skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We do elect our officials, but the way legislation gets pushed through is typically lobbied by special interests. In some cases the laws themselves are written by those same special interests rather than written by the legislative bodies.

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/state-politics/copy-pas...
Speaking from experience, if you're working with professionals (not always the case, of course), if 4/5 times your answer is just a polite link to a piece of documentation, over time they will start checking that documentation first.

Like someone else said though, a lot of times the documentation just isn't any good. And just because it's great for a developer doesn't mean it's even useful for a VP Sales (for example).
To quote you above:

> if our models are correct

What is this whole discussion about?

You're arguing a stance that assumes the model is correct in a discussion about the risks of assuming the model is correct.

But trust me - our model is not correct.
Cross-Platform Chess in .NET Core with Offline Voice Commands
Show HN: MediaCMS – An open source, self hosted video and media CMS
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Start with the glorious revolution in UK, and the rise of mercantile corporations (East-India et al.) and licensed /sanctioned cooperatives (such as the original colonies), throw in a pinch of Puritan economic ethics and morality, and finally let it simmer in a pot stamped with “corporations are legal persons”.
What is their definition of criminal organizations? I can understand the distinction between users and service providers. I understand users, posters, and creators. It seems to targeting only the service provider, but only if they meet some definition of "criminal organization". Is that just a way to selectively enforce?
The freedom to get ripped off by a shady exchange is the same as the freedom to not have your money stolen by the government. Worth it, in my opinion.
Since most if not all of these platforms are based in countries more friendly towards infringement it’s really not going to do much of anything other than be another law that gets selectively applied and abused.
I've yet to read a really good large-sample study on this. I believe you're right, I just want to know the percentage of people. So far piracy is being treated as a scapegoat for unreached sales.
Show HN: Sparrowhub.io – Repository of Raku Utilities
Basically: Were you negligent?

Assuming you weren't, it's very strange to force someone out right before their equity vests.

Basically, your lawyer can understand the situation better than an internet message board can. Then, a phone call from your lawyer to your co-founder could help make your co-founder become a lot more reasonable.
US military is a bunch of cowards who are willing to sacrifice local civilians if that means decreasing a threat to themselves even by a tiny amount.

Also the integrity and honor ship has sailed long time ago, there is nothing honorable or integral about militaries.
> Idk, between this and bombing children in the Middle East, I feel like there are larger problems to address.

Do you think allowing more people who break clear explicit rules of conduct for immediate personal advantage into the military (and visibly doing so, so that you send the message that it is acceptable) will make those bigger problems better or worse?

> Also US military is not the largest military in the world.

By manpower? No. By virtually any capacity measure? Yes.

Maybe by manpower to, once you account for the large degree to which military functions are contracted out (including armed combat roles in war zones) and add in all the contractors performing those functions.
I just had a closer look and yes that's definitely the problem. Fonts require a 1:1 mapping between characters and outputs, there's no way to choose an output based on 2 consecutive digits so it needs to be mapped to an arbitrary character. If you scanned the resulting barcode I'm sure you'd see that it works just fine.
This isn't just any educational institution. It's the training ground for army officers, and one with a very high reputation. This isn't just someone with an easy degree getting all A's based on dubiously challenging coursework. These are officers who are supposed to be entrusted with command and people's lives.
This is the perfect time to post this:
https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg
Don't give up a cent.
I don’t understand how “the need for cash” and “reducing your stake” are connected. If they need cash, they can raise another round and everyone gets diluted like normal.

If you don’t value the equity, offer to sell it to the seed investor at a discount.
I always found the "microservices make things simpler" argument to be suspicious. At the end of the day it is just a monolith with unreliable network connections between components. Each microservice may be less complex, but you have just pushed complexity from the application layer to the devops layer. In a well written monlith the components shouldn't need to be any more complex than a microservice component.
It might help if you list the earpods that you have researched/tried but dismissed, and why you have dismissed them as “crap”.
I wouldn't think it'd be hard to find people using TOR, it's the stuff you're doing while you're on TOR that should be more difficult to track.
I have an EOS M and it works ok. I had to install a different version of Magic Lantern to get it to not auto shut off, and generally a lot of poking around in the menus. You can get battery replacement AC adapters quite cheaply and my cheap HDMI->USB works fairly well. Lag is not a problem but it introduces black bars on the left and right and in Google Meet my feed is horizontally squashed. Other video apps the picture is fine though.
take f1tv. i enjoy watching f1. but the streaming services really did a poor job in execution. the fps is low, the resolution is low. on race day the service also would break down during start of the race!!! there are illegal streams and many file sharing sites which will give you access to high def high fps races. i am still a paid member of f1tv pro.
The cynic in me really wonders if the money (and tech) for this is coming from a defense company. This system seems like it could be easily adjusted to fire tear gas, pepper spray, phosphorus, CBN payloads, maybe thermite for anti-vehicle workloads, probably even real bullets.

