skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I‘d even pay for a feature where I would get an email from MailChimp whenever my E-Mail-Address is added to their database.
I'm making almost $400,000 total compensation and I'm happily working on things that I love. I don't need a union to tax me and force me to pay dues to do absolutely nothing that will benefit me, besides pay themselves well. On top of that, having a union start representing itself as a political force will definitely upset me.

I may be against the militarization of Google, but what if I weren't? What if I supported it? Then I would be paying money to a union that I fundamentally disagreed with. There is a court case going to the Supreme Court about exactly this issue. What if I were a Democrat, and the union decided to support a Republican candidate?
Warning sign: People have stopped paying their mobile home loans
I'm interested in knowing what percentage of users are not in America. It seems that it's increasing.

We've always enjoyed here to mean America. I guess it won't be for long.
Please explain Vietnam.
> The takeaway from WWII is not that the military is a wonderful thing but that the UN is a wonderful thing.

The same UN that causes Cholera outbreaks, protects rapists (as long as they wear blue helmets), and steps aside to allow massive genocides to occur on a not-irregular basis ( Rwanda, Bosnia, Sri Lanka, South Sudan for starters).

Or are you talking about the UN that funded the Oil for Food program so a bunch of super-elite rich people could get kickbacks from an evil dicatator?

Maybe it's the UN that has stood by for decades while more and more dictators and legitimately horrible people acquire and use WMDs (Libya, Syria, North Korea, and on and on)...

Seriously, how much good has the UN actually done that wasn't backedstopped by a US Super Carrier or two?
About 10 years ago, I worked on a project that used triangulation to measure distances with a laser. The specular reflection is falling on a pair of photodiodes. The relative amounts of light on each diode is indicative of the distance to the specular reflection.

A good visual aide that helped me is to imagine a measuring stick laid horizontally across your field of vision, but at a 45 degree angle, such that the left side is closer to you, and the right side is further away.

If you abstract your vision to a 2D projection of a 3D volume, you can easily see that as your eyes follow the measuring stick to the left, the distances get smaller, because they actually are closer to you. Conversely, as your eyes follow the measuring stick to the right, the measurements get larger, because they actually are further away.

Your brain is just really good at trig.
I don't understand the tradeoff of constant decreased privacy just to avoid a few moments of "awkwardness" (if it's completely private, what's awkward? Is there a big issue with non-functioning locks?)??
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Whether by luck or not, that's actually not far off one of the better estimates I can find. The paper "Fatalities among the world's merchant seafarers (1990–1994)" [1] ends up with a rough estimate of 2200 fatalities per year worldwide for the early 1990s. This is based on relatively good data from 19 major maritime flags and major insurance underwriters, followed by more shaky extrapolation to the worldwide numbers. Of the 2200/yr, the authors attribute about half to maritime accidents, so the number due to actual sinkings and such is lower, around 1100/yr in their estimate. The other fatalities break down as: 1/4 of the total attributed to occupational accidents (falling off a ladder, etc.), and 1/4 to illness while at sea.

The paper does mention that other estimates have reached both considerably higher and considerably lower totals (they quote one author who estimated 13,000/yr in the 1980s!). It's hard to get good numbers because the worst safety records appear to be among flag-of-convenience nations who also have the worst reporting and insurance practices, so a large portion of total fatalities (probably) come from the places with the highest uncertainties. But even among rich nations they did still find it a comparatively dangerous occupation: it's safer to be a Danish-flagged seafarer than most other flags, but still >10x the fatality rate compared to having a job on land in Denmark.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1016/S0308-597X(98)00017-7
Games are useful for ushering new users on to the platform since they rely on novelty instead of network effect. Then when more people are comfortable with using dapps and on the platform, the more serious apps can come about.
> "sun blindness" problem that having a powerful IR source.

Just point out it's not as bad as one would think since sunlight has much less IR than visible light energy. The deeper IR you can go and the narrower your filters on the receiving side the better.

Other issue I had dealing with an IR comm link 30 years ago was it sucks compared to RF because your sensor aperture is very small compared to an antenna. And as you mentioned the the ground floor is much higher with IR than RF.
None whatsoever - I was generalising. Incidentally, I should point out that whilst I have a fair idea of the plan of attack: I would be bloody useless at actually carrying it out 8)
Free markets are self-organizing, and are constantly adapting, evolving, and innovating. Centralized planning (socialism) cannot hope to match it.
High Wages versus High Savings in a Globalized World
'Our military is already trying to pick a fight'

Our military doesn't get to pick the fights. They get to fight the fights.
The USSR had pencils, yes.
What's the state of the water supply now? There's no more news about it, everyone forgot, as usual...
Devil's Advocate

Trying to put together the timeline, lets say 6 years out of college, so you're maybe in your early thirties. Let's say your Dad had you in his late 20s, early 30s. So he was in his 40s when you and him founded the business, and you were a teen.

