skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a strange distortion of history, beginning with the golden age of media. Somehow this piece seems to posit that if the same news was broadcast to the public on all the networks, then that was clearly the one real truth [TM]. The reality is that was heavily scrutinized, controlled American propaganda. Not only was there no far right wing news there, but there was also none of the actual left (red baiting and all).

The difference is that in those days there was government control of many smaller media outlets. Now there is corporate capture of government and there are only half a dozen major media outlets. But that's a very different article.
I know lots of people have made stripped down versions of FreeBSD, e.g. nanobsd. Beyond that, I'm not aware of anything specific... but I probably wouldn't be since I don't pay much attention to the container space. Try asking on one of the mailing lists maybe?
Yes! Its called IPAB and its part of the federal government.
It's manufactured consent. The voters don't have a meaningful choice on this axis.
That is not quite correct. Yes, its primary purpose is “stockpile management,” but it’s not exclusively that. It was ALSO sold as a facility to study fusion power generation, hence this announcement.

LIFE was a proposed follow-on project to NIF that would be focused on power generation demonstration (high repetition rates, etc). It never went anywhere and work on it effectively stopped around 2013 or so.
>His fight became personal long before today: he sued Apple in March for some seemingly shady behavior, alleging that Apple erected roadblocks to his FlickType keyboard in order to convince him to sell the technology to Apple for a discount, all while scammy mobile keyboard apps flourished on the App Store.

To me, this is the biggest takeaway. All it took was 2 decades for Apple to start their own campaign of embrace, extend and acquire.
I don’t know about FlickType but beware that the Full Access does not necessarily mean network access. It merely means that it can communicate with the host app which _in turn_ can do network access. However it can be used for offline autocorrection or accessing in app purchase status and so on.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/145696/what-does-t...
I don't have 1 property and you are bitching that you have 24 and only _4_ tenants not paying your rent?

GTFO
The complexity of many applications does not come from the client-facing features but rather from other business requirements.

For example, interaction analytics, A/B testing support, targeted updates, predictive caching, obfuscation and security, etc. For large companies, setting up the code base so new junior employees can start making contributions fast is also important and that adds to the total complexity too.

It's so much simpler to build an app if all you needed to do is get the minimum features done.
My MasterCard even has the raised numbers, and an unfilled spot for my signature. I remember a long time ago, some places still used a manual contraption to impress the digits on carbon copy paper. I wonder why they've retained that unused ability for decades.

Not that it matters much. I've made payments with almost 100% Apple Pay for years — a lot of the time I don't even carry the physical card with me.
Microsoft's Machine Learning for Beginners
Yes, you're absolutely right. If we set up a perfect example to support your arguments, and we ignore any possible negative aspects, then we can conclude that this is a purely beneficial arrangement.

Look, I'm not arguing that it can't be useful to have the ability to get paid daily sometimes, but I don't buy into this schtick about this company doing this in some attempt to help the poor, because literally the opposite is happening.

A more realistic picture goes something like this:

In the middle of the month with only $200 in your account, you get hit with a $400 car repair bill. Instead of having overdrafts or text message money lenders, you can now borrow from your future salary via this company. You do this, cover your bill.

Now it's $next_month and you just got paid $400 less. If you were $200 in plus in the middle of last month, it doesn't seem far-fetched that you'll be in a similar situation this month, which means you're already at -$200, but you just don't know it until the middle of the month.

So what do you do now? Do you borrow from your salary again and repeat this process? Maybe, but then go back to step 1.

An interesting related tidbit is the fact that poor people are actually more likely to make bad financial decisions(and health and etc) and there are numerous studies showing this.

The only thing this product is doing is handing the poor yet another instrument to create financial trouble for themselves, under the guise of helping them. I can also frame it like this: How is this any different than if this company instead just offered "no nonsense loans" at only a 2% interest? Hint: There is zero difference, except in terms of risk for the company. The genius of this arrangement is that they never have to worry about people not paying off their loans.
greed and overreach? lack of alternatives? lock in?
You don't get that much for $1m in London.
Slickdeals, CamelCamelCamel
Unique and forgotten: birth of the Soviet missile defense. BESM vs. Strela
>The world is on a re-forestation trend, according to the article.

Am I misreading something here (either your comment or the article)? My impression here is that total forested land is still decreasing, but the rate of decrease is not increasing.
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I feel at this point hospitals should just triage the willfully unvaccinated covid patients behind all other emergencies.

Possibly set aside X number of beds for covid patients, the rest of the ICU beds are for everything else. Out of covid beds? Well you've gotta wait for someone to die and then they'll see you.

