skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will put my personal feelings on Big Tech Censorship aside for a moment.

I can understand that big corporations like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and a few others have a problem of trying to publish millions of pieces of content a day, as well as numerous complex customer support requests, many of which are truly dumb. Their scale is so massive that they have to use various dumb algorithms to try and perform many of their functions like blocking sexually explicit content towards children. The problem is that algorithms are very far from perfect: even if those algorithms make a mistake just 0.0001% of the time (and I'd bet the real number is far, far higher), they still screw over the lives of thousands of innocent people every day.

Anecdotally, I've had the following happen:

* I've had a real business blocked from Google Ads apparently without a human ever looking at my support request in the mix. Had to shut down the business and let people go because Google offers no way to speak with a live human.

* I've had a business account blocked from a popular payment provider because a receipt had the word Gay in the title: their algorithm apparently thought it was something sexually explicit that wasn't.

What these massive companies must implement is some kind of paid, human support for desperate customer support requests. I don't care if they must charge $20, $50, $100, or even more for to make it feasible to staff an actual human customer support line. But there must be some way for people with real issues to have a reasonably fair hearing on their case. It is reprehensibly evil that there's basically zero way to address so many problems with these Silicon Valley Giants.

PS: Mark Zuckerberg is doubleplusgood, plz don't ban me bro.
Thank you for your guidance. I will investigate further
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F# does, so I assume OCaml does too.

"Wait F# does?"

Yeah, but you won't have seen it because almost nobody uses it to the point where some tooling even has trouble understanding what it is. :(
We could have re-invaded and secured Kabul at least. Sure it would have been expensive, yes it would have been politically toxic, yes it would have taken months. But it would have provided a secure jumping off point and time to evacuate the vast bulk of the civilians who helped us, not to mention American citizens trapped on the ground.

Sounds like the powers that be read the most optimistic projections of what the Afghan Army could do on paper and ignored or suppressed any information to the contrary. Simply a lack of integrity and not hearing what they didn't want to hear.
> That also wasn't well optimised for smaller screens touch screens, hence the requirement to use a stylus

The reason for the stylus wasn’t software. Capacitive touch screens didn’t really existed, at least not in consumer devices.

Apple did that. They haven’t invented that of course, acquired other company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks but it was them who brought the tech to mainstream in 2007.
Did I miss it or did they not cover the effects of the easy money they talk about for loans? If the availability of the money is increased, usually you will get much lower returns. Not to mention, much of the market is built on speculation and this increased money is not actually going to companies on the stock market (because most of us don't have access to private equity).

I do understand and agree with the part about increased productivity (decreased scarcity and cost) raising quality of life. I just don't see that applying to everyone equally (companies will keep some of that cost decrease as profit and return some to investors but not everyone can afford to be investors). I think there are a lot of finer points the article glosses over, especially around inefficiencies. And of course this is far from a settled topic as there are many economists debating this sort of thing.
If you get rich from incentive stock options you have technically been working for yourself.

The underlying gist of “You’ll NEVER get rich by working for someone else” is that you should look for opportunities to build wealth that’s not tied to hour-by-hour labor. You can do this by owning your own business, or by looking for ways to own equity in valuable assets beyond your regular job.
I'm skeptical about innate shifts in sexual orientation being caused by porn consumption, can you cite any research about it?

After all, I've developed a few kinks over the years, but I've never had the experience of not being able to obtain orgasm otherwise. And I'm especially skeptical of the claim that someone who's "half-pedophile" would be unable to get off on adults otherwise. I don't think that's been documented with shotacon or lolicon.

If someone who's bisexual masturbates to too much female porn do they lose their attraction to men?

You could also make synthetic child pornography "prescription-only" as a part of a treatment plan.

And all these concerns have to be weighed against perpetuating the sexual exploitation of children. People seem willing to forfeit their privacy for such a worthy cause, maybe this isn't so far off.
In mahabharata war countless men died.

It was all justified by someone who goes by name Krishna in ancient text. Krishna origin is questionable as he's not one person throughout his history but fusion of multiple personalities which existed in past.

Krishna could as well be a master manipulator who convinced other's that God and him are actually just one. Many Kings of that time actually did try to become God the prime example was Pondrak who believed he's the real Vasudev. His version couldn't survive because he lost the battle against Krishna.

Mahabharata is not useful to for an average person, reading it will not enlighten you or anything. It's not a guide on how to live your life, it has many flaws, questionable ethics and morality defined in the text, bringing God into it to make beyond contest.

If it had anything of use, India where this religious text is most popular would be epicenter of good behavior, technological advancements, ethics and morality. Is it? No it's far away from it.

