skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not a mistake if she feels
that her personal cost that she needs to invest are too high.

You still have a very valid point, the question of where you draw the line between “these guys are incompetent and I can’t deal with this” vs “I decide to put up with it to make things work” is very individual.

You should be careful generalizing the former decision as a mistake.
I don't know whether these vans were ever used here in Germany to detect TV watchers which don't pay, but these vans certainly existed. Their official, and I do think main purpose, was to detect signals which could interfere with TV and radio reception coming from defective electric devices or even illegal transmission sources.
The electronics stores had a reporting duty as I remember.
Remember that an increase in M1 doesn't mean "more money for everyone"! It just means more reserves for banks.

I think the key thing here is to look at is increase of bank deposits (I.e. money for you and me). That is M2 MINUS central bank reserves and notes and coins in circulation. If you look at this you'll see that bank deposits have only increased modestly despite the large increase in M1. From this you can infer that the FED's "money printing" isn't really affecting Main Street very much. I.e. currently not causing much inflation.

What's happening? The FED is creating new reserves and using those to buy bonds. The reserves remain in financial institutions and should incentivise banks to lend - or at least that is the theory. Lending is how bank deposits (money for you and me) are created. The reserves which the FED creates to buy bonds (which are assets of commercial banks) doesn't end up in people's Bank accounts (which are liabilities of commercial banks). Instead, the reserves remain sloshing around in the banks.

My view is that money supply is endogenous. That is, new bank deposits are created when new loans are made. Currently, there is not a demand for loans so there won't be a huge increase in the M2 money supply as a result of these FED bond purchases. Perhaps demand might increase in the future, in which case the US will see inflation. I suspect once the economy recovers and inflation (as measured by the FED) increases then they'll start performing open market operations to sell the bonds they bought and thus remove the excess reserves from the financial system.
>What we need is a mechanism for breaking circuits of lies and propaganda.

I think this is dangerous thinking, lies are bad but censorship is worse because someone has to decide what is a lie and what isn't, and that quickly becomes politicised. That never works out well. Since you mention Turkey, look at the current government's suppression of journalism. Freedom of expression must be protected as a legal right to maintain democracy.

On the other hand, freedom of expression includes the freedom not to facilitate other people's speech if you choose. I fully support the Parler people's right to propagate whatever bullshit they like as long as it isn't planning or inciting crimes. Equally I completely support Twitter, Facebook, AWS, etc's right to choose what they do and do not allow on their platforms. That's freedom too.

This is all part of the process of civil discourse. However uncivil it might seem right now, it's something we all need to work out as free citizens.
Only the parent doesn't dismiss "billion dollar companies", they dismiss comparing them to shut down, non winning, companies like in TFA.
Except value types will put an end to the anti-JVM dream.

C++ is never going to be safe by default, unless ISO is willing to do a Python 3.

Rust still needs to improve its usability story against everything that is available on the JVM, and compile times, oh boy.
The TV fee exists everywhere, but usually if you have the cable, you pay; if you don't pay, you are cut off and that's the end of story.
Aren't you taking a stretch here? Plotwise, both protagonists have different reasons to attain their goals. And besides the plot, don't they handle different topics?
You are under an incorrect impression then
The fastest-growing startups by GitHub Stars in Q4 2020
She’s been arrested:

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/01/18/fbi-pennsylvani...
I had to read it in high school and, while I didn't really feel forced, I can't say I liked it very much.

It's clearly well written, but I just couldn't bring myself to give a damn about any single character throughout.
Money being able to influence elections is called corruption. Money isn't a problem in itself, corruption is. Just giving up and saying that money will always have this kind of influence and that all politicians will always be bought and there is nothing you can do is how you ensure corruption festers and grow.
I think you are not comparing it with the hypothetical situation that would exist if free speech was clamped down upon.

You are looking through the lens of "my side is in charge of the censorship and my side is right".

Throughout history and around the world you can find plenty of examples of censorship which had really dire consequences.

If your group was at some point to become the one who is censored, how will you be able to argue for free speech?

Imagine for example if there was a retaliation from a far left group who blew something up. Then the right would find some tweets and call it "incitement of violence". Then Trump could enact the Insurrection Act, call people domestic terrorists, and censor for public safety reasons. Your argument then would be undoubtedly for "free speech", and you would have to rely on the good nature of the aggressor to provide that to you. Yes this is far-fetched but it's not unusual in other countries and throughout history.
United States military and prostitution in South Korea
'TV Light Simulators' are actually a thing:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=tv+light+simulator&atb=v172...
I’ve just read Tender is the Night, and while I didn’t love it like I loved The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald knocks it out of the park with “poignant observational value”.

“Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.”

That was a favourite sentence.
In a nutshell, this is just another story of coding something cool. Just to realize that no one will pay for it 8 months after.

