skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't sound right. I got an NYC ID (Learner's Permit) without being a citizen and without presenting my birth certificate. I think I have had my Foreign (Ukrainian) Passport, employment authorization form (the form that goes with H1B visa), and a SSN card. I don't remember having to prove that I'm an NYC resident and I don't think I could have proved that -- I was living in a corporate housing back then.
Thanks, it was meant to be helpful.

It's hard to convey that emotion and you're likely to get misunderstood anyway.

So I don't try and sugarcoat it or elaborate on it at all.
I just left Santa Monica yesterday and I saw the “birds” and the “lime-s” scooters. For the most part people were good with them, but that could be due to the fact you need a drivers license to operate them.

In contrast, in Sweden you would not need a drivers license for them, however due to the cycling infrastructure they would very likely be safe, people already drive petrol based mopeds on the cycling infrastructure with no license and do not get into accidents.

So I would argue that such devices would “live with the bikes” on any cycle infrastructure that exists, but otherwise on the roads. I wouldn’t enjoy sharing a walk path with a motor vehicle, nor would I enjoy riding an electric scooter on the road.

I feel like we should be pushing for more cycle ways if we want to be able to use this type of thing safely.
I feel a lot of people will object this because of wildlife. But even excluding that, how can you be sure there are no persons there?
Why does anyone use Python?
A Brompton bicycle weighs less than most electric scooters and isn't much more bulky. They're not cheap, but they're built to last and enormously popular amongst commuters. They now offer an electrically-assisted option, if that's your bag.

https://www.brompton.com/the-bike
I'm not sure why you're getting down-voted, China has had quite a long history of famines (usually lack of rain in the northwest).

The last one was '59-'61.
> advertising, data mining}

Advertising and Facebook-style spyware deployment[0] are behaviors that undermine society, and are only not criminal due to blatant goverment corruption and, if you want to be overly charitable, being too novel for law to have caught up with. They may not be designed for the express purpose of causing harm, but neither are blackhat SEO, or, for example, shoplifting.

Ironically, your original point was a good one; high frequency trading is fairly clearly positive and certainly not inherently negative. (I don't think anyone believes they're making optimal use of their talents for the betterment of humanity or whatever similar goal, but that's a unreasonably high standard when we're also discussing advertisers and SEO.)

0: Which is what people I've talked to use "data mining" to refer to, although I'm not sure if that's what you meant.
I mean, what are the ways? If an American show fails, you'll get your beloved 1 season run. If it's popular, it keeps going. What's the problem? The Simpsons and The Office and South Park and Seinfeld all hit their stride at season 3 or so.
I’m almost certain it is, even in the link you posted they use unversed language to state they DO store not just your information but also your personally identifiable (!) information:

> “Google Public DNS does not PERMANENTLY store personally identifiable information.”

You have to be very, very careful with services like this especially when it comes to Google, Facebook and Microsoft (and the companies they own), they use weasel wording in documents like this almost all the time and it’s clearly with intent to /seem/ as if they’re good citizens rather than to _prove_ that they are.
EKS is basically half-managed. They originally had a better setup for master nodes but GKE has caught up with free masters and regional deployments (1 per zone) for the same high-availability.

EKS masters will still run most of the cluster services to free up your worker nodes, but that's because they have very poor control over everything other than the masters. And since that's the most important part of the cluster, you will run into a lot of manual work and broken systems getting the cluster up and running on EKS.

GKE is about 10x smoother and everything works as expected, and they are rapidly improving things with much better storage and networking options coming soon. At that point the experience will become 100x better than EKS.
Mitigating possible failure or betting on success... that's the key difference right there between the UK and the US. :)
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Please try to be polite and stay away from nasty comments (especially when you’re not providing evidence based arguments).
This really isn't how they should be regulated, though - while I have yet to form an opinion on electric scooters, their impact should be evaluated and specific legislation enacted for them, rather than banning them wholesale with no consideration thanks to legal happenstance. That a law enacted nearly 200 years ago is being applied to vehicles significantly out of scope or intention of the original intent strikes me as a legislative failure, regardless of the merits or dangers of scooters on sidewalks.
"There is an example of an application that offers the python package manager as an installation method, and I read a random tutorial recommending I do that and (pretend to?) don't understand what's going on" isn't a very good basis to criticize an entire language ecosystem IMHO.

Uwsgi is pretty powerful, a bit odd, and probably provided as a proper package by your distro. It's an app server, not a library, and should be installed as such, just like you'd install php-fpm (which seems to be the current "default answer" for running PHP).

