skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My standard response - I see a really big difference between private corporations operating under rules of democratic government (with both of them being bad in many ways) and state sanctioned company, operating under the rules of an authoritarian regime.

And merely pointing a fact that China is an authoritarian state is NOT sinophobia, and please don't use arguments like that to try to shutdown discussion.

I've also seen myself few big-tech companies throwing literally hundreds of millions of dollars at ways to protect their infrastructure from USA government eavesdropping on their infrastructure. That's just not a possibility in an authoritarian state.

And if you don't see reasons why giving very powerful, authoritarian regime full access to huge amount data about people is a problem - well, history books can show you some.
Used meetup a while back and met lots of cool folks - super excited to use lunarpad!!
I Built a Computer in Magic: The Gathering
> Western water use and water rights are broken. They can't be fixed as long as they are massive welfare projects.

Absolutely! There is a government-imposed ceiling on the price of water in the West, way below what the market would bear. No wonder the Colorado hasn't reached the ocean in years.
JDK 19 Release Notes
I remember feeling similarly. I also don't remember feeling as though he was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Not only the slowest, it also uses the most energy of all browsers on Mac. Scrolling the old Reddit spikes the CPU to 10x more than Brave.
You can easily spend a few grand on lenses for a system (say Canon DSLR or Sony Mirrorless) which is a reason why, if you want to upgrade, you get a better body in the same system you already use.

I switched from Canon to Sony but that was because I lost my camera and only had one working lens at the time (believed back then a wide angle prime is all you need.). I didn’t know how I would make it w/o Canon USM lenses (which closely integrated manual and automatic focus) but I found nothing but complaints about the autofocus on Canon full frames unless you drop $6000 on a top of the line body.
No, we're just non-US people not seeing the difference between US agencies forcing FB/Google etc to hand over our data, or China forcing TikTok.

Or even US people believing their data can be misused more by their own government, than a country they will never visit.

Also, my data on Fb/Google is much, much more personal than whatever TikTok has on me.
Do we want to talk about labor conditions in China and how that contributes to becoming a Trillion Dollar company?
When I was a little kid in the 80s, there was a SQRT function on my calculator and I would typ in numbers then hit that button and log the results in a scratch pad...

and the thing is that even using the M/MR/MC feature was foreign to me...
You said they are not comparable. What does that mean? Skin color and religion are superficial differences when it comes to death and suffering.
A spreadsheet with two cells only. Take that bloatware excel!
Hypothetically speaking, why doesn’t someone make a proof of concept. Cheat. Have an exhibition and try to get away with cheating. Best way to tackle cheating is to invite people to give it your best shot.
If anyone in the Tel Aviv area is interested, we (robusta.dev) would love to meetup!
With MCHPRS the demo takes 9 hours to run, it would take decades using Minecraft.

Ok, to clarify, is MCHPRS a functioning Minecraft Server that can support a player logging in and mining? This story is seeming a lot more like "A 1Hz CPU made on something that has mechanical similarities to Minecraft".
Yeah I've had mixed bag with meetup. Some really cool peeps but also it seemed to have peaked a couple years ago. Thanks for adding to the thread!
It may be a US national security issue, in that the US secret agencies do not get access to everything the rest of the world creates.

This is an international community. We are not all Americans, and some of us react to the words "national security" as the town dwellers in the boy who cried wolf.
If another nation bans outside social media networks ... I see no reason that we shouldn't do the same to those that operate from that nation. The amount of data available is just too much to hand over in a one way relationship.
Is 1 a reference to the /prog/ poster?

If so, his functionalCS syllabus is some of the best content online.
I think the wrong bar is being evaluated, its important to get the correct person off the streets. I was not satisfied - and am still not satisfied - that any of this is occurring. So that exempts Adnan Syed as well and means he should be released.
It would be a comedy sketch if you had a real meetup, but people using their "Hacker News" tone. Lot's of hot takes, fights. Maybe each person has a up and down vote button on their t shirt? Some boring conversation in the corner 2 people listen to. In 10 years time turns out it was the launch of Bitcoin, Figma or Dropbox or something.
Sorry free speech is hard for you. Unfortunately, it beats all of the alternatives.
I'll be honest and say I found the podcast rather frustrating.

Koenig was clearly an outsider to the legal system, and had the benefit of telling a different, big long narrative. But at the end of it, I don't know if it was any more or less truthful than the first one. It was still built on old memories, circumstantial evidence, and bias (she even admitted she only started the investigation because she found Adnan so charming).

