skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run programs that cannot afford for windows to tell me I need to shut my computer down especially within certain hours of the day. I'm usually ok but they should set the automatic updates to default but give users some sort of option.

AaronFriel you can only pause for a few weeks and you need to keep doing that in perpetuity. That said, its not so much impossible to work around, its just annoying and feels like an encroachment. If I want to run my PC as a server with near 100% uptime then just let me do it.

moksly, an enterprise license is for 500+ employees and will have a cost to match that.
That's an interesting way of looking at it, but if that is the intent of the parable, it is being rather equivocal about it. As I pointed out in another reply, unless the amount of information the aliens can possibly get about chess games is severely limited (excluding, for example, information that would allow them to see that games between specific pairs of players are rarely even-odds) then chess does not actually look like a random process - but if they are limited to that extent, then they are not going to determine that it is a game of rules, no matter what their philosophy and no matter how much they suspect that it is.

There is nothing unrealistic about random processes, and if the aliens take chess to be one, they are simply mistaken on account of their inability to get sufficient information to falsify this view.

There is a pretty well-known historical example in the opposition by Ernst Mach and the logical positivists to Boltzmann's work. I hope it is safe to say that the simplistic philosophical notions behind that opposition are now outdated and superseded.
I have an early prototype of a site that allows people to chain together reasoning in a visual sense, which also propagates truth so that people can know if a conclusion is asserted to be valid/proven. This contrasts from the current definition of "argument mapping", and platforms like Kialo, in that it's more constructive, with logical machinery underpinning it. For instance, if someone has a conclusion that "Earth's atmosphere should stay below x anthropogenic GTCO2", or "SpaceX will be able to reach Mars by 2030", other people can then drill down through the argument until they get to simple axiomatic facts and values. The idea is that by doing so, people would either educate themselves if the argument is valid, or have the opportunity to specify exactly where they disagree (which would in turn propagate truth/proof state to the therefores that depend on that part of the argument), which is a respectful way of engaging with and perhaps strengthening the argument. In a social sense this could be useful for polarized communities to better understand each other over time. In a private sense (revenue opportunity) it could help organizations document the reasons behind processes, or make collaborative arguments for change that rely on deep first-principles reasoning.

This project is a little insane, as it relies on some optimistic assumptions about human nature that might just prove to be false - at worst, it is an opportunity to deeply explore an idea that requires some fun distributed-systems technology. I'm very much a tech/backend guy but it could evolve in a direction where I'd have to hire phd-level people. Anyway, I have a long list of features to develop before I get to real business planning, assuming I don't just eventually release it for free wikipedia-style, but what I'm mostly looking for now is a small group of people that are highly interested in following along (please explain your background and why you are interested if you contact me). I have a read-only prototype already pushed live, which allows exploration of existing arguments/conclusions, so as I make releases and update the changelog, I would like people that would like to follow along and make comments, and also perhaps give free U/UI advice, since there are a lot of challenges there in making a "new form of communication" feel intuitive. I'd imagine any possible cofounder arrangement would inevitably rise from that.
nvidia has some software that you can install if you have a compatible GPU which will take your webcam stream and blur your background or do other background effects. I suppose the challenge here would be to figure out which parts of the audio are the speaker's voice and which parts aren't, and remove the parts that aren't.

If the visualization of the audio is such that you can discern speech from other audio, similar to how you can discern the person's silhouette and figure out where the background is, then in theory it should be possible using the same technique.

I suppose there are probably some pure audio processing techniques that don't rely on the visualization as well.
It’s been my personal experience that the US government does not distinguish between a US company offering products and services in the US and a US company offering those products and services outside the US. Even foreign subsidiaries are held accountable to US laws and regulations if the US parent has sufficient control of the company.

Bigger companies get a little bit more leeway to negotiate with the US Federal government on this but if the US decides that something is illegal or prohibited, the Justice Department doesn't really care what country the prohibited activity occurred in, it'll walk the executive chain to pick people to prosecute.

The only way a company could complete avoid this scenario is if it licensed its product or service to an independent entity outside the US. And even then the DOJ would likely attempt to force the termination of the license agreement if it results in a product or service being offered in a prohibited jurisdiction.

None of this is new, or due to Trump, or even partisan.
I'm in a first-world nation and I still have to use a VPN to access parts of the Internet like georestricted content on Netflix and YouTube...
Nat's tweet in response to the other HN thread about a company getting locked out of their github because a developer opened their laptop in iran.

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1346453242499121155

Pretty fast to get this posted...
Thank you for such a great blog post that even years later, I could catch up and understand!

