skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the bank issues the notice, it is inside the law. If google fished it out, it may not be.
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military deaths are historically low because of how much better the american military is than our opponents.

the american military is better because of the technology we have.

The technology we have is because of DARPA spending over the last 80 years.

do you see the flaw in your logic?
My bank, in the terms of service included a small notice that they'd update account information through a Visa/MC network feature, and gave me an opportunity to opt out of the feature if I wanted to.

As with any ToS, it's buried under a sea of text, and it took a few readings of the notice to understand what it was actually claiming to do.
Exactly, which I presume is also why so much attention was paid to the "onboarding" app.

The device doesn't need to fool the user very long to be effective - just long enough to get them to buy it, and long enough to log in to their iCloud account. Those are the two big points where value is extracted.
What would be particularly interesting is intersections for folks who actually do buy multiple passports. If I had a US passport plus a Maltese passport, does that score some higher number of access by allowing you to use the right passport at the right border, or is it still 186?

I hold dual citizenship and I move a lot more easily through many borders than my single citizenship wife does by picking the appropriate passport for that particular entry. No, I didn't buy it.
U.S. states certainly do have a concept of citizenship! It defines, among other things, who can vote.

Now, it's been watered down by the well-intentioned Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees citizenship in their state of residence to citizens of the U.S. (the amendment's laudable goal was to prevent the former slave states from denying citizenship to their black residents), but it certainly doesn't have to be that way. I'd very much support an amendment which states that one is a citizen of one's state of birth in the same way that one is a citizen of the United States by birth, and that any citizen of the United States may be naturalised into another state voluntarily and under the laws of that state, such laws being subject to Congressional override.

That would enable each state to ensure that its citizens are actually citizens (i.e., with a knowledge of & hopefully respect for its history & traditions), while preventing states from refusing citizenship to a class of citizens and giving the federal government the authority to correct unjust state regulations.
I have no reason to think that the US would uniquely ban the use of technology that Western Europe was fine with. (Though one can certainly imagine e.g. China allowing for noise levels that the US and other countries wouldn't be OK with.)

Cost is really the thing though. Produce a modestly-sized supersonic jet that can do trans-Atlantic and equivalent routes that are profitable with business class-priced seats and you probably have a market.

Probably. A lot of business class seats today are filled with upgrades and I believe BA has actually cut back on the business-class only routes between NY and LCY.
Seconding this. I've worked from home for 16 years(my whole life).

I've taken to asking my SO to treat it like I'm at an office, and not home at all. A lot of discussions end in "is that something you could do during your work day?"
Graphql and apollo add some overhead to your queries, both in your client and your API. And since you're still performing a POST query with each graphql query it's kinda logical to see that pure / well designed REST can outperformed graphql (if you know exactly what you want to return you don't have to run through the graphql schema / node / resolver to get the value your looking for)
Today is my last day at a job with an open plan office. It's one of the main reasons I'm leaving.
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Wasn't the "hype" a lightweight misdirection from the fact that putting employees in the smallest/cheapest amount of square footage was always the goal?
Stripe automatically updates card details as well: https://stripe.com/blog/smarter-saved-cards
> We provide options with some reasonable defaults, and then let users make informed decisions which defaults are not good enough for them.

This is fine for things that are apparent to the user, such as "I don't like this popup window, so I'll configure it to not show", or "I want a better command to split a quoted email, so I'll create that function". But in this case it's about something that happens behind the scenes, which users may not know needs changing.

Now that I've had the relevant comment out of the way, let me be a little more general.

> It isn't the Emacs way to second-guess our users' needs

This is an odd statement to make. Or rather, let me say, Emacs has an approach to this that I haven't been able to explain to myself yet.

It is absolutely true that Emacs tends to ship with so-so defaults, and that this is not a big deal because most users will want to change the defaults anyway. It is also the case that Emacs is very customizeable, so changing any defaults whatsoever has never been a problem.

However, the term DWIM, meaning "do what I mean", originated in Emacs circles. It still flourishes there.

I create dwim forms of commands all the time. There is often a simple contextual, environmental indicator as to whether I want one variant of a command or another. Not encapsulating that check and dispatching into a new command would be silly. That's a core part of Emacs and Lisp culture, in my opinion.

So yes, it is also in fact the Emacs way to guess the users' needs. But transparently.
So now your opinion is that cities are equally bad...great so we've come full circle - we should all go live on a farm - got it. Farmers need pickup trucks so I guess I'm good to go (I happen to live within spitting distance of several farms so it's even more convenient.)

People on HN needs to get over themselves. Smart yes, able to see other's perspectives...hardly.
> He's not just respecting it, by curating content on the platform he's personally endorsing the stuff that stays up.

