skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally, things like this mark a top in the market. Zillow will get caught with a ton of inventory that they can't sell, and then take a huge loss trying to unload them for cash. It probably won't happen right away, but I can totally see it happening in the next year or so.
A good place to start: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/backpage-senate-report-accuses-...

> Backpage altered up to 80 percent of their ads before posting them online “by deleting words, phrases, and images indicative of criminality, including child sex trafficking.”
Hmm. Lemme see if I can understand how you're seeing things here: Do you believe tax avoidance is a victimless crime?
There are! We're hiring for lots of open technology jobs here https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Tech

For backend specifically, on the CMS team there's this job https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Tech/job/New-Yor... or a fun one with the cooking team https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Tech/job/New-Yor...
It's worth remembering that when we talk about stripping things from ads, the ads included photographs, and the photographs were apparently not stripped from the ads.
Besides what the sibling comment said, if all apps are generally not great, it speaks to a basic limitation of app-driven study of languages, at least, that indicates one needs to supplement. My plan was to use duolingo to get to the point that I could start reading French newspapers and watching French TV, which I assumed would add a dimension to my learning experience that I couldn't get from DuoLingo.

After this thread, I plan to move that step up as a check on DuoLingo.
That sounds like an explicit HIPA violation and is very much against the law for both the hospital to share the data and Facebook to do that linking. It sounds tin foil hat conspiracy to me.
There's already plenty of legally questionable stuff in Bitcoin's blockchain:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16617136

Thus, it would be better (if it could be afforded --- see some of the other comments on cost estimates) to continue there, or perhaps one of the other altcoins that's already in use for monetary purposes.
perhaps it's not the obsession of the idea that counts but rather the obsession with the Problem you want to solve.
There's a vector field, but it's continuous - you can't point to two points in space and say "a field line passes through this one, but not this one".
Pretty sure most/or at least a lot of it doesnt end up on a landfill

https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-is-no-1-in-exporting-tr...
And what happens when the lanes are shifted for road construction? Killing a driver is bad enough, killing an innocent construction worker would be marginally worse.
A hack I found that's useful for me is to keep a daily log. I list down what I have achieved in a day no matter how small they may be, e.g adding contents to company wiki, clearing a jira ticket, reading an interesting article, etc. I keep the log in a simple text file for each day, in a repo on github. I always find the urge to add something to this log whenever I get back home.
From the article:

> Unlike traditional home-flippers who bet they can make money on home appreciation, Zillow plans to profit by charging sellers a fee in addition to agent commissions.
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How does this work in practice? If each customers data has a unique encryption key, then how do you do SQL joins ?
It is very different. I think the word vast is not too strong. They are both masterpieces.
It seems odd to plead "down" to trafficking when the original charges were facilitating prostitution?

Edit: It looks like TFA might be factually wrong. Here's the DoJ's version of it: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/backpage-s-co-founder-and-ceo...
If he's smart enough, he's make a component of the AI hardwired into the air-gapped computer. Without it physically present on a system, the AI cannot operate.

(This is equivalent to making genetically engineered animals or plants dependent on a nutrient that is only supplied in the lab to make sure they can't survive in the wild.)
At close to $1m per km though, it isn't going to be everywhere.
git isn't great for quickly writing and editing text. In response to breaking news, it isn't unusual to have two people making changes to the same paragraph at the same time. That's a recipe for messy merge conflict in git.

On the graphics desk we know how to use git— we use it for js/css—but still write words in google docs.
I am an engineer at Cruise. Our team is surprisingly weak. Particularly the early engineers (Rusty, Elliot, Juan, etc.) What we really need is better technical management to point the team in the right direction.
This kind of question is a gold mine, IME. When I interview network protocol devs, my favorite question is:

"tell me what happens between the time you type something into the address bar and when you see a result". so many opportunities to show understanding at various levels there.
The USPS is my favorite shipping company. I hope it survives for a long time.
I have two reasons why I like them so much:

* They can't inspect packages without a warrant. I don't ship illegal things, but I like privacy.

* They're the only shipping company that I trust to deliver to an apartment building. Seriously. I've had nightmares with every other company delivering to apartments
Yes, this is the case. Smartness is not the limiting factor. The biggest limiting factor is number of opportunities.
The iron filings actually concentrate the field, which leads to a bit of an avalanche effect as the concentrated field attracts more filings towards it that creates the lines.

Those lines are entirely conceptual.
What a fucking dork.
Accredited investor laws are disgusting. Personally, I'd much prefer to hold securities, tokens, equities, currency on-chain than via some broker. Similarly as a way to accept dividends as well. Having a compliant way of performing this would be fantastic.

