skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is bad argument nowadays.

Even if they just collect the data now, they might sell it 5 years down the line.

You have to consider the worst possible interpretation, even if its not true today. Companies can be sold or taken over, go bust and their assets get sold.

Companies can change too.
Look at google. In 2000's I trusted google a lot more than I trust it now. You can bet google still has all my data from 2000's.
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It was pretty amazing and we've probably bumped into each other in the queue for hotdogs.

I also recall we blew out 2 fuse stations and laid the entire city dark for a few hours.
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It's not just the bottom line; too much of Amazon's practices rely on treating humans as more expendible than styrofoam packing peanuts. It's a culture of control and expediency, and it's a feedback loop because the only way to rise in that culture is to be for more control and more expediency.

Workers with no legal protections or fallbacks, can be coerced to do things that are self-destructive out of fear, or they can be screwed out of benifits or protections through the same banality of evil as EULA agreements.

Management culture has some serious fucking problems. When I worked a factory job, the latest managerial fad was 'make workers mad enough to quit'. Because if they quit, they lost their vested retirement benefits. And those that came back, did so on reduced pay. Deplorable? Yes, but _perfectly legal_, or if not legal, the power imbalance was such that the company could get away with it scott free.

Crap like this goes on all the time, see an example FAQ lawyers put up: https://www.kentonslawoffice.com/workers-compensation-lawyer...
Lawyers working in worker compensation law are not likely starving for clientel, or they'd be seeking greener pastures. Hell, yellowpages.com shows 23 hits for 'worker comp lawyer' just within a ten mile radius of where I live.

Corporations are amoral profit-optimization engines, externalizing all possible costs to everyone else. Corporations are not people. Corporations do not think like people, even if they are made of people. Corporations do not care about people, especially not in any of the ways we would want someone who is our neighbor to care about us, not even to the bare minimum of polite indifference of not pooping on your doorstep.

Remember tetraethyl lead?
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520283930/lead-wars
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leaded-gas-poison-...
https://www.epa.gov/history/epa-history-lead

Given a choice between the nebulous future of preventing provable harm, and the shorter term and slightly more concrete consequence of lost profits, corporations (and even government) chose profit.

If corporations were actual people, they would absolutely poop on your doorstep to save on their water bill, and then gaslight you with studies showing that poop on your doorstep is normal and healthy, not a big deal, and totally your own fault if it is.

The only way to made corporations (and government) behave in morally acceptable ways is to force them and watch their every move, and make the alternative more expensive.
By curiosity I've looked on Gab and I don't see any content you mention. Yes, there is something about protests against banning guns, some celebrities teaming up to support Trump, etc., which is considered to be "far right" but I haven't seen anything you mention.

I might have missed that obviously during my five minutes of browsing there, as a result, if they really call for murdering Jews, could you provide a link to such resource - calling to murder someone is a crime in the US, so such link would be a good evidence for prosecution.
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Could You point me towards research papers about complexity and corectness ?
I have this unconfirmed intuition about the way we manage complexity and correctness (that we are building castles on quick sands with our leaky abstractions that try to fit into constantly changing reality)

I would like to broaden it a bit and find out if there possibly is some truth to it.
Well, I would love to print out my own cpu in the garage, but until then, I would also be happy, if the factories producing security critical HW, get frequent audits by qualified personel. Certifying and reviewing the build process.

Not very likely on a broader scale, though.
You need to understand the context that birthed DDD. It was a reaction to the model of building business logic into UI event handlers which was pushed hard at the time by the Visual Basic (and java equivalent) crowd in businesses.

Originally Fowler documented the domain model in PoEAA, then Evans took the idea and ran with it.

