skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It used to have text-to-speech functions. I even made lo-fi hip-hop type music using Pocket.
Why leave out the very next sentence in your source?

> Other definitions are also used, such as the World Health Organization's definition of violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation."

Sanctions _are_ backed by the threat of very real physical force and power. Pretty much all state violence is.
We're back to things that only work for small changes. Large features that need days or weeks of work before they can be mainlined aren't a rare occurrence, they are the norm, and usually generate the most value for a product.

Not to mention, you often need to polish a release while developing large features for the next release - again cases where you need branches.

Of course, you can also try to take the feature flag model, and avoid refactoring entirely. Unlikely to be a good strategy for a long lived product.
Yeah, I'm reading this and thinking it is pretty similar to the situation on twitch. I'm the world's lamest twitch streamer in a category with paltry viewership, so it took me over 600 hours of streaming to get a payout[0] and I had to hit arbitrary milestones for affiliate in the first place. I have no idea how discovery even works on twitch, but I have to imagine it's the same as everywhere else: popular stuff gets more popular and everyone else languishes in obscurity. How else could it work, really?

[0] Twitch pays out at $100, if anyone didn't know.
Google shuts down unified health division as chief leaves company
What's funny though is that folks are paying $5 for a tiny water bottle in an airport. They are rationing URBAN water use (where water is relatively insanely expensive already).

Even in CA where we have droughts - the amount of water used in ag / industrial is measured in ACRE FEET. And the cost is in pennies to dollars per ACRE FOOT. The scale is just totally different than your bottle of water or glass of water. You go to a restaurant "due to water shortage we aren't serving water"??

We've had insane population growth here. Last damns were in like 71 and maybe 79? So it's been 40+ years with no new reservoirs?

https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20140...

You'd better be working on desalination or maybe a small tax on water for all users (could be TINY) or something because otherwise yeah, you are going to have serious water problems.

We've doubled population since 71. You can't do that without doing something around reservoirs, water use in ag / industrial or supply improvements.
No, it sounds sarcastic and condescending.
Bob Harp is featured in the article prominently, so I'm not sure how it can be "potentially misleading" as to his role.

The whole point of this article is to highlight what was different about this situation. Bob Harp's contribution wasn't particularly unique! There were lots of highly competent engineers in the early PC industry doing stuff like this. Read Stan Veit's book or "Fire in the Valley" if you want more than you'll ever need to know about them.
If you think that 70 million people is half of the USA, you desperately need some contact with facts.
> So, the unwanted results here are still due to the input data. But neither the input data, nor the algorithms contain any racial bias towards the black people. The results might be merely due to the difference between dark faces and pale faces under the natural law of physics. These are unwanted results due to our social norms, but they are NOT racially biased or racist, because there is no such bias introduced or inherent during any part of the process.

In this, and the reasoning above it, I think you are correct. Assuming we are right about this, what is the next step? You say the next step is to improve data collection, e.g. by creating better cameras. That seems a fine proposal to me, I support that, but I think there is more that might also be done. For instance, the use of ML models could be restricted or regulated in at least some contexts, until the problems with data collection are rectified. For instance, we could ban the police from using facial recognition models until the problems with data collection are solved. The bias is a side-effect of photography, not something intrinsic to the facial recognition algorithm, but restricting the use of that algorithm might nonetheless be a valid response to this circumstance.
"It is quite clear that the only victims of this decision are people like me, the ordinary people, not the Iran government."

That's the point, to make you angry enough to change your government.
For a technologist, I'm definitely fairly anti-technology. The height of human invention was the written word. And pencil and paper is still impossible to beat. Unless you're decked out with a keyboard, no smart device is going to beat it. Even then, markup is really hard. You'll then need a stylus, and some great software to match what you had at the start with pencil and paper. And with the paper I can rip the page out and hand it to someone. Or I could scan it. Whatever, pretty flexible. That pretty much amounts to a joke that a comedian will be telling for at least another century.

I use an iPhone 12 mini, but I'm not a heavy user of a phone. As a Xennial, I lived through and was cognizant the last 20 years of the analog age, roughly capping off with the Blackberry at the end of the millennium (and took a few years to take off).

The smart devices haven't really helped anything. Laptops and desktops have. Smart devices really were just tethers for you to your work/life/consumer distractions. It has its uses, and that's why I carry mine, but primarily just basic communication is why I keep it. I can live without the secure Wake On Lan to my desktop, internet banking and whatever relatively useless features it has.

