skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't make much sense from a purely scientific point of view, however, banning straws, much like banning plastic bags, is an efficient way to raise awareness and minimize inconvenience, to encourage people to re-examine their habits. (and I say "ban", but where I'm from, we can still get one for 10 or 20 cents, depending on the type of bag, and there are many exemptions, such as for meat)

If we argue in favour of the status quo, which we know is broken too, waiting for a perfect solution, then absolutely nothing will change.

There are easy ways to fix the recycling crisis, but it also means changing some habits.
Townhouses are tough to find in medium size metros in good school districts. And the ones you do find are over 55 communities.
"But who regulates the regulators?"

The voters.

"You're right, companies don't generally care about me. But neither does the Social Security Administration, the Department of Justice, my local police department, my local school board, or any post office in which I've ever found myself."

I've found that those agencies tend to care more about me than random companies. The rep at any of those places might not be able to help, but I can usually get them to try.
>Why would a company want to encourage people to make complaints in the most public way possible?

It's a perverse result of treating customer service as a cost center. The department that you call when you have a problem has targets - average call duration, cost per resolution etc. On a micro level, that seems fairly rational. They want customer service representatives to deal with complaints as quickly and cheaply as possible. On a macro level it's largely irrational, especially in the age of social media. Those CSRs are incentivised to fob off customers, who are then incentivised to complain on social media.

The problem persists because of a division of responsibility - private complaints are resolved with resources from the customer support budget, but public complaints are resolved with resources from the marketing budget. For the customer service department, it's hard to argue that you should spend $200 to please a customer who is only worth $20 a year. For the marketing department, it's a no-brainer to spend $400 to prevent a social media shitstorm.

Fixing that problem requires either strong leadership from the very top of the org chart, or tremendous bravery from just below the top. Someone has to make the case for the company losing fairly large sums of money in customer support expenses to prevent the risk of people badmouthing them on Twitter. Loss aversion cuts both ways - you don't want to spend the money to prevent a hypothetical, but you'll spend the money in a heartbeat to fix a bad news story.
The post is good but just scratches the surface on running Kinesis Streams / Lambda at scale. Here are a few additional things I found while running Kinesis as a data ingestion pipeline:

- Only write logs out that matter. Searching logs in cloudwatch is already a major PITA. Half the time I just scan the logs manually because search never returns. Also, the fewer println statements you have the quicker your function will be.

- Lambda is cheap, reporting function metrics to cloudwatch from a lambda is not. Be very careful about using this.
- Having metrics from within your lambda is very helpful. We keep track of spout lag (delta of when event got to kineis and when it was read by the lambda), source lag (delta of when the event was emitted and when it was read by the lambda), number of events processed (were any dropped due to validation errors?).

- Avoid using the kinesis auto scaler tool. In theory it's a great idea but in practice we found that scaling a stream with 60+ shards causes issues with api limits. (maybe this is fixed now...)

- Have plenty of disk space on whatever is emitting logs. You don't want to run into the scenario where you can't push logs to kinesis (eg throttling) and they start filling up your disks.

- Keep in mind that you have to balance our emitters, lambda, and your downstream targets. You don't want too few / too many shards. You don't want to have 100 lambda instances hitting a service with 10 events each invocation.

- Lambda deployment tools are still young but find one that works for you. All of them have tradeoffs in how they are configured and how they deploy.

There are some good tidbits in the Q&A section from my re:Invent talk [1]. Also, for anyone wanting to use lambda but not wanting to re-invent checkout Bender [2]. Note I'm the author.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaRawf9vcZ4
[2] https://github.com/Nextdoor/bender

edit: formatting
I think they got a forensics report from Crowdstrike, not an image, but it's hard to tell for sure because the people making statements aren't fully aware of the distinction most likely.

The fact that I can't find specific reference to an image being provided, just "forensics", would lead me to suspect that an image was not provided, as otherwise later clarification on this point would have been beneficial to some parties involved. Then again, maybe I'm just missing it.
I have a very little bit of experience here but I have a few questions based on your solution.

What value does a recognition have? Is it just metadata they can act on in the moment? AKA age, height, race, gender? Are you ok with them knowing it is you by name or a assigning some UID to you as a person and keeping metadata? What about a hash of your facial pattern? How do they know if they've seen you before?

To a lot of FR programs they want to be able to analyze their customer breakdown. They want to know more than just crowd information. Given that we regulate the storage of medical information so highly right now, and you can infer based on purchase practices whether an individual has certain medical issues, I can see regulation being needed. But it raises a lot of questions about how to realistically regulate a system like this.