(We never did turn on the blue noise block. Even today, it sits idle. Sad.)
The press release says they've been working on this for a couple of years. It was not an overnight change.
May be if we are in UK, Govt. jobs are good you mean?
Why such an extreme dichotomy between the morally competent and morally incompetent? The article makes it seem like have an ego _at all_ makes one morally incompetent. We can genuinely strive to help, and we can also want to glean an egotistical sense of self-worth/importance at the same time.

I think that one is morally incompetent when they _only_ strive to advance themselves through acts of kindness/helping, or when their shallow act of do-gooding harms those who need help more than it helps them. But certainly we should be allowed to like helping because we feel good about ourselves, right?
To be fair, it doesn't ask for permissions until you click on it, and (on iOS at least) the permission isn't automatically granted. This all looks above board IMHO
I switched into a computer science major after taking an intro class that used Python to make pictures and videos (CS1315 at Georgia Tech). I think this is the book from the professor:

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0131176552/qi....

It's old, but it's like $8. You can also look up a more recent syllabus to see what book they're using now.
Not true. As per another commenter in this thread,

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...
118. I have a client that is in Iran to visit a relative. Do I need to restrict the account?

Answer

No. As long as you are satisfied that the client is not ordinarily resident in Iran, then the account does not need to be restricted. See FAQ 37
You might be able to regain access if you still have your SSH key: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25648815
The Pudding: How we built “How Bad Is Your Spotify?”
What's alienating about EA for you?
Psychology. Here in the UK the the lemming factor would kick in strongly - toilet paper, bicycles ... negative interest rate. The moment those words are uttered by the BBC you could expect the country to be covered with little puddles of excitement leading to the nearest bank. Some phrases trigger a threshold where reason loses strength - fomo? Panic?
Yeah, that's what I figured. Which I why I was pleasantly surprised to learn (at least according to an HNer in the know) that, in the UK at least, rates must be expressed in a way that accounts for all fees -- so something like this couldn't be called 0%.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11082905
Pure coincidence. We were working for two years to get this license.
I don't think user 'nopcode' was disputing that OpenSSL has improved since Heartbleed; I think they're suspicious of the logic that "far more usage" implies "more security-relevant attention".
This is a weird one for me...

It's odd that we're proxying competency by way of intent.

Would it make more sense to consider the actual actions of individuals?

If I work on a problem with the intention to solve it, I've done both, and thus (by this essay) am competent for my intent to solve the problem, but also incompetent for my intent to _work_ on solving the problem.

I don't know that I entirely disagree with the author's core points, but I don't think this was a very effective piece. Mostly because I have to take a wild guess at what those core points might be, and then try to tease them out myself.
> is good enough ignored in light of exceptionalism?

I think this is the larger issue.

The FDA/CDC standards seem way too high, hindering provably useful solutions, and are actively harmful especially in the context of a fast-moving crisis.

Watch Lex Fridman interview Michael Mina about cheap rapid testing that's not available because of regulatory roadblocks. It's an infuriating listen.

But not only is it a very real substantive issue, it's a characteristic issue of the academic/expert institutional class. An obsession with the theoretical that ignores pragmatic reality. These are the experts that suggest a plan that requires 100% compliance and works against every human instinct. That's intelligent?

It's a group of people divorced from the experience of average people. E.g. all these advisors forcing everyone into isolation but breaking the rules for themselves and their own family (look at Birx, Newsom, etc., the list is horrendously long).
> The more information is NOT better at all.

Even prior to official orders coming through, people were acting on information they were receiving from news reports on the virus.

Kids were pulled out of school, the restaurant industry was seeing less traffic, fewer people were in bars and people that could find a way to work from home and minimize going into the office were already doing so.
Some larger firms were proactive on this.

Not everyone will act perfectly with more information, but more information allows more people to make better choices for themselves and make their own risk/reward tradeoffs ahead of the curve. I think it was February that N95 masks started selling out in the shops around here, maybe sooner, and it was at least a week prior to the lockdowns that supermarkets started selling out of staples and had long lines leading into their parking lots.
In the US, this is basically why APR =/= APY.

Where APR is the effective rate including fees.
I don't understand why you refuse to engage with the argument. Yes, capital can create value, and the inefficiency of price discovery in stock markets can lead to fluctuations in the price of a stock.

But ultimately, that capital came solely from labour and natural resources. If you follow the chain of value, you invariantly end up at labour and nature, because those are the only two things that can actually create value from nothing else.