They chose to "not live in fear", they can live - and possibly die - with the consequences.
I'm working on this with https://pygma.app. I was too quite surprised that no one has done a better job of this yet. One obvious issue is that Figma works in absolute positions and this is generally a bad way of writing CSS, but this is mostly overcome with some simple heuristics. At the moment my product is more like Overlay, which produces code that is visually consistent but often not semantic or what the designer would have intended. I think this can largely be solved with machine learning, computer vision in particular. Uizard seems like the most impressive product in this regard but their use case is slightly different.

Another problem is that most product teams don't just need to generate code once but also keep it in sync with Figma. As far as I can tell, no one has solved the syncing problem in either direction particularly well. I actually think syncing from React -> Figma is not fundamentally difficult but you need to build a big hairy compiler to deal with any React + styling code which would be a PITA. Going in the other direction is more fundamentally difficult I think, probably needs very good machine learning as well.

Also, always love to hear more details about precisely what's so painful and boring about the way you deal with it now?
Great, thank you! If you have any questions or thoughts about our tool, you can contact me (bruno [at] abstra.app). I would love to get your feedback on it.
I kinda gave up on amazon too at this point.

I'm at the point where I trust a few stores to not sell me bogus stuff. Target, Walmart, Costco, REI. All are good. Yes I know walmart and target have 3rd party sellers, just don't buy from those.

I am okay with paying a little more, or getting a slightly worse deal to get something I know is "genuine" or well made. Especially if I plan on putting it in/on my body.

I know ethically walmart isn't way better. But afaik they still have old fashioned relationships with their product sourcers. Meaning they're probably buying all their cereals/foods directly from manufacturers, for example.
Perl and Raku: Best Frenemies
I don't know about expecting them to be FREE. But sometimes I have to laugh at the licensing terms I see on some fonts.

I have a weird fascination with fonts. They're pleasing to look at, and interesting to compare. But come on. At the end of the day, pretty much 95+% of contemporary fonts are trivial little tweaks to Garamond, Baskerville, Helvetica, Century, or some other font that hasn't been novel for centuries.

What people are paying for are the most subtle of cues, to make their text subconsciously distinguishable from the next magazine or marketing campaign. For a few years, until the new font becomes old-hat or commonplace, and needs to be revamped again to keep your brand subconsciously fresh.

Obviously there is commercial value in this, or else people wouldn't pay the amounts that they pay for fonts. But I don't understand why we lionize font designers the way the we do.
Heh. Like the old Bonsai Kitten hoax website.
Reads like an Onion article. "CEO of specialty tax engineering firm suffering" - what a joke.

Anyway, that's how investments work. You put your capital at risk to generate returns. These guys seem not to understand the risk part.
Hate to pile on, but I'm glad it's not just me. When I read their docs, I just get the feeling that I'm kind of dumb, or I just don't have the context they expect me to have.
There's pride in doing the easy things well. With enough of the easy stuff automated to minimal intervention, time can be spent on the important problems
I'm in Europe and 2 or so years ago I'd get a ton of bot matches on Tinder. I've been using it again earlier this year and the bots were gone, so it seems they are doing something about it, but it's cat and mouse for sure. Just look at Blizzard and their botting issues in World of Warcraft. It's not a trivial problem it seems.
Also depending on the type of calls you have Google Meet can be a lot more usable.

Zoom seems to come from the Seminar/Presentation mindset. By default no one can join until the host does, only the host can share their screen and no one except the host can mute other participants. Most of the default ACLs can be relaxed if the organizer changes their default meeting settings but most people won't.

Google Meet seems to assume some level of trust between the participants which matches my use case much more. So by default anyone can share their screen when they need too and if someone forgets to mute themselves when they take a call someone else can help them out (I have seen a Zoom meeting that had to be abandoned because someone took a call thinking they were on mute.)

I'm not saying that the Zoom defaults are "wrong". In fact they are the safer defaults. But for my most common use case of a meeting between people in the same company the Meet defaults work much better. (Although it is nice when a meeting gets "canceled" because the organizer is out sick and no one can join /s)
TLDR for the article: Disinformation has less impact than we think. Societal / institutional problems are the real culprits for our dysfunction. Disinformation is just a convenient scapegoat.

Counterpoint: QAnon, incel terrorism, Plandemic, other fully-internet-driven extremist ideologies.

You need look no further than religions, often invented by single charismatic individuals, to see how powerful isolated claims of Truth can be.

I think that societal / institutional problems has indeed created a powder keg. But disinformation itself, its presence, lights the fuse.

