skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect smartphone cameras may add a similar type of tracking mark to photos taken with the phone. I assume the NSA would be able to determine which phone a photo came from based on something like this. I don't have anything more than rumors, but if anyone has a link about this, it would be interesting!
> As a side note: I'm very much wondering whether I should insist on 40 hour work weeks

Productive h/w varies way too much from person to person and by circumstance. I let ppl set their own expected work schedule for the next few weeks by themselves as long as they keep the prediction up to date and their accuracy is reasonable.

I have had ppl get solid 40-60h/w effective time on target, and I have also seen <10h/w. The ppl I bring in are better at predicting their productivity and current life situation than I am. They are competent adults. Let them plan, structure, coordinate by themselves and only interfere if evidently necessary.

One size fits all is nonsense. If in doubt: measure and analyse.
I don't know, but DryShips is an amusing example.

https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/DRYS

Because of reverse splits, the stock appears to have peaked at around $1.5B per share in late 2007. If you multiply that by the shares now outstanding you get about $130 trillion. Which of course it was never worth.

They kept issuing shares and getting asymptotically closer to zero, but I'm not sure they ever actually went out of business.
Very good artists, additionally I can suggest

Jesse Cassetes.

https://soundcloud.com/jessecassettes

And Stinkbug.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/blue-origin-is-devel...
The cases are different though in that the UK situation is clearly mostly a consequence of Brexit. That doesn't apply to France.
Uh thanks. It was a link to a site called hackernewsusers.com which I guess was some project of a HN user back in the day but no longer exists.
I think that is a bit like saying that the Google/Apple App Stores are too fragmented because they have so many different kinds of apps. Or that the web is too fragmented. The Metaverse is supposed to be a huge bazaar of different kind of services and content. Not just a single cathedral with similar nice looking rooms.

I of course agree about (b) and I think it's about whether Facebook sees their metaverse as the next generation VR platform or as just one VR experience.
> Firefox is a symbol for the free web for me.

Can it really be when/while it is entirely dependent on Google for revenue?
Not just globals, anything passed in or passed out, right?
You can't just make stuff up. Hou Yifan says herself that chess is very exhausting and men have an advantage in this aspect.

"I think there is a physical aspect because chess exhausts a lot of energy, especially when games last 6-7 hours, and here women could be more disadvantaged."

Why deny differences in biology to further a false reality?

https://www.chess.com/article/view/hou-yifan-interview-chess
List of longest consumer road vehicles
There is a difference between a Python web developer dropping one level down to examine and debug the SQL the ORM is producing, and dropping one level down to examine and debug a performance problem in the CPython implementation.
Actually it's the job of the operating system to handle file system authorizations. It's just the case that we have shitty default configurations for operating operating systems which allows a lot of ambient authority.
The US and most countries' prison system seeks to punish and extract cheap labor out of prisoners, not rehabilitate them for reintroduction to society. It's big business[1].

Cases like this are not uncommon. People slip through the cracks, get stuck fighting the legal system, and eventually with enough luck and media attention the government can go "oops" and reverse a decision that often has ruined people's lives. There's no accountability and this keeps happening.

[1]: https://news.law.fordham.edu/jcfl/2018/12/09/the-american-pr...
Making Django Deployments Less Disruptive
To some extent https://www.babylonjs.com/
Yes. Information from other countries with different dates of phasing out lead would be (and is) strong evidence for the lead crime hypothesis, and evidence against the racier abortion hypothesis that the Freakonomics guys also promoted. This meta-analysis just gives up on cross-borders comparisons entirely.

And they suspiciously focused on murder only, they may have peeked at the data before deciding.
> If you price things in BTC, 1 bitcoin still equals 1 bitcoin.

Do you realize that you are looking at only one side of the equation you are implying? 1 USD is also always 1 USD. A tautology is also a tautology.

> If you price items in BTC, those items continue to get cheaper

Which is not stability.

Now look at the absolute value of that change over time and you‘ll notice a difference between USD and BTC.
This is a birth certificate not a Grindr profile.
I am always shocked how cruel some people can be, and so many of them. Even in this thread, there are people who _approve_ these atrocities. There isn’t much hope for the world.
I think you're taking for granted all the benefits to society provided by those profit-seeking public companies. The baseline is all of us starving to death with no possessions or food except what we can grow ourselves or scrounge, not the local supermarket/retail/etc. stores always being there to provide for our needs efficiently.
Bitcoiners are often using a fringe definition of inflation not based on purchasing power.

In that framework, it really is just equal to issuance, disregarding even the velocity of money.
Any device that requires someone to install and app and register to make it work should have a prominent label on the box.

There should be a labelling standard for this where the manufacturer must disclose if any registration is required to operate the device to its full potential, if any app or special software is needed other than a system driver, if any phone-home data is being sent, and what data is actually sent, when and why.

