skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thread from scientist: https://twitter.com/mugecevik/status/1341390453271355392

human -> mink -> human transmission thread from scientist: https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1341235721378652160
> Drugs are banned in sport to avoid people using "artifical" enhancements to their innate trained abilities. If someone gets genetic modification to enhance, say, their muscles abilities to use energy, how are you going to police that?

> Have everyone playing submit their genome for examination?

My point is is that it does not matter. What is current top competition sport is not natural anymore so I do not really care about whether they take drugs (illegal today, maybe legal tomorrow) or not. Or modify they genome.

Wasn't there a case of a (South African?) athlete who was asked for a sample of their DNA to check weather they were a man or a woman? (it was not that long time ago I think)
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It seems like they may have their reasons, but it's odd considering NATO seems more and more like a relic of the Cold War that should be reconsidered. For example, Turkey is engaging in all kinds of activities that don't seem to match the goals of values of most NATO members, and yet officially they are backed up by NATO.
>I personally always try to use some alternatives at the same time (XFCE, KDE, macOS / C++, Python, Go, etc.) to see what others are doing.

That's great, I do the same thing so I can relate to you, but I hope you understand that the bar for contributions to an open source project is generally more like "did you write code that the maintainer wants to merge" and not "you must familiarize yourself with all alternatives." How you achieve that varies and not everybody has the time to spend searching around on distro forums and Github. Some people might only ever familiarize themselves with one or two open source projects that they use and contribute to. And it's hard for me to see something wrong with that, that's their prerogative.
I always carry https://www.pendrivelinux.com/create-a-larger-than-4gb-caspe...
If legal streaming services were not profiling the crap out of me and what I do in their platforms, I would have stayed with them. I had a subscription with pretty much every single service available in my country, but back to Kodi[1], seed boxes, and private trackers I went.

Not to mention the Draconian DRM. I can play 4K games at 60fps on Linux, but I cannot play a 4K film from Netflix or listen to music from TIDAL with certain browsers. Fuck that.

[1] https://kodi.tv/
Not a great headline in terms of parseability.
Went looking for a monitor recently & was so sad to see that there are less than a dozen monitors with full-array dimming, & most of those have 16 zones or less.

I ended up going with a budget option, no local-dimming. It's frustrating how behind, how stagnant, computer displays are. I don't want to sit in front of a 48 inch OLED tv, too big, not high enough dpi, but I feel like I'm throwing money at bad products trying to buy a computer monitor. At least there are some fair budget options (Pixio PX275h 95Hz 4k, $250, doing ok).
I have worked with lawyers. Once litigation is threatened, everyone suddenly loses all the neutral stuff and becomes reasonable.

If you can afford it, find a good lawyer.
Swedish neutrality officially ended in 2009.

EU has mutual defence clause similar to NATO. France decided to invoke EU's Defence Clause instead of NATO Article 5 after the Paris attack.
Even today, animal husbandry is 95% shit management.

We've just removed most of the human shit.
2020 US deaths top 3M, by far most ever counted
Just call it physical or dedicated servers.
> Are you implying you would like ownership to be transfered from your tax money to whatever is created afterward with that money?

I'd rather have no notion of private ownership of ideas, knowledge and cultural goods at all.

> Would you feel entitled to ask for reports of how your neighbor spends his unemployment grant, because that's partly paid with your tax money?

I don't think it's really meaningful to compare something that allows human beings to (barely) stay alive, to the benefit of for-profit corporations.
You don't think people who run, or are users of, 4Chan/Voat/IRC channels etc actually care about your preferences...?
My pedantry itch is kicking in and requires me to inform you all that the actual keyword you are looking for is FMV (fair market value) of common stock.

Investors set the price for preferred stock in various "rounds," so a company kinda knows what its preferred shares are worth.

But common stock usually isn't traded in any kind of market (until liquidity), so there's no obvious way to know what its FMV is.

A 409a valuation is a "professional" assessment of the value (price) of a share of common stock, which a company's board can safely use to determine the FMV of its common stock.

Anyway GGP is right that the amount subject to tax at exercise will be the difference between your option strike price (which was set based on FMV on the date your grant was issued) and the FMV of common stock on the date of exercise.

The FMV of common stock is almost always less than the price of preferred stock, though the two prices do converge as a company grows and gets closer to liquidity.
Except with no more than a 5% incline, so much more forgiving than Watopia
No, but the second-order effects of you not paying may very well affect them in the future. If the studios get less revenue and have to pay more for enforcing IP law, they have less money for new productions and therefore less jobs and salary for the people producing the content. And I don't see why you should have a right to enjoy the fruits of their labor without paying.
The linked pdf is 5 pages.

