skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can request color calibrated TIFFs from the Rijksmuseum collection: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/research/image-requests
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Can u cite a source for the level of disinformation from MSM?
Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and even defecate enroute
Yeah and I'm under the impression that the fees are balanced so that it costs roughly the same amount to take either route. Ships only choose Suez because it's faster.
Those were foundational for me as well. Along the same lines of "Outgroup", Johnathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind" gave a lot of insight in to why people hold certain values and beliefs.
Spreading democracy to the workforce does not make the market less "free." It just makes it easier to manipulate by the few.
It's interesting how free speech is being interpreted and abused for hate speech so often. This isn't as much of a thing in German speaking areas, where it is called freie Meinungsäußerung.

Frei ... Free
Meinung ... Opinion
Äußerung ... Utterance

It's the freedom of voicing opinions, not any speech even if it incentivises hate crime.
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Flagged as misleading, the last time it was on the market was 1940.
As long as Apple has the encryption keys they should not but trusted, but Apple and Google are a smidge different

> Google handsets collected “a notably larger volume of handset data than Apple” with 1MB of data being sent from idle Google Pixel handsets every 12 hours, compared with 52KB sent from the iPhone.

That’s 20x less than Google collects. If I knew it was all encrypted on device with keys only I own, I’d be much happier, but 20x less is better than nothing.
When we are talking about centralized government institutions - then we kind of left the free market place.
There's a huge gulf between "making things is a fun hobby" and "if I don't make things, I may not be able to eat / have shelter / clothe myself".
Interestingly the applications are free to collect any personal data as they are not included in GDPR.
When I requested from one company to let me export my data from the application in a human readable format or to at least send documentation of their file format, so that I can port my data to another application, they refused saying that GDPR only applies to online apps.
It's possible that companies will be moving their online apps to electron or native phone apps to bypass GDPR.
It's the HN hug of death now. :)
I was always told that "rebuilding enamel" isn't possible?

I've developed temperature sensitivity as I've aged, and now cold water in the mornings will trigger pain in certain teeth.

It's quite disappointing that the common advice is "brush twice daily and floss", which I've been doing my entire life (flossing for at least a decade).

Getting older sucks, and I'm not even that old.
Of course philanthropy is self serving. It serves the interest of those who manage it, that normally are related or controlled by those that put the money.

I believe it is much better than the alternative: That they are controlled by those who don't put the money.

As an real example: In Spain there were public banks created by the Catholic Church(from the Italian model) in order to lend money to people that needed it, they were called "cajas de ahorro".

While it was controlled by the Church they worked really well for almost two hundred years. With the democracy the political parties said that as public institutions, it needed to be controlled by "the people". The people meaning of course politicians and unions.

Politicians destroyed cajas redirecting the money to themselves, and specially putting incompetent people in charge that destroyed them after making dumb decisions.

Now there are no cajas in Spain, all have been privatized after all went bankrupt.

Also when I was young I volunteered for a famous humanitarian NGO that helps people all around the world. Or so I thought, after working very hard for 6 months I realized most of the money was wasted in those that were up in the chain of command in the NGO and in Africa bureaucracy(tribal leaders in Africa got to control most of the food and medicines that we sent), not in those that needed it.
This isn’t a bad thing - it’s okay to support charities from selfish motives, in fact it’s probably a good thing to ensure continued support.

The key thing is if the charitable work is actually useful of course, but that’s a separate conversation.
Hanlon's razor. The problem with Swedish public financed IT, is a) the requirement by anti corruption legislation to choose the cheapest solution b) the lack of competence by the people in charge of writing public tendors
As has already been explained in other answers, ultimately everything comes down to machine code. 0s and 1s. So the closer to the hardware your language is, the _more_ access you actually have. Higher level languages, compilers and operating systems paired with newer hardware features are what _limits_ the access.

If you have a higher level language, that simply has no features to talk to the network and no facilities to insert lower level code, make direct syscalls etc. somehow, then barring exploits, you really can't access the network card.

If you think about it, some parts of the operating system of a computer are actually written in assembly. How are the syscalls themselves implemented etc?

If you want to learn more about what can be done without all these abstractions, then the "toilet paper computer" is awesome if you ask me. We did this in high school comp sci class (with a simulator but the teacher started us off with an actual roll of toilet paper to explain the concept).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver
There's a surface rabbit hole for regular rabbits, but if you follow it down, sometimes low-level rabbits have made another rabbit hole at the bottom which leads into their warrens. That's all though there's no third level.
so the census chroniclers, being part of the communities they were surveying, just went with a hunch? that half the population that was here last time we did this whole census thing is probably just hiding, and we're not sure where they are, so we just won't count them, or make a note of the (weird) fact that every second person just is playing hide-and-seek reallllllly well, and i guess we didn't invent ollyollyoxenfree yet, so we'll just not count them, and not note that on all of our records. at all.

gee that's weird, we won't mention that it's just people hiding.

is that a more reasonable explanation than 50% of everyone dying? really?
Stigma. Misinformation. Disinformation. Classism. Etc.

