skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not saying all restrictions are for public health benefit... but a lot of them are. Specifically, the kosher dietary rules (no pork, no shellfish which could have red tide, no rabbits, complicated guidelines on how to sever an animal’s neck without hitting the spinal cord, no animals that died of natural causes, separate utensils for meat and dairy) make a lot of sense in the environment of 2000 years ago.
Twitter didn't ban a former prime minister of Malaysia for stating "Muslims have the right to be angry and kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past" in the wake of a school teacher being beheaded by a Muslim parent, angered that pupils were being taught freedom of speech includes freedom to offend.
Golang proposal: os/exec: make LookPath not look in dot implicitly on Windows
> In fact, this is opt-in at developer’s discretion

It's opt-out I believe. iOS apps are by default available on ARM Macs unless the developer specifically chooses to disable support.
I doubt that the watermark here is super sophisticated

Can you explain more why you doubt this? Zoom has the financial and other resources to be state-of-the-art here if they wanted to be.
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For reference, this is what happens to me. If I spend a few hours playing a particular videogame, its imagery "burns into" my mind - when I close my eyes, I can see recurring patterns from the game (like ground textures or UI elements); if I'm tired, that's an easy way to get me to high level 3 on the "starn scale". The effect disappears after I sleep for a few hours.
I honestly think it's a terrible book that happened to retain its popularity because it got shoved in as a classic that you need to read.

There are works that I genuinely enjoy, like Anthem by Ayn Rand, even though it's moralistic propaganda.

I supposed I could reread the work again to see how I feel about it, but there are million of other works I could read.
Ada was designed from 77 to 83.
Does anyone have examples of the tests used? Reading the description I can see why only 1% are expected to perform at a top level - just interested in the actual
Red Hat is in the position where enterprises believe that it's better and more secure.

That means that it's valuable.
"The US government is concerned that an attempt, through legislation, to regulate the competitive positions of specific players in a fast-evolving digital market, to the clear detriment of two US firms, may result in harmful outcomes." - US trade representatives Daniel Bahar and Karl Ehlers

Competitive. Competition. In Australia. Who "competes" with these "specific players". No other websites even come close.

This is a sad display of US financial leverage in favour of two companies that need no such help. If anything they need to be reigned in as they decimate foreign media.

Trump must have some grudge against Australia to allow this pressure.
Honestly, I thought it was broken and failing to load the images until I read this.
given that recently two founding members have left due to their mistakes in protecting sources.

At the NYT mistakes like that get brushed under the carpet. Their personal professional integrity is why you can trust The Intercept.
There are studies, just google "free speech". Your way does not work, unless you go full China. Then it sort of works fpr couple of decades.

For example I converted several hard antivaxers by explaining importance of each vaccine one by one. They agreed that at least some of them are important. They went to less radical position.

Another example was Brexit referendum. Populists had stupid arguments like 350 million/week for NHS, or about stoping immigration (UK was not in Schengen). It would be very easy for media to discus it, and debung those arguments. But instead of discussion and deescalating situation, they called oposition racist.
It would be fun, although KSP's owner (past owner?) Squad seemed seriously awful
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> those calling themselves nationalist are hateful toward the minority and supportive of selective homogeneity of the population

This is a much better claim for debate because we can now review all those who self-identify as nationalist and see if they were all hateful.

But it’s a completely different topic than was posted.
Agree with most of your analysis, including the absolute need to isolate and pacify the core of the extremists so that they are not able to 'infect' the masses through polarization. Just to add a few more things to the 'todo'-list:

4. Keep a check on those elements on 'our' side that are dependent on conflict with some 'other'. If the last decades have taught us anything I think it is that a polarized environment is forced on us by an alliance of extremists on both sides that thrive on conflict. People who don't shy away from provocations, false flag operations or falsified intelligence to achieve their antagonistic goals.

5. Remove as many incentives as possible for petty criminals to be recruited by terrorists. Make sure every citizen have a place and belong in society. Let's not make terrorist actions a shortcut to herostratic fame [0]

6. Actively research and promote alternatives to a revenge mentality in society. Revenge appeals to us because it is a reptilian brain response to harm on a personal basis. It is useless as a response to terrorist strategists (it just makes us their puppets).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herostratus
> Its very beautiful with meandering rivers through large grasslands as well as some canyons with the Tetons in the distance.

Nice try, murderer.
A petty trick in front of a builtin function
Geez, I hope I don't think like a computer. They can be such incredible idiots. "Oh sorry, I have to drop displaying the whole page because you left an extra flyspeck comma here." "Oh, sorry, I can't look through this line of comma-separated strings with this array function, tell me to turn it into an array then I'll do it." AGGGGGGH!

App: "Tut, tut, you didn't cross that 't'."

