skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll help fake cough walking around.

This helps you be more cautious and careful (e.g. I'm saving your life here). Companies may get complain and let people work from home. It's a win for me and for you.

Apple employees: when Tim Cook is around, just fake a cough politely.
>for some reason

Wyoming has no state income tax, and the Tetons are beautiful.
Paul is going to single-handedly make my Alma Mater famous. ... or at least people won't say, "Never heard of it," when I tell them I got a CS degree there.
"""“Facial recognition technology is still incredibly biased and absolutely creates harm in the real world," said Jennifer Lee with ACLU Washington. "We now know of three black men who have been wrongfully arrested and jailed due to biased facial recognition technology. So, this powerful surveillance tool inevitably exacerbates already racially biased policing"""

Seems like a blatant error to reason that, because there are instances of facial recognition being used incorrectly that the technology itself is fundamentally flawed. You could apply the same reasoning to the police themselves - I know of at least three instances where the police arrested the wrong person, so we should ban the police?

With the police example it seems obvious we should continue iterating and improving the police to correct errors, but that we don't want to throw out the whole institution because that would be much worse. The police may have caused some harm, but did they do more good?

I'd bet that banning facial recognition is net harmful to black and Hispanic people. Black and Hispanic people are disproportionately likely to be victims of crime, so denying effective tools to law enforcement will disproportionately hurt those communities. Of course, it's academic as King County didn't use facial recognition - but I bet it could be a useful tool if used responsibly.

I've read news articles before about cases where facial recognition was used irresponsibly. We absolutely need to put a stop to that. I think if we treat it more like an unreliable witness saying "The person I saw reminded me of X" and less like a definitive ID that may be a better position.
Supabase May 21: Apple and Twitter Logins, Supabase Grid, Go and Swift Libraries
I had to figure out how to do something with videoJS and all I could find were answers for the old version of the lib, there were new answers but they were buried and hard to find.
Yeah, same issue here. Kinda ironic writing a blog about typography but chosing such a terrible font to read on a display. I would bet that the writer is a mac exclusive user and it only looks good on mac due to some random quirk of macos
I collaborate with people remotely. But even if we take it as a given that in-office is better for everyone, it comes with the tradeoff of having to live in the Bay.
Yep. There are plenty of videos of non-human primates appearing to be amused by a trick or even the error of another. It's nice to see humor that can cross the boundaries of species.
Hallway conversations are also what Pixar was designed around, and everyone seems to like them.
>Bitcoiners are fine with letting social services and the underserved slip through the cracks as long as they get their reward that they feel they earned.

What are you basing this on?
Is it? The B-52 has now been in service for 69 years. 50 years is certainly not impossible.

The trade-offs made for stealth are beyond the plane itself, the entirety of US military strategy (and even diplomacy to some extent) is deeply affected by a stealth-focused air-power strategy.

As for stealth advances beyond 2025, I don't see it personally. As long as your doctrine requires you to fly your planes over enemy radars, there's not much you can when the wavelength of the enemy radar is bigger than most features in your plane. It's a physical limit as solid as conservation of energy.
Wait, couldn't the developer just add an RCE vuln intentionally and then claim the bounty ;)
What is the point of a "content warning" about current Chinese politics? Seems needlessly meek.
And up until April 2020, they were removing walls as fast as they could in that place to make room for more bodies. I don't think under utilization is a risk.
A lot of people want to treat SO as a forum and instead of contributing an answer with the right information try to comment on a post.

Many times, people try answering questions in comments when they're unsure of an answer rather than trying to say "this is the answer" and create an answer of their own that is sufficiently in depth to be helpful to others.

Other times, new users try to ask questions on the comments of "I'm having this problem too, do you have a solution yet?" or, while they do try to ask for clarification on the question - do so on questions that are stale.

Lastly, comments were often (in the days of 0 rep comment permissions) targets of spam that could go undiscovered.

The way that SO decided to solve these problems was to add a bit of friction to leaving a comment. This meant that users who were trying to contribute answers were directed to answers; users who were trying to ask questions on stale content would... get frustrated and go to a question where there is sufficient information; and automated spam would be that much harder (requiring an investment of time from the spammer).

