skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a digital agency that does a lot of animation across the street from me. The normal car you see in the lot is a 2006 Kia. They are mostly 1099 workers doing multiple things.

The other thing about art creatives is that many get suckered into fancy art schools, and have insane debt loads.
"It can't be."

What!? This is an extraordinary claim that you state with zero evidence. It relies entirely on the naturalistic fallacy.

Not only is it possible for vaccines to confer better immunity but there are clear ways to test this empirically, which studies certainly have, like this one:

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...

It looks at reinfection rates of unvaxxed people who had COVID vs vaccinated people.
Generally not as wet. Camped in dozens of states across America and where it is trivial to start a fire with downed wood in the west, it is far more difficult in the east. Landscape is far more lush in the east.
In the past these people would have been developing the pictures themselves, and handing them between each other either personally or in some hidden manner using public systems.

Not only has communication become easier, so has surveillance. The only difference now is that it's easier for people not to be aware when their very personal privacy is invaded, and that it can be done to the whole populace at once.
Might be only a bit related, but osmocomBB [1] is a quite complete project that implemented an open baseband library.

It can be installed on a lot of old dumbphones and allows to create a base station and mobile station. Might help you to understand the inner workings of the network protocol quirks.

Back then it was known to be _the_ project to easily build an IMSI catcher, so its scene got a lot of redteamers using it.

There is also an ongoing effort to reverse engineer the usb modem of the pinephone, but afaik it's still a lot of work. [2]

[1] https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband

[2] https://github.com/Biktorgj/pinephone_modem_sdk
No black singers or bands you'll notice...

Worth watching:

"David Bowie Criticizes MTV for Not Playing Videos by Black Artists | MTV News"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGiVzIr8Qg
It’s nigh time to fork the ElasticSearch API.
Have you tried to use the iTunes app on desktop? It’s pretty horrendous too. Been using it for more than a decade and it’s slowly gotten better but the integration with iTunes match and apple music is really weird.
Kurtis Blow - Basketball

https://youtu.be/_shxzlTRK44
The inverse-square law always applies at distances like this. But the GP's remark probably refers to the difference in intensity between slight changes in angle. I.e., if you are ten times as far away, but just a hair closer to the beam center, you might have more flesh ripped from your bones anyway.
>Nearly 1 in 10 children in the US will be sexually abused before the age of 18.

That explains the rise in LGBT
I think Interior tends to defer to state and local interests rather than following national policies.
These extreme fire events extend across the entire Northern hemisphere right now (Oregon, Washington, Montana, Greece, Turkey, Siberia etc.). Blaming California specific forest management practices is disingenuous at best.
Does software engineering sound boring ?
Is this dystopic humor?

Do these jackwads really want to put up advertising that we won't be safe from - even on our own property?

It would only be one ad platform for about 15 minutes. After the first ad goes up, competitors would do whatever it takes to put up a competing ad. It would begin one of the most awful chapters of history - one that would never end. Just get worse as more and more ads go up.
The ability to hire developers to work on your product?
Who? Ted Kaczynski
I'd pick a different time to compare 2021 to than 1921, because I keep feeling similarities to the first 4 decades of the last century. I see echoes of the 1930s, where unfortunately the US and the rest of the world will eventually battle it out with China instead of Japan in a decade or so, while the questionable or overinflated stock market in the us feels like we are in 1928. There are a lot of reasons why a failure of our financial system isn't likely (federal deposit insurance on banks being one reason), but the increased disparity between highly paid people like many readers here who are software engineers who benefit from stock market growth while the vast majority of regular wage earners do not portends poorly for any near term unification of the us - instead I see in increasingly fractious times with actual insurrectionist behavior unlocked by Trump.

So it's 1935 in terms of war, 1928ish in the macro economy, 1858 in terms of nationalism, 1900 in terms of trusts? I console myself by thinking about my grandfather in 1935 when his family lost their farm and it was the Great Depression and he had no money and he somehow started college the next year and graduated as an engineer right into the teeth of world war II - but he made it.
This stunt just got them a huge amount of free advertising.

I haven't thought about Glenfidfish since my Playboy days.

(I took a class on advertising in college. In one assignment, we were told to pick out the sexual imagery in magazine ads. Glenfiddish seemed to have a lot.)
Soil maps help scientists dig up dirt in criminal investigations
This made me think of a good point regarding apples error rate of “one in a trillion”. If they are so confident that there won’t be false positive’s why bother sending it to apple for manual review? Clearly they think the error rate will be high enough that a human has to double check everything. But that is not what they are saying.
Not totally; they are intermingled with privately held land.
I don’t expect any grand effects because of this. They’re just giving *-core names to style archetypes. Things haven’t really collapsed with the existing labels like goth, punk, emo, scene, tomboy, high femme, alt, academic, lumberjack, butch, andro, vsco, athletic.

