skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> to get Greens on the ballot to divide the left vote and get a Republican in office

If people are serious about voting reform (and they should be) then this "spoiler effect" can be weaponized: start a grassroots campaign to vote third party until the Democrats support changing the voting system at the state level (and vote in primaries for Democrats who support this change).

This may lead to few tight state races being lost, but that means that only a small percentage of the population would be enough to get the Democratic Party officials to take notice. To make the signal even more clear, the third party chosen should be one that focuses as narrowly as possible on voting reform, such as the Alliance Party[0], which may also encourage some disgruntled Republicans to temporarily lend their votes, whereas they would be more reluctant to support the Green Party, for example.

Of course there is a danger that voting reform would get portrayed as a pro-Democrat policy (if it isn't already), but once enough Republicans (in majority Democrat states) have experience casting their ballot in a more expressive and representative system, it will be harder for Republicans in other states to oppose it.

[0] https://www.theallianceparty.com/political_reform
> I haven’t done anything remotely relevant and since these are senior level roles there’s just no point in applying

Engineering Manager for a large org here: don’t worry so much about this. Apply. Apply like crazy. When you get an interview, play to your strengths and don’t lie about your weaknesses.

I have hired people who on paper were under qualified, because they sold their personalities very well and I felt confident that I could teach the rest.
As a physicist, I think how we normally describe what you’re talking about is that there must be a robust and explanatory theory that goes along with experimental measurements. The most fruitful areas of research are the ones where theory and experiment exist on approximately the same level of what they can predict or measure. These strong explanatory theories are the things that generate truly robust, reproducible experiments.

In cases where there is significant differences in the maturity between theory and experiment, you either end up with theorists playing games with math, making up tons of unconstrained theories (string theory, for instance), or in the other direction you end up with experimentalists measuring anything and everything they can imagine, half of which is probably not theoretically enlightening, waiting for theorists to constrain their space of possible experiments to potentially fruitful paths.

Obviously this is harder for fields that don’t have models as robust as we do in physics, but I’d guess the same phenomenon happens everywhere.
Thank you, dang. It was, indeed, a trivial personal anecdote, brought on the word "Falklands." People are more than welcome to downvote it if they don't want to see it.

At the time I sent it, there was only one other comment on this post, and I didn't expect to see many more.

And no, no apologies will be forthcoming.
>I don't care

If anything, you should be outraged that Google and Microsoft have been scanning much more of your data, and doing so in a much more intrusive way.

Apple only scans iCloud Photos and they do so in a way that they can't see the results until they can be reasonably sure it's not just a false positive.
No worries.

First answer, we agree the headline is a bit contrived. We’ll blame the 80 character limit :)

This is a very complicated industry as you know. We do make it easier to find opportunities, run analytics on buying trends, manufacturers and customers in a single place that aggregates data that is not just in the public domain. This is a benefit for both the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ contractors. Ultimately, the bid must go through the prime and finding the opportunity you're interested in can bring you to becoming a prime or finding one that already exists. This networking enables a level of efficiency for both the user/organization and the government.
It absolutely should not be the government (in the context of media, at least).

Did you want Trump deciding what the truth was about January 6? About election fraud?

Do you want Biden deciding what the truth is about the Afghanistan pullout? About Biden's state of mental ability?

At least one of the two previous paragraphs should terrify you.
Yeah that’s right and I don’t think either method is ethical.
> A lot of the biomedical sciences has similar problems with reproducibility.

Indeed, which is why I specifically singled out cell biology. It's the part of medicine that's closest to physics. Oncology, pharmacology etc. study humans/whole bodies, so not only are the experiments more expensive to run and much more noisy, there's also all kinds of ethical issues. Most of these aren't there, or are at least reduced, when dealing with just cells (I didn't expect "cell cultures take a long time to grow" and "the chemicals used are non-reproducible" issues that sibling comments pointed out, so I guess not quite physics)
> They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

Most people, in most cultures, don't accept it as fact that life doesn't make sense.

What % of people would agree with the statement "everything happens for a reason"? Or even "because God did it".

Of those who don't think everything happens for a reason (i.e. life makes sense... to someone), the vast majority nevertheless believe we live in a universe of physical rules.

We accept we could get wiped out by an asteroid or a deadly plague, sure. That makes sense.

We don't accept we could get wiped out by a Lynchian fever dream. That doesn't make sense.
No, the app lets you select what system you're going to listen to Spotify on, not what audio device to use on your system.

Sometimes I just want music through my speakers while I have something else piping into my headset. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Btw it’s Potemkin, not Potempkin
A workaround trick I have found is using private browsing. Possibly clearing your cookies for Twitter could work also.
Outsourcing to India didn't work very well due to cultural differences.