And no, this isn't the LTV. Read the comment carefully. Even if you admit that capital can create value, the capital still had to come from somewhere, and ultimately that somewhere is labour.
Thanks for sharing this. I'm halfway through it, and it is indeed damning, if only mildly so (compared to, say, phpsadness). As the author says, the specifics are not the point, rather the overall picture they build: that simplicity in language design has its own price, and sometimes all it means is that the underlying complexity is passed on to you to handle in your program yourself; and the damning part is, Go does not seem to do a good job of making that process as smooth and clear as it could.
The last class action lawsuit against them resulted in people receiving unusable virtual tickets. I have hundreds of dollars worth. They’re incredibly good at ripping people off.
It's as easy to enforce this law as it is to enforce laws that criminalize possession of bits - for example, child pornography. Which, by the way, get enforced all the time.

The only reason piracy isn't enforced is because it's largely a civil, as opposed to a criminal matter, which constrains the tools available to copyright holders to go after pirates. Criminal investigations, in comparison, are not hamstrung the way that Warner Brothers going after someone downloading The Matrix is.

You significantly overestimate the financial incentives for building special purpose hardware solely for the purpose of participating in a criminal economy. That would be trivial for the police to shut down, because hardware manufacturers have a very conspicuous physical presence.

There's a reason nobody sells 'piracy-solutions-in-a-box'. It's because you need factories to build those, and you can't exactly own a factory in secret.
you won't forfeit the domain if you are a EU citizen no matter where you emigrate.

The domains are for residents on the EU or EU citizens. That were the rules when people registered them. As UK left the block and are not EU citizens, it's not spiteful nor petty, just the rules they accepted when they decided to register the domains
I have worked at a company where every 500 error is a reason to go check the logs and try to reproduce... We would literally page an engineer.

I've also worked at a company where "as long as the error rate stays under 0.1%, it's fine". As long as each app server doesn't have more than 1 crash per week it's fine.

I can tell you that engineers at the first company end up finding all kinds of super rare bugs, usually in the OS, platform, malloc library, load balancer, etc. They then commit fixes for those bugs which ends up helping the latter company...
If I could have two things out of the new UI:

Right now you can't blindly mouse up and over in Microsoft Edge to get to the leftmost tab since that space is reserved for the browser window and clicking it will un-maximize the window or minimize it when you click again expecting to arrive at your email.

I'd also like to be able to open Internet Explorer when I open the start menu, type in "internet explorer" and click the listing with the IE logo marked "Internet Explorer" Around half the time this opens Microsoft Edge.

This is probably asking for too much though.
Most Americans don’t realize HIPAA is less than 25 years old. They’ve never thought about why it might not be in their best interests or why their lives might be better without it.

The typical counterargument is that insurance providers would maliciously charge higher based on what they see. However, that’s silly since they already have that data today.
Great resource!
I played myself with dithering, applying it to images fetched from nasa's apis, from the rovers on mars and open sourced it. I really enjoyed the visual outcome, you can see it here:
https://github.com/danieledep/rovers-dithering-playground
That's unfair to people whose domains were up for renewal in January and February compared to November and December, though.
They should call it "Castle".
Why not move to the other side of your timezone if that's an issue for you? You will effectively shift your solar time by an hour or more.
Presumably, they want to keep the pressure on Russia. I don't know why we would sanction Crimea rather than all Russian-held territory, though.
Interesting!

Out of curiosity, how would this work in regards to the character limitations (160 characters I think?) in SMS? What if they're large responses? Is there a hard limit on the total number of text messages sent per request?
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Even just building roads shaped countries and cities in a certain way.

Killing trains, increasing car usage, encouraging shipping things from far away locations.

Hopefully with the next generation of city planning we won't be so stupid and create environments which are more liveable where people waste less time commuting and buy things as close to home as possible (even if the last point may have more to do with taxation / regulations / working conditions differences in various countries more than roads).
This is the problem they need to fix. Two different looks, with the modern look removing needed functionality, sacrificing functionality for UI goodness.
The thing with caffeine is that you quickly adapt to it. So you don't get the benefits

It's really not that hard to be caffeine free
This is optimizing for least study time (sometimes from zero knowledge) by studying to the test. If you're saying that studying applicable materials is quicker, then this book is useless. Once you've "made it", you can explore things at a more leisurely pace (notably while gaining experience).

I suspect the next thing to counter too much studying to the test will be to add an additional type of interview round (leetcode/system design/new thing) to the process, further extending it.
Policy set by whom?

That of a commercial company, which does not have a legal mandate (at least not in the EU) to make make rules that violate EU law (including legal protections), or the US government, which does not have legal jurisdiction over the EU market?