Pencil, paper, laptop. Still can't beat it, smart devices are largely just pieces of trash or new ball and chain at worst.
The human eye has more dynamic range than any camera sensor so you are going off a lot more data
Nvidia's takeover of Arm raises serious concerns, says UK watchdog
This. This was basically a lay off in disguise, and yet it's being portrayed as the opposite. Stichfix has continually automated many of their processes using their 100+ data scientists. This is no different.

The company's executive has continually failed at PR though, which is hammering the stock price. Unbelievable that they're letting this narrative just persist.
On a similar note, I setup my utility account this week. It was suggested by the representative that I use the last 4 digits of my SSN as a pin for my account. Pretty disappointing how short sighted many companies are when it comes to security practices.
I've been told this by credit card customer support. In several instances over the last 3-4 years I've disputed charges from companies I have no relationship with, and as part of the dispute process been told I need to reach out to these companies to prevent future recurring charges. Calling a company I've never heard of to try to get them to stop charging me sounds likely to lead to further problems rather than resolving them, but I digress.

On the other hand, I've switched over to using a bank that gives me fine-grained control over virtual cards and ACH accounts. I can create a "pocket" for a vendor or a class of charges, create an associated virtual card, and put a specific amount of money into that pocket. I can enable or disable an "overdraft protection" per pocket that will pull funds from another pocket if I run out. And I can close those pockets as well.

This is great for the subscriptions that make it hard to cancel. You know, the places: "Click this button to subscribe, auto renewing", but "If you want to cancel, call this number between 8am and 5pm". I had a couple newspaper subscriptions on dedicated pockets, and after notifying their subscriptions dept that I wanted them to cancel it and was told to call a person about it, I just closed the pocket. I have gotten notifications about their continued attempted charges, but they haven't gone through.
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Honestly the only thing I find really disingenuous about this is the implication that it's realistic to get rich and famous on it, which is a quality shared by a lot of "creator" platforms. Also college.
Honestly I think it is a good learning experience.

I talked about it with my son.

"Yup there's lots of people making games, it's hard to make games as elaborate as everyone else."

And then you just make them for fun ...

The fact that kids try and fail at this is not a bad thing IMO.

If kids out there can't control themselves (they're kids...) I gotta wonder what if any parental involvement there is. Let's say they ban kids from creating content ... kid who can't control him/herself will just go make an 'adult' account too and do the same thing. Roblox can only do so much.
proving "duh" stuff is generally good as it makes us understand much more about the foundations of any field.

Take for example the mathematical journey of laying our fundamental axioms starting at Peano all the way through ZFC.
Classic Reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_...

> Congratulations! You just won millions of dollars in the lottery! That's great.

> Now you're fucked.

> No really.

> You are.

> You're fucked.

This guy did exactly the right thing.
Interesting approach. Currently pairing soil testing with tissue testing is cost effective tool to put a value on the fertility growers apply to their fields. We need this movement towards efficient nutrient management to continue to adapt and/or add tools to address eutrophication of our watersheds due to point source runoff. Better nutrient management also brings a positive effect to growers agronomics.
uh, yes? if your business model relies on exploiting children, you shouldn't be allowed to operate as a business.

or maybe don't pay kids whose work attracts people to your platform in your in-game digital currency. pay them, like, actual money that they've earned.
There's a both sidesism here - one party that's demanding censorship (because misinformation, danger, etc.) when they used to fight it, the other party seemingly defenders of classic big corporate entities, yes it does seem hopeless.

I think it has to get worse before it gets better. If almost everyone's personal information, SS and so forth, even IMEI's, addresses, mother's maiden, you name it, is available on the dark web, then that'll basically mean the corporate world will have to create a new mechanism. For example, the most obvious is the entire system in which credit worthiness is determined.

I know two people with identity theft issues, and in both cases people opened up accounts that impacted credit worthiness. That's really lousy if you spend a long time searching for a home to buy, and when you're in contract something like this happens and your credit gets dinged. Blame the banks and the credit industry as much as the hackers. They made this impossible-to-contain information literally the key determinant of your ability to get a loan in order to purchase a home.
PIX is only for one-off payments, it is essentially a bank transfer, you can't setup recurring payments. So that should lower user fraud and subsequent chargebacks (because the client can't)

On the other hand, because of fraud (social engineering), the central bank is looking to allow for cancelling payments, but afaik there is still nothing planned
- This one has a universal speed limit. Emission theory does not. Huge galaxies blow up. Black holes suck them in and whip them around. Big bang blows everything up. Remnants such as CMB and red shift are measured. Still nothing faster than the universal speed limit. Go any faster nature gobbles you up.