Maybe he doesn't think you are ready yet. Maybe he remembered all the mistakes he made in his thirties, and how in his mid forties everything came together when you helped him move online and save his business. But for a business man, all you did was tech stuff. He has seen you follow the start up path out of College and spend 4 years chasing the start-up-lottery dream, and doesn't want to give you $1.5M for you to continue chasing (in his mind) smoke and mirrors.

Maybe while you spent 4 years in college, and he was running the business, with programming employees, he found out that you created a serious hairy mudball that no one but you would ever understand.
(I remember some of the first sites and software I made in the early 90s when I first learned web programming and kept building on them because they worked and were in production which now make me shudder to think of).

It might be that he thinks you still have fire to burn and things to prove, and are not ready to take over a company that is running well - that you might makes changes just for the sake of change.

Maybe he fears with more control you would kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

And he could be very wrong. Made worse by the idea that maybe his assumptions are all wrong, and he is not doing this out of malice (as some commenters are quick to point out) but he genuinely believes he is helping you.

Who knows? We have your side of the story, and though I believe your side is true, it is just half of the story.

/Devil's Advocate

I wish you the best of luck. And I do think your father has some explaining to do.

(My view is formed by my being in my late 40s, having a 6 year old son who I love, and trying to think why my son in 25 years could think that I am a great person, but also think I am screwing him over).

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Cool! There's obviously some competition coming from the various CDNs and cloud providers, but it's an interesting space and I wish you guys the best. I haven't really wrapped my head around the use cases yet (almost need a distributed edge database before it really ramps up the value) but I'll be playing with this for sure.
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It does. A permanent resident alien can purchase and carry firearms in most states, and nonresident aliens can get a license to do so as well.
IMO Apple doesn't data mine like other large tech companies. Especially since they shut down iAds.
Hi, do you have an email address? Would like to apply, but don't wish to use my google/github login to do so.
Anything in the fediverse, of course. It's just that everyone knows Mastodon, so it's low-friction to title the question with it.
Hmmm. Do you expect to find something very outrageous in those ads? If that would be the case, I think the press would have informed us already. It's not like they are very indulgent towards Teh Donald.

And it's hard to spend $100M on facebook ads with some outrageous content without anyone noticing. Screenshots will be posted, shared, etc.

So, I don't expect anything that wasn't said by Trump himself during his stump speeches and pre-election rallies. "Build Teh Wall", et al.
> I don't know the particulars in this case but is Nestlé going to pay proper amount for this water?

This is just a permit to draw water from a well, not a municipal drinking water supply. I suspect that (other than the permit fee) they aren't paying anything for the water. (I had a look at the permit & didn't see anything there about payments).
> doors don't go to the floor or ceiling

Bad design. With today's pervasiveness of smartphone cameras, it's difficult to not be afraid that someday, somebody will pull a prank and make a shot from above or below; and of course post it on Facebook.
Surprisingly relevant Adult Swim Infomercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
We're still learning how to best describe this.

Edge is a bit of a marketing term, we all might end up using something else to describe this down the road. Edge normally means "servers that are very close to your users".

CDNs are specialized edges for caching HTTP content. Edge Apps are a lower level concept than CDNs, but you can picture the same thing. We have servers all over the world, we distribute your code to them, your users connect to whichever is closest to them.

Heroku, and most of gcloud, are location specific. You deploy code, it runs in Ashburn Virginia, your users traverse the internet to connect to your apps (which adds latency).

Our Edge Apps are most likely to replace a CDN, not replace your app hosted on Heroku. Lots of our customers run centralized apps and then write JavaScript to enhance them by caching partials close to users, or optimizing content as it gets shipped to users.
Is that really a UI issue or misrepresented data?

If I see a timestamp on rapidly changing data I sure as hell would like to see if there's a delayed effective stamp (most stock market tickers indicate the "effective date" of their data or say clearly there's a XX min delay).
The term is "free markets" which have a reasonably agreed upon definition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market
If you're a Vimmer this is invaluable. ctrl-c and esc feel terrible after that.
Yes, I saw the same thing. Even when I've had people reviewing logs, I make the date prominent and train them to check it first. BVS's data is far more critical.