It seems like irresponsible journalism to not just include the text in any article written about it.
10% might be a good target from another perspective -- the investor put in 100k to get to 10% -- is that about how much "sweat-equity" that the OP has put in? Alternatively, just pretend the vesting was happening monthly.. how much is that 9.16%? The surviving founder does need enough incentive to continue. The OP should make sure it is hard equity of the same class as the investor's shares, where there are tax liability distributions and other preferences. If the OP is before the vesting cliff and your co-founder is fixated 4%, then perhaps think about the balance as unpaid sweat equity, disbursed as deferred compensation at a reasonable interest rate, as a percentage of revenue, to be paid off before co-founder raises their owner draw? Critically, the OP should assume best intents and look for win-win situations. Finally, seek competent legal advice!
People can have opinions but you don't want to have an organisation infiltrating your institutions. In Turkey the culprit is usually islamists, in the west it tends to be far-right extremists. A guy with opinions passing an exam is different from a nazi organisation pulling an operation to get in the ranks.
I have tried to use use modern phones as dedicated webcams. The power consumption of constant video capture, compression, and streaming is greater than the phone's ability to charge. Once the battery is depleted the phone can't operate directly off of the charger and shuts off. And that's only if it didn't already shut off due to overheating first.
Minimum wagers aren't who's buying ever-racheting copyright laws, via campaign funds.
That's what the linked press release[1] says but looking at the wording of the bill[2] I'm not so sure it's that cut and dry:

> It shall be unlawful to will-fully, and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, offer or provide to the public a digital transmission service that...

The term "private financial gain" typically includes an individual receiving anything of value. I agree it doesn't come after the consumers of illegally streamed content but I don't think it's fair to say it only targets for-profit platforms. And it's certainly much broader than targeting "criminal organizations" as the linked (not HN) headline wrongly suggests. Someone uploading protected content in exchange for reddit gold could easily fall within this definition of criminal conduct. People who "trade" files with one another might fall within it, too. I think the linked press release is intentionally downplaying the scope.

[1] "The Protecting Lawful Streaming Act would apply only to commercial, for-profit streaming piracy services. The law will not sweep in normal practices by online service providers, good faith business disputes, noncommercial activities, or in any way impact individuals who access pirated streams or unwittingly stream unauthorized copies of copyrighted works. Individuals who might use pirate streaming services will not be affected."

[2]https://www.tillis.senate.gov/services/files/A30B0C08-FB97-4...
If by 5000 pages you mean 5, you might be correct if you are a really slow reader.
Nobody updates their old products nowadays. At least they haven’t abandoned the app support for those cameras and continue to expand the APS-C line.
Just look at the comment thread on his goodbye message. There's no shortage of commenters blaming jews, blacks and gays (with much less savory language). And they all have plenty of upvotes.
That's tough. I think they will need to realise that the commitment to having seed funding and a co-founder are not the same as a lifestyle business - especially when they do not have funds of their own to fall back on and revenue is not presently hitting the numbers that would be needed.

Even a lifestyle business requires more than just 'coding'. That person at least is likely to have an unpleasant awakening. I just hope it doesn't hurt either of you too much
Gasoline is not substituted with ethanol. It's a combination of improved engine design and non-lead additives to provide the necessary anti-detonation properties.
> The tyranny is caused by the vigilance.

Not of those interested in liberty, but, sure of the vigilance of would by tyrants when met with the apathy of those who prefer liberty.

“It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.” —John Philpot Curran
People saying they should be expelled:
1. They are mostly first years (this was a Calculus 1 course).
2. They will go through rehabilitation
3. West Point instituted second chances in 2015, not just for this group.
4. Together implying that they will have plenty of time to prove that this was a one time thing, or not.

Compassion and vulnerability are also important parts of leadership: leaders that can admit they made a mistake, perhaps even acted selfishly, and reflect on that behavior and avoid it in the future are better than those who cannot. This is the "new" way of leadership now, and personally, I am all for it, compared to the "old" style of pure hierarchy, repressed emotion, violence + fear as motivators, etc.
A webcam that "just works" seems like a herculean task if the goal is to have native compatibility with most devices without installing a package - Chromebooks, Apple, *nix, etc. but given how decent cameras are standard on mid-tier phones, you're spot on
What I mean to say is: those aren't "your platforms" - and you DON'T speak for the entire internet.

Even if you feel that way.
This made me realize for the first time that I'm not sure as to what these “cost “the œconomy” x currencies” statements actually mean.