And the interview with Jay after the podcast especially scrambled my thoughts - I found him really compelling too! And there was a lot of stuff the podcast left out without telling you! Over 12 episodes!

So in the end, I honestly don't know about Adnan! I don't know if the case against him was actually weak or if there was just enough of an army of hole pokers who could have poked through anything.
The difference with chess compared to casino games is that at this level of play, you only need 1 or 2 BITS of outside information to gain a huge advantage. You can decrease it to 1 bits if you agree on the meaning of the signal beforehand.

It is enough for a high level player to receive a signal that signifies that the current board position is critical. They will be able to find the correct move themselves. So cheating at this level is not like an engine giving you moves to play. It is more like a signal that says "your opponent blundered, if you take advantage you will win", or "if you find the critical move in this position you'll most probably win". Just have that signal at the correct moment and a 2500+ ELO player will, with little effort, figure out the winning move. That single bit of information can change the entire outcome.
Maybe if they didn't withhold monoclonal antibody treatment people would live. [1]

Maybe if covid was actually treated in the hospital and treatment options weren't suppressed by the medical establishment, more lives would be saved. [2]

[1]: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...
[2]: https://covid19criticalcare.com/
What I meant by the “soul of Rust”
you seem to think that vector vs. bitmap is a design concern. it isn't. designers care about their form and their function. a better tool means an easier path in the design process, it doesn't matter the tool, vector or bitmap.
> I suspect that the driving force behind Apple’s new desire to be repairable is legislative.

I disagree. It's all about customer LTV.

Apple is increasingly seeing a larger percentage of their revenue come from services e.g. Music, TV+ and iPhone-centric devices e.g. Apple Watch.

Keeping users in the ecosystem is incredibly important to Apple so much that they are happy to have users use older phones for longer. Just as long as they don't switch to Google or Samsung.
the problem is that they built their "intuition" without ever looking at the code directly. They are always using second and information and those are not always good. My concrete design handbook in college had a corrections on at least 75% of the pages and it was the 3rd edition. We often look online and in popular textbooks for design examples to test our software, and we find a lot of errors in them too.

>which might be more accurate than the horrible mess of a law that you describe

I've had a senior engineer at one of our biggest client accuse us of having a bug in our software. He has dozens of people working for him and teaches other engineer how to design bridges. Turns out he used the arctan function in excel instead of cosine. Her mistake was roughly doubling the shear resistance of the main beams on the bridge. We ere the one to find the mistake in his calculation.

clients often call us with question like "how can I use your software to design XYZ". When we talk with them on the phone, they often don't have a clue how to do it manually and they are hopping that the software will just do it for them.

It's also very common for us for find critical mistakes in client's finite element models when they contact us for something completely different.
I know a friend of a friend who is Korean elite and who made then lost a lot in Luna.
Then you're going to need something like Turbo/Stimulus as in Rails. I don't know of any Java implementation.
> You still cannot disable pull requests on a GitHub repository. A package repository might deem your software “critical”, adding requirements to publishing updates that you might not want to or be able to comply with. Google even wanted to disallow anonymous individuals from maintaining critical software and wanted to police the identities of others.

That's just whining from people who host their stuff on other people's servers and sites.

If other people package your software into a bigger system and then later improve their standards so that the bar is above your stuff now (e.g. you break it left and right with careless, untested changes, or whatever, whereas downstream is doing actual QA) that's downstream's prerogative. You don't have to do anything; they can fork your stuff and develop it themselves, or stick with the old version from you that worked, ignoring the newer releases.
I mean, I would comply, the device just exists, is designed in a certain way, and wasn't designed by me.

If the law forcefully and physically separates the device from me, the device self-destructs of its own design. The law enforcers would be the ones at fault for destroying the evidence.
Thank you. I found this deck which really helped.

https://economics.mit.edu/files/7400

and Open Coursework page

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-661-labor-economics-i-fall-20...

A labor matching model is better because it recognizes the need for a worker and a job opening, and for those to find each other.
Magnus Carlsen resigns from rematch with Hans Niemann after opening move
Well he took everyone’s weapons away and imprisoned everyone who spoke against him. So a robust constitution like ours would’ve had a much better chance of standing up to him.
Hi, uh.... OP here (from twitter). Didn't realize someone posted this! And honestly I was expecting like 20 likes total.

Anyways, want to clarify a couple things:

- All of the information presented is accurate. And the questions are fair.

- I am not defending FB or other tech companies broadly. I'm pro data locality.

- China is an authoritarian mass surveillance state that forcibly squashes detractors and limits individual freedoms. The US has made many mistakes, but it still doesn't come comparably close to this.