It ends up being the poorest of the poor who keep alive vermin and other health issues. If they admit to having such issues, we punish them rather than help them resolve it.

Education is a known means to combat poverty, probably because it makes feasible to find what I think of as "middle class solutions" to myriad issues, including health and hygiene issues. Poor people often have a lack of knowledge and that lack of knowledge fosters problems and there are systemic barriers to educating them because we punish them rather than help them if they admit to having certain kinds of problems.

So they hide them and they don't get educated and so forth.

You sometimes see ugly jokes about "The third world country of America" because there are parts of the US where poverty is rampant, infrastructure is falling apart, etc. I imagine most first world countries have some areas of intractable poverty (though perhaps not all -- some stories suggest some countries are successfully resolving issues like homelessness).
HGT is fascinating & important, but it’s also completely accepted, recognized, and studied.

Horizontal gene transfer was actually discovered before we had any consensus that DNA was the biological mechanism of heredity, and the experiments showing evidence of HGT were used as evidence for that claim.
Misleading headline.

When Suez shares started trading in London in 1875, the Suez Canal Co. represented 75% of the market cap of all Egyptian shares listed in London
You can demand those terms when you negotiate the license.
Stop putting random crap in the DNS.
> I would have thought that the Gates foundation was an excellent example of how to spent money well

Spending money on research and development programs with beneficial public health outcomes sounds good, unless you are a non-Gates backed researcher who has been working in the field for a long time and loses access to clinical facilities, data, and competitive grant funding because you get usurped by an organisation that has more political and economic influence than your NGO.
Can you provide an example of NYT misinformation or propaganda?
That's a stupid argument, because none of the people on the richest people lists have any significant portion of wealth in liquid assets.
Wealth for good reason is not defined as amount of cash you own.
Haha, Sorry but Americans THINK they know freedom. The US is full of regulation and red tape. Let’s see you buy a house and do whatever you want on the property, even in rural areas.

3rd world countries have the true freedom to do what you want
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How could the organisers know what future members want then the company spend much effort on preventing workers from talking to each other?
I'm puzzled by this statement on the Mona Lisa entry [1]: "Artwork recovered after World War II, retrieved by the Office des Biens et Intérêts Privés; to be returned to its rightful owner once they have been identified. Online records of all MNR (‘National Museums Recovery’) works can be found on the French Ministry of Culture’s Rose Valland database."

Does anybody know how World War II affected ownership in this case, considering by the time Louis XIV [edited, thanks julienchastang] died (1715) the painting was already in the Palace of Versailles? [2]

[1] https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010066723

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa
Hamsterdam...
Minor correction, I think you meant "I have doubts..." not "I have no doubts" (or you meant to double negative it later with "I have no doubt that... would not want...")
> It's fairly easy to verify the origins of statements here, especially since Jack is on Twitter announcing his NFT on his timeline. What more than that do you need?

Now you rely on a tweet being durable. The entire blockchain history is based on something not on the blockchain that can be edited by people with root at Twitter.
Is there an API to consume it?
> As far as I am concerned main stream journalism has sold its sold and it cannot die fast enough.

To be replaced by what though? How will one get the right input that is needed to create and inform one's opinion?
if you look at the terms and conditions for downloading, as with most museums, it's clear that they want to still sell prints and "licensing" images of any art they own

they definitely have color-calibrated images, but not for the public

edit: for those unaware, in the US, reproductions/photos of public domain 2D art are themselves public domain and not subject to copyright
Doesn't seem that way to me. As I said, one of the first steps in organizing is usually identifying your strong-no to strong-yes people, and building support among the yes side first. I don't have experience in organizing a workplace, but the information above is second-hand from conversations with people who have.

I have participated in "get out the vote" operations. In that case it's quite similar: you mostly want to avoid knocking on the door of likely-strong-no households, as you have so many likely-strong-yes doors to knock, and debating people on the doorstep is a waste of precious time when close to an election/primary -- so you can see the value in having a good data operation to know which houses are likely one way or the other, and spreading that knowledge to your canvassers.
IANAL but I have worked on GDPR compliance and I’m not sure how that will fly if they are phoning home. Of course the EU regulators probably won’t have bandwidth to chase these minnows but worth reporting in any case.
> Logsdon maintains that she doesn’t think the county should reduce its penalties for marijuana possession, something state statutes allow for, because the drug is still illegal.

