skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got to wonder how much child porn is on Proctorio's servers and how they deal with it. My guess is 'negligently'.

Do they have systems to catch or prevent pervy teachers or proctorio employees who repeatedly watch recordings of students wearing revealing clothing, having wardrobe malfuctions, engaging in sexual activity without realizing they're being recorded, etc.

How many pedofiles has proctorio caught? If it's zero, I don't think they are looking at all.
Any article or headline talking about transistor count is just a puff piece. The performance matters, the number of transistors never does, and I have never purchases anything based on the number of transistors.
Great suggestion, though how would I construct such a rule? I want to make sure I don't mistakenly delete legitimate emails.
I think particular video games can be pieces of arts in the context of what makes video games uniques, in the interactivity that only games can offer. Component part of video games (like architecture, visual composition, music, writing and storytelling) can be work of art in their own right, but that's the interactivity that make some video games art.
Looks like mine relies heavily on pandoc, unoconv, xxd, jq, and OpenSSL. Apparently, some packagers include an enhanced OS customization with high-risk information retrieval tools (see seclists comment).

pdftotext seems reasonable and looks to be part of the Debian lessfilter.
You are mixing up two students. The one who complained about "bordering on slander" had nothing to do with the research paper at issue, other than having the same advisor as the author.
I’ve learned to be skeptical of such claims. TPUs made that same claim, but it’s hard to use it for real work, since you don’t have access to the 300GB TPU host memory / cpu, where you infeed training examples.

There is a very specific test for “supports pytorch / tendorflow”: show an MLPerf imagenet resnet benchmark. It’s impossible to fake that. If you come anywhere close to TPUs in tensorflow, people (like me) will leap: https://mlcommons.org/en/training-normal-06/

Till then, it’s a “proof, please” type of situation.
Failing as planned.
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Yes, I am more interested in generating interest in this issue than anything else. People don't tend to like to hear about problems unless you have a solution to offer, so I offered. Thanks for reading.
I'm not that burly :)
That's because you're looking at it in terms of USD, when you look at it in terms of satoshis per byte, it's actually much lower [1][3]. And if you want to avoid the fees because you expect to transact a lot, just use lightning network, exchanges are starting to integrate it[2].

edit: I should also add that, when you look at it in terms of USD, the average transaction fee is a drop in the bucket compared to the average transaction value [4], which to me says that it's becoming the settlement layer as expected.

1: https://statoshi.info/d/000000017/fee-estimates?orgId=1&from...

2: https://www.coindesk.com/okex-exchange-to-integrate-bitcoins...

3: https://www.bitcoinfees.info/

4: https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionvalue-btc-xr...
TFA? I know you're referring to Moxie (somehow) but I can't figure out the acronym.
Thank you reading, and for the encouragement. It means a lot.
> a human averages 66% accuracy when performing data-entry

the cited material says something a bit different than that, but regardless .. different users and markets will have different tolerances for error, too
I've had similar issues with my Lenovo second gen (AN40) thunderbolt 3 dock, which are mostly fixed with firmware updates.

The thing is: TB docks are _very_ complicated devices, consisting of multiple subsystems each running their own firmware. With the Lenovo dock (and I assume the Dell's are not much different) there have been numerous firmware updates over the past years. Updating them usually requires a windows application, the Linux fwupd can only do some (but not all!) firmware updates for the dock.

Anyway, what I am trying to explain here is that you should check if you have updated all parts of the dock's firmware. I recommend to use the Windows tools for that, don't trust fwupd to be able to update all parts of the dock.

I also suffered from the screen randomly going black, but that turned out to be a firmware issue with my display (LG 43" 4k). As it turns out: firmware on a display can also be updated. I needed to connect my laptop through a USB-C cable to the monitor, then run an update tool from LG. The update tool was of course windows only, and even buggier than the Lenovo dock firmware updater, but it did work! No more screen blackouts.
Yes, this is absolutely true. Which is why I stated "strong correlation", do you feel there is a better way for me to have stated that? I wasn't intending to be misleading. I'm still learning about the field.
How much does Google pay MarkMonitor for this to happen?
It bothers me for the same reason that any form of unsolicited email is a nuisance. It's one more irrelevant email notification, one more irrelevant email to have to archive, deal with, etc. If it were very occasional, I would not care but it is basically a daily thing, sometimes multiple per day.
Has anyone used this with Alacritty? Seems like they would be a good match.
The article says he swam ashore to buy supplies. Why can’t he simply walk away and not return to the ship. The article does not clarify that point. Anyone knows?
> our judgment

Who is 'our'? Hopefully not just everyone who agrees with your definition of evil...
Or rather it was simply cheaper to execute someone, pre modern societies simply couldn't really afford keeping a large number of people imprisoned for significant periods of time.

