skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He did real harm that his victim did not forgive, so he's supposed to hold that. You're not supposed to ask the governor for an official pardon, erasing his crime from the criminal record.

edit:
"“My hope is that, if I receive a pardon, troubled youths will see this as an inspiration and motivation that they too can turn their lives around,” he writes." Yeah, I DO NOT believe the world famous multimillionaire needs a governor's pardon to help kids.

edit2:
given the wikipedia article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36805073's links to, it seems like Wahlberg himself now doesn't believe he should have tried to obtain a pardon.
Effective > Productive
I was thinking their external affairs. I don't think most westerners give a fuck what Russia is doing internally. But sure, whatever makes you feel better.
If not the Apollo project what would have been driving force that lead to the development of the personal computer industry at nearly the same rate?

There wasn't a market demand for computers that would justify the R&D budget that Apollo was given to develop computers to the level that was required to get us where we are today.
One best heed the words of the 'sultry wood nymph'
>Facts are facts, though omission of facts is also an issue.

Because you are a human, the 'facts' you acknowledge are anthropomorphic. We align our filtering of facts to the scales at which humans and society operates. When we change the scale of what we consider to be fact, then quite often what we consider to be a fact is really just an interpretation of events based on the perspective of the observer. Reality exists in a state of thermodynamic truth, that is if we could reverse the arrow of time you arrive at exactly one state at whichever slice of time.

"Facts" as told by humans do not work this way the vast majority of the time. They are incomplete observations of a system using incomplete information. Time reversal of human facts can lead to situations where multiple starting states can lead to the same factual finding. Causality is uncertain without searching for even more facts, those facts which have been lost to thermodynamic scattering, leading us back to interpretation.

Bias is absolutely necessary to operate on a human scale.
>Especially in a casual mode.

Agreed. The game isn't balanced around casual. If you want to play the game play ranked. Otherwise you cede the right to complain about balance or the behavior of your team.
The fact that almost every US telecoms provider is selling your location - and there is no restriction on law enforcement buying it - means that things are not exactly rosy in the US either.
that seems like the right answer...

however, the payment itself is almost besides the point. the tricky part is the scheme / governance surrounding payments. who is liable for what, preventing fraud, etc. these large payment actors + the middlemen are more about fostering trust networks than moving the actual dollars and cents.

fraud in P2P payment networks (e.g. Zelle) is already a huge issue because a lack of a governing actor like a card network.[0] a different question is would the government ever provide this mediating role / lay out guidelines? would we want it to?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/business/payments-fraud-z...
No, only silver, not gold. There is no Potosi of gold.
If people believed you might actually do it, enough of us have been affected by cancer that I'm sure they'd support it.

Fuck cancer.
That's a very good example of "argument-by-Google". You know what conclusion you want to achieve, so you just go around looking for statements that are either taken out of context or misunderstood and that can be backed by a (shallow) google search.

For the record: go back to the article that you are (wrongly) alluding to [0] and see how much the author has retracted. Also, see the response from Brave's Chief of Search.

I "have" to keep advocating them because all the opposition that is presented is always based on false information, biased and prejudiced and clearly made by people who never used the browser or tried to understand the value proposition.

There are tons of things to criticize about Brave (their "partnerships" with Binance and Solana, their complete lack of interest in making BAT an actual currency for payments online, them completely losing the train of decentralized social media) but none of that ever comes up from the detractors, only this kind of bullshit like the one you bring up.

[0]: https://stackdiary.com/brave-selling-copyrighted-data-for-ai...
I agree. Board of directors:

- Minimal actual work

- “Lavish” lifestyle: lots of travel and networking

- Fairly influential in the industry

- Can get paid $10-50K/year for attending a few meetings per year, per company board
Use a free GPU from google colab and you can do the same in about 15 seconds...
I would be quite OK with living in a country whose GDP per capita is that of Canada or Australia.
The first time I heard Whitey On The Moon, I had a strong feeling that we don't all live in the same world, even while we share the same planet.

As a counterpoint, there's Home on Lagrange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRns6u5bHuw

Oh, give me a locus where the gravitons focus
Where the three-body problem is solved,
Where the microwaves play down at three degrees K,
And the cold virus never evolved.
(chorus)
We eat algea pie, our vacuum is high,
Our ball bearings are perfectly round.
Our horizon is curved, our warheads are MIRVed,
And a kilogram weighs half a pound.
(chorus)
If we run out of space for our burgeoning race
No more Lebensraum left for the Mensch
When we're ready to start, we can take Mars apart,
If we just find a big enough wrench.
(chorus)
I'm sick of this place, it's just McDonald's in space,
And living up here is a bore.
Tell the shiggies, "Don't cry," they can kiss me goodbye
'Cause I'm moving next week to L4!
(chorus)

CHORUS: Home, home on LaGrange,
Where the space debris always collects,
We possess, so it seems, two of Man's greatest dreams:
Solar power and zero-gee sex.

