skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it helpful to assume an adversarial worldview to any service that collects or handles data.

You've mentioned some reasonable assumptions about how this system might work. But it's ultimately trust in a black box and a manufacturer with whom you have no personal or business relationship. You have no way of knowing if, at any time, your assumptions are still correct, or if one day in the future what's inside the box gets changed out.

What incentives would it take for that to happen? To my imagination, not much. E.g. the manufacturer thinks it can start a side business collecting and selling your full prints. There is certainly a market for them, so why not collect them? Maybe law enforcement sees these devices proliferating and convinces lawmakers to require that the prints be stored to support local investigations. Who would be against catching predators at your gym? Meanwhile the gym doesn't care because this isn't it's problem---and it gets a discount.

Things can change fast. If it seems possible, someone is probably thinking about how to do it.
Good. This isn’t either. This is for 14 days or until you test negative from COVID.
The sounds are

1. A specific song or piece of music

2. Waves crashing on the shore

3. Birdsong

4. A crackling fireplace

5. Walking on fresh snow

6. A waterfall

7. Cat purring

8. Trees blowing in the wind

9. Rain on the window pane

10. Rustling leaves

11. Church bells

12. Bees buzzing

13. A thunderstorm

14. Rain patter on leaves

15. Children playing outside

16. Lawns being mown

17. A fountain

18. The radio playing

19. Sheep baaing

20. Seagulls squawking

21. A train going over tracks

22. Cows mooing

23. A cork popping

24. Dinner being served up

25. Pouring a drink

26. Mail being delivered

27. Food cooking on the hob

28. Cicadas humming

29. Sports stadium/arena

30. The kettle boiling

31. An airplane flying overhead

32. A crowd cheering

33. Horses galloping

34. A beer bottle/tin being opened

35. Dog barking

36. Fish jumping out of water

37. Street entertainers

38. A toaster popping

39. A coffee grinder

40. A garden sprinkler

I was very disappointed the article didn’t have audio clips
Fed Fund Rate vs 30YT since 1970(only cherry picking this year because the data on fred is poor before this period, and end of gold standard is significant) is a perfect 8/8[0].

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=ENDs
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I haven't read the article yet, but how big a deal is this? Is this something that distros are likely to adopt on top of or in place of PulseAudio? Does this make any existing part of the Linux audio stack/ecosystem redundant, or is it strictly solving a problem (or problems) that had yet to be addressed?
It is not really "obsession", it is economics. There is a high cost with maintaining different apps for different platforms.
I've found that with Piracetam (800mg), I need to also take Alpha GPC, around 500 mg. I've tried many of the racetam family and I had the most success with phenylpiracetam.
For military service the term conscientious objector comes to mind which Wikipedia defines as “ [refusal] on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion” which seems appropriate to me.
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This, alone, is not the full picture. It's trivially easy to get into utter absurdity. What if an employer decides they can only identify people by surgically grafting special ID cards to their foreheads?

There is - obviously - more at play here than simply the right of the employer to identify employees by any means they wish. There is some level of reasonableness here as well.

This moves the argument into murkier grounds, as now we have to figure out how reasonable fingerprints are in any given situation.
What else is the chicken supposed to do?
You have to be careful when you interpret a religious passage.

For starters you don't (do you?) speak the original language, so you're at the mercy of the translator for the term "mark"

But, going more meta, most religious traditions don't have a strict textual interpretation of their texts. Certainly the author could not have known fingerprinting techniques 2000 years ago. It is not unreasonable to interpret "mark" to be an identifier.

Of course then the "fingerprint" mark would have to be compatible with the rest of Revelations.
IMO, the main benefit of smoking as a measure to reduce COVID transmission risks is the cash profit that tobacco companies get.
The other factor in Europe is the healthcare system. They have universal healthcare, and we don’t.

So, if you don’t have insurance in the US and you’re in a poor neighborhood, then yes — you’re likely to have a lower standard of care.

But in Europe, everyone has state-provided insurance, and the quality of healthcare is much more consistent.
It all sounds very serious and yet they mention someone he accused was found to have not plagiarized, and

>Most of those he has named and shamed have neither lost their titles nor jobs,

It's not clear to me how many of these situations include intentional plagiarism or how serious it is.
Good thing I just smoke cigars.