- Please for the love of God don't compare me to Dan Price. Please? lmao.
How could we use that data to help prevent crime?

To best mimic the success of the original post, it would be good to be able to identify people doing the most damage to a neighborhood so we could help them first with tax relief, food, birth control, whatever would help the most.
This idea of playing less than "perfect", so as to steer your opponent into plays that give you greater advantage than is available in the perfect mirror-match, is a well-worn familiar concept to game designers, and yes, poker players. If that's something new that bothers chess aficionados, I don't feel like it reflects particularly well on that game's culture.

https://gamedesignadvance.com/?p=2346
https://www.sirlin.net/articles/solvability
> Any kind of operation was done through an HTTP call, which you would otherwise do with a SQL script, in ElasticSearch, you would do an HTTP request

There you go.
> guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

How the American Legal System is supposed to work, not as a way to punish people who 'look guilty'.
A huge strength of the original HP9100A programmable calculator, http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/HP/HP.9100..., was that ALL 3 rpn stack registers were visible AT ONCE ON THE CRT.

So he has resurrected the original blank slate engineer’s intent; Osborne realized that people would be uncomfortable “knowing” stuff was in hidden registers, as apparently a great deal of non-technical people are today, 52 years later.
The first 5-10 moves are extremely explored and chess players at this level have memorized which is the best reply in each case, what are the possible alternatives that are better for their own game style, what are the alternatives that are worse for the opponent game style, what are the unusual but not bad alternatives that can surprise the opponent. There are whole books about that. Whole libraries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_opening

Probably cheating after the 5 or 10 or 15 move if the opponent did something interesting may give someone an edge, but getting help in the first of second move it's unbelievable at this level.

Note that there is a whole page in Wikipedia about all the possible good possible second move of Niemann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alekhine%27s_Defence
https://archive.ph/8ccdk
How cool will it be when we can tell a program, "I want a fantasy story that continues on Lord of the Rings and details Pippin and Merry's second great and wonderful adventure after Frodo left middle earth" and get a 300 page story that is well-written and inventive and fun to read.

I know the requirements for something like that are extraordinarily high, but I could see it in 30-40 years being viable.
Hello, OP here.

I do not aspire to be Dan Price. That is all.
Is it possible to see the data the PDAP has scraped? I visited the website but I don't see any actual data.
A better analogy would be a strong wind collapsing big and old trees :)
Well, memorizing algorithms lets me know what is possible sure, but memorizing the actual api methods and arguments seems like a colossal waste of time for my specific circumstances. If it’s possible in one language it should be possible in another. I haven’t ever reused _exactly_ the same stack twice in my career, so it seems hard to optimize for the exact incantations rather than lazily find out what is in the library vs community packages. Looking them up is cheap enough, and I save shower time for high level thinking about what kinds of programs could be useful.
Gaining status without seeking it is a very high status behavior.
This claim is well supported by the numerous emails from court cases that have become public recently.
> 'Serial' was the podcast that launched all podcasts

Sorry, but this statement is objectively wrong. Podcasts have existed for close to 20 years in the way we understand them today.

Serial may have helped to popularize podcasts, but in no way was original.
How did your supervisor react?
I haven't found an option I really like. Might have to give lunarpad a try because I've been looking for a solution
> They just seem engineered to a different market, their own repair techs

I would hope and expect that third party repair techs (and to a slightly lesser extent ordinary people) would be repairing devices with the same level of quality as Apple's techs.
The problem with rote memorization is that it makes life a pain when something changes from under your feet, you have to unlearn and relearn which takes double the effort. However, it's good to rote memorize more static info and references, tables of contents and so on. The rest I leave it to use, what is referenced multiple times becomes permanent.
> In the fifteen minutes I had before the next meeting, I quickly joined with one of my senior members to quickly access the live environment and perform the query.

Don't do stuff in a rush like this. That's when I almost always make my worst mistakes. If there is a "business urgency" then cancel or get excused from the upcoming meeting so you can focus and work without that additional pressure. If the meeting is urgent, then do the other task afterwards.
I feel similarly, although I always felt the gameplay system itself was flawed, rather than blaming my own ineptitude. It felt like quite often I'd be stuck trying every combo of items with elements in the environment until some arcane combination unlocked the next bit pf story/gameplay. It seemed like such a shame because the design and scriptwriting were so good.
Google and Facebook are both blocked in China, so if it is protectionism, it's reciprocal, and China did it first.
Yeah, probably strictly... But I’m not a planetary scientist. I’m merely a user of language, and I don’t need to be rigorous in my definitions. And to me the weather patterns on Jupiter is an interesting feature enough to count as geology (even though it is probably not strictly a geology).
Hello! I'm the executive director. I have a design background, have done product management in the past, and aside from keeping the lights on at PDAP and making sure we're tax-compliant I am in a product role. I talk to people using police data, and figure out where we can add value to make the data more accessible.