Communication was very hard, even when language wasn't a problem.

People afraid to say they didn't understand something and trying to wing it with tragicomical results. People not raising issues until after something exploded not to offend you.

I think outsourcing to Russia has some good potential but the level of English is still nowhere close, even in the new generations.
Eastern Europe is more promising but English is a bit hit or miss. I see plenty of outsourcing to Eastern Europe from the UK.
Similarly, I see more and more outsourcing to Latin America from the states.

Europe is much closer to the States: if you outsource to the UK or Northern-mid Europe you get English speaking people who will act similarly to US employees. Sure you won't save 11/12 like in India but you will save a good half compared to SF, with the only hassle being the timezone.

I think we haven't seen the last of outsourcing.
Crazy to lose your >$500K job and get a felony record for $3 million in profit split among accomplices.
This version is incorrect because Apple’s solution by design does not reveal the non-suspect contents of your luggage.
I have a sense of ownership over my non-publicly-accessible data when it's backed up to a cloud drive.

Apple isn't scanning that.

Google and Microsoft are.
He could be depressed. There are things people simply can't or won't discuss at work; mental illness is one.

He could have a drug or alcohol problem. Could drug test him and get him some help if he needs it. That's a bit iffy on the technics, but I think you understand. I, for example, have been intermittently stoned for half my life. When I am: zero fucks given.

Else? Take all the weight off. No responsibilites. Then redirect him. Away from dev if necessary. The absence of work could actually motivate him, contrary as that might sound.
Part of Taleb’s philosophy is “if you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud”.

I don’t think he calls people frauds lightly.
> I think that aside from "specialty" applications (like DAWs, etc)

Or... like audio players, maybe?

And it's not messing around with the system audio settings; it's selecting a audio device other than the system-wide default.
Innoguration Tuesday UK -ZAMBIA
As for biology, I recommend following e.g. the work of Elisabeth Bik to see the hair raising amount of fraud going on, and getting published for years (or, if you like extra spice in your diet, you can follow Leonid Schneider).

For physics, consider how difficult it is to settle the controversies around something like the EmDrive, even among experimenters with solid reputations and impeccable professionalism.
Word to the Democrats: A year ago, that would have meant that Trump got to restrict "false information" about election fraud and January 6. Isn't that enough to show that this is a terrible idea?
Let's be real, of course many of those people will be child abusers.

But let's also be real about something else. Think of the Venn diagram of child abusers and people who share CSAM online. Those circles are not identical. Not everybody with CSAM is necessarily a child abuser. Worse, how many child abusers don't share CSAM online? Those can't ever be found by Apple-style invasions of privacy, so one has to wonder if we're being asked to give up significant privacy for a crime fighting strategy that may not even be all that effective.

The cynic in me is also wondering what fraction of people working at places like NCMEC are pedophiles. It'd be a rather convenient job for them. And after all, there's a long history of ostensibly child-serving institutions harboring the worst kind of offenders.
I'm guessing from this that Canada's banks are upset about getting their grass cut and are looking to regulate new entrants out of business. That's usually what a "made in Canada" solution means.
That's kind of a harsh way to express curiously, but I was also interested. If you go to https://www.hades.ai/, you can see that they use image recognition on videos. I can imagine why that might be an improvement over manually watching hours of sewer videos looking for cracks.
Wait, what electromagnetic results are not reproducable!?
> You turn it off by turning off iCloud photos, I never claimed otherwise.

I just have to point out the ridiculousness of this statement. With your logic any feature in any product can be "turned off" by not using the entire product at all. For example, the radio in my car sounds like shit, I guess I should just stop driving completely to avoid having to hear it.

In reality, this new "feature" will be a requirement of using iCloud Photos. The feature itself cannot be turned off. If your answer is to stop using iCloud Photos, that is no help for the millions of people who currently use iCloud Photos.

> If you don’t trust Apple why would you use iCloud anyway? Makes no sense.

I've trusted Apple for a long time because I felt like they were one of the only companies that cared about consumer privacy. After these actions I am less convinced of that. I'm not sure why that stance is so surprising.
Really appreciate the insight from you and the GP here. I have been struggling with data format decisions around a personal project that will only be used by a few people, being unsure about the extent i should try to make it bulletproof (but harder to maintain and modify) or just keeping it simple (but primitive). It's helpful to see an experienced professional perspective showing that you can fall into a tooling rabbit hole at any scale.
Not the GP, but I worked there (in SC) in 2015, and agree with you that some of their engineers were pretty great. Some not, but that's the case most places, I imagine.