--Home on Lagrange (The L5 Song)
© 1978 by William S. Higgins and Barry D. Gehm

http://www.jamesoberg.com/humor.html
Only Facetime Audio calls are disabled. Normal Facetime calls with video work fine with mainland china purchased iphones....so you have to call people using those phones with video even if you just want to talk to them and not see them. It's kind of silly because it's really unclear what actual problem this solves for anyone including the government. Perhaps the goal is to just make enough friction so that no one really uses it.

IIRC it's something to do with needing a license for audio-only telecommunications services. But I also might be entirely wrong about that.
the american civil war was the way the british crown took back control of their former colony

catholicism is how rome beat down the 'barbarians', which ended up as the germanic holy roman empire
If the question is "are you really more oppressed by the private sector than the government"... then the answer for me is, 100% yes. Healthcare is a big one (the insurance industry, along with Republicans, not wanting single-payer). Tax filing is another one (damn you, Intuit). Hospital pricing opacity another one (until recently).

Meanwhile the government protects many of my "freedoms" from private intrusions when it comes to things like bankruptcy protections, credit bureau limitations, telemarketing, angry gunowners, etc.

I've run into trouble with the law on a few occasions, but it was never terribly oppressive -- probably largely thanks to my race, class, and politics. If I were a poor Black man or a conservative white man, I'd probably have a very different view of government.

Thinking about it some more, I think think this just circles back to the old "freedom from" and "freedom to" debate... not sure that's worth getting too much into here, since we're unlikely to change anyone's minds or reveal new perspectives.
Listen, beyond any of the culture war you find yourself enlisted within, the sooner you can, as simply a human being, separate out "I do not understand this" from "I do not understand this, there must be something wrong with it," the sooner you will gain deeper understandings of things, make better connections, and honestly just be a happier individual. Like, it's fine, I guess, if you want to spend your life fighting huge swaths of intellectual history and human advancement, but you can't just be like overtly anti-intellectual about it! It's just not good for you, you will be sustained in fear and anger forever.
That's all in retrospect. History could have taken many other branches by now.
Correct. Not subtitles as a vector layer of the image, but rather subtitles as regions of the image annotated with textual gloss information — information which has no required presentation as part of the rendering of the image, but which the UA is free to use as it pleases in response to user configuration — by presenting the gloss on hover/tap like alt text, yes; or by reading the gloss aloud; or by search-indexing pages of a graphic novel by their textual glosses like how you can search an ePub by text, etc.

In the alt-text case specifically, you could allow for optional styling info so that the gloss can be laid out as a visual replacement for the original text that was on the page. But that's not really necessary, and might even be counterproductive to some use-cases (like when interpretation of the meaning of the text depends on details of typography/calligraphy that can't be conveyed by the gloss, and so the user needs to see the original text with the gloss side-by-side; or when the gloss is a translation and the original is written with poetic meter, such that the user wants the gloss for understanding the words but the original for appreciating the poesy of the work.)

Concrete use-cases:

• the "cleaner" and "layout" roles in the (digitally-distributed) manga localization process, only continue to exist, because soft-subbed images (as standalone documents) aren't a thing. Nobody who has any respect for art wants to be "destructively restoring" an artist's original work and vision, just to translate some text within that work. They'd much rather be able to just hand you the original work, untouched, with some translation "sticky notes" on top, that you can toggle on and off.

• in the case of webcomic images that have a textual "bonus joke" (e.g. XKCD, Dinosaur Comics), where this is currently implemented as alt/title-attribute text — this could be moved into the image itself as a whole-image annotation, such that the "bonus joke" would be archivally preserved alongside the image document.
> For starters, PRISM and XKeyscore. Both are damning indictments of the state of surveillance a decade ago, and are so damaging that pretty much every FAANG company denies knowledge of their existence.

Where's this denial by Apple? Or is your argument that because Apple doesn't admit colluding with the NSA they must be doing it. Well that is not falsifiable and what evidence are you speaking to of Apple specifically colluding with the NSA.

> I'd like to audit the code for those as well.

Firmware is not hardware. That would still not address the hardware issue.

> The majority of networked servers online today beg to differ. Over time the industry actually found that it's much safer to use an open and transparent OS than it is to trust a black-box with UB that may-or-may-not be fixed.

Yes, the neckbeards chant since CatB. There are extremely few people not putting their trust in blackboxes. Slapping linux on a box doesn't magically make it transparent - nor does linux have a security record you want to brag about.
There's tradition when a family has only daughters and the oldest daughter marries, her husband takes her family name.
Kevin Mitnick: A Hacker Hero Has Died
I feel like this has happened with my grandmother. She’s in her 90s and mostly still there, but she has outlived my grandfather and most of their friends. She’s also quite feeble and didn’t leave the house, and broke her hip this year (and miraculously made it through a very risky surgery). Family members in the area visit her often and she has a live in care taker, but the last few years she’s started to have minor delusions. Mostly, she’ll talk about seeing “little people” in the yard. If you have a conversation with her, she’s as present as most people that age I’ve interacted with.