> During the board meeting Thursday she also said that she thinks reducing the penalty would harm the county’s Black residents, hurting the county’s chance of achieving its stated racial equity goals, by encouraging marijuana use and hurting their job prospects because of the potential for drug tests.

This sounds racist AF, I mean she's basically saying because there's no penalty more Black people will get high because they're Black... Like that's all they do or something.

Also I don't see why drug use if you're still able to work should be a problem.

I think a criminal record would do way now damage to the black community(it already has by many studies) and decriminalizing cannabis just makes sense.

Biden needs to decriminalize if not fully legalize and take it if schedule 2.
Even if you look only at random genetic mutations, these are being inserted into an incomprehensibly large dynamical system with its own selective pressures. It’s a distributed computation at such a massive scale, you would never have any hope of fully stimulating or predicting its outcome. So I’m not sure what you mean by “just random trial and error”.
@marklit,

Thanks for your insights. Great points on inertia and lack of big sales budgets. Agreed also on HDFC/data lake use cases with PQ files. However, regarding querying RDBMS, are you saying that Presto requires in ODBC/JDBC connectivity? Does Presto have an ability to connect with "native DB" drivers?
I don't believe they would dare to cripple the GPL, but they would certainly cripple the rest with COC's, word police ("main"), and similar harmful destruction. And the coup already happened.
I've been using /e/ on my primary phone for about a year now, and I've been very happy with it.

I'd love to see it succeed as a user-friendly, FLOSS alternative to the Google/Apple duopoloy.

They're developing in the open, too: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e
Agreed, but you know who will push back? The police. The private companies running the prisons. Because it means less leverage, less power, and ultimately, less money.
> I would wager that is true in most cases.

Strings. In C, comparing two strings involves a function call, a loop and a potential cache miss. Copying a string just moves a pointer, which is much cheaper. The additional copying costs little for strings.

> the hash table reaches its "natural size" faster.

Not sure what you mean by this. The "nature size" is the size without tombstones. Clearly backshift is the better one.

> it only supports linear probing

Yes, backshift only supports linear probing so far as I know. Most high-performance hash table libraries use linear probing these days. A few use quadratic probing. I rarely see double hashing.

Anyway, backshift always uses less memory and is always faster on insertions and searching. Under certain deletion load, backshift may be slower due to 1) and 2), but the difference is fairly small considering the save on memory.
In that scenario there wouldn’t even be a need for him to issue pardons
There seem to be a lot of replies to this claiming that San Francisco is in fact building a lot of new units, which is debatable at best, but San Francisco is definitely not experiencing fast population growth. The numbers are right here: https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/23130/san-francisco/popul...

The past 20 years is the lowest population growth the metro area has ever experienced. What it has experienced is growth in the wealth of the wealthiest part of that population, along with increased demand for office space, which competes for housing as a possible use of land.

The actual fast growing metro areas of the past several decades, i.e. San Antonio, DFW, Phoenix, Las Vegas, have also seen tremendous booms in housing construction.

The homelessness problem in San Francisco is not new, either. You can read about the history here: https://www.kqed.org/news/11765010/timeline-the-frustrating-...

It stands out to me in particular that the number of homeless people is about the same as it was in the 80s, but the public complaints being received have skyrocketed. What seems to have actually increased is the number of people either living or working in the city who aren't used to seeing homeless everywhere, presumably people from elsewhere displacing native San Franciscans. But both the absolute number of people in the city and the absolute number of homeless people in the city are not growing at any abnormal rate.
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tqh, Sounds like you hit the nail on the head with your answer. Thank you very much for your insights.
Good point! Last I was looking at this was before the B2 S3 api was available. Might consider switching to WinSCP now.
Not sure about this - I don’t think government leaders or anybody should be censored.

Better to have public health messages as part of the platform than to censor

It’s a fine line between hate and misinformation and dissent

(Clearly the content in question is wrong; but in other cases, WHO and others been proven incorrect - eg on masks and asymptotic transmission)

Don’t know what the answer is, we don’t want echo chambers of misinformation, but we want to live in a democratic society too...
Threatening retaliation is also very much illegal, ergo yes the tweet is illegal.
"Beijing’s message is unmistakable: You must choose. If you want to do business in China, it must be at the expense of American values. You will meticulously ignore the genocide of ethnic and religious minorities inside China’s borders; you must disregard that Beijing has reneged on its major promises—including the international treaty guaranteeing a “high degree of autonomy” for Hong Kong; and you must stop engaging with security-minded officials in your own capital unless it’s to lobby them on Beijing’s behalf."

