skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Quite seriously, neither iOS nor Android are even remotely as good at easy, right now interaction and usefulness as Palm was nearly 30 years ago. That is especially true for contact management/phone apps!

I guess I wonder what you think is missing or worse than Palm?

I don't have any experience with Android, but on iOS I don't miss ANYTHING -- I find the always-on OTA sync ALONE to be an enormous advantage. The device is fast, responsive, and just-works in a way that nothing did 20 years ago. Palm desktop sync was good for 1999, but it still had issues that came up (esp if you depended on Outlook) that I have never seen with iOS OTA sync.
"Correct the Record" is what you are looking for. Naturally, nobody in the media will call them a troll farm but you have your basic walks like a duck criteria there.
Wow thats a good look for Netflix
That's not what quantitative easing is.

Central banks are passing private banks in their money creation.
IMHO Loneliness is not the cause but one of many symptoms of the decent into mental illness that results in gun violence. Many friends end up distancing themselves from sick people because the illness pushes them away, not because of disinterest.

The fact that our current society does not get involved in preventing self destructive behavior enough is less about selfishness and more about the highly publicized anecdotal results that occur when people do intervene such ad police wellness checks gone wrong.

As horrible and tragic as gun violence is and not to discount any of the pain and heartache that survivors and the loved ones of victims experience...mass violence is a very rare event, so rare that most efforts to prevent it are
at best just a waste of time and worse a tool of the propagandist to further divide a fractioning culture.

The easiest way to change the world is to change your perspective.
> I think you can tessellation on the CPU in an adaptive fashion (e.g. based on curvature or similar) and update that on a per frame (add, remove tessellation points) basis rather than re-tesselating from scratch each frame.

The GPU’s hardware-implemented tessellation is (a) not compatible enough. It’s OK on Windows because Microsoft requires them for GPU vendors to declare the support of Direct3D 11. On the rest of the platforms, support across GPU vendors varies. And (b) doesn’t help much for 2D vector graphics. The hardware tessellation can be good for terrain, trees, or other triangle meshes in 3D space. Doesn’t help much for these Bezier curves/elliptical arcs for 2D shapes. Especially so for stroked paths.

Counter-intuitively, stroked paths are harder to render than filled ones. The offset of Bezier spline is not representable as another Bezier spline. Also, strokes have more parameters on input: line caps, join types, dashes, miter limit, etc.

> The main limitation in JS is the lack of really great multithreading

Also lack of SIMD. Also, the code in general is slow compared to C++, C# and many other statically typed languages. It’s incredibly hard to generate fast code from very dynamic languages like JS or Python, where everything is a hash map.

> I do not think you need it here.

Here’s my code which offloads CPU-bound pieces of 2D rendering to other CPU cores: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/Vrmac/Draw/Tes... Multithreading helped a lot.
TL;DR: You are correct!

The counter-story seems to be based on radically misreading data out of Israel, which seems to show higher infection rates among the vaccinated, a reading which fails to take into account the incredibly high rate of vaccination there.

So yeah, there are more infections among the 78% vaccinated than among the 22% unvaccinated. Given that there are 3.5x as many people in the first group, that's not entirely unexpected. As a percentage of the population, the vaccinated are still less likely to get infected, and less likely to deal with severe consequences.
I have 2 cameras in my car recording front/rear views all the time in 4k resolution while driving on public roads. I can upload them anywhere without anyone's permission because they were taken in public spaces. I pass x bank machines every day on public sidewalks, all recording. I pass x building a day on public streets and sidewalks, all with cameras recording 24/7. When I go in a store, there are cameras everywhere, recording. There are millions of cameras recording people in public every day, and they're not using cell phones being "obvious" and don't care about whether you like it or not, and you have 0 say except to not go out in public. How many times a day are you recorded without your "knowledge or consent?" Why are glasses the straw that breaks the camels back? You're swimming in it already.

https://reolink.com/how-many-times-you-caught-on-camera-per-...

How about cameras so good they can zoom in and read your texts?

> "He was actually texting about the poor quality of the game of rugby. But it did occur to me that there was an issue there - had he been texting something that was of some consequence to us, there may have been privacy issues."

> He confirmed later that the level of monitoring used during the World Cup would continue for all big test matches.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6848897/Powerful-surveillan...
The fact that there is more discussion here vs the Haskell forum is weird. I've not used Haskell myself but aspire to use it someday. I wish him best of luck!
Anonymity is a poor heuristic. I rate people as trolls or not dependin gon whether they employ fallacious reasoning, and how they respond to being challenged. Not all fallacious arguments are trolling, as people can simply be wrong. But if a person is supplied with accurate information, or the form of an error explained and acknowledged, only to see them return the next day with the same schtick, then I regard that as posting in bad faith.