- This one has energy quanta. Newton's law of cooling does not. Things need heat before they change their outsides. Poke a hole in oven with something glowing inside. Refract the light. The bands of refracted light don't budge even though temperature goes up. Whatever is glowing radiate lights per packets of heat, or energy, externally transferred. That's not what happens with convective mediums where it's continuous.

- Insides can be a medium of interaction.

- Outsides do not need to be spatially localized.

- Things can exist without any structural insides. That oven's temperature, with its discrete start and end, is a particle in itself. Describing gravity without special relativity, internal clocks ticking differently, is counter-intuitive but can be done. This uses Einstein-Hilbert action. Instead of a distinct space and time properties, it's nature has no mind and does what the surroundings dictate.

- Fields can be explained without requiring any mystic interaction in between. Gravity is due to properties of the two objects. There's an extended region around them due to their internals.

I found once you get down to it, although it does change the world, the concept is very narrow. The Maxwell equations uses the mean value theorem and Gibb's vector analysis to model the electrical medium of nothing, and pegs it to the observed speed of light, the latency of electromagnetics and telescopes, because they didn't have any observed knowledge to explain it. It speaks to the very high standards and the amount of proven work that's been done before:

>As the field interacts with the detector, its quantum state changes because the detector generically both absorbs and emits gravitons through spontaneous and stimulated emission; the final field state jfi is a priori unknown.

>The default “classical” treatment of gravitational radiation, which corresponds to coherent states, is appropriate when the sources are governed by approximately deterministic dynamics involving weak linear coupling to the gravitational field.

>During the late stages of black hole mergers, the approximation of treating gravitational radiation as a weak linear perturbation is not appropriate, despite the deterministic nature of the dynamics. Here one can expect to encounter effects we might call molding of the quantum radiation state, which go beyond (quadratic) squeezing.

Unless you can predict the future, only call me if you're going to blow up two black holes. When you do, it bends a little. Other than that, use the math I already gave you. You can still do a lot. Instruments inside the sun. Matter waves in orbit. Pair production. Nature won't see you coming.
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I recommend acme-tiny:

https://github.com/Tronde/acme-tiny

It's an acme client in a single, small, stand-alone Python file.

I reverse-engineered it and ported it to Common Lisp. I haven't published the result, but I'd be happy to do so if anyone is interested.
Perhaps it was my generation's timing but all throughout my life growing up we were constantly told how important self-esteem was, except, it never made any sense. Nobody ever explained how or why self-esteem was really important and even more critically, never really gave good explanations for what it even meant. So naturally it was totally ignorable.

Then one day I happened upon this https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/12/18/bruce-lee-artist-of...

That perspective on the meaning of self-esteem and its counterpart of Pride gives so much justification for the concern about it. It has also been extremely useful as a parent to explain the real value and meaning of self-esteem to my kids.
Don't forget there there's a whole industry associated with getting unhappy timeshare owners out of the deal. It's almost always a losing prospect, it's just a question of how much one has to pay to get out.

https://www.ramseysolutions.com/debt/how-to-get-rid-of-a-tim...
It's a bit of a headstart sure, but it's also a great way to ensure they hæmorrhage cash right along with all the users...

(Also, we're talking like it has a massive employee count, is that the case? Could be just a handful for all I know.)
Other than not donating any of it, he made the right call. The fact that the winner still has the money after 10 years is evidence he took the correct course.
Nothing gives you a constant interval, but it attempts to unlike RAF.
No, it's not a joke

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gas-cloud-kills-...

Here's a singular example of hundreds of strange ways people have died from natural yet potentially hard to believe expulsions of toxic gases.
>Would you call a virus that predominantly infects a particular ethnic group "racist"?

Depends. It would be wrong to call the virus itself racist, but it would also likewise be wrong to focus on the mechanics of infection rather than the mechanics of transmission, because the latter is the determinig factor in whether or not an outbreak occurs. Epidemics and pandemics are manufactured crises - that is, they are the result of human action. To have one effect one ethnic group more than another can conceivably be because of racist behavior. In this sense, the aspect that is important to people (whether or not one is likely to be infected) can involve racism.

>Would you call alcohol or milk "racist" because Europeans, North Siberian and Alaskan peoples, and East-Asian peoples react differently to them?

Again, it's not wrong to relate racism to these things because the central issue - not necessarily whether certain people can digest certain nutrients, but why nutrients that are only advantageous to certain people are privileged in food policy - can be affected by racial bias.

Reminder that racism is not necessarily based on intent; disparate impact also constitutes a reasonable rationale.
> It's now rude to just call someone on the phone without asking permission first.