(I learned from a burnt hand: We engaged a non-technical but reliable user to check the daily backup log for errors and report any to us. One day we needed the backup and discovered it hadn't run at all for many weeks. Ouch. I asked the user; she said she indeed checked the logs daily and they were fine. She was right: She was seeing the log from the last backup, unchanged every day. My fault entirely, not hers: We should have anticipated the date problem, and we should have utilized someone technically literate enough to understand what they were reading - in this case, someone who would recognize an 'obvious' problem such as the numbers of files and bytes not changing. And we should have tested our backups more often, but that old lesson almost isn't worth mentioning.)
Wouldn't "(4) involves any internal organ" apply? As I understood it the pilots internal organs (lung, brain, etc) were severely injured by the toxic fumes.
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Docker Cloud will no longer scan for security issues without Enterprise account
> And how often does that actually happen anymore, really?

Every few weeks to a few times a week depending what I'm working on/with.

> If a MacBook (or any other device for that matter) starts swapping, you'll know right away.

1. not necessarily, SSDs make swapping way less problematic than it used to be

2. ideally you want to nip the problematic process before it locks up the entire machine
> The yelling "fire" thing is a WWI era anachronism that wouldn't hold today.

Really? Go try it and report on the results.

Feel free to take it literally, or think of a similar action that could cause a stampede and try that.

(No, I won't pay your defense, fines, or judgements, and I don't think anyone else will either. This is because the very idea that the concept no longer applies is stupid, and that statement should be abandoned.)
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I'm the instance owner on my own instance, so I have a pretty decent idea of where the data is going :)
> People I know in the area with wells had them go dry after the nestle plant opened. These were wells that had previously been high (for wells) throughout, just drying up.

That (if true) is a legitimate complaint and Nestle should make them whole.

Edit: as someone else noted, this is less than one swimming pool's worth of water per day. If wells are going dry because of that, they were marginal at best.
Building more understanding of file formats into binvis is perpetually on my todo list. This would let you interpret different segments of files differently, and correctly interpret instructions and other higher-level structures. It would also help with things like entropy calculation over sliding windows (where you don't want this to span file segments). There are so many interesting avenues to explore here.

While I'm thinking about it, you're of course quite right that spotting periodic patterns in a Hilbert curve layout is really hard. However, I've found that being able to spot them in a scanning layout is highly dependent on your column width matching/resonating with the period of the pattern you're looking for. Another thing on my todo list is to combine Hilbert layouts with Fourier transforms. There's a very suggestive paper on this that I'd love to explore:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.03817.pdf
Lend-lease was enacted March 11, 1941. IBM was cataloguing religious and other minorities for the Nazis in the 30s. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust#cite_ref...
> If you can't understand why there's so much ruckus and commotion by the public you shouldn't be calling it pointless or useless.

I can understand, but that doesn't make it any less pointless or useless.

> People are angry because of the disaster that was Flint. When government officials refuse to answer for large-scale disasters, people resort to other outlets and places to direct their anger. People are angry because they see corporations swooping in to bottle and sell more water in the same state where those people are suffering due to greed and failure.

Sure, and the two issues are disconnected. Not only that, but the protests and anger actually cause a loss of value to society and to the state.

And saying that this protest is pointless and useless doesn't mean I don't sympathize with those suffering at Flint.
Rate limits aside, Twitter's APIs are horrendously unreliable. Plenty of timeouts, 500s, and over-capacity errors. Are all these big tech companies spending way too much money on employees and not enough on their actual product, infrastructure and security of such product?
In the past, I have actually about the historical education of several people who went to school between 1985-2009 and no one I've met has had any education of history past reconstruction covered in primary & secondary education (outside of Civil Rights-era, which is independently covered).

Even if you are one of the ~1% of APAM students it's spoken about in broad terms and hazy generalities after Teapot Dome (unless you count history of Baseball, which somehow is somewhat inexplicably regarded as a critical component of America history).

I find this interesting because many Americans broadly understand the succession of events leading up to and constituting WWII. On the other hand, the topics that are covered to death are barely recalled: The Revolutionary War? Washington fought that one. Civil War? Harper's Ferry & Manassas? 1812? "The time we fought the Canadians".
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When I read the article's title, I expected this story to be about other email newsletter platforms being flooded with cryptocurrency mailers who were previously using MailChimp, and how their own deliverability performance was affected.