The main benefit to these labels catching on is it makes style inspo much easier to find.
Sure, people don’t get excited and ask me more when I say I work on mortgage software.

If I said I’m a game developer you can bet that’d be way less “boring” sounding.
>> You didn't mention any tangible results here. How would this system by Apple make my life worse? Can you answer that without a slippery slope argument?

That's a weird goal-post.

>> Why does the causality matter? A correlation is enough that cracking down on this content will result in less abusers on the streets.

Obviously of the people who look at cp, a higher percentage of those will be actual child abusers. The question for everybody is -- does giving those people a fantasy outlet increase or actually reduce the number of kids who get assaulted. At the end of the day that's what matters.

>> I wasn't the one citing that, but you are also citing an incomplete number since it excludes younger children.

[EDIT: Mistake] Well you didn't cite anything at all, and were off by a shockingly large number. Please cite something or explain why you made up a number.
Google Play was perfect for playing the .mp3 files on my Android phone. No need for an internet connection. Then suddenly it was ripped away, and YouTube is not remotely a replacement. I still haven't found an adequate replacement because I don't know how to search for the features that are important to me.
It does make one wonder--careless work, trivial problem, reuse of existing projects, writer portrays self as extremely productive, or some combination?
Low-res I suppose is better but...If it's enough for a human to tell whether it's CSAM or not, it's probably high-res enough to be a significant invasion of privacy in case of a mistake.

Also the > x "hits" part is a good feature assuming that the database only looks for CSAM. Otherwise it's useless (not to mention totally unauditable).

My guess is that they're doing it on device because they've had several years of marketing and proclaiming that "everything is done on-device" so to implement CSAM scanning server side would go against that. Maybe they thought this would somehow look better to the average consumer who thinks "on-device" is automatically better?
That’s not how it works. This is, literally, land owned and managed by the federal government. It’s on them to manage it.
No - but this comment is abhorrent.
Disentangled Lifespan Face Synthesis
> What the authors should have done was ...

In the absence of an explicit directive or request from you, given that the authors are from a different culture, how do you expect them to know what was required by them?

I don't mean to be snarky or accusative. Your comment was thoughtful, articulate and detailed, which tells me you are a sophisticated communicator.
I know of no messaging app the “automatically” uploads to iCloud. And what sort of idiot would try and send CP using a messenger app (almost all of which CASM detection). That’s like trying to smuggle drugs past the TSA so you can put them in someone’s house to frame them.
ILVR: Conditioning Method for Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
> Don't you think you are too enthusiastic saying 3D facial authentication cannot be fooled?

Where did I say that?
I think "still developing a sense of character" is more accurate than "character flaws".

We all grow and learn over time, and need more time and the understanding of others earlier on.
Pretty unlikely, California and the west is finally returning to its natural burn cycle, albeit with a bang. Annual burn acres are closer to the pre-1800s.

We need more smaller prescribed burns, not less. If residents in neighboring states don't like it, the are free to relocate.
Ya, it's hard to interpret it differently, so was curious. Don't know why I'm being downvoted for a question about rhetorical intention.
Did you know that 100,000 people with a flat mirror 1 meter square, mounted on a simple polar mount. calibrated with a fixed star and with a simple servo controller can create a 'hot box' in the air that will track this sign and increase it's internal temperature to the fail point.
This will also work on the sky swarm put up by starlink.
Requires a sunny day and the polar mount and the servo driven worm gear - the lot should be under $50.
100,000 mirrors converging, even with beam spread, and in the same area should do it. East coast and West coast mirrors are too far apart as the low orbit satellites will be below the horizon for divergent stations. at the same time. With the right software a wave of mirrors could keep the birds illuminated until they fail with the heat. The same distributed heat could damage many farther away satellites as well.
In Javascript, `for..in` prints the keys. In an object, the keys are the properties. In an array, the keys are the indexes. If you want the values then use the key to lookup the value from the object or array.

Either way it's entirely consistent: an iterator that works on both objects and arrays and prints the keys without guaranteeing order. Does that clear up the confusion?
Yes. Sometimes, when my spouse is really having trouble sleeping, she asks me to tell her about something I'm working on. About 30 seconds in, dead asleep.
Right. If you double the money supply by dropping interest rates, the people with the new money are the credit worthy people who can afford to take out new debt(though mostly companies). The things that those people demand are what rises in prices. This is the Cantillion Effect, basic supply and demand flows.

Since the people who can take out new debt are wealthy, the things that the wealthy buy go up. They don't need more apples, so the demand for apples stays the same, and the prices of apples stays the same. Instead they take that debt and pour it into the market(mostly buybacks) and other savings. So we don't end up seeing consumer prices change much.