With disinformation's "answers", it provides targets for people's pent up rage. Whether it's police officers or liberal elites or billionaires or Muslims or Chads, people learn who the enemy is, as well as their evil deeds. If you defeat this enemy, your problems will go away.

The concrete result is wars, interpersonal violence, riots, hamstrung governments, and insurrections. All stirred up because of explicit falsehoods.

Ideally, we'd fix both the powder keg (societal and institutional problems) and the lighting of its fuse, disinformation.
Since any practical reactor will use steam turbines to translate heat to useable energy that last one is actually a good way to think of it.
Protip for landlord in the article looking for sympathy: do not pose for a photograph with you dressed in a suit standing in front of a private jet with your company's name on it.
I wonder if it is possible to link Colorado and Missisipi river
Honestly want to know: why buy iPhone then? There’re plenty of alternatives.
Try just adding some good side vegetables or salads to your ordinary dishes and you should be able to reduce the amount of meat and carbs in each meal.

You could also try to find one good vegetarian dish and cook that once in a while. Daal is my goto vegetarian dish that tastes good and is easy to make in large batches.
And to completely explain the joke to death, it's also ironic to self-deprecatingly call yourselves "morons" when you work at a scientific laboratory.
I think there is a bit of goal most moving happening here:

- you started with ad systems as example of evil: they patently aren’t. They are more of a result of the deeper cause - folks don’t want to pay for things if possible. So now the bill gets moved to a different table, that’s all. All the humanitarian efforts (if any) are standing on the shoulders of the money generated from ads

- if someone says ‘I just want to solve hard problems’ - it is quite a leap from there to assuming they don’t care about social problems. May be they don’t feel empowered/qualified to tackle the big social questions and are just trying to make a living and possibly be productive doing so. Or they don’t want to tackle a social conversation in a workplace setting.

I am very wary of the forcing that’s happening of making everyone involved in social/philosophical questions whether they like it or not. A lot of people just want to make it through the day/build expertise in something and make it through their life. They’d prefer to pay taxes and let other entities / experts deal with those. This doesn’t mean apathy, it just means a lack of time and ability. I think that’s worth respecting.
> Walmart is getting better, but still way behind on the web front. They'll show you things in stock, then tell you it's out of stock upon checkout. Go back to product page, shows in stock again.

2 weeks ago I added a Logitech mouse to my cart which Amazon claimed would arrive in 2 days per the product page. Upon checkout I was informed that it was unavailable to ship and I would get an e-mail when they knew it would ship. Going back to the product page and refreshing the 2 day promised arrival date was still there. It arrived 6 days later. Seems like Amazon has similar problems.
An eventual audit that if they hit the anti lottery could cost them more than they could possibly save. Remember that you don't get to just deduct a donation from your taxes you deduct it from your income which lowers your taxes. For example if you ultimately pay about 30% of your income in federal taxes and you lower your income by 1000 you ultimately have reduced your taxes by $300.

Donations 5000 and up require the person you donated to to fill out a tax form for that donation so making up the numbers would require a confederate in the donating org to be willing to risk prison to enrich you.

https://www.amazinggoodwill.com/donating/IRS-guidelines

Also remember that the bottom half of the country pays little federal income tax (because they don't make much of the income in America) and the top 10-20% has MUCH better legal tax avoidance strategies.

It's likely that some portion of middle income individuals could avoid a small dollar figure in taxes by inflating or even fabricating a string of small donations and presumably out of hundreds of millions of people a few do but you would have to make up a LOT of bullshit donations to make much of a difference but before you could actually save much money you would end up sticking out like a sore thumb. Yes Mr IRS auditor I totally donated over 1000 in goods to goodwill on 10 separate occasions over 2021 and I totally deserve the corresponding $3000 deduction!

On net its probably a small issue. At this point we have people making 6 figures + who just don't file tax returns and haven't been addressed.
Thanks for the suggestion! We'd love to explore how we can best create curriculums for other accents of English, such as British, Kiwi, Aussie, etc. But, as you can imagine, something like this takes a lot of time & planning, so we're being careful not to over extend ourselves.

Interestingly enough, if you do engage with the content in BoldVoice, you will learn the physical skills that help you understand how different sounds are made and how to use your articulators. Once you are fairly confident in these new skills, you may even be able to apply them to quickly learning all kinds of new accents.
Since I left university (eighties) I have only been positively impressed by two languages. One was the Wolfram language. I haven't used it; I'm just going on the demo here, but the idea of having not just a powerful language, but also a massive database with useful information to draw from, seems to elevate it above the usual sad collection of new ways to spell variable declarations and loops.