"Buyer beware" but most of the time you have no idea what the experience will be like. It's usually not disclosed on the box, reviews rarely mention it and I'd like to have a sure way of being informed before I make my purchase.

It's a similar thing with software, software and apps that require registration for no other reason than add you to their marketing list, but it's particularly egregious with physical items.
Death isn't suffering, it's nonexistence. It's possible to obliterate the planet in a blink and annihilate all life on it without causing suffering. It just requires a massive directed energy weapon. ie a death star
Antirez/pngtostl: Turn PNG images into STL 3D models
"We have a very selective memory indeed. We have absolutely terrible judgment, are super irrational, and pretty reliably make decisions that are against our own interests, "

This is a really bad argument - human intelligence is not highly rational, but it is deeply nuanced, using social cues, emotions, instincts and a miriad of other things.

Computers can never be anti-knowledge because they lack the free will and social behavior of humans - they didn't chose to be pro knowledge either.
Kodak deletes Xinjiang photo from Instagram, vows to 'respect Chinese gov't'
> Sex should be removed as a legal designation on the public part of birth certificates, the American Medical Association (AMA) said Monday.

Yet shortly after.

> only 10 states allow for a gender-neutral designation, usually "X," on birth certificates

So now sex and gender are the same?

> "Assigning sex using binary variables in the public portion of the birth certificate fails to recognize the medical spectrum of gender identity," Underwood said, and can be used to discriminate.

It looks like.

I'm skeptical about gender theory (or rather, wary of the identity politics that seem to come along with it), so bear with me if I misunderstand something.

Assigning sex assigns sex, not gender. It's a birth certificate, not a "birth fact sheet that needs to be amended in the future with things that can't be known at birth" certificate.

I see sometimes (this article included) the argument that when birth certificates are required, it will force trans/queers to "out" themselves in situations where it's not safe for them, but that's disingenuous because, at least in the countries I'm familiar with, you can't change your name in your birth certificate to begin with, and when you can there's the original + amendment. So you're still gonna have John in it even if you're Jane, which raises more questions than an M/F field.

You generally obtain a name/sex recognition certificate and with those you can go and obtain updated duplicates of your driving license, ID, passport, diplomas (outing yourself every single time in the process).

Personally I see no particular reason to require birth certificates for any purpose when any other government produced document is available, except, maybe, when acquiring citizenships. Maybe that's the way to go, rather than removing sex (or gender) from the birth certificate itself.
You might also be interested in PilotRedSun's animations and music. He has a kind of similar sensibility.

Animations: https://www.youtube.com/c/PilotRedSun/videos

(Most famous/viral one, though it's also the only one that isn't with music he made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGbhJjXl9Rk)

Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1mUiAjHzAI, https://www.youtube.com/c/Pilotredsky/videos
Most people are served best by not having a printer at all.
I never said they would do it on their own. Your counterexample is not a counterexample, but an example of what I said would happen.

DPRK manages this shit, it's in the reach of any nation-state.
That was the idea behind the 35 hour work week in France. Didn't work out as expected: unemployment didn't go down.

More recently, they had removed some tax breaks on overtime, but it turned out that that only hurt the people needing to work overtime; still no effect on unemployment. At least some of the breaks are now back.

I think the broader issue is that most people having to work crazy hours with multiple jobs don't do it because they're workaholics, but because they have to, as in they can't get a single "normal" job that pays well enough for whatever reason. I'm not sure that putting random limits on the number of hours worked will increase the hourly wages.
Need to remove names and photos too since you can infer race, sex and ethnicity too.
Just use a Unix based OS like OSX and Linux. No spyware / adware drivers needed.

Solved
I think TikTok's keys are ease of use - you can just swipe mindlessly, no choices, next, next, next, next. Good algorithm to predict a mix of stuff you'll probably like and new stuff so you can still explore the space. The combination of the two makes it addictive. You keep hitting that Skinner box and you get rewarded.

I personally used TikTok for a bit (only as a consumer) but had to cut it from my phone. It was too addictive. I found myself using the app for longer than I wanted.

While TikTok is entertaining I don't really miss it now that I've removed it. I feel lots of videos there lack substance.
For those who want to fact check. It was not the whole Shooting category but only Skeet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_at_the_1992_Summer_Ol...

