skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not. You can't simply employ foreigners, you won't be able to do the administrative work and you can easily get into trouble for employing illegals.

So when companies pay remote workers, they often have a representation in that country. This usually means(depending on the country) that the American company that "employs" these remote workers actually pay money to a company in the poor country and that company pays the local taxes and the workers. There are companies specialising in this, so they setup companies in many countries and when you hire a remote worker from legal point of view the worker actually works for this intermediary and pays local taxes. Another popular option is, to setup your own company and do the same thing but skip the middleman.

When you setup factories in poor countries, that's considered an investment. Again, you setup a local company that is fully or partly owned by the you(depending on the country, there are restrictions) and that local company pays local taxes and operates in accordance to the local laws. When you bring the produce home to sell at American prices, you import that as if you are importing it from any other foreign company.
Listen to founders who are 10 steps ahead of you, not 1000
Uneasy questions about for reverse image search engines & privacy (PimEyes etc)
There was recent scandal [1] about companies crawling the web for pictures and then offering an easy search engine that allows you to search for pictures similar to the ones you upload.

I tried PimEyes and it was shocking and relieving and the same time. Shocking was how much of the webs they crawled (I could find pictures in really remote corners of the web) it was relieving that there were a number of false positives in the result.

My questions are:

1) How about false negatives?

2) Why is this news only blowing up now? The standard building blocks like image segmentation for faces, SIFT features and basic machine learning similarity measures were already available 10 years ago, so it seems the tech was there.

3) Some sites [2] claim unusual feats of face detection (e.g. people wearing masks). Is there any research on how much better the state-of-the-art for face recognition is than what humans are able to do? Is there any research on how much of your face you would need to hide to currently evade the state-of-the-art?

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[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/24/tech/cher-scarlett-facial-recognition-trauma/index.html

[2] https://eudatasharing.eu/news/pimeyes-thorough-facial-recognition-tool-accessible-everyone-raises-privacy-concerns
Looks like it was deleted. From the wayback machine:

Hi All,

We all knew that this day was coming. The day where Ethereum FINALLY merges into Proof of Stake after years of development and delay. As a result, Ethereum can no longer be mined. This is a devastating blow to the mining community as a whole and signals that /r/GPUMining and the corresponding discord server are ready to be shut down.

Yes, there are still coins out there that are minable. Go ahead and go for it, but most of them pose an extremely high risk and the moderators aren't comfortable keeping this subreddit going knowing that it will be used as a platform used to shill and push scamcoins. People already do push shill and scamcoins in this subreddit and discord, but the moderators have done an excellent job of filtering out the obvious shills.

We will keep this subreddit viewable, but we will no longer allow new posts. The discord server will be soon deleted and only /r/gpumining will remain in read-only mode.

While /r/GPUMining will be over, we still encourage you to get involved in crypto communities, join teams, and help push this technology forward to benefit the greater good.

We hope you got in early and made your bag before it was too late.

Thank you for all of the fun through the ups and the downs. We'll see you all around soon!

Thank you,

/r/GPUMining Mod Team
I know some friends who would prefer to play this in their native language, so I can't wait for the i18n: https://github.com/wikispeedruns/wikipedia-speedruns/issues/...
Of course disabling the device would be bad, as it is somebody else property.

However the bus service is, at least in part, subsidised by ads. So, while not free, exactly, it is cheaper.
It seems precisely the same. But now it is a problem, because it benefits the worker instead of the business and country/state.
Wow! Even if results need improvements, it's impressive see the development speed of these projects.
Can a robot laugh with you?: Shared laughter generation for empathetic dialogue
‎Binaural beats using scittle
Your argument was lost a hundred years ago or more. There are many regulations on businesses. On their speech, on their pricing, on the products, on hiring practices. The list is quite large.

AT&T can't restrict who can use their network to make phone calls based on the political views or the content of the call. Why should Google, Facebook, or Twitter? Especially when special liability exemptions were made without which they likely wouldn't even be in business.
that anxiety is not your fault, nor is it your wife's fault. and unwillingness to acknowledge it may even be an inability to do so. a lot of people go through some kind of trauma during their childhood, and who knows what your wife went through to come out with that anxiety. it can take people decades to understand what their childhood did to their life, and for some therapy is needed to help unraveling things. as long as you both do your best, your children will understand when they grow up.
>a de facto monopoly

This isn't a terribly meaningful distinction. There are a dozen+ editing tools out there, most of them are pretty good and free. If Photoshop/Illustrator have 90% of the market because they are superior products, I'm not sure how much the government could/should do.