Certainly it's not about generating money ex nihilō, so what is the standard?
I've been trying to find PW513, but it doesn't seem to exist anywhere last time I checked. Is it out for sale already?
You're ignoring the inconsequentiality of that "massive" "handout". He'd get a loan or an angel investment if parents didn't help.
Have you read your partnership agreement? Are there duties assigned to each partner? If so, let him play his “40% of nothing card” right into breach of contract then sue for ownership of his shares and then hire someone to do what he refused to do. But probably, speak to a lawyer. You do need to respond to this offer in writing, even if rejecting it.
> doing business in a country

Doesn't that require having employees in, having facilities in, taking payments in or making payments to residents of said country?

Most of the streaming services this legislation is aimed at don't rise to that bar relative to the USA, as low as it is.
How it started: Lets create a small cheap computer that poor kids can use for education.

How its going: Raspberry Pi Server Mark III
Under current law, only violations of the reproduction and distribution rights of copyright owners can be charged as felonies, while criminal infringement via streaming (or “publicly performing”) can only be charged as a misdemeanor. This is known as the streaming loophole – and it is particularly harmful to the U.S. economy because streaming has become the most common form of criminal copyright infringement.

Says a lot about who these people represent when they're closing the streaming "loophole" while the corporate tax loopholes remain unchanged.
> In it, Caplan argues that the true purpose of education is not to improve students but for students to signal their worth as employees to their future employers.

While those two goals are not antithetical to each other, it is not at all a secret. I would say engineering/STEM schools are openly designed to get students good jobs. But good engineering schools don not have "bird courses", the number of mandatory classes to electives is really high.

If you are at a school where students are doing the behavior you say, perhaps you are at the wrong institution or degree program. For example, I have heard rumors that business-area degrees tend to attract people who just want to buy their way to a credential.
Already owned by Com Laude ("Strategic Domain Name Solutions & Brand Protection") so Twitch probably covered their bases here.
I think most people understand grades aren't purely a measure of how well you know a subject, but also related to how much your parents donated to the university, or how important you are to the football team.

What should devastate people's trust in educational institutions is the relationship between Harvard and Epstein. We get to watch this university, whom I'm told is full of the world's smartest people, claim it was ignorant of what was really going on.

Harvard gave a sex trafficker a security card and his own office while he paid them millions. Harvard faculty was even joining him at his parties, I find it hard to believe what he was doing was really a secret.
Metastasized melanoma will still kill you just as dead.
I'm also a veteran. I'd be more inclined to give them a second chance. There are likely more factors involved than lack of character here. I would at least try and see what the bigger picture was. If 70 were caught out in a very obvious way, there's probably a much bigger number cheating. And perhaps something about the environment that encourages the behavior.

For example, watching yourself slip down the class ranking while knowing those ahead of you are cheating can be discouraging. Especially if you think it's being ignored. A few months of that might test your character pretty hard.
I'm thinking the op was imagining something in the middle ground. Maybe +10–40% for a guarantee of quality. The case I can think of is Anker for cables although in that case they also don't charge a premium either.
True. TBH it's not clear if the U.S itself is to be relied on. Europe should probably stop outsourcing defense and get it's act together.
Thanks for the link! I remember Sona from taking a WCATY course of yours many years ago. Clearly I've been fascinated by it ever since.
If they want to run it as a lifestyle business, that might be some leverage with your investor. Lifestyle businesses are great, but they do not return the same as high-growth venture businesses.
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But think of the trickle down effect. If rich people can't buy yachts, a rich yacht manufacturer can't reap profits while paying minimum wage to it's workers.
I went to West Point two decades ago, before the apparent change to the honor code in 2015 that allowed for second chances.

It does take a little time to adjust to the honor code, but among all the things learned at WP, this one stuck with me the most. I (and many of my friends) came to literally hate lying/cheating, and to disdain those who do. But there’s another route that is taken too — the opposite, where some cadets become very good at lying/cheating. What starts out as a trivial lie must be covered up with larger more intricate lies, moving from something accidental or thoughtless to something intentional and deliberate. The cover-up and defense, often bringing friends into the mix, turns toxic really quickly. This is what happens when a perceived innocuous lie is seen a a life-ruiner.

My father also went to a service academy, and often after catching me in a lie would say, “I’m mad at you about lying, but I’m ever madder you were dumb enough to get caught!” My dad is one of the most moral men I’ve ever met, and I only just now connected the dots here with regard to a zero-toleration honor code.

I suspect the 2015 change was a practical rather than principled change: to make it easier to catch and correct violations instead of letting them fester and spread.

In some ways the service academies are a giant experiment in human character. Humans naturally lie, cheat, and steal in order to survive and protect their own tribe (i.e., go to war). Can you change that? Not really. But you can create a culture like that. The change, as ironic as it may seem, may do a better job of creating that kind of culture by attacking the tendency to dig deeper holes.
> Not to be confused with Ripple (payment protocol) invented by Ripple (Ripple Labs, Inc.) which trades Ripple (XRP).