Before anyone questions my religion, I am Hindu from north India (Uttarakhand Purohit clan to be specific)
Assisted GPS is not (solely) the wifi/cell tower triangulation, it’s a technology that provides the receiver with an up to date GNSS satellite ephemeris to reduce time to first fix from minutes to seconds.
"99.5% of programming consists of gluing together calls to library functions"

tell me you never worked on anything more interesting than a website without telling me you never worked on anything more interesting than a website
what are currently the best open source projects that allow you to fully automate and manage deployment of your own personal (or multi-user) cloud photos/drive storage service? I found:

[1]: https://github.com/nextcloud
[2]: https://github.com/Piwigo with S3 extension: https://piwigo.org/ext/extension_view.php?eid=691
[3]: others https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/the-big-alternatives-to-google-photos-showdown/ which mentions the most feature packed to be https://photoprism.app/
Understanding real-world concurrency bugs in go (2019)[pdf]
It's funny, I see this being the first feature they kill off unfortunately when it becomes the new super easy way of sharing CSAM on shady forums.
> we've also been told for years that apple absolutely and categorically cannot include a headphone jack

Have we?

I‘m actually glad they are using the space for something I‘d actually be using, and I doubt that I am the minority in this.

> now suddenly there's room for a satellite radio and antenna?

It wouldn‘t be a new baseband or probably even transceiver. Iridium is 1.5 GHz, which is probably covered by one of the existing power amplifiers, and the radio technology is pretty similar to GSM and probably integrated into the existing baseband.
The compiler should be able to provide it
>Dave Ramsey down-talks to his callers as if they were petulant children and tells you to cut up your credit cards. Dave says they are the work of the devil and you aren’t mature enough to use them. Except we used our cards to make $3,624 in spendable cash last year, all while paying zero in interest — because we paid the cards off in full each month.

The big thing you have to know about Dave Ramsey is he has a biblical approach to debt, not practical. God says debt is bad so it should be avoided.

This leads to some odd advice.

Dave advocates working as much as possible during college to avoid student loans but neglects that, in the aggregate, the more hours a student works the poorer their grades and the less likely they will graduate.

He also advocates stopping 401k contributions until you're out of debt (because he believes debt is evil). That's almost never a great move financially if your employer has a decent 401k match. A better idea is to drop anything above the match until high interest debt is paid off.

His advice is very one sized fits all and he does have a point that many people can't control themselves with debt.

I'm really not a fan of the way he talks to his callers calling them stupid either, especially when he doesn't realize he doesn't really understand his caller's situation. He got super belligerent with a woman who didn't know exactly her husband's pay (who was a servicemember) and basically said she needed a marriage counselor because she didn't have an exact figure. (She said "around $xyz") But it seems he doesn't understand a significant portion comes in the form of several different allowances that are tax free and change based on their current orders, POC, and rank, so it's totally normal to have a non-precise figure off the ttopof your head.
Hey, so the project had initially started off as a self-hostable software (with an option to buy a pre-configured device). We realized soon that it's hard to monetize such a product in the consumer space to the point where it can become self-sustaining.

We don't have a problem with offering a self-hosted variant. But given our limited engineering bandwidth we had to take a call on who our target market should be, and we felt that it was more important to make privacy accessible to people like my mom and dad. Hence this direction.
You do realise that the city would be having like multiple things tackling multiple issue right?
Or do you think its just once person running here and there fixing issues?
We need to make this stuff local again, that will be the real competitor to big corp Foo... no servers, no end-to-end, no service cost, no ads, no privacy issues, no random revokation of accounts without recourse, just one end - the users. We can have face detection etc locally if people want it... cycles, it's going to happen eventually.
Personal finance is NOT about getting rich. It's about building a nest egg for retirement. The whole premise of this article is bunk.
a wireless power source if you will
A big problem with stolen phones, is that the thieves are often kids, and use the 911 (999, in EU) feature to call in false emergency calls, as that is the only thing on a locked phone that works.

Really, phones are a bad bet, for stealing, these days; especially Apple kit.
Doesn't this depend significantly on ambient temperature? Running the console in the summer without AC could make the components run at yet-higher temperature, right?

I'm not familiar with how quickly CPU (and similar components) deteriorate under much higher temperature.
Edinburgh? that's a very compact City ie out in the sticks is a 20 min walk from princess street.

