skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's probably just an artifact of how the author initially went through the open sourcing process. It is code that is written and maintained by a Googler as his day job, that's used in skia (i.e. chromium, android, etc.) today for GIF decoding: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...
What the article doesn't answer: Did the experiment show a reduction in children hit in the school zone?

I'd be pretty pissed if a kid was hit because someone was more focused on their speedometer than on the road.

For cars where you can put your speed limiter that shouldn't be an issue, but otherwise I prefer people driving 32km/h who are paying attention than 25km/h people distracted by speedometer readings...
I saw an interview with an old finance guy some years ago talking about this, he was saying in the past you'd work for a company and spend your career there, you'd get shares somehow (through partnerships or some other mechanism, but you can't sell them) and as the years go by the value of your shares increases and you get more and more, so its in your self interest to keep the company going.

Now it's in the interest of a CEO to take a performing company carve out the middle so profits go up in the short term, shareholders get more money, he gets fat bonuses and the company dies.

Though there were problems with the old style too - they became very conservative and couldn't adapt among other things.
If a company can't think of anything useful and cost-effective to spend their money on, giving that money back in the way that passes through the largest portion of it is the most productive thing they could do.

Let the investors allocate their money efficiently, rather than buying a gold mine as a movie theatre company (as an example).
Does it look like there are plenty alternatives?
Perhaps where you drive is safer than where I do. I see dangerous driving multiple times a year and see recent accidents weekly (cars and cops on the side of the road).

According to the NTSB:

> "On the highways 100 people (are killed) a day," he said. "Every two days we are killing the equivalent of a Boeing 737 crashing. [0]

Obviously, not all directly a result of “insanely dangerous” driving (including the primary topic of that article). But, my definition would include driving that results in fatal accidents.

[0] https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_28168226adfec28da29cec92e7...
> Are there any sites that help build groups around current and upcoming open-source projects, and also encourage people to make stuff open-source - perhaps with pledges?

Open Collective is designed to do exactly that:

https://opencollective.com/
I feel like this should be federal legislation rather than having every state adopt their own privacy regulations. With every state, there comes the possibility of fragmentation and all of a sudden you have to be in compliance with GDPR, CCPA, WPA, and a host of other state privacy legislation.

Hopefully it won't come to this and even if we don't get federal legislation, hopefully the rules will be setup in a way where there is a "gold standard" (ie. if you're compliant with GDPR, you're defacto compliant with all the other policies).

If someone here is more of an expert on this topic I'd love to hear what I got right and wrong in my assumptions.
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If you hadn't heard about this one:

https://hypebeast.com/2022/2/lana-rhoades-cryptosis-1-5-mill...
Not allowing zoom on brave mobile browser, this site is functionally unreadable.
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Very few people would notice the slight differences between the two.

My browser always shows the URL scheme, and my UI looks nothing like that, so I guess this is another point in favour of people customising their UI and a point against browsers letting websites modify the appearance of things like scrollbars and form controls, or --- and I really don't understand why no one thought this was a really bad idea to even implement at all --- allowing popups with no browser controls.

I don't think this is such a novel idea either --- remember the fake "your computer is infected click here" popups that tried to look like the OS's? I've always used something other than the defaults for UI appearance, so besides the more obvious clues like having browser controls, they really looked off with things like their different titlebar colour and font.
I'm not up on all the details but if I use WebAuthn in a major browser can I trivially give a different id to every website or is it more like they all want to authenticate me as the same person joe@apple.com, jill@google.com, clippy@outlook.com etc,....
In this sense, isn't most research abandoned after the paper is written? But there are better and worse ways to do it.
Taken straight out of the "terms and conditions apply" fine print playbook :)
One of the columns in the linked table is "Private Right of Action" (under Rights of Consumer). I absolutely agree this is the single most important aspect of any privacy bill.

The IAPP is a licensing and education organization, not an advocacy organization like EFF. They are on the side of practitioners and organizations, trying to help them continue to do their work in ways that respect privacy. IAPP is the carrot, EFF is the stick.
We gave the geospatial features a try with a real estate dataset that contains ~50M rows. It's crappy to say the least. Half-baked features, poor performance, random crashes, barely documented gotchas with no good reason.

At least the MariaDB folks try to fix the problems that are passed down to them. MySQL just seems content to tick the box, "Yeah we have that feature too, please don't switch to PostgreSQL!" and leave it at that. MySQL is okay for typical CRUD workloads with old-fashioned scalar types, but don't expect much with respect to the newer, fancier features.
"Toxic" is so overused that it has become meaningless.

If you lean back in you armchair, get out of your feelings for a moment and think about all the great leaders, inspirers and creators, every single one of them would be considered by today's standards to be "toxic".