The other is Inform. I haven't used that either, and of course it is highly domain-specific, but within that domain it seems a pretty damn cool way to write text adventures.

All of the graphical programming systems seem to fail the moment they scale up above what roughly fits on one screen. Labview is a disaster once it is more than just a few boxes and lines.

And everything else is, as far as I can tell, just the same bits and pieces we already had, arranged slightly differently. We were promised hyper-advanced fifth-generation programming languages, but the only thing that seems to come close is Wolfram, and that's hardly mainstream.

I'm occasionally wondering if the whole field might not improve mightily if we stopped focusing so much on languages, and instead focused on providing powerful, easy to use, elegant, well-documented APIs for common (and less common) problems. Using something like OpenSSL, or OpenGL, or even just POSIX sockets, is just an exercise in (largely unnecessary) pain.
typically, the animal dies. We've had live fish not make it in time to our door. Not as bad as this: https://www.thedodo.com/live-animal-keychains-china-12256846...
Pegasus, at the Crossroads of Technology and Politics
This is even more frightening because these AI models can exhibit, problematic, behavior. A friend of mine works with EMR systems and they had one that would look at patient billpay and late arrivals to appointments. Lets just say it stated prioritizing patients with cars and money for prime appointment slots. It only took a month he said before providers started noticing they were seeing class stratification in their practices.

That is just a extreme one- but also consider that having a relative or parent who has substance abuse issues will also knock you into a higher risk category in most EMR software, sins of the father I guess?
That is also a problem, and they used to have the commingling fact displayed in an easy to find place on their website, but now that is hidden somewhere, or removed from what I can tell.
Holy Christ, Are you seriously asking why ethics and concern for how the systems you design interact with end users and targets of those systems might be a worthy consideration?

Let me give you a concrete example:

Imagine you are an software engineer tasked with working on a facial recognition system to help police identify known criminals to help find suspects near the time and location of a crime. It observes nearby people and assigns a probability to them being a known criminal. Police department demands 80% accuracy for the product.

You design such a system using some blackbox facial recognition AI, and you get the following results:

Overall 78% accuracy with:

6.5% False Positive rate
31% False negative rate

Not too bad, you tweak some things, hit your 80% accuracy without messing with the false positives too badly, and you meet the specification provided by the client. Mission accomplished and you're ready to ship right? Makes the company money? No problems?

Cool. Except, because you didn't really care that much about how the technology you deployed would be used or the ethics surrounding its use, you failed to consider the right performance targets despite what your client asked for and your system is nearly 100% racist.

What happened?

You trained on equal numbers of prison mugshots, and mugshot like photos of people with no criminal records. You failed to consider that black people are over represented in the US prison system. (38% of prisoners but 13% of US population) Your classifier just learned to label someone a likely criminal if they were black and essentially no other criteria.

Yet, the actual likelihood the people identified by the system as "criminals" in fact have a criminal history is at most somewhere ~33% despite the fact your system labels it as 80% likely. Worse, even if we have a hypothetical situation where blacks and non-blacks are represented in their average proportions, there's a near equal number of black and non-black people with criminal histories in the vicinity of the crime! Worse still, since people tend to be more segregated than that, when blacks are in even more of a minority there will be more non-blacks with criminal histories around. When blacks make up a greater proportion, the likelihood of being falsely accused goes up even more.

And FYI... such systems with similar flaws have actually been built and deployed in the past. How do you think that plays on trust in the company and the technology in general in the long run? Considering end-use ethics brings value.
Robust Consistent Video Depth Estimation
This doesn't mention long covid, which is still a huge open question with worrying results: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...

> People who had recovered from COVID-19, including those no longer reporting symptoms, exhibited significant cognitive deficits versus controls when controlling for age, gender, education level, income, racial-ethnic group, pre-existing medical disorders, tiredness, depression and anxiety. The deficits were of substantial effect size for people who had been hospitalised (N = 192), but also for non-hospitalised cases who had biological confirmation of COVID-19 infection (N = 326). Analysing markers of premorbid intelligence did not support these differences being present prior to infection. Finer grained analysis of performance across sub-tests supported the hypothesis that COVID-19 has a multi-domain impact on human cognition.
the problem is the recycling triangle that's imprinted on the containers, the one's showing the material code on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling_codes. Somewhere along the line the recycle triangle had become synonymous with recyclable, but what didn't get communicated is that only certain codes paired with that triangle are actually recyclable.
The fact that it’s nearly 70 years old and is still an influential “modern” font is amazing to me. It just feels right.