skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I like how their phone accessory Seek Compact camera is advertised as having “< 9 Hz frame rate.” I’m sure it’s fine but that’s a strange way of listing it.
When you look at recycling facilities there are people sorting the trash that goes by them on conveyor belts. To automate this you need to somehow detect what the item is and then you need to be able to handle it. Seems like a great challenge for computer vision or other sensors and then robotics. Or have robots that can find trash in oceans or on beaches and remove it. This would be super useful but unfortunately our system rewards producing trash way more than removing or even better avoiding it.
The PDFs have 110 pages total, so there's a ton of extra information in there. They're pretty, but there's no reason at all for them not to be HTML - if they were HTML (with linkable headings) I'd be able to link people to interesting insights from them, for example.
> not even sea walls are going to save those houses

I would like to believe that's true, but here in California new seawalls are a foot-thick web of epoxy-coated reinforcing bar, encased in two feet of concrete, on a foundation sunk some ten or so feet down into the sand. I have yet to hear of one of these falling down.
>If we believe in the FOSS ethos

I don't. So what now?
Anything controlled by a PID can easily end up in a circular pattern, so it's not a given that this was to avoid stiction.

[edit]

1 dimensional PIDs can end up in a sinusoidal dynamic equilibrium, and a 2 dimensional sine wave is an ellipse.
> Unless the coding systems simply can’t make that distinction

They probably can’t, assuming that they haven’t adopted a more complex (and, consequently, probably less reliable at what it purports to represent) diagnostic categorization than is generally used for other purposes in healthcare; the usual systems can distinguish admitting and primary diagnoses and diagnoses that are neither admitting nor primary (though I don’t know that the distinction is in what is shared for public health reasons), but it can’t distinguish between “diagnosis that are part of the reason that they were admitted to or not yet released from the hospital” and “diagnoses that aren’t part of that despite being present”.

At least, that’s my understanding based on a couple decades of contact with health IT systems and the associated data models.
Also recommend using the following IDE tooling: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server

Especially easy to setup if you're using VSCode. Lots of Haskell code forgoes type annotations so with this plugin you can simply hover your mouse over things to see the exact type the compiler inferred.
Guo Wengui predicted this. Kind of crazy.

https://mobile.twitter.com/realvision/status/117150865794877...
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If you think it's reasonable then do so.

You may have to debate it with a magistrate if society does not think it's reasonable.
> dead drop

yes but it really needs to be remote because they caught ppl doing it like that American spy in the 80s.

I know in South Korea, dead drop is a popular method of peddling drugs but ppl still get busted.

I agree number stations are overkill but perhaps some similar methods...like cartels using email drafts to communicate
It’s an unfortunate state of affairs.
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are not the ones spreading the disinformation. Individuals are. What has changed is that individual people have the sort of voice that once only newspapers and institutions had.

By your logic, the phone companies would be legally liable for everything that users say or plan on phone calls.
Huh? Contributing to union dues is exactly what you agree to when you take a job that has compulsory union membership.
[joke]

I am guessing RankBain finally understood humor:

https://fastgood.cheap/
Assuming they could have their own bathroom in a sequestered area of the home. Otherwise required to stay in a hotel room.
SMS spam is illegal. Phone companies also turn off service for fraud, etc.

To be more precise, phone companies only block based on regulators and consistent (at least theoretically) rules based on legal authorities given to regulators.
Python has seen enormous growth in data analysis and machine learning, thanks in part to the success of Jupyter notebooks.
Have you heard of Uber Cadence, or Temporal.io?
Funny because I’m sure some would read that sentence and conclude it’s a good thing.
Is that "privilege"? Sure, it's power. It's a straightforward extension of the "take-it-or-leave-it" principle you describe.

I have the power to tell my boss "I'm not going to work on that", and they're free to keep paying me to do something else instead. It's the same power I use to negotiate my pay and benefits, and the entire reason I developed this skillset and work in this industry.

Using that power to form a union and wield it collectively is one aspect of the right to freely associate. If Alphabet workers want to use that collective power to negotiate a legal contract protecting their job if they refuse to work on a project, that's their right.
Doesn't matter whether we agree on whether he's an investigative journalist, this'll still be cited as precedent in the future against investigative journalists
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I got Emperor on GoG. It's where the game design formula that started with Cesar reached its apex. It's just such a great game. And it looks really pretty too.

