skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On an unrelated note, I imagine this can solve recaptchas and other simple non-visual challenges.

Can I make ACT-1 Sybil a few thousand people on mechanical turk?

Can I submit CVs with ACT-1 for entry-level full remote jobs and have it work for legacy companies, if those companies cannot setup ACT-1 themselves but provide a traditional human jobs interface?

Can I put an interface that interracts with the real world through controls and text on a webpage and have ACT-1 take a physical presence?
What Is a Difficult Decision?
> waiting for enough satellites to be in the sky overhead

Seriously, wtf? Look at some orbits. Satellites do not sit stationary over one location, except the ones called "geosynchronous satellites".

https://satellitemap.space/#

Edit: if Starlink is not available in a country it is for one of three reasons:-

- the country is not at the top of Starlink's priority list for connection (commercial reasons)

- the country wants nothing to do with anything based in the USA (politics)

- the country has an obstructive bureaucracy (corruption, stupidity).
Good. resources better spent for the at risk.
Hypothetically speaking, what if your parents stole that money from somebody else in a provable way?

Does it still rightfully belong to you?
I'm curious about the ownership, profits, and dividends to ownership for a private company. Obviously, details on this are not easy to come by. It seems like Patagonia is self-sustaining from a cash flow perspective.

So Patagonia is 50 years old and did an estimated $1.5 billion in revenues in 2022 (according to Wikipedia). From the article, it seems like Yvon, his wife, and his two children held both ownership and control. It might even have been 100% within the family, given that NYT explicitly writes that, "the family irrevocably transferred all the company’s voting stock, equivalent to 2 percent of the overall shares" and "The Chouinards then donated the other 98 percent of Patagonia"

I wonder how much of the company's profits over the years were reinvested back into the company and how much went to Yvon and the other Chouinards. Seems like most or all of his wealth derives from Patagonia and he lives modestly but comfortably.

EDIT: Even at a 1% profit margin, at $1.5 billion, that's still $15 million.
No but Apple could of course add the option. They fully control the MDM API.
Good for them for actually following science instead of the religion it had become. The problem of course is other countries that demand it, and no doubt will continue to demand Nth shots to appeal to their religious base, meaning people will who want to travel have to keep getting the shots anyway
Its absurd to take someone's opinion on an a completely unrelated issue and then apply it as a blanket denunciation of all their opinions or speech. Having an unorthodox opinion, even being a flat earther, says next to nothing about your expertise or knowledge in other areas. Bobby Fischer held many opinions that many would denounce: but if he was recorded speaking about the best chess openers then there is no reason to factor in his opinions on Semitic people groups. The two topics simply aren't related and it's unlikely that one is affected by the other. Likewise it's unlikely that this opinion piece on "sugar babies" is affected by the author's opinions regarding the legitimacy of the 2020 US presidential election. You cannot simply hop from one conclusion to another with no explanation and expect others to agree that you are making a cogent argument.

Further, claiming there may have been issues with or that you personally take issue with the logistics of the last United States presidential election is hardly akin to being a flat earther. The former represents a broad range of perspectives some of which are contrary to the facts and some of which are of a more philosophical or pragmatic nature and are worthy of discussion. The latter is a school of thought which hasn't held any real ground for hundreds or perhaps thousands of years. This kind of tattletale rhetoric is contrary to the spirit of serious discussion and debate which HN is known for. If it had not become so common, I would simply write it off as trolling or perhaps your confusion as to the purpose of this site. At this point, however, I think I speak for many when I say that you ought to save that kind of foolishness for either Reddit or Twitter where it will be applauded.
One of the main purposes atm for the verified checkmark is to prevent people from impersonating accounts by using usernames that visually look similar, e.g. @BillClinton vs @BiIIClinton
BTW, here's the feedback form!
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Beauty at the intersection of humanity and AI images
A process of generating beautiful images that are a collaboration between a designer/artist and assisted by Dall-E AI in the style of Annie Leibovitz.
It reminds me of Bear on Mac.

Very nicely done, Qt is a great framework!
You still might want to follow the people you're already following
Negative. I’ve been using it since the update with no issues.
Pixel with one of the security-focused ROMs, maybe?
Fair 'nuff.

I sincerely hope it works out. I have become somewhat cynical, and maybe that colors things.
The colder it gets, the lower the efficiency. In a more extreme climate like Fairbanks, the efficiency pretty much drops down to resistive heating (1.0).

If you're set on electrifying there, it might make more sense to investigate a ground-source heat pump which leverages the ambient underground temperature for heat exchange.
Having deal with the same crowd in Vancouver, their think process is-

Build more -> Only luxury apartments will be built -> luxury apartment builders will make money -> morally wrong

Nothing else matters.

Tidbits- One of the city councilors for Vancouver is known to be a staunch NO voter- any development that is not 100% below market will get a NO from her. Her argument is that existing 50 year old apartments are being torn down and will displace the residents.

