skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an Istanbul citizen, my personal impression is that there is a much more pragmatic reason.

Istanbul still sees decent construction activity both downtown (where old buildings are torn down and replaced with taller ones) and in the suburbs (the city got so big that we inadvertently say "I'm going to Istanbul" when we really mean the city centre).

So in theory, as the construction teams dig not only a wider area but also deeper, they should discover more and more historical artifacts, right?..

In Turkey, law says you can own the land but not any natural resources found underneath. So if word gets out that you've stumbled upon oil, stuff of archeological importance, gold etc. etc. while digging to lay foundations, your construction project is halted until the authorities decide what to do with your discovery. You may even be forced to sell your property back for its fair market value (ie. you get a decent offer but you can't refuse it -- you can just sue to get the offer increased)

You probably see where this is going: The sytem as it is incentivizes any artifacts found during private construction activities to just vaporize. Tragic, but I don't know what could be done about this. Only stuff found on state-sponsored projects seem to see the light of day, and of those that do, only ones that are useful to politicians are made part of the daily government propaganda, so you don't really hear about others unless you make an effort.

With this said, as a counterpoint maybe, they found a decent amount of stuff from non-Turkish / non-islamic periods during the recent boring operations for the newest subway line and they should be on display somewhere.
In other countries we have a form of digital ID with 2 factor authentication.

I get that if you don't have any such scheme, it can hard to verify that anyone is who they say they are.

In 2008 I reported address change online without any verification, in 2013 it required using an ID system with 2FA. I'm personally rather happy to know that scammers can't change my address anymore.
Regarding US women and higher education ... most run up a huge bill and 100% expect their bf/husband to pay it off later.

Legally, student loans are not inside the marriage, but simps like Dave Ramsey call it "shared debt." (There's actually been callers to his show with $500k to $1M in medical school debt.)

Don't date people with large credit card or student loan debt. Once a partner starts re-negotiating the terms of your partnership to include their student loan debt, all you can do is walk out and get divorced. If you pay it, often they will then divorce you the same month and "trade up" to the next guy.
Social customs/manners/etiquette are almost always a sham.
> workers are forced to enumerate what they did and delivered in a short time frame

This is one example how processes supercede people even though that is against the original agile manifesto.
Anonymity and privacy are not the same thing
For me too. I just bought that game on humblestore and tried playing it with my kids. We all were fascinated by the thrilling atmosphere. Well, children lost their interest after an hour, because the puzzles have been too hard. And I agree, you have to have lots of interest and endurance to make it. But it is worth it. I really enjoyed playing it.
Main Camera: Single OV6540, 5MP, 1/4″, LED Flash

The official specs here https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_component_list#P.10_C... also say '6540, but no such model actually exists and the linked datasheet shows that it is actually an OV5640. Nonetheless, 5MP seems a bit low unless they got a really good deal on them, as I have an old Android from almost a decade ago(!) with an 8MP OV8825.
Okay, so agile was a very nice and principled idea.

And what we got from that through corporate senior management involvement is some sort of “scalable agile framework” or a minimal surrogate of “agile scrum”.

Might not be ideal, but it still generously beats the waterfall with quarterly “slave galley-style” weeks of overtime to make it to “the release” and to be able to deploy things that actually already became irrelevant 5 weeks into the release cycle.
> To me I only see this working if you sell working time instead of a product.

This is what we do at the consultancy I work at - billing is simply based on time & materials. We work from our customer's premises (when there isn't a global pandemic) and we have people from the customer integrated into our team, so customer collaboration is constant and continuous. Feature creep doesn't really happen, because all parties know what the budget is and how much our time costs.
Thanks for the background information. Highly appreciated.
Like the FBI and CIA front companies didn't fund them, to send the data to Palantir because the system has inadequate internal security?
Hmm. I've not added 127.1.2.3 to lo interface but I can ping it. Start a listening server and connect to it. I didn't have to add anything in 127 - because it's a /8
It barely matters. The camera hardware and software lag like crazy and lack the postprocessing people are used to now -- the photos are terrible with a decent 5MP sensor and would probably be worse with the same weak CPU but more bits to shuffle...
So say someone builds a system that you install in cars that monitors how you drive, it can detect if you respect the speeding laws, if you drive normal or you have risky behavior. Few will want this in their car but they will want it on the others car so I can see this possibilities:

- a law that requires it in all cars

- a law that requires it in new cars

- a law that requires it only for new drivers (less then 2 year) and for people caught speeding/drunk.

- a law that will make certain roads only available for self driving cars or for people with this safety system. It would be a compromise between AI drivers camp and people that still want to drive themselves.

Maybe you will say something about privacy, this system can be implemented with no connectivity to spy on you. It could be read only when you want to pay your insurance or in case of an accident.