This seems like the perfect opportunity to test out their target acquisition system. "Shoot this seed in between the treetops" doesn't seem dramatically different from "Fire this cartridge down on this person's head while they're in a crowd".

Perhaps I've just grown too jaded.
Thanks, I'll take a deeper look and check it out.
Show HN: Simplify tracking progress in your startup
If no web developer is happy with garbage, why do the majority of sites resemblance a dumpster fire?

I'll fully back the claim the rank and file web developers are idiots. But primarily because the smart ones would never consider themselves just 'web developers'.
Nope, that's what it looks like :) I haven't been there, but check out this photograph of the Vallavik tunnel in West Norway for another example of render-like architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallavik_Tunnel

You would probably have a similar experience in the Lærdal tunnel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A6rdal_Tunnel
This should be fun for a service like Twitch. What happens when a streamer on their platform starts playing a game with a copywritten song playing on the game's radio or background? Many times the streamers themselves are not aware that this is a crime.
In any modern building it'd be required to have elevators for ADA compliance...
I find an interesting rural/urban divide in non-fiction portrayals of Japan. I only knew/spent time in rural Japan, which in my own "essentializing" imagination is indeed the Japan of Miyazaki and some of the great 20th century novelists. The romance of bumping along a mountain road in a little truck! But the Japan of these "high-brow" magazines is always extremely urban.
We're an oligarchy, that's why:

'that rich people and organizations representing business interests have a powerful grip on U.S. government policy. After examining differences in public opinion across income groups on a wide variety of issues, the political scientists Martin Gilens, of Princeton, and Benjamin Page, of Northwestern, found that the preferences of rich people had a much bigger impact on subsequent policy decisions than the views of middle-income and poor Americans. Indeed, the opinions of lower-income groups, and the interest groups that represent them, appear to have little or no independent impact on policy.

“Our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts,” Gilens and Page write:

Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance, such as regular elections, freedom of speech and association, and a widespread (if still contested) franchise. But we believe that if policymaking is dominated by powerful business organizations and a small number of affluent Americans, then America’s claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened.

In their conclusion, Gilens and Page go even further, asserting that “In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover … even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.”'
The Death of Spontaneity: Covid-19's First Casualty
Why not this: try to find ways to reduce the costs without losing any of the benefits. If a different (better) technology does not provide all the benefits, few people might be interested in using it. Forcing technologies like these by law is not good. I now have a few hundred plastic straws because I don’t like the paper straws and their deterioration while drinking forced by the eu.
https://archive.vn/cpVqU
No, it's a thread that's staying on topic.
Politicians follow the wishes of donors, not voters. Pretty simple.
Hopefully Trump vetos this PoS legislation. Lets do the math: 900B / 300m = $3000 a person. Where is the other $2400 of OUR OWN MONEY going. People who trust big government are such fools.
> And while there is certainly room for improvement with typical webcams: the problem is in many cases not the camera, but the conditions under which it operates. Low light, shooting against the light, smeared laptop lenses, weird angles (not eye level), weird perspective framing, bad combination of light and framerates, mixed light temperatures, low CRI lighting, etc. If you take an 40k€ Arri and a 20k€ Zeiss Prime and do all of the above the result will still look more or less crappy.

All this is true, yet the difference between a bad laptop webcam and a high-end phone front camera is huge.
I quite literally meant the code to be something like MIT/GPL licensed and art/sounds licensed something preventing commercial use, but all being available. This should make replacing sounds and art rather trivial.

> Some assets are code (procedural content, for example) though, how do you feel about those?

Code is code, if it produces output, it is owned by the user :) (assuming the "code" doesn't produce copyrighted content).

EDIT: Why do I treat code differently from assets? I have no clue tbh, but probably has to do with I can do code and thus can give it away, and can't do assets and thus can't.
> A horcrux is a plot device where the protagonists need 2fa to send a HUP or TERM to the misbehaving process.

