzerland are not part of EU [1]. UK has left the EU and it will be fascinating how it will function now that it has severed basically all ties with the EU.

[1] They are a part of the Schengen Area and various other treaties. They are, however, tightly integrated into the EU and are basically bound by most of EU's laws.
Anti-bias training scrapped for English civil servants, due to lack of evidence
Which countries are still dumping their garbage in the ocean?
The problem with censorship is choosing who gets to censor whom.

For example right now Youtube is threatening to censor anyone challenging the election results. Do you really want to live in a country where the media gets to say who can and who cannot discuss certain things about our political process?

That's a dictatorship my friend. And if you want people to do censoring, I say let the Republicans be the censors. Get my point? I'm sure you want Democrats doing censoring am I right?
Wouldn't this just lead to EU version of facebook creating more wealth for the EU instead of shipping it off to the US? Am I missing something?
Can't say I agree, but it's cool to see Kissinger commenting on HN. Welcome!
> Europe didn’t miss the internet bus because of regulations, there were no regulations until the dust settled.

False. In France at least, state-monopoly Minitel services shadowed early initial Internet development. Even as Internet took over, communication state monopolies clamped development with overpriced phone bills for a couple of years minimum. It is only when France Telecom got privatized and Free (owned by a former Minitel erotic chat mogul) disrupted them with widescale ADSL development that thing really took off.

> If you made the YouTube in Europe you would go bankrupt because you wouldn’t be able to pay the server bills.

False again, EU Youtube was Dailymotion, nothing but mismanagement over mismanagement, bad political decision over bad political decision.
Classic socialism
There is a balancing factor. People tend to overestimate their skill and ability when risks are low, but underestimate them when they are high. An average person is pretty sure he/she can walk on a path that is 2' wide without error ....but if it crosses a lava pit, the instinct changes. Suddenly you don't have confidence, unless you are around lava pits all the time.

Then a second complicating factor comes in: most people interpret egoic/social peril like physical peril. For most of human history being ostracized by the community meant death. So we are willing to believe whatever we can get away with in a social context ...but not more. And the winners of a social egoic competition benefit from this. Competitors self-limit.

There is an illusion that confidence confers skill when what is actually happening is that a diminished ego has impeded basic functioning, and artificial self-estimation counteracts that somewhat.

Even if you aren't in the top 10%, you may be able to solve the problem b/c the average person is impeded by an artificially diminished ego.