But also AI can be implemented in a different way, like you could have some quality cameras recording traffic and have the AI detect who is using the phone, who is not paying attention , who is moving in a erratic pattern , so it would be an advanced spending camera.

The argument is that the AI driver camp will demand humans to be removed from the road, because their AI driver is better then the average. To prevent you losing the right to drive then this average needs to be improved and this can be done by removing the bad drivers and a good place to start is the ones that do not respect the rules. Otherwise you might object to install a safety system in your car but then the big companies will lobby hard and you will have to use the Tesla/Google or Apple AI powered cars, then not only that he government will know all about your movement but the ad companies will know it too.
A nonprofit akin to the Wikipedia foundation running the platform funded by donations*. No advertising and no tracking.
Facebook is mostly good (even tough I don't use it). It's funding it the rotten part.

*You could also have some tax scheme akin to a TV license to get public funding without public influence.
Controlled experiments are very rare if you are talking about gravity, since the force is so weak. Observational experiments (astronomy) is where most of the evidence comes from.

The most obvious inclusion of it for me is the radiative (also known as the photon) component of the matter density in Lambda CDM models (that is, they need to account for the proportion of the energy density of the universe which is related to electromagnetic fields to rule it out as dark matter).
A bit? Most schools look like and feel almost exactly like prisons. Only the most rich private schools look different.
as well as anything else you’ll get it to run

...how about Windows 10 ARM? Wouldn't be very practical, but would definitely be an interesting challenge.
> Hydroxychloroquine has some serious side effects and appear to marginally improve results, hence they revoked the EUA.

I agree. HCQ was neither safe, nor truly effective (though the NIH study showed no effectiveness even though the FDA left that question open when they revoked the EUA). If ivermectin were truly 90% effective as the original paper claimed, then it should be very easy to replicate it, at any sample size. (e.g. The effect of alcohol on humans can be seen on a sample size of one. HIV retroviral drug studies had 90% effectiveness, and could be quickly measured by the T-cell count in any infected person)

Researchers are humans. I believe there's some kind of "heroic/hope bias" with covid studies that warrants that extra skeptical look. If ivermectin had marginally successful data, the authors (or one of them) might have "juiced" it up to make it more efficacious than it was. It doesn't make them evil, but it does make them untrustworthy. On the other hand, I also wasn't a doctor in an emergency room last year.
The theory calories-in-calories-out doesn't explain why animals fed controlled diets over time could exhibit a change in weight, pretty much by definition. So instead of trying to extend that paradigm in some way that would explain it -- or even to acknowledge that there could be some auxiliary cause for this phenomenon while saying it's irrelevant to the trends in human obesity, which I think would be a fair argument -- you're saying 1) they aren't actually being fed the same thing, 2) they aren't actually being fed the same thing, 3) they aren't actually being fed the same thing or they aren't actually gaining weight. This is only "most likely" if you begin by assuming the truth of what's to be proved, i.e., begging the question.
I like the 4-persona model Ian Cheng gives. In it, marketing is (more or less) part of Emissary’s domain, taking care of how you integrate your creation into the surrounding world and ensure its continued existence. One of the other masks is literally called the “Hacker”, though it’s not really the opposite of the Emissary per se. All four masks are in some aspects opposite to each other and can sometimes be at odds, and yet find ways to cooperate.
I was thinking that too. This wouldn't work in a vacuum.
Whats wrong is the creation of a terrifying surveillance state to solve a relatively unimportant problem.
So you’re presented with a massive amount of money that is being stolen and your answer is to just raise taxes to make up for it?
Counterfactual Explanations of Graph Neural Networks
"... jut a phone and a mainline linux distribution."

From the OP:

"... the PinePhone runs mainline Linux as well as anything else you'll get it to run."

Linux is great but being able to run several different OS is, IMO, on a whole `nother level. For example, I am interested in running NetBSD. About 12 years ago, there was a phone called the T-Mobile Sidekick. What OS did it run. That phone was allegedly the first to sync the user data to the "cloud" and provide an "app marketplace". The founder of the company that created it later went on to co-found Android.
Assume covid tests find about 1 out of 5 total infections
It’s completely ridiculous because those companies aren’t breaking the law.