I've found they mellow out me after a long, hard day. Maybe it's the atmosphere in which I immerse myself... on my patio, listening to music, reclining in a chair, but they seem to help me unwind.
K is the easiest popular array language due to its array model and its commitment to simplicity. Gets you into the habit of writing out strings of symbols instead of names, and although it holds your hand less, I'd say it's great as a beginner language. With the existence of new docs like the oK docs(https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/blob/gh-pages/docs/) and the wiki(https://k.miraheze.org/), it is getting much easier to learn K.
Light isn’t limited in the speed it can travel. Mass is. Light can’t exist without matter. The fundamental limit is mass versus all of the forces which act as drag.
A large part of that will be correlation. Thailand has bad pollution from agriculture burning and some reallyy nasty car pollution. It looks like their life expectancy is very close to the US while other countries like the Phillipines with less pollution have significantly worse life expectancy. So you can't just chalk it up to one factor and think these countries would be better off if you suddenly took away all their gas powered vehicles - they wouldn't.
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Kirkcaldy. I grew up there. Not so different from Sunnyvale..

E.g. http://www.xnumber.com/xnumber/microprocessor_history.htm
I'm not sure what point you are making here. Presumably your obvious answer is "yes"? For example, there are indeed some states that outlaw tattooing minors (although many states do permit it with parental consent).
I use Qt for anything cross-platform. The main problem is that C++ is not an easy language for UI developments. also consider the fact that C++ devs are paid higher that Java, JS or C# devs. Most other UI toolkits are really terrible for cross-platform development.
I disagree strongly with this:

> raise an error implicitly - effectively analogous to praying you get the right types

That's...not the case. Not explicitly testing or raising an error is neither “praying you get the right types” nor (as the piece later claims) the worst option, or leaving things to the next developer.

Its deferring type checking and error reporting (or type conversion) to some other method that the argument is passed to, and its absolutely what you should do 100% of the time instead of adding additional layers of redundancy if (1) you are passing the argument to a method that’s interface commits to the right type verification or conversion for the use case, and (2) you don't (in the case of error reporting) have a need to report errors differently than it will.
That model is not accurate as BPA has illustrated.
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Reminds me of BGRABitmap from Lazarus/FreePascal.

https://github.com/bgrabitmap/bgracontrols

(BGRAControls contains the BGRABitmap components).

It's sad Lazarus/FreePascal doesn't get much play, because high quality libraries like this have existed for years for it and it seems to not get much traction.
Dug into the source for the GIF decoder a bit and it looks like it only supports the most basic features- no windowing, animation, local colortables, or background colors. I suspect many optimized static GIFs won't decode correctly. Still, everything has to start somewhere!
The scale on which inequality causes social unrest is also much, much more pronounced when it comes to money than anything OP listed.
Qt has done a fantastic job in this space. It is also isn't cheap. It is only free for GPLv3 software.
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Previously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4193152
The Intel J4125 it uses only supports up to 8GB RAM.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/197305/...
In that context it was 40 days for each returning ship. Australia’s quarantine is only 14 days for returning travelers.
That’s the real solution :-)
Depends what version you're using - I think Java 17 has improved vector maths capabilities, or it might still be in the incubator (but useable). I haven't looked at the API to see what it gives you though.
>There are limits on what an economic system can and can't look like

There really aren't. Part of why people believe this goes to my point: that there is a certain set of preconceived ideas about what an economy must be, as if based on something natural or immutable.

For instance, your farming example assumes a very narrowly defined economic structure of incentives, etc. that simply begs the question.

So, North American slavery might be a counterexample to your farmers. All of the slaves' output was seized, yet they worked with an industry well beyond what any modern economic optimization incentive could evoke.

There may be a temptation to dismiss this example for obvious reasons, but the point is that was very much part of an economic system that was decided upon; along with incentives to include survival and avoiding brutality.

Incentives in other systems include social status and other non-monetary remuneration.

Again, it's all manufactured.
The point of at will employment is that there's supposed to be a free labor market. In that employers are free to act as they desire (hire and fire) and employees are free to act as they desire (hired and quit).

The reaction to a bad job is... you quit and find another one.

Granted, there are substantial power balances between the parties, which is why even the US adds some federal protections (can't fire or decide not to hire for certain protected reasons, wage and work hour limitations) and states can add more (most relevant to HN, California's ignoring non-compete agreements).

But this particular example just smacks of entitlement, when the government worker protection departments should probably be spending more time on chicken processing factories running 18 hour shifts around band saws and paying minimum wage.
You can live that life again with your own Matrix Server + bridges to other Servers.

Right now I get:

- Matrix
- Whatsapp
- Telegramm
- Signal
- Instagram

In one chat app in my phone and desktop.
The global numbers may be somewhat skewed by China miraculously reporting almost no new COVID cases since March 2020.
I think the BitBucket part is more significant here since GitHub bought Pull Panda.