I have a suspicion that policing a social network with billions of users and keeping on top of trolls, bots and spam make it a little more complicated than 'if it stays up he personally endorses it'. This is a false dichotomy, there is a middle ground.
Leaflet is the open source base/core version of mapbox-gl-js; they're both maintained by Mapbox people.
Why should citizenship require allegiance?

For most people, it's just something they're burdened with at birth.
that's standard practice. everyone does it. amazon knows about my new card sooner than me.
Microstates including virtual ones where a staple of cyberpunk.

They have the problem of fundamentally how do you back up the laws without force against other states who can.
> Roads are literally the classic example of induced demand. The price is the opportunity cost of using them. You build more, you lower that cost, more people decide to start driving. Not that hard to understand.

Apparently it is hard to understand, because what you're describing isn't induced demand, it's the same exact supply and demand curve working as it always has done. Induced demand is where a shift in the supply curve shifts the demand curve, not simply adjusting to a new equilibrium on the existing demand curve (as would be expected for literally everything). We can prove this quite simply: in countries where driving is priced correctly, road expansions reduce congestion. And they don't reduce congestion in countries where driving is subsidized, like ours.

> That article is not immune from criticism. The first example it gives is Houston which it directly notes solved affordability through “sprawl”. It is totally invalid in an SF context where we live on the tip of a peninsula.

You didn't get the point of the article at all if you think that's a criticism of it. The whole point was that you can attack housing affordability in tons of different ways, but they all have something in common: they increase supply to meet demand. You can do it with sprawl, you can do it with tall density, you can do it with short density, you can do it with social housing, you can do it with market rate housing, etc. It doesn't matter, supply is the key factor. There isn't a single one size fits all solution to the housing crisis, but there are plenty of different ways to realize the goal of reducing rents via increasing supply.

> For example a massive, generation-defining pop of a real estate asset bubble and resulting 30 year recession.

Tokyo's economic reality has been different from Japan as a whole, with Tokyo booming for at least 20 years now. Tokyo has been one of the fastest growing megacities in the world for those two decades, highlighting exactly how successful they've been at keeping rents flat.

> That that goes unmentioned smacks of cherry picking.

Kind of like how you point out how Houston's model could never work for San Francisco, but conveniently forget to mention Montreal's or Chicago's model while jumping directly to your preferred solution that would require the most dramatic shift in American politics that we have ever seen?
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Clearly some people care about the issue and many say they care about it. But in terms of overall importance the tax bill for example got vastly more support. So, I suspect actual support is rather low.

In other words people might vote yes, yet at the same time prefer it not come up for a vote.
>I missed the part about, "these "operatives" signed their e-mails with their full names including patronymics and ranks like "GRU captain"". Please point me to it?

that was sarcasm, sorry, I forgot it doesn't go well here. there is nothing in the indictment about how they were able to identify particular perpetrators including their full names.

>I assumed they used stolen identities,

No one in Russia uses their full names with patronymics spelled out in paper mail or e-mail or in official paperwork, except in e.g. a job application or similar i.e. where one must be fully identified. So unless it's a bad case of a Hollywood movie script, those could have come only from hacked internal databases. I am not sure a spy agency would thus reveal it has hacked those internal databases or had a mole in GRU. And on top of that they would be somehow able to match a record in that database with a hacker out there - a truly miraculous feat. On the other hand if those are stolen identities, there are no hints of that in the indictment. They are presented as true identities. And still, full patronymics just don't compute.

>Why are you providing me a wikipedia link?

What do you want me to provide to prove that he is not to be trusted? My own investigation?
In the long run the scientific advancements from these companies is a much higher positive than the negatives they have in the present.

That’s really the main question, isn’t it?
Why might reading make myopic?
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I do find Robert Caro awfully hard going. Having said that, when the DWM is LBJ, I would be open to reading a less minutely documented linear biography.

Based on what I see on bookshelves, DWM biographies (of presidents, military leaders, sports figures) still do sell.
It is a feature, in the same way that all my subscriptions failing when my bank issues a new card would be a bug.

Perhaps if the Google rephrased their email to mention that this is to avoid interruption to your service it would seem less creepy.
Not new, it's a rather old feature. It exists for Visa, Mastercard, and AMEX:

https://developer.visa.com/capabilities/vau

https://developers.mastercard.com/product/automatic-billing-...

https://network.americanexpress.com/globalnetwork/products-a...

Lots of companies update your data already from this data, not just Google. I guess it may just be a new feature where we email you about it when it's updated.