No wonder company culture is generally "toxic".

Toxic is wanting results.

Toxic is requiring structure.

Toxic is firing someone who is not performing.

Toxic is requiring sales.

Toxic is requiring profit.

Toxic is requiring your employees to be replaceable because guess, what -- they can resign (Example in the great resignations happening now) at any time.

Toxic is requiring evidence over feelings.

You know what's funny. All the people resigning from their jobs and starting their companies are going to be ending up "toxic" eventually.

Welcome to the club.
the author is obviously on the far left
"Menu" is so overdone. How about we call it "Start"?
"Increasing the speed limit on highways actually reduced fatalities because more people would eschew the city streets for the freeways."

That sounds wildly speculative and very much influenced by the specific metro. Most of the time in busy metros where those types of pedestrian and cyclist fatalities occur, traffic determines which route people take, not speed limit.

One thing we all seem to agree on is that most freeway speed limits are too low.
I don’t understand how “i” could be called a gimmick, if “sqrt(2)” is not. Or pi. Or as you point out “-1” for that matter.
True but why? There just be a really heavy reason to introduce something like this. I don't see it.
That seems like a reasonable sample size
It's more politically correct? There has been a push to make some terms more politically correct, such as instead of homeless, to unhoused; illegal immigrant to undocumented, etc.
Win95 (and newer) let apps create windows that are not visible and don't appear in taskbar.
The crux of the article:

> Great Resignation Statistics

The most common reason workers quit during the Great Resignation was toxic company culture (31%).

80% of respondents said the pandemic influenced their decision to resign.

Of employees who quit because of the pandemic, 41% did so because their employer didn’t enforce enough health and safety protocols, while 28% didn’t want to follow their organization’s protocols.

Nearly 1 in 4 people resigned after considering it for just one week or less.

About half (49%) of respondents gave one-week notice or less when they resigned, while 1 in 4 gave no notice at all.

1 in 8 employees ghosted their company completely. However, being ghosted by companies is the second-most frustrating situation when workers look for jobs (30%).

80% of people received a counteroffer from their employer when they resigned but still decided to leave.

55% of employees had a job lined up before they resigned. Of those, a surprising 53% reported a salary decrease, compared to 42% who reported an increase.

Respondents reported an average pay cut of $8,000 in their new role, but many would accept a greater pay reduction. Employees who quit but are still looking for jobs would accept an average pay cut of $23,000.

Workers who changed jobs during the Great Resignation were 47% more likely to be very satisfied in their new job compared to their old one.

56% of respondents expressed some regret about resigning, but if given the option, 58% wouldn’t return to their old jobs or wouldn’t return without major improvements.

A majority (56%) of workers who quit without a job lined up didn’t regret it.

Among workers who resigned during the Great Resignation, 35% still do not have jobs, and 50% of those have been unemployed for six months or more.

44% of people who changed jobs in the past year have considered resigning again in the next six months.
Keep in mind your fellow commenters are also drivers who have an inherent bias to maintain the status quo. If anything, they're probably BMW and Tesla drivers, too...
Wipe the motherf*** before it’s too late!
I'd wager there is a technical component that plays a bit here: During the economic "boom" phase, Japanese had plenty access to money and Japanese cameras, film etc.

Hiromix for instance started photography pretty early, and focus a lot on catching youth as its happening to her and her surroundings. She was taking a very large number of photos (as anyone should) from a relatively young age, on film. There must be people who have taken the same trajectory in the west, but thinking about the costs at the time I wouldn't expect it to happen at the same scale, and consequently the talent pool would be smaller in the end.

Japan and photography is a true love affair, I see the diversity of the photographers coming out of Japan as a testament to how they were free to put photography in their everyday life when in the west it looked to me more like a special occasions thing (reminds me of the Olympus "Pen" philosophy, of having a camera in everyone's bag, the same way we carry pens)
The mistake is at step 1 when you downloaded Firefox instead of Tor Browser.
Just this week I was on three different customer calls where I had to explain to a relatively technical user (they use our website on a daily basis for their job) what the hamburger menu in Chrome was. None of them understood that it was a thing that they could click on to get to other options. It's just not intuitive.
Awesome! I've always wanted a library that would be do interactive graph rendering -- I'd love to see this hooked up with egui such that you can detect clicks on nodes and highlight them or edit them.
Honestly it's kinda disappointing that the CGI library would not be included in Python if proposed today. Why would wsgiref get included then?

I get the arguments for a small standard library in theory, but given how absolutely nightmarish it is to deal with python requirements in a "will work every time" way, I don't know where we end up with the Python standard library in general.

Not making a slippery slope argument for the list of packages in this change. Just like, even when languages like Rust build for the ground up with good package management, everything requires 1000 different packages and it's a whole thing.