After Googling a bit I see a bunch of Slack and Teams plug-ins for GitHub and Bitbucket but perhaps this tool can work better for some people.
Your whole $1 million example was premised on your absurd claim that the workers have more bargaining power because there were more of them.

My comment exactly addressed that claim.

Now you seem to be asking if you eliminate bargaining power, would supply and demand dominate? I guess so? In the same sense that if you eliminate higher terms then sin(x) is just the identity function.

But why even ask the question? It's not relevant to the discussion of whether the terms you eliminated are key.
Ah, no wonder I couldn't find it--it's in Russian. Thank goodness for machine translation, and thank you for the links!
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> A business which has to pay the mortgage on its factory can't just shut down and make nothing or the bank will foreclose.

I believe here we might have the case of that old maxim "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

> Meanwhile if Uber doesn't pay as much as you're willing to accept, you can go work somewhere else, or take a loan and go to college. It's extremely rare for one company to be anyone's only alternative to starvation.

The discussion revolves precisely around the fact companies collude, bringing the wages down to absolute minimal levels, i.e. it's not about Uber or any other single company - the problem is systemic.
https://executablebooks.org/en/latest/gallery.html has samples, looks great, reminds me of gitbook but better
I got a free Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy CD set in 2003 because second disk had a deep scratch making less than megabyte of a 700MB data file unreadable. Found a torrent that wasnt a repack and it synced perfectly at 90 something % :-)
> The hard part is the enormous amount of heat you need to generate and quickly transmit into that compressed fluid.

Without a combustible fuel in the picture, isn't it more efficient for the kinetic energy of an electric motor to directly spin fan blades or turboprop propellers, vs converting that energy to heat?
You say that people who never read the Bible will never find out about Numbers 31, yet here you are telling many people who never read the Bible about Numbers 31. I almost wonder if the average atheist is more likely to be aware of this Biblical narrative than the average Christian, but I'm not sure what that would prove if true.

Anyway, it's worth linking to the Wikipedia article which provides the background to that chapter[0] and pointing out that at the time of the events described in Numbers 31, it was the standard practice of nations to commit cultural genocide against their enemies (to prevent a continuing cycle of violence), by killing off their males and their widows, leaving only the unmarried to assimilate into the victorious society.

Less violently, it was common for men to defect to a foreign culture when taking a wife from that culture, which had been the case with Israelite men and Midianite women. It was that potential for cultural extinction (and literal extinction, as a deadly plague struck the Israelites after this) which lead to the war whose rules of engagement you quoted.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_31#Background
The push to create contact tracing systems, for one. It's a boon for law enforcement. Attempts to create yet another national identifier (vaccine passports)... There's the big push for Central Bank Digital Currencies, which I'm assuming if executed upon will come with a matching spindown or deemphasis of physical currency, and the concomitant realization of nigh fully automated real-time financial surveillance.

I mean... It isn't the Patriot Act, but it's there.
What I don't understand is what value do people get out of promoting this type of conspiracy theory? Who profits? Is it just attention seeking or is there some profit motive? If so what?

I'm all for exposing corruption and I think there is enough to keep any anti government person occupied, but why do we get people inventing conspiracies in the most improbable of places? 9/11, Covid19 etc.
Your post did not even attempt to address anything I wrote. It was not an argument. Hoping I'm not fond of weekends is not an argument.
It depends what you mean by "social media". Facebook already feels very dated and Instagram is getting that way.

People will get bored of it all, I know I have. Right now my platform of choice is Discord. It might technically be social media but it's way less toxic as it encourages people to build relationships rather than shouting at each other.
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yes a high quality PDF output is essential.
> it’s a lot easier to Monday Morning quarterback decisions made 20 years later

I'm not doing that. I was around and paying attention, and I remember Colin Powell sweating trying to sell this story about scary mobile weapons labs to the UN. And I also remember stuff like that one US news site that reported on an anti-Iraq-war demonstration by school children by captioning a photo of a few blonde kids with open mouths and furrowed brows (since they were likely chanting something) with "Hitlers children: Pro-Sadam demonstrators protest in Munich, Germany". Some people had such a hard-on for war, and it was obvious from day one. Even Christopher Hitchens ended up being a cheerleader for it, so deep was the depravity.

But it wasn't something nobody could have known better, which is why most people knew better. They were proven correct, too, and to call that quarterbacking now, because they were shouted down then, with phrases like anti-Americanism and Bush Derangement Syndrome is kinda rich. If nobody could have known, how come so many called it right away?

> War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.

-- from the Judgement of the International Military Tribunal for Germany

It wasn't hard to see, it was just a lot of people had and have double standards.