I'm by no means saying "don't regulate." but we need to be thoughtful about how we proceed so that regulations have few loopholes and protect citizens from both corporations leaking data and the government tracking individuals needlessly.
> Additionally, on July 27, Trump suggested in his speech, "Russia, if you're listening. I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing." And those same computers, "attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts... used by Clinton's personal office."

Anyone who has seen the actual video for that blurb that doesn’t take it as a joke should re-evaluate their sense of humor.
How should Germany have answered the Obama-sanctioned eavesdropping on Angela Merkel's phone?
LOL like that is how you gain insight into human happiness. Scott Adams also never was a politician, never interviewed politicians, never administered a poll, never ran a campaign. And yet he accurately predicted the results of the last US presidential election, while nearly all news outlets, professional polls, and political "experts" failed to do so.
Here the author being interviewed gives a short summary of the project:

https://unhabitat.org/the-tale-of-broadville-and-narrowtown-...

Details in the method can be found in a 2016 report about the "Atlas of the human planet" project, where they produced something called the "Global Human Settlement Layer" (there are a lot of plots labelled GHSL in the talk linked above). Starts at page 22, infographic at page 26:
https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Atlas_2016.pdf?t=147...
Your link does a good job of highlighting most of the important things needed to fall asleep everyday like clockwork, but is light on the rituals of resolving the anxiety of not falling asleep after lying in bed for 30 mins.

Anyway, thanks for the link.
Thanks for your advice. Being my first computer a MSX, it's good to know the GameBoy CPU is similar to the Z80. When I read it was a custom Sharp one, I thought it was a completely different world.
All that I can say is that I truly empathize with how you feel. I also see a therapist and take meds for a combination of PTSD/anxiety/depression, and I just realized that I’m very close to crossing the line into some pretty severe burnout, so I just accepted a job that’s closer to home and I expect will be less demanding.

If you feel like the job is taking its toll it probably won’t hurt to look elsewhere. I enjoy my current job, but it started demanding 10-12 hour days, working on vacation days, and time away from my family. Once I hit that point it was a sign that something needed to change, and I didn’t see the job changing anytime soon.

Do what’s best for you and the important people in your life. Never feel guilty about it. And for the love of god, don’t deal with it the way I do, which is shutting down and not communicating with people who can help.
> anything less than 5 stars is going to kill their work

Reminded me of the Black Mirror episode Nosedive. May be we are already there. On watching the episode I thought that would never happen. But things change so slowly that it feels completely normal later.
Winning solutions of kaggle competitions
Right... That's something the USA does all over the world.
That's why people send the gift cards electronically, and they sell them on Facebook or something similar.
This result concerns the simulation of disease progression among untreated individuals. I'm not sure why it is relevant to mention therapeutic results...
It is fascinating how much a single person can achieve. Since the author seems to be aware of this thread, Marko, do you mind telling a little bit about your background? This project does not seem like something that was done on the side, and also not something that a non-expert in programming languages just decides to have a go at.
<disclaimer, MS employee>

I'd like to point out that MS adheres to GDPR regulations and has applied those protections to all users.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-extending-gdp...
That's still expensive.

Anacostia DC has apartments for 90k despite people paying 4+x as much to commute into DC from the suburbs. However, those prices are very much on the rise.

SV prices are limited largely by geography and local parks. Having less land area available for development relative to commute distances drives up prices on top of other issues.
It depends on the use case. Example: I walk through the airport and an application scans my face and either calls security because I was recognized as a known terrorist or let's me pass because I'm awesome. The parent's point matters for what happens after. In the not a terrorist case the problematic system would retain that (it thinks) you walked through the airport. In a even more problematic system you now get ads because you were there.
Tip for your next visit: The monorail runs on the east side of the the strip and stops off every few buildings or so. There's also a separate free tram that runs between Bellagio, Vdara, and Aria.
More regulation will benefit companies like Microsoft and lead to less innovation, because of the legal hurdles startups would need to clear. Much in the same way that the primary beneficiary of GDPR has been Google, because advertisers trust that its scale makes it more likelihood to be compliant with the new laws. But facial recognition has a lot of applications that aren't creepy, ranging from fun (fake mustache on Snap) to useful. Facial identification might be a better target for regulation, but getting the government involved here is inviting a bulldozer to the rose garden.
Because it costs money and slows development and ops down. Is there a good reason for getting it when you are not one of the ~200 companies in the world with enough scale to use it?
> Same experience in Oakland.

Umami Mart on Broadway now has a really great selection of Japanese whiskey! They also have some super weird Japanese beers.

> That’s on top of the craft beer tidal wave.

Ghosttown brewing in West Oakland shreds (and they have an amazing taco truck staffed by the nicest old ladies in the world)!