Apple controls something like 90% of all mobile phone profits across the entire industry. I'm not sure how breaking them would actually provide any consumer benefit.
Ethereum Classic Hashrate up 500% in 24 hours
If it doesn't work, you don't have to accept its recommendation. You just keep coding.
I have nothing but praise for Photopea. Having used it in the past, it's great for things that I might otherwise use macOS Preview (or similar utilities) for.

However, Photopea is at least a couple of orders of magnitude simpler than the Adobe apps I mentioned. It'd be interesting to compare to Photoshop 1.0 (1987), though!
Apparently dogs have been objectively measured to be twice as intelligent as cats: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dog-cat-b...
Integer factor graphs are sparse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_graph#Message_passing_o...

Compared to the Powerset graph that includes all possible operators and parameter values and parentheses in infix but not Reverse Polish Notation, a correlation graph is sparse: most conditional probabilities should be expected to tend toward the Central Limit Theorem, so if you subtract (or substitute) a constant noise scalar, a factor graph should be extra-sparse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem_for_dire...

What do you call a factor graph with probability distribution functions (PDFs) instead of float64s?

Are Path graphs and Path graphs with cycles extra sparse? An adjacency matrix for all possible paths through a graph is also mostly zeroes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_graph

Methods of feature reduction use and affect the sparsity of a sparse matrix (that does not have elements for confounding variables). For example, from "Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) versus principal components analysis (PCA)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_analysis :

> For either objective, it can be shown that the principal components are eigenvectors of the data's covariance matrix. Thus, the principal components are often computed by eigendecomposition of the data covariance matrix or singular value decomposition of the data matrix. PCA is the simplest of the true eigenvector-based multivariate analyses and is closely related to factor analysis. Factor analysis typically incorporates more domain specific assumptions about the underlying structure and solves eigenvectors of a slightly different matrix.
Unfortunately as we've seen from email, if there's no system for silencing posters you get drowned in spam. The history evolved as follows, and this is how I'd expect it to go for any "decentralized" comms system:

- various private blocklists pop up identifying alleged spammers. These have a false positive rate, but they're useful enough to become popular

- deliverability starts to become an issue; some people can't deliver because they're on a blocklist

- people start to notice that a big, popular service has both good antispam and good deliverability

- after a while, everyone's back on big, popular services which occasionally false-positive ban people.
We do not use Twitter to present the game directly to players, but rather as a networking platform. We are looking for Youtubers, streamers and journalists there, who in turn are looking for new content there.
I can't recall seeing any human studies on mRNA vaccines before the Pfizer one, which was unblinded and the control group vaccinated after six months. I also don't understand why this was done, since there will never exist any long term high quality data because of this.
Roger Federer announces his retirement from the ATP Tour and grand slams
It's amazing how well you seem to understand some of this stuff but aren't able to apply that knowledge in a holistic way.
We are talking about situations where the purpose is to work remotely on vacation. This is an extremely common scenario.

As I said, it is a matter of degree.
How would it work? I mean, I can imagine framing me for a felony and getting me banned from internet access as part of my sentence, but are there less extreme procedures?

EDIT: Maybe breaking into my email server and sending out spam to poison my IP. That’s conceivable, and would partially ban me from sending out email.
Your experience illustrates what Bitcoin folks predict will happen with CBDCs.
> I believe faculty at Kent (UK) had some kind of hand in building it too.

That's correct! Michael Kölling, one of the original authors, was a lecturer who wrote it originally. All of OOP classes were taught with BlueJ, but we were allowed to other editors, though not many did.
Apple Overtakes Tesla as Most-Shorted Stock, Ending Run of 864 Days
Nethack, Omega... Angband... Those games are so deep. A true evolutionary sweet spot. I was in love/addiction for a long time.

Naturally I have given much thought to what the next step might be.

No, not prettier pictures, realtime or 3d. All those newfangled mmorpgs took the obvious, and wrong, turn.

Sometimes I think that a different tesselation (than square grid. Something with more directions). And variable size icons.

Would that detract?
Hopefully Figma won't go under the CC and then there won't be a free version anymore.
I love that FOSS exists and helps fight centralization and stagnation, but I worry that it will be seen as an example of competition. I have to wonder if this is one of the driving forces behind the epidemic of relicensing to be able to compete. If you can't seriously compete in a marketplace because the competition is overpowered, then taking some of the most popular FOSS solutions private and paid ends up being one of the only real ways to compete, and one of the only ways for those contributors to feel adequately compensated for their efforts.

