skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poor countries are riddled with fraud, corruption, etc... It is a challenge just doing what we take for granted in the west.

For example, if you have a toll road, you can expect most people to bribe the guy at the toll booth instead of paying the fee, and the little that is collected will probably line the pockets of whoever is in charge instead of maintaining the road.

Having a government program that actually works is extremely impressive in these conditions. It is not about economic advise, it is about being able to build something under such adversity.

Note: I don't know about Togo specifically, maybe it is different, with poor countries, that's the general idea.
I eat fruit every morning and am consistently blown away by how good these "wild" things taste. Amazing.
Americans are so concerned with accidentally helping someone who doesn't deserve it that they'd rather sacrifice the well being of millions who do
> Unless you’re going for an aesthetic look

I honestly doubt that a lot of people who go to lengths to unearth Atkinson dithering these days don't aim for that, though.

Most likely, you shouldn't use images in the first place.
My point is lack of access to contraceptives and lack of women’s financial independence might be the reason poorer women have more children. My conjecture is their higher birth rates have little to do with them being poorer.
>Active suspensions (conservatively an additional 1000 dollars)

Since when does the average car have an active suspension?

That's something that is generally associated with high end cars like the Audi A8 which costs 107k€.

https://youtu.be/Ocul-GV8284
No, saying people have to accept affordable housing in their neighborhood is.
That's the price of freedom.

You're free to buy as much alcohol as you want, and have a drink whenever you want.

Unless you endanger and hurt other people.

For this bill you can thank the many assholes who abuse that freedom. As always.
As someone who fills a similar role on my team, I've learned to be careful about my tone and to pick my battles (and I'm still far from perfect). Of course, bottling up the frustration of knowing about the oncoming train wreck is its own challenge, which I'd certainly appreciate ideas on.
Weird that the Safari team gets worked up over this when https://apple.com/safari regularly shows numbers based on years-old versions of Chrome.

They just updated it so it's now only Safari prerelease versus Chrome 94, but it used to compare against a one-year old version. Right after the update, it's still comparing prerelease to an outdated stable Chrome version.

Apple is very willing to intentionally make skewed comparisons to make themselves look good, but Apple apparently also gets very upset over an apparently honest mistake where a presentation that even tried to make them look good didn't make them look good enough.
Is there any indication it actually requires continued growth to break even?

Given average salary where I am and roughly average tax rate, a typical household with two working adults is going to pay somewhere in the neighbourhood of $2m in tax over their working life. Paying 3% of that back to them is not going to break the bank.

There are other programs vying for their tax dollars, but I can't see any inherent reason why it requires population growth to fund the benefits unless as you look at a timeline longer than a single tax year.

As well, kind of an odd program to make that argument on. Parental leave is one of the few programs where you can pretty definitely guarantee the population growth since it's paying out for population growth that has already happened.
The flip side was and I guess still is the exact reason for existence of fast.com. ISPs were throttling Netflix, so Netflix rolled out its own speed-testing service on its own infrastructure to publicly shame ISPs about the throttling.

Without knowing about that background information, I suppose use of fast.com is a bit tricky.
You’ll get flagged but coming from a poor country you are on point.
Not to mention the fact that dithering will look different depending on the display’s gamma calibration...
> You’re almost certainly worse at understanding your own biases than you are at recognizing them in others

Understanding how projection works is the best method I've found for self-critique. Once you realize that people often accuse others of what the accuser themself is guilty of, you can then group yourself with "people". There's nothing nefarious about it; you're just apt to project your own way of thinking on others.
"unnamed source" has sadly become synonymous with "fake news".

Main stream media outlets burned their credibility during the Trump administration.
Katy could empty that account at any time

That would be a pretty lame virtual bank then :)

Realistically, the spending conditions are either limited by time. So Billie knows she needs to withdraw until a certain date or Katy could betray her. Or the spending conditions contain a punishment for betrayal. So if Katy tries to withdraw money she assigned to Billie, Billie can intervene, get her money and punish Katy.
That sounds less like an issue with software companies and more like a privatization at scale problem in general.

Gentlemens club contracts to behave as a middleman between the people and government, corporate bucks, rent being deducted from pay… all happened before.

The software part of it is the only novel part to this story.

If we’re going to continue to allow landlords, get used to it. Either you set aside specific time pay them in nation state bucks or they’ll garnish your wages.

How this is seen as any different than forcing a religion on people, I don’t know.