It's not an ideal solution, but from the standpoint of a site with volunteers curating and moderating the content, creates fewer problems for the people who invest the time than other solutions do. Burning out those people who invest the time is one of the things that has concerned people in the company concerned about the existing community - losing them would have SO devolve into something that more closely resembled the software development section of Yahoo answers... or https://www.answers.com/t/computer-programming
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For about 3 months I had a soul sucking commute in the bay area, everyone's reaction:

"only 45 minutes each direction!? you're lucky!"

or

"that's a reverse commute! you're lucky!" spoiler alert, there is no reverse commute, everyone is driving every direction

Once I realized the collective delusion I quit

Most of my career has been 10 minute walking commutes at trendy companies in trendy neighborhoods in the middle of a city, max of 20.

Statistically this is not possible as others are priced out or the units to live in just don't exist.
> Also, it does a poor job at flying slowly. It's just not specialized in it.

That doesn't seem like a role the Air Force is very concerned about. The USAF has been trying to kill off their best low and slow flying close air support aircraft for awhile now. [0] The planes are made to lay down hell [1] and take a beating that would destroy just about any other aircraft [2], and the ground troops love it. [3]

Supposedly the F-35 is going to fill the role of the A-10 in the future but I just don't see how that's possible.

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a34907462...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunde...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nUhDvcGXgs

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hKgloWQHd8
No, I'm definitely not suggesting deploying ransomware or legalizing deployment of ransomware. Apologies if I wasn't clear enough in my post.

By "enable activity" I just mean "instead of taking a general approach of trying to ban things to solve a problem, take a general approach of trying to enable certain other kinds of things to solve a problem". Not "enable ransomware activity".
> I think the point of the F-35 is it's one jet that can do it all.

That was the idea, but it is also why the program has performed so poorly on cost, timeliness, and capability.

The F-35 was supposed to achieve 80% parts commonality among the three variants. This would have delivered massive cost savings. Instead, the reality is less than 25% parts commonality. Also, the compromises made to accommodate all three requirement sets means the F-35 has worse aerodynamic performance and a worse radar cross section than it otherwise would've had if the Air Force and Navy could've had their own dedicated air frames from the start.

The much lower degree of parts-sharing wouldn't be so bad, except that the JSF program eschewed a lot of real world testing in lieu of computer simulation.
And to make matters worse they employed "concurrent development", which meant that production were getting made while the testing phase was still in progress. The result was that as problems were uncovered, expensive retrofits had to be applied to all the airframes that had already been produced.

In a more traditional development strategy, the vast majority of teething issues would've been found before series production began. But concurrent development was used to try to speed up the timeline, but also make it more difficult to cancel the program.

The F-35 has a lot of capabilities but it is fundamentally compromised because of the attempt to make it a jack of all trades. It has had an extremely long gestation period, very high development costs, very high operational costs, and compromised performance on several fronts. Had the DoD at least split off the USMC STOVL requirement it seems like this project would've gone a lot better.
Because neither Russia nor China are planning to use their stealth aircraft over the airspace of another superpower. Good luck fitting a meter-wave AESA on an aircraft.

Beyond that, neither Russia nor China are trading-off anywhere near as much as the US for stealth. Both of their designs are less stealthy but carry better weapons over a longer range with better kinematics at a lower cost.
These things seem to wax and wane. When I was young, jokes about people from New Jersey or Poland were quite common but I haven't heard either in a long time. I'm sure this is quite regional but I'm in the same region as I was when I was a child so it's interesting to see how much those have faded.
I've come to think of it as a public works project. Employs a huge number of people, provides corporate welfare for Lockheed and their suppliers, but no one is going to fight a world war with it. It's already close to obsolete to way cheaper, recent radar systems and non-meatspace crafts.
Moonlighting
And how often is your individual work cycle? How heavy of a workload do you put your Macbook through?
The Fiddly Business of Tracking Australia’s Most Venomous Spider
I think you are greatly overestimating the effectiveness of SAMs. While also underestimating the complexity that stealth adds to those systems.
> After the election, the trustees generate an independent tally from the voter-verifiable list of ballots and confirmation codes. Since the link between a confirmation code and the candidate voted for must remain secret, the tally is generated using an anonymity-preserving backend.

The Wikipedia article doesn't make it clear what threat model is being considered for this "anonymity-preserving backend".