I agree that the book hasn't aged well: like the GoF book it's a slog to read. Evans isn't Fowler.
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Two much context switching, <ESC> + mouse. This is bad :p

I prefer a Go clone of Acme, edwood, albeit it's damn slow if you build the plan9port-less port without SSSE3.

https://github.com/rjkroege/edwood
I'm not sure thriving is the correct term. When it comes to HDI, human rights record, freedom of press/expression/etc. i can't think of a single Muslim-majority country ( which isn't the same as Islamic, and i chose the former because they fare better by definition on various freedoms)

On the HDI, the first majority Muslim country is the UAE, at 31, and that's probably highly skewed by its limited population, extreme natural wealth, and slavery. And considering it's involved in a human rights catastrophe in Yemen, it fails any human rights record-based index directly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

On the contrary, I'd say that Islam is stuck in the past, which doesn't help Muslim nations thrive and develop, and those that do, do it based on "luck" ( natural resources).
The pipeline is basically:

- stream your voice through an encoder: X ms

- send encoded packages over the network: 20-100ms latency (fiber vs mobile phone)

- potential decoding + encoding (if receiver does not support the senders codec, e.g., a landline phone using old codec)

- stream packages through a decoder: Y ms

If you are aiming for 60ms audio latency, which is what I would consider "good", then in the best scenario (20ms network latency; both using same codec) the latency of the encoder+decoder has to be max 40ms (e.g. 20ms for encoder, and 20ms for decoder).

It should be obvious that a decoder that does not meet the 20 ms budget, but takes 90 ms instead which is > 3x the budget, can produce better audio (ideally 3-4x better).

Latency wise, everything below 60 ms is really good, 60ms is good, and the 60-200ms range goes from good to unusable. That is, 200ms, which is what this new codec would hit under ideal conditions, has a latency that humans consider "unusable" because it is too high to be able to have a fluent conversation.

For me, personally, if latency is higher than 120ms, I really don't care about how good a codec "sounds". I use a phone to talk to people, and if we start speaking over each other, cutting each other, etc. because latency is too high, then the function of the phone is gone.

Its like having a super nice car that cannot drive. Sure its nice, but when I want to use a car, I actually want to drive with it somewhere. If it cannot drive anywhere, then it is not very useful to me.
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Depends on whether bandwidth is important to what you're doing. In many applications it isn't so even at the inflated prices charged by AWS et al don't really matter in the context of other expenses.
Some torrents. There are many torrents basically held up by a single peer and those are not in practice decentralized. They could become so if more peers start seeding the torrent, but just because the architecture provides for decentralisation does not make all torrents decentralized.
> Adverse selection. If your differenciating feature is "you can say what you want without getting banned", your userbase is going to tend towards people who get banned on other platforms. In todays climate, that is mostly the far right.

And in Hong Kong, it's anti-CCP protestors. In Iran, it is opponents of the theocracy. We can play this game all day.

Tech's obsession with hating on Gab/Parler is based upon on the identity of the people in them, not on whether offensive or not-sanctioned speech should be allowed in general.
I've had several of our users call up over the years, angrily asking why we made certain fields in our app "dropdowns" with rubbish in them.

Chrome decided to add autocomplete to some of our fields with contextually irrelevant options. As far as I know there isn't anything I can reliably do about it.
> IIRC American companies (specially service companies, but surely also hardware companies) can be forced to introduce backdoors and other spying mechanisms and then force them not to disclose such a thing (i.e. Lavabit, Groklaw, Room 641 and equivalent Google and Facebook programms).

You recall incorrectly. By extension of the First Amendment, US companies are protected from being forced to introduce functionality so as to collect or decrypt information (or for any other purpose). Carrying out original work for the government is considered to be speech, and as a result cannot be compelled. If the data is already collected and available in a decrypted form to the company a court order can compel the data to be turned over as evidence, as is the case with any data (or any thing) held by anyone (with narrow exceptions related to the 5th amendment).