Edit: fun fact, the UK banking system has this for when you move to a new bank: https://www.bacs.co.uk/accountswitchingservice

(I'm a Googler working on payments, who has helped maintain the Account Updater feature, opinions are my own).
It isn't just google and even then you're blaming the wrong entity. This is your credit card company. I'm sure this solves a particular problem for credit card companies by significantly reducing their middle-man involvement between a customer and business in regards to their contracts. However, this should absolutely be an opt-in feature.

Your behavior isn't a bug but it is atypical. Your workaround to an infrequent problem just requires a new step: closing and opening new credit card accounts.
1) Do you really? You know that frequently opening and closing credit cards negatively impacts your credit score? Which means you could wind up paying far more money in the end for a mortgage, say?

2) If a vendor is "accidentally" charging you and you're actually in the right, chargebacks fix that instantly.

3) If you have an actual (multi-)year contract with a gym, cancelling your card doesn't get you out of that contract. Charges can often still be made to a closed card, you'll get bills from either the gym or your credit card provider, and it will go to a collections agency if you don't pay (and again, knock down your credit score).

I really hope you don't actually do this because you'd be harming yourself for zero actual benefit.
Wow, that really drives home the point about how the super rich live in a completely different reality than the rest of us.
No, AWS is infrastructure as a service. We're talking about companies that utilized Google Maps as effectively their primary product.
In my area first everyone dropped messenger because some people had no accounts and moved instead to Whatsapp that guarantee that if you had a phone you could have easily an account in a matter of seconds (download and install) without having to create a full profile on some site you could not care less ( at this point of time in my old account no one is writing anymore in his home but instead using it just as a news aggregator).

Then everyone moved to Telegram because it allows you to share your account to others without giving them your personal number.

It is just a matter of time and everyone will move to the most simple system for the specified purpose
While I agree that is what they officially say they do, the means employed go beyond that. From the article:

> "These are generally data points about the user’s device, such as its operating system, installed fonts, browsers (and versions) used, timezone, language, the user’s in-game ID, and screen resolution. This is what Red Shell calls a ‘fingerprint’, which can also be made on games consoles as well as PCs."

Such a fingerprint is very unique and can easily be connected to a person with very little effort down the line, even if now nobody does that (yeah, right).

Personally, I do not trust any company that collects such detailed information without my informed consent and without a clear (i.e. verifiable and legally enforceable) pledge to delete that information when the original purpose has been served. This is exactly the overshooting behaviour that was rightfully targeted by the Europeans with their recent data protection law.

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The same way Vanuatu does: by allying with one or more patron states. Or maybe the U.N.
British Columbia does this. The Vancouver housing market has seen major shifts because of their vacancy tax.
“Make use of the JS GC” is a feature planned for, but not yet accepted or implemented in webassembly.
Yeah, and PayPal updated my credit card number and kept all the same subscriptions attached to that account.
Exactly. In my company the facilities department shrugs off any suggestions that the current layout is too loud and hard to work in. Obviously they themselves work in a nice quiet team office with 5 people and everybody has a nice window seat with plenty of space. It should be required that whoever makes these decisions should have to dogfood them.
Perl is actually readable compated to that.
Never said it was. My point was extremely successful businesses don't build their business on an external product.
tell that to the royhinga who were betrayed by facebook and subsequently killed.

i'll be waiting for the scientific advancements to be useful to the public. so far they've increased rates of depression, anxiety, etc while enabling totalitarianism.
So, this is actually a big deal, in the "centuries-long arc of science" sense. For hundreds of years, science has operated under the Copernican Principle [1], which in a nutshell is that there is nothing particular special/unique about us. Our position on the planet is not special. Our planet is not special. Our solar system is not special. Our galaxy is not special, etc. It has been a scientifically-fruitful tool for a very long time. It has even embedded itself into the "default worldview" of the scientifically minded as a law of the universe.

But it was never more than a heuristic, and the data is increasingly coming in that the Copernican Principle breaks down at the solar system scale. In fact our Solar System is at least somewhat rare. It is certainly possible that the more we study the rarer it will become. (It can't really go the other direction at this point.)

It's going to take decades for this to properly percolate through the philosophy of science and its implications to be properly chewed on for a lot of the Big Questions.

(Note I'm not making any claims about the outcome of that process here; any such things you read into this are your own worldview poking out. I'm just saying, this is a really big event in the history of science. The sort of result that 23rd century textbooks are going to be calling out in the primary text as an important event.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_principle
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If vendors charge you after you unsubscribed, accidentally or not, they're in trouble. File a dispute (it's possible with debit cards, credit cards, SEPA, etc). You'll get a refund and the vendor will get a surcharge.