To your code profiling analogy, we’ve seen a problem and the solution proposed is just to buy more hardware to workaround it.
I agree. My revenge as a user has been to scrape entire channels I want to watch, as I can only imagine things getting worse than they are now (less free, less intrusive, more thought-police). I now have a lifetime worth of non-perishable knowledge/wisdom stored up in video form, which compliments ebooks. It's like prepping but for data. Shot out to r/datahoarder.
Wow - is that legal? If not, seems like you could get in touch with a lawyer?
How did that study control for the effects of being locked inside for a year or losing your job? Or past diagnosis with hypochondriac syndromes like fibromyalgia?
Decision by consent is much more efficient and improves the proposition when removing the objections, the data input part can be done using the 6 hats of De Bono if it's an important decision, which makes it much more powerful and uses the group's collective intelligence : https://thedecider.app/consent-decision-making
The Cellular Governance framework for democracy in the workplace is the most efficient I've found yet (mix of holacracy, sociocracy and agile methodology) , it allows to set the cursor between pyramidal and horizontal management depending on what the group or leader is ready to accept
The money is taxed before it reaches individuals. That’s all still future tax money.
How will this hold up in 12 years?

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/study-projects-a-surge-in-c...
Household waste and sewage to be used in sustainable aviation fuel production
Care you tell us where you're from? I'd like to move to a place which is well run (Blue or Red, doesn't matter).

Currently living in the Bay Area, it feels like a proper third world country just like Seattle, Portland and LA. All happen to be Blue cities.
It's not.

The time spent in those retrospectives and planning sessions are about the technical aspects - how talks should be broken down, how overall design of interacting components should look like. It's 100% actual work.

I'd take these over another bs "status sync" any day.
I really like the way macOS is getting more secure.

It just seems like good engineering if nothing else - why do applications get to access devices by default?
Because it's more evidence and it lets you make more informed conclusions and/or adjust your priors in the future.

Specifically, it is evidence against the Hanlon's Razor principle that people love to quote when they want to ignore and dismiss a scary thought: the US government contains powerful forces that deliberately and consistently conspire against regular people, which work for a small number of specific beneficiaries and against everybody else.
Well, no, but that comes along with the idea of "sound," so...
You sound like someone who has taken John Vervaeke's classes at the University of Toronto. Are you talking about Relevance Realization?
This seems to be the discussion thread related to this.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/issues/13
Reading Mao himself is imperative to understanding why China went through the troubles it did. Maoism was the engine of misery in revolutionary China.
Why do the researchers do this? It doesn’t sound like they are peddling a (cheap, generic, unbranded) drug. Is it literally just to get a name in a journal?

If this is the objective, I’m actually surprised at the amateurishness of the fraud. I’d imagine you could cook the data much better.
They were pretty much under high pressure already. Lot of them returned home. I guess now they have no other options and return.
While I agree with this article, it's interesting to note that by far the most spying occurs on mobile phones, which are very sandboxed. Maybe because that's where the money is.

To be fair, we don't have the other kinds of exploits on phones, like ransomware, so it does show that sandboxing mitigates many risks.
Helsinki’s Radical Solution to Homelessness (2019)
That's not a CEO job. His job is to make sure the enterprise is funded and sets a vision.

The first example must be a small company.

2. This sounds like a manager in an enterprise level company

If you choose to work where a multi-level manager structure exists you should give that manager respect because he has to navigate a political landscape that takes certain skills.

Besides managing people and knowing what customers want have nothing to do with knowing your specific skills. Should the CEO know marketing, accounting, legal, etc as well as the experts in their positions?
Although they don't contain a registry editor, the Windows Sysinternals tools from Microsoft have some great ones like Process Explorer (task manager replacement), Process monitor (shows all real-time Registry activity as well), ZoomIt (great for screen drawing during presentations) and so on. Written by Azure's CTO way before the cloud existed :)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/
We're still a few years away, Genode and Fuchsia are currently my odds on favorites to deliver a system based on capabilities. (Not the limited kind used in cell phones, the real ones, with granularity down to the single resource handle)

Such a system can be just as easy to use, but secure in enforcing the will of the user.
> The microphone and camera are unplugged when not in use.

I guess you don't use any laptops than.

> I'd rather sacrifice some security and keep my freedom. We're already losing the war against general-purpose computing.

That's a false dichotomy. As a user you can give all the permissions you want to a sandboxed app you want to use. The only one losing freedom is the potential malware writer.

If you are true to this sentiment, I guess you run everything under the root/admin account of the computer, because that gives you maximum freedom, right? A non-root user is a sandboxed user.
One of the problems with Scrum is that it describes something close to a process (Plan > Dailys > Review > Retro > Repeat), while the Agile Manifesto states 'Individuals and interactions over processes and tools'.

On the one hand, it is the reason why Scrum is so successful in corporate environments, on the other hand it is also somewhat non-agile. That is why I tend to call Scrum the least agile Agile Methodology and a good starting point for Agile transformations.

Just don't forget to keep moving on as your Retros lead you the way.
There are other purposes as well.

In the first .com wave we used a similar mechanism, just with TCL instead of Python, to ship our scripts encrypted.