In any case, I can see why some people would have had a bad reaction to various aspects of the place -- I myself left after only 10 months, repaying my relocation bonus to go work at a healthcare startup.
I don't know why OAuth tokens aren't the default solution to this. BoA recently added this as an option and it's way more straight forward than giving my login credentials to Personal Capital or, god forbid, Intuit.

edit: Of course it helps if the 3rd parties implement it as well. I revoked access to Intuit but Personal Capital only lets me use my userID and password.
I user to come to HN for interesting discussions.

Now it's pretty much all BS.

"Apple is looking at my pictures, I'm switching to Android."

Nobody stops to think before saying something stupid.

it's 1am, and this has been discussed to death. Good night
I agree, interactive fiction != MUDs. Thanks. It's a little sad that this has to be explained today :-).
ARTEMIS stands for the Advanced Relational Trading Enforcement Metrics Investigation System.
Criminals don't expect to get caught.
ok now compare these to hiring a professional designer
Windows 11 won’t give up on making it super annoying to swap browsers
That is 98% of app businesses. $1M in proceeds per year is a solid business.
Again as the OP said, “ That’s only a problem in countries with poor network infrastructure”.

Australia is a victim of its geography. (Plus last I heard the National fiber backbone didn’t go as planned either). I’m would expect a high bandwidth wired backbone is required to support scaling up mobile data throughput.
Another beauty of CSV is its compatability with git / versioning.

SQLite databases are in contrast a nightmare, and git merges often corrupt files.
That is a great tag line and I completely agree.
I did some hacky analysis and roughly half of the PRs originated in GitHub and the majority of those are not google employees.

Most changes have a github issue attached with discussion, all of the changes have descriptive commit messages regardless of who authored them and there is significant effort to document the decisions and decision process throughout.

I can't speak for the release frequency for other organizations' production that consumes this code. That includes many publishers, as well as other AMP caches such as Bing and webmail clients like Yahoo.

The repo is for all of AMP, not just the validator. The validator related issues are handled by the "caching" working group (since caches are the consumer of the validator) and you can search for them with this query: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is...
What do you expect from SEC regulated markets/exchanges with AML/KYC and heavy regulation? Anonymity?
This sounds so futuristic which is awesome but at the same time banks like Tangerine, which otherwise I have nothing but praise for, don't even allow be to use a password more secure than a 4-6 digit numeric passcode. Obviously no 2FA. Sorry, that has little to do with the submission, I just had to vent about banks.
It will be easier to get all the OS creators to normalize new line to one thing. Then pick a text delimiter that is reserved solely for delimiting, like say '|'.
Meanwhile members of congress continue to get rich using their positions and its all good.
This is not guaranteed to work. At some point Apple might show you an update dialog, and you might click "yes" by mistake.
Now that they got a small fish at Netflix, how about looking into the whales in congress?

https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/congress
I am afraid I agree with this sentiment also: "The "classic" golang.org documentation was simple, easy to search, and consistent across user agents. The pkg.go.dev documentation is... well, bluntly: strictly worse."

I loved the simplicity of the classic golang.org docs.

I'm sad to see it go.
Does WebGPU protect against DOS via shaders, crashes, etc? Games like VRChat, where a user can just make shaders in Unity and have them ran on everyone elses computer - could really benefit from such a thing. There's an increase in games that are marketed as being able to create your own content that is displayed for other users in a game.
Historically humans lived with very little to no meat for most of human history. Most humans also were malnourished/underfed as are most wild animals most of the time. Many humans also lived vegan all their lives by choicr (see e.g. Indian religipns). So I'm not sure your argument holds that modern agriculture is required for a healthy ot ay leats sustainable vegan diet.

That said, you are also right that obviously we don't have the capacity to live with the diet of our predecessor species. Famously early mammals (or possibly predecessors) were able to generate their own vitamins C, but this capacity is lost in modern humans and many other species as vitamin C was usually very well available. Just like we lost the fur on most of our bodies, evolution tends to drop things no longer essential for survival.

So we are dependent on our environment not just for general input but also for certain specific nutrients that we simply cannot produce on our own. But I don't think we can derive from this an argument for eating meat - as you flag, we do have modern agriculture, let's use it for the best, not junk food and often vile and inhumane treatment of animals.
One reason is that (fintech) implementors get freaked out by OAuth's ~15min window where your token can be revoked but you still have access to the RP.

It's an issue but a minor one. The alternative, ad hoc per-request session management, is so much worse in almost every way.
Thanks - Unnecessarily complicated and contrary to what the government wants people to believe, it is not transparent.
Could it be that he phrased it poorly? Of course.