I've been a bit underwhelmed by the other breweries in Oakland. :( Federation's beers tend to be a bit skunky while OPBC's taste like water. Rose's and Temescal are merely ok. Woods' beers are awesome, but I'm pretty sure they are based in San Francisco.
Interacting with a system can take years. That's okay for privacy if the person is informed and has control, e.g. can request full deletion anytime.
Unfortunately, though, it appears to be false. It appears we have strong innate interests that we're not in control of.
Statements are statements. Obama should have arrested Trump the moment he made this statement.
Views aren’t quite as bad as stored procedures. I could see doing a view being decently easy to manage - you can always add s column without breaking backwards compatibility. But you can’t imaging the number of times I’ve seen things like...

SaveCustomer_1
SaveCustomer_2
SaveCustomer_3

And you never know whose using what.
I opened it hoping it was a story about teach a course on the history of computer art. Is there any resources for something similar to that?
Three ways cryptocurrency can end poverty
There are plenty of people out there who disagree with modern monetary policy. For many of us, a private cohort of unelected individuals levying a tax on us via inflation is immoral. We believe pro-inflation policies are the cause of the widening inequality and never ending wars we see today.

Bitcoin is the only voice we have against such policies in todays world. I mine because I believe in bitcoin. I will continue to mine regardless of the exchange rate.
Obviously at some point, someone has to make a judgment call. But the system is probably setup so that a hotel guest that keeps making claims out of the ordinary frequency will be flagged for review or maybe even automatically banned. If someone walks into a room at 10 different hotels and is claiming bed bugs at each one and no one else is experiencing them at those hotels, then I'd be willing to bet they're trying to score free hotel nights.

Yelp reviews probably matter for local restaurants and small businesses, but probably not much for national brands which have their own inspections and quality assurance departments. I don't check the yelp review of Enterprise or Residence Inn, but I might for restaurant I've never heard of.
US filing against Russian hackers highlights role of cryptocurrencies in crime
I'm referring to their organized snubbing of Bernie, which was out in the open when it comes down to it.
How does fauna's consistency guarantees compare to coakroach, spanner and yugabyte? It is difficult to compare because different vendors use different terminology. For example spanner supports 'external consistency'. And Coakroach says it supports serializable as defined by ANSI. Is this the same as what Fauna calls strict serializable?
The progressive movement can't just isolate itself from the evil, bigoted legacy it has.

Modern progressives support most of the same policies, but for supposedly different reasons. They still see older progressives as heroes for implementing those policies, despite their bigoted intentions at the time.
> Soft sciences need not apply

Why not? Historians still revere Braudel and The Mediterranean was published nearly 70 years ago. Are you certain that there are no such exemplary works outside of the fields you like?
With something like AppImages you get pretty much eternal backwards compatibility. The kernel _never_ breaks backwards compatibility with userland, and the AppImage pulls in all other dependencies.
The same story keeps playing out:

- A new "marketplace" platform takes off with a idealistic free-market approach. It's different enough from previous companies in the space that it doesn't get regulated, and it denies having any social obligation or responsibility.

- As more and more customers and - primarily - vendors come to depend on it, its hands-off approach becomes one of arbitration, and its relationship with both groups becomes exploitative.

- We get to start over at square one, re-learning the difficult lessons about consumer and employee protection that we've spent the last century developing.

This is going to keep happening until the government gets more agile at regulating nebulous and category-breaking companies. Uber, YouTube, Facebook (with news companies as the vendors), Twitch, AirBnB, etc.

Companies that invent new business models and break with preconceptions aren't inherently bad - that's potentially a great thing - but it becomes bad when regulatory laws can't keep up.
We don't have to imagine what a Dem campaign would do in a comparable situation: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/14/us/the-2000-campaign-the-...
Bitcoin is far from the only coin and thus only voice.
Three interview limit referring to this: https://www.quora.com/How-many-times-can-you-interview-with-...

Former Principal Recruiter saying that Google has a policy where people who have interviewed onsite with engineering three times should not ever be reinterviewed, and will be blocked later in the process if they somehow get onsite again. There is some debate about whether or not this is still enforced, though: https://www.teamblind.com/article/google-interview-qvZnatoN
Why is caching out of the window when logged in?
Private people can be accused of stalking.

If corporations are "people"...

Seriously. I don't want to live in a world where I am "stalked" by billion dollar "people" who decide whether I get insurance, and at what price, and who can search "big data" for any and every possible "infraction", also retroactively, at their "discretion".

And who turn around and rat me out to whatever authorities, who are not permitted to directly collect such data but who are free to take it -- or purchase it, using my tax dollars -- from such third parties.