Okay, I didn't literally LOL, but you did earn a really big grin and even a chortle. Well done.

BTW, I would totally read "Harry Potter and the Protocols of Security". Some of the "Methods of Rationality" fan fiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky nods in that direction (eg. the Death Eaters' opsec).
If America had half the hard on for Human rights as it does copy rights we'd live in a paradise...
Most people tend to vote along party lines. Some of those that don't will be influenced by successful campaigns. The US is a two party, first pass the post system. Getting on the party ticket is generally dictated again by campaign funding and other forms of political influence.

All and all, donors have a huge role to play in determining the outcome of an election as securing funding and political connections with a major party is essential to a successful election. As such, US representatives tend to focus heavily on big donor wishes.

Also, insider trading appears to be somewhat of a problem in Washington these days. There is likely a lot of behind the scenes stuff going on. Why else would an already wealthy individual take a 174k/yr job?
This is already a problem on Twitch. Cyberpunk 2077 claimed to have a "streamer mode" where no copywritten music was played, but they didn't actually ship the feature.
Any national or large regional US bank likely allows people to open accounts online. With the advent of branchless banks, there are more than a few where you can only open an account online.

The last 3 bank accounts I’ve opened have been online.
Someone spins up a Twitch clone in a more friendly jurisdiction.
Lyndon B. Johnson - “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

Play on a particular grievance or issue of a voter and they'll let you do almost anything else. Be anti-immigrant and you can destroy social wellness programs, stomp on unions, etc.
We've spoken a fair bit and they don't have anything specific to say. It's mainly that they don't like or want the stress of working on a startup, and want to run it more as a lifestyle business.
I am from Warsaw, Poland and believe it or not, Warsaw is about 7 degrees north from northernmost part of Vermont. Vermont spans 42 to 45 degrees while Warsaw is at 52 degrees.

Did you know that most of people in Canada live at the lattitude of Croatia or south of it?
I think that the military has larger things to worry about as far as integrity. I think that cheating on exams won’t change anything as far as military goes.

People in Russia and China really don’t think the US military is the most powerful military.
I'm just following orders...

Yeah, that doesn't exempt you from blame as much as you would like.
For what it’s worth, having spent the last few years writing server-side TypeScript, I’ve evangelized “explicit is better than implicit” fairly aggressively. A lot of even seasoned TS developers are still mainly accustomed to JS interfaces, and fairly often their first instinct is to cram a lot of semantics into a single variable or config flag. I’m glad I spent a few years working with PEP-8 fanatics. It made me much better at thinking about and designing interfaces.
IAC announces plan to spin off Vimeo
They're not enjoying working on the company together. It's mainly that they don't like or want the stress of working on a startup, and want to run it more as a lifestyle business.
I find it humorous to recall an early days of the Internet story in California. A certain large, loud, famous guy on the Internet had made money in the 1990s business environment of California. He bought an expensive house in the hills in the San Francisco Bay Area. He used his home address and local Internet connection to stream digital content immediately, and was quite vocal about that in groups, including in front of me personally. The content was sort of "Pirate Party" content, which he maximized with his engineering skills, and every challenge or legal situation that came up, written or at a party, he would literally yell and become physically agitated about his "rights" .. Of course this included full-length first run movies from the US (as far as I could tell).

In those days it was just one of the many ridiculous moments associated with the rapid 1990s Internet situation in California. I was annoyed but only slightly, knowing that this guy was personally instigating legal action on millions of others. However, this is all true.
Shattered Glass is another good one in that realm
Anyone can start a news or media organization in the US. Is it the high barrier of entry that limits these businesses? HN likes to talk about industries ripe for disruption. I would argue then that the media or news sectors are primed for a new breed of journalism. Can media ownership be decentralized when the gateway to media consumption is owned by Google and Facebook?
Here you go https://docs.m3o.com/faq#fair-usage-policy
>> A real issue with microservices is that you can no longer use the database system for transactional integrity.

> Is there a better option? And what is it?

If you truly have a distributed system, then you have to pick from a number of not-ideal options.