YC also says all the way through "Talk to your users/prospects".

That's how you "Make something people want".
So you have zero concerns about Tether?
The response "what were the levels at birth" is the only thing this article should be interested in.

There are way too many factors to draw any meaningful conclusions especially at 59 participants at 2-5 years AFTER birth.
Ah yes, one failure = the idea is horrible. Another classic trope.
Do you want to be friends with someone looking to use CT in their daily life, including to change their language to improve alignment with reality (is that commutation with reality?) and to see how such changes impact the development of a child? Because the kid's 2 now and I could really use some sanity checking on my principles cause they're learning things way fast.

How would you recommend I go about making friends in the CT community? I'm a full-time parent without a degree and see CT as something worth trying to teach my child now (though without all the jargon).
The article covers three types of activity.

"fun" (Noun, uncountable):

- amusement, enjoyment or pleasure

- playful, often noisy, activity.
Productivity, unmatched tooling for cluster monitoring, memory safe by default, value types are coming.

And even without value types, there are off heap allocations, also if "Python" libraries can be actually written in C, so can Java ones, without loosing the plus of the ecosystem.
They could do a lot of clever stuff, maybe a different compression ratio for each participant. Even the arangement of the participants thumbnails on the screen, if I were working on the "leaks mitigation" team I would suggest the server to store the arrangement per user, and if the user switches the faces around on the client app, to also record that order!
Wow, I'm blown away by the slickness of the UI and UX. It's very impressive and intuitive.

I'm not the target demographic (yet), but may look into this later when I look at starting up a 1 man company.

Great job putting this beautiful site together. Is there any article or post about how this platform was created (including design aspects)?
Struggled to find it via google. Eventually Bing Video search worked...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9RkPt6uVQ4

Note, it's not from the official Def Con channel, so some fuckery is afoot.
This is a meaningless collection of buzzwords. I'm looking forward to see the author write object-oriented Haskell.
Not an expert, but imho this is because the money they are creating is not trickling down to the hands of consumers (hence low consumer inflation). OTOH we are seeing significant asset price inflation (stocks, housing, startup valuations, etc), which is a signal of where the created money is actually flowing. By now, I don’t think this ought to be a radical insight.
Workers have "transferable" objects that in theory avoid copies, but still there's a world of difference between coarse-grained message-passing style, and fine-grained data parallelism you can get from something like rayon.

JS "can" do a lot of things if you know how, and cleverly implement and optimize the code, but it's a Turing Tarpit. You wouldn't implement a video codec in JS. You could, but it's not the best language for it.
The letters are quite hilarious, e.g. (paraphrased) beginning:

"175678561

This is a case number that has been assigned to your property and will be used for all investigations.

An investigation officer may be sent to your property to interview you under caution.

... "

They do send people round though. They probably just hope to peek through the window and hope gullible people will let them in and sign paperwork.
I couldn't stand "on the road". Not sure when "too late" would be but I read it in my mind twenties. For a good amount of it, I gave it the benefit of the doubt telling myself it's simply from another time, but I quit half way through, unmoved, unchanged, and completely disinterested.
Website is at https://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/

https://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/piaacdesign/ has a few sample items.
I've been on long hikes. I've also broken bones, some of which will hurt until the end of my life.

I agree with your point of view on hikes. It's a mind game.

But that's not the whole story. For some people, pain doesn't end. Pain is every day, and you get nothing in exchange. No trees, no fresh air, just pain.

I could go on, lay out the difference between pain and the resulting mental suffering. While you can't always avoid the former, the latter is up to you. But that's a whole other story.

Congrats on your achievements. Man, I wish I could go back hiking. You learned how to conquer your pain, may it be inconsequential and temporary. Bear in mind that, sometimes, it has long term (everlasting?) consequences. And that makes it completely different.

Avoid consequences. Really, do.
> Who are "Coalition of Safer Web"??

"a nonpartisan group that advocates for technologies and policies to remove extremist content from social media"

> Who are they, dictating what's "safe" for me or what's not safe. What's their definition and standard/safe?

They're not arguing for 'safe'. They want Apple to enforce its terms of service barring hate speech and incitement to violence. "anti-semitic ... racism ... bullying ..." Believe it or not, there are people who are hurt by that shit. Go figure.

In the US (I don't know about other places) there are rules in force about what swear words you can use on the radio. There are people listening who find them offensive. Then it was film. Then it was comic books. It's not about you and me, it's about them. Should there be NO standards? Of course not. So: where's the line? R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
> I am pretty sure I read somewhere that they never existed and where basically "created" to fear people into paying the fees.

