skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the complaints by the ACLU was that 39% of the false matches of congressmen to mugshots were people of color, even though only 20% of congressmen are PoCs. This is a subtle way of saying that the mugshot dataset is probably not representative of the US population as a whole because it overrepresents PoCs.

Although, it's important to note that machine learning algorithms generally have a more difficult time with darker skin because of lower contrast (see scandals on Google identifying black people as gorillas and cameras not auto-focusing on black people). It is a legitimate concern that black people may be misidentified more often with any machine learning algorithm.
Could you contrast Cargo and vgo for those who only know the former?
I just started Snow Crash by the same author.
The lease comes with the medallion and a car though, right?
No, but they had the user base, the data, the presence and the focus to do it better than the established ad companies.

And now we're at the point where more than half of all digital ad revenue in some countries are pocketed by Facebook and Google.
Maybe they should invite more competitors in rather than kicking them out.

Gotta kick one out to make room for the other. New York isn't about to let every ISP in the nation run independent lines over all of the poles in the state.

The good thing is that when the replacement company steps up (or wins the bid), it will know that the state is serious about keeping obligations.

OTOH, this might be when we find out just how much collusion there is between the big companies, if none decide to fill the gap, thus putting pressure on the AG from the voters.
that's true. that's what a lot of natives just miss, linguistic imperialism is real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_imperialism
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That Q1 profit was interesting, but it's nowhere near a trend.

They may need another ten or twenty billion, or maybe infinite billions because their business model is critically flawed.
Some networks are more valuable than others. Raw MAU tells you nothing about the LTV of those AUs. What's better for eBay: a shitload of people who never buy anything? Or a smaller network of engaged, repeat sellers and buyers?

And some networks have negative value. 4chan, despite attracting large traffic numbers and being a well-known cultural force on the Internet, has always struggled to attract advertisers.

To maximize financial value of its user network, a parent company must exclude users and content that subtract value. Examples would be lower-LTV users who drive away higher-LTV users via harassment. Or users who post content so objectionable that brands don't want to advertise against it. MAU growth alone tells you nothing about those things.
I've moved to using rss2email YEARS ago.

The basic idea is that RSS gets polled, and you get an email for new entries.

Your email client handles read/unread status, has labels/filtering, and can keep stuff in sync across devices. Plus, you've like A MILLION clients to choose from.

I run this as a cron script, but I'm pretty sure there's very cheap services out there that do the same (if not, here's a good business idea).
It is a good thing, then, that there is only one ocean, the Atlantic, across which English is spoken.
Kind of. TFA mentions this:

> In some countries, such as France and Israel, special linguistic commissions have been working for decades to stem the English tide by creating new coinages of their own – to little avail, for the most part.
Competition is good, but cooperation is also good, and protocols benefit enormously from network effects. (No pun on network protocols intended.) I suppose this isn't zero sum, though, strictly speaking.
I wonder how long their business model will survive. The bigger they get the less sustainable their model gets. Which runs counter to what a business is all about.
I guess it's broken? I picked Chinese, then Shutter Island, then at the "Start the movie now, then press start here." prompt the play button didn't do anything.

That said, I've found this implementation to be really great:
https://support.viki.com/hc/en-us/articles/231829048-How-to-...

Although not all movies have all the extra subtitle work done to support learn mode.
Google Photos was horrendous for years, and they aquihired several best-in-class companies (Picasa, and then a few mobile photo editing apps) and killed their products.
No go ahead and ban me. If offering to help improve someone's reading is a bannable offense but someone can blatantly misconstrue my words for political reasons then I have no interest in participating in such a forum.
I assume people do this as a result of Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People:

> Remember that a person's name is, to that person, the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

This may have been sound advice in 1936, but maybe we've just changed socially? There's a subtlety here: people like it when you remember their names, but they find it creepy if you don't have an established relationship.

If you meet someone again in a business or social context, saying "Hi, X, right?" is a reasonable way to improve rapport. Definitely better than the awkward moment where you re-introduce yourself to someone you've already met. However, when you're trying to haggle a mobile contract upgrade and the rep is constantly using your name, that's uncanny valley.
As bad as it is, how can decreasing the number of competitors increase the quality of options for consumers? Are they preventing other companies from operating?
VC funded startups also subsidize product development and marketing.
I wrote a book which would be a good fit for you (math review for adult learners): No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics. It covers high school math, calculus, and mechanics. Preview here: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide_v5_previ... (I wrote it for students, but adults, and techies seem to really like it too) Available on lulu.com/shop/ and the Amazons.