Considering that during some periods a fine or monetary compensation to the victims family was considered to be reasonable punishment for murder and that on the (on the opposite end of the spectrum) during other periods people were often hanged for what we would currently consider to be petty theft, one could argue that pre modern societies were much more concerned about presereving their social order rather than protecting innocent people from harm.
This is great and shows real promise, do you have a mailing list so we can be subscribed for updates/when you reach 0.5?

also I'm paying my mum rent after I bought property wtf?
This is so cute and relatable. I'd bet the others did know she existed (in the periphery), and were probably cool with it.
Anyone who needs to deal with the language formerly known as Serbo-Croat might disagree.
Because we all know that in Soviet Russia Google searches you?!
In the last flight when they'll try to reach over 2k feet they expect the heli to crash. So the one operating (well, not in real time as already pointed) it at that time wants, or better phrasing is expects, to crash it.
Not expanding iMessage and Facetime to other OSes when they had the chance was the single most foolish strategic decision Apple ever took. It's what allowed Whatsapp and WeChat and Line and Snapchat and Slack and Teams and Zoom even Instagram to a certain extent to happen. Not surprising given Jobs's famously monopolistic tendencies that he's passed on to the current leadership he's groomed but it did do the shareholders a major dis-service
You are correct since they use RT-PCR specifically for SARS-CoV-2. However, the number of cycles used in the process is key, <= 24 cycles produces very few false positives for active infection. The OPs explanation for the increased rate doesn’t match this fact.
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Apparently this is invalid TypeScript (cannot parse it says):

try {
const parsedURL = new URL(url)
requestPath = parsedURL.pathname
} catch (error: unknown) {
// NOOP
}

It's complaining about : unknown bit which one of the newer typescript eslint rules enforces.
I'm not too familiar with Vietnamese culture, but I'd probably chalk them up to the "Asian culture" factor which in general tends to be more collectivist than most Western countries.

Isn't Vietnam a highly authoritarian country too?
What if the same unethical people who ran the study submit patches from their gmail accounts?
I agree.

What strikes me about images from the Spanish Flu is that they went through the same things we are going through now. Look how long it took for everyone to forget their lessons learned. The more one reads up on it, the more difficult it becomes to deny how much we are repeating history.

This has always been the case among the masses. Look at how we vote in one party, get exasperated with them, vote defiantly for the other, rinse and repeat without ever actually getting anywhere with it. In Canada, the cliché pattern is that we vote in the Conservatives and they mess the country up financially. Angrily people vote in the Liberals and rejoice until a scandal breaks. As a result, they turn and vote Conservative... repeat, repeat.

We are creatures of comfort, and eventually (and surprisingly quickly) we'll be right back at life as if nothing happened these past couple years. Any lessons and new habits will be forgotten in record speed.
They generally have a reputation to uphold so others don't just get up and leave.

Some rando leasing it to you can do whatever they want without worrying about any of that.
I mean eventually there's going to be rust 2 etc...
> Ctrl-b is what tmux uses, so you know it's safe

Ctrl-b is "back one character" in most apps that use readline (including bash) and emacs.

For that reason I change my Tmux prefix to Ctrl+Y (I also think it is more ergonomic).
I'm submitting this because this chap knows his subject well, and clearly enjoys talking about it.
Right, despite mostly common human emotions (justice, reciprocity, etc), specific moral beliefs are normative and vary wildly by upbringing, religion, and political persuasion.
That’s slavery
Why is higher education so expensive, anyway? It's already more expensive to go to college than it would be to just hire a set of PhD holders as private tutors for most fields

What a scam
Reminded of a Seth Godin post, Choose your clients, choose your future. > https://seths.blog/2009/11/choose-your-customers-choose-your...

So, we all want “better” clients.

What does an ideal client look like to you and your team?

* Not a flip question.
That is in fact the problem, yes.
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This is the consequence of the sudden loss of mining power. The increased usage of Bitcoin transactions while the blockchain is now processing fewer transactions means the fees increase, because users are willing to pay that much to transact faster.

Ideally market powers would offset this by people with spare CPU time beginning to mine to pick up the slack, since profitability is up. However due to the development of specialized mining hardware, mining isn't elastic anymore and so it doesn't happen.

Because of that the fees will not decrease until the next difficulty adjustment which is every two weeks, or until the miners come back online.
This typical for laptops with discrete GPUs. Outputting video over TB can often only be done by the discrete GPU. I do not know the reason why this works this way.