Me: "Then how did you know it was a 't' ??"

App: "Never mind. Just go do it while I relax a bit."

Me: "OK try it now."

App: "Whoops! Syntax jubilation error in line 1 character 1."

Me: "Where?"

App: "That's not my job. I do as I'm told. "
Hi, I've updated my existing site with a cleaner interface to suit my purposes. Let me know what you think!
I really can’t believe that.

But I will try!
Can we agree it's not-the-best but has a good moral message about the danger of living in an illusionary bubble?
It's worth remembering that the Intercept hardly has a stellar reputation for protecting sources: they completely bungled the Reality Winner leak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner
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Sci-fi and fantasy books of 2020 to catch up with
Yes, but to me the important difference lies in what proportion of that learning curve is conceptual/inherent in the domain (knowing what 100 filters and their parameters, or 25 different layer blend modes do; Learning what filter you need to apply to get from some initial state to some desired state, etc. In some cases too much of the learning curve is caused by bad design (not discoverable, odd feature grouping that is there for no other reason than the fact that someone cobbled it together that way in V1, ...).

Tantacrul's other videos on engraving software UX show some great examples of this, where improvements in UX can help without lowering the productivity plateau for experts (except of course throwing them back if you were to change what they've gotten used to from one version to the next).
I think they’re ideal examples. Market cap is pretty much everything. It affects the world more than morals do.

HN has drifted further and further from reality, which has been very strange to watch. The classic example was someone dismissing Dropbox when they first launched, but now it’s turned into dismissing billion dollar companies after they’ve clearly won.
Yeah I imagine the headline in the New York Times next morning - "Horned Viking Guy stabs 435 members of Congress with a spear and crowns himself King of the United States. All Hail our new King!".

> or probably some of the people who were carrying guns, or potentially the noose hanging outside

Or you just inventing this whole thing out of thin cloth. Because the only shooting was done by very much armed - with handguns and riles - Capitol Police, who we see aplenty on the videos, and who used these guns to shoot a women that didn't pose any threat. Now this needs justification so we hear tall tales about stabbing Congressmen with a spear (good thing he didn't have a fully semiautomatic longbow!)

> A cop was beaten to death in front of the Capitol.

He wasn't "beaten to death". He was hit with on the head once (presumably, it's still not known what exactly happened, and AFAIK no medical documents had been published), returned on his own to the headquarters, and then later developed a blood clot and suffered a stroke (presumedly due to the injury), which ultimately lead to his death. This is still despicable - nobody should attack cops, and the person who did it should be prosecuted for it, but it's not likely whoever struck him even intended that outcome. Even less sense makes to pretend like the people that were at Capitol intended to tear everybody they meet apart and stab them with spears. Surely, some of them clashed with the police - which has been routine circumstance at "mostly peaceful" protests the whole year, most unfortunately - but making it into some kind of SEAL Team 6 aiming at assassinating the Congressmen is pure baloney. It is just fascinating what nonsense people are ready to believe in when their partisan views demand it.

> Terrorism to push more of Congress to not certify the election.

The word you looking for is "protest". If you work for the media, then "mostly peaceful protest". That happened many times in US history - including occupying government buildings in the process. In Wisconsin, State Capitol was occupied for 17 days in 2011. And yes, they did it to change the actions of legislators. Nobody called it "terrorism" or "insurrection" - because it wasn't, neither then not now.
The HN hivemind would not allow such discussions to take place in the first place. Which kinda sucks, if you have some other view that is not accepted by the general mindset here, have some downvotes.
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The upside of that maybe there is more awareness of what is going on. If there is no centralization, could we end up in a world there no consensus on what is acceptable or right?
This is also what I was thinking about. Considering that making up bad data does not require any GPU work as opposed to honest calculating nodes, the model can fall quickly if without taking some measures to deal with them (adverserial nodes).

A draft solution would be for the central server to measure the goodness of each update and drop the ones that don't perform well. This could somehow work since inference is much cheaper than gradients computing.
And now it's ruined as so many submissions are just a solid color. It's really too bad, because if you go through the submissions there are some really amazing ones in there.. particularly for raccoon driving a tractor.
Hey remember when the opioid companies paid the clinic management(?) software companies to push opioids to people?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/28/opioid-kick...
Anybody has means to kill people. You can kill people with bare hands. What they didn't have is intent to kill any people.
And utilize them perfectly. Other compression programs would not split a file between two disks, and therefore always leave some unused space. ARJ multi volume archives utilized the floppy capacity to 100%.
I very rarely use browser bookmarks, but after reading every letter of this post I just had to bookmark it. Such great writing with short and to the point explanations about ALL the things related to CNC mills.