I don’t believe in Bill Gates’ wealth. I’ve never seen him work a day in my life. He’s afforded the social status of a Pope even after his business was convicted of market manipulation.

Yep we’re basically living in the imaginations of others again.
That would largely depend on expected outcome.

Do I want to be a Supreme Court Justice? Ivy League all the way.

Do I want to be a software developer? Coin flip.

Do I want to be a professional engineer (with a PE)? I go they give me the most financial assistance, as graduate school is likely to be more important and I need money for that too.

Do I have no idea? I go where I had the most enjoyable* campus tour/prospetive weekend.

* And that varies by student - party vs courses vs whatever else.
ive used youtube daily for years and never once looked at or clicked the dislike button (or the like button). seems to work fine for me
The reaponse to that is to play dumb and repeatedly report yhar the website is failing, but don't try to diagnose it for them. Just focus on your problem, and keep annoying them so that it's their problem too (write a script to email occasionally, and share it with your friends). Eventually they and other customers will complain to the website vendor to make it their problem too.
Yes, this makes sense, and is a coherent case against Digital ID itself. Much more sensible than the article.

But in interactions with the government -- e.g., traffic stops, government offices, perhaps voting -- the same method that's used to verify insurance should also suffice.

Bars and stores that sell controlled substances can still insist on a physical ID. Just because there's a digital ID doesn't mean it has to be accepted everything a physical ID might be. It's still a huge convenience boost if it's only accepted during government interactions.
Currently we're using youtube API to get dislikes count

...so they just hid it from the user, and the actual number is still there if you know where to look? That's surprising.
Not true. Maybe you are a foreigner? It is worth explaining how we see cars. Ever since especially 40s and later they represent the ability for any person to go wherever desired without conforming to somebody else's schedule. We see them as "freedom on four wheels" and will work to keep them that way even if you think they shouldn't be.
Shouldn't dithered images also benefit from the limited palette?
IBM says quantum chip could beat standard chips in two years
People don't have to be in favor in general.

On the other hand, acting against socially good measures with sole purpose of profitting from them is evil.

>Also even if it sounds good and social, you can also turn it on its head and realize why socialism breeds hopelessness: if you establish a rule that people have to live in properties with low value, nobody will have to hope to ever escape those conditions.

This statement makes no sense. The reason why those properties have high worth has nothing to do with any intrinsic properties or conditions of them, and everything to do with scarcity of housing. You can do world's most unwalkable shoe and it will can the most expensive one if you're well known fashion designer.
I didn't reger to the video ad, but to their web site. I'm saying their main selling point was (and is) that the camera does well with different skin tones.
The name of this bubble is salty delusion/denial - hn is exactly where you would find people that have tried to get hired at FB and have failed.
> The potential for malevolence in a country the size of Togo is limited, but I'd rather not have the same processes in my own country.

The potential for building more advanced fraud protection systems also scales with the nation being discussed. Especially when you consider that the world's largest fraud protection experts are already operating within the borders of most of those richer nations.

Why not partner with MasterCard or VISA?
> alludes to this possibility, stating that if 10 years have passed and this mandate hasn't been implemented, the Secretary of Transportation is gonna have to explain why and provide some possible steps forward

Government: oh god, if we don't implement this thing in 10 years, then maybe this other branch of the government is going to maybe explain why and provide steps we can maybe take.
I also share the same world view. With every person that I met, it was just a question of finding what area/subject they spend a lot of time doing. They will be more knowledgeable on it than you, and by accepting it and listen to their expertise you'll learn a lot about some subjects you didn't even know existed.
I'm on Firefox.
This is something I do except the slow parts are in Python and the fast parts are in C++ with pybdind11 connecting the two worlds
TLDR: There are much better compression algorithms than dithering
It's visible to the uploader only, so yes it's still there.
Yes, but with their wheels down and at a much lower speed =)
U.S. to partner with Israel to combat ransomware attacks
Presumably photographs got better all over the board, not just for black people. Technology simply got better over time.
Don't forget dithering your spacer.gif files!
very important!
There’s the problem right there. No conclusions should be drawn from watching that YouTube video, yet it has been created specifically to fool people who will do no further reading. The creator doesn’t care of course. YouTube doesn’t care either.
Gordon Bell Finalists Fight Covid, Advance Science with Nvidia Technologies
Exactly, sending them as true color makes no sense
While it's 5:48am on the US west coast, it's 13:48pm in the UK
Downloading, installing and running kernel mode software to prevent cheating is already required for a number of online games.