Edit: Since we have the downvoters here, does anybody want to defend accredited investor laws? Here is some stimulus material - https://qz.com/431198/this-is-not-a-typo-only-3-of-americans...
Crypto birds? I'm in
Don't many cars have simple collision prevention or auto braking that kicks in as soon as there is a stationary obstacle in the front? Why doesn't or can't tesla use the same approach?
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Okay, but let's look at it this way: What do you suggest we do when fifty percent of the US workforce is no longer employed because of clever kinds of automation that smart folks like you and I personally weren't able to predict way back in 2018? What do we do? How do we keep babies from starving and all wealth from aggregating in the hands of a dozen people worldwide? Let's not talk about how likely (or unlikely) this eventually is and hedge our bets. Let's play like we're "Societal SREs" and do a little emergency management. Let's talk about what happens if the article's conclusions come to fruition. What do you suggest we do?

Because if we leave people to their own devices, they'll burn the whole fucking thing to the ground. Open literally any history book to see examples.
If he's talking about the UPU and shipping rates for China to the US, he's right.

But, if so, it isn't something the USPS can change.
> they can't see to fly without risking hitting something.

This sentence makes me wonder: are they docile because it genuinely calms them, or are they entering a sort of helpless automatic panic mode, like "OMFG no escape, can't fly, can't move"?

The latter sounds like the bird is getting a terrifying experience.
Who cares if he had 5 seconds to see the barrier if he only had 0.5 seconds to realize that the car went into casual murder mode right as it veers into the barrier.

This video is quite relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QCF8tVqM3I

A fully alert driver trying (and succeeding) in reproducing this behaviour. Observe how long the barrier is visible, how long it takes him to react, and how close the car was to hitting the barrier.
I suspect not in a way that people care very much about compared to mobile device battery life.
I thought they reserved the right to inspect any package for safety or making sure people are misusing something like media rates for other non media things.
I find it hard to believe that the us government would snoop in your emails and in your IM messages, but somehow not submit your physical packages to some amount of noninvasive scanning
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Is that the right pay grade?
>that seems to prevent use of HTTPS.

notable counter-example: https://1.1.1.1/

it doesn't work for internet explorer though.
The parent poster actually went and deleted a bunch of post after my comment. Trying to keep a standard on HN.
Reading emails is a lot easier than scanning packages that people get mad at not arriving on time.
I'm sure there's some inspection. But the other companies are most certainly worse.
The Sources of Innovation by von Hippel [1] tries to answer this question of when innovation comes from users vs. manufacturers vs. suppliers. The book is nearly unreadable, but the topic is interesting.

[1] http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www-old/books/sources/SofI.pdf
You can add Ambulance service as one of the extremely exploitive services. They don't even give you an estimate of what it's going to be then you get a bill in the mail for 2900$ for a 25 minute ride!!! Word to wise, never use ambulance service unless you have a really high degree of confidence in your medical insurance company.
You can stil use the generator for that.
Yes, as well as some lower-level software. (sharing portions of a PCI BAR region isn't trivial in a hypervisor, when multiple guests are involved).

Mixing safety criticality levels is hard.
Agreed. I don't think they get enough acknowledgement.

When I was in the service overseas, the USPS was a lifeline. Thanks to special arrangements between the military and the USPS, I could have anything shipped from the states to wherever I was in the world for the same rate it'd have cost to have it sent to NYC--usually with only a week or so extra shipping time added.
It’s true... there are limited circumstances by law where mail can be tampered with.

The downside is that if you commit a crime and there is a nexus with the mail, you’re facing a serious felony. Politicians submit ethics paperwork via hand delivery for this reason.
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What advice are you looking for? Fashion? Where to buy? Fit? How to wear a suit when coworkers don’t? My advice for fashion and fit is to find a picture of something you like and go to a reputable men’s suit retailer. They will help you ensure a proper fit and offer custom tailoring (which might not be optional). Get the suit tailored and give feedback as to how you like your clothes to fit. Take the shoes you want to wear with the suit. Allow the tailor to measure you and help you with the fit for your body type. When you pick up the suit after tailoring, try it on again to ensure it is how you expected it. If not, have them make adjustments. A suit that is uncomfortable stays in the closet. Pick out two different color shirts and two different color ties. Again, the professional at the store you picked can help with color, fit, and selection. This will make your suit more flexible. Be prepared to spend some extra money on appropriate accessories as well (like a belt and socks). Ask for a garment bag with your purchase to ensure you keep your new purchase in good shape while hanging in your closet. Dry cleaning is a must with a nice suit, but if your don’t expose it to harsh treatment (rain, wind, dirt, etc) you should be good with several wears before cleaning is necessary.
Yeah—not arguing the overall wisdom of law enforcement's approach here, but it's important to understand how much these guys were aware of the illegal activity on their platform and chose to actively facilitate it.
Laws have very little to do with sense. There is a reason why PGP was going to be published as a book of source code to get around the munituons export ban thay affected crytography in the 80/90s by creating a first amendment issue.
This and just the economics of it. It makes sense to sell at what price the market can handle, as long as it's above direct production cost (which it is). It's basically cheap marketing that happens to align with patient interests.