Only our modified loader, written in C, could handle them.
Atmospheric Plasma Torch
The good part is that those who didn't close shop found insane amounts of people googling them the day of the announcement. The many Reader replacements are still thriving thanks to the Reader popularity.
That is a popular narrative of the left, yes. Most people on the right are indeed incapable of independent thought and the ones that are smart that appear to distrust centralized government services are faking it to line their pockets.

That’s on the same level as “Democrats want immigration just for the votes”.
With the current state of .NET I wouldn't either.

Once Microsoft makes up its mind about which way it wants to go for UI and distribution of desktop applications, maybe. I don't want to use buggy, incomplete WinForms, deprecated, half-abandoned, buggy WPF, or unfinished WinUI.
They can turn out fine if you have a strong lead or senior developers.
RIP Reader and Picasa you're still missed.
It's always helped me to think of c as the speed of causality. It's the speed at which one thing causes another
Like many here, I’m sure, I would love to be able to physically disable my camera and microphone somehow but do not have that option.
I stayed in one of those integrated school/coaching centers. It was miserable. The sole purpose of the place was make us learn as much as possible for engineering exams in those 2 years and nothing else. Luckily I had some good teachers and learnt how to learn stuff on my own. So I'm not completely bitter about it.
Agile both succeeded and failed because it's defined as "not waterfall."

Since no one does pure waterfall, everyone does Agile.

Even this essay encourages that interpretation: "Everyone in this group had deep experience writing software, and they were all looking for an alternative to documentation-driven, heavyweight software development processes that ruled the day."

Did that "everyone" include Mac development in the 1980s? Or Amiga development? Not from what I've read of the history.

Did it rule the day for the development of gcc, the Linux kernel, Perl, or CPython? No.

I pulled out my 1996 copy of Steve McConnell's "Rapid Development." Page 271 says:

> In addition to providing explicit support for morale, Microsoft gladly trades other factors to keep morale high, sometimes trading theme in ways that would make other companies shudder (Zachary 1994). I've seen then trade methodological purity, programming discipline, control over the product specification, control over the schedule, management visibility -- almost anything to benefit morale.

The Zachary 1994 citation is the book "Show-stopper! : the breakneck race to create Windows NT and the next generation at Microsoft" at https://archive.org/details/showstopperbreak00zach . A quick read (search for 'documentation') shows Windows NT development did not use a 'documentation-driven, heavyweight software development processes'.

And of course oodles of small software projects in the microcomputer and early web era were written with no formal software development processes at all.

This "rule the day" statement must therefore be interpreted within a narrow context.
In my experience that's likely because of software --- there's tons of ultra-cheap cameras with Omnivision sensors in them, and they just use the default settings and reference code which suffice to give not much more than a recognisable image. But they can be run in RAW mode to produce far better quality.
I don't think agile was meant to take everything client says without critical thinking. Quite opposite actually, it encourages dialogue. Often developers know better how to solve certain problems.

Early in my career somebody said something like "make sure you distinguish between <<what they (customers) want>> and <<what they need>>.". This thought stuck with me for years and in my opinion has been reposible for success I witnessed.

It's important to unwrap "what they want" so you, as developer, can apply more first principle thinking to arrive at "what they need".

BAs have tendency to project their own solutions, however when unwrapped so you see the problem that needs solving, you may arrive at solution that is simpler (like orders of magnitue is not that rare in my experience), reflects reality better, takes advantage of somehow hidden from BAs PoV system internals etc.

Agile enouraged dialogue is the platform where those ideas can surface.
Yes, we're not gonna run out. WA ships nearly a billion tons/yr.
This essay is rooted in nostalgia and reads as a post facto justification for "I like the old way better".

"I've never done waterfall" or "we specified everything (on paper! millennials don't read amirite) before we built it", which is it?

There's a whole lot of generalizing from personal experience to "universal truths" that simply aren't universal. or even truths? For instance, there are certainly some teams that get value out of code reviews.
A small community space supporting a couple hundred users at the most.

User accounts are owned and controlled by the users by means of a private key. (And thus the same identity or multiple linked identities can work across different "facebooks")

Entire social graph, data store, and all relationships and actions are public-ledgered, fully transparent, and available for download, archiving, and re-homing.

Moderation is also fully transparent, performed by volunteers who are part of the community on a rotating basis, and heavily aided by bayesian filtering.

Hardware and software maintenance costs are covered by voluntary payments and effort investment.

Is there anything I missed?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24694459

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19386862

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513030
Good. Do it. I will too if I see them still showing up.

Yes, weird, but they were also clearly stating their action about these videos in particular, not an action against all of them.

As I'm sure you can imagine, it is much easier and reliable to pull videos from a particular user than all videos related to a certain subject. If they did that, they'd probably risk also taking down Joe Rogan (which at this point would be awesome, but also a very bad).