I wonder if/when banks will extend this idea to banking to prevent fraud?

Perhaps it'll be merely an optional thing at first, like 2FA.

Later it could become something that while optional, does get you a better price of some kind, much like the driving trackers that some auto insurance companies offer.

Before long, it could even become mandatory or there could be a penalty or higher price or fee to pay if you don't do it.

Just a random idea or conspiracy theory of what's possible I suppose, but it feels like something that could be possible in the not too distant future.
This would be a powerful point with a reference - can you cite it?
this strikes me as a considerably smugger formulation of Hanlon's Razor with none of the charity of the original…
Congrats on the launch! The Metaplane team is great.
And the really bonkers thing about many birds is that the single gram will still be a sizeable fraction of their total body weight. Chickadees and nuthatches (and other birds of that size) weigh somewhere between 10 and 15 grams, usually. Zebra finches are about the same. It'll be a really long time before we can put sensors on those!
Why do you use a website for your loan? Autopay and never talk to them again until closeout.
A kilo of tesla cannnot travel a single mile. Half kilo of this bird can travel 7000 miles non stop.

It makes no sense to normalize by weight because it does not scale by weight.
There are plenty of yuppies to buy up any fancy new houses in town, though. So no cheap houses are built inside the cities proper.

In the US, there's always more land - it's just further away! The cheap "Camry" houses still get built, but never as infill. It just gets pushed further and further out to the exurbs.

Unless you take money (or cheap debt) out of the hands of the yuppies, nothing changes here.
SpaceX could launch 30 orbital flights this year
Wireless headphones are just as good as wired. I own both I like both.

It's annoying that since apple removed the jack a lot of people suddenly became very opinionated that wired headphones are somehow less than. Apple isn't a cult.
I would argue that joy and happiness are not the same thing. I have difficulty articulating it, but I think Ursula Le Guin expresses it well (because of course she does) in The Left Hand of Darkness:

"I am not trying to say that I was happy, during those weeks of hauling a sledge across an ice-sheet in the dead of winter. I was hungry, overstrained, and often anxious, and it all got worse the longer it went on. I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy."
> The majority of the population over time will use parental leave if it is available.

I agree with this. However:

> b) It distributes resources from higher to lower earners, depending on how the obligation is structured there is usually a progressive taxation element which ensures a certain minimum is available.

This is irrelevant to whether or not parental leave is a ponzi scheme.

> a) It moves resources from your own pre-child and post-parental leave career to the period when the child is born. Many people who can easily fund a year of not working from their total career earnings cannot do so in their peak child-bearing years and there aren't any efficient ways of using saving or borrowing to shift that money either. For these people, parental leave uses the risk pooling and payment guarantee capabilities of the state to effectively borrow cheaply against their lifetime earnings.

Parental leave’s true cost is more than just the income lost. It’s the labor required to raise the new children.

If we say parents cannot just stay at home (in which case parental leave is unnecessary) then the people required to sustain the new children will be exponential in growth.
There's a huge gap in Java build tool space for a tool that is simple and easy to learn and can cover 90% of projects' requirements. I have this feeling that we're in the "subversion" days of java build tools and the day someone introduces "git" people will wonder why we suffered with Gradle and Maven for so long. If I had time I would be looking into building this.
If you read the article, it is very clear and direct about being a commentary on Low Tech Magazine
I have fallen into many pits of depression over almost 20 years now, even now I am struggling to get out of a deep one. Seems this is just a cycle in my life, unfortunately.

You can't logic yourself out of beliefs, I completely get that. Once you realize how depressed you are, you're usually also mired in terrible thoughts and negativity.

But in my experience, I HAVE to try to logic myself out of patterns of behaviors. I also need to fight those beliefs, as futile as it seems. Hear me out here:

I think one of the most toxic things was when I thought it was a chemical imbalance completely out of my control -- so there was nothing I could do but take pills and passively wait for my brain chemistry to correct itself.

I have recovered from like 4 or 5 episodes of major depression now, and the key for me every time has been
a) realizing I'm depressed
b) waiting for/creating a day when I have the energy to think and address this, and then
c) reflecting on and fighting against thoughts and behaviours extending/reinforcing the depression.