If in your election you have a major party with an interest in preventing a count from occurring, or intimidating people with the threat of having their vote leaked, then "Don't worry, it uses clever cryptography" might not be enough to convince your jurisdiction to adopt this.
Stealth technology aside, there is the question of why the new avionics technology wasn't retrofitted to existing airframes first to limit development risks and control costs.
My partner works on a voice assistant so theres CONSTANT talking with a smart speaker all day :(
Who is the US in an air war with again?
The concurrency is a major reason for massive cost overruns. If you're building production aircraft before the testing and evaluation phase is done with prototypes, every time you find a major issue you have to retrofit dozens or even hundreds of planes.

But, like a lot of things with the JSF program, concurrency made it much more difficult to cancel. Sunk costs and all that.
You're assuming that the technology works well and that people will understand its limitations and not gradually expand its application. The downside is that that assumption is an unrealistic fantasy.

Innocent people will be charged with crimes by lazy cops who don't want to do the actual police work of thoroughly investigating suspect lists. There will be juries who don't understand prediction error and find innocent people guilty because they trust the "expert" who says the facial recognition system reported "99.99% accuracy". Some of the 40% of cops who have committed domestic violence will make unauthorized use of this system to hunt down fleeing battered spouses - and this unauthorized use will go unpunished. Innocent black people will be identified as subjects and arrested because of racial disparities in accuracy of these systems. Innocent political activists will be charged with crimes they didn't commit because a cop found video of a crime that the software says plausibly looks like the activist.

Every time police get a new tool for establishing guilt, it is abused. The only way to make a facial recognition system that is just is if it is out of control of the police and it can only be used with a valid court warrant - and even then, I'm not sure that I trust the court's ability to control such a system securely.
Some people feel excitement from getting to work on their project, regardless of pay. Some people think they’re “changing the world”.

Some people feel a competitive nature and want to work and get ahead.

Some people work with friends and therefore enjoy being there and socializing.

People have varied motivations for things besides pay.
The criticism comes from many angles.

It IS a very capable war-plane for many of its roles. Much more capable then the harrier and with many capabilities that the F-16 & F-18 lack. It has different solutions to the problems it faces though.

Many of these new approaches to old problems that are arguable. Is a stealthy approach (F-35) more effective then raw manoeuvrability (F-16) in fighter vs fighter combat? Probably if the stealth can be maintained. Is high flying precisions guided weaponry as better then what an A-10 can do in close air support? Maybe? These points will be argued by airchair air marshals until we have another big war to "answer" the question.

But the F-35 has failed at being the cheap general purpose aircraft it was promised to be. It has been earmarked to replace the F-16 in its entirety, as the low end fighter to the F-22 raptor as the high end. This was one of the reasons the F-35 has a single engine. Recent moves are to make the F-35 the new high end fighter w/ a new lightweight fighter the low end that can be cheap enough to fulfil this need.
> what is implicit about it

The relationship between y and x is implicit rather than explicitly y = f(x)
That's an interesting theory. A related-sounding interesting one I heard (in Marvin Minsky's class, as part of a larger model of the human mind) is that the humor response might have evolved to encourage the brain to identify nonsense, and to inhibit learning of nonsense.

I guess that that the learning aspect could fit even better with primitive threat identification than with general learning? (What inputs initially seemed like a threat, turned out not to be, so don't over-learn from initial mistaken emotional reaction to that incident that "inputs => threat"? Or have the enjoyable "good" of the eventual reaction counteract the initial "bad" reaction in primitive learning?)

(I'm not representing the theory well, and I know very little of whatever applicable psych/cogsci research.)
"Is that the best you can come up with Jerry? What will people think of it in 4,000 years? You sure you want to write it down? What about the thing you did about Babum's small hands? That was funny. People will understand that one in the future."
Self-Driving Semi Completes 950-Mile Delivery 10 Hours Faster Than a Human Could
[EDIT] While I am critical of dolt below, to dolt's credit, it is open source and the DB is self-hostable[2], and it looks like you can use it without registering for DoltHub. That said, it doesn't look like you can self-host the thing you log into (the "remote_host"), the docs suggest that you can only login to DoltHub.

> I think you may have jumped the gun on this statement. Dolthub is a bit like github for data.

I might have, but only because of what Dolthub is right now. Microsoft didn't buy GitHub for no reason, and under Dolthub will get the bright idea to increase their revenues by restricting access to the "open" data sets at some point. The client is open source because it's essentially a loss leader for the platform -- this is like AWS open sourcing the aws or SDKs -- the point is to get you to start depending on dolt.