edit: A lot of it is also politics with the host country. India for example has said it will produce cheap generics of drugs if it wants to, ignoring patents: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2013/04/08/indias...
They have a guaranteed monopoly. They ain't going nowhere.
There are websites that break or don't work as expected with an AdBlock plugin. We had to redesign the section of our site that talked about advertising because various AdBlock plugins blocked chunks of the page or disabled the javascript for the contact form. This was very confusing to users even though they presumably made a choice to install an ad blocking plugin.

The specifics of how Firefox has implemented this feature are fairly conservative so that's less likely, but I think you need to be really careful about blocking certain lists of domains by default.
> If you click on an ad and buy the product, you’re paying for that impression as well as 100s of others that resulted in a small annoyance instead of a conversion.

Free shipping isn't really free, the cost of a product can include multiple different factors.

As far as the annoyance point, I guess that is somewhat balanced out by the importance of the site.

But that isn't the point I was making, the point I am making is that advertising is genuine way for companies to make money from offering services. There isn't really any other valid alternatives to this over than user pays or giving it away.
The history of Google and its advertising
I think it's worth knowing whether or not his claims about Amazon are actually true. Worst case, it'll save taxpayers some money, best case we can be done hearing about it and know it's a moot issue.
Agreed. I found it a bit of a pain though to write using it as most languages have so much syntactic sugar for OO.
I'd blame it more on 286 being trash than actual complexity. I remember doing MIPS ASM in the early 90s, and it was a joy.
I'm surprised a CA would sign a certificate for that, but OK.
Agreed. It feels odd to read an article from a developer who doesn't know the terminology. Vim is a text editor because it edits strictly text content and not other media or presentation. Oak is a 'desktop' publishing app if not a CMS; it's purpose is to handle multimedia and presentation, as well as document review.

(At least that's how I understand text editors; maybe I'm the ignorant one.)
It’s pretty straightforward: you don’t encrypt the data necessary for a join.

Data for a join, ie foreign keys, are used to inform your structure. They aren’t really data a person owns... they just describe how that data (theirs) fits into your database (yours).
^^ this. even cursory x-ray inspection is a huge undertaking.

I once worked for the USPS in a Middle Eastern country, and it was our job to assist local customs officials as they scanned / inspected every piece of inbound mail.

They ran each piece through an x-ray, and whenever they spotted a banned item (liquor bottles, sex toys--hell, they even inspected optical discs to make sure they weren't porn), they opened the package and confiscated it.

We cleared about 1 mail truck of mail every night, and it took 5-10 hours. No way that's sustainable on the scale of domestic mail throughput.
That's kind of outrageous. Esp since the nytimes webdev team has generally done such a bang-up job w/ compelling UX.
Anything that’s a “first class” letter or parcel (big envelope over 3.5oz or not uniformly flat) under 13oz is protected by the 4th amendment. Anything larger or in an actual box can be searched at any time.
Thanks! What do you use to display this on your desktop?
This is gorgeous, thank you for caring about my life. purchased
An interesting if rather long read. However I’m not sure if your solutions of voluntary donations and cryptocurincies have viability. Voluntary donations have high friction to get a user to start donating (You don’t want to donate to a site you only visit twice and who knows if you will visit the site in the future). Cryptocurincies are unproven at this point.

You also don’t mention how targeted advertising is critical to many small business. If you have niche or specalized product it can be very difficult to find people that want to buy it, you are limited to only places where those people are in high concentrations, it is quite reasonable to expect that the elimination of targeted advertising would quietly erase these business as they are no longer able to find their consumers. Diffrent payment models don’t address this.
MYSQL – Select formatted date and also count the formatted date?
To my knowledge, the USPS has been struggling for a while, and making it more sustainable is something that's critical.

In typical Trump fashion, the core issue has been latched to a very clear & tangible scapegoat (in this case, Amazon) so that people (and media) debate it ad nauseum instead of the core issue (streamlining the USPS)...which is something everyone should agree is important no matter what.
It's one of the things being discussed:

"GOP Senator moves to close shipping loophole that helps Chinese businesses on Amazon. ... In general, the system is set up so that wealthier countries pay more than poorer nations, but in recent years the UPU has provided a huge opening for foreign manufacturers, particularly those in China, to cheaply get products into U.S. online marketplaces like Amazon."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/10/senator-bill-cassidy-ending-...
well one thing to note is that what the public thinks an aircraft autopilot can do is not exactly what it does do. hence the reason many object to Tesla's use of the name, they are exploiting the ignorance of the public with regards to the capability of the product.
per: https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/contactUs/faq.aspx

Letters cannot be opened without a warrant, but it sounds like they could be subject to scans.