This was a topic of national attention several years ago when the FBI tried (and failed) to compel Apple to create and sign a custom software update to unlock an iPhone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute
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we got a sales pitch from them

basically "we have a culture that the big agents can't and that attracts the best agents to us" so basically culture + back-end not horrible tech = massive success.
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What's the advantage of this over Pandas' standard rolling quantiles?

import numpy as np

import pandas as pd

s_input = pd.Series(np.random.randn(1000))

s_p10 = s_input.rolling(10).quantile(0.1)
I summarize all those theories as "how to be a human". There's all these tech business books with titles like "Lean Innovation" and they must be written for people without the crudest socialization skills.

It has flow charts, diagrams, tabular statistics, you know, to conclude groundbreaking things like "talking to at least one customer before releasing a product is a smart idea" or "don't waste time on unimportant things"

I'm like "Dude, did you just want a section for your CV that says 'Recent Publications'?"
That sounds miserable. Why would you do that to yourself? Is it purely cost?
25 minutes later, the comment no longer shows as "dead", it's just a normal comment. Maybe people upvoted it? But how? I thought dead comments have no upvote button?

Or maybe there are no botnets, and I simply don't understand the mechanics of "dead" in HN. Like maybe some users get automatic "dead" status to their comments due to past violations? (That would be a bit strange though.)
That's got to be the lowest bar for "socialism" i've ever seen. So, is Eisenhower socialist as well? The US Interstate highway is much bigger than the Autobahn, so it surely counts?
Just to make sure I've got it: harmonics will always sound like (be?) octaves relative to the fundamental. But all the less-dominant frequencies are overtones, even if I somehow get a tritone or something gross sounding.

Now what happens when I play a chord and get overtones out of the interaction between two strings or a choir? What's happening there?
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another reason being some eBay/re-sellers buy in low cost places (like India/China) - reinstall EU ROM and sell it at high cost. (Even now many devices in Asian markets come with a label like - Only for India-SIM)
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This helps answer the question I just asked under another comment. Thank you!
To stray away from "blanket statements" and "general impressions", can we find the sale of microwave meals differences between the US and Europe? I would imagine that would be the most telling statistic.
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I can confirm that. The whole political landscape in the US is skewed to the right and has always been. So are their political positions, e.g. the word "social democracy" plays almost no role and "liberal" either means "extreme left" or, even worse and more incorrect, is used as a synonym to libertarianism by white supremacists and neo-Nazis who disguise themselves as "libertarians."

I guess it's the result of having a two-party system.
“Period”, “fuck [them]”, “not up for discussion”, “no debate”... these are not terms used by successful thinkers. Rather, they are how echo chambers form.
> Tech's obsession with hating on Gab/Parler is based upon on the identity of the people in them

Correct. We hate nazis.
I really hope that privacy situation will start getting better - or at least not getting worse.

For email I basically gave up (for now) as it will likely leak on other side anyway.

But I aggressively avoid cloud sync, and my files on cloud are either public or locally encrypted before uploading. Well, at least it protects against non-targeted attacks.

> I have massive respect for OSM maintainers. People don't appreciate how much work goes into the map data.

:)

Just in case that you have an Android phone - I recommend StreetComplete, it allows limited editing with zero OSM-specific knowledge. Registering for OSM account is the most difficult part.

It works by asking about already mapped elements, while you are in front of them. See https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete#screenshots
And a religious person would say that we should follow ten commandments. Should we make it illegal not to follow them? Should we move toward punishing the sinners by law? I am against immoral behavior but it does not mean I am for banning speach and art, quite the opposite. The Christian culture is crumbling and is being slowly replaced by a more repressive one. And it is worrisome to say the least.
It can but I'm not sure the effort is really worth it. I went through a period of my life where I was using LaTeX for literally every document I produced. Presentations, all kinds of charts and cheatsheets with diagrams and illustrations through TikZ. They looked beautiful in the end but nobody who consumes them appreciates the massive effort. People assume you are just slightly better at Word rather than really good at LaTeX. Not that the only point of learning things is to impress others, but it's pretty demoralizing.