But if you're unfamiliar with the hubris and elitism that runs wildly unfettered in the Bay Area -- well, lucky you.
> your sensitive data never leaves your device in order to be scanned. There can't be a crack in Apple servers that would expose files of millions of users uploaded for scanning.

And yet photos that get scanned are still uploaded to iCloud Photos, so they do end up on Apple's servers.
and with those Netflix salaries, it does not look that worth the risk to begin with it
The article you linked makes a surprising claim, and it contradicts what the EFF said recently about this here - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-diff...

> Currently, although Apple holds the keys to view Photos stored in iCloud Photos, it does not scan these images

It also seems weird that the EFF wouldn't have complained about this before if Apple was known to be doing server-side scanning for some time now.

I also am not going to watch through an hour video, but I scanned the transcript and I didn't see anything that said that Apple currently (at that time) scanned content.
For reference, Orion is about 3,600 arcseconds wide [http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC1976], whereas Mars is from 4 to 25 [https://web.archive.org/web/20100612092806/http://nssdc.gsfc...] depending on its distance.
Me, a naive idiot: CSV is simple I will write my own exporter because I am clever

Me, 20 minutes later: Heh that was easy I am a genius

Me, 21 minutes later: Unicode is ruining my life T_T

Don't get me wrong, I really like CSV because it's so primitive and works so well if you are disciplined about it. But it's easy to get something working on a small dataset and forget all the other possibilities only to faceplant as soon as you step outside your front door. In the case above my experience with dealing with CSV data from other people made me arrogant, when I should have just taken a few minutes to learn my way around a mature library.
Then why aren't you a multi-millionaire yet? One can easily multiply their pot every 3 months playing a few companies with simple option strategies, provided it's really that predictable. More importantly, if this is predictable then why is there volatility around earnings? Surely enough people would have figured it out by now.
I can't directly compare quality as I've not used Realsense devices, but the main difference is that the OAK-D uses stereoscopy without IR. I've been playing with it in various light conditions and it's surprisingly robust in low light as long as features are visible in both cameras. It only requires 1 USB-C cable if you're using it over USB3(i.e. a device that can source >1A iirc). I use it with a Jetson Nano(albeit not to its full capacity-yet) with just the USB.
Insider information isn’t guaranteed to let you predict the stock price. You are much more likely to actually make money with multiple small bets than any one big bet.
As an artist and an avid reader of HN, I find this both fascinating and terrifying (!) at the same time.
Before I started painting robots, I painted abstracts and was heavily influenced by Abstract Expressionism.
The images that your AI are generating (creating?!) are really cool. Equally as cool is that the images are deleted once a new one is generated, because a lot of the famous artists destroyed or painted over old works.
There's only one way out*, so you always pee it out somehow.

* Ignoring minute traces of minerals that are lost through transpiration
Ask HN: Are C-titles (CEO, CTO,) mandatory for a startup?
We are having difficulty clearly "demarcating" the responsibilities among the co-founders and assigning the conventional executive titles.

Obviously, the future investors will be looking for who is who in the company by looking at the titles. Someone has to be the tech lead, someone is marketing, someone has to sign the documents and ultimately take charge of everything.

Among us, however, the lines are blurred and somehow none of us wants to be the CEO or take any of the other conventional CxO titles.

One option I can think of is having a President and a bunch of VP's while leaving the CxO positions open for possible future hires at later rounds. At least there's someone, the President, who will sign the papers.

Are there any other options that wouldn't look too weird from the investors' point of view?

Thank you!
The vaccine argument was just an example. I'm not even fully on board with this, I don't have answers. I'm hoping to discuss.

I also didn't suggest "throwing people in jail"
The person who you're quoting is likely a "SelfAwarewolf":

"A person who, when trying to criticize those who match a certain description, fails to realize that they have (in the process of criticizing others) revealed themselves to match the exact same description"

https://neologisms.rice.edu/index.php?a=term&d=1&t=24708
You're simultaneously complaining about how all the commits are coming from the company and that they're exploiting anyone making commits. You can't have it both ways, pick one.

The repository has 1k contributors over 20k commits. That seems like an exceptionally diverse contributor base.
All CSAM is produced by child abuse. Everyone who shares 30 images online is a participant in child abuse, even if only by creating a demand for images.

> a crime fighting strategy

Is it a crime fighting strategy? I thought it was just about not making their devices and services into aids for these crimes.

> The cynic in me is also wondering what fraction of people working at places like NCMEC are pedophiles.

Good question. What has that to do with this?