skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why people are suddenly losing their minds over this. The technology has been in use by basically every cloud storage platform and social network for ages now.

Where are all the stories of people jailed for false positives? Or even arrested and released? There aren't any because they don't arrest people on apple/google/facebooks say, I would assume they just open an investigation. I would also take a guess that people consuming this content tend not to have a single image that might flag this system, it must be extremely unlikely for someone to trigger two or more false positives.
The rank being on the left is like a row index. It helps you count without needing to count from the beginning of the column. For this reason, many data-oriented languages like R don’t even consider the row index to be part of the data.

If anything the ranking reinforces the idea that a given country is in a given position which is the overall structure and intent of the data (in my view). I’m not likely to look at the table to extract the fact that “7 gold medals is 17th place.” I’m going to see that “country X is 17th place.”
There are lots of threads I could respond to but let's take this one to begin with:

>Despite this, I disagree with the assessment that it is a major bottleneck for the RSS ecosystem. I have never used Google Reader, so I don’t have any kind of before and after perspective, but in my humble opinion RSS is a standard that is in quite a good condition overall. Despite social medias’ walled garden approach and greater focus on instant messaging than blogging, I rarely stumble upon a website with content of episodic nature without any kind of RSS feed. The only significant exceptions are YouTube and Twitter.

As I have mentioned in several other comments, there is nothing wrong with RSS2.0 the protocol (at least nothing that wasn't also wrong with it in 2003).

Without being funny about it, perspective is important.

In 2003/4 publishing via RSS was a nascent thing. Blogs did it, but blogging was still in it's infancy. Some corporations were starting to do it, and were being encouraged to share value through RSS feeds.

There were aggregators (we built one, but there were several) that were starting to show what you could do by bringing these disparate content streams together. We were also having a little susccess in persuading companies to encourage their employees at all levels to blog and to create internal aggregators.

But, over time, applications like Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Discord have taken the momentum. Facebook, to pick one example, has at present 2.85 billion active users, many of them posting content which is not available outside Facebook. Twitter had RSS feeds but discontinued them. (Additionally, many blogs which do provide RSS feeds only provide excerpts of the content intended to draw you to their website & adverts).

You can't aggregate this content. These systems are also closed over creating, you use the tools they provide or you don't play. Want to do an experiment with how you create Facebook content? You can't. Facebook/Twitter reserve that to themselves.

If you try and start a project now you will struggle with the fact that a huge % of your potential userbase are already in Facebook, Twitter, etc… and captured there.

So while RSS still works and, yes, my blog still has an RSS feed, and you can read it in your RSS reader of choice, this is not the same situation as it was back then. And the futures that seemed possible from there do not seem possible from here.

I don't know, perhaps it's only with the perspective of being there that this feels this way.
The ones I checked have rank and player name first followed by the detailed scores

https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard
Good rhetoric, but the actually correct verb is "show", "display" or something. The income gap was there already, all the vaccine passport does is show it, and even in a manner that's easily subverted.

Anyone who wants to have a posh vaccine passport can get one easily and at no cost, so as a class marker it's really rather subversive. Posh clothes cost real money, a posh accent is difficult to fake, a posh vaccine passport is neither.

The columnist doesn't like the income gap, and protests against the least reliable, most easily subverted signifier?
Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. (Camus)
The Cloud’s Competing Approaches to Deprecation
The problem with client side verification is it dosent take much have the system look at all local files for verification, not just the files being uploaded to iCloud.

Now that Apple has some form of client side verification, an authoritarian government with enough economical clout can preassure apple into extending the system to look for things beyond child pornography. The govt could even just provide apple with their own hashes which may or may not be CP and mandate that Apple verify these hashes too. So in the end it all depends on how well apple is ready to push back against such government and if they are willing to take a hit to their profit margins by being effectively banned from a country
Ever lived in Asia? You talked paperwork and damn the US looks like an ultra-efficient system compared to some Asia countries. A form requires multiple signatures, all different departments in different parts of a city. A the "official" stamps mean none of it can be electronic.

Makes the DMV look like a well oiled machine.
It's subjective. I'd say pick three: 1) interviewer knows the topic 2) interviewer knows the person 3) interviewer does not speak for the person 4) neither total agreement nor disagreement. Also, they've got to know how to use a mic. On the other hand, if the person's a really good storyteller, it matters less what the interviewer does.