And I'm pretty sure they paid Ryan Fugger for the name Ripple, which originally applied to his burgeoning, hippy-dippy decentralized payment system that did not require a blockchain.

I can't think of a better example of Silicon Valley's famous "disruption" than that:

1. Dude starts building some software to make it more convenient for close-knit communities of people to share goods and services with each other. In other words-- a good faith effort from a dev to add some digital convenience to happy little sharing economies.

2. Some people riding the blockchain bullshit train see value in the name "Ripple" and image associated with that name

3. Said people buy that name from Ryan

4. Original spirit of Ripple is lost to history, and a long, boring drama over preseeded coins, what "decentralization" actually means, whether it really applies to XRP, positioning as the international payment system against every other blockchain idiot trying to do the same, etc.

In other words-- we go from this:

"Hm, I wonder if graph theory can be used to reinforce local economies"

To this:

"There's gold in them there transnational borders, boys! Yeeeha!"
Brio is better than most webcams, still worse than all top smartphones.
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that's because many people don't vote or take part in political advocacy. it doesn't make society in "oligarchy". our democracy actually works really well, even with gerrymandering and some voter disenfranchisement. if all those people actually voted frequently, the policy outcomes would be a lot different.

compare this to actual oligarchies where opposition parties actually can't accomplish anything because they're denied access to elections, or there's legitimate election fraud, or serious voter intimidation, et cetera.

and policy outcomes being determines by random people is actually awful, the average person has absolutely no understanding of basic economics. it's not even desirable.
This seems like a good opportunity for Wyze. They have some great experience with Cameras and have sold quite a few.
How will this affect applications like Plex that have functionality which allows sharing libraries?

If I watch copyrighted content from someones Plex server, do I go to jail?
Dumbing down anything WW2 to a single statement is pointless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_during_World_War_II
Lookup "streaming loophole". This new law would make commercially offering a service of pirated content a felony whereas previously, it would have been a misdemeanor.
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This is an alternate angle, which allows prosecution without trying to count how many copies were streamed.
I love coming to HN to see simple phrases like "obviously true" being used so ridiculously.
I already don't enjoy many big-budget productions. I find niche Youtubers catering to my interests to be a better use of my time -- recently, we've been binging on 3Blue1Brown.

I'm also finding very little relation between production budget (which mostly goes into things like SFX) and my enjoyment. Some of my favorite films were very low budget, from Dr. Horrible to some Bruce Campbell flicks.

Good writing makes a huge difference.

Decent acting and performance makes a bit of difference.

Replacing all the SFX with sixties-era Star Trek SFX wouldn't make a wit of difference to my enjoyment.

There is a correlation between finding good writers and having big budgets -- if you're dropping $300 million to make a film you might as well hire good writers -- but it's not a super-strong correlation.
PHP is dead again?
1) you can use your dSLR as a webcam
2) you can use your mobile phone as a webcam

Not sure why you would want to buy a webcam
Can we please stop posting proposed legislation with highly editorialized titles? Most proposed legislation, even "bipartisan" will not go through are end up so diluted that it won't matter.

Not that it's not worth fighting but this is clearly an attempt to garner clicks/votes and we should be fighting back here.
"No yacht for me, no more movies for you."
If you "ship" a feature that only works if it always works and it doesn't always work, does that really count?
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I don't think you read the article. "User guide" is not what you think it is in this context.
I went back and forth on whether it was a good idea. In the end I wrote one and it was well received by my team. Indeed, most of the team wrote one and we collated them in our documentation space. This was pretty helpful in the first few months of lockdown, when people's work preferences and constraints were quite varied.

I also decided to write up a short piece on the pros and cons + some advice if you are considering writing a User Guide (or README or Personal User Manual) - https://medium.com/better-programming/personal-user-manuals-...

[Edit: Grammar]
When your management chain 3 levels deep are Indian males and most English on the team is spoken in broken Chinese accents you know white males are totally overrepresented. /s
Correct. Federated Learning is basically Machine Learning but the Learning occurs directly on the same devices where the data is (e.g. phones). Each device trains a model and sends it to one central model, which combines all of them together. With this it is not necessary for the central model to know about the data which is good with regards to data protection laws.
"someone else's" is a view of property rights that not all hold.

"profiteering" (vs just covering costs) assumes facts not in evidence.
> People in Russia and China really don’t think the US military is the most powerful military.

I'm not sure what bearing this has on anything even if it is true, besides being a weirdly selective argumentum ad populum fallacy.
Wow, I'm impressed how organized you all were. Must be an Ivy grad...
I will spend the money somewhere else and that is where they will be working in the future.