Pick your poison
I explicitly said in my post that people would be given the choice of whether or not to take the vaccine. You could simply refuse if you thought your risk from the vaccine was higher than your risk from COVID. But that old person whose life you so blithely discount might make a different choice. That's how a free country is supposed to work.
> SARS has leaked from Chinese labs multiple times. And the only lab in the world specializing in coronaviruses was ~1000 ft away from the first cases. The leaked US diplomatic cables urge the US to help China with this very lab because biosecurity there was so concerning to visiting scientists. It's also the only BSL4 lab in China. In addition the head of that lab has published numerous papers about generic engineering of coronaviruses. That lab also discovered the closest ancestor of COVID.

Can you kindly cite literally every sentence of this? I googled, but my Google-fu is weak.
(a bit off topic - apologies for that), I find OpenFaaS fascinating. Where can I find case studies / documented use-case for its usage?
That's huge!

> we are working with the US government to secure similar licenses for developers in Crimea and Syria as well

That's also super cool to hear!

Related Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25648585
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I very much doubt that Eurid "simply assumed" that because a registrant resides in the UK, they are not an EU citizen.

These registrants probably had to validate whether or not they are EU citizens, and didn't respond to the question, or responded negatively.
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma's not 'missing,' just 'laying low'
This part makes my nether-regions pucker: 307 single point failure components. I do not envy the reliability or systems engineers on that project.

http://spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=51617
How Palantir is quietly extending its reach through the British state
I'm not so sure a scientist would consider RH true at this point. Math has a rich history of conjectures appearing true for the first n dimensions, the first k inputs, the first z partial/tangential proofs, etc. The evidence for RH isn't any stronger than that for a plethora of eventually-proven-false conjectures.

Do you know if anyone has tabulated stats on conjecture proofs? That could be a fun dataset to examine.
Why the Fight over Parking in New York Is ‘Like the Hunger Games’
Why? It’s not like shareholders are the ones doing the work inside the company.
That article was written by Drilling Info and reads like a lobbying piece. Here's some info on that company:

Drilling Info has more than 2,700 accounts globally with more than 20,000 users. Drilling Info members produce more than 90 percent of domestic oil and gas in the United States.

They're in the oil and gas business -- of course they want to "debunk" any info about the subsidies given to that industry.
Behaviors and design are themselves an intention.

This post addresses "The Semantics of Intention":

https://laist.com/2020/01/03/car_crash_accident_traffic_viol...

excerpt:

Drivers aren't out there aiming for pedestrians and cyclists, so how does intention factor in?

UCLA's Madeline Brozen argues it can be traced back to both failure to follow road safety laws and a lack of understanding about how dangerous driving a car is — especially since unsafe speed is the top contributing factor in L.A. traffic deaths.

Research shows that a pedestrian struck by a driver going 20 mph has an 80% chance of survival. If that driver accelerates to 40 mph and hits a pedestrian, the victim's chance of surviving drops to just 10%.

"The act of going above the speed limit or going fast [in unsafe] road conditions...that is an intention," Brozen said. "When someone is driving in a way that can kill someone, they are creating a risk."

According to John Yi, another "degree of intention" in traffic deaths falls on car-centric society and L.A.'s leaders, who are "intentional about what we're building and what we're not building."

City officials have stated clearly that L.A.'s mission to eliminate traffic deaths is informed by the fact that "underserved communities are disproportionately killed in traffic crashes." But Yi argues that the historic neglect of those communities can be viewed as intentional.

"To take that away, I think, is really not looking at some of the most disinvested communities and what they're going through," he said. "To put it squarely on the shoulders of drivers and say it's their fault and they're the ones who should be moderating behavior is overlooking the situation altogether."
> Its almost like they are moving to PC as a service.

One of the first things you see is "Windows 10 is a service" when you install it. That's always been it's premise since it was released. They aren't hiding that detail.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...
Also, with tech companies... growth is such a huge part of valuation and business plan that they will focus on acquiring new customers rather than retaining existing ones. If you are growing 5-10% quarter over quarter, loosing the 2.5% isn't really going to hurt that bad. It also is easy to explain churn if you have a breach, the board will go "oh, that makes sense" and move on.
I enjoyed the Grokking the System Design Interview resource.[1]

I think what helps the most is not only solving the problems outlined, but adding new constraints and thinking through various failure cases that may be missed by some of the questions. This helps ensure that you understand the material and that you haven't just memorized it.

[1] https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-...
Right - this is actually the main reason for such policies; we receive regular training on this.

All devices are subject to search, seizure, and duplication when crossing international borders and border agents may tamper with devices as well. If assets cross borders there has to be a good reason, it has to be documented, and phones/computers may have to be scrubbed before and after depending on circumstances.