Each person is attempting to maximize their long-term utility, and so long as inflation stays in check their best option is to keep it in the market growing ever more. Money is useless if you can't eventually spend it for utility. Each billionaire/company is planning what to do with their wealth. Some will create rockets, others will fund disease research hoping to get their name into the history books. It's always and will always be about the utility.

Like the Martingale Betting System has shown, you can not remove the risk by shifting the betting sizes around. As the money supply increase more "energy" is added to the system. It becomes harder and harder to control it. As it increases, the power of each individual to effect the entire system increases. In the 1970's the richest person had $6B, now the richest person has $177B, an increase of 30 times. By 2170 the richest person could have 30x that.

If there is a reason to believe that selling their stocks will yield greater utility, then the wealthy would figure it out, and the first person who acts would win(like what happened with the banks handling Archegos), second would do worse, most would get wiped out, including all the non-wealthy. It would be like a dam collapsing all at once. Sometimes all it takes for the dam to burst is a small trickle. But all that energy was always being stored in the reservoir.

But you better believe that the Fed understands this, and is doing everything in their power to keep the system under control. The problem is though, they need for investments to be the biggest long-term utility creator, but that only increases the energy. The more they keep it going, the more unstable it becomes.
I would join a crowd source to fund this.
How do you see things playing out now that we're near 0 interest rates and in some cases negative? Will governments continue to be loose via negative interest rates, through some other mechanism, or will they be forced to tighten policy?

In theory as you approach zero smaller changes produce bigger results in an aysmptotic fashion, but in reality lenders have margin to think about.

Maybe the zero rates will take into account lenders margin, and once that is taken into effect the rates will reflect the asymptotic curve.
There is no justice until every penny has been taken from every Sackler, and they’re all in jail. What they have done to the country was a disaster, destroying more lives than 9/11.
Very interesting app but you really need to lose the placeholder crap content and get some nice big screenshots on your features page. Otherwise no deal. The couple screens that are on the home page look great. If this app is as good as the little screens look show it off!!
Ethereum network burns $395K ETH per hour after London upgrade
I'm sorry, I don't believe that it's my responsibility to figure this out myself. The campaigns are the ones collecting my info and collecting stuff! Maybe the politicians should be perhaps using their connections to people who gave some money to actually spark mass movements instead of just trying to justify their staff's existence.

I didn't go "sign up" for a fundraising email, I donated to a campaign, and then my email got shopped around to a bunch of other fundraising lists.

Let's not even get into massive fundraising pushes that happen for absolutely dead-on-arrival campaigns like the kentucky senate race. Just pure money grabs...
Related, because of double digit inflation during the 1970s, most people don’t realize how bad the crash was from 1966 to 1982. Going from near 1,100 to 800 sounds bad but not record breaking. But factor in the double digit inflation and it is an 80% crash, slightly worse than the 75% crash of 1929-1933. It’s that 16 year crash that lead to the famous 1982 cover story of BusinessWeek “Is this the end of equities?” Of course, after 1982 the market grew at a remarkable clip till 2001, and in 2021 it’s currently up by more than a factor of 35 over 1982.
Yes. Because the net effect of the latter is zero carbon on the atmosphere.
It's this sort of destruction of Earth that means all people should declare war on Tesla. Wish they'd stick to their knitting, advertising to ground from orbit, arrg, it's obscene, vile.
Absolutely fascinating. I love hearing about Neanderthals and Denisovans and look forward to scientists learning even more in the future. It's mind boggling to think of other sentient species like our own that we could actually interbreed with.
Yes, and life and ecological systems adapted around particular levels of it. Man put too much back in recent years (see [1]) so we'd like to take it off there because the vast majority of current research points to it being a bad thing for the weather dynamics of the planet.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at...
So I’m an animator and I’d like to work on my craft. I’d also like a comfortable living, nothing outrageous by American standards. I’m not interested in the “job” of animator (unless something really wild came along), because these jobs don’t sound very appealing. It is very competitive, a “dream job” that attracts lots of young artists willing to work to death for a chance to break in to the business, but with relatively low pay and low jongterm job security.

I have a day job doing computerish things and I produce films in my spare time. I envy the industry people for:

- the creative community
- the opportunity to make complex projects
- access to production funds, assistants, software, etc.
- the distribution and marketing apparatus to get the work seen

The internet solves some of these problems but not all. Generally speaking, YouTube is a terrible deal for animators. Patreon is great but you can’t bootstrap a new thing without having built an audience elsewhere. I’m still searching for a good ecosystem for indie stuff.
The organization I work for planned for people to be in the office at least half the time in September.

I feel like they will probably change their minds before then.

It's a strange feeling, that the next month or two is preordained and the authorities are all in denial.

