skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It had removed 66 accounts, pages and apps linked to Russian firms that build facial recognition software for the Russian government.

Who’s the enemy here? The Russian government scraping Facebook, or the company that’s making such things possible?
It would be nice to see it in a table
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I was unclear. The profession I'm talking about is not related to engineering. However, I don't want to be more specific because the profession in question is fairly unusual and I don't wish to identify myself.
At least on the point of pity of the rich versus government organized relief, I'd definitely support closing the charity and religion loopholes that let the rich escape huge taxes. Another measure I'd support is removing all distinctions between types of income and spending so labor isn't punished relative to capital. It will be difficult because the rich are the most resistant to being taxed, and if they aren't their wealth is temporary. But I think the political will is there and I think it can be done.

Here is a chart of 2015 government spending vs GDP: https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm

So the US is on the low end of things with the government spending 37.6% of GDP ... looking at the current level of service provided by the all levels of government, that is based on an almost 40% share of the output of the wealthiest country to ever exist. I think that is a pathetic result. Given 40% of the output of the US economy, I think the government should be able to provide all necessities to all citizens at a high level of service: food, shelter, transportation, medicine, education, law enforcement, military defence.

So based on their huge GDP share and horrible performance, I'm against allocating them a higher share. I think the most promising approach would be pure redistribution since it would sidestep the issue of the government's inefficiency. Just take the money from the rich and literally give it to the poor but I don't think it is politically feasible.
The history of that quote is actually older and much more interesting.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/21/death-statistic/
A picture of a post. I hope it's been faxed at some point.
> I don't know that Google was ever the thing to find them. Various curated lists and word-of-mouth were how they spread.

There was a period in the mid-'90s at least when you could find really interesting personal pages by punching any given topic into your search engine of choice. It may actually have been petering out by the time Google arrived in '98, though.
UK programmer pay is a whole other league. (Maybe the rest of the world? Not sure who else pays like SV, no one that I know)
Schematics of the AGC are available too: http://klabs.org/history/ech/agc_schematics/
Google Cloud launches Cloud Identity as standalone service
You would need Wechat for America. I actually think Apple is well placed to do this, but it would go against their hardware-first culture.

If they released iMessage and ApplePay on Android, added a Wechat style P2P payment system, and started cannibalizing the AppStore/Playstore through a WeChat style API I think they could pull it off.
With analog solutions, the complexity gets pushed into designing the test rigs, validating your component supply, thermal compensation, etc. Dealing with firmware instead may or may not be a net win, but the bottom line is you can change the firmware but you can't change the board.
Sawbones invites readers to laugh at bizarre history of medicine
Companies these days must employ enough women so they won't be seen as sexist. Since most women can't really contribute to the actual work, they have to invent all kind of bureaucracy and "programs" which are not related to the actual job but can be prepared by liberal arts graduates. It would be much more valuable to society if those women stayed at home and took care of their children rather than clog every corner in the corporate world.
what is wrong with being a toy? you are oversimplifying the situation by reducing this toy to its components. it's like calling a furby a terrible and uncomfortable electronic pillow. it doesn't even make sense.

and you conveniently ignored the coolest factor of vector, and that is it's soon to be released sdk. plus, what is possibly fun and cute about amazon echo and google home just sitting there doing nothing but being the ears of companies scheming on how to sell us more shit?
There might even be a non-profit startup idea here: something like Square, but optimized for panhandlers

That sounds to me kind of like this (only available in Seattle currently, iirc):

https://www.samaritan.city

I was homeless for nearly six years. Instead of panhandling, I worked at developing an online income. I'm trying to support and promote that approach for others. Some of my work:

https://www.pocketputer.com

https://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com

http://writepay.blogspot.com
Give an example of where you have applied your technical knowledge in a practical way.
Uh, downvoters: this, like all WP opinion pieces, was not fact-checked.

If you look into the actual rules'[0] Q&A section, you will find:

Q. Will inmates or inmate families be charged with printing their mail?

A. DOC is printing the mail from Smart Communications at no charge to inmates or their families.

[0] https://www.cor.pa.gov/Initiatives/Pages/FAQ-New-Procedures....
> Anybody else think of any work paradigms that satisfy more of these conditions?

Maybe in a university, like a research assistant (I'm thinking med/bio projects that need serious infrastructure). If it's a well-funded university, I could see all being a yes, except C.
Tell yourself whatever you want, but the awful cardiovascular and neurological effects of cocaine are well-documented and their mechanisms are well-understood. Impurities and adulterations don't make things better, but cocaine itself is awful for you.
If their intention is to subvert American democracy, then yes, the Russian government is the enemy in this case.
Sorry for the delay, I was Chief Data Scientist at a really hot startup.
In low traffic/back roads on my bike, I can tell if there's a car coming up behind me without having to twist around. Doesn't work if there's other cars drowning it out, and I definitely wouldn't recommend relying on that in most cases, but it's neat.
Can this article be read without enabling tracking?
it's not the same thing. they made significant upgrades, especially such that the embedded platform (basically a smartphone board) is powerful enough to run the sdk without having a smartphone tethered like comzo had to have.
https://www.cor.pa.gov/Initiatives/Pages/FAQ-New-Procedures....

"Will inmates or inmate families be charged with printing the mail?

DOC is printing the mail from Smart Communications at no charge to inmates or their families."

They may not do it quickly, and they may not do it well, but they are obligated to do it for free under the contract terms.

(This is an Opinion piece -- check the URL. WP does not fact-check opinion pieces at all.)
Ask HN: What web analytics / telemetry do you care about?
I've seen a number of times where people on HN are seemingly against any form of web analytics / user tracking behavior. I can sympathize with the idea that we don't want our behavior tracked all the time and sold to third-party ad networks. I also can understand that website/app owners need to understand how their software/website is being used to help improve development, marketing, crash data...etc.

I say this because as a web developer, I like knowing whether people even care about some new feature X, whether they are using A/B, how they engage is important. All of this requires telemetry and tracking user behavior.

Given this, there are options out there that range from full-scale tracking ala GA, to custom integrations like piwik, to simplified tracking where all you get is a few things like top pages/referrers.

Myself, I would consider things like Operating System to be an outdated (albeit interesting) metric, unless we're talking about mobile phone usage then you might want to know this. At the same, time other features like Browser version might seem important too. I say might, because you could argue that we've reached a point where owners can just support backwards compatibility to a specific version and not care further than that.

Aside from the usual GA top level things, there's the idea of tracking some level of user behavior like exit pages/entry pages, timelines..etc.

Despite the sentiment of complete anti-tracking, what features do people actually care about, need or would consider fine from a website/app?
I'm really happy with Chromium with proper HW acceleration:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-vaapi-bin/
We're talking about an institution that wrecks entire countries with bombs. But lead poisoning is in poor taste.
The poster I am replying to is stating that pure cocaine is a great drug. I am disagreeing. YMMV
how would you architect a tic tac toe game
This is great news and a good move Sir Branson.

Our society is past the point where we need to allow bad people to have their way. If we do not accept the money of MBS nor take part in his endeavors we can effectively remove his power.
Fran Blanche has been playing with and reproducing some of this Apollo hardware. She could use more patrons right now.

http://www.frantone.com/designwritings/design_writings_LVDC....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZhRbzDZIDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWGpF05zhdU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEa2CPPIQEM&t=2s

etc!
I was about to say, "you can't be serious," but upon further reflection..

The answer is obviously the Russian government.
Outside-In TDD – Toran Billups – NebraskaJS December 2015
I like this page, on creating 3d 'holograms' by hand:

http://amasci.com/amateur/holo1.html
To be honest, I would love to hire competent 40- 50 year old people, but I’d be torpedoing my own chances of advancement since promoting them (or hiring them in a higher position) frankly makes much more sense.

I guess I’d still do it though. We need people with experience like a drowning man needs air.
If someone wants to try to explain to me why the collection of application telemetry is bad, that'd be great.
An interesting reply to the GP comment. I finished reading the GP and immediately thought "so how do you learn to effectively manage people with more experience than yourself?", and then I read this comment.

Hmm. I certainly don't want to end in the position of the manager you're referring to. I'm scared about/by the quantity of things I don't know, though, across the board, so there's that. (One of those things that are hard to sum up as good or bad, heh.)

I guess the worst-case I can think of right now, is ending up in a situation where I might think the 10% I know _is_ 100%, and the social dynamics make it difficult for those around me to show me otherwise without treading on my toes, even privately. I wonder how I might counter for situations like that.

My understanding of management is of owning a summarized, superset overview of a bunch of areas that I'm (ostensibly) coordinating. To do that effectively I need to be able to discern the difference between "implementational or otherwise safely 'losable' detail" and "piece of data I cannot effectively manage without" (literally).

This can be very tricky, especially as the analysis rules change per domain...
People know you are working on remembering their name, so it's all good.
"Blind as a bat" is a common expression in English. Free Dictionary says it's been around since the 1500s, and theorizes that people thought their erratic flight was due to poor eyesight. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/blind+as+a+bat
It has not been. Regular exercise is probably the most helpful.

During an attack, very controlled deep breathing and taking my shirt off to walk around in circles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN-VAdAnoZ4#t=26
Buildings are only a small fraction of humanity's impact on the world.

A lot of land that isn't built up (and therefore doens't show up on the NYT map) is used for farming. After all, we have seven billion mouths to feed.

Most forests that aren't used for farming have probably been clear-cut a number of times already, and are still being managed artificially. We need timber for the buildings.

There are forests in Europe that appear peaceful until you realize that the reason nobody goes in there is that the ground is chock full of unexploded shells from two world wars.

And in case you find a desert where nothing useful can grow, you might want to check if we've detonated a couple of nukes there.
From what I have read, the original delivery mechanism for cocaine was chewing on the leaves of the coca plant. In that form, it's quite mild.

Extract from the coca plant has medicinal uses. From that perspective, it absolutely is a good drug. (Coca Cola contains extracts from the coca plant, minus the hallucinogen called cocaine.)

Pure cocaine is almost certainly the mild, inoffensive drug described above. It only becomes an aggressive and problematic thing with much modern processing.
Why Google Docs and not Contacts?
Hey, can I contact you somehow? I got some questions to ask about a comment you made about your remote work arrangement? I work in tech in SF and am wondering how you managed to get to work from the Ph where my Fiance recently had to move back to. Thanks!
I don't think it's all that bad to go home and veg out in the evenings. It can be a huge help and just depends on the person. Some other people go to the bar and drink half the night. Others will work all evening, being productive and ignoring their families.

In the end it depends on what your priorities are. In the evenings, mine is to get my mind off of any kind of work so that I can actually get restful sleep when I get to bed. Doing productive things only acts to stimulate, which makes sleeping harder. ymmv.
Expectations are more stable, but that doesn't mean the underlying product is at all stable and consistent.
> Everything is a device!

There Are No Things. [0] ... only actions and properties. Everything is an actor [1].

In his Turing lecture, Robin Milner wrote [2]:

Now, the pure lambda-calculus is built with just two
kinds of thing: terms and variables. Can we achieve
the same economy for a process calculus? Carl Hewitt,
with his Actors model, responded to this challenge
long ago; he declared that a value, an operator on
values, and a process should all be the same kind of
thing: an Actor.

This goal impressed me, because it implies the
homogeneity and completeness of expression ... But it
was long before I could see how to attain the goal in
terms of an algebraic calculus...

So, in the spirit of Hewitt, our first step is to
demand that all things denoted by terms or accessed by
names--values, registers, operators, processes,
objects--are all of the same kind of thing; they
should all be processes.

And now today Hewitt's elusive true mythical Actor model may have finally been realized and embodied in a language called Pony [3].

[0] https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11514

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Fundamental_concep...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Theory

[3] https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc
Yeah, sucker punched. I wonder how many people upvoted this prior to reading the article... and then had upvote regret.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7878679#7880362:

> Genera on the Lisp Machine runs on the metal. [...] the network packets are Lisp arrays, ...

Not a perfect system, but an interesting one.
Every couple of years there's a story about homeless people somewhere in Northern Europe accepting card payments. Here's one from 2013.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/18/izettle-m...
This isn't a technically hard problem to solve, but it seems people have been chasing it for years without any strong uptake. I suspect this is something that will have to be 'built-in' to the OS, and ideally some cross-platform protocol compatibility, before it ever becomes a 'standard' (assuming it does).

I worked with a startup for a while on a couple variations of this problem, and it's very much a classic chicken and egg problem. The angle that I was a bit more intrigued with taking was not about 'friends', and more just about the geo part. In other words, having your pics be available publicly by geo info. This conflicted a lot with the use cases of "share party pics with family/friends", but it seems there's dozens of ways to do that (facebook has a whole separate dedicated app that, to this day, few people I know knows about, but they all use facebook).
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Sorry, I was referring to the well-known USA SlimFast retail product from SlimFast, owned by Kainos Capital (formerly Unilever).

The "Slim Fast" that is on this FDA list is a knock-off from "Universal ABC Beauty Supply International, Inc."
Cocaine is a sort of anti-depressant. When used as unrefined coca leaf, it's relatively safe. Three Catholic Popes have partaken of coca leaf tea on visits to South America [0] -- it helps people deal with altitude sickness while they adapt. Coca leaf extract was used in the original Coca-Cola formula. The stimulant was removed in 1903 [1], leaving just the coca leaf flavoring and some of the plant's other beneficial compounds.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/09/its-not-cocain...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#Coca_%E2%80%93_cocai...

There are drugs that are mood-elevating substances sort-of similar to cocaine, but without the euphoria and crash. They are available as prescriptions and in the market (slightly less pure, but good enough for my dog). This class of drugs mostly fell out of favor as their patents expired and the drug industry came out with newer patent-protected generations of drugs.

I met a fellow who tried cocaine in college. He said, "been there, done that, don't need to use again". People who get hooked on cocaine are those who are severely depressed -- they like cocaine because it helps them feel normal.

I've never used cocaine myself, but I've watched the use crack cocaine. Too much makes the user temporarily psychotic, which is why it's now an illegal substance. I learned from a Hacker News comment/submission a while ago that cocaine causes its harm by shredding the mitochondria. [searching] Ahh, found it, this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10956058
I see a lot of people in this thread idly sniping talking points on the benefits of vaginal delivery, insurance/costs, etc. - illustrating the point in your last paragraph.

My son and wife's lives were saved by a C-section three weeks ago. Watching that fetal heart rate monitor dip to zero and then slowly, unsteadily rise back up over and over again was the hardest thing I've ever done. The hospital staff pushed us to do a vaginal birth the whole time. I understand and appreciate what they did, but at the same time I hope there is a better way, because in hindsight I would have never put my wife and son through this again.

This isn't a programming language preference. If you don't know the details of clinical practices around C-section, if you're not an expert or a patient, then you really shouldn't be pushing your opinion on others. Refrain.
I remembering learning about this boy in high school. In the posted article, he suggests that non-blind humans can simulate the handicap by wearing a blindfold.

For someone who isn't blind, learning how to do this is very difficult. This is the kind of skill that rewires your brain and comes out of necessity rather than desire. By actually being blind, you get 10,000 hours of practice in around two years. Even if you practiced this an hour a day blindfolded, it would take decades to get 10,000 hours of practice.
Have you thought about working for IT department at a University?

Would like check off all the items on your wish list.
The rich have the ability to make their unethical actions legal, whereas the poor have no such sway in politics.
> I hate using cash because I hate change (coins).

Coinstar has a deal where you can exchange your coins for an Amazon gift code with no fee. So just dump them in a bucket and go exchange them once a year, then use the gift code for whatever you would have bought on Amazon regardless -- and use your credit card even less.

> Also, what do you do for big purchases? Most ATMs have a $200 limit.

Most ATMs have a $500 limit. For some banks it's $1500 or more. And you can get more by going inside the bank.

How often do you make such a large in-person purchase anyway?
Cash can be expensive to use. There is a hidden tax on all goods and services of a few percent to offset the payment fees merchants have to pay to processors and to support the loyalty programs arms race. By using cash, you miss out on the 1%-2% rewards/cashback that offset the elevated prices. That's supposed to be your prize for having helped pressure the merchants into accepting your payment method.
OP is clearly not talking about chewing coca leaves. He is talking about pure vs. impure powdered cocaine.

Maybe chewing coca leaves is healthy, maybe it's not; I don't know. But it's not really relevant to a discussion about cocaine, the powdered street drug. One barely exists outside of a handful of Andean countries, the other is a worldwide health catastrophe.
> Also, I know they get more when I pay cash.

Maybe, maybe not.

I've been asked to pay by card by a street food vendor in Copenhagen, after I offered cash.

I don't think he wanted the increased expense of going to a bank to deposit the money, getting change, or having the (small in Denmark) risk of theft.

For a larger business, there is also the risk of theft by employees.
Even if you taxed estates at 100% you wouldn't contribute any meaningful amount of money compared to total government revenue or expenditures. So let's be honest, it's about punishing wealthy people (and accepting all the downsides to society of doing that), not actually helping people.
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The flight is from Trichy to Dubai, so they were on course.
SEC Filings, Conference Calls, etc.
I'm kind of sick of those that seek to insult, reject or outright shut down any conversation with those they don't agree with assuming they have some moral high ground.

This goes mostly to detractors of the game in question. I haven't played the game, don't know anything about the story telling in the game and have no firm opinions of the game beyond that it seems to be designed to make PC Babies cry, and has succeeded. In the end, who fucking cares? All you (solarengineer) have done is to feed the beast, and drawn attention to it.

So, I ask you... have you actually played the game? Can you point out what specifically you don't like, other than it has a conservative, anti-communist bent to it?
I wonder if anyone would notice if you 'smoked' an inert substance in a vape pen?
Or just a private firm[0], since models need training data and Facebook has a truly staggering amount, all pre-tagged.
There is also a small amount of irony in the fact that Facebook's initial incarnations were pre-seeded with scraped data from Harvard student websites.

---

0. For example: https://www.businessinsider.com/ntechlab-google-facial-recog...
Awesome, thanks for the reply. I've tinkered with roll my own Asterisk setup a few times over the years but I just ordered an OBI300 since I always loved having a portable, canned landline-in-a-box device for traveling, etc. Given the ever increasing volume of spam/scam calls, a couple hundred $ or less can probably get me through to telephone obsolescence!
Not very big at all, I'm mirroring the whole thing, an individual state ranges from 29MB (Idaho) to about 375MB (California).
They don't look like what laypeople would expect them to look like? All the more reason for a photo.