> It was the last Olympic skeet competition open to both men and women, and the only mixed shooting competition at the Olympics ever won by a woman: Zhang Shan.
Then this is not related to async/await but regardless even then JavaScript has always had the ability to change the writability of properties such that trying to change a property in an object will yield a no-op with Object.defineProperty, and now with newer features like Object.freeze and private properties.
Read the “Methods of estimation” section where the standardization process is described. This would be a lot simpler is you could simply provide a reference to support the claim that the life expectancy at birth metric in the USA is calculated differently to that in other countries. Your claim seems to based on differences in calculation a different metric, infant mortality rate.
Classic MacOS had Macintosh Common Lisp. Even today, it’s the most pleasant, elegant and friendly programming environment I’ve ever used.
One thing a lot of vaporwave artists do nowadays is use uncommon characters in the titles of their songs to make them harder to find. That could be part of why it seems to be disappearing.
Gender, sure.
But surely from a medical perspective it's important to know what kind of hardware a person has. I mean if you start having problems with your prostate it might be helpful to give the doctor a heads up.
Let me start by saying that I've seen some really horrible and disgusting treatment of women compared to men. At one place. Out of 10.

At least around here I also see that if two persons, one woman and one man, apply for the same position, and they are seen as exactly equally qualified, the woman gets hired first.

Why? Because amount of women in the department is a KPI.

I also see men walking circles around these issues, taking quite a lot more stupidity from a girl than from a man. I tried to wait a few weeks with one particular know-it-all that was a master in my field (or so she behaved) after 18 months of work.

There are many brilliant women in tech, and then there is those that get paid as dev evangelist and get people booted from PyCon after listening in to someone elses conversation for something far less insulting then whatever she herself had posted publicly on Twitter short time before.

I think the actual women in tech would do well to stand up to these who abuse it.

And if you live in the Nordics at least and experience actual discrimination, look for a new job.
Just as I suspected, you did know the history, you were just feigning ignorance.

So I suspect you do know the relevant internation laws as well. But allow me to quote myself:

> The UK recognizes the PRC as the successor regime of China, and thus the rightful owner of all that's due of the UK to China under the various treaties between them.

You are free to live in your make-believe world in which Kowloon and HK island were never part of China. The rest of us? We live in the real world.
I have a Samsung printer, but support for that also switched to HP a number of years ago.

I would really like to know if there's a good printer manufacturer that makes simple, high quality printers that just work, don't require all these needless hoops, and respect the customer. Sounds like there should be a market for that, and yet somehow all printer manufacturers seem to suck.
Evidently of interest if you're someone like Jasmine Rose Jones.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/23/us/trans-women-incarcerat...
One of my jobs a long time ago was to update the quality management process of a relatively large company. I wasn't responsible for the actual text changes, but properly integrating them.

It was the first time I'd read ISO 9001 documentation end to end, and it was eye opening.

Total bullshit.

It ensured there was a paper trail documenting the total bullshit, of course, but it nevertheless was total bullshit that said a lot about describing what was done, but nothing about ensuring it actually worked as it should.

This same place had locked doors to the interior stairwell so consultants like me could not even get into areas we were not assigned to because of work done for clients like the police, but had confidential documents about police infrastructure sitting unprotected on the machine I was assigned.

To me that was a good indication they ran everything including security how they handled quality management: it was just a box ticking exercise. Document things and track deviations rather than care about actually getting things right.
Sadly, more people are opposed to this than can openly speak up
That reminds me of this article: Illinois Is The 1st State To Tell Police They Can't Lie To Minors In Interrogations: https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/1016710927/illinois-is-the-fi...
As far as I know about chess, there are no men-only tournaments in chess. Instead everyone, both men and women, can compete in the "usual" tournaments. But because there are so few female chess players around, to encourage girls and women to play chess women-only competitions were introduced. Some think that such women-only tournaments work as intended by promoting chess among females, some don't. Famously arguably the strongest female chess player in history Judit Polgár never competed in the women's world championship.
I can suggest this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHY1RpbKDDA
You can spin for artificial gravity out in space though, which would be relatively simple to do provided you had any sort of space manufacturing capabilities.
I think it was this site I got it from, though it was a long time ago:

https://www.screensaversplanet.com/screensavers/after-dark-f...

Seems to work fine on Windows 10, just not across multiple screens
'Exploitative' Elephant Man dissection to go ahead
He backs off, saying, “It’s the first complex cryptographic object of its nature, made by an unknown entity”. You retort with, “I don’t want a random
magical object I don't understand”. “What if it had doubled in price in a few days from 1 Ducat to 2 Ducats, just last week? Apparently it's already being used by pirates” he respomds.

You give him one final chance, replying with, “This tulip like object you have, granted does sound unique. Maybe it's because Im an engineer. Alright, I'm interested in a couple of ducats worth. I guess it would be oddly ignorant for me not to.
... it's really quite beautiful isn't it?” His final response is, “Ah, it is... and it has a beautiful emblem! I’ll sell it to you for two ducats”.

And thats what separated the Bitcoin Barons from the rest of hackernews, 10 years ago.
So here is a link that is a few years earlier than the one I want, but which covers the productivity numbers in the same way:

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/reagan-mythbust...