And as usual you learn a ton about Chinese mythology- because you gotta keep the ancestors happy... or else.
If everyone who says they will stop creating new bits if they can't control people anymore, were to stop creating new bits, that would be a great world.

(Btw, an example for your question is to look up the origin of this thing we are using to communicate—the WWW)
I mean, yeah, he criticized the party publicly. This is what happens. For as wealthy, powerful and influential as he is, for him not to realize what was going to happen to him is kind of flabbergasting.
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Every subdivision of Google needs to be broken up, advertising and search especially. Too much in our economy is at stake.
This is pedantic but seeing as the other comment is joking about his appearance then I do want to say that China is civilized. To say it's china vs. civilized is wrong at best and helps dehumanize billion plus people at worst by implying they're not civilized yet we inherently are. I do agree with you on your point overall though.
But you're also worse off because your employment contributes to shareholder profits rather than your own wages.

Why don't you care about that? Particularly when these profits are likely far higher than any union dues.
Is it impossible to use a MacBook (? Apple laptop thingee) without a Internet connection?

Seems very odd to me.
Plenty of union contracts emphasize seniority when it comes to pay/benefits/promotions etc, which makes it harder both for younger employees to get pay increases and promotions out of turn and for people to job hop for career progression.
I think the problem is that even if the houses are far back enough that they are 1m about sea level, they are now at extreme risk of destruction if there is a major weather event where they might have previously avoided it.
An experimental open source memristor / programmable “diode”
I have literally never heard an account of someone who is an expert in a field or topic being impressed with the accuracy of a mainstream media report on that field or topic. What has the world come to when rolling stone a better source for news than 60 minutes or cnn?
this won't be a question of what the user wants to do with these parts. I bet it won't even be accessible for common programmers. Applications will simply constantly racing between each other and reprogram the field programmable part of my cpu every startup
Are Germany and Italy equally or more incompetent to USA?
Regulations on phone companies isn’t based on whether I pay them. In my state, phone lines must dial 911 even if there’s no customer. That’s because of regulation. And I don’t pay them anything.

I don’t think the need for regulation depends much on how much I pay to use the service or whether the publisher is responsible for content.

Another example is that even publishers of free newspapers get sued for libel.
> The problem is that the reader of your code is not going on that journey with you. They are coming in naively without knowing all of that experimentation you did. The writer now has the opportunity to create code that "just happens" to work by a magic of coincidences and conveniences based on very subtle non-obvious properties of the APIs and systems they are working with. The reader is severely disadvantaged and will have a much harder time to reach parity with the state of knowledge that the writer had. For example, some property of a function or object may not be documented at all, but through the REPL the writer has ascertained it is true. How can the reader know this?

If these sorts of things aren't documented then not having used a REPL won't save you.

Someone ran a function with a println or in a debugger, figured out the answer, then removed the debug stuff... but did it by repeatedly compiling/running instead of in a REPL.

(Or, my personal favorite... someone didn't bother to run that particular code, but just made some assumptions, so has no idea those edge cases are even there...)
It's not really even true. There is one thing you can't get away with if you're wealthy in China and that is criticizing the CCP. You can get away will all sorts of awful things with a little Hongbao but, I'm not going to link sources as I'd get flagged/down'd by the sympathizers.
It was an executive purposefully brought in for legal compliance with that country's requirements. That he was fired is a huge signal in how seriously aggressive zoom is about protecting data that they would even be willing to go up against national governments. I feel like the firing is a huge part of the story.
He's probably being "reeducated."
Other more active discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25629774

and today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25636045

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25640501
I'm pretty sure TypeScript 4 didn't add support for dependent types. Please cite your source or include a link to source code : ).
Please provide a code example.
How would that address this situation?
It might be a good thing, if it was just “Privileged position doesn’t get you out of justice” and not “Privileged position doesn’t map as directly to wealth”.

(That also, of course, assumes that being targeted by the government in either case maps well to some concept of justice.)
Right, good luck predicting and buying a house in the next London. Just like my stock pick is going to be the One in 30 years.
I think the closest natural virus was 95% similar. 5% seems pretty far for mutations. Is there a historical track record for finding the natural virus to a 99.9% similarity?
> Recidivism in the US is 55% after 5 years, as compared to Norway's 20%. Apparently not treating people inhumanely is a great way of getting them not to commit more crimes. [1] Who would have thought?