While I assume that what is described in the article might have happened with other verticals, I would be curious to see how this will play out in the larger emailing ecosystem given the current hype & aggressiveness of the commercial practices of at least some of the players in the cryptocurrency field (as attested by others here).
Oh, I fully agree. Just providing some context.
> The watershed and the associated aquifer are where the river water comes from

Yes, that's where it comes from, but it doesn't fill up instantly. Depending on the depth and type of aquifer the well is tapping, it could actually take a very long time for the aquifer to refill (or it could refill very quickly).
This + persistence (even a simple key/value store with range queries on the index) would be awesome. I use Lambda+DynamoDB for small projects and it feels like driving to the grocery store in a steam roller.
> one horizontal line at a time, with one byte for Blue,Green,Red,Alpha(?) per pixel (seems like 24-bit true color).

You can (and should if you are writing software not only for yourself) ask the kernel about the framebuffer layout using FBIOGET_FSCREENINFO and FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO ioctls.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/api.txt
In my high school, the stall doors were removed because kids were smoking in them.
I had the same concerns so I started my own instance.
This feels like Begging the Question - your post implies that AI targeting will:

A) not be developed without support from Google, which is categorically untrue; The DoD might simply find it more difficult to acquire top talent if that talent is opposed to the work on philosophical grounds.

And B) be necessary for the US military to remain the most advanced and/or powerful in 20 years, which is also exceptionally doubtful - unless you believe ML to have such effective wartime applications as to render a nearly threefold larger military budget (compared to China, the next largest) moot.
Yep. In places outside of the US, like Indonesia, Facebook IS "the internet": https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-id...
This is an extremely poorly written article. I'm glad most of the comments seem to be ignoring the actual text in it.

What collateral damage is being done? It seems to me the opposite of collateral damage is being done: Mailchimp has banned cryptocurrency-related email lists, and those writing cryptocurrency-related emails have lost that ability.

Beyond the absurdity of the title, email has always been decentralized. Anyone with a server can send or receive email with whatever technology stack they so wish. Of course, because there is no trust framework, there's no guarantee that your email will get delivered… Which is why Mailchimp validated the opposite of the article's conclusion: there is lots of value in centralizing the management of email. They can act as a trusted authority to negotiate with various email hosts and guarantee(-ish) to customers that the emails will get delivered.
Sure, but that was neither my point nor my question. I'm not interested in what Valve wants to achieve (in this scope) - but if there's a tangible benefit for gamers and not just a hypthetic one :)
Also, your accuracy is very dependent on the baseline of the laser vs. the image sensor and it's very sensitive to proper calibration.

Plus expect some scale changes in the output data when the thing heats up or cools down.
I lived in the Dominican Republic for a few years, and it was a little weird to me at first, but after a while you get used to putting dirty paper in the trash. I never once had to deal with a clogged toilet.

After moving back to the USA it was just as weird to put paper in the toilets (though drinking the same water you bathe in was the weirdest part).

I think people exaggerate the weirdness and difficulty of adjustment, because in both instances it took me a week at most to get used to either way.
I think your point is also valid in countries that are still developing - and more so, if you consider those cultures have never used tp and likely never will.
Why not? Secretly exfiltrating my data is plenty.
Eh, it's a handy abstraction. There's also no uniform memory space (multiple RAM chips, virtual memory, swap), CPUs absolutely are not the "run one opcode after another" thing that programmers pretend, and by the time you stream HTML from a server to client it's been sliced into a thousand pieces, compressed, encrypted, reordered...

We like abstractions.
Make your own instance. Then you can turn it into whatever you want. You can follow anybody in the fediverse, regardless of what instance they're on.
Toilet paper is gross. The notion that toilet paper is the best much less the only means of toilet hygiene is pretty ignorant.

For an educational laugh: https://youtu.be/dKkryfdtMNQ

By the way, the simplest solution, for people who are regular, is simply to do your business before your shower.
We're not talking about "100% of the river's flow".

We're talking about 1/2000 of the river's flow.
I’m not sure I follow? By clicking on an advert you’re moving to a 3rd party with their own potential collection and collation of personal data, and their own opt-in requirements. It would be down to the advertiser at that point to receive consent from the user.
> I started remapping the Caps Lock key to the Escape command

I could't care less about this, but...

> even love, at a visceral level, the balanced symmetry of ESC and ENTER being opposite each other.

now that you mentioned it, I absolutely HAVE to do it!
How about Dragon's Den? The Canadian version is probably the closest counterpart to America's Shark Tank.
I have not noticed this correlation, so it may be anecdotal.
There's a sort of running gag at Google that "An Update On Foo" is how the company announces that they're canceling Foo. So my first read of this headline was.. different.