So if you don't have a great way of shipping dependencies, and on top of that the standard library is in "please don't let me get bigger", it makes me a bit sad.
Eek.

At least I'm sure the Firefox that comes in FreeBSD's package system doesn't do this. As with most Linux users. Another reason a FOSS OS is essential.
I think you need to update your knowledge about MySQL and not bang on about v5.1 and earlier.
BITB will work much better once we can compile and run popular browsers via WASM. Just look up the user agent, find the matching browser and render it to a draggable canvas. Obviously you'll find something off if you're not using Windows/MacOS. But that still leaves 99% of desktop users vulnerable.
QA is not rolled up in to software engineering. Developers are now expected to write UTs and ITs. Except in companies like Apple, where there are still Manual QA and SDET positions.
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I am guessing either a) nobody pursued this for that project or b) the implementation had some cutting-edge/proprietary/secret-sauce (AI algos, models, data, etc) involved that came from some other part of Google.
Their paper and this article both explain why this naive approach fails. Read at least one of them before assuming your simplistic and completely incorrect assessment satisfies the requirements of the underlying physics. This idea and any such idea fails - that is why their work is worth understanding. Simply mapping one vector space to another of a different dimension doesn't satisfy other requirements that the physics requires.

These authors aren't complete idiots.
Welp, I am a dumbass, hah!
I forgot to make it public; That's what happens when you submit a Show HN after a long day :-)
their ignorance is no excuse for escaping the law.
> Open sources is another word for "abandons".

They are not equivalent. Yes, it's disappointing; however, open sourcing it makes it easier for someone else to continue the relay race, rather than needlessly experience Groundhog Day.
Also, if they don't collect it, what's the point in even having it?
This site is likely not hosted out of a person's closet, hence you commenting here is likely a product of a data centre.

Ignoring this specific example, a majority of the population uses social media for leisure and online tools for work (email, banking, etc.).

A majority of interconnects between ISPs and networks are hosted in data centres too... so there wouldn't be much of an internet without them.

If you closed all data centres over night, the majority of the above would disappear and certainly would not be able to scale as large as it had without data centres... hence, a majority of people need data centres to maintain their current standard of living.
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There's a great little video on this subject by Roger Ballen[1][2] called

"You may be a photographer, but are you an artist?"[3]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ballen

[2] - https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G-SJBxGskBg/T_7C3kB4awI/AAAAAAAAA...

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sieUlqQIxT8
It's not just the internet that's not secure enough, the physical world is very insecure for most of us too. There are lots of entities in Russia that aren't even related to the government that have the ability to reach out and roughly touch the maintainer. Any crime syndicate that was impacted by this is a potential threat to him now. It's pretty reckless to indiscriminately cause damage this way.
These privacy laws are regulating interstate commerce and as such should be subject to only Federal jurisdiction.
I have a pet theory that the features driving men out of higher education entirely are the same driving women in higher education out of CS/phys/eng:

- mistreatment from/conflict with one or two administrators/teachers/profs

- feeling out of place or different from peers

- missing a small bit of foundation knowledge, feeling incompetent but no clear path to follow to catch up

- having obligations outside of education/training (ie family, working to survive)

- being more interested in other aspects of life, but having no way to do both simultaneously

A boy who's a little slow reading hates grade 11 english but likes shop and drops out of high school. He'll quickly realize he can ignore the teachers he hates, never do homework, and still make good money working construction. This isn't so different from a girl who didn't program in high school, fought her way out of a poor neighborhood into university but is sick of feeling different and constantly explaining her interest in strong emotions and slam poetry to upper/middle-class nerds in first year engineering who think that programming Raspberry Pis is a fun way to relax after finishing circuits homework. As soon as she meets some students in the geography department she feels way more included and "normal" and transfers asap. She still thinks computers, software, and circuits are cool and uses them in GIS classes, but electrical eng classes never talked about the social implications of their work. These examples are simplifications of friends of mine from high school, but I still think they're useful.

It would be benefit a lot of people if it were more normal to:

a) take 1-2 years more than normal to finish high school

b) have time between high school and university to work (not just menial jobs)

c) go to a technical/trades school, (work) and then go to university

d) take more then 4 years to complete a bachelors

e) have at least one class/year that forces good group cooperation in a non-technical task
This makes it possible to implement support for WebAuthn purely in software, making use of a processor's trusted execution environment or a Trusted Platform Module (TPM).

Hell no. Do NOT want. No no no no no, never.

A password is a simple concept. That stuff seems more aligned with incentives to create complexity, and thus increase possibility of things going wrong. Not to mention the overall dystopian nature of it all.
Come to any Australian city and try to get into a GP (who isn’t booked out for a month). Odds are the language barrier will prevent a lot of meaningful communication and you won’t get good help.
Toxic just means not sustainable essentially. You can’t last for very long when it’s toxic, unless you become toxic yourself
Unpopular opinion: people should take responsibility for their financial decisions.