Now there are some issues with packaging in general (discussions of which can be found all over the place) and packages with binary dependencies, although I'm not sure the cited examples handle them all that better (e.g. I remember ruby gems wanting the right native library in the system manually installed too) Various workarounds are available if building native bindings isn't easy, especially relevant for Windows. It's bad that it needs workarounds, but that's why it hasn't been in the way of Python too much I'd guess.
I thought that was a bizarre statement too. There are plenty of businesses that are successful without unique IP. GoDaddy is probably one of the best examples of that -- it's web hosting and domains, it's mostly a commodity at this point. Domain registration is absolutely a commodity.

I also question how bad it really would have been if the entirety of the information was leaked to the public. This is more embarrassing for AWS than GoDaddy.
It doesn't appear that the high school students are authors on the paper. Academic papers place authors at the top of the paper (some exceptions for e.g. huge collaborations with hundreds of authors) and acknowledgments at the end of the paper. It appears the article follows this pattern, so I don't find it at all "offensive" coming from an academic background; simply different conventions of where names appear, but they are listed.
It's not the "poorest" rider though who pays with time. It's the person who values the ride the least relative to time. That isn't totally uncorrelated, but it's significantly not the same, which is what produces more value.
> As movie equipment gets cheaper and more widespread, movies become less and less expensive to make.

A little, but equipment is typically only small proportion of film budgets anyway.
And the melody is perfect
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> I don't understand that - why does it scare Americans that we do it cheaper despite having a more dispersed population?

Because if you can do it with a country of a few million then there is no reason for us to handle it at the federal level.

Doing it at the federal level is then a political attack on people that want a different system and have different beliefs.
I agree this probably hurts if you're in those countries or doing business with entities in those countries, but what business would stop an architecture overall that they believe is the right move, only because of the small Iranian/Cuban market?

Either way, the best way to fix this is to lobby Congress.
That bill was DOA.
Do you have any actual evidence of this? It's a massive company with plenty of regulations and scrutiny, along with a rather outspoken employee base. Data privacy is taken seriously whether you believe it or not, and I'm sure you're not confused by the fact that this is the trade for free services?
The incentives for writers and commissioners are totally different. In the American studio model, a one-season run is a failure. The process starts with the expectation that successful shows run for dozens or hundreds of episodes.

In the British model, you can try out a lot of ideas that just aren't possible in that framework. You can have more meaningful character and plot development, because you're not worried about dragging things out. The American sitcom trope of everything resetting to normal at the end of an episode just isn't necessary. Nobody at the network is going to tell you that you can't write out a major character half way through the first series. You can write tight, self-contained dramas that resolve within the course of a series without any cliffhangers. You can experiment with ideas that have merit, but don't have any obvious potential to sustain a long-running series.
Thanks, I didn't know that.

But back to taxes in general - if we want to have schools funded only by current parents contributions those are private schools.
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You may get priced out of Midtown though :( 2000/mo for 2000sqft just isn't possible in Midtown. As you've said, there are other places to live though.

Tech scene is really great though.
Glyphosate and GMOs are very intertwined. Just look at the second story on that subreddit. Monsanto sells GMO modified organisms that are glyphosate resistant.
In [1]: (8<<24) | (8<<16) | (8<<8)| 8
Out[1]: 134744072

Oh how the time just flies past.

Incidentally there are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who try to write too clever headlines.
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> Due to the frequency at which other malfunctions occurred, and that “treatment pause” typically indicated a low-priority issue, the technician resumed treatment.

I found this the most telling sentence...here the UX was so terrible the operator routinely chose to break the rules... but on some occasions it killed people
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Udacity and Treehouse I have some of the best course you will find.
Absolutely agree, ideally we’d all be using DNS-over-TLS, however I think but DoH(S) is a ‘good enough’ alternative /if/ you trust the company running the servers.

Google I have essentially no trust in at all anymore (or maybe ever), Cloudflare I trust to a ‘reasonable’ degree; by that I mean I don’t believe they would (at the and leading up to the time of writing this comment) sell identifiable user data from their 1.1.1.1 DNS service and they have a very high technical skill level when it comes to internet security especially with regards to routing and network metadata. However it’s still not ideal or even slightly close to perfect security and while I’d trust Cloudflare over Google in a heartbeat - like anything that could change and better options that are also easy to use may (will likely) pop up.
Someone should have then. On the other hand, you only talk about the speed of the migration, could also be an overly-specific denial and you've known about a potential acquisition before.