But so subjective. Personally, I usually can't stand Terry Gross and I've heard many say she's one of the best. I really liked some of Joe Rogan's interviews, but others are train wrecks.
NBC's Summer Olympics ratings are in free-fall
I think Charisma on Command nailed it in their video: https://youtu.be/cHyYlFCaXPM

The biggest takeaway for me was: make the interviewee feel comfortable by letting them talk freely about subjects they feel passionate about, and the interviewer should ask genuine and good questions by properly researching the interviewee beforehand.
I'm probably reading too much into this letter[0]. They said they couldn't act because they were a third party. If you file a complaint, any complaint, they wouldn't be. They didn't need to write a letter for something that's already corrected. I think they did because they want something they can act upon.

It seems like it's spaghetti argument time, ie. throw everything against a wall and see what sticks.

You could argue that the privacy of people could be violated because the "privacy" of an entity that's public shouldn't that public according to facebook. I know, the weak point is that we can't show what privacy aspect is actually violated, but then we could argue this is reason we should investigate this.

If this was the BCP in my country, I could add other arguments about unfair competition and/or monopoly. But I'm not sure this is the purview of the US version of the BCP.

The FTC/BCP needs to follow certain rules, but this doesn't prohibit them from saying: "Hey, we can kinda work with this sort of argument, especially if you reformulate it like this"

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/attachments/blog_posts/Lett...
I’ve already mentioned how to do this with metatables. But you still need to wrap this in a function and call it every time, it’s quite cumbersome. And the whole thing falls apart when you start using other people’s libraries (For example, you enabled strict.lua in your codebase, but then it starts affecting other libraries which relied on the original Lua behavior… Or you’ve made your own object system, but that one library you’ve imported uses middleclass and another uses rxi.classic, and you need to go though the headache of making sure they’re all compatible)
Seems easy enough to just have a 1 second timeout and some RAM limit, and if the server can't get the job done in that the request is aborted and an error is presented to the user telling them to download the whole zip file and unzip it themselves.
One thing I have noticed recently in particular with the coronavirus, but also other topics, is that several interview podcasts fall into a sort of trap where they have guests on that have some sort of contrarian viewpoint, and this gives listeners a dopamine hit for apparently having discovered some sort of truth that is unknown to society. Now this is great if the host finds someone who has something genuinely interesting to say, but it can quickly devolve into having a bunch of crackpots on the show. In fact I think it may go one step further in that the popularity of this format has lead otherwise reasonable (and well-credentialed) people to take more kooky positions because it gives them the chance to appear on these podcasts (I've read it described as "throwing themselves off an epistemic cliff" somewhere).
Facebook cuts off NYU researcher access, prompting rebuke from lawmakers
Tire wear is a matter of friction. Higher weight, higher friction, thus more wear. In this isolated instance, electrical cars are likely to be worse off than regular cars due to generally higher weight. Perhaps this is offset by regenerative breaking systems though. I'm sure you could make that argument on other parts of the EV as well.

Outside of isolated areas like that, I would be seriously surprised if electrical cars comes worse off than gasoline cars on the whole. There has been some talk about CO2 emissions made when making hydro electric dams, for instance, but then there's also CO2 emissions when making oil platforms, and so on, so IMHO those kinds of discussions quickly become very theoretical. Either way, I'm sure EV's are better off in terms of local emissions, meaning that they reduce local smog, and so on.

On the other hand, EV's can very well run on coal, if that's how your local electricity is produced. In that case, how well EV's do environmentally speaking is due to the total effort made by society. For that reason I'd love to see a comparison of gasoline and diesel versus coal. Which one is the cleanest?

AFAIK there are some real issues with the way lithium is mined for the batteries, however, that doesn't strictly involve emissions. So there are many pros and cons in the debate on electric vs gas cars that aren't obvious to the casual on-looker.

I don't have a particular horse in this race myself, but I do note that those who do, tend to offer arguments that are more strongly coloured by their preference.

Personally environmental safety isn't the only deciding factor. There's also such things as cost and reach. And I don't just mean how many miles a car can run on one tank, but also its longevity. On the whole it seems to me that EV's have a higher capital cost (up front cost), that might not make up for the savings you make by running it.

On the whole it seems to me that gasoline cars have far better overall longevity than EV's, with the offset that EV's are cheaper to run, though with slightly more hassle in the "refuelling" department. For me personally, winter cold is an issue, since it severely affects battery capacity. On the other hand, those Teslas do look pretty cool.
European countries have personally experienced, on our own soil, the dangers that unchecked free speech brings. The constitutions of our nations reflected learning what had led to the rise of fascism in the first place, and the need to prevent what happened from 1933-1945 from ever happening again.