There are plenty of anonymous truth-tellers and plenty overt hypocrites and liars. It's important to remember that not all lies are meant to be believed; some are merely intended to upset, to bait, or to signal.
For what it's worth, even in that space, NQS was done before Condor (and based on an earlier system).

I've seen Condor used quite heavily around for long time, but originally only PVM, which was roughly contemporaneous.
The result of automated personalization is yet another internet echo chamber.

Computers are pretty good at telling you what you want to know, because they work off of your existing feedback. What they're terrible at is telling you what you should know, and what is important.

If the same systems that recommend the news were used to deliver the weather, every forecast would be "Sunny and 72 degrees." In other words, useless.
Better, the government agency could be removing the reason that the cost can be externalized in the first place.

Admittedly, this is difficult to do for resource extraction or pollution costs. But consider that we can recover the costs of pollution in the ground and (to a lesser extent) the water. The reason we can't internalize the cost of CO2 emissions is because we won't recognize any ownership interest in the air. I'm not sure how to do that either, but I'm hopeful that we could think of something if we'd at least acknowledge this.
+1 to that. If you design UIs, you need to understand concepts like Right-To-Left, one-few-many for numbers and counts, etc. Same for phrases that use different typefaces with an aim of concatenation (e.g. "red" + "apples") where other languages may have more than 2 words or need a reverse order (e.g. "apples in red").

Modern UI design tooling allows for integrations with Localization Management Systems, which will perform automated translation or pseudolocalization in order to allow the designer to preview how their text looks like in another language or length.
> You can’t just say “the study on X has not included Y, therefore we should have absolutely no expectations about any sort of relationship between X and Y”. That’s not how science works.

Oh yes it is. Extrapolating outside of study sample is either a scientific rookie mistake or just plain fraud. Doing so in any hard-science topic would earn you an angry comment from your reviewers.

> Fortunately, nobody is claiming that, so you won’t have to put much effort to convince anyone otherwise.

Oh, and I guess Herrnstein and Murray didn't publish that book? Because they definitely do so in The Bell Curve: They are literally plotting AFQT and SES (their bogus “socioeconomic factors”) against social outcome and since AFQT has a higher correlation than SES, they conclude that genetics must be the decisive factor!

And if you read my previous comment, you'd notice that the AFQT -> IQ is only a part of the issue in the Bell Curve, the bigger part being how they assume AFQT -> genetics because they assume AFQT = IQ = g = genetics. (The last steps being an ideological stance, which Herrnstein have been defending for decades prior to the publication of the Bell Curve so it's not really a surprise…)
Takedown != content scanning
So the millions of unemployed are living under bridges right now or what?
We don't need to extrapolate.

There's a 100% chance of some kind of crisis in our future.

The first crisis in a system with no monetary policy will knock everything down.

Hard monetary policy is like nailing a board between the dock and the boat - it's great for stability ... until the tide goes out, or, a big wave comes.

That's why we use ropes, not boards.

Currencies can only exist within an economic zone and they're a useful tool wit price stability etc.. BTC provides none of that so it's not very useful.

It's a neat idea.

Also, the US definitely does not have 'Monetary Hegemony' in the world. Just an outside influence, that's waning a bit.

The 'Big Banks' are not stealing your wealth because of monetary policy, for the most part. They will steal your wealth just as well with BTC.
If you deliberately avoid his point then why bother commenting on it?

Terrorism is also "invisible and everywhere" and yet 20 years later, people are still freaking out about a threat that is as dangerous to them as stairs or lightning. Clearly the point is that you can make up threats and fear people into submission. You are not healthy, you are pre-sick and a mass murderer if you meet other people!

Perfectly rounded off with the most delusional, revealing admission you can make in our modern era; "no idea how people functioned before modern science"... Jesus Christ, yeah. Maybe you can "use modern science" to figure out how they functioned before it? Especially during this farce, where the "modern science" collectively decided that viruses and pandemics are an entirely new discovery that has never existed in the previous literature before so none of our previous knowledge could be applied to it - "This virus is unlike anything we have ever seen". What a joke.
The Demonic House in Gary, Indiana
There is a language called lean which is popular among mathematicians. Here is an article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/building-the-mathematical-lib...

A more recent article as well:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/lean-computer-program-confirm...
COVID vaccination may have become a political position, but vaccination in general is not. Where are all the debates about MMR, hep-B, polio, etc.? We have required vaccinations in our children beginning in infancy for generations, and I am not hearing any governors or representatives saying that we must end the practice.
Maybe the US is. Perhaps they already know, and are working on a big counter-offensive, but waiting for the right time to deploy it.

When you're this deep into national security, it is best to assume the story you are hearing is a lie, most likely of omission.

