skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New customers are likely enticed with the low end of the rates, and as you use Uber they learn a lot about you. If you're using Uber to get from a low income area to the rail station or to Walmart, you are poor. If you use Uber to travel from and to various international airports, you can probably afford to pay a lot more (or somebody is paying a lot of travel costs for you).
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I think the last paragraph is the most important one:

>"Facebook clarified that it will still work with companies like Experian and Acxiom in order to measure ad performance and provide metrics, although it will also be conducting a review of those ongoing relationships."

These FB announcements the last couple of days seem little more than grooming for possible upcoming appearances in front of legislators. They can point to this and the surface-level app redesign and say they've "already" taken efforts to shore up concerns.

I think most people have no idea that FB and Experian - a consumer credit reporting agency have been sharing data at all. Where was that explained in the app redesign that was trotted out yesterday?

It's worth reading how Acxion who facing similar pressures recently handled their own superficial offering of "transparency":

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/technology/acxiom-lets-co...
This is completely wrong. The Beam VM is not pre-emptive. It is cooperative. The trick is that it is not possible to write blocking code in Erlang. There are no for loops. The only way to implement iteration is via recursion. The scheduler will only switch to the next actor only after processing a message in it's entirety. It will not interrupt an actor that is currently processing a message.

Preemption is good because it prevents bad processes from starving the rest of the system but it's far from efficient.
>> When I receive a CV from an indian person (from India), I don't know if I should expect 100% lies or what, even from qualified seniors.

Be careful about going there. Discrimination is illegal & unnecessary.
It'll push more people to decolonialization, I'm sure, but where statehood or independence gets the boost is unclear. It won't matter as long as Congress isn't interested in decolonialization.
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The guy is a professor of bioinformatics in Göttingen. He probably won't be involved with such nonsense as resumes any time soon.

https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/uecker-martin-prof-dr-----c...
Makes me wonder how they found this one. Did they just point it at one random place and happened to find this galaxy there, or did they have to look around for a long time.

If we take that telescope array and point it at a new random place will we just find another one of these galaxies in short order?
How can i know which profiles...

snooped my profile ?

harvested my profile ?

snooped my high res pictures ?

snooped my friends list ?

snooped comments on my pictures ?

snooped comments on my profile ?

snooped my time line ?

snooped on posted/reposted videos ?

snooped on my about page ?

snooped on my sports page ?

snooped on my Videos ?

snooped on my Check-Ins ?

snooped on my Sports ?

snooped on my Music ?

snooped on my Movies ?

snooped on my TV Shows ?

snooped on my Books ?

snooped on my Apps and Games ?

snooped on my Likes ?

snooped on my Events ?

snooped on my Questions ?

snooped on my Reviews ?

snooped on my Groups ?

snooped on my Notes ?

snooped on my friend and clicked his/her name and left my profile to start snooping that person profile ?

snooped my friend (clicking thru my profile) ?

snooped on "X shared" button ?

snooped on "view X more comments" button ?

Maybe this data should be available to download. Users could have the right to know why visited their profiles.

The visitor has his privacy protected while the profile visited does not.
I wonder if it has something to do with Chineseum being used in Canada. I have not in my whole life ever heard of anyone getting a steel bristle stuck in their mouth in America, where people undoubtedly GRILL far more than they do in Canada. I wonder if it's also a regulatory thing with examples like the one in the comments about the waffle maker, because I cannot recall seeing anyone in a commercial venue using a steel bristle brush to clean their cooking equipment. I suspect it's just another one of those freedom for me, regulation for thee hipster things. All commercial operations I have seen in the USA where food service is highly regulated (arguably too much and stupidly), use scrapers of various kinds, for grills, grates, and griddles alike.
I'm curious to hear what kinds of skill gaps you see and the severity of issues they bring, and if there are common knowledge gaps or it's more random.
> I started regularly taking a Monday morning trip to the airport, then another ride home from the airport Tuesday evening.

My first thought from the headline: Walk, bike, or take public transit. But the pollution I expected wasn't in the same league as his actual behavior. He's a global warming machine.
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If the surgeon can't access the bristle w/out damaging surrounding tissue, they should use a strong electromagnet on the axis of the wire.