Meanwhile, the US Constitution hasn't seen a substantial update in decades, much less a true reform taking into account hundreds of years of learning from history. The result is - again, from a Continental European view - a hot mess ranging from eccentrities such as voting on Tuesdays, over massive influence of Christian fundamentalism in politics despite the US being the first state in the world to not have a state religion, to a total inability of democracy to defend itself against demagogues and, in the case of Russian propaganda campaigns, even enemy hostility.
Even if it is, would that matter? Should we disconnect millions of people from the global economy because of their given name?

Also, it’s hard not to read your comment and wonder if you hate a large proportion of the human species,

> I bet its probably more like Abdul Mohammad and the 100 variations of spelling that in English
In my experience, recently developed applications are rarely in Apt and use one of the above listed distribution methods.

My counter-point to the parent is that installing software in Linux is NOT objectively better, in the sense that it's easier. Software that targets Linux almost always comes with installation instructions one must read (I'm not referring to the normal utilities, etc that have been around forever).
Breaking Changes to the Web Platform
Paperless office? 2.8 trillion pages printed in 2020, down by 450 billion sheets
Wow, good stuff. But why is such a fantastic tool hidden from the default developer toolbar?
No worries, it's totally local voice recognition ! We'll only send samples when you speak about herbs.
> I've had the displeasure of talking to people who honestly think just being part of the police automatically makes one a bad person who deserves physical harm.

Unfortunately, being a cop automatically makes you a liar as part of the job:

- in most areas, lying to suspects is allowed, both on the street and in the station

- most DV cases require a cop to arrest somebody, even when they see no reason or evidence to do so

- if your partner does something illegal, the probability is low that you'll say anything

- cops have standard lies like, "We stopped you because you look like a wanted poster at our station", etc.

- parallel construction (via Stingray, etc.) means you have to lie where the evidence actually came from

- snitches will say anything to get out of jail free, yet their "testilying" is used.

It doesn't take long for people who lie on a daily basis to turn you into a "bad person."

(Marxism/Communism twists people in the same way - when truth is relative to party goals, that's the end of objective truth.)
Nice boilerplate. Did you read the article?

The author in question got cut off from transferring funds due to whatever reason (a confusion in identity at this point we understand).

Funds could have easily be transferred to him via crypto.
It's not very profitable, about a 10% margin after doing a lot of work to get costs down and sales up.
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A 2019 UK government report found tyre wear, brake wear and road surface wear to be problematic:

From "Report: Non-Exhaust Emissions from Road Traffic" (https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/library/reports.php?report_id=99...)

"Data from the UK National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory
indicate that particles from brake wear, tyre wear and road surface wear currently constitute
60% and 73% (by mass), respectively, of primary PM2.5 and PM10 emissions from road
transport, and will become more dominant in the future. Currently they contribute 7.4% and
8.5% of all UK primary PM2.5 and PM10 emissions. Therefore to achieve further gains in PM2.5
and PM10 air quality in relation to road transport sources requires attention to reducing non-
exhaust emissions, not solely a focus on lowering exhaust emissions.

The magnitudes of non-exhaust emissions are, however, highly uncertain, particularly when
compared to data for exhaust emissions."
I've always preferred Docker for setting up databases and database-like services on a development machine because then everything is nicely isolated. i.e no need to worry about random files in /etc/foo, easy to setup many versions per project etc.

This is what I've been using for Postgres:

docker volume create postgres
docker run -d \
-p 127.0.0.1:5432:5432 \
-v postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data \
--name postgres \
--restart always \
postgres

(this one is just latest, but adding a version is trivial)
Right-to-Left Software Development
No, you're not a dinosaur. It is entirely reasonable for a hosting provider not to want certain content on their servers. And it is also quite reasonable to want to automate the process of scanning for it.

My physical device, on the other hand, is (supposed to be) mine and mine alone.
Note that in the quote above "use" refers to security researchers trying to send malformed traffic.

The only usability difference between HTTP2 and HTTP1(.1) is that it's easier to write a broken implementation of a quarter of HTTP1 and still do some useful things with it.

A full, production-grade HTTP1.1 client or server is more or less as complex as an HTTP2 client or server. HTTP2 is actually easier to implement at the base level, since it's much easier to work with binary protocol formats than with the horrible string encoding of HTTP1. HTTP2 does add a lot of complexity with the stream multiplexing features afterwards - more or less enough as to cover the endless headache of deciphering HTTP 1.1 requests and arcane connection headers.
Chapter 11. Plan to Throw One Away

Chemical engineers learned long ago that a process that works in the laboratory cannot be implemented in a factory in only one step. An intermediate step called the pilot plant is necessary to give experience in scaling quantities up and in operating in nonprotective environments. For example, a laboratory process for desalting water will be tested in a pilot plant of 10,000 gallon/day capacity before being used for a 2,000,000 gallon/day community water system.

