skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are all features that people expect to work regardless of what they do with their settings... Why would you want a weather update for somewhere you aren't? If you search drug store should it tell you about the concept of drug stores or the actual drug stores that are down the street? There would be tons of people upset that Google is broken if it didn't take location into account for search.
> Having a powerful feminist be accused of sexual harassment does zero damage to the feminist movement at large.

But then a person like Judith Butler should not sign such a letter, showing that she has not understood the power dynamics that have been keeping sexual harassment quiet.
I don't know what the govt knows, but they know more than I do. I won't use or let my family use those devices either until that ban is lifted. :-/
Maybe start with the easy, one gets the sense of accomplishment when solving a problem, building on from there.
Looks 'spindly'
You need roads, bridges, water, electricity, and garbage collection to fulfill basic physiological needs, and also so you can swap menial tasks for higher level work/spending time with family/enjoying a better standard of living.

Framing in Maslow's pyramid [1]: Many of the goods/services the gov provides fulfill either level 1 physiological needs or level 2 security needs.

Social networks fulfill level 3 and 4 needs: love/belonging, and esteem.

We aren't yet at the point where we as a society decide we need to dedicate collective resources (taxes) to level 3 and 4 needs, especially while our level 2 and 1 services/goods aren't improving at the rate with which they did in the 20th century, and are in some cases deteriorating/being privatized.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow#/media/File:Mas...
Again?

They just got caught yesterday doing the same thing!
It's also funny how all criticism of apple are deflected as "but they don't have a monopoly so its okay, use something else if you don't like it."
This is a typical engineer comment, completly removed from Joe user.
The headline and opening sentence are worded to try and fool you into thinking that it's an Attorney General (i.e., the state) initiating this motion; it's actually just some random lawyer.
Absolutely.

Take the US real estate market in 2007: You could argue that, hindsight, it was overvalued if you needed to be worried about what it would be worth 2 years later, but, 10 years later, prices were even higher.

Might also be different values to different people if they have differing levels of ability to exploit it. But, in the narrow case of cryptocurrency, I'm pretty sure it's (currently) got very little value outside of its exchange rate.
In some instances yes, I do. In others no. The book was written in the 60s and it seems fairly clear now that some mental illnesses have physiological roots. It also seems clear that many issues such as depression, eating disorders, anxiety, etc. are often the consequence of environmental or other non-physiological phenomena.

Have you read the book? He doesn't argue that people should not seek treatment. He argues that many mental illnesses don't originate in physiological problems but are instead problems with people reconciling conflicting desires (I'm simplifying a lot here). He argues against compulsory treatment, not voluntary treatment.

The author was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is definitely not advocating for people to avoid treatment. He is suggesting that the focus on physiological causes of mental health problems obscures the causes of many such problems and prevents people from resolving them appropriately.
> If you say "I'm not saying it's the engineers' fault, but engineers should remember that they're responsible for what they build", it's like blaming the engineers.

No, it's not. I did not assign blame to anyone, that is what the court will do.

You may argue I insinuated it might be the engineers fault. Well I did and it might. I'm an engineer myself and many others here are too, so it's a relevant angle for us.
This is a regrettable, yet a sadly common view. "If you use products by Company X, you must understand they gather an immerse personal profile on you - like it or not. That's just how Company X works! If you don't like that, use a competing product."

Companies are not above law, and the gathering and use of personally identifiable information is regulated for a very good reason in our society (I don't think many Americans were thrilled when their info was leaked in the Equifax breach.) Ultimately, consumers should be able to choose products they use freely without worrying about their privacy being automatically violated. It might not be the case today, as this article shows, but so was establishing a cartel to charge consumers exorbitant prices and bully competition out of business also an acceptable business tactic for most of the 19th century, before anti-trust legislation was enacted.

So I think it's good that reporters an are taking issue when companies engage in questionable practices when applying their users' privacy preferences. Like Google here not stopping collecting a profile of your past locations, even if you turn off a privacy setting titled "Location History".
> unlike land, it's entirely possible for demand to plummet all the way to zero.

Not really the point, but land can clearly go to zero [0] (and below). Just ask St. Louis or its peer cities how well their giant land banks are working out.

[0] "Zero" here means the land is worth less than whatever amount justifies the obligations that come with owning it (e.g. taxes, maintenance, etc).
no it can be just relative to the average ke of the particles. Like in ideal gas model, its just single particles bouncing around in a box and temp is relative to the average ke of the particles. When you start introducing diatomic and above particles, then you have to worry about vibration (of the bonded particles) as well as rotations as other degrees of freedom for it to store internal energy.
That's nothing to be embarrassed about. It's hard to commit until you're fit. Eventually you get to a point where you look forward to going to the gym if you stay with it long enough.

If you have a good trainer that can help with the commitment issue. If you have a bad trainer it can make it worse. I've had both. I had one trainer that wouldn't listen to me and just always pushed to hard; then during a session I puked from over exertion. I was so angry and embarrassed I didn't go back to the gym for over 3 months.

Anyway the point there is if you are going to get a trainer then vet them before you sign an agreement.

A couple of other options to help with commitment is to join a fitness group or a class like Farrell's (https://extremebodyshaping.com/).

Some of these have support/accountability groups so if you no show someone is going to call and ask where you were and in return you do the same thing
The road behind my house has street parking and it’s a 45 mph zone.
> A 5% bomb rate for an on-site question will put you into the 60-70% pass rate.

I'm not sure I follow the math here, can you expand a little?
Judged with our modern standard, most of people who lived more than 100 years before are barbarians/far right/populists/whatever else you want to call them.

Guess how we will be judged in 100 year from now?
It'll exchange you for a new one. But once you own thousands of fridges, I'm sure it's more economical to repair them afterwards with in-house technicians
Utility doesn't scale (linearly) with distance. Consider someone walking 0.5 miles to a neighborhood store versus driving 5 miles to a big-box store. The big-box store may have a larger selection of product lines and slightly lower prices, but there's certainly not 10x the utility there.
>why are you particularly worried about Social Security?

because the 1 of the 2 political parties in the USA, the one currently holding all three branches of the federal government, has been quite publicly trying to cut it for decades. Even if they don't get it accomplished today they have another 40-50 years worth of trying before "millennials" hit retirement age.
I have recently been trying to organize an old photo library, looks like these tips could come in handy!
I think a lot of confusion stems from conflating "value" and "price". Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. To be fair, neither does a dollar (but nobody's suggesting investing in dollars is a good idea, so that's another subject).

Things with intrinsic value (aka things that produce cash flow, like stocks, bonds, real estate, etc.) can be somewhat rationally priced based on their expected returns & risk profiles. Things without intrinsic value (gold, bitcoin, beanie babies, etc.) are priced primarily by speculation. BUT, gold, for example, has a built-in floor and ceiling price: since it's useful for electronics and medical purposes, its price cannot go to 0. Similarly, if the price gets high enough, mining becomes profitable, increasing supply, driving the price back down. Being a non-physical thing, Bitcoin has neither of these mechanisms, so its price can, as we've seen, flail around bounded only by investor greed.
I find it incredibly fascinating how we human beings are essentially huge networks of autonomously operating cells, and somehow; that gives rise to a sense of self and consciousness? What?
Within the context of a game it [generally] doesn't need to be a full blown AI solution.

Combining route finding, goals & priorities, situational awareness, and also adding in some flakiness so it's not perfect can give a really good and usable approximation to AI from the human players perspective.

The computer player needs to have rules and knowledge in place about the game such as how to get around the maps and how to shoot / evade the enemy all without being too good.
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. The setting was at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

This is example #687 of why not to trust Google or any other surveillance capitalist.
"Interest rates hike do cause short-term inflation"

Do you care to expand? This is the first time I'm hearing somebody say this. I've always believed it is exactly opposite; raising interest rates motivates people to save more and borrow/ spend less: because people are spending less there is less demand and so it removes the upward pressure on prices.
If you actually use all the threads, then the power usage is fairly efficient. You wouldn't say a 90w processor used a huge amount of energy. This is two processors on the same chip with Infinity Fabric tying them together. For what you get, I think it's pretty decent power consumption.
Do you mean ex-pats from China living in other countries, or ex-pats from other countries now living in China?
Another FPGA sweet spot is analyzing TB/PB-scale databases. Netezza programmed FPGAs to uncompress, project, restrict (including NULLs), enforce isolation & visibility and check CRCs at disk scan rates (>200MB/sec). When touching a handful of columns from a 20-200 column table, CPUs spend most of their time stalled on cache line misses. FPGA-projecting just those few columns into memory enormously increases cache hit rates.
That's why standardized testing is becoming more irrelevant in college admissions.
> (Long version: he ran a platform where people sold the victims drugs, from which sales he financially profited). Victims who subsequently died.

It's a stretch to say that he caused their deaths because a third party willingly sold them drugs on his platform that they then willingly ingested.

He was involved in their deaths, yes, but he did not cause them.
Roughly 25% of all opioid overdoses in the US are from government prescribed Methadone, which is essentially synthetic heroin.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...
Don't you loose the easy threading that's inherent in a pipeline of processes though?

I love ruby but for throw away jobs I'd be more likely to do it on the command line than a ruby script simply because it would be quicker for me to write and run in a shell. Unless I'm wrong at the very least you wouldn't have to deal with the GIL.
I keep thinking about this, but no way should this be run by a government. The tech for it to be peer-to-peer, without any central authority is already there and would make the best fit. The only - admittedly huge - hurdle is that no authority means no marketing, no support, integrations, and probably a harder setup/learning curve. While an organization like EFF could help sustain some of this, it has no resources to represent or support billions of users. Of course if the network would be open, smaller businesses could capitalize on it, taking over these tasks, but this could result in walled gardens and incompatibility.

Shaking off big corporations from services that should have been always open and free-for-all is maybe the hardest and most important question of the Internet for the future. I think an answer can only rise upon the ashes of the current big players, should that be a scandal, disaster, or else.
India’s 2nd largest cooperative bank, Cosmos, hacked, Rs 94 crore transferred
Right, sorry, I wasn't clear. The producer is the one who's going to have a problem.

If I'm SquirtyBoy on PornoTron, I still have to convert BitCoin/Ethereum/Whatever into cash so my landlord doesn't kick me out onto the street.

(Unless you mean consumers should be paying PornoTron in cryptocurrency, which PornoTron then exchanges into fiat currency, and then pays SquirtyBoys in that. I think I mistook what you meant by "middle men" - I thought you meant things like PornTube, whereas you apparently meant Stripe/Paypal/etc.)
Ask HN: How can I as a Computer Scientist contribute to battling climate change?
I'm a big fan of lifting heavy things. But I also have to admit that much of my lower back pain has been caused by injuries from lifting heavy things. All sports are going to eventually cause some form of injury, and lower back injuries are common among people who lift heavy things.

For the foreseeable future, I've decided to avoid low-bar squats because they use my lower back too much. I've switched to high-bar, which allows me to keep my hip and spine stacked in much the way talked about in the article. I've also made a point to lower the lifting intensity when I increase the intensity of my other activities (grappling). Pushing hard with heavy weights and then making hard demands in other activities can cause problems as well.
I think it's a great idea, assuming that you're from a country whose government you trust won't to spy on you. Other commenters seems not to see the potential benefit, so I'll spell it out: A government operated social network would be tax-founded, and thus not have any need for profit.

this, one could argue, enables a social network that doesn't spy on you, respects privacy and doesn't even have ads!

of course it also comes with the risk of the ruling party spying on you and engaging in manipulation. depending on where you live, and how..conspirationally inclined you are, this may or may not be a risk you're willing to take

I'm not sure that this is the best way to spend them tax-dollars. But the network itself would certainly be nice though
"Turning off" location history == Don't show me my location history. It's not like Google (or Apple) is going to actually stop tracking you.

I love showing iPhone users the section in Settings where all their location history is. Most have no idea it's there.
Start simple: find a list (with answers). Don't try to "solve" them, just read the questions and try within a minute or so to name a data structure or algorithm -- something you'd expect most undergraduate intro classes to cover -- that seems likely to be part of the solution. Check your work, keep track of which ones you got right/wrong, and move onto the next question.

Re-visit the ones you got wrong first. Try them again, repeat until you've gotten them all right (this might just be because you remember the solution from looking it up, that's fine, you'll have plenty of time to forget by the time we get back to it :).

Now, revisit the ones where you had the right data structure on the first go. HOW would that data structure help? Go a level deeper on actually trying to solve it.

I can't guarantee this will be fun, but it should be fast. A few minutes here on there on any given problem, going one level deeper each time you visit it.

Eventually you'll have the whole algorithm for one of the problems, likely using some common data structure like a hash map, tree, or heap.

Code it in a language with a good set of algorithmic primitives, use every tool the library gives you (don't worry about remembering how the data structures work on this pass). Hopefully with the whole algorithm in mind and all of the tools at your disposal, this is "just plumbing".

Rinse, repeat.

Somewhere in there, do the same with the complexity analysis (time and space!).

Next time, try it where you have to build the data structure by hand.

Then one day you'll see a problem not on your original list, and you'll immediately think "red-black tree with a hash table lookaside buffer, but I wouldn't want to have to build the RB tree by hand if they asked me to, so AVL tree because the complexity is the same and I can bang out the code like it's what I do every morning before breakfast".

Like I said, it might not be fun (at least at first), but it is a way to break up the practice into digestible chunks. Also it builds on the strategy that I've seen work best in interviews -- if you treat each step of iterative deepening of the solution as a point where you'd talk with the interviewer about what you're thinking and why, you give them a lot to go on about your thought process and a chance to course correct if you misunderstood the question or your heuristic for how to approach it simply came up wrong.
Give feedback to your recruiter. Interviewers can be forced into more training or taken off rotations.
Should we consider banking a disreputable industry because of actors like Goldman Sachs? Should we consider mining a disreputable industry because of the deaths and cover ups? How about human trafficking for diamond mines? Should we consider the jewelry industry disreputable? How iPhone productions and Foxconn? Seriously the list can go on, every industry has parts of it that are less than reputable. If you think porn is somehow worse, that’s because of your morality or religions beliefs and not the facts.
This is just dumb. Location History has nothing to do with other apps that can track your location. All of this is made clear in the UI which makes it abundantly clear what is happening. Google makes no attempt to hide what is happening and if you enable Location History Google will actually spam you with email warnings that you have Location History turned on.

So it's yet another anti-tech non-story clickbait. But the demand for this is so high we actually get to see it twice.
I kinda feel like a best-effort attempt to minimize data-leakage + some kind of noise injection might be the best approach right now.

Ultimately though, I think we'll need legislative and platform solutions if we want to keep a good amount of online privacy. This just isn't something an individual can solve on their own.
In a lot of states you used to be able to get the address of a license plate with $5 in admin fees. Not sure if that is still allowed.
You're confused. Attorneys General of the states don't matter, because this is a federal thing ("IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT", as the motion says on top.).

And the top prosecutor in the federal system for a state is called... the "U.S. Attorney".

It's certainly not some random attorney who happens to hold U.S. citizenship.
Why luck might be subjective and not part of the world
I think her personal friendship with the Ronell is blinding her to the realities of the case. I think it's unfair to say that she "doesn't understand" these kinds of power dynamics. She's just human like everyone and she's made a terrible mistake signing this letter.

I should be clear: I'm a huge admirer of Professor Butler, and her writing has been very meaningful to me personally (though i recognize that many HNers might disagree). I still admire her greatly, but it just makes the disappointment so much greater. She should know better than this.
Yes. Windows 10 took 6.27 seconds, with the exception of Clearlinux all the Linuxes took 8+ seconds.
I guess it's kind of nice to have Spotify controls for pause and play over other applications, but I would gladly give that up for regular keys. That's literally the only thing I can think of. I want my function keys, I want my physical volume and brightness.
I want to say it's a Ted Chiang story, but I'm not sure why - probably because his is the last collection of short stories I recall reading - but none of the titles listed look familiar.
From the article, the hospital couldn't decide if the patient was competent. They claimed she wasn't when it suited their guardianship case, and claimed she was when they "discharged" her.

No one else has claimed she's incompetent. Other mmedical professionals have said she was and is. When patient signed the release, they were free to discuss the details of the case. Their refusal to do so is telling.
That's astonishingly expensive. I bet you could get a local pizza place to deliver an 18" Pepperoni for half that, let alone the $10 fee.
Like another commenter said, using frameworks like flux and vuex allow you to utilize browser extensions that make the 'time traveling' debugging process easy.
I would actually counter with the assumption that every endeavor should not be financially unprofitable. Like it or not, governments work on a budget. Aside from the federal one they’re also usually required to stick to it.

I was in no way implying the government was trying to make money off increased fines (quite the opposite with the last paragraph), simply that it would very likely end up costing them more than it saved the taxpayers to support such an initiative at a larger scale, and that would have a very nebulous gain.

Can you imagine being the Mayor of your department at work and proposing to your board of directors a multi-million dollar budget for next year that includes a huge carve out for evaluating all the petty fines and late fees you collected from customers because it’ll make them happier?

Goodwill is one thing, but who is ever going to approve that?
Very true, but mostly EEs and embedded SW/FW engineers. I think the SW tools, although still awful, are reaching the point where more SW-focused developers can take advantage of FPGA flexibility.

Which isn't to say every programmer shouldn't be forced to struggle through a Verilog or VHDL project - that'll put some hair on your chest and the fear of god into you. I'll see your async and raise you an "always @(posedge clk)"
Christmas in Germany!
> Whatsapp

Sideloaded whatsapp works fine.

Also F-Droid has Yalp now which lets you download APKs directly from the play store without running play/play services.
Mirrors are actually not that great at checking form - the act of looking in the mirror changes how you move. Now that just about all of us carry high quality digital HD cameras in our pockets, that's the best way to check form.
Plain C code can readily scan at a couple GB/sec on an ordinary Intel core, and NVME drives can transfer 8 or 16GB/sec
TCL is pretty awesome. I hadn’t used it since the late 90s, but in a recent project I ended up integrating it into a Go project we’re building, and it was great. Extraordinarily easy to do, and very powerful.

I really need to write a blog entry about it. It’s now a valuable tool in my toolbox.
The Internet?
Generally, you're legally a cause of something if it couldn't have happened without your action. That others contributed, as well, doesn't absolve you.

(Otherwise the sellers would claim, that the marketplace is the real culpit, and they just sold some stuff)

There are certain limits to it, so that totally far-flung causations don't count, but this is not a close call.
Who's going to take care of the people injured in the riots?