(Don't try this at home).

if the angle is bad (threatens other structures as it comes out), potentially clip the wire as it emerges.
What I often cite (for fun):

https://tudorbarbu.ninja/message-to-recruiters/

most notably "This is how most job ads sound nowadays:":

We’re looking for a person with more than 100 years of experience in software development, coding everything from BIOSes to cloud applications, knowledge of all past, present and future operating systems and setting up secure networks. The applicant must also be able to juggle up to twenty balls and read hieroglyphs, be fluent in Swahili and dance like Michael Jackson (especially moonwalking – nice to have at corporate Christmas parties).
I use a regular plank of wood. It's been 2 years, it already has deep ridges.
Obviously Apple would have to comply with local legislations, just like any other company has to comply with local legislations. So no, Apple SIM would not provide anonymous mobile access.
You don't need to ask "really hard Algorithm puzzles" to figure out whether they can actually write code. You can ask normally hard or even simple algorithm and have them implement it. If your company does object oriented, you can also ask them basic patterns. If you do functional, have them do little bit of that.

It is the "really hard" part that is criticized here, not the "algorithm" or "code something" part.

That being said, asking logical puzzles is fine when you are hiring juniors you expect to train. The question with them is "is this kid smart enough to understand what I will teach" not "does this kid already knows everything". However even there, really hard algorithm is not something I would go for.
I would have thought that they know enough to make a decently accurate guess.

Not that I know what they do of course, but without much thought I can think of a model that would allow me to predict income.

- They're using Uber, that cuts out a decent chunk of poor people.

- What areas do you visit and at what times?

- Property prices in those areas, are they workplaces or urban commuter areas? Can likely predict value of someone's house if they use it from home.

- Type of Uber taken

- Size of tip

- Frequency of travel

- etc. etc.

I reckon that given some time and some people's ride data I could estimate their income, house value, and even perhaps job. I would guess Uber have done this and then some.

Of course it's not going to be 100%, but Uber don't need that.
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So do you think Home Depot should close down? They sell hammers.
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I know it's been tried many times unsuccessfully, but with the benefit of hindsight now would you have preferred to pay a nominal annual fee for the handful of currently free services that you really like?

I realize we're likely too far gone now, but it's fundamentally an issue that we aren't paying for these ad-supported services, so the companies gravitate toward serving the interests of the entities that are paying them.

That's not a justification or reflection of my opinion about privacy and ethics around the use of data, just a thought around removing the problem from the equation all together.

I guess my real question is, if you remove the profit seeking component of the data discussion does the bad behavior completely go away? Definitely interested in other opinions.
There is another great one called 1491: before coloumbus or something, that describes a lot of what the place was like before, it also shows many geoglpyhs.
But can we live in a world where food is 1000% though?

That would be the result of getting rid of pesticides and insecticides...
Would you take £1m now, or £1,000 a week for the rest of your life?
Does someone know what's the current state of TF on Windows?
I've used it for some image classification homework 1.5y ago and back then I had some issues but it kind of worked.

Does someone have more recent experiences in some hobby project or even in a production env?
Or are there other NN frameworks when using Windows?
> low income area to the rail station or to Walmart, you are poor.

That is a wickedly evil definition of poor and extremely distopian if you truly believe that. Your scenario does not make someone poor or define them as poor or anything like that. It is a data point that Uber can use to guess your income but it does not mean you are poor. To define poverty like that is so extremely mean and also possibly straight false.
These people voted for Hamas to rule them.
Piranhas.co does the same, though with less sites. It also includes shipping costs.
More importantly, it is not actual evidence that "GMO food saves millions of people from malnutrition in the 3rd world" as you asserted. So as to avoid repeating myself, please look here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16703874
I expect a more recent mutation to make the kernels more toxic than the edible part of the fruit, but I couldn't find an article that discuss that.
There are others. If you want to compile C code to include in your project, you'll need those tools. LLD and link.exe aren't exactly at feature parity, etc.

I'm most excited about LLD for hobby OS dev; with Rust and LLD it's now trivial to get going on any OS Rust supports. As a Windows user, I really appreciate it!
Businesses try this, look up "capturing consumer surplus".
Well, you've got six weeks to wait :)
i find it much more valid each company running it's own technical interviewing process. Adapted to the specific knowledge ( and social skills ) required by the job at hand.

personally i like joel spolsky's model: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...
Hi all, thanks for trying the game! The goal is to clear the screen of squares before the time runs out. If you think you are stuck you may use the buttons at the bottom to rotate or scramble the puzzle. 12 levels in total, I'll let you figure out the scoring mechanics. I would love to hear your high scores (current high score I know of is my sister with 249,906).

Built with react, which was overall a nice experience. Repo is here https://github.com/danab/DropClicks/, any code feedback would be lovely!
As always, it depends on the exact code. I'm sure some stuff got faster, and some got slower; it really depends on the exact code being compiled.
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Convenience breeds complacence. It's part of why I'm extra-sceptical of anything that markets itself as easy.
This isn't a problem unique to restaurants, though - at some point you have to get your own ingredients from that supply chain unless you have the money or time to do otherwise.
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I second the recommendation of Weinberg, its a classic.
You’re attacking a straw man.
If I paid that much money and now couldn't even look at all the photos I took, I might cry a little bit...