Your mistake is in not realizing that this is considered a feature, not a bug. The US incarceration system is very much designed so that "certain people" stay in prison for the majority of cradle to grave. It is not in the interest of this design that recidivism be reduced.
Hey Al. A friend of mines from FF told me about this a few months ago and I'm looking forward to the launch. What do you use for your wa integration? Twillio?
The comment you are responding to seems to explicitly be speaking to the actions of the Chinese Communist Party, not the people of China in general.

A people and their government can, and often are, decoupled when it comes to authoritarian regimes such as the CCP.
We all understand your point of view, but beating your chest and “How. The. Fuck. Is. This. So. Difficult”ing your way around actual discussion isn’t going to change anyone’s minds.

> By your logic, the FDA and the CDC shouldn't have been approving the vaccines. It should be left up to each state, no? Because what if the FDA got it wrong. Better let 50x2 smaller, less well funded agencies decide individually than one well funded agency, right?

This isn’t even a “what if”, the FDA was disastrously slow in granting EUA’s for rapid testing. The fact that 50 states were hamstrung by the federal FDA exacerbated the pandemic. You can visualize what the FDA/CDC bottleneck looked like early in the pandemic here -> https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1238981855812055041

By your logic, why should 200+ countries have drug agencies? Why have sovereignty at all? The argument is that while central coordination is well and good, you don’t want a system that’s overly reliant on it.

And if the problem is that mobilization will be difficult for some States due to underfunded health agencies, now is the perfect time for their legislatures to increase funding via taxes and bonds. A once-in-a-century pandemic is the perfect use for State bonds, since it won’t be a recurring expense.
I realize most wouldn't. But I would accept that trade. HN is a rare exception. And, there would still be sources for tech news: personal blogs, company sites, LWN and other news sites. It's true that news and discussion would flow less freely. But, I think that on-net 230 is doing profound damage to our society.
Why would a smaller company be any more responsive to issues like this? This seems like a technological problem rather than a political one.
Well there's a lot of people in here that don't work in SV.
> in terms that are artefacts of the 19th century

This is such a strange neophilic reflex that people have. So the words are from the 1840s. Frankly a bunch of the concepts are even older than that. And yet other concepts that are still pretty useful--geometry, say--are even older. We don't need to re-invent language every decade, and thank God for that. No inherent virtue in novelty.

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It's easier to start a software company now. No one will dispute this. But there is more to the world economy than SaaS entrepreneurship. Covid has provided us with a great unwanted, illustrative example here: capitalist production still works basically the same way in 2021 as it did in 1848. Some of our supply chains are extremely fragile now though, in part due to their computerization and "rationalization" over the last decades.

Suddenly we need thousands of masks and ventilators and they're nowhere to be found. What the hell happened!? Perhaps we just didn't have enough PPE SaaSes yet?

Now we have a few different vaccines (which is great!) but we're having trouble producing and distributing them fast enough in high enough quantities. There is a NYT article out today on this very problem that did well on HN.

How could our economy which is, on paper at least, vastly more productive than it was 50 or 100 years ago, fail us so badly? I mean look how many SaaS entrepreneurs we have! Look how low the barriers to entry are!

The point I'm trying to make here is that the basic relations of capitalist economy still hold despite all the changes between the 19th century and now, including any new developments in centralization of tech infrastructure (you can call cloud computing "democratizing" if you want, but it's really centralization). It's just easier and cheaper to become a small capitalist by renting some of the means of production (it's still MoP, still has the same economic function, even though the centuries have changed) from big capitalists. So what. If you're not a SaaS entrepreneur (and I keep saying this: not everyone can be) and you want a say in the workplace, you still need a union.

But again, the demand for SaaSes and SaaS entrepreneurs is, well, shockingly high, at least to me, as it turns out, but it's not infinity. If everyone could just become a SaaS entrepreneur and we didn't ever need any normal industries with normal employees anymore, you might have a point. But in the real world people still have jobs and still need unions to bargain with employers that would always rather pay them less and give them less say.

I agree with you that SaaS entrepreneurs are not the dispossessed masses. If I have seemed to make that argument at any point, I regret the error.
Slavery laws are bad because they have been taken past any sane limit. However the original terms would are not too onerous, with provisions and updates there is no reason not to give the people with capital short and clear monopolies on their slaves.

15 years is plenty of time, then every slave needs to be released into the public domain.
>Unlike in the U.S., in China, being rich doesn’t protect you from being punished by the government.