This concept map might also help situate you about which math concepts to review: https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/conceptmap.pdf and since you're a coder, you should also look into SymPy which is the best thing since sliced bread when you're learning math, see https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd...

Also, +1 to other comments that recommend solving exercises/problems. It's very easy to fall into the trap of "I already know this" when reading math, so always good to try things out on your own and, literally, exercise those new knowledge pathways.
> something like Swift (which despite Apple's thing, goes out of its way to engage the community in feature roadmap)

Good you say that. Not too long ago solutions from swift-server-group is discarded and Apple simply developed swift-nio in-house. I read that server group was blindsided by this development and now more or less disbanded.
Also its virtually impossible to be smaller than a few hundred mails to gmail a day as a server and not have your mails instantly spamboxed. Yes, i have gone through the laundry lists of things it could be, and stuff i should set up.

It does not help.
This seems intended as an argument against my post, but I agree entirely.
> what are static websites supposed to do to participate?

Yes the challenges of hosting applications (anything that serves dynamic data, like an ActivityPub server) on the internet is a real problem. Hosting a static site is easy, you have lots of choices, and it's highly portable. Don't like your host? Move.

But at the moment, hosting anything dynamic is an order of magnitude more complex to set up and to maintain. You either have to spin up a whole VM, or go to closed "serverless" providers.

I just started working on a project that I hope will make hosting personal server apps trivial.
If you're interested in processor emulation, here's a really cool one done in HDL for the pdp 11/70:
https://wfjm.github.io/home/w11/
Can somebody explain a usecase for this?
In LA they offer only the $70 option.
I wonder if "Singlish" is the future. It's a dialect of English spoken in Singapore, but due to the Chinese influence, it is sometimes stripped of all tenses, for example.
Hollywood has in the past made films that were pretty explicitly propaganda. Look at all of the propaganda films of World War II, and those weren't forced production by the US government. Granted, at that point, the propaganda was for domestic consumption, not foreign consumption.

Furthermore, other countries definitely use films and film exports for propaganda--China really comes to mind here.
Search - or more importantly, discovery of content - in a decentralized/federated ecosystem is where google should experiment on a bit more. This is where there is a gap in the decentralized/federated arena. (I acknowledge this even though I am a proud supporter of decentralization!) If google can bring value in this arena, then they can pivot their G+ product and offer it as an underlying platform to provide ActivityPub clients, etc. It could be used to undercut facebook, etc., and make G+ less of a ghost town. For example, people use GSuite to use the gmail email front-end, but leverage their own domain name. What if google pivots G+ to be an activityPub server, allowing paying customers to leverage their own domain name (on google's infrastructure) to interact with the fediverse? And for those users who don;t know/care about decentralization, they think they're getting their own "instance of a social network maintained by google".
I think there is a market for this.
Not exactly programming, but Excel functions are translated in the local language
It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen and I’m still bullish on subscription commerce in general. A multi-brand theater pass doesn’t make much sense. Chains are much better off offering their own subscription. I’ve heard theaters pay distributors per ticket sold (not per screening or day) so it doesn’t have the dynamics of a perishable good. I don’t understand who would lend it money or buy its shares at this point.
Paranoia and Teenagers From Outer Space were both seriously crazy games, and were so mentally taxing that I could only play them about once per month.

Most of the rest of the time, I played the West End Games version of Star Wars RPG, or Marvel Super Heroes RPG, or sometimes the Amber RPG.

More recently, it's been primarily the FFG version of SWRPG, online via Roll20.net.
Society doesn't really care whether there are 10 megabillionaires or 100 minor billionaires.
So the problem with NYC is often poor/no service all weekend long. I encountered my issue last weekend at 10pm on Friday when I got into the city via train.

> just add the cab fare into my "entertainment budget"

This sounds OK, but now think about the working class who have to get to work, or work night shift (at those bars where you're going), or work on weekends, or night school, etc. They cant just take cabs all the time. Uber/Lyft pool has been an expensive but somewhat reachable stop-gap but yellow cabs, especially to far-off outer boroughs where working class live is simply untenable.

Unlike Paris, there is a bit of a different "social contract" in NYC where generations of working class have depended upon, come to expect, and carved their lives/jobs around the expectation of a 24-7 subway system...often not for convenience but for sustenance.
I started off my career in tech as a support technician - worked on both end user/consumer product and business/corporate client support.

I can say without a doubt #3 and #4 are the absolute most important things a support technician can do - and do fast after answering the call.