Maybe the photos are still viewable? There seems to be a bit of a controversy on that topic, but no one willing to say anything definite.
I use chainmail to clean my grill to avoid this very thing. I also use a power-washer occasionally.
We apply this idea in a lot of places. It's basically the entire idea of market segmentation: get everyone to pay exactly as much as they are able/willing to pay. What Uber does is notable, but I don't see anything evil here.

The mechanics are different, but the goal is always the same: Store brands that are just repackaged brand products sold cheaper, slightly more comfortable travel experiences that cost disproportionatly more, support contracts and "enterprise features" for absurd prices, lootboxes in games, etc.
Well, he was saying when he has too many applicants. Either he picks a few and gives none of the others a fair chance, or he gives everyone a fair chance with something some people don't like. Our time on this planet is finite, what do you expect of him?
Why do you think cooperative goroutines are easier to reason about? In Node, you can say with a straight face that once you start executing a bit of code, you can tell that that code will execute without pre-emption until a fairly obvious point where it stops running. In Go, the runtime inserts pre-emption points basically whenever it feels like it; yes, there are some pragmatic rules about where they may be, but even if you know the rules you can't count on them without intensely studying whether or not certain functions got inlined or not or things like that, and you can have no confidence about what other versions of Go (or other implementations) may do.

From what I can see, you could theoretically "reason" about your code if you compile it with the optimizer output on, study it carefully, and understand it intimately, but it would be a dangerously fragile line of reasoning subject to change without notice.

And I say all this ignoring the fact that whatever you are reasoning about is almost certainly already a bug according to the spec and something the race detector will scream about. I would not feel confident running a program that has known race conditions in it, but that you feel like you've reasoned via intimate knowledge of the runtime that they can't actually happen. I'd much rather see you just write the code to be concurrently correct anyhow, and then I can do things like "upgrade to the next version of Go" or "cross-compile to another architecture that may do things that violate your fragile reasoning" without stark terror.
Yeah, I'd probably have stir fry a good 6 out of 7 days a week if it were up to me. My wife likes them, but not as much as I do. She loves cheese too much ;) I agree, though, they rock for veggies.
Brain-imaging modern people making Stone Age tools shows music centers activated
So ban almost all pest control practices then. Most have been developed in 1900s making them not even 100 years old.

Then welcome the next potato blight...
I wonder if he was making the opposite point. That enforcing safety at a society level is not productive.
So was nuclear power, before TMI and Chernobyl - there is no plot armor for any technology. Do not underestimate the power of fear and public opinion.
The credit, insurance, and health industries predate data harvesting by 1000s of years.
Airbnb complies with China law to hand over guest details as listings double
I will never buy a Huawei phone again. I purchased a Nexus 6p, after one year, conveniently after the warranty was done, it constantly shuts down if it gets a wiff of cold air. Its USB C connector has to be positioned just right to charge.

I'm glad Google has changed providers for their phones. Hopefully HTC will be better.
There's sorta two possibilities here; the procedural macro based version and some sort of native keyword version. We don't have a target release number yet, but sometime in the first three quarters of the year is a vague sort of target.

The networking WG just started literally today, and will be shepherding the work. I'm not yet sure where the best tracking issue is; if I find out soon I'll leave another comment.
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For large transactions you have to put a lot of faith into the arbiter. What if they're not being impartial? What if they're corrupted? Eventually you want an arbiter that's "big enough" not to have an incentive to cheat you for any mundane transaction, like a bank or a huge company like Amazon. They're always available, mostly consistent with their rulings and can guarantee a huge amount of transactions at once without bottlenecks. I know that Amazon has no incentive to screw me over a $2000 purchase. Also since they generally have a history of transactions for both seller and buyer they can more easily identify fraud. The more information the arbiter has the more likely they are to rule correctly.

Suppose that a Canadian buys a DVD from a German, some Chinese guy is elected by the system as arbiter. The Canadian guy claims he hasn't received the DVD. What does the arbiter do? Book a ticket for Canada to check it out? Ask the German to send him the DVD first so that he can forward it? What if the chinese guy steals it and claims he's forwarded it then?

Here's how Bisq does it[1]:

>Arbitrator follows a protocol to request additional information from both parties and renders his decision based on acquired evidence.

Well that's very nice, how do you prove that you haven't received anything? What if you've received something but it's broken? Or not the thing you wanted? It seems so easy to game the system.