At the time I thought 'just learn one tool well and use it forever', but now I feel more like 'just use the best tool for the job'. In this case I would say that's InDesign and a few hours of tutorials, mostly. The illustrations you can choose another tool if appropriate.
> you can say anything that is not directly illegal in the US [or frowned upon by what we* believe God would frown upon] without fear of being banned or other moderation

it's not censorship when you like it!

*) we = right leaning americans
You need to install DDG privacy essentials, uMatrix and uBlock Origin. Then you won't even see those banners, since they no longer load (along with any of the related tracking)
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perversely, wouldn't spinning drives up and down impact drive life?
+ 1

also note that the Asian billionaires are learning for people like bezos/gates. In public they may be hate figures - but everyone orders from Amazon. Tax breaks for large companies.

(i.e) use thinktank to pass legislation to make everything they do legal.
For maths, the problem just sometimes lives in a deeper level of abstraction where you need to understand the problem anyway to make any meaningful changes to the code. So I don't think you'd really gain anything by renaming the kalman gain calculation from

K = dot(dot(H, dot(P, H.T)) + R, inv(S))

to

kalman_gain = dot(dot(measurement_function, dot(covariance_matrix, measurement_function.T) + measurement_noise_covariance, inv(system_uncertainty))

because if you don't know what any of these things are by reading up on the theory, the names (or I believe any others) aren't going to help you figure out how a kalman filter works.
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I'd be busy on a new Veg patch/Garden.
I agree.
They're competing against free services. For many if not most family-and-friend groups there will only be one person knowledgeable about matrix and actively interested in using it (there might be more interested in using "something that's not Facebook", but matrix isn't the only option there). This needs to be priced low enough that one person can buy it without thinking and get their family and some friends on the thing. Maybe start at $40/year or $25/six months, up to 15 accounts.

Pay six months or a year to start so there's no subscription, then give an option to pay for another block or switch to monthly.

Also needs to include bring-your-own-domain (ie, let the customer point DNS at the service), because if you're interested in matrix and want to have your own homeserver then you know you also want to properly own the domain to avoid being locked into a particular hosting provider.

(All just my opinion, I have no relevant experience, etc etc)
Not just one vulnerability, gab's CTO replaced every activerecord and stored procedure SQL call he could find with a string substitution based raw query (without any escaping or anything)
> Correct. We hate nazis.

If you believe there are 10s of millions of Nazis in America, you have issues.
Who called him a fascist?
I bet you think North Korea is a Democratic Republic as well?
When you eat at a restaurant in Europe, half the food comes from the microwave.
What point are you making?

Those are the “far right” (or “far left” depending on your views) in those contexts.

The point remains: extreme views will gravitate to these platforms.

That is “far right”.

If you don’t prefer that title call it “extremist views”; it’s irrelevant what you label it; the point remains entirely valid.
... and again with the trolling.
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Nope, Molnaya orbits appear to dwell for a very long time at their apogee. That's why they're popular for Russian spy satellites.
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What bothers me more is his "restorative justice" policy where they put arrested criminals back to the streets to continue robbing and killing.

Like that drunk driver who was arrested for DUI and car theft in December, quickly released, stole another truck, got drunk and killed a man in huge car pileup accident on Lake Merced.

To watch the victim's wife crying is heartbreaking, they just got married and had a baby. https://abc7news.com/jerry-lyons-san-francisco-sheria-musyok...

That shithead DA should be recalled ASAP.
Making an OS takes a lot of manpower. Linux absorbs most of the programmer hours, the BSDs take almost all of the rest. What is left over for projects like Redox is a tiny team of developers. You can't expect a ton of hardware support to come out of those efforts.
Because something bad has happened before, we should look at it happening now as part of an ongoing problem, instead of characterising it as new phenomenon.

I get your point, but if you tell me I did a bad thing, I can answer in one of two ways: “you did a bad thing too, so you have no right to criticise me”, or “you did a bad thing too, maybe we should have a frank conversation about why we both fell into the same trap”.
This is also a myth.
The trade in price is funny, you can sell the Macbook for a lot more than $360 in the second hand market.
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Sure, after they stole your data already