On my Lenovo X1E, this is also the case. Thunderbolt video output only works via the nVidia GPU (instead of the Intel graphics on the CPU). So connecting the TB dock causes my fans to spin up, as the laptop is now rendering my desktop using a power hungry nVidia chip.
Ethylene comes from good apples too and is not a bad thing. The thing that bad apples have that spoils bunches is mold.
Clearly the Bitcoin skeptics had the better of the debate ;)

You must also think "scale" and "market pressures" keep down the price of Windows.

Hint: AWS has wonderful margins because everything is tied together, and bandwidth charges to get data out are huge. S3 is a great solution for data used on AWS, but costs more than 30x Storj on bandwidth alone ($90/TB for outside access, plus the cost of doing cross-region replication).

If you're going to work from "first principles" it always helps to have the first hint about how markets actually work--and that different products make different trade-offs (local transfer speed and latency vs. cheap global redundancy)
They appointed him as a forced custodian and imprisoned him on a boat for 4 years by way of forcing him to be its guardian. That is slavery. Could he quit? Did he have any rights or freedoms while in his situation?
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I chose a random agency without checking what exactly they do. The specific agencies I mentioned are irrelevant to the actual points I was making.

We don't need every single agency to handle investigating threats to themself. It just doesn't make financial or practical sense. We can use the FBI, Secret Service, DHS, etc to deal with protecting the entire government and their employees. This will eliminate duplication and make it easier to share threat information.

One problem we have is the lack of information being shared with the correct agencies. This was allegedly the cause of some terrorist attacks not being stopped. If there are only a couple agencies that handle security and threat investigations instead of 100s it will already be in the hands of the correct agency. We should be striving for a streamlined process that removes duplication instead of hoping every single agency can do the job well.
I agree with you, but I also think that the current wave of investment is in fact a bubble that will burst. See, I truly believe that AI will be an important part of our future. What you call a cool off, I call a bubble burst, which it is when the cool off involves investors losing tons of money they bet on deep learning.
Not that I support his behavior - but it more or less worked at Uber. They became dominant. Why change now? Being a jerk feels good to those in charge.
That was a wild read.

> Q. Suppose the thief was apparently unarmed but was running away?

> A. Call halt twice at the top of your voice, and if he does not halt, fire one warning shot; and if he does not obey this, shoot to hit him.

There was no chill during the great depression:

> Q. If I hear the command 'Hands Up,' am I justified in obeying this order?

> A. No; fall to the ground and start shooting.
Of course. But even in Vietnam's case, geography is clearly playing a major role. Policy differences can explain variation within SE Asia, but all of those countries have spikes at the same time, and are in a relative bubble of land travel in the continent (major border with China, which is more or less COVID-free due to authoritarian measures, lowly trafficked mountain ranges and undeveloped regions, and a thin strip connecting to Malaysia).

Seems like the main factors for success are:
1. Geography
2. Density
3. Freedom (or lack thereof)
4. Masks
5. Money
You may have missed my point...

I was simply observing that it is difficult, as an author, not to feel queasy about writing a character who commits immoral acts.
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They don't care.
Just to let you know how bad are we treated. As a Syrian, I should exchange 100 dollars to enter the country. Some people were stuck at the border with Lebanon when that bill was issued and a woman died waiting for someone to bring her the 100 dollars (or 200 because he also needs to go back).
We pay 800 euros to get our 2 years of validity passports.
A couple of weeks ago, I had to wait from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. to get the embassy in Berlin to attest my signature on the passport.
I had to wait 4 hours to attest my papers at the totally empty embassy in Jakarta.
This is my default for mobile - Reader view for ALL content by default - need to whitelist a few (mainly CMS-style) sites, but no ads, just text and an occasional pic.
This makes sense. I do not work at Google, we do not have monorepo, and yet many problems feel similar.

The guys who maintain the company infrastructure introduce some changes, send an e-mail notification, and call it a day. The maintenance you need to do at your existing project to keep up with these changes does not count as important work, because it is not adding new features. Therefore it is important to run away from the project as soon as it stops being actively developed.
It was a nice trick how they simulated Mars gravity.
IIRC "The Fucking Article". I think the expletive originally was because people "wouldn't read TFA", but eventually it just kinda became the way to refer to the article linked from a Hacker News thread.
If you are getting more job requests than you can handle, have you considered just raising your rates? Increase it by 10% every few weeks, for example, until you are not having to turn away good jobs. You can always decrease again if you overshoot.
At the risk of minimizing the amazing efforts of doctors this past hell year: spare a thought or two for nurses.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/nyregion/filipino-nurses-...

Been a hard year for nurses. (And respiratory therapists. And paramedics.)
Yea, additionally, the guy was staying on the boat unpaid for the duration - so it's a lot easier to read their actions as pure greed.