Some years ago I actually tried building my own desktop CNC. A lot of the warnings and "don't do this" mentioned in the article have gone into my design, which is why it never ever worked or did anything and is now laying disassembled in a box.
> Michael Ossmann for his DC25 talk

Link to the video? Searches aren't coming up with anything useful.
Agreed. Just moving discussions to Slack is bad for discoverability.
They actually can go door to door in France! And the fine for having lied is quite unpleasant.

Not that they have time to anymore since almost every single public service got their budgets slashed.
Isn't it just a predefined amount of workers stealing from one channel?
"pink" seems to fail miserably.
Widespread vandalism and looting during BLM protests cost the insurance industry and estimated $2 BILLION. Hardly small potatoes.

Seeing as organising the set up of autonomous states within American cities is allowed on twitter on facebook, the tiny number of Trump supporters who entered the capitol and could just say they wanted to set up an an autonomous state there.
You mean the Law of Large Numbers (LLN), not the Law of Averages, right? Both the Weak LLN and the Strong LLN presume all samples are independent and identically distributed. If we make a hierarchical model on the data of each paper, we can bind all the data into a single distribution, but assuming that each of these studies is independent is a _long_ shot. WLLN and SLLN _only_ apply to, roughly, sampling from the same process. Its scope is more applicable to things like sensor readings.
Disclaimer: Microsoft employee

In my experience, I work at a completely different company than the one that Ballmer ran. Nearly everyone I talk to speaks of the "Ballmer era" in a negative light, and confirms that Satya literally turned the entire company on its head.

Many things happen every day that would never have happened under Ballmer.
Sounds like the options list when you buy a new BMW. Now I know where they got their inspiration from.
Interesting. You still need to download the ransomware file encryption program, which is something users aren't likely to have, and would quickly be detected everywhere once a few people report it. Normal compression programs have limits and wouldn't continue working after the user reboots etc.
They do come for a surprise visit if you tick the box in France. Used to, at least, circa 2009.
I read it over the weekend and was pleasantly surprised.

The story is thin, the underlying themes are a bit richer, but it is the style that is extraordinary. I have highlighted many, many sentences just for their delightful form, rich descriptiveness and poignant observational value.

Other than that, the place in time and bottled up description of the roaring 20s are other reasons people keep referring to it.
Also, alledgely, using scanners to catch cheaters. Though I got a visit from a man checking for unlicensed TV sets once and he didn't have a scanner, just a long list of people that didn't have a TV license.
> The consequence of the model is minimal product differentiation resulting in limited pricing power and corresponding lack of revenue... it’s nearly impossible to properly invest in product development, support, or sales the way that companies like Microsoft or Oracle or Amazon can.

Building sustainable models for Open Source is definitely a challenge we still need to be working on solving but I don't think people like this are the ones we should be looking to for help on how to do that.

Open Source, almost by definition, is a rejection of the idea that we should be building moats around our software to extract the highest possible value from it. Instead, Open Source allows us to think about sharing the raw value of software freely.

If you're so consumed by greed that you only consider a successful businesses to be one that measures revenue in billions then perhaps trying to build a business around opens source is not for you.
You can’t really think it’s a terrible book, can you? I could understand thinking it’s merely good, but thinking that thousands upon thousands of literary types who absolutely treasure this work are simply wrong about its quality seems ridiculous.
yeah, i basically use them for standing lamps - i don't like overheads/ceiling lamps so much but still like enough light not to feel I'm in the dark.

Still happy to turn on the bright ceiling lights to find something/see well/etc.

The problem with E14's was that at least in Germany I knew they exist, but couldn't consistently find them. I'd regularly find 60W equivalent non-dimmable or cold white. Only Phillips and Ikea (it seems) had 60w (classically dimmable) warm E14s. They did not generally last that long
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They had a BBC iPlayer subscription for Europe a few years ago, but there was far less content (because of rights management, obviously).
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A Lot of people claim their bible is perfect, dontcha know...
As somebody said here, first line drug is prescribed since it’s know to work based on experience. Any experimentation puts too much unwanted responsibility on the doctor.
Aren't you falling for the survivorship bias trap? Sure, people have said that about Airbnb. But I think there are loads of that startups that failed because they didn't understand the industry they were in, or because of legal hurdles.
> I'm linking you to a video showing a mob enacting an act of killing a symbolic cop

Once again, BLM protests to my knowledge did not ever result in LE personnel being murdered. So I can't really see these sorts of things as comparable given on the one hand you have vague threats and on the other hand you have a police being bludgeoned to death. Saying your going to kill police could be protected as free speech as we've already covered; killing police is not.