I suspect she basically has low-grade cabin fever. The delusions only started shortly after her husband passed and she was alone. Even putting aside the concerns about the elderly driving, my grandfather insisted on driving everywhere so she essentially couldn’t drive to see people. She hasn’t been strong enough to really cook or clean outside of very simple tasks in a while. Her only real stimulation is / was when we visit.

I was going crazy when quarantining with Covid for 7 days, and I felt any mild social interaction taxing afterward for another week or so because that muscle was atrophied (I’m not particularly introverted or shy). I can’t imagine being confined to one room of a house hoping someone visits me for an hour each day as my only source of interaction with the world.

On the flip side, I did some work for an emeritus professor when I was in undergrad. The guy was 89, came in 4 days a week to work on his (successful) hobby project invention, was sharp as a tack, and could solder SMD components with steadier hands than me. The only reason he even needed my help was he never learned to code (he was well into tenure by the time programming a PC became necessary for his research so grad students handled that and then hired undergrads when he stopped running a lab).

Both examples are anecdotal evidence, and maybe I’ll have a different opinion when I’m older, but the traditional full retirement if you are otherwise healthy seems like a good way to waste away. I think having some responsibilities keeps you connected, energized, and motivated to keep living.
Think they're just people making math mistakes (one of the reasons why we don't usually implement shaders by having people compute values by hand).

If you compare them to nearby "correct" pixels, they usually just have one of the three RGB values that are sharply different.
This is a bit off topic for the post, but relevant for some of the comments here.

For those who are commenting about payment systems in India and comparing this to UPI (Unified Payments Interface), this is not like UPI in a few ways.

Firstly, this is more closer to a faster version of RTGS (Real Time Gross Settlement) in India, which is operated by the RBI (Reserve Bank of India). Speaking from experience, RTGS in India can take several minutes or even 20 minutes or longer, belying the “real time” in its name (this is true even now). The FedNow system is supposed to be real time (we’ll soon know how well it performs in comparison).

Secondly, UPI is a payments system by a consortium called NPCI that’s owned by private, public and foreign banks in India. It is not owned by RBI. FedNow is owned by the Federal Reserve, and not by a bunch of banks.

With both RTGS (and the slower batched transfer system called NEFT) in India and FedNow in the US, the interbank settlement is done via the central bank (RBI or Federal Reserve).
freeze dried food was invented in France around the time of WWI.

Flight computers predated Apollo- they were originally developed for missles. most of the folks who worked on the AGC had previously developed very successful flight computers already.
Display P3, which is what most good but still cheap monitors support, is very noticeably much bigger than sRGB, i.e. the red of Display P3 looks reasonably pure, while the red of sRGB is unacceptably washed out and yellowish.

Adobe RGB was conceived for printing better images and it is not useful on monitors because it does not correct the main defect of sRGB, which is the red.

Moreover, if I switch my Dell Display P3 monitor (U2720Q) from 30-bit color to 24-bit color, it becomes obviously worse.

So, at least in my experience, 10-bit per color component is always necessary for Display P3 in order to benefit from its improvements, and on monitors there is a very visible difference between Display P3 (or DCI P3) and sRGB.

There are a lot of red objects that you can see every day and which have a more saturated red than what can be reproduced by an sRGB monitor, e.g. clothes, flowers or even blood.

For distributing images or movies, I agree that the Rec. 2020 color space is the right choice, even if only few people have laser projectors that can reproduce the entire Rec. 2020 color space.

The few with appropriate devices can reproduce the images as distributed, while for the others it is very simple to convert the color space, unlike in the case when the images are distributed in an obsolete color space like sRGB, or even Adobe RGB, when all those with better displays are still forced to view an image with inferior quality.
perfect example of why pure democracy is a horrible idea
The rest of the paragraph discusses "what happens when it ignores type?", so I think that's where they were going with that?
This is amazing work, and this space desperately needs an open-source solution!

The signing experience could use some polish, but it's well on its way. A few things: clicking a signature field immediately opens a file upload despite the very functional draw-your-signature canvas. Focusing to type into a field scrolls the page not so the field is in view, but so it's at the top of the viewport, which prevents the reader from seeing the paragraph of context above the field. And minimizing the bottom panel where you type fields should be unminimized if you click another field, otherwise it can cause non-technical users to feel "stuck." Oh, and in terms of demonstrations, the demo PDF should likely be a (fake) legal contract of some sort, to show off how things can be positioned in a realistic document!