I have to wonder if stricter antitrust could help push back against some of the erosion of FOSS licenses (IMO) that we've seen in recent years. The whole "build something to compete with X and get your exit by being acquired by X" strategy can't be long-term sustainable, can it?
Within the EU, it would likely be considered an invasion of worker privacy (indiscriminate screening of where employees are logging in from).

Even if it weren't an invasion of privacy, as you say, companies want to be able to point and say 'look, we have a policy, you aren't allowed!' and blame workers for breaking the rules rather than trying to solve the (admittedly complex) tax regulations about working outside the country you are normally employed in.

But it's also convenient not to know.
Plenty of reasons.

For many companies the transition to remote during covid was a massive drop in performance of their staff. For developers, IT and the like, most of us had some experience, if not had already transitioned, but in those industries that hadn't, it's easy to look at those two years and say "this was worse".

Unless your company is VERY focused on remote staffing, collaboration is just easier in person for most roles. Add in time zone differences and it gets even more difficult.

Some people are bad at working remotely at home. Especially if there are distractions in their home office. (Like my wife, my dogs, my daughter, etc.) It can be hard to get others to take working from home seriously. I've gone as far as to rent an office for myself to go to every day.

When remote becomes a possibility, the idea of living elsewhere soon follows for many people. (as in this article) Even without crossing national borders, many US companies have tax and legal implications across state lines. Even supporting benefits for employees becomes more difficult as almost all health insurance networks are state based.

There are no doubt a thousand and one people that could reply "But not me, why should I change" but the simple truth is many people are easier to get higher quality work out of in person in an office, and an office is easier to manage than a distributed workforce.
Saying that people are complacent and expecting the audience of a site called Hacker News to be mindful of their self-sovereignty is far from "blaming users for their problems".

The fact that an older individual shares one idea with the younger generation does not exclude the possibility of it being a generational divide.

Kudos, though, for also sharing the younger trait of treating every argument as something about their own identities.
Ask HN: How do you configure Postgres for parallel queries?
I am trying to get my Postgres server to run queries as fast as possible. I have a table with about 7.5M rows and 22 columns (Chicago crime data) and have created appropriate (I think) indexes on the columns I want to query against.

I have created my own DB engine and try to benchmark it against other RDBMS offerings like Postgres. Unlike some benchmarks, I don't try to cherry-pick queries that make my system seem faster. I want the other DBs to run as fast as possible.

In this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICKCkWMZE I ran three typical queries and timed them using default settings for Postgres. After I recorded that video, I adjusted the following config parameters for parallel queries:

max_worker_processes = 32
max_parallel_maintenance_workers = 32
max_parallel_workers_per_gather = 32
parallel_leader_participation = on
max_parallel_workers = 32

This sped up the queries on my machine (Ryzen 5950x with 16 cores/32 threads) but not as much as I hoped.

Query 1 went from 685 ms to 370 ms.
Query 2 went from 1259 ms to 933 ms.
Query 3 went from 5011 ms to 4718 ms.

They are still significantly slower than my system. I want the benchmark to be as fair as possible.

Does anyone know of other parameters which will increase the speed even more?
What do you think is a better way?
For better exercise, speed up or slow down:

https://www.runnersworld.com/training/a20866689/why-crawling...
DBM is the persistence solution of 1979. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBM_(computing)
I think that's exactly how it would have gone done except for the fact Teledyne is accused of replacing the counterfeit parts when the board was sent to them for inspection, which would almost certainly prove they knew they were fake.
Looks like you can self host with a docker container. That's very cool.

Can I import from figma?
The way cats work is that they're much more intelligent than they ever let on, apparently. A cat is just too smart to stoop to the level of a human being!
The safety of occupants in a car is directly influenced by the car itself.

Those other issues are obscured by tragedies of the commons.

If you install a carbon neutral HVAC system in your Florida home, it doesn’t decrease your probability of hurricane damage due to climate issues.
I mean, taxes are a real thing and you have to pay them based on where you (the employee) live and do work. In the US for state income tax, it's a confusing mix of both lived location and worked location in various amounts by governments with a "claim" and with plenty of exceptions to go around. Consulting companies have had to deal with it forever (and states have "handled" forever), because you live in Miami, doing work for a company based in LA, and you travel to your client in NYC for 3 days a week for the whole year (60% of your income "generated" there). This is now a complicated Florida, New York, California scenario.