Obviously this is a messy and inefficient process with a lot of slippage. And maybe it doesn't work for other people, or maybe I've got something else wrong with me than just major depression, and that's why it works.

Anyways, not trying to invalidate your experience, just sharing what I've found works for me.
Yeah and they don't "call" at ports either! Stupid correct terminology!

And "Lightering"? Please, they aren't getting lighter, they're just sitting out there needing groceries while they wait.
That sounds an awful lot like central planning to me. Aren’t you worried about breeding hopelessness?
Presumably sd cards are safer to connect rather than unsolicited usb drives.
Playing around with the Squoosh tool mentioned in the article, it's easy to get a <10KiB image that looks way better than the WebP shown at the bottom of the page.
Is it? Is there a good community alternative to Whatsapp and Facebook that is also used by people other than terrorists and right wing activists (joke)?

Last time I tried to switch to an alternative, I ended up with my messaging spread out to many apps. So I ended up going back to the common denominator: Whatsapp
So Apple previously requested that Safari Tech Preview be used for bake-offs instead of release Safari, then macOS 11 recently broke CI which prevented STP from being updated, and this resulted in a slide mistakenly attributing Safari with a 21 point improvement instead of 28.
3rd party interlocks suck because everybody who uses one is forced to do so or otherwise be subject to state violence. Every breakdown nets these companies hundreds in service and calibration fees.

Auto companies who want to make it not suck for their customer will do far better.
React Location – Enterprise Routing for React
Like Portland, Maine, as mentioned in the article?
One of the (if not “the”) triumphs of the Trump administration was getting payments out to millions of people in a couple of weeks.
Broken seat belt will not stop cars from running. Nanny state argument I think still applies to seat belt for an individual person, just requiring that kids wear them is okay though. When did we decide government got to stop ppl from doing stupid shit?
Houses are not just expensive because people are greedy. Nice places are limited, and therefore they will always be expensive. And it is not "greedy" to want to live in a nice place.

That there is a host of other issues in the system is without question.
Wouldn't any tax then be terrible, as people will always try to change their behaviour to avoid it and in general paying taxes is a public good?
The public dislike count will be removed from the API next month unless the api call is authed with an account associated with the channel.
What a grade A asshole you are
A broken wireless key doesn't generally render the vehicle inoperable. Most/all cars have a physical backup key.
Wow these features really emphasize how Briar is focused on an arab spring situation where the internet access is restricted.

The most common gripe about Briar is that it's not on iOS, but clearly there is nothing like Briar anywhere. Just too bad about the bluetooth thing. I don't see why it should leak your BT ID. That should definitely be an opt-in feature.
> But the alternative you put is to assume that their failures are due to external forces and their success due to policy choices.

I'm not assuming it, but I think someone should make that argument given that the country was subject to over 300 years of brutal colonialism which included being the literal capital of the slave trade and later neocolonialism. China's a different story because they eradicated foreign ownership and interference before any of its success and still has pretty heavy capital controls and other mechanisms in place including local ownership requirement laws.

In any case, there are many other factors that could influence any countries development starting from simple geographic luck. To assume that it is a self-made problem (or isn't) without argument is not useful.
I hope this improves the network stack in ipads as well. Now that apple has same cpu arch on both ipads and macs, i expect better network tools for ipads.

I recently tried setting my ipad 5g as a hotspot but couldnt share the internet over the ethernet over my dock. If i could do that, it would enable the full 1+ gigabit 5g speeds that i get natively on ipad to the 2.5G port on the usb-c dock connected ethernet.

I also tried tethering through usb-c which gave only 250mbps.

Finally settled using wifi tethering which maxes around 600mbps.

It would be great if there is possibility to share 5g over ethernet, that would blow any 5g hotspot out of water with the chipset apple have put in the ipads.
I should have thought these were anti-anxiety media but perhaps not for everyone.

I enjoy these reminders about what is important in life and find I agree with their tenets (just unable to put them into practice to the degree I would like).
Great question! While right now we are focused on our cloud native application, we do plan on supporting an on-prem version for companies that require hosting themselves.

The reason our customers haven’t required this is because we’ve tried to take security seriously from day one and Metaplane doesn’t store any customer data (just the metadata). We received our SOC2 Type II report, support IP whitelisting, SSH/Reverse SSH tunnels and are always exploring other integration options like AWS’ PrivateLink.

That said, we definitely understand the need to keep even metadata on-prem, so we plan on tackling that later next year.