Note that I'm not saying this is the case, but likely there is much we do not know. If you're interested in this, I'd recommend two things - the first is a book [0] written by a practitioner in the field of counterintelligence; the second, a rather violent, but extremely provoking movie [1]

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1626166803

[1] - https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4560436/
Second.

Worth noting: PBS’ “American Experience” did a documentary (part docudrama?) on the accident which was okay, but not as nearly as outstanding as the book.

I read the book is the result of seven years of research. The text itself is 500 pages with ~110 of notes and references.

Schlosser’s book (at times) reads like fiction. I enjoyed how he weaved the story of the Damascus accident and history of America’s nuclear program seamlessly to a climax. It is one of my favorite books of on both subject matter and writing style.
I really like this and how it explained current events re: NFTs.

But then I read this paragraph and it's so incorrect that I can't trust the rest of the article:

> ... One thing that I like to think about short selling is that it creates new shares of a company, and to some extent those shares compete with the shares issued by the company. If you short a bunch of oil-company stock, someone who wants to buy oil-company stock might buy it from you instead of from the company. In the limit, if enough people embrace the idea of shorting oil stocks, they will crowd out the oil companies; it will be impossible to finance oil drilling because any money you put into oil stocks will go to short sellers, not drilling.
that's simple, by disclosing that it was sponsored or paid for. Then let readers be the judge.
Not to disparage the conversation the technical bits are certainly interesting but, for almost every application, this is the point where things move towards diminishing returns. You could invest infinitely into getting every bit of design and copy for every language and locale permutation flawless and you’re company would be worse off because you should have spent that time elsewhere. In many cases, it’s simply not unrealistic to expect your customer to use google translate.
> physicists need

Except they don't - the science of quantum mechanics with its practical probabilistic "interpretation" has worked pretty well so far. As far as science is concerned, that is.
I understand, my favorite place for selfies, ha.
So, I'd been interpreting this change as meaning that they're no longer required to carry some minimum amount of cash.

I would be more confident in banks if they were required to carry some minimum fraction of their balances in cash in order to guarantee availability of funds.

That said, I'm re-reading the page that I linked a bit more closely and realizing that it doesn't just say "reserve requirements must be satisfied by holding vault cash" , it says "reserve requirements must be satisfied by holding vault cash and, if vault cash is insufficient, by maintaining a balance in an account at a Federal Reserve Bank".

It's not clear to me whether that "balance" at a Fed bank must be in cash, but even if it is, I'm realizing that the requirement I was hoping existed may not have existed even prior to this change.

TL;DR - Requirement for strong, local, cash reserves would be better than weaker requirements is better than no requirements. I'm not sure how close to the good end of that spectrum we've ever been, but where we are now certainly doesn't seem too good.

Note: Please do explain if there is some nuance that I'm missing here
If YC were a paid subscriber, the mail would presumably have gone to the same defunct email address that the cert expiry notice went to.

How does Littlewarden solve that problem? "Personally contacting the face of the site through a back channel" is a great answer, but not so scalable.
Affiliate vs. Referral Programs
Sometimes the ethical thing to do is adversarial. It forces better behavior for short term pain.

As far as exposing users, that makes assumptions about the actions of a number of people including the company in question which could, if it so desired, assemble the resources to push a fix within 48 hours.
I don't see how government can make even a dent in what are ultimately cultural issues without drastic changes to the core of our laws. The idea that you can't deny service to an individual for their political views is a big shift. The idea that businesses must align with government goals is a big shift. The idea that limitations must be imposed on an individuals exposure to social media for their own good is a big shift.
English has borrowed so many words from so many other languages that there are false friends everywhere. As a native English speaker and German learner, it took me a minute to get over the same thing with "aktuell" - yes, of course I want the actual news!
That is a pretty eye opening video, and it certainly looks like major media are complicit in pumping the retro-videogame market, while fraud (lying about directors rating and selling games, auction shilling by the house & sellers, and previous $1M FTC fines for pump-dump of the auction house owners) is committed by a highly connected group of insiders.

I bet they wish they had bought/mined bitcoin!
I hope the "integration" with Windows is optional (even if opt-out). We need concerted pushback and outcry if they try to shove this down as a "required"/ non-disable-able component.

It's fine to try driving some Bing / Edge traffic (like they did with the "News & Interest" crap in Win10) as long as an opt-out remains.
It was a surprise to me when I first read it about 10 years ago too. I'm having trouble finding the source for the (potential) bacteria breeding problem. But, I did find an EPA document warning not to do it for another reason:

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-09/documents/20...
just give us a start button already

can't improve perfection
The problem is that we are dealing with large concentrations of power. These tech corporations have power in the form of money; additionally many technology corporations have power in the form of the ability to selectively amplify or silence people and ideas. Many of these companies have monopolies, but many of these companies, while jot monopolies, participate in very small oligopolies. How many credit card networks are there? How many microblogging sites?