If this data is "open" (for some definition of "open", that evidently not everyone agrees with), I should be able to download it without logging in, without downloading dolt, knowing what dolthub is. Compare what dolthub is doing to OSM[0]. Now holding and distributing data is not free, but that is also not what dolthub is doing here (and if it was there are some other options for trying to reduce cost in that way).

> You can clone the entire database without so much as a login right now, see the clone drop down situated in a similar location as it appears on github. (It is 165GB)

Again right now you can. Making the site look like github is fine, I don't care about that -- the problem is that to do anything I don't download `git`, I download `dolt`.

> The data changes over time so it is possible they will stop publishing it. Also note that this data is open to begin with and they are just aggregating it, though from a quick glace doing a nice job of it. Under HHS/CMS rules hospitals have had to publish a price index since january of this year.

OK, so this is one thing that annoyed me in particular -- it was very hard to find the ACTUAL source of this data. They have indeed done contributing work here in pulling the sources together (the data is scattered), but why not include a list of the actual sources? After some looking, here's an example with Ascension[1]. If this was a real Github repo, I'd be able to look at the source (that's the whole point of "open" source), not just the data. I guess this makes sense if it's "open data" but not "open source".

And you know what, maybe I am over reacting, because at the end of the day if someone wants to hack on this data they'll just download dolt, then download the data set, then get going -- but after seeing this pattern like 20 times I can't help but be annoyed by it.

[0]: https://planet.openstreetmap.org/

[1]: https://healthcare.ascension.org/price-transparency/price-tr...

[2]: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt#dolt
THAT comment contributes nothing to the thread.
I can see where you're coming from but to be forced to be inaccurate in order to placate people for whom the accuracy may be upsetting is a hallmark of the current state of affairs in our culture and it's hugely not beneficial to anyone.
I don't think you're an expert of expertise so therefore I reject your analysis of expertism
> I really want to buy an old psp

Why PSP over Vita?
Also known as the military industrial complex. I seemed to remember a prominent person speaking/warning quite decisively about that.
> Data in/out of the worker is string only[0]

I don't think this is correct. You can pass lots of types in via postMessage(), including Objects, ArrayBuffers, even a Canvas context. Some objects are transferrable as well, that is, zero copy.

As far as your point about still being stuck on the main thread, that may indeed be the case depending on the work.

More info:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19152772/how-to-pass-lar...
Hey everyone. It was a big month for the team at Supabase, but I want to highlight the community contributions:

* Get response data as CSV thanks to this PR[0] from @andreivreja
* Go Libraries are now underway thanks to @yusufpapurcu and @muratmirgun [1]
* Swift Libraries are now underway thanks to @satishbabariya [2]

We still have a long way to go for mobile support, but the Apple logins is a big one. If you ship an app to the App Store with any third-party logins, you're required to enable Apple logins as well. While this sounds like a bit of over-reach, it's actually quite cool - if you use Apple login they obfuscate your email so that the 3rd party app don't get access to your personal data. Quite nice!

[0] CSV: https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-js/pull/187
[1] Go: https://github.com/supabase/postgrest-go
[2] Swift: https://github.com/supabase/gotrue-swift
It's true you shouldn't tinker with many types of hardware without extensive knowledge and experience. You're going to want to staff your off-world outpost with competent engineers and scientists that can develop and test new task-specific software or patch existing software, not some random entry-level programmer or tinkerer. IMO it would be extremely arrogant for a manufacturer to claim their remote updates "must" be tested adequately in every conceivable environment, up to and past the operating requirement extremes because some imaginary regulation dictates it. From {m,b,tr}illions of miles away because AFAIK the best they can do is simulate what might happen, not actually test operation in a real environment as their life actually depends on it. If I cannot audit the encrypted bytestream it sure as hell is not going to be piped into any of my spacecraft, life support, communication systems, or anything TBH. With me, trust starts with being able to read the source code, and modify it when it needs to be fixed. Giving a specific crypto function too much trust could leave you vulnerable or even lock you out of fixing critical flaws that "the manufacturer" sees as perfectly fine and within spec.

Maybe I've just had too many horrific experiences with software updates and that is causing some bias. Or seen too many science fiction films.
Why does it matter whether you are over another superpower's land? As you said, these systems are deployed in Syria and anywhere else.
Besides, China is certainly designing their planes to be able to fight to US navy.
The fact of the matter is that if a country can afford it, they design stealth aircraft.
... voluntarily, with intent, by his staff, and all the content was just moved, not deleted.

Why is this posted here?