Is it? I think that norm varies a lot with different sections of culture. If it was universally rude, then it'd be damn silly that phones are all set up to be able to receive calls unsolicited, by default.

"Do not disturb" could be the default.
I feel like we'd then have the same article:

"Adults can make money but they don't let kids who create content make any money!"
> "Just because you don't like something doesn't mean you shouldn't say it."

I don't think there is any value in saying it's a suicide without any evidence.

>"Suicides happen all the time."

Granted Suicided are more common in covid, they are still rare events.
To be fair the gist of it is that "this is what the 3b1b team are using except it is a bit better".
> Once Bob learned about this soon to be released IBM PC he requested and begged the company to start making IBM PC clones and accessories. He said the company had a year left unless it started embracing the PC

> The now soon to be ex wife rejected this idea and kept the company running the same as always. She also fired her soon to be ex-husband.

How do you look at the technical person putting it together and just disregard everything they are saying? When my non-technical persons bring forward a good idea or a good suggestion, we tend to weigh it versus previous ideas and market outlook...
The fact that this is not a legitimate argument can be evinced by the simple fact that this horrible act has never been repeated in history.

If 'let's nuke hundreds of thousands to save millions' is a legitimate option, why has it not been used in any other number of conflicts?
Should SMS cost money? (Or at least, more than ~10X the bandwidth bill so there's nice monopoly rent for the operator... I can't imagine the actual cost being over ~1 USD/1000 messages.)
Fwiw, it works great in my 2017 Volvo.
Nice, I believe in Santa. Never let small minds tell you that your dream is a fantasy.
Sounds like a free hosting service with FTP
It depends on locale and industry.

Some companies sample mail and flag for manual inspection.
One of our biggest challenges we face is in communicating how we are different from a timeshare. We focus on the 2 main differentiators we hear most from our customers: 1. ownership in actual real estate, and 2. the flexibility to schedule visits throughout the year. I think resale is another big point. One of the goals of posting on HN is to refine how we effectively communicate these differences, because the underlying model is very very different from a timeshare, regardless of how timeshares pitch themselves. Looking at the contract you sign with Ancana vs. a timeshare makes it pretty clear what you are actually buying. Appreciate the feedback, we'll continue to try and improve!
I guess I've never worked for such employers.

> why would you have to "negotiate" for a higher salary

Why not?
> our superior differences

Best to get out of this line of thought before our understanding of genetics really takes off. To quote Gattaca "We now have discrimination down to a science."

It's already common to allow the oppression of inferior genes so long as they aren't human. What happens when we can measure human genetic inferiority? Will you be talking about superior differences then? Will you still dismiss the "differences" inferior to yours?

Besides, animal genes might not even be truly inferior anyways. I suspect they have better foundations and potential than we do. It's just not utilized yet. Maybe humans aren't so great, just first to market (and only by ~20k years, which is nothing at all). I personally wouldn't be surprised if humans are actually embarrassingly stupid on the cosmic scale of sentience.
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Personally I think humanoids make terrible robots unless you want to make a robot that is really good at marathon running or something. A gorilla bot may make sense, or a dog/horse/quadruped robot even, but humanoids aren't the best platform for most stuff you would want a robot to do. Too unbalanced, not enough traction, too complicated, too fragile.

I'm not surprised that the most successful robots are either just giant arms, wheeled vehicles, or dogs on springy legs. Humanoids are just so difficult!
Upon further reflection, I think I've figured out why my kids and I don't see this as exploitative - they're not trying to get rich or famous.

I'm not trying to be mean to anyone, but if you look at all of the complaints through the filter of someone who wants to a) learn to make a video game, b) learn some programming, and c) make a cool game to share with his friends, then Roblox is a really fun, free, and easy way to do all of the above.

If your filter is a kid who a) wants to make a game that goes viral and earn a bunch of money off of it, then yeah - some of these are legit complaints.
There simply aren't enough consumers with crypto to spend yet.

The percentage of consumers with crypto is maybe 1%. The percentage with credit cards is maybe 90%. If OnlyFans moves to crypto, they cut their addressable market by 98%.
Ironically, instead of linking to Minow's speech, you link to another "junk article" that reads like an ad for Harvard ("Hey look, this famous guy's daughter works at Harvard. Here are some random related facts." --the Harvard Gazette).

The mind boggles.
Name something that costs less in 2021 than in the 2000s?
I made ~50 million in crypto. By far the most satisfying part was buying a house each for my friends and family. Having a paid off house is really a massive stress reducer for most people which imho gives you the 90% of the financial freedom of being super wealthy.