I had so many irate customers - just like my wife is with me when it's her turn to call the phone company(!). The second they believed I was going to fix their problem and not waste their time - we would be on the same team.

Corollary - try hard to never, ever, EVER pass a customer to someone else. I would tell them my name, their case number and tell them if they call back to ask for me ..and then more or less demand in the case notes that the next technician pass them back to me (caveat: as long as the customer was ok with that).

I look so fondly on my time doing tech support - but geeze was it rough emotionally.
OP said "but not publish Facebook-originated content". So your users wouldn't be able to get Facebook events whether you block Facebook or not.

I agree that if Facebook implemented ActivityPub completely then people would not block it, and indeed they shouldn't.
Uber will not invent SDCs much sooner than the other companies, at which point they will have to cut their own prices too to compete with the other SDC companies. So there would be a very small window for monopoly profits.
> To be fair

Since we're discussing language, I see this prefixed on several comments these days when the comment has nothing to do with "being fair". Its just added to a statement when making a counter point to not come across as hostile.
Except it's not a creole, nor nowhere near it. For instance, a lot of the changes that we see in Middle English were already underway and documented even in our Old English texts. It's definitely outside academic consensus to consider the language a creole.
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The URL is pretty self-explanatory: https://www.google.com/search?q=mapquest

Specifically, in every test I've ever run, Google puts http://www.mapsanddrivingdirection.com/Maps as the ad run above the official MapQuest link. It's a company out of Cyprus that repackages OpenStreetMap data with a big giant "Download to Continue" button when you try to get directions.

I can tell you the download requests admin privileges on your machine to install (aka, is not just an extension alone), and overrides your New Tab page and changes your search provider. I will admit I didn't have the courage to actually install it anywhere to confirm the extent of it's behavior, but placing the registry key that disables Chrome auto-updates is pretty par for the course on these type of infections.

Here's a screenshot I took on July 18th: https://twitter.com/ocdtrekkie/status/1019593753227681793
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I would be absolutely shocked if the average movie goer went to the movies 3 times per week, even with the AMC pass.

Anecdotally, I know about 15 people who have MoviePass. One couple I know goes probably in that 2-3 times per week range. Another guy I know, tries to go once on each weekend day (but skips every once in a while). Pretty much everyone else falls into the 0-3 times per month.
> If you don't like their price or approach too bad for you. You are kept out of the game

yes, basically true, i think. the article says Google spent more money on lobbying last year than any other corporation...

why does Google think that spending money in this way is useful? what does Google get in return? how does Google explain to shareholders that this is not a waste?
A competition still has to be judged by someone.

The only curious element here is that a (the?) judge also had the winning entry. Russ claims he got buy-in from the other core members and so far no one has contradicted that.

AND...vgo is better than dep. Let's not forget that. Peter can hem and haw about politics but in the end the best horse won.

Go developers want the tools to be as good as possible, 99% of them don't know anyone who contributes to Go by name so this drama is irrelevant to them.
But Google was already aware of the iPhone the time they purchased Android. This has been their strategy for competition.
> "[All] Women don't have the lower body strength to [fly any WWII-era military airplane]."

No. You're significantly altering the statement with the words you're injecting. Consider this:

"Dogs have four legs."

Would you correct people and point out that there are amputee dogs with fewer than for legs? Most wouldn't, because referring to a group without a qualifier is understood to refer to the majority or state that something is the norm, not that it applies to literally every single item in that group.
This is just nostalgia at play. When you borrow a book your name goes on the slip with a timestamp. The slip is reused until its full and then its thrown away. If the slip never got full it would most likely never be replaced. Anyone who checked out the book could read the slip.

Policies haven't gotten much worse. The ease of data aggregation has simply gotten much better.
I seem to have the opposite experience of people in this thread. I'm down in southern California using Spectrum and they have by far the best rates. 100 Mbps for $40/mo. I suppose there is a lot more competition for internet out here than average though.
If consciousness is merely an observation of decisions already made in the brain with no actual impact, how do we come to be discussing the concept of consciousness? If the decisions -> consciousness pipeline was only one way, how would the brain come to a state where it's producing a written description of the experience of consciousness?

This is why I've always found the notion of a "philosophical zombie" to be odd - if it accurately reproduces human behavior, then it would be able to have a conversation with you describing its own consciousness, even if it "doesn't have one".
Oh, yeah. A good game of CyberPunk.
So is other way round. Huge numbers of failed design-by-committee or community projects. What you say is truism not particularly insightful or useful.
See my comment above where I plug my book.