> No matter how bad a president is perceived to be, I’m not sure we will see him or her jailed for their actions.

It's not about "perceiving a president", it's the simple act of a war of aggression on Iraq. And yes, it's unlikely, which is my whole point.

> Billing and insurance are a mess, but I don’t think you’ll find anyone argue that.

It's a profitable mess for some, hell for others. And to combine that with 9/11:

"Jon Stewart slams Congress over benefits for 9/11 first responders"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uYpDC3SRpM

If you have never seen it, watch it in full. In the face of that and what it stands for, many other things, and not least the war of aggression pitched to it which you agree is "unlikely" to ever have any justice shed upon it, a phrase like "Those who were responsible for the lives lost on 9/11 were held accountable." is just incorrect.
The article does not say whether the person has a driving license or another form of ID that requires fingerprinting.

Note, I’m not saying that an employer should be allowed to fingerprint, which they should not. I’m simply pointing to the absurdity of the religious exemption as I’m pretty sure no religion says that a person cannot be fingerprinted.
Thanks for the list of apps. I'll check those out.

>Security implications are.. no security

I just spent about 20 minutes searching trying to figure out if my encrypted phone can somehow be unencrypted because I have an unlocked bootloader. I couldn't really find a solid answer. I guess that would take some NSA level skills and not something a random person stealing my phone would be able to do.

I did find this guide to locking my bootloader:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-re-locking-the-boot...

However, it just doesn't seem worth the time and risk of bricking at the moment. Definitely a big plus for Graphene for supporting this with ease.

edit: Did find this random person on stack exchange: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/38909/unlocked-b...

I have a long pin lock + encryption and no root. I am not really worried about someone flashing malware on my phone via physical access. Either way. I think it's a large step up from the situation I was in before.
I hate being blunt on HN, but this is a stupid take.

If everyone that could take the vaccine did take the vaccine then the hospitals wouldn't have filled up. Instead the vaccine has become a political IQ test that is ravaging particular demographics based on the amount of disinformation they consume.

"Society" isn't being punished, anti-vaxxers are, mostly. Hospitals aren't going to double/triple the size of their ICUs and number of vents/ecmo machines, they are going to triage. Even if did double the beds, you don't double the number of people trained well for these complex procedures in a year.
In regards to the camera, I was very surprised when I recently learned that they haven't changed the actual camera hardware in their phones in many years, all the gains from one model to the next was in software magic. It ain't actually a 20mp sensor in there, it's much smaller, but through software wizardry it gets upscaled.
How's this allowed by Facebook concerning WhatsApp? It's usually a very closed system. How does the bridge work in this case?
You didn't address my post or answer my questions. What "point" is it that you think I am making? What claims is it you think I have made?
Despite completely disagreeing with you on the first point, I've had some of the same experience too.

Some years ago when I was going through languages frequently, I was pretty interested in it for a bit, but found it kind of hard to get into and my interest ultimately wandered.

I thought a large part of that was due to my unusually strong dislike of the syntax, and that that was why I found it unusually difficult to grok. Maybe it wasn't. Interesting.
It's half hyperbole half joke, with a fairly reasonable point snuck in since the decision genuinely ranks up there with other peacetime decisions made in comparable circumstances.

This isn't a knock against you specifically but this is unbelievably obvious to me and I'm genuinely curious that have you have to ask/bothered to ask at all. I genuinely think hackernews encourages a lack of empathy in readers because these comments are rife all over the place be it this one or people moaning about clickbait headlines because they didn't read the first line of the article etc.

Besides, the author still has a point: Brexit is either pointless or a disaster. The only argument I will accept in favour of it is if you are arguing against large blocs in general and believe the EU is doomed to fail, but even then it seems like sinking the ship in the name of killing the captain.
> Sadly, I am not enough of a Nim expert to know the trade-offs between using native code or importing C libraries.

I'm no expert either but (not sure if this is what you're getting at) Nim is "compiled" to C/C++/JS and you have nearly full control over emitted code.

So I don't think it's far-fetched to emit C with hand optimizations if you really need them.

That's the weird thing about Nim. It's not really a new language so much as a syntax and front end to several existing languages.

If you compile in "-d:danger" mode turning off all checks and highest optimizations, the C code it spits out is pretty human readable even.
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The Taliban offered to turn over Bin Laden for trial in any country other than the US weeks after the attacks [1][2]. If there reason to invade Afghanistan was solely to kill Bin Laden surely they'd just take the Taliban up on their offer.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/10/15/b...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/17/afghanistan.te...