So someone found a news article from 50 years ago, showing the same activist, decrying that the buildings are being constructed and displaced the existing tenants from existing buildings.

But somehow 50 years later she is defending the same type of buildings she was fighting against 50 years ago, using the exact same argument.

You can't reason with people like them.
I think the discussion around privacy is too often framed in a defensive manner. Instead, I think the conversation should be reframed as a matter of a right to know. In other words, the burden of proof is not on those whose information is being sought, but those who seek that information about others or from others. If you want to know something, you must have a justification for knowing. The presumption is in favor of privacy. Furthermore, consent alone is not enough to justify seeking or sharing some kinds of information. (This should be read in a common sense way. I am not proposing a society of antisocial and hostile loners terrified to have a conversation with anyone.)

Take medical information. Who has a right to know that you have cancer? Depression? A spouse, the parent of a young child are entitled to health information as a general principle because of the nature of those relationships. But is Google, some guy at Google, your grocer, some colleague entitled? No. However, a criminal case may require obtaining such information and so the state may have a legitimate, conditional, and very selective claim to that kind of information in certain circumstances.

Privacy is necessary for human beings to flourish, at least in this life. As a practical matter, knowing something about someone can impede the good of both the person about whom something is known as well as the knower. It can negatively affect human relationships. Knowing the boundaries does require sound prudential judgement, of course, which is why if you're unsure, it can help to ask yourself what the justification for inquiring or disclosing is in a given situation. (Gossips are people who lack this sort of prudence and suffer from intemperate curiosity.)
There are definitely still places in the U.S. where air-source heat pumps aren't economical. That said, two big things for most folks to keep in mind:

1. Air-source heat pumps are getting better and better, quickly, so that answer is changing

2. 93% of US homeowners would save money with air-source heat pumps vs. their existing equipment, and only 3% of homes would see an annual utility bill increase above $70. (these from backtesting the national sample of homes from the EIA's RECS survey)

A lot of people think "really really cold" means it hits zero a few times each winter. They don't know what living in Fairbanks is like :), and chances are that heat pumps can keep up with their local weather.
I used NetBeans for C++ dev as well. But I had to stop several/many versions ago. They hard-coded a bunch of C++ version stuff, and it stopped getting updated. So when C++ was updated, beyond that, I stopped using NetBeans.

I've since progressed to VisualCode and CMake.
Are you sure this is the lockdown mode? If your phone is enrolled in an MDM the admin can control which apps you can copy/paste between and normally this includes just the corporate-sanctioned apps.
Deeper Connect – Hardware P2P DVPN
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Search 5.8B images used to train popular AI art models
Develop a healthy daily routine. Cooking, exercise, walking.
Big plus to ground-source here! Everything shown on the site today is air-source only.
Not disagreeing, but I really hope/wish you’re wrong. This would reflect profoundly short-sighted voters.
There's no value proposition to vaccination at this point.
> They typically give it all away.

If they give it away (many don't) they specifically choose where it goes, and often it's some legacy BS, like overpaying to get their name on a university library. Alternatively that money ends up going to their children and it stays in the family for generations.

Billionaires will not save us.
How so? By lying to regulators ?
Of course she should have stopped that as a tenured professional / politician, but it's perfectly understandable she did that as a young applicant based on her family lore.

It goes to show these policies are clumsy and absurd. They will only make matters so much worse.

Is it reasonable to ask someone to make an election that will result in them not getting or getting fired prematurely ? We're talking about food on the table here.
> "avoiding the sexist term"

Sexist term... "freshman"?

You reveal that you had no intention of engaging honestly.
While the parenrt is an ironic comment, color fonts were a staple of computer graphics design during 90s and palettized graphics like VGA 320x200x256 mode. The art was lost with TrueType and now it is coming back. People who have used Deluxe Paint Animator remember this.
What science? As far as I can tell most scientists recommend getting vaccinated.
I agree it would be nice to have the ability to toggle some of these on without the others.

Regarding USB devices, Apple has offered a setting for years in "Face ID & Passcode", under "Allow Access When Locked" called "USB Accessories". If you turn that off, then your iPhone won't allow USB accessories to connect if the phone has been locked for more than an hour. Not quite the same as the Lockdown setting, but better than nothing?
It's fair for employees to ask, it's fair to be told know.

"You cannot apply copyright to the knowledge of your employees. "

? Absolutely you can, legally.

But the issues is just as much moral one.

The owners put it together and paid for the employees to make all sorts of mistakes etc..

It would be shameful if they did that.

All of that said I don't think that's the case.
Ah yes, the science.
> We expect that many people will be infected with covid-19 during autumn and winter.