In general though, almost all laws (especially with respect to privacy) were written with physical privacy in mind, not virtual. The statutes around opening a letter is much more well defined those around recording unencrypted emails.
I suspect that NYT will contribute quite a bit back to ProseMirror out of enlightened self-interest but not give away the secret sauce that make Oak a competitive advantage for them. This is REAL freedom in software: without the ability to build a closed-source, for-profit business it won't succeed. I'll take MIT/BSD/Apache over something with a herpes license (GPL/AGPL) any day.
IPNS?
> I'm actually surprised this whole suit is being pursued by a professional society. Closed publications seem to be out of line with the interest of their members.

Not exactly.

I fully recognize that Elsevier and Springer Verlag have behaved so obnoxiously that they make everything I'm about to say sound ridiculous, but nevertheless, here goes.

"If you're not the customer, you're the product."

When I get the latest issue of (say) IEEE Transactions On What I Do For a Living, I want to know that the editors did their best to solicit and round up the best new work on advancing the state of the art in my specialty, and that the manuscripts they received check out and are worthy.

That takes money, because the editors have bills to pay and can't really do this on a volunteer basis. Even though the peer reviewers are volunteers, getting them to volunteer is itself work. And the work starts by filtering the slush out so you're not asking the reviewers to look at stuff that's utter crap.

Advertiser support is not appropriate here. "This issue of IEEE Power And Energy is brought to you by Xformer Corp. (So don't even think about discussing in these pages how our transformers blow up more often than should happen in polite society.""

Author support is even less appropriate, with all due respect to the PLOS line of journals.

And yes, the professional societies try to price subscriptions and downloads so their budget is at break-even, which is why they have an interest in getting subscriptions and payments from as many people as possible, i.e. by not making the PDFs available for free. If everyone in EECS joined IEEE, membership fees would go down, and they could add Transactions access to the standard membership package.

I do still think it's counterproductive to crack down on Sci-Hub. Ultimately, what we need is a micropayments system that makes paying for downloads too seamlessly easy to be worth dodging. If Venmoing for PDFs took less time to set up and use than going to Sci-Hub, this would be moot.
moot (irrelevant), not mute (silent)
you're still supposed to keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road at all times

...and be ready to correct it should it try to steer into objects. IMHO that's even worse than plain old "manual" driving --- at least in that case, the car doesn't have a mind of its own and won't suddenly decide to steer itself. It'll keep going in a straight line even if (absolutely not recommended on a public road, but a good way of checking the suspension and steering) you take your hands off the wheel.

To me, it sounds more like driving with Tesla autopilot is like being a driving instructor for a not-too-great learner.
First the Github/ICE scandal, now this.

When did it become disgraceful to be a part of your country?
Yeah I was talking about LFR I think
Finally!!!!

It's a well known fact that Chinese sellers are using USPS to get illegal opioids into the US, fueling the fentanyl crisis

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-opioids/chin...

also, it's a well known fact that USPS allow Chinese sellers to send cheap products that infringe on IP into the states, thus bankrupting small sellers in US

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/why-does-amazon-al...
Peak gig economy? An Uber for learning how to drive a stick shift
Exactly.

It's weird how much backlash there is whenever a certain crowd gets the paranoid narrative of "first they came for X..."

I understand the appeal of that argument. Regulation should be approached with caution, but these people were selling children as sex slaves.
And there is still no Classical Latin despite years of requests and overwhelming support and a horde of volunteers and even a few forum posts with nearly complete but informal Classical Latin courses.
Maybe if they're fast and buy up enough, they can get bailed out in the next housing downturn. Even better if they can gain recognition as a bank of some sort before that time.
USPS scans first class mail and probably stores the metadata. They definitely store it long enough to support their Informed Delivery service, a free service they have where they email you the scans ahead of delivery.
No, worst case it provides some trumped up grounds for pressuring the USPS into insisting on uneconomical terms and denying Amazon service, thereby simultaneously driving the USPS even further into the red and screwing over Amazon investors & customers (ie almost all Americans), all to gratify Trump's vendetta against the WaPo.
They're not true.

We won't stop hearing them.
Laws concerning US mail privacy are old, dating back from the American republic times. They are hard to revert. The electronic communications snooping is how we operate now- with vague and flexible "living document" style laws.
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