But that was written in 2009, before it was clear that productivity slowed again after 2005.

In a later post, Krugman analyzed the higher productivity of 1995 to 2005 and shows much of it was simply big box stores and HFT.

In general, the period since 1973 has been disappointing for productivity. And as yet, computers have not brought us the kind of sustained productivity growth that we saw in the early to mid 20th Century.
I think most of the complexity of biology is accidental, not essential. Eg. why don’t we have a normal abstraction for sending signals? Instead, we have like 10s of slightly different ones with different failings each, but each having many repetitive machinery leading to inefficient “spaghetti code”.

And while our brain is objectively very impressive, I don’t see how our complex abilities are anything but emerging features.
I'm a blockchain developer who spent years analyzing PoW and then went on to work on DPoS for years. What you're saying about PoS being the same as our current banks is incorrect.

When you look at the fundamentals, PoS is superior to PoW. The reason why people don't realize this is because Bitcoin proponents are constantly distorting the facts and they have a lot of people and money behind this agenda.

Bitcoin mining is extremely centralized; just a few large pools control the entire network.

If a government wanted to start mining Bitcoin, they could print unlimited fiat money to buy as much ASIC hardware as required. The cost of acquiring hardware grows linearly so it's easier to do a 51% attack. With PoS, the cost of acquiring stake grows exponentially as you approach 51% due to supply contraints in the underlying token.

There is the electricity argument. PoS uses orders of magnitude less electricity.

Also, users of PoS cannot tamper data or make fake transactions even if by some miracle they managed to acquire 51% of tokens.

I've had long arguments with PoW developers about DPoS which go into every detail and argument exhaustively - I have not yet once encountered an edge case that was not accounted for.
I think 0 should be a FizzBuzz?

Also I'm not sure how that solution would work for negative numbers...

Then again what is the right answer for 7i + 24?

Corner cases duck!
Agree.

Misaligned expectations. A todo list is an overhead. It is only helpful if it actually helps you remember / plan / coordinate / communicate more than the cost of maintenance.

Common misconception / misuse: a todo list is a hard set plan of things that have to get done.

For most, this is simply not reality.

Reality, for most ppl: it is a wishlist.

It is better to have that realisation from the start and avoid the negative psychological effect of unfinished todo items or miscommunication / malcoordination of mistaking it for future reality.

One startup I was helping a while back had serious todo-itis, with the common negative effects. To help: I bought shitty post-it stickers with very poor glue. They would fall to the floor in random fashion after a week or two [1]. This created a ridiculous exercise where the founder would update the notes that were still important to new stickys. But he would also start throwing things away. Stuff that was no longer that important. Wishlist.

Always work on the most important stuff. Items of lower priority can be allowed to fall off the list. By the time you might get around to them the circumstances have probably changed, rendering the original task irrelevant anyway.

1) occasionally by sabotage
If you don't want to install the app or create an account you can return the device at no cost. I don't think most box stores will fight you on this. Online sellers usually will, return shipping can be very expensive.
This is also an argument for including your blood type, ethnicity (risk of certain genetic issues), and known allergies on your birth certificate.

Is this meant to be a medical document, or a legal one? If medical, then it shouldn't be allowed to be required for identification for privacy reasons. If legal, then why does it contain medical information at all?
Veneration of the Dead?

Cult of the Dead?

Extended Narcissism?

Artificial Necrophilia?

...

Pity the Ghost in the Shell...
You could also determine that person X voted for an unpopular politician and ruin their life online. The reason why voting is anonymous is the realization that an election should not degenerate entirely into a popularity contest driven by peer pressure.

If you want to audit mailed out ballots, use two envelopes instead. The outer one will carry a unique id, the inner one will be completely anonymous and contain the actual ballot. All the auditing can be done on the outer, unopened envelopes. Then they are stripped off, all the inner envelopes are thrown on a heap and only then opened and counted.

Of course, even then, the paper ballots contain traces of the voter's DNA, so the truly paranoid will not be happy either.
> This is wat

For a second, I thought it was JavaScript
My shorthand for that is “Bureaucracy allows us to ignore reality”. If we ignore reality enough, bureaucracy / following a process will give us predictability and control, and will shield us from unwelcome challenges. Reality, otoh, is unpredictable and merciless in confronting us with challenges. The more mandatory we can make that process, the more “following process” becomes the sole criterion for “doing it right”, the more we'll be able to insulate ourselves from bothering with the whims of reality. It seems clear to me that this dynamic has the structure of a perverse incentive, even more so when you have considerable influence over the rules of that process.

This isn't to say that we should just do away with all process. There are good, even life-saving reasons why processes exist, but a process alone is no cure-all, and an overdose will paralyze us.