Ah yes, the “guess we might as well give up” strategy.
Here's an idea - instead of assuming I'm being lazy and looking for a magic bullet why don't you consider this: I think this QR code thing might be a great example of a tractable, relatively small problem that lets me sink my teeth into the computer vision stuff that usually is presented in a very abstract way.

In order to do that efficiently, a nice annotated codebase would help a lot. So back to the question:

Do you know of any such codebases?
You are misreading that study: Only 25% (299/1222) of the children and teens in the study were vaccinated, and yet only 7 deaths over 4 months in 23 states.

The conclusion is that the vaccine can work, and yet be unnecessary. Even with 75% unvaccinated, there were barely any deaths.

Kids simply do not need the vaccine.

Pay attention to how every one of the articles you linked simply glosses over the tiny number of patients admitted to hospital. Just because something works does not mean it's necessary.

And it's quite distressing to see how any criticism of vaccine policy is labeled as "lies and disinformation". Would you like to burn a witch next?

It's OK for someone to disagree with you, without you accusing them of lying.

And as I have found typical in these types of debates is the completely blind spot toward natural immunity. For some reason vaccine "pushers" seem to ignore that it even exists.

Tell me: Who is better protected, someone who was fully vaccinated 2 years ago, or someone who never was vaccinated, but recovered from covid 1 month ago?
A variety of sensor data. Nothing coming straight off an ADC needs 32-bits, but I do have need for it in various cases.

* The sensor system wants to do unit conversion for me. This data doesn't really have 32-bits of dynamic range, but for archival purposes I'd like to store the exact bits without adding another quantization step - that can happen later.

* The sensor system combines multiple ADC channels HDR style. I'd rather get the raw readings and do the combining myself, but don't always have access to it.

* Some more advanced preprocessed results, akin to a GPS solution. Linear predictor based algorithms are perfect here since the full possible set of values does have high dynamic range, but the upper bits change very slowly.
Do you find yourself searching "dvd bouncing logo" for work quite often?
When one looks at the industry as a whole, one might conclude that the aim is to turn the working class against each other. It's almost as if the thing corporate America is most afraid of is a unified workforce.
In the past year I reported many of these. The most common pattern was some WhatsApp number with funny characters. In most cases the message stays there.

I can't believe it's not easy to filter those. Who uses 10 consecutive weird chars in a message of 15 chars? And most of those are numbers.

I stopped reporting because clearly YouTube doesn't care. And there was a more clear case a couple of years ago with inappropriate comments using sexualized emojis. YouTube did nothing until the outrage got to the press. It's like they only focus in finding excuses to demonetize people leaning into wrongthink.
tweet explaining: https://twitter.com/matdryhurst/status/1570143343157575680

" Releasing our first Spawning tool to help artists see if they are present in popular AI Art training data, and register to use our tools to opt in and opt out of AI training

I think we have created a way to make this work out well for everyone"

and StableDiffusion's Emad Mostaque agreeing to support the initiative
https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1570158985852121090
Well it all starts with seductive but mostly bullshit idea that once all the data is transformed and put in some common data lake some amazing, deep insights can be extracted which were not possible before. And there is large budget to be spent on developers, hardware, software, consulting and so on. Who will say no to this?
Yes, it really was. The FBI investigated and found as much.

https://www.denverpost.com/2016/09/03/fbi-report-platte-rive...
This should be called "Giving a Mouse a Cookie."
We have no idea what innovation might have come because it was overrun by earlier deliberately monopolistic efforts driven by the aggressive and arguably unnecessary consumption of marginal human lives.

Just because the fastest way of building something can win doesn’t mean we should do it that way. In fact, we almost always shouldn’t do it that way, upon inspection.
You might want to keep following th- WAIT COME BACK DON'T LEAVE
If you regularly get below 0F for extended periods of time, it’s not great; you’ll need electric resistive backup (expensive per btu) or ground source (more expensive up front but quite cheap to operate).
You're never 'safe' by toggling any switch. Opsec needs to be approached holistically and goes far beyond technology. This setting could be part of that but not the core. I would expect the people really at risk to be fully aware of this (or have people in their entourage that are). The best thing to do if you have state-sponsored adversaries is to assume your phone is being hacked.

I have seen some people in such positions and sometimes they don't even use a smartphone at all. I don't think they would be tricked into feeling 'safe' with something like this. I wonder if it will actually prevent the attack vectors used by something like Pegasus.

I think it will make a lot of people feel badass though :) Like most people that bought Phil Zimmermann's Blackphone.
I have a hunch that the chief issue with the cloud is that it enables and promotes easy sprawl of the infrastructure.

It's just so easy to "scale" your way out of glaring performance bugs such as unoptimized queries where that becomes the default behaviour of most engineering departments as horizontal scaling is often already baked into the different cloud services.