Also, I find it curious you seem to want to a) take the high ground yet b) only use BLM/antifa examples in your conversation. Finally, your views about the tech sector seem wildly out of touch; you do realise that tech is predominantly a left leaning industry, correct?
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Also same kind of system is in use in Denmark. :)

The law is such that the inspector can look into your home from public areas but you don't have to open your door to them or talk to them. They are unable to determine if you own any device which can be used to watch state TV. This is quite silly. People actually fear this and gladly pay up.
I think this is a very compelling point, and much better than most of the "fediverse is for freedom" talking points I have seen on HN:

> I have participated in many a public forum on Internet governance, and whenever anyone pointed out that social platforms like Facebook need to do more as far as content moderation is concerned, Facebook would complain that it’s difficult in their huge network, since regulation and cultures are so different across the world.

> They’re not wrong! But while their goal was to stifle further regulation, they were in fact making a very good argument for decentralisation.

> After all the very reason they are in this “difficult position” is their business decision to insist on providing centrally-controlled global social media platforms, trying to push the round peg of a myriad of cultures into a square hole of a single moderation policy.

I think if there was a more robust social media market instead of a Facebook/Twitter duopoly, we would have seen at least _some_ platforms move to restrict things sooner, and maybe even a majority of platforms. That would have kept us from hitting a moment so fraught that the President ended up banned from all social media overnight.
The content from BBC4 in general.

Mainly the wide array of in-depth documentaries presented by experts.

Yes, there've been loads of TOTP reruns since their budget was slashed and there may be some overlap with Sky Arts in some areas, but no channel comes close.

Notable excellent non-docs include Screenwipe, Only Connect, Detectorists (my favourite sitcom from the last ten years), The Thick of It.

I'd pay my licence fee just for BBC4, Radio 4 and BBC News.
Surely being literate is simply being able to read and write coherently? Whether you read books, the Economist, academic papers, Hacker News, or whatever, I don't see how it matters.
I sort of love that the AI prefers solid gray over any sort of creativity or complexity. A preview of... gray goo!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo
> In Germany, the situation changed a few years ago, every household has to pay now, even if they don't own a television or radio.

This was literally the first piece of mail I got when I moved to Germany: a letter demanding I pay for the TV networks I don't watch. I didn't even own a TV by that point, nor would have understood much of what was being said! A German explained to me once that the forced payment by non-watchers is justified as it benefits society as a whole. I must say, I've now found some of the programming on the publicly funded TV stations is actually pretty good.
I think the main question is whether the detection technology was real and worked as expected or they were just decoys.
> I mis-clicked and saw that it has been appeared on HN a number of times since ~2013.

Maybe the website itself. This article is fresh from 2021.
A lot of people use Google so it would of course make a huge difference if Google would stop collecting profiles.
De gustibus etc, but when you describe it like that I almost feel like you’re reading a different book. I can go to my bookshelf, pick up my copy of Gatsby, and almost any page I flip to I’m bound to find at least one striking sentence, vivid image, moment of sublime beauty.
Their use of materialism is correct. Materialism has multiple meanings.
Merkel went with popular opinion at the time, which was very much against nuclear power. I still see "Atomkraft? NEIN!" stickers in places.

Yes I agree that Germany has a weird relationship with science. Homeopathy is very big here. Same with plant-based remedies, which are sold (and recommended!) along with allopathic medicines in pharmacies by pharmacists. Nothing wrong with plant-based nature remedies, but they don't get the rigorous testing that allopathic medicines get.
A writeup for a cubesat I once tangentially worked on measured the propellant in "shots" (IIRC multiples of 44mL), which I always thought was hilarious.
> Their personal professional integrity is why you can trust The Intercept.

Not so sure about that.

https://www.praxisfilms.org/open-letter-from-laura-poitras/

https://www.startribune.com/justice-dept-charges-minnesota-f...
(german) https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/USA-Dritter-Whistleb...

Including Reality Winner, that makes 3 in total.
There is a pretty good mix of people — both full-time founders and people working on a side project or idea while being full-time employed. So I'm sure you'll find people there in a similar situation as yourself!
They were a real thing. When an old style TV amplifies the TV signal and feeds it to the CRT tube, it leaks a lot of the boosted signal. I think the rumour that the vans were a fake was probably because they only ever had a few and it was mostly a propaganda show, but that doesn't mean they didn't exist.

Intelligence agencies used receivers to snoop in on CRT computer monitor signals and could re-generate the display output, I remember watching a TV program where some electrical engineers built a home-grown version and demonstrated how it worked. It was only effective up to about a dozen metres IIRC with their setup, but theoretically could work at longer range with better hardware.

I remember chatting with friends about it because we were playing an espionage RPG at the time so of course we wanted our characters to have access to the tech.
They had fee collectors in Germany in the 90s. When I was at university it was common knowledge that you do not have to let them in if they come to your home. A friend's roommate let them in anyways, which cost him 400 DM (that would now be about 500€).