Call me a tinfoil nutjob, I still don't buy it and would move away from azure too in that situation.
I think it's more the chrome browser, which is tracking your actions right?
For performance and privacy reasons, you should use Cloudflare DNS. Please don't trust blindly Google when they say they don't use your DNS request data. It is their core business model to get their hand on all the data they can.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/
that is SOOOOOOooooo cool!
There are also 1.1.1.1 and 9.9.9.9 from the 'easy remember' DNS list.
Interesting to see this now and then go back and read their post from 2016 where they stated they knew it was "time to move away from the cloud."

https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/
> and physical threats

that you interprete that as a physical threat tells more about you than me. I'm certainly not getting physical against anybody at work or pretty much anywhere else ... I'm talking about standing up against bullying by verbal or legal means.
Are those things even for sale anymore? Did a (quick) google search and found one on e-bay and that's about it.
Yeah, this is a rare case where the company can actually 100% blame the vendor. It's usually a case of a company not properly following the vendor's documentation or otherwise misconfiguring something.
Defaults for AWS are not public. The UI recommends against turning it on.

Sales people turn on Public so clients can see it w/o logging into some system.

IMO an employee intentionally set a bucket with critical data to public.

My original point that the title was misleading stands.
Saying anyone who cares about Github now being owned by Microsoft is incompetent is borderline ad-hominem.

We have seen embrace-extend-extinguish from MS before. Even if you believe they've changed there's no reason to label everyone else as incompetent.
yes. They are a charity and want to make the world a better place.
What’s with all the pretentious exposition? You could’ve shared your shower-thought in 140 chars.
Hey, where are you based? Important looking at whether a night you have previous start-up experiences.

Perhaps send me an email with questions. I can introduce you to someone who can help. HN@olab.com.au
> The restaurants I look at in the Seamless app. The Reddit posts I clicked on in the Reddit app.

Unless I missed a press release announcing Google's acquisition of Seamless and Reddit, this seems impossible. AFAIK MyActivity doesn't track what you do inside non-Google apps.
I think you've missed the point slightly. This paper looks at two cases, one of which is the "two images, two embeddings, one operation" (eg siamese-style). They note that this works well. They then go on to note that the problem of "are these two components at aribtrary locations of an otherwise blank image the same or different" is not well solved. This cannot be addressed directly by Siamese nets (well, or at least kind-of-can't. Arguably relational networks are similar to taking pixel pairwise functions, and thus have some relation to Siamese nets.)

In any case, they directly exclude the case you mention.
war is peace
An interesting question in the field of public administration...
As a thought experiment, if you knew for certain that in a hundred years an individual who was long dead was brought back to life, and you had to guess whether the recently deceased was a cryogenic patient from 2018 or a mummified Emperor from antiquity - would you be ambivalent about the choices? If not, then you don't really think they're equally good paths to extra life.
The opportunity to rigorously work on the best solution to a problem was probably my favourite part of Jane Street's engineering culture. They really care about taking your time to do things right rather than getting things hacked together as soon as possible. This means that all the code you touch is very well designed and the systems are all pretty great, it's quite awesome.
I use cloudflare dns. I don't think that they're good, necessarily, but they definitely give off a better vibe than google. I don't know what the seamless app is, but I have location and background services turned off on my phone. The only google apps I have on my phone are youtube (which rarely gets used) and gboard, which I also rarely use -- I mostly use wordflow. On desktop, I use startpage[1], which is essentially a proxy for google search, but they can't correlate your searches to form a profile of you, and the more people use it the better it works. There's also duckduckgo[2] which is significantly more popular and has shortcuts for searching on other sites such as google maps or amazon; it proxies its searches through bing. If you truly want to go all out with the privacy, you can use findx[3], which is open-source[4], but in my experience it has significantly worse search results, and last I checked it didn't have a fully-fledged image search yet.

There are limits, however, to how private you can get. Most people have email accounts through google, which means if you correspond with someone by email, even if your email isn't gmail, google is still analyzing what you wrote (they claimed to no longer be doing this, but I have no reason to believe them). As such, it is your job (not the parent specifically, but anyone reading this) to fight back against google's monopoly on information! Set up a private mail server for friends and family. Pressure work to use amazon or microsoft (not much better, but better nevertheless) for enterprise services over google. (This one may be easier as there are legitimate horror stories regarding gcp and gsuite that you can point to, such as the recent incident of someone's gcp account getting completely frozen without warning and reason for 3 days.) Above all, however, make sure not to look like you're wearing a tinfoil hat. Sound reasonable and if someone doesn't want to switch, don't push too hard; you lose credibility that way.

1: https://www.startpage.com/

2: https://duckduckgo.com/

3: https://www.findx.com/

4: https://github.com/privacore/open-source-search-engine
Yeah, no doubt! Mere mortals like me can't even imagine what that would be like however.
Hi, I built this and want to share some background:

Each data point corresponds directly to a real meteor entry into the Earth's atmosphere recorded by NASA CAMS (http://cams.seti.org). Using this network of cameras, we can capture enough information about a meteor to compute its orbit around the sun. That means each particle has unique orbital parameters that accurately reflect a former meteorite in space.

In order to visualize the cloud, the epoch of these orbits is randomized. In other words, each particle begins at a random location in its orbit. This is done so the visualization can be continuous rather than only showing a clump of meteors from ~2012-2018.

Open source here: https://github.com/typpo/showers
It’s obvious for some people (perhaps the OP, yourself and myself for example) it’s not obvious or obvious that it’s even an option to the majority of people.

I personally try to advocate for good privacy education at places of work, study and play usually with a combination of a) the naritive / context, b) Provide simple examples (of why it probably matters), c) Explain with metaphors, and d) Give some simple advice where possible.

It’s not a perfect strategy but I think it does noticeably help lift the awareness bar.
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I hit 22mph really hauling it on a downhill on my Lime scooter the other day. I don't see 31mph (50 km/h) happening on them.

However, they are definitely too fast for sidewalks and they're not even safe unless the sidewalk is free of imperfections such as holes and bumps.
Not that you don't have a point: prioritisation is extremely important. But also keep in mind that it's a normal political sleight of hand to keep you occupied with X, while the real goal is Y. For example, someone who wanted to push forward copyright changes, but expects problems could propose a subsidy for burning coal and while people are distracted by that, to push through their copyright changes.

If your elected official only thinks that X is important, then they may be willing to give up Y whenever anyone threatens X -- no matter how serious a threat it is. Holding public officials accountable is very hard work, which is another reason why they can frequently get away with questionable actions and still get re-elected.

I tend to think that directly actionable things are better to focus on. So promoting free and open source software, and ensuring that it becomes the backbone of software development is more effective than discussing copyright issues with your congressman. However after making the issue important to a wide class of people, you can't neglect the political side.

On the other hand, I would never criticise someone for deciding to prioritise a cause like the environment, or government corruption over copyright issues. A single person can only do so much. But if you are motivated by copyright issues, then I wouldn't hold back just because there are other, seemingly more important issues on the table -- because that hesitation will be used against you.
It works for me. Note that `|` is a bitwise-or (not that it really matters, it just removes a branch)

const True = -1
const False = 0
const ternary = (condition, left, right) => \
(condition & left) | (~condition & right)

ternary(True, 0, 1) // 0
ternary(False, 0, 1) // 1
Generally one feature GCd languages lack is strong support for value types. Cache thrashing due to pointer chasing is an issue, and even if you can allocate large numbers of small objects quickly, the indirection will kill you. In Swift, many small allocations are avoided entirely by storing the value as part of some other object. For example, imagine you want to store an array of points; it’s usually much better if you can have an array of structs of floats where everything is represented as one flat allocation.
Yes, they do not PERMANENTLY store PII, because they are crystal clear about the fact that they store it temporarily, and that by that they explicitly say they mean 24-48 hours:

> Google Public DNS stores two sets of logs: temporary and permanent.

> The temporary logs store the full IP address of the machine you're using.

> We delete these temporary logs within 24 to 48 hours.

> In the permanent logs, we don't keep personally identifiable information or IP information.

"Permanently" is not weasel-worded here.
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in countries with so many men and so few women, I imagine that will switch
Cities should have separated ways for power-to-6Km/h speed differences.

Pedestrian: 6KM/h
bicycle: 18KM/h
City scooters: 24 KM/h
Fast city scooters: 42 KM/h
Cars: 48 KM/h (50KM)

Unsure if 12, 30 and 36 must get a new category. For 12, niche electric vehicles usually are around that speed (e.g. mobility scooters, electric toys)
Hmm, what does low-end hardware have to do with it? I can’t think of any challenge in text editing that requires beefy hardware.

Coordinating multiple editors is tricky, yes, but it doesn’t need fast hardware, just good software and ideally a reliable network.

Editing text on a phone is hard, but that’s a UI problem -- it’s the small screen and lack of a keyboard. Most phones these days have very capable CPUs and plenty of memory.

(I agree that this technology is very cool, though! I’m just curious why you pick out that low-end use case.)
A company whose business model isn't based entirely in analyzing user data in order to sell them the most things. Remember: these data don't have to be tied to your account. Google can use your ip address to glean your (approximate) location, and then use the websites you visit to better tell what kind of people live in that area. Even if they don't store the websites themselves, they can categorize the websites and store a category breakdown. They can find out what demographic you belong to from your account, and then associate the websites you visit with that demographic rather than that account. Lots of data that can be stored even if they're not directly associated with your account or the individual websites you visit.
from charmpy import *

Please, for the love of God, import names explicitly or use e.g. `import charmpy as cp` and subsequently `cp.foo` so that reading example code we get a better sense of your API without having to guess which names were possibly overwritten.