Just out of curiosity, what was the problem with Khan Academy? Was it the video format, the pace of explanations, or something else?
This can be useful whenever you need additional models w/ attributes that are not known in advance. For example you may want to allow your users to create a mask where they can enter data based on their own structure. e.g. google forms or strapi https://strapi.io/demo
Cinemas around here allow people to purchase beer no problem.
Third party services are very helpful and I'm grateful for them, but I wish it were easier to host personal server applications on the internet. I'd like to be able to host an ActivityPub server myself with only a minimum amount of fuss.
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Uber has a 30% take rate and zero marginal cost. Wrong example.
A good investor gave me this little nugget;

You can tell how mature a company is by how much they talk about their competitors. Startups and players who are really struggling never talk about competitors and try to steer the subject away from them, lest the customer finds another deal. Monopolies often talk about their competitors, because it hides that they're monopolies. Google likes to say that they compete with Microsoft with their Docs suite, with Apple in mobile OS and with Tom Tom on the navigation market. If they were anything like your local startup the only thing they would say is "we're a digital advertising company focusing on search ads, we have 90% of the market and are among the oldest still in the industry".
It's not hard to render OpenStreetMap in such fashion that there are layers. I don't understand what kind of explicit support is needed here.
I'm all for new space launch concepts - it just intuitively seems like a mass driver or spacegun should be a cheaper method for cargo etc. But has anyone attempted to validate the Launch loop concept with even a scale model? It seems so far beyond what we know that I have trouble taking it seriously.
A few fun examples of mine on this:

debt [1]: Originally spelled 'dette' in Middle English; the <b> was added to make it more Latin-like.

isle [2]: Originally spelled 'ile, yle', the 
 was added to make it more Latin-like. Funnily enough, in this case, the 
 was also added to the native English word 'iland', under influence from the new <isle>. [3]

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/debt

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/isle#Etymology

[3]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/island#English
Would you please stop taking HN threads in the direction of ideological and national battle? This is off topic here.

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>I guess that's also because modern CPUs can easily handle very old systems, which were relatively slow, and hence software written for it had to be efficient.

It's that but it's actually worse than that: power aside, one hertz for one hertz, modern systems are generally much more recompiler-friendly than a GameBoy or Atari. The reason is that modern software is written using high level abstractions, you have well defined firmware interfaces, self-modifying code has become the exception instead of the rule etc... That lets you make simplifying assumptions that can speed things up greatly. For instance "I don't have to worry about self modifying code unless I encounter a call to the firmware's flush_cache method". That's better than "I need to be careful with every write to memory because it might potentially write to code instead of data or registers".

Back in the days it wasn't rare to find timing loops that required cycle-accurate emulation, for instance because the drawing code expected that the delay between the interruption until a certain instruction was executed was precisely n cycles. I doubt many people do that on a PS4, actually I would be surprised if you could make something like that work between all the various hardware revisions and firmware updates.

So older hardware generally requires the emulator to be a lot more strict which often means that you end up with a comparatively slow recompiler. Given the complexity of a recompiler compared to a simple interpreter it's simply not worth it anymore for these old systems.
Again in both of those places the book boxes were reactions to changes in the library funding not causes.

I see the argument could be made. I’m wondering how often it is.

And I’d be shocked if it was ever made by people who are housing book boxes. Quite the opposite I’d bet they were generally strong proponents of public libraries.
I'd say JavaScript. PHP is a language that is used privately but JavaScript is the common language used publicly that everybody has to know regardless of your backend (native) language.
> the global English style

What distinguishes the global English style?

US native here, so perhaps I'm just failing to see past the absence of leftovers from Noah Webster's efforts to violently excise any evidence of French influence from the language, but, to me, Southern English English seems about right for that description.
I had to resort to Wikipedia before this even made sense[1].

Apparently it's a technique for efficiently storing small subsets of potentially enormous/variable/unknown attributes on objects.

Instead of a SQL table with 500 columns for all potential attributes (most of them NULL for most rows), you have a SQL table with three columns: the object in question, the attribute in question, and the attribute value. The first two columns are pointers to two other tables: a table of objects (PKs and other basic data), and a table of all the allowable attributes.

I can see how it's useful, in certain circumstances.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80...
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But how do I fix the past? I can't undo it, but I want to keep my account... :/
They just upped mine to 200Mbps at 40$/mo for free in the northern midwest. I went on their website and it was the advertised rate so I emailed there support and they restarted my modem. Make sure to check every once in a while!
Ubers are black cars. Black cars existed back when the taxi medallions were sold.
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