I have a hard time believing that distributed arbitration system like the one you're talking about could beat the speed, scale and efficiency of our current infrastructure. Maybe for certain niches it would could work though, for a cryptocurrency it might make sense to avoid centralization and a single point of failure.

[1] https://github.com/bisq-network/docs/blob/master/exchange/wh...
Here's what I do: I ride Uber for a while, then I ride Lyft. After a day or two of riding Lyft, Uber sends me a discount on my next 10 rides. When those run out, I go back to Lyft until Uber gives me some more. I never really end up riding Lyft for more than a day or two before I get the next discount email.

Im not sure if it's cause they're spying on Lyft like they've done in the past, or just noticing that I've stopped riding Uber. Either way, thanks go out to all the idiot VCs for making this happen.
This one can’t be a shocker. I even had to open my Amazon app to see if it existed for me, and sure enough it’s tucked way down at the bottom of the left side menu.

Definitely odd to shove a weird pseudo-social marketing feed into my shopping app... there’s no way the people behind this actually thought it would catch on, right? If this disappeared tomorrow I don’t think anyone would notice.
I would love to see a more in-depth description of this process you've gone through, in a blog or reddit post or discussion thread somewhere.

Like many others, I've been playing with digital recording tools off & on since the 90s as a total amateur (wanted to be in a 'cool band' since middle school, still do), and while I know there are a thousand great guides out there, I always seem to find them overwhelming/paralyzing.

Admittedly, I probably don't travel in the right circles for it, but the github and google docs aspects in particular sound like something I haven't read as much about musically inclined people doing before.
coca cola works great to clean
I think this article is rather too sympathetic to China, but I don't think its point is as invalid as you're making out.

The various agencies have without doubt been probing their phones for years looking for any backdoors, and they would have announced it concretely if they'd found any - it would be too much in America's interest not to.

It's starting to feel as though the justifications of the agencies, with all their resources, basically boil down to "They must be, they're evil!"
The latter. With quality register allocation, the same register can be used for multiple variables (or unnamed intermediate results) within the span of a few instructions. The inverse is also true: the same variable could find its value in multiple registers.

DWARF appears to support mapping symbol locations to registers, but I’ve never seen a language environment/debugger that takes advantage of it for optimized binaries.
Are those costs higher than in other developed countries? If so, why?
Basic question, that I don't see answered upfront: Does it use Javascript?
Great point. They're not doing it to save the world or anything, they see dollar signs. As you said, they'll desalinate enormous amounts of water, and that is life.

While $200b is about $200b more than virtually all of us have, all the Crown Prince has to do is hold another Ritz Carlton party. This time they know he's serious so they'll pay in a few days.
> which anyone (even a secretary!) can easily extend

Even if that’s true, we’re talking about development environments here, so secretaries are irrelevant. I’ve been programming C++ and C# for decades, for me, visual studio is quite flexible and extensible.

> Terminals support underlines

I specifically told about wavy red underlines for spell checking, and terminals don’t support that. Simple underlines are too intrusive i.e. they often mask '_', and don’t stand out visually from normal text.

> It's more than an editor; it connects to build systems like make, maven, gradle, ant, what-have-you.

I know it’s possible to integrate everything in Linux ecosystem. I just don’t want to waste my time connecting, integrating, and then supporting the setup that just works out of the box on Windows, with freeware visual studio.
Yes. Banks and insurance were around long before Facebook, like by 1000 years. I can’t tell if you’re being serious or putting us on.
Peter Levels https://levels.io/ offered early access to his currently-writing book ... and published it officially 2.5 years later. I could be wrong about the exact timeline but you get the point.
There is no evidence that the Patriot, or the Russian S300/S400, ever intercepted anything fast moving.

For example, when the US hit a Syrian airbase defended by Russian AA, not a single relatively-slow Tomawhawk was shot down. Though one could argue that Russia held back for political reasons, but that's very weak - no one could blame Russia for self-defense.

The same goes for CIWS - I don't know of a single instance of US or Russian (or otherwise) CIWS defending a ship from a missile. (With the notable exception of Phalanx, which seems to do ok against mortars).
You can go in and demand the "new customer" deals. I've done it several times with Comcast. It's a pain, but they will do it. Best to do it in person not on the phone. It's not possible online AFAIK.
I think you mixed up the order of step 2. The piece of fat should be at the end to lubricate the cooking service. Wetting it again after would be counter productive.

Also I don’t recommend a regular sponge for the water cleansing step due to the materials involved not necessarily be heat safe. Soaked paper towels work great.
Reminds we of https://www.npr.org/2012/02/27/147296743/how-you-can-harness...