Programming system builders have also been exposed to this lesson, but it seems to have not yet been learned. Project after project designs a set of algorithms and then plunges into construction of customer-deliverable software on a schedule that demands delivery of the first thing built.

In most projects, the first system built is barely usable. It may be too slow, too big, awkward to use, or all three. There is no alternative but to start again, smarting but smarter, and build a redesigned version in which these problems are solved. The discard and redesign may be done in one lump, or it may be done piece-by-piece. But all large-system experience shows that it will be done.[2] Where a new system concept or new technology is used, one has to build a system to throw away, for even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers. Seen this way, the answer is much clearer. Delivering that throwaway to customers buys time, but it does so only at the cost of agony for the user, distraction for the builders while they do the redesign, and a bad reputation for the product that the best redesign will find hard to live down.

Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

-- Frederick Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month
> beginners

Why is this for beginners? Because it is so easy to use? I guess I am a beginner then.

> works pretty nicely

Postgres.app works perfectly and is very minimal in system requirements vs having docker running and the amount of storage it requires.
this seems to mainly be relating to pushing to an arbitrary date for creating something new but still sometimes dates are given to us because of some sort of regulatory reason or a company contract meaning that something needs to be done by a certain time - before anyone says don't make contracts like that: The Danish and Swedish parts of Thomson Reuters WestLaw were sold off to an English holding company, as part of the sale the sold off parts were allowed to remain on WestLaw for one year after which they would have had to pay approx. $165,000 dollars a month.

Obviously we got off of by that arbitrary date, and if we hadn't that would have been a value destroying mistake.

on edit: the weird monetary amount is my attempt to turn to U.S.D the DKK amount at the time which was 1 million dkk - iirc the dollar was at a low but it was between 161 - 165.
I've always wondered what it felt like to live in the fall of civilizations and what could have been done to prevent it. For instance, the Emperor of Qing Dynasty China wanted to industrialize and modernize, but instead his bureaucrats diverted funds meant for modernizing the Navy into building another summer palace. Then that summer palace burned down during a war with Britain.

Well guess fucking what, I'm living in a failed state.
Like how hydroxychloroquine was suppressed in mainstream channels? Like ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine also had some initial positive studies, but when large scale studies were done it was shown to actually cause more deaths than not taking it.

Brett Weinstein has made a lot of dubious claims so I am skeptical to what he says. He at one point has claimed that Ivermectin is 100% effective when taking prophylactically based on a single study that has received a lot of criticism for having numbers that dont make sense. To me it seems that he needs to be more critical of the sources he uses.
> 2. It's only for the US. From my understanding Europe and ROW doesn't get this. At least for now.

AFAIK the EU is actually pondering legislation to make proactive scanning for CSAM mandatory. Right now, in the US at least, proactive scanning like practically all cloud providers do is not required by law.
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I think these benefits are probably less surprising for many people after lockdowns & social distancing almost completely removed such interactions from our daily lives. This is also something that those of us who work from home will miss out on some opportunities for.

Somewhat differently, I moved from a country where small talk was common, to a country where it's much less common (plus the working from home and I'm not comfortably fluent enough in the language) and I really miss small talk even though I'm an introvert. Exposure to humanity is indeed a good thing.
> each person would behave as 'someone is looking'.

They (that is, we) should already. We should assume being looked at, unless we can reasonably prove it's not so. In all public places, for certain. Using all public services, for certain.

This decision erodes the trust in personal handheld terminals (quaintly still named "phones"). This is great that the announcement is made publicly. I can easily imagine a similar feature to be deployed tacitly in other countries and other platforms.
Well, yeah – embedded standard practice is not caring about standards and expecting the kernel to accommodate you. Makes sense for Apple with their vertical integration, but even the less integrated things do that, see the entire concept of a "BSP".

But that is what sucks. That's why embedded is creating all these piles of e-waste doomed to only run crappy outdated vendor kernels unless someone invests huge effort into reverse engineering. The whole "we don't need" attitude in regards to standard things that mainline kernels Just Work with is evil.

And now – with both Apple and Qualcomm – we have this embedded crap powering general purpose laptops…
I've Never Been a Businessman (2020)
We are not doing much better, currently. The problem has increased exponentially.
Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings have unique microbiomes (2020)