So the choice isn't Big Brother companies who want to know where you are at all times and respectful companies who allow you to get your work done how you want. It's between companies who are following the applicable tax laws or those who are not. A company that is structurally opting to not follow laws seems untenable. A company is a legal construct in many ways. Whether or not the employee can commit something like tax fraud is perhaps a less interesting question, because, yeah, you can probably cheat on your taxes.
This isn’t crypto “hype.” It’s not going to impact the price of Ethereum. At least it’s not hype in my opinion. It’s just an impressive engineering feat.

Given crypto isn’t going to die tomorrow, it’s good to see Ethereum has sunset the combustion engine for the EV (Proof of Work -> Proof of Stake). Even if you hate Ethereum, reducing electricity usage of the network by 90%+ is admirable.
The automatic transmission should be abolished first. And all energetic cars should be in golf cart pedal mode.

Whether it's on the highway or around neighborhoods with speed bumps and pedxing, you see (and hear) cars speeding away only to endanger the next person at the next stop sign or traffic light, or car in front of them.

(I can "1 pedal drive" my manual down a hill in 2nd or 3rd, go a reasonable speed, automatically be slowing to go over a speed bump)
Real-time antivirus scanning likely doesn't help. Most Linux users are unlikely to have this running in the background.
There's a common misconception that once you have >51% you can do anything. This isn't true. There's plenty of mischief you might get away with (censoring, double spending), but you can't transfer other peoples money without their private key, and you can't change the rules of the protocol. You can probably tank the value of the currency by doing large enough double spends and causing problems, but in PoS importantly you're hurting yourself more than anyone else, while in PoW, you still have a bunch of useful hardware left over after the attack, and with hash power marketplaces you can attack a PoW chain while having more or less no investment in the chain itself.
The individual is the ultimate minority. Every government with the scope and ambition to place financial limits on private lives is a policy failure.
> That is not true. You just made that up didn’t you?

> What is compelling you to spread misinformation?

My source is https://www.sst.dk/da/corona/Vaccination point 10
Kids and families are different, but do keep in mind that there is a world of difference between an infant and a 1-year old like the grandparent (perhaps literally?) poster was talking about.

There is nothing inconsistent about holding an infant and then sleep-training a 1 year old.
Why do anti-car people not seem to understand that people don't want to ride a bike everywhere? You can't just tell someone to completely change their lifestyle to avoid potential problems, and then act like they are the insane ones for not wanting to listen. I want a car. I like my car. Demanding that people give up their ability to get in a car and drive somewhere so that all of America's infrastructure can be changed is insanity.

>The thing that's happening right now is that many large cities have more or less enabled the possibility of carless transport.

I actually like to leave the cities I live in sometimes. Or maybe I don't live in a city, and I want to visit it with my car.
I prefer to think that I'm learning $x much faster because I don't have to go hunting documentation nearly as often.
Chia plotting managed to get banned from all cloud providers in a month.

It's also wasting by actively destroying storage disks.
Works for Metafilter. Surprised it's not more popular.
I would claim the total amount you've spent on Nitro since you first made your account. That was an investment into your account and its history, and now it's gone. You sound like a sympathetic plaintiff. You have a shot. Best case, you get an actual human to look at your situation. Worst case, you're out filing fees and end up back where you started.
> had to

Or didn't have to, instead improving what they already have.

I wonder if their aim is to own the designer's pipeline, from raw concepts to sharing finished work, nudging price hikes over time? All within Adobe walls and everyone agreeing to Adobe terms. I'm sure it's all fine and not creepy at all.

A designer recently sent me XD links to review, and for the most part it was a smooth experience to preview those assets and designs. She seemed to like XD.

Other times I get Figma links, and it's gonna be weird if they're both Adobe.

For me I can find one criticism of Figma. It's loose. Gets messy when there's lots of pieces spread out. Sometimes I want an anchoring page, latched, not zoom slippery... just constrained for my viewing control. Figma doesn't want you doing such things, it wants you hovering above a carpark looking down at the free and occupied spaces. That said, I haven't spent a huge amount of time in Figma, I log out quickly.
You are saying that someone cannot write about marijuana without being a crank? Not a very convincing point

He is the first journalist to take twitter to court and get unbanned, so he is in fact already a historical journalist, wether you agree with him or not.
Things like this make us SUPER valuable and fast: https://www.uiprep.com/
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I thought it was “to make the world a better place.” ;)

https://youtu.be/B8C5sjjhsso
Bitcoin doesn't even use linked lists (it's merkle trees). Similar with other coins.