Furthermore, vendors with high dispute rates get shut down pretty quickly by payment processors. Your behaviour is harming you far more than it's helping.

This is a feature: You update your details and don't have to individually talk to every single service out there that use the old details.

Of course ideally banks would have a way to let the users control these types of features but, you know, banks suck.
1) For some self-serving definitions of "bad" 2) Then doubly so.
It actually is a feature, though.

Having to go and update your recurring billing because your card changed (the expiration date passed, or your credentials leaked and a new number has to be issued) would be a huge pain in the ass.

I'd hope there are some controls here - in the case of a compromise, that only accounts that existed before the compromise occurred will be updated. But it strikes me that something that does the right thing 99% of the time should be welcomed.
Soooo many startups don't have solid accounting implemented in their money handling applications. Double entry accounting has been around for a long, long, long time, making it easy to reconcile account balances. It's just a matter of implementation.
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It's a purpose, yes.
How do you differentiate between genuine grassroots opposition and astroturfing campaigns?
> suddenly all those countries [...] get cold feet

Seems like this is asking for a citation. That kind of rhetoric works for all purposes (surely EU trade negotiators have been similarly annoyed by US inaction on other issues, for example). If you have something specific to complain about, this is the place to do it.
Hi Oliver,
you probably have huge amounts of raw data and annotated datasets to train your algorithms. 2 questions:

1) How do you decide what you annotate and what not?

2) How do you manage your datasets infrastructure-wise (where and how is the data hosted, what software do you use to access and filter it, ...)
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Of course it was. It is surprising to see how often this kind of PR-driven messaging is accepted at face value by the business press, academics, etc. Nonetheless, it's not enough to dismiss a statement based on the ulterior motives behind its utterance; someone still has to collect the data to prove or disprove it.
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"reasonable claims that the Fermi Paradox has been "dissolved""

There is nothing reasonable or new in either one of those links. Seems like people quoting trash is how myths perpetuate.

P.S. Wrapping a quoted quote in the same kind of quotation marks is kind of liberating after years of " 'ayyy' " or "\"ayyy\"".
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's thoughts went immediately to something like this.
Does OpenJDK have the same optimizations as the official JDK? I thought OpenJDK doesn't have java's JIT...
I don't know. Why don't you look it up?
I think you missed the most important point, in that radiologic dating after 1950ish is a lot less accurate due to nuclear testing- It would ABSOLUTELY be important for an archeologist in 1000 years to have special knowledge about these changes around the year 1950 in order to do their job properly.
Where I work, the Senior Leadership sits in various Hexes and are given no preferred treatment (except for having their own conference room that they don't have to share).

There would be a lot of resentment if they closed themselves off into their own area like more of the old gaurd typically does.
Anyone using Stripe gets this:

https://stripe.com/blog/smarter-saved-cards
> Having to go and update your recurring billing because your card changed (the expiration date passed, or your credentials leaked and a new number has to be issued) would be a huge pain in the ass

I can’t say I agree. What’s a huge pain in the ass is cancelling services, and now you have to cancel your entire credit account to know that your outstanding charges are canceled. That’s highly inconvenient.
It’s an interesting idea, and at the same time strange that some of the companies listed (eg facebook) would be open to contributing to this... esp given that for them data is their business model.
I have heard good things about the 'Vox Populi' mod, and I've been meaning to try it soon.
Yep. I've seen it a lot lately. Most of them are powered by a third-party service. This one is coming from https://www.onetrust.com/products/cookies/.
Well, here are two clues:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/citizenship-shouldnt...

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/04/625980910/white-house-launche...

I think the Trump administration is quietly launching a strategy to strip a large number of people of their citizenship.
Microsoft has made HUGE investments into Bing and yet Google was always superior and Microsoft isn't exactly rolling in money with Bing.

There are several competitors, the issue at hand is they have an inferior product. If your argument held any water, literally everyone would use TMobile because they are so much cheaper. Reality is, a products quality matters and Google Maps were both more cost effective AND a better product.
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> Yuan falls 1 year low vs dollar

Your argument (I think) is that we're successfully limiting Chinese trade effectivenes, and your argument is that their currency is dropping? You understand how these things work, right?

Sure, we've limited import of some small selection of items. And in exchange, everything else from China gets cheaper.

> Chinese manufacturing slowed in June

This seemed like such a whopper I actually followed the link. Chinese manufacturing growth slowed in June. That you conflate a derivative with the function tells me all I need to know about your seriousness.
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Yeah - this doesn't work. It surprised me too. The fact that Google is actually notifying you is a point in their favor. I've never heard of anybody else sending a notification. Good for them.