TL:DR; If you want to write scrapers: go for it! Run your scraper, share the results in Discord and with your friends, and talk about the process. We'll be listening, and it will help us build tools to support this important work.

A few things to clarify:

a. The source of truth for "what are we doing right now" and "how can I contribute" is https://docs.pdap.io/.

b. Empowering people who write scrapers is a part of our broad mission of "police data accessibility", but we have some foundational work to do first! Right now our primary project is creating a database of police agencies and data sources. This will help people understand what kinds of data are available, at which agencies, with which steps to access it. It will also help us create archives of the primary sources, so that if they get taken offline we can still go back and scrape them.

c. What we have realized in the past few years: there are already a ton of people writing and using web scrapers for their day to day work. They are as decentralized as our police system. Our scrapers repo will reflect that. We shouldn't all rely on one library, or even one language. The people who need the data are most motivated to maintain scrapers, and we expect that maintenance will be ad-hoc and as-needed for the immediate future. In most cases, data already published on the internet is useful to local users as-is.

d. If you have a question you'd like to answer about the police, here's the investigation process:

1. Determine whether public data exists to answer your question. Use google to find the appropriate agency, and see what they're publishing.
2. Determine how it can be accessed; do you need to make a FOIA request? Is there a URL?
3. If there's a URL, determine whether you need to write a scraper to access the records. Often, the records can simply be downloaded.
4. Write and run a scraper, if you need one!
5. If there's not a URL, make a records request for the public information. This is a long and complicated process.
6. Share the data with your friends.

This means that scrapers are helpful and necessary some of the time; but not always, and not as the first step. We're trying to help with steps 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6. The theory is that writing scrapers is something people can easily slot in and help with; and that, depending on what question you're trying to answer, two scrapers for the same data source might look wildly different.

Scrapers are an important part of the ecosystem, but they're one piece of the puzzle.
That's the wrong argument because if they infiltrate the local government then they will have access to locally collected data and won't need tiktok.
Access to tiktok data gives China surveillance over US that could help in case of future conflicts, just look what Ukraine has done to Russian soldiers using insecure communications.
It would be interesting to do this too. Although this is going to be a yak shave (a good one) - changing the upstream things that cause people to turn to crime.
Maybe Serial launched the modern commerically produced crime podcast format, but I'd give a shout out to The History of Rome by Mike Duncan as the "defining podcast." It started quite a bit earlier (2007) and proved that there is a big audience (65 million downloads) for obscure topics covered in depth. Serial spun out of This American Life, so it had some audience to begin with, but THOR is truly "let me put this out there and see if anyone listens." It's also interesting to see how apologetic Mike Duncan was when he introduced monetization through direct to consumer ads, and this is now the standard monetization model.
I’m not blaming democrats for GOP policy.

Voters who are on the fence are only one incident like this away from becoming GOP voters.

And when you have people like the person I replied to saying “oh well, just move if you don’t want people shitting in your yard”, that’s going to drive those people to the GOP.
AT&T Room 641A has entered the chat. [1] Our government already spies on all of our telecom, the private companies are also complicit (be it by force or by choice (ex Oracle). I do not think the US is much different that China with the exception of the government not owning the companies at hand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
tight! yeah, I was trying to solve my own need with it, but let me know if you find any better solutions to try too. I'm almost entirely remote, so it's helpful
The Unicode can be ridiculous at times. It contains a character used once in a single manuscript in a extinct language, but not a standardized glyph for an external URL link.
The thing that bothers me the most about TikTok is how it's allowed to operate with little restriction in the US but US-based companies do not have nearly the same level of freedom to operate in China e.g. fb is banned in CPP).
> Western governments can only access data from private companies if they have a search warrant.

It's disingenuous to believe that western government agencies are fully transparent and always require a judge's warrant and in general don't engage in espionage activities - the USA are especially competent at this.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=why+aren%27t+vertical+farms+being+...
Comments here seem to be missing a key detail

>including embodied energy

Which is

>Embodied energy is the sum of all the energy required to produce any goods or services, considered as if that energy was incorporated or 'embodied' in the product itself.

I'm far below the 2k limit on mains energy usage, but I suspect after factoring in above it'll be comically far off. Making all this plastic stuff can't be energy cheap...