OK, slow down.
The whole point of my post was that we need the best teachers in the classrooms, not tutoring a few select rich kids.
It seems that in most of south america, about half of the upper class in on a voluntary dose of Ivermectin.

Im starting to hear anecdata from a large part of hispanic american patients asking MDs on ways to getting doses in USA (and of course there's nothing of the sort in here). There's a coin flip chance that for a patient coming in ( that is hispanic), said person is on the drug.
I did. Tell me why the US protecting those with money is a good thing.
Sure, but many of the Silicon Valley tech companies still prioritize Leetcode, and have that in common, which means a candidate will have to do it over and over again. Might as well turn that into a credential so the interviewers at least have to ask candidates to do something relevant to their work for the "show me how you think" whiteboard problem-solving sections of the interview.
How do you apply security updates?
I consider myself anti-monopolist but lately I've been thinking...wouldn't breaking up American big tech companies put the US in a worse position to compete against Chinese tech companies?
If you break advertising and search into two entities they would still be massive regardless. That would not solve anything.
> You've missed a step: you also have to migrate the data. In my experience this is by far the slowest / most complex step. And it's much easier with SQL where you can `UPDATE WHERE` and `INSERT FROM SELECT`.

I didn't miss a step, because until you have paying customers (or at least, some other indication that you have a product that people want), there's zero data to migrate. If someone isn't paying, just blow away their data. If they are paying? Congratulations! You have a product that might be worth migrating to Postgres.

> If you're completely sure that you won't need powerful querying, joins, etc for any of the data you'll be storing then sure. Otherwise you lose all that time and more the first time you need a JOIN or a query that firebase can't do. And you pay that cost every time you need to implement such a feature (or you end up storing that data in Postgres or similar and you end up with two databases, which is much more painful than having two platforms).

I think you're missing the central point, which is that until you have paying customers, you don't know whether you're even building the right thing. There's usually no way of saying "I'm sure we will need powerful querying" because you have zero clue whether there's any demand whatsoever for the idea you have in your head. In fact, 90%+ of the time, there isn't, which is why we fail so often at it (including OP).

Everything you do in the early stages must be geared towards proving whether or not you're actually building something people want, not getting sidetracked by non-core technical issues. That doesn't mean I think you should never use Postgres straight up. Sometimes an RDBMS is so integral to your idea that it's actually easier to use Postgres than a NoSQL DB (like a GIS application or some such). But more often than not, it's not, and you need to be ruthlessly honest with yourself about what you actually need to build to validate your concept.
How does apt get said hashes? That's the key problem.
If the author so desires, create a temp account with temp-data
AFAICT not great. It's an academic language and doesn't focus much on interop. The F# extraction system has been broken previously and I wouldn't recommend relying on F* for any commercial work unless you have a connection to the core development team.
You can sit down and let someone less pedantic take the floor.
Exactly my feelings, the first part just shows some good technical skills and flexibility of Emacs but it was the second part that was much more interesting. I too enjoyed the part about values and it gave me some food for thought. I also can tell the author read Sapiens as there are quite a few points that were discussed in the book. Also some of the links in the article are great rabbit holes as well, like the 80000 hours website. A+ writing overall!
> The lack of a monopoly creates competition which accelerates innovation and leads to cheaper, higher quality products for the consumer. The person who invents a product should simply be one competitor in the market, they can have the first mover advantage, but shouldn't be allowed to control the market entirely.

But that obviously wouldn't as work well, because:

1. The inventor would pay the R&D costs with no good way to recoup them, because he'd be competing against knockoffs who didn't have to make that investment, and can price accordingly. You'd be putting the actual inventor at a disadvantage.

2. There'd be no incentive for inventors to actually publish designs for their inventions. Most people who argue against patents as a concept forget is that to get one you have to publish plans for your idea openly, which makes it much easier to copy. The limited monopoly is an incentive to part with that information. You'd end up leaving the public domain poorer.

3. Invention and production are different skillsets. For an author to get paid for writing, they shouldn't need to own a printing press and distribution network. It's a good thing that good, successful authors can make their livings by writing and not always be forced to sustain themselves with a day job.

The original ideas behind IP are very, very sounds. What we need is to roll back how the implementation of those ideas has been corrupted to society's detriment.
Certainly feels that way with the minimum prison occupancy contracts states sign with private prisons. [1]

[1] http://www.aublr.org/2017/11/private-prison-contracts-minimu...
I guess they were trying to be cute?