Two years ago, I helped a casual friend with a prior felony drug conviction, to get and stay sober.

Now, Facebook et al. put me in that felon's "graph", and what happens to me? For example, am I -- by computed association -- an insurance risk?

One simple example, of how you can't have a functioning society in the face of such ueber-monitoring.

They will destroy what they are ostensibly trying to "shore up".

Society works, in good part, because people are free agents.

Ironically, the same message these bozos try to convey during election season. And the one they use to rail against "big government".

Well, big (private) surveillance is no different. Worse, even, because it's becoming apparent that people have little or no say in whether and how it's done. Not even a vote during elections, with which to influence policy.

Politicians have, to a significant extent, externalized the political cost of what they -- contrary to their rhetoric and also in the name of their big business buddies -- are pursuing.
Also, that particular point was picked, I believe, because it was the shortest distance between the Delaware and the Schuylkill. (Well, except for a few miles downriver where the Schuylkill flows into the Delaware, but South Philly was basically swamps back then.) See for example https://hiddencityphila.org/2015/08/courtyard-compass-reveal...
That's just one data point in one area, and doesn't necessarily reflect racism. My general statement is still accurate - racism has been and still is on the decline.
If you can buy hashing equipment with your money, doesn't it mean you've already "cleaned it"?

If not, what kind of business provides you with hashing equipment from dirty money?
It is easy to filter such people out. Especially if it is email the sole medium of contact.
it's $117,400 for the family of 4
I could be wrong, but "Hacking an election" is not by definition illegal per say. However, accessing a computer illegally or defrauding people with the intention to meddle in an election is indeed illegal.

If <insert country here> had an election and the US-CIA had hackers put malicious code in their voting machines, and that country had laws against tampering with voting machines, then I would fully expect that country to indict those involved. Obviously in a geopolitical environment, that usually means through sanctions or some other means.
>Vote up or submit your favorites.

But we already have stars on GitHub.
> I think many on hackernews overestimate how many people use or depend on these kind (uber, airbnb, etc) services outside of high population density areas.

Most people live in high population density areas. The USA is 80% urbanized.
"strict" ACID can mean a lot of different things. There is a lot of levels of consistency and they prevent different types of issues with data correction and isolation. I think database vendors should clarify what consistency model they mean as defined by https://jepsen.io/consistency
> The bakery wasn't a monopoly. On the contrary, it was specifically sought out among many bakeries to make a point.

Citation? This is the first I've heard of this. Certainly, of course, there were multiple bakeries in the area, but I've never heard that the bakery was specifically chosen because they knew that it would reject the order, and they'd go to court over it. That's not described in any of the court filings or news articles I've seen.
I think a big point of the article was that these more recent relational dbs (like memsql) figured out how to make distributed joins across multiple shards scale really well - that's one of their core value adds. So you can shard your for example customer and order data stored across multiple nodes and partitions and do distributed joins, aggregations etc. Scaling to use hardware resources on multiple machines is a crucial aspect of these systems.

Disclaimer, I work at Memsql, speaking for myself.
I don't see the need for more visibility of github hosted projects.
Many self-hosted projects on the other hand could profit from an aggregator.

feedback: I had a hard time using the site until I whitelisted dozens of third-party css, images, js, cookies, frames and XHRs. The umatrix list is HUGE.
Japanese whiskey is pretty damn good though and quality does usually go down when production is increased (esp with whiskey as they often have to change the water source, grain, and aging processes).
It's not a dismissal of those who 'did not attend university'. It's a dismissal of people who are devaluing a university education because they did not attend university. There is no reason to believe that 'the working class' (not sure what that means really, many of us all work for a living) can't think for itself, but we have to be honest in an uneducated person thinking they know more about economics, climate change, business, etc., than those who have studied it and/or had careers in it.

Look at net neutrality, it's been completely framed by the republicans as anti-business, and they have appealed to the masses that are uneducated in how the internet works and why it was successful in the first place. But what would those of us who are educated and/or do development know? We just work using the internet all day, every day.
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"Prosecutor in [*] Files Charges against American NSA Officers"
Just a question of time, I suppose.
Profits aren't even required if you're laundering money. You might pay a 30-50% fee for any laundering scheme, so if you can only lose 15% of your money by running in the red rigs you're still accomplishing your goals
The knowledge that we had an ally who was funding ISIS and we were doing effectively nothing about it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillary-clinton-wikilea...
Sure, I only mean that the syntax for it in Toml is extremely hard to read. I personally just find JSON and YAML much, much easier to read.
That's awful advice. To be fair, so is this.
What you say is totally different from and possible without insults.