2x50 min seems super long
Can you give an example of a language that does not have an AST?? Homoiconicity may be slightly more convenient but it is certainly not necessary.
I didn't say people without children "lack empathy".
Banach-Tarski is quite arguably a red flag that all these non-measursble, non-open sets are barking up the wrong tree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two-Income_Trap
The satellite network knows where you are too and can just choose to not service you if you are in a banned area.
I get that. I just keep seeing Ada recommended for projects other than embedded systems and I don’t see how it can work.
Buying a mutual fund is precisely not "playing the stock market"
I think over a longer timescale (~a decade) I would tend to agree. In the short term, there are too many people addicted to face-to-face work environments; often I feel that this is more down to office politics than productivity, but it'll persist for as long as it is effective in giving a career advantage.
The software with these features is called Synology Moments. I use it and I mostly love it, at the very least as a backup for my Google Photos.

My experience is that it works great, provided that you're on your local network. When away from home or traveling, less so. Maybe I could configure things better to alleviate that, I don't know, but I haven't managed to yet.

Sharing is less convenient. Trying to share a photo on-platform is a terrible experience for the receiver with multiple slow redirects, so much so that generally if you're on mobile it's easier/better to just download the photo to your device and share the photo directly. The Moments android app has a flow for doing this, which is nice. It also makes a certain amount of sense: the alternative would be others connecting to your NAS online, which is always going to be less nice than just connecting to Google photos.

The search capabilities are pretty decent. It can recognize people and tag them appropriately. It can recognize some things. In some ways, I prefer searching it over searching Google Photos. But again, only if you're on your local network with your NAS.

--

Edit: see aborsy's response to me below. Looks like I'm a version behind. Maybe on-platform photo sharing is better now, I'll update the software and check it out
Oh yes. So that's why half-half.
It doesn't have to be teleporting. Any superluminal travel can break causality. As I linked elsewhere, Sean Carroll has a solo podcast episode[0] where he talks about a few methods by which time travel could be imagined to be possible, given our understanding of the limitations. As is the case with the drive you mentioned, it's often the case that it's something like "well, if we imagine some special case that we don't think is forbidden, we can do xyz". I imagine at some point a few of these not-technically-forbidden holes will be blocked, but also it's not a certainty that all that is true can be shown to be so.

Your link really doesn't provide any basis for FTL travel.

[0] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/11/23/124-...
>>This was a short period of massive changes to logistics (better railways), society (electric lights improved factory productivity), and what was even possible to make (improved materials and precision machining).

There have been just as many opportunities to raise productivity in modern times, with the development of computerized production, internet communication, robotics, rocketry and space-based industries, plastics, the standardized shipping container, nanotechnology, biotechnology, machine learning, distributed blockchains, etc

Nations like Hong Kong and Singapore, which maintained comparatively free-market oriented economies, and ranked number 1 and 2 in the Economic Freedom Index for decades, vastly outperformed more social democratic economies.

They not only saw vastly greater economic and wage growth, but closed the huge deficit they had with Western nations in life expectancy in 1960, and eventually surpassed them. HK and Singapore today have a higher life expectancy than even the Scandinavian countries, which in 1960 were #1, 2 and 3.

Beyond these anecdotes, you can look at basic correlations found in large datasets covering dozens of economies over a span of decades, which suggest lower government spending, as a percentage of GDP, tends to be beneficial to economic performance:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170821004405/http://ime.bg/upl...
Some of these companies are so insanely huge that they have dozens of technology stacks, so I would not attribute elixir specifically, to the latter two at least (wasn’t discord rewritten in rust not too long ago?)

And facebook itself is historically PHP (where they had to fork the runtime even), but they use plenty of other boring tech (eg. Java), as well as some exotic ones, notably haskell for some query pre-optimization (afaik)
looks like you are shadow-banned
Bloomberg's Gurman previously reported on this as a skunkworks project several years ago.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/apple-has...
Wanted to try but I'm getting: "Invalid SSML request" and on other pages "Insufficient credits.", or just returns the sample voice.
Both aspartame and stevia have definite tastes. I don't mind either and I actually like aspartame in a lot of places.

Sucralose and allulose have virtually no taste other than sweet.
It's not a link to a 3rd party website containing rant about censorship so I'd argue that's what I'm looking for.
The US has per capita healthcare spending that is multiple times that of their peers in the western world.
> It shouldn't be necessary to learn a programming language and spend hours with the Emacs documentation just to be able to use some of the great packages like org or magit.

It isn't. You could just go through the included tutorial for Emacs, and watch a tutorial for org, and you'll immediately be productive in org.

And you definitely don't need to learn elisp. I was a power user for almost a decade before I learned elisp. The most I could do was use setq.

The point of my comment was that one can easily be productive in Emacs, but if you want to do things that set Emacs apart from other tools, you'll need to go further and read more docs. Someone could learn just the basics and write documents/code with Emacs fairly quickly. But those people will continually ask "What's the point - I could just use an IDE which follows semantics I'm used to."