— Matt Pottinger, "Beijing Targets American Business", Wall Street Journal, 27 Mar 2021 (regarding the pushback in China against H&M's statement that they don't source this kind of cotton). https://archive.is/D4hgm
I spent about 2000 Euros on therapy last year. And I'm only going every other week.

I might get a motorcycle this year instead to save some money.
Side note, as someone who's last child is ready to leave the nest, I'm finding myself in a bit of a depressive state, sometimes deeply so, because of all the cool shit that people are doing with their kids that I essentially no longer have the opportunity to do.

Objectively we did quite a bit over the years, and doing all the things is obviously unrealistic, but I look back frequently these days and think about the time squandered focusing on providing vs being present, or nights spent on the computer trying to learn things myself rather than sharing what I already know with my kids. It always felt like I had plenty of time.

So my advice for anyone reading this is that, if you have kids this age, think about all of the things you dream of doing with them, pick one and DO IT. I mean really lean into it, plan what you want to do and execute like it's a mission if you have to. It doesn't have to be this kind of a high-end project, just little things that really pin memories. Sometimes you just don't have an option to work less or be around more, and that is what it is, but man there is some time that I would spend differently looking back.

Now I'm just hoping (to myself) that at some point in the future there are grandkids that will give me a chance to apply some of this hindsight.
Whenever someone mentions netcat or nc I always ask "which one?". There are at last count 3 different implementations, all subtly incompatible. Which is another reason why socat is better since there's only one to deal with.
The West will pretend it didn't know anything until it sees videos of the mass graves.
It has indeed been like this for nearly half a decade. To clarify, it's sourceforge that did this wrapping.
When FileZilla started doing the adware thing years ago, I switched to WinSCP on Windows and never looked back. I was so pissed at FileZilla that I stopped using it on Linux even though their Linux builds didn't have any adware. gFTP is good enough for most servers, and recent versions fixed a lot of long standing bugs. On Mac it's Cyberduck all the way.
He didn’t invent them.

He didn’t do jack shit.

My opinion isn’t irrelevant. Anytime someone brings up his supposed “achiements” I’ll be happy to bring up how he stole those very achievements. His very colleagues claim he had no involvement and attempted to steal the credit. And he is a racist slime ball.

That’s his legacy. Deal with it. He’s racist slime. Bardeen invented my transistor, and if he didn’t, well I’m actually quite happy letting slime like Shockley be lost to history.

Why the fuck would anyone defend this guy? Plus he _ran for office_. Einstein didn’t for chirsts sake. This is a man who wanted to actively change racial politics _and_ stole all the credit he got.
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> Does it make Zuck’s charity bad if it is also self serving?

If you're financing something for self-serving reasons, then by definition, you aren't being charitable (caritas). If you can prove it, then perhaps tax exemptions should be removed. Rich people already exploit too many loopholes as it is.

> But is it fair that Bill Gates gets to decide what research gets funded from him when there are a bunch of worthy projects that won’t make the cut simply because they aren’t one of Bill’s pet interests?

Putting aside Gates for a second, there is no charity without a free act. If I am to act charitably, I must freely do so. There is no such thing as compelled or forced charity. Now, if there is a charity that does certain things and that decides how its funds are allocated, it should be transparent about that, and those who give are therefore consenting freely to fund those things. (Incidentally, this is why individual megadonors can be dangerous because charities can become dependent on them if they're not careful and subsequently allow themselves to be pressured by those donors to do what they want. The same is true of government funding. Many organizations, like universities, have been corrupted by the strings attached to such funding, esp. given that the conditions can change.)

In Gates' case, he has a foundation, yes, so it's his. So if he is funding _morally licit_ (and thus bona fide) charitable projects, then that's his free choice (I, of course, don't hold that to be the case; Gates is funding morally abhorrent causes as well). You can try to _persuade_ him to fund other things, of course.

> another side of me says that money should be taxed and a committee of experts should decide

The composition of that committee will determine the way money is distributed, and the differences will be radically different. I do believe in the morally objective, but practically speaking, we are very divided today about basic moral truths, so I would rather leave it up to private citizens. My only concern are rich donors who can single-handedly shape society with their money. However, I am not sure what we can really do about it, realistically.
Private prisons don't exist in many states and represent a very small fraction of people in prison. We lock up so many people because for many years that has been a popular thing to do, and people have affirmatively voted for it. I think those people are wrong, but let's not mislead ourselves about how this happened.
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I hope it isn't too long before you get to start doing those things with your grandchildren.
We are never going to "consumer choice" our way away from labor exploitation, it requires laws.