Like I’m sorry you gave all your money to a scammer, or bought the wrong coin. But that ain’t my problem. And it isn’t societies either.
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> you’re still reliant on npm’s CDN being online during your builds

Why? I'm building my program out of components in my node_modules -folder. Why do I need internet?
You are correct, and that's the main reason why some tech companies lobby in favor of Federal privacy legislation.

This also brings up an important issue: Local Pre-emption. A federal law may, if Congress chooses, say that "states cannot make local laws on this topic." But it also may not, and states could still choose to implement stricter laws.[1] This aspect, along with Private Right of Action, are considered by the privacy community to be at least as important as what tracking is actually allowed.

[1] This is already the case for e.g. wiretapping laws: Federal law requires at least one party consent to recording a phone conversation. Some states have stricter requirements and require all parties consent.
> Boards just rubber stamp whatever the CEO wants

Boards often want the same thing because members usually own stock in the company. Make a lot of money in the short term, pump that into stock buybacks, profit. Shareholders want the same thing - they often aren't looking past the next 1-4 quarters, they want fast returns.
I don't think that's a remotely unpopular opinion. It's just not at all relevant to this case.
It’s because Patagonia doesn’t let you brand their stuff anymore and no one knows L L Bean exists.
The reasons are easily seen though. Corporate IT departments autodeploying, Linux packaging repos, people compiling from source.

Also, they could just ask, instead of adding more spyware. Like a survey.
I cannot figure out if Bellard’s creations are hobby projects or serious production libraries.
This one has a couple of issues: browsers have already settled on AVIF. And HEVC is patent encumbered which makes it not a good choice for deploying on devices.
Well, YouTube saw this coming and accelerated the bans on their platform. So perhaps the same will happen everywhere else.

On top of that they will bring ID verification just like how YouTube has already done so they were prepared.

Oh dear.
Then they won’t be able to - and in any case won’t be forced to - install this new version of Python. This is silly. If we rejected any change because 3 people might have some farfetched problem, there would never be any progress.

The reality is that it’s acceptable for a few people in absurdly rare edge cases to have a bit of trouble, when it’s justified by much greater gain for everyone else.
Very interesting, also it comes before the news that the nuclear pumped X-Ray laser concept came about from misreading the results of a test. Teller used this faulty data to imagine a satellite system that could shoot down 10s of missiles from each satellite. When that seemed to be 'too little', the capabilities of these satellites jumped by an two orders of magnitude twice, each time in response to criticism.

"It might be possible to generate as many as 100,000 independently
aimable beams from a single x-ray laser module, each of
which could be quite lethal even to a distant hardened object
[e.g., an RV] in flight. " https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1988/eirv15n44-19881104/e...

This was due to an imagined gain of 10^6 to 10^12 over the xray output of a single device. In the PDF it is given as fact that they were able to achieve these gains, where as it was found that there was never any evidence of any x-ray lasing gain found in any nuclear test.
Not foolish at all.

That's the sort of bespoke governance that Eric Ries' Long Term Stock Exchange is meant to enable and support.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Stock_Exchange
Not quite a horror story...

Over the course of about 7 years, I "amassed" options for about 100,000 shares ($0.10 each).

I got laid off in the great recession of 2009 and I was pretty annoyed at being laid off (I won't go into details, but I felt that there were many others who deserved the ax before I did).

After being laid off, I believe I had 6 months (maybe 12) to exercise my options.

Obviously, it would have cost me $10K to exercise everything.

But I was still annoyed and I decided to cut off my nose to spite my face: I exercised TEN DOLLARS WORTH (100 shares) for the petulant reason that it would simultaneously demonstrate that I had no faith in their viability and that it would cost them more than $10 in postage to invite me to yearly shareholder meetings.

Well, I got my 100 shares and two years later, I also got notice that they were GOING PUBLIC!!!

My heart SANK. Acting like a petulant child was going to cost me hundreds of thousands of $$$. Possibly millions, depending on how the IPO went.

Then I read the fine print. The IPO was going to involve a 6000:1 REVERSE split. In reality, I would have had about 17 shares if I had exercised everything.

Then, a few months later, the IPO was canceled.

Eventually, I received a check for $0.01 because the reverse split of my 100 shares amounted to essentially nothing.
I think you have a good point--there are shifting goal posts, and unreasonable cultural requirements from many angles. But could it also be true that we, as a society, are discovering that there are better ways of meeting human needs (esp. psychological), and so past "standard behaviors" of capitalism are less acceptable in light of that?
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