Doom/Spacemacs are great - just not for everyone. It's good to have them around, and it's good to have better defaults in vanilla Emacs. However, there are a lot of config choices they made that I guarantee would have turned me away from them as a newbie.[1] They are a lot more opinionated than vanilla Emacs, and would likely turn off as many new users as they will attract.

But it's good to have more options.

[1] For one, I could never wrap my head around vi keybindings - and I tried them before I tried Emacs.
For anyone that had the question "How do two black holes merge given time dilation?"

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/91-the-universe/bl...
I’m not saying to put 100% of every liquid dollar you have into the market, but in your 40s, I think it should be the majority of your investment funds.

Boglehead advice agrees, with an explicit principle of “Never bear too much or too little risk”, suggesting 30-40% bonds in your 40s and the rest in stocks.

I think more people underperform from being too risk-averse than under-perform from having too much equity exposure and having an unfortunate overlap of a large expense and a downturn in the market.
The size of the dataset sets the maximum odds of a false positive. We are seeing false positive problems with DNA and the FBI won't cooperate into investigating. (The problem comes from relatives--while two random people are astronomically unlikely to false positive close relatives are likely to have many matches anyway, the odds of a false positive are merely low, not astronomical.)
How to make png encoding much faster? I'm working with large medical images and after a bit of work we can do all the needed processing in under a second (numpy/scipy methods). But then the encoding to png is taking 9-15secs. As a result we have to pre-render all possible configurations and put them on S3 b/c we can't do the processing on demand in a web request.

Is there a way to use multiple threads or GPU to encode pngs? I haven't been able to find anything. The images are 3500x3500px and compress from roughly 50mb to 15mb with maximum compression (so don't say to use lower compression).
It's not worse than just directly modding them -- that gives them more direct rage fuel.
No, it does the exact opposite.

Dictation is writing down what someone is saying.

This is software that says what someone writes down.
I just noticed the comment about WFH and traveling costs, if your a home worker then traveling into the office is paid expenses.
I will never do it again , unless i find myself in some dire circumstances
You're right, we don't think that the accuracy of the indexes generated on the client will match the ones generated by Google's servers. There is a trade off here between user experience and privacy, and we are hopeful that the outcome with ente will hit a spot that will make it a viable alternative for a certain set of users.
This reminds me of something really cool I saw a while ago but I can't find for the life of me, it was a bit of JavaScript that ran in the browser and could be used to send a signal to a nearby AM radio! I can't remember quite how it worked, but I tried it and it definitely did after turning off my monitor which apparently pumps out shit-tons of interference into the bottom end of the mediumwave band. I do remember that it was a demonstration of a security vulnerability for supposedly airgapped systems.
For the casual reader:

• There's no metal in COVID shots.

• Aerials that react to certain frequencies have to be sized appropriately, so even if they were in the shots they wouldn't fit through (and would therefore be filtered out by) the needle.

• And even if it could, the aerials would be too big to fit in your cells.

• Even if they could, it wouldn't cause your cells to vibrate; RF oscillations don't have a “direction” that alternates, so they can't set off vibrations like that (unless the aerial has a specific shape, but the effect would be tiny (way less than the vibrations from road noise, or clicking your teeth together) even if you put it in a microwave).

• Vibrating your cells doesn't damage your DNA. Putting your arm in a blender wouldn't even damage your DNA! (Proof: singing doesn't cause cancer.)

• The carrier wave is “the frequency”. The signal is transmitted in the sidebands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideband

• You're not going to get something resonating to the sidebands without a phase-locked loop (or similarly sophisticated circuit), which requires more than just metal, and certainly wouldn't fit through the needle.

And that's just the second sentence! This is well-written satire; it's got nearly one fatal error per word, yet it still manages to sound plausible. (Edit: I missed some; I've probably missed more.)
Yeah, that rebalancing and equalizing was what I was mostly the effect I was wondering about or getting at.
Having had a satphone it got used for quite a lot of stuff, never for an emergency.
Because google phone is so much better? Even if you remove the google suite, it's still very much the wild wild west of privacy whenever you install an app.
> What do the Clojure-for-web-services people do

Not precisely what you're asking but I have, very occasionally, REPLed into remote clojure servers and rewritten running code live to fix time-critical bugs in production. But I'll admit i'm unsure whether this is an argument for or against Xtremely interactive development.

Darklang does offer something they call trace-based development where unhandled requests basically do initiate an interactive process to write handling code. I'm under the impression though that this is not intended for production time.

In general I'm loath to make any generalization about what kind of mistakes are good or bad and when. Luckily we have a language landscape which lets people make up their own minds.
Seems to me like the Globalstar Spot messaging service would be an easier service for Apple to support than satellite voice. It's useful for emergencies and other low-bandwidth communication

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOT_Satellite_Messenger