On the other hand, hunting for the root cause of performance issues is a complex, uncertain process especially with the crazy Rube Goldberg contraptions that most cloud solutions tend to mutate into.
> I can't see how increasing regulation can do anything but distort the market

You're saying it like distorting the market is always wrong.

> What are we going to do, start getting rid of free markets?

Free market is an abstraction, which doesn't exist in reality.
Which covid vaccine can I take to prevent being infected?
>The major issue is systemic instability and unnecessary poverty.

Jon Stewart once put it in a different frame: he called better policy "revolution insurance". At least that frames it in a way as to what the rich have to gain instead of solely focusing it on what they have to lose.
Bit by bit, it is becoming the new influenza. Not saying we're there yet, but that's clearly where we're headed.

Now, influenza kills lots of people; in 2018 over 60,000 people were killed by influenza in the USA alone. But we don't have border closing or "show your papers" or all the rest for influenza, and we're not going to.
> They typically give it all away.

To their children, perhaps? Or to a non-profit they control, for tax reasons? Sure.

But in general, I believe, actual philanthropy is a relatively small part of the typical billionaire’s portfolio.
The lesson for 'management' is get better contracts and don't invest and develop people who will walk out with your stuff.

Item 'A' is a bit more reasonable, people not getting paid is bad.

But item 'B' is not. Sorry, you don't just get to ask for a better deal after the fact, because it finally worked out and now in 20/20 hindsight you want a cut.
Looks like they're preparing for sideloading (LFG!)
serious question - instead of debating the issue, why do you quiz them on their personal knowledge of history? If you'd like to make a point, make it. but demanding they justify their knowledge of history isn't a point in your favor, it rather appears you're incapable of providing a logical argument so will ad hominem their knowledge of history instead.

Who are you to quiz random people on the internet on historical context, and what does that have to do with the legality of hiring or firing based on race?

It seems to me like you're trying to justify institutionalized systematic racism on the basis of 'historical context'.
Thanks for the feedback! We can make those sliders better, thanks for the suggestions.

Yes, unfortunately we haven't seen great resources for the rest of the world, either. The same approach and core model here would work elsewhere, but we'll need to source historical data on housing stock, residential energy prices, grid emissions, weather to get it up and running elsewhere. If you know anyone that would be interested in taking that on, definitely let us know!
https://blog.unicode.org/2022/09/announcing-unicode-standard...

Seems like it might be a better link
I thought it reduces the severity of the illness, does it not?
At the beginning they didn’t make it available to children (below 18) anymore.
Then UK followed for the children since September 1’st.
Now those unter 50 in DK.
It’s getting interesting and looking more and more like science instead of The Science.
There is a great solution! Give Linux a try. /s

In all reality, very OS has their quirks, and I see this _all_the_time_in_Windows_!
What’s your proposed fix? Like if I create the next Star Wars, am I not “allowed” excessive “potential energy” somehow? How would that even work?
> Who is the blue check verifying that they are

This is exactly my issue with the whole phenomena. They're utterly useless as anything but a weird form of status symbol.

Hell, Twitter may as well sell them, might help with the revenue issue.
Sanity will prevail in Denmark, at least.
Another new account posting what will surely turn into a very civil thread.
What is the alternative here? The majority of the governments discretionary money is allocated toward the military. Should Bill Gates and Elon Musk being putting half their money to developing better jets and missiles? I think it is much better than their money goes to curing diseases, environmental causes, electric cars, and space. A few billionaires choosing to do nothing over than passing it down to children is a small price to pay.
>"This is like King Charles the 3rd complaining about his dripping pen (true current news story). I'm sure it incredibly annoying to him but to the rest of people it's laughable."

Given the enormous amount of stress and pressure he is currently under, not just as the new King, but also having just had his mother die, I'm impressed at his composure. I suspect most of us would have snapped and shown far greater emotion.
Both seems like a bad idea. Bitcoin on the other hand, made me a shitton of money :D

Have a nice day.
Thanks for sharing the actual letter. Contrary to what the New York Times report (OP) would have you believe, Yvon's note doesn't say anything about climate change. Rather, it emphasizes "the environmental crisis," "defending nature," "the health and vitality of the natural world," and the Earth’s finite resources.

There is so much more to environmental conservation than just "climate change," and Patagonia has done much more around e.g. removing dams, minimizing PFCs in their products, recycling and increasing longevity of materials, and other actions that protect air, land, forests, rivers and oceans, and which encourage sustainable energy production.

Dear NYT and fellow readers, please don't throw this diversely interested company into some politically expedient climate change bucket. Their view on the environment is so much more.
Does anyone actually _use_ My Documents for anything legitimate these days?
> This is never going to be the case, and is hurting everyone in the system.

Yeah, and changing it will cause revolt. It would be going back to saying people "just aren't equal", ie. the idea of nobility. And if there's one guarantee in life: it very quickly won't be actual achievement that determines if you get ahead in such a system.