I guess I don't think it will be too bad to go in, if it's only half as crowded, on the streets, in the office, etc.

But it will kind of surprise me if it goes according to plan.
AI algorithms uncannily good at spotting your race from medical scans
It doesn't have to be boring to you. But I will admit that as a college student, when I had a summer internship in a government computer facility, I came away with the impression that while I enjoyed programming when I could do it on my own terms, an actual programming job would be boring.

But instead of boring, you could substitute unpleasant or unglamorous, and the point still stands pretty well. For instance, fixing a toilet is usually not particularly hard, but something that most people are repulsed by.
That question is framed wrong. What you should be asking is "Should people accused of such crimes get a fair and just trial?". This makes it clear that it takes me one sentence to put you in that very position. And that's exactly the problem. Your formulation erases any question of guilt, which makes the discussion nearly impossible to win for the privacy side.
My hope is that California finally gets serious with its environmental management after this. I know, feels like a pipe dream, but we should have been doing things like Israel had done, like transitioning farms and cities to desalinated water sources decades ago for instance. Another lacking practice is controlled burns done with the intention of decreasing these types of fires and actually healing forests. I’ll stave more rants but this isn’t exactly a new problem it’s just new in its scope
I would do a lot to stop this.
I think they quit the anime jobs entirely and move to more marketable jobs like graphics design. This 90% claim is more or less anecdotal, as I read that the industry veterans say that they saw only 1 out of 10 young people survived in this industry. Many work environments are similar to each other: there's no written contract and they have almost no unemployment insurance, etc. I don't understand how those anime lovers turn blind eyes to this and still somehow "enjoy" anime. It's horrible, horrible stuff.

A detailed survey in Japanese: http://www.janica.jp/survey/survey2019Report.pdf
I don't think things are as black and white as the article suggests. Especially the part about having an environment where its encouraged to mess up and ask random questions.

My experience so far has been the exact opposite. I have mainly been in confrontational environments, from my teen years on IRC to my work places. What I have learned is that if you say shit that are wrong, or if you try to talk without knowing your subject enough, you'll get smashed without mercy. I think this kind of atmosphere played a huge role in my development, on the positive side. If I had to intervene on a subject, I would be damn sure to know it well. If I had an issue at work, I would work hard to solve it and understand all the implications before asking for help.

Not saying that's the best environment for everyone, but it sure is for some of us.
It might be temporary but it gives some time for phones that are more respecting of individual privacy to develop and propagate. Maybe Librem and Pine will become better and ship more new/better phones before the inevitable occurs. Maybe a new manufacturer will enter the mix that respects user freedoms and privacy.
> boring

In 1983 I spent a few months working on a crud app. Finished it and never worked on another.
Getting married is where the problem begins. Facebook is just any number of avenues by which the problem may eventually resolve itself. Alot of people prefer Tinder or Badoo.
So paying for things directly is corrupt?
Is that a law or something?

I was thinking of a hypothetical case.
Your focus on password manager is off.

> maybe a lone develop that doesn’t need perpetual growth, will make a good, standalone, native Mac password manager.

How do you trust this lone developer? Password manager is all about security and having a motivation to chase money has more trust than someone seemingly doing it voluntarily.

And electron app, not sure why people still complain in 2021... unless you're machine is still running with 2GB memory...

Usability is so much more important than using extra 300MB of memory being electron.
So would I, hopefully it will alert someone with the tech smarts to do the basic design and make it go, and we may see it one day...
Yeah, I read some 100s climate change whitepapers by universities’ graduates.

And a very few deal adequately with the compensation of suburban/urban expanding sprawl and their inherent heat radiance that introduced bias from some 7,200 temperature reading stations which existed before 1972.
I think you're assuming bad faith from someone who has proven very competent, technical, and coherent.

It might simply be truthful. And if the author is proud of that, it is both irrelevant and perfectly okay.
Let's focus on the facts and arguments relevant to the article, not personal attacks.
I don’t remember a time when it was good. Their strategy was always about scraping user content from other websites (game guides, etc.) and leveraging SEO hacks to siphon off traffic and show as many ads as possible. Rebranding from Wikia to “Fandom” is itself an example of such a hack.
Even Amazon did not fork ES, till they were explicitly blocked. If Lucene changes it license to GPL, elatic will need to fork it.
I believe the "It can't be" is not a statement about whether natural immunity is better.

Instead I believe it to mean "It cannot be evidence that vaccines provide better immunity than natural infections".
I listened to 3 minutes of Joe Roegan out of boredom and now Joe roegan lives perpetually on the Spotify homescreen
I think Kessler syndrome is a worse long-term problem for humanity than advertising is. I don't think humanity should damage/destroy/render inoperable any satellites other than military/spy satellites unless we do so by deorbiting them.