If there's one thing I'd suggest you implement, though, it would be the ability to embed the signing interface in an iframe whose URL can be parameterized to prefill values via the query string, e.g. following https://helpx.adobe.com/sign/adv-user/web-form/url-parameter.... (Oh, and postMessage to the parent page when signing is done so the interface can react to that!)

So many real-world workflows can be handled with a simple wizard that pre-populates a PDF to sign, with the values from that wizard. But most of the solutions out there charge an arm and a leg for this, with large minimum order sizes and even charging for the view even if the user doesn't complete the form! Not to mention that letting people self-host, thereby avoiding third-party cookie issues, makes things significantly more accessible.

Really looking forward to how this progresses!
Why this instead of GPT Functions?
But lobbying has such better ROI!! .. We also need lawys from the federal level that all these "known" things must be pushed to the IRS and the state and local use that as their source of information .. Then this software just needs to deal with federal deductions that aren't digital or optional like charity .. We have such a dumb system
> Kinda sad to see that Stripe was not on the list of early adopters but I'm sure they will implement it soon.

Given Stripe's role in the system, it doesn't make sense for them to support it until there's sufficient support from the banks as well. Until banks support it, it doesn't matter if Stripe (or any payment platform) does, because the users won't see any benefit.

> Driving the news: "We're tracking it closely," President of Product and Business Will Gaybrick says, noting the company is not actively working on anything related to FedNow. "I really do think real-time payments are going to be a big deal."

> "As I understand FedNow, there isn't yet a mandate, so banks don't have to implement it," he added. "For things to completely change the landscape of payments, you need universal coverage."

> If, for instance, only 30% of banks support FedNow, then it's unlikely to become a priority for merchants to adopt the system.

https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2023/06/14/fednow-st...

> The Financial Technology Association, which represents fintechs including Block, Marqeta, Stripe and Wise, among others, is urging the Fed to make direct access to the new faster payments system, called FedNow, more widely available so fintechs can tap the new service without going through banks.

> Generally, only licensed banks have access to the Fed’s master accounts, giving them clearance to use FedNow’s faster payments system when it’s available, but nonbank fintechs argue it’s shortsighted to exclude them from the same direct access to the new public system. While there is also The Clearing House’s rival RTP Network, the new FedNow system may provide more cost-effective services.

https://www.bankingdive.com/news/fintech-federal-reserve-pay...
> it was hugely positive (NASA claims $7 for every $1 spent)

Could you share this source? I want to read more analysis
Well can we quantify how conditions are faring in other countries across a host of industries? I've been hearing energy and food prices are through the roof in the UK much worse than the US. Not sure how true it is today but we would need some one to one comparison to see if the US is specifically being squeezed. Its not out of the realm: Biden has pissed off a lot of people from the Saudis, to the Chinese.
Because it makes people look like pathetic muppets. If you mean "Fuck Joe Biden", say "Fuck Joe Biden", don't clutch your damn pearls about it.
Except Modula-2 and Concurrent Pascal, among several others did it first, in the 1970's.
How was wobbly windows useful?
https://archive.is/FvvKy
Insanity, a person in their free time, out of the working hours discover a bug, doesn't summit it immediately, the google engineers proceed to call it 'an apple engineer' instead of saying the name of the person, this is politics 101.

Funny to see output of years of promoting politics inside a company.
As a European immigrant to the US, turned US citizen, I would never take the flip side of my move; but, you can rest easy knowing you have that option. If you don’t know people who have expatriated to some degree out of the US, invest in widening your social circle.
Organization executives and lawmakers are increasingly demanding that digital services be made un-hackable. Someone with an attitude and trying to shirk duty by claiming we just have to trust that all of the users will always be responsible and non-abusive all of the time, will at best be laughed and shooed out of the room. More realistically be given a final PIP. Telling your bosses "no I'm not going to do that" is a resume generating event.
> […] he Apollo program ended up generating an enormous number of inventions later used in everyday life […]

See perhaps:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies
> They also had a system where you would put your checkbook into the teller machine and it would print your credits and debits into the book for you.

That's intresting to know.

Where I'm at, we had (still have?) a "passbook", a small booklet where you could get all your transactions printed onto.

But AFAIK we couldn't do it ourselves through the teller machine though. Once in a few months or so you go to the respective bank and ask the staff there to update the passbook. They use a machine, however.

Of course, there days it's unnecessary as you can electronically download a list of your transactions for a given period from the bank's website/app.
An insidious part of this discussion is this idea that these laws do not interfere with encryption. IMHO, it's a dishonest stance to take but when debated, the first thing defenders of this legislation say is that this "does nothing to break encryption" or "Privacy and security are not mutually exclusive — we need both, and we can have both and that is what this amendment delivers."

In this plan messages are sent to a third party for analysis. Sure the messages sent to the third party are encrypted but your privacy is entirely violated.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/06/uk-osb-csam-scanning/