Effectively if you piss off one of these companies, they can exclude you from entire swathes of tech, media or the economy. In such situations many people will choose to self censor. Personally I don’t believe that is healthy; it leads to situations like the US 2016 election when all the polls were well in favor of one candidate and then the other won.

Another thing about corporate power in general is that it is not the case that the corporation uses its power proportionately representing either its employees or shareholders. The corporation uses its power in accordance with its officers’ desires. In this way corporations are the ultimate anti-democratic institutions as they concentrate the economic power generated by many diverse people and centralize it to one or a few people. Hence Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc.

And the combination of skill, hard work and luck that led to their leadership of these corporations doesn’t in any way relate to their values or judgment and the ways that they will use their power.
I'm with both you and OP.

There are concerned citizens. I'm one of them. But there are also trolls and organized, paid government & industry shills.

I think having verified IDs is an interesting idea on HN and other niche forums and would help parse out the intention.

Could probably do it without doxing the public facing comments. Would put all the trust in YC though.

Maybe that's an interesting product idea, a way to establish real identity trust without any chance of exposing personal data to any parties, even the verifier.

I think it would help discussions.

I have my opinion there are shills here, specifically China related content and I think it would be interesting to know comments are minimally form a single human. Coordination is still possible though.
We really need laws banning devices like this before they become common place, Illinois at least has some laws regarding facial recognition it's probably a good starting point
It is true that English is extremely analytical, but most european languages are fusional rather than analytical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusional_language
Not really... If the market saw an opportunity to make money by defecting from a commonly accepted norm that isn't enforced by law there are people who would be willing to implement the defection for the right price.
Because its mostly undefined what long-covid even means. In the worst cases it means organ damage, but Ill bet you anything those are not anywhere near 10-30% of cases. More likely people randomly feel like shit for a while sometimes, like every other year in my adult life.
It's crazy to believe that EasyJet wouldn't pay an Italian guy for a few months to translate the buttons and commands and notifications in their application, considering Italy is a fairly large market for them.
This isn't true at all - Linus made the licensing decision in version 0.12 of the kernel, back in 1992! The certainly wasn't any corporate interest in Linux that needed to be protected back then.

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0009.1/0096.html
FYI wikipedia requires references to a reputable source. Feel free to read some of the 100 references for herd immunity here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#References
I have thought about using a Lightsail instance. The cheapest one is only $3.50/month and includes 1 TB of transfer and should be plenty powerful to serve up static files.

Or yeah, just use DigitalOcean or someone else. They're pretty cheap, too.
These companies aren't a challenge to government power in the US, on the contrary they are a powerful tool for social control. The relationship between massive corporate cartels and the US government has become so incestuous that a distinction can hardly be made, it's just a question of faction in-fighting at this point. The centralization/monopolization of the tech industry makes it more convenient to conduct mass surveillance, as evidenced by PRISM. Its safe to infer at this point that all major tech companies in the US are already infested with alphabet spooks, there's no incentive to break them up as far as the feds (that actually matter) are concerned. Just partisan barking with no bite for the sake of 'optics'.
So any medical condition that contra-indicates covid vaccination will become a "total disability" then? if it's important enough to mandate, surely its important enough to sacrifice the contributions of those valued cow orkers who, alas, aren't able to participate, for the Greater Good and all...

Or if medical exceptions are allowed, doesn't that kind of belie the whole basis of the mandate?

COVID isn't smallpox.
> Are they still tainted because they are fighting that fight at a "terrible data collection funnel advertising company"?

They are, how naive could such hypothetical employees be that they wouldn't know FB's stances on privacy?
If I buy a Van Gogh, I have a Van Gogh hanging in my living room. You don't (not the same one, anyways).

People buy NFT JPEGs and then put them as their Twitter avatars. Anyone can do that.
800 x 525 pixels and all pictures are from the movie set, no current ones. Good one lloyds.

Edit: nope, they have some studio glamour pictures, in 453 x 327 pixels.
Personalized news? Seems like your own RSS feed reader
> As it is right now, the only reason to take the vaccine is not to feel covid symptoms / reduce the damage to your organs by covid, which is a decent reason.

This is obviously false antivax nonsense. The COVID vaccine, by and large, prevents you from dying or ending up in the ICU.

> It's just that society started calling people who care about individual freedom, conspiracy nuts (on top of nazi and white supremacists).

Or we're just tired of people buying into antivax propaganda and dying and wasting hospital resources?
Demo is cool, but it tells us nothing about this particular OCR.

* Github: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

* PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/paddleocr/