But, there are certainly many systems where the developers and architects have a choice as to whether to create a microservices or a monolith. If you're facing that sort of choice, the "better option" (in terms of being a solution to distributed transactions) is to use a monolith, and not have to deal with distributed transactions at all. You get the facility to just rollback the entire transaction.
As trishmapow2 correctly guessed, I have visual snow syndrome. Whether it's a quirk of vision or an outright disability really tends to depend on the intensity, for some people it doesn't affect their lives at all but for others it's completely disabling because they can't read any more. Personally I'm quite lucky, I'm never going to drive in the dark or be good at things that require excellent vision but I can still hold down a job as a programmer.
Unubo makes it easy for you to track progress by bringing metrics from your favourite tools into one place.

It currently pulls data from:

- Stripe
- Mailchimp
- Twitter
- Google Analytics

It then presents the information in a way for you to quickly glance the metrics that matter. Let me know what you think!
Then they can choose to take the hit and don't serve that market.

But Apple sells in China despite violating their policies regarding privacy, so their principles are already soft.
Most "good" jobs will turn people down (in most states) if they have a felony or even misdemeanors.
The quality was great for the time: 640×480-pixel VGA resolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISight
I think you have the right idea.

A large drop occurred in the 60s, again in the 90s, and since 2000 to today it is at an all-time low.

These cadets were likely not raised to respect this country in its current form.
Duh, sorry, I derped. I wanted to type Tanaka-san. I knew something sounded off... (Tanaka is #4 on the top surnames list, Takeda is #78)
Show HN: Jme-clj – A Clojure wrapper for jMonkeyEngine
We lose trust in institutions when prospective government employees cheat on maths tests, but when they dropped the white phosphorous on villagers, massacred children, burned down peoples farms, etc in the war that occured between 2001-present... we wondered about brad pitt, paris hilton... and kim kardashians hair colour.

We want them to be really really good at following orders and not to think too much about the moral aspect of bombing civilians. The reason cheating is banned in West Point is not because it is wrong, but because it displays that people prioritise their own individuality over that of the institution, and that they do not blindly believe in its ideals
What is a 'federated learning framework'?

At first I thought this was something a Leaning Management System like Moodle, maybe one that is distributed sort of like a torrent so it can't be taken down.

Seeing the example talk about TensorFlow, it must have something to do with machine learning.
At that time there was work in the ACM to standardize the college CS curriculum and, for me, the obvious differences between the proposed ACM curriculum and what I was taking was a stark indicator.
Does that mean small creators can punish those megacorps who routinely use their work without permission? Oh who am I kidding.
I really like the combination of these two tools.

I've played with cortex before, and it is easy to use, but I am still questionable if automating kubernetes deployments through an easy code interface, without much kubernetes know-how, is safe.

In my experience, even when you have a tool automating a lot of kubernetes for you, you will still run into trouble that will be best handled if you are familiar with kubernetes.
I'm not sure what debugging utilities cortex has, but I think the ultimate solution to this problem will be a tool that truly allows users to not think about the fact their deployments are running on kubernetes at all.

I'm also interested in the similarities of Cortex and Seldon-core. Of course, seldon-core does not automate infra provisioning, but based on my previous point, I think many teams are better off being more hands on with this infra.

Lastly, there is a third tool missing from the mix - monitoring. I think cortex offers some tools in this area, but I wish they would make a part two showing how the monitoring functionality they offer can integrate into a retraining pipeline within metaflow. This post shows you how to get started, but it doesn't show you how to maintain applications long term.
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I came here to mention Nakagin. I really hope they save it. It's such a unique building. At least from the outside, I here it's not great to live in though.

A more livable / less flexible/modular metabolist building is Habitat 67 in Montreal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67
There's probably more truth to it when turned around: there are a number of pirates who would buy content, if it would be easily accessible.

This is a self-inflicted wound by media companies, and they are attempting to solve the issue by sending people to prison, instead of taking the money people are ready to spend on their content.
Podcasts to make you smarter in 2021
I think you implied it with b) but availability of content is important as well. I've still got MP3s obtained via Napster and its ilk back in the day. The quality on many of them is below current standards, so I've been trying to upgrade to higher quality sources over the years. I'd say that I've got about a 20-25% success rate in being able to actually purchase that content legitimately. I could probably up that by 10-20% by going with overseas vendors, but I suspect most of those are bootlegged anyway.
This law requires that the service as a whole be primarily designed for or marketed to the piracy market. So there’s no real grey area, we can be confident it won’t apply to Twitch.
So happy to see actual discussion of cryptocurrency concepts and not just visceral hate for all things crypto on hacker news. New line it looks like you guys have really turned a corner I'm proud of you hacker news.