We actually do have detector vans - they belonged to the RegTP, now Bundesnetzagentur, and are used to pinpoint pirate radios, malfunctioning equipment, and check if private point-to-point radios requiring licenses actually have licenses: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Sachgebiete/Telekommunik...

In 2019, the BNetzA was out in 4.700 cases of radio interference - mostly it was WiFi routers using bands that are not allowed in Germany, but there were also 1.200 cases where interference hit sensitive communications like police radio or airplane communications: https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/gadgets/bundesnetzagentur-be...
I think you need to look at different ways on how we consume information these days. Books, yes, but what about Netflix documentaries, Youtube, Science blogs, etc. We live in a modern informational era, full of opportunities to consume relevant and educational information.
Similar here. I expected this to be yet another "decentralized networks are the best join now"-article which pops up on HN all the time, but this one had actually well-thought-out points.
You haven't told us what "meaningful work" means to you.
Well, the idea was rejected by patients, advertising revenue, and doctors...

I also note the "weasel word" idea. This wasn't just an idea, but an implementation.

The same thing might make sense as a value-added feature in a more comprehensive health service (so the "idea" might be good when put in that use).

But as an idea for a service based entirely on it, it failed hard. What exactly twist do you have in mind to save it? Or are you just saying "we'll never be sure" with more words?
Imagine getting caught through an even more obscure difference, like different default margins/spacing in new Word, or... letter kerning!
The article fails to point out that today the enforcement vans are replaced by harassing enforcement officers.

These are contracted through slimey companies like Serco and Capita (Crapita).

I don't normally say it but it really is an example of the nanny state.

Check this video out, it's an eye opener https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXcLqvFjMhE&t=608
Not a crypto key (I hope). In JS, objects (dictionaries) are key-value pairs.
> We hear these stories about TV detector vans as if finding a TV set was ever sufficient evidence.

The vans would be detecting radio activity; there's nothing to detect if the TV is off.
If it had succeeded and was ad based I'm certain I would have used it occasionally assuming I knew about it.
I was expecting some clever brute-forcing turns out it's just lucky guess.
The fee not being a tax in Germany is an important distinction for a very basic reason: The government has no direct control over it. The whole reason for the public TV and radio to exist is to create independent media, especially also independent from the state. So while the government is involved as far as it guarantees the system, it has no further control about it. So the government can't threaten to cut funds, just because they don't like critical reporting. And guess what, the right wing extremists are constantly asking for the end of that system.
He he, you’re woke man... you pay for health insurance?

/s
>If you are a software guy, drilling a 12mm horizontal hole 30mm deep into the edge of a 20mm x 400mm plate is surprisingly difficult.

Punch to center the first hole, then a center drill to start, then pilot holes at 3mm, 6mm and 12mm, use duck tape on the drill bit to keep the depth right.

If you really need the holes to be dead straight use a handheld router those are a great thing to have anyway and pretty much all of them have 100mm of or so of travel.

If you're drilling into something very hard skip the 3mm.

A good video on how to tap so you break fewer of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33wfSMsUbuc
Great read!! :D
This technology claims 100 miles in 5 minutes. As of 2019, a Tesla can charge 100 miles in 7 minutes using the v3 supercharger. https://electrek.co/2019/07/02/tesla-supercharger-v3-range-m...
"indian" is...

https://alexbeals.com/projects/colorize/search.php?q=indian
Empathy works as long as you don't create a us vs them situation.

> The tyranny of the majority

Has that ever happened or is that just an argument to let politicians keep their power?
I would not trust that. Seriously.

Reasonably effective stream watermarking happens every day and is done in the human vocal range with almost no listener impact.

In radio, Arbitron has a system working well within the lower audio range, even AM radio. AM is typically 5Khz bandwidth.

They use a spectral masking technique able to encode ID bits into streams that can be decoded with portable devices.

PPM Portable People Meter

Frankly, this kind of thing would go unnoticed by pretty much all listeners.

From the PDF I linked:

[...]all watermarking technologies use the well-known perceptual principle of “masking,” which
was first reported in the early 20th century and is a core technical basis for mp3, AAC, and a host of data-rate reduction
schemes.

In simple language, a loud burst of energy at one frequency will deafen the human auditory system to certain
other audio components at nearby frequencies for a period of time before, during, and after the loud signal.

Consider the following illustration: A tone burst at 1.1 kHz with an intensity of 0 dB will hide (make imperceptible) an
added signal at 1.11 kHz with a level of -30 dB for a period of about 10 ms before the burst and as much as 50 ms after the
burst. However, modern signal-processing techniques can still detect the existence of this added 1.11 kHz component even
though the ear cannot.

This is the basis of PPM and other similar watermarking technologies that use masking for
determining the frequencies and intensity of the data that can be added for the station-identifying watermark.

The PPM system constructs 10 spectral channels in the region from 1.0 kHz to 3.0 kHz. The original program audio
energy in each channel is evaluated for its ability to mask an added component. If that masking energy is insufficient,
nothing is added. Conversely, if the energy in a channel is large enough, a tone is injected, chosen from one of four
possible frequencies within the channel. For example, the channel centered at 1058 Hz might have one of the following
four frequencies injected: 1046, 1054, 1062, or 1070 Hz.

Each of the four frequencies represents 2 bits of information. If we assume that this process repeats at a 500 ms rate,
using all channels provides 40 bits per second or 2400 bits per minute of watermark code. Let’s further assume that a
radio station is credited for a listener if any code is correctly detected within a 3-minute interval. With the very large
number of encoded bits generated in 3 minutes (2400 x 3 = 7200 bits) and a station’s identification data needing perhaps
only 50 bits, there is massive excess capacity for redundancy, error correction, and for audio that does not have enough
high-frequency content for masking.

https://blogalytics.typepad.com/files/a-technical-look-at-ar...
This persistent kind of framing in media is quite possibly a second order effect of the Neoliberal consensus. Markets become the primary tool of societal organisation, and institutions are bent and dented into an orientation toward the economic value system.
On the Road is not a good book, my take is it was popular in the way Jackson Pollock was, it was so radically different that people had to take notice. However, keruack is a great writer and Darma Bums is one of my favorite.
German public broadcasters in particular used to justify gross per-household fees by arguing free-to-air TV can be received by everyone, and pushed FTA DVB2 over antenna a couple years ago with spotty reception, and only in metropolitan areas, years ago. That argument is as comically out-of-date as it ever was, with CI/CAM devices (for SmartCard readers) being installed on every Smart TV and set-top box since the SD/DVB1 times. Even though they argue they act in accordance with the majority, they know quite well that they'd loose a large percentage of their audience out of inertia alone when they'd be doing the decent thing and require SmartCards for those who actually want to watch their TV programs which, as far as entertainment goes, is mostly bottom-of-the-barrel palliative-care crime series plus expensive programs for corrupt sports (the good stuff is mostly on radio IMO).

But public broadcasters also have expansive web/IP presence, and even use Facebook for public communication (ZDF), when in their news/opinion pieces they rant against social media LOL.

Public broadcasters today seem just to create a self-serving and self-referential media presence for politicians, in these times of Coronavirus more than ever. Tonight, they're going to push for even stronger measures including curfews (!) even though infections are going down; needless to say, without parliamentary participation. The whole thing is getting out of hands with irrationality fast right now.
For now, the only separation we have is that each worker is responsible for its own weights, since network security has not been our top priority. Still, we've been thinking about adding some security measures like proof-of-work for each node and detection of anomalous inputs/gradients (or simply NaN values). Right now we're running experiments on internal hardware, but before a public launch we'll make sure that malicious participants won't put everybody else's work to waste :)
Just because lot of people like or treasured the work doesn't mean I have a duty to share the same opinion as everyone else.
Making a large profit and growing 100X every month is very hard with an emacs package. You must understand that the only reason to develop software is to make an obscene amount of money?

They should pivot this package to crosswords as a service and ensure growth, maybe seek some funding while they are at it.

/s
"Of course I always have the best interests of my patients in mind, but, you know, it's not like they'll pay more if I prescribe Lexapro instead of Zoloft. They won't come back more often or refer more friends. So I'd sorta just be, like, donating this money if I paid you for this thing, right?"

But you know who would pay more if they prescribe Lexapro? The manufacturer of Lexapro, and that's who he should have pitched this to. And they have the marketing muscle needed to make it scale.

That said, there's all sorts of conflict of interest/slippery slope issues going down that path, and I'm not sure they would buy this either, but they'd still have been his best bet.
Somewhat related: the staff at NPR's Planet Money recently released a 4.5-hour reading of the Great Gatsby.

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/14/956800308/the-great-gatsby
I believe the premise of the title. But the main question should be: why? And the article does not really answer that, well beyond censorship.

I think the reason why centralization is a danger to democracy, is because of lobbying. Lobbying is much easier in a centralized power structure. See how much lobbying goes on in and around the power centers of this world: DC, Brussels, London. Lobby is power for money, democracy is power for votes (at least it should be). Currently lobbies have more power in the decision process than voters (any political sciences professor will agree). So democracy is a hollow word, or worse: a facade, a lie.

Lobbies basically work in favour of the super rich. If we see the gap widening we see that they get what they pay for, and the for-sure-not-super-rich masses dont get what they vote for.
The BBC is currently dedicating hours of airtime a day to educational content to match our primary and secondary curricula because the schools are shut and lots of kids can't access online provisions. And still people complain about the licence fee in terms of whether or not they enjoy BBC gameshows...