skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. My one wish for Focus is that I could open another tab. Even just one more tab during an active session would make life easier.
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For what it's worth, circumcision is slowly declining in the US[1]. We did not circumcise our son when he was born. The hospital asked us, we said no. No questions asked. We came fully prepared to justify our decision, worried that doctors would perform it by default or try to guilt us into it to avoid the spread of STDs.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/22/circum...
They do. If you want to pay for support for your free products, you can buy the Enterprise product. $5/person/month
So if the citizens of a predominantly white country take issue with industrial espionage by a country which happens to be filled with Han Chinese, it automatically has racist undertones? That is absurd. Are we racist towards Russians for spying as well?

Additionally, please elaborate on how the US is currently "destroying internal democracy".

As far as bullying goes, if you are referring to the trade war, I think blowing up trade deals which were drawn up decades ago to help sustain western Europe against Soviet aggression is a good thing, and long overdue. Germany shouldn't get to be the only rich nation with jobs for its working class. Likewise, China shouldn't get to pretend to be a developing nation (WTO) while keeping their citizens poor by devaluing the yuan to maintain mercantilist policies.
Don't project your conditions onto everyone else, please.
Guessing that the methods and output of human generated maps are used as labelled training data that will be used to scale out when they apply ML to other areas.
> And that is why BSDs will never be as big as Linux, companies don't like to give free beer back to the tap

BSDs will (perhaps) never be as big as Linux because Linux had first mover advantage in the FOSS operating system world, and hasn't (yet) fumbled it badly enough to be displaced.

OTOH, Postgres and SQLite do quite well (with plenty of contributions from big downstream users and sellers), despite being permissively-licensed, and (in Postgres case) despite having a GPL competitor that used to be much further ahead of it in acceptance.
It's impossible to judge without listening to both sides, but it's very unlikely that he found a flaw in an equation. Equation are easy to prove with experiments. It's why whole physic science is so addicted to predictions, because numbers cannot lie. If he found a flaw in a equation, then he can just calculate, measure, and publish.
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A lot of people say what you do, but personally I don't understand that argument.

I'm typing on a $200 Huawei , and on my side there's a $900 iPhone paid by my employer that I can't even get bothered to use. I even switched to the iPhone for 4 weeks while abroad (free data roaming) and just went back to the Huawei when I returned; I just like it more.
It might even be a real use case for blockchain!
The question is what percentage of images, and quality ones, are those 3%.

Of course Flickr are going to find metrics that make this move sound low impact. But are these total accounts made up of mainly dead useless signups from over the years? If the 3% of users are of small significance, then I suspect Flicker wouldn't bother with this update.
If you're a telco this is trivial for your customers.
The market is reacting to the announcement that Apple will no longer break out unit sales. Analysts hate having less information, and (rightfully, IMO) see it as a sign that sales growth is over.
Would you say they are not good at services or data science? I personally think it's the latter. Maps and Siri are pretty heavy with ML, and I won't expect these to shine compared to say Google. Services like itunes, icloud, App store, etc. are much less reliant on great algorithms, but more so the packaging and infrastructure.
A new, eye-wateringly high estimate of the cost of obesity in the US
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How serious are you about this? Why should anyone believe you when you blindly assert that you know how to build it? If you can convince someone in the field then there's a chance that the experiments can be done to see if it would work, but you'd need to convince someone that you know what you're talking about.

So where's your evidence? The usual method is to have a track record, another method is to be able to state very clearly what the new/novel idea is for this to be different and workable. In that case, what's your elevator pitch?

If you're outside the system it boils down to that question - if someone gives you three minutes, you need to be able to convince them to invest more time to understand more detail.

Do you have a description like that?

Why is your idea different? What's new about it?

Why should some invest the time to see how/whether it works?
+1 for Focus, but I don't generally interact with HN through a browser on mobile. There's an app for that.
Mutilating baby penis is a tragedy.
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Except that the new map makes it seem as though California is some lush, green, tropical land. I think the green is way over-emphasized on the new map compared to the old, which is a bit more realistic looking to my eyes.
Is it just me or does 17k/student/yr for tuition, books, food, and accommodations not seem unreasonable
I mean, I'm sure FGM reduces AIDS rates too, since women who were subjected to it are going to be less interested in sexual activity...
Interesting, Doesn't match my experience. I'm wondering what the age distributions are on those. Thanks for correcting me!
I have plenty of crufty shareware CDs and most likely unreadable floppies with source code on those .zip and .arj files.

FreeBSD vs what Linux has achieved, LLVM still lacking many of the hardware targets supported by GCC don't seem to be doing that great in company contributions. The others I don't know well enough to comment on.

Lets check again in about 10 years to see how far they managed to develop themselves.

Maybe I will be wrong, maybe not.
> But the main disadvantage of LISP is maintainability.

LISP allows programmers to use abstraction so powerful that sky is the limit. Problem is, humans have their limits, too. And different humans have different limits. Abstractions are powerful, but then you have to think abstractly in order to use them properly.

When you are good at abstract thinking, LISP will liberate you. When your colleague is better than you, or just as good as you but has more LISP experience, reading their code will make your head hurt. To make you two cooperate, your colleague would have to give up some of their powers... but the ability to use those powers to their maximum was the thing that made them love LISP. So now one of you is going to suffer.

Other languages often put artificial limits to your abstract thinking. For example, you have a few parts of code you realize are somehow just different instances of the same pattern; the pattern could be extracted and reused... but doing it in this language would either be impossible, or the outcome would be really ugly, or it would require writing so much boilerplate code that the more abstract version would end up being longer, less legible, and not really nice at all. So you sigh and don't do it. And the same thing happens to your colleagues in similar situations, so now you are all writing approximately on the same level of abstraction.

In other words, with lesser languages, the frustrating thing is the language. With LISP, the frustrating thing is other humans (and that may include yourself on a different day). But the frustration is always there. Unless you are really good and working alone, I guess. But that puts the company that employs you in a dangerous situation, so it is unlikely to happen.
A bigger issue might be trying to filter anything that might be derivative of contributed work not covered by CLA.
That's exactly what the line says though. Some companies assume singles are better customers, and others, the opposite.
>and haven't in your ten years of using this service thought to change your account's contact email address

OK, I really need to ask: are you a Flickr user?

When Yahoo! bought Flickr and forced everyone to use a Yahoo! login, it became extremely inconvenient not to tie your Flickr account to your Yahoo account if you have one, and I do. Logging in to Yahoo! mail would automatically log you in to Flickr (still does!).

Furthermore, if you have several accounts, you can't get notifications from all of them on an email that's used for logging into one of them.

You just can't. You get an "email associated with another account" error.

It so happens that I use my primary email as a login for a Flickr! account that I use for live music photography only (and, by the way, no notifications there either!) -- but that account has <1000 photos, so it won't be affected.

The whole use-email-as-login policy that Yahoo! instilled on users is a clusterfuck, but that's what it's been, and simply setting a contact email on the account requires jumping through some hoops. (..I am very glad that Flickr will finally move away from that).

So I have to ask: are you a Flickr user, or are you just arguing hypothetically on behalf of SmugMug?

Anyway. My main point was that I see nothing wrong with holding data for ransom, but deleting it without recovery options on a short notice is a very, very bad move.
And three months for me is a very short notice in the context of my 10+ years of using the service.
How does that differ substantially from humans interacting with the environment or other humans?
Curious - what about Linux in particular made people interested in it so much as opposed to contributing to some *BSD, or Hurd? Strictly the license?
Best thing you can do is to talk to a lawyer and accountant as all businesses should have their articles of incorporation tailored to the founders needs. A few hundred dollars could save you thousands, millions or billions in the long term.
Apple is really stepping up and showing Google it has some power. When they broke the map relationship with google in 2012 I was super skeptical, as were many. But in a very apple-like way - it's starting to come together.

I still use Google for nav but I have a feeling Apple might win me over on this one.
What if the algorithms are terrible and think people named Jared who play lacrosse are the best picks for hiring to the exclusion of other factors?
Yes people really need to be convinced that good education is more important than most things. I know this at some level but the talk but a lot of things together. And it motivated me to at least think about the value of passing on some of the things I know (and to try do that in the 'honest, directed' way he described) rather than using that knowledge to just make a living.
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In the accompanying aerial photograph, the outlines of the old streets are visible - together with a couple of others that do not appear on either map, and which run at an angle to the old grid.
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Read the post again. Take it a little less literally. Do you really thing that I meant that people should literally walk instead of flying? I was saying that the OP's description of the film/TV industry as a "luxury" and that people should "get outside" was just as ridiculous as my description of Facebook or air travel. This is a tech forum. I was illustrating the point by re-telling the narrative in terms more understood to this crowd, with the hope that doing so would create some empathy in the minds of readers. But of course this is HN where metaphor is too complex a concept.

For the Sheldon out there: When you see someone equate two wildly different things, such as FLYING and WALKING, that is code for not literal and you should examine the wording in context. There is probably another meaning, one often opposite to that literally described by the text. And if you don't understand what I mean by "Sheldons" then I give up.

Wow, that was too much typing. It is almost like metaphor allow us to express complex ideas with far fewer words than literal description of the facts. I wonder if anyone else has discovered this trick?
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It’s terrible — they’ve removed it for other projects when put under pressure (e.g. React IIRC).
And here I thought your comment about how far we have come was sarcastic...
The USA has on the high side of 300 million privately held guns.
You're right, not 90%. But predictive modeling requires a bunch of data points. This is probably one of the most privacy aware crowds on the internet.

If you go to the extremes, sure, everyone is trackable. I don't work for any of these companies, so I don't know what I don't know.

Feel free to elaborate.
I think it's a work of art, and your feelings corroborate this opinion :)
Have you seen California in satellite view? It's mostly green.
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circumcision is just mutilation
Political campaigns track voters on an individual level, correlating third party data with public voter rolls and using the data for microtargeting and analytics.
A friend of mine used to live in an apartment complex where the entire bottom floor was an Asian grocery. Not a dinky corner store either, it was a whole city block. Can confirm it was awesome.
Funny that the author mentions the Markleeville Courthouse as being across the street from the General Store, when it is, in fact, next door, as shown in the picture. I'm sure plenty of us on HN have cycled through Markleeville a couple of times in mid-July...

I've always found Google vs Apple maps discussions to be interesting, as I've always vastly preferred Apple Maps data for walking around places; Google Maps too often had poor building shapes that looked nothing like the real thing, or hid business names at the scale I was trying to use. Perhaps that's because I live in the Bay Area. When I'm overseas, in particular, I don't hesitate to go to Google Maps first.
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> And the office’s large headcount (now near 5,000) suggests some sort of manual / labor-intensive process.

My partner briefly worked for a human-powered 3d mapping firm; they would get satellite and plane/drone photography of a large swath of land, split it up into block-sized chunks, and then each worker would take a block and use an in-house program to model the buildings at a pretty impressive level of detail. Workers got paid per-block and blocks were priced based on their complexity. They've been doing this for over 10 years by this point, so it's not an entirely unknown or uncommon thing to handle this kind of work manually.
They are. Worse, you can't even opt out of it. On an Android phone, AGPS data collection is opt in. On iOS, there is no way to turn it off.

On an Android phone, you can set an offline maps app as the default. On iOS, every map link will open in Apple Maps, sending data to Apple in the process. On an Android phone, you can set Signal as your default messaging app. On iOS, any time you click an SMS link, it will open in iMessage, which tells Apple the number you want to SMS and check if that user uses iMessage.

Really, anything Apple has said about privacy has been pure marketing for the easily duped.
Either I'm too dumb to understand much of what he's trying to convey

I have a lot of respect for Alan Kay too but what you're hinting at is something that's bothered me about him for a long time: his "solution" for almost every problem is for everyone to be as smart as his Xerox PARC dream team.

He's like the Phil Jackson of technology: sure he's deserving of a ton of respect, but he wouldn't win anything with the 2012 Bobcats. Well that strategy doesn't work with society at large. You've got to work with the people who are, not those you wish would be.