There's also a good chance they could've declared the ship lost at sea and either scuttled it or offered it for a dollar (or other token currency amount) to salvage companies.
I honestly cannot think of a form that embodies the ideals of gesamtkunstwerk better than a video game. It's really the synthesis of all types of creation
No worries, don't know what your talking about, but the loss is yours buddy, sorry to pop your crypto kiddie bubble.
> but a video game is identified by the goal it sets for its player, its win condition, strategy, etc...

Lots of games don’t have a win condition—Tetris, for instance—and many don’t even have goals.
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Capital gains is levied on assets other than Stocks - such as bonds, real estate, royalties.
They get flight data back. E.g. how late at Mars day it can fly (morning is better), how fast batteries wear out and so on.
This feels slightly more true than the comment you responded to. But I feel that important aspects are left out.

I don't feel like I can make much justice for those aspects but here's my two cents: Selling oil on the free market disproportionately benefits those that own the means to process and resell it further. Or rather, those that ultimately coordinate global oil logistics. The global fossil fuel market doesn't exactly seem like a "free" market. There are few players and they are powerful.
They usually don't gain many jobs, and the tax benefits are usually given away as part of the package to attract the business.
> So it’s not that surprising that these agencies will seem to stray out of their lanes.

Like the secret service (Treasury agents) becoming the President’s bodyguards?
A great episode!

(RIP Reply All, you'll be missed)
> Are movies art? It seems to me that these two things are pretty analogous. Movies make use of many arts: music, visuals, storytelling, etc...

Movies also have an art form that makes them unique—cinematography & editing.
If you're ever in NYC, I also strongly recommend a visit to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.

It's not just focused on video games, but there are ocassionally exhibitions devoted to them.
Since the tax changes in 2017, it's effectively not deductible in the US for most
question, you mention "no more AST parsing" as a selling line for semgrep. Isn't this actually a bad thing for a staric analyzer, as ASTs are actually... abstract, and closer to the real logic of what the code does? I know analyzing text is faster but is it worth?
This technology is of intense interest to organizations that process thousands of forms per day. For example, the Internal Revenue Service, insurance companies, banks, etc. It is very much worth their while to optimize that processing, and they do.

The cloud services reviewed here are typically components in a much larger end-to-end process. They are valuable because they are fast, and work at scale.

Suggesting that the technology is useless because it can't parse a random set of 51 invoices misses the actual use case for which these services are appropriate.
Can you imagine if USPS ran an email service and all of the legal protections afforded to our mailboxes and the contents of our postal communications applied just the same? The internet would be a completely different place. In a good way, I think.
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If I had to name an economic system where ordinary people were made to wait for a long time due to pointless and arbitrary decisions made by a bureaucracy that doesn't care about them, capitalism would not be the first thing that came to mind.
I think this attributes overly precise motives to people who have none. It may be accurate for the HN crowd (although I doubt it), but in general, people assigning percentages to their beliefs are performing cargo-cult numeracy rather than actually calibrating beliefs. To illustrate: I am pretty sure that people saying they're 99% sure are saying "I am pretty sure" and not "I estimate I will be wrong once out of a hundred times in situations of comparable certainty".
I think it’s the best decision they made and has taken courage to stick to it.

There’s actually been a network effect especially with groups of people with being a “blue bubble” vs “green bubble”.

Doesn’t look like this has cost them financially at all.

I even feel like whenever I have to SMS someone, it feels like going backwards. It’s not encrypted, there’s no delivery receipt, no richness, etc.

I’m just amazed that Google has utterly failed to build a viable alternative on Android in 10 years (which is why all the other services have thrived there), and boy have they tried.
>Why? Then there would be someone else stuck in that situation.

The CEO was the right person to to replace him immediately until they could make it a sufficiently attractive proposition that someone else would want to do it. You know by the usual means. Pay, supply drops, fuel for power etc.

The shipping company's CEO is 100% responsible for not dealing with the situation properly because they absolutely did not do that in any way, shape or form. It's so bad I would have no issue with the company being blacklisted as a criminal organisation.
I'm surprised to see this doesn't also make another argument: It's not economical.

Because we rightfully try to set a high bar and have many delays, opportunities for appeal to minimize executing innocent people and also need high security confinement (since someone sentenced to death doesn't have a lot to lose in attempting to escape...) the entire process is extraordinarily expensive.

The resources we spend on it could instead be spend elsewhere and save lot of lives, cut taxes, -- whatever stokes your particular political perspective would be better off if we weren't spending resources killing people.
> which to me says that it's becoming the settlement layer as expected

To me it says that only rich whales get to transact in bitcoin.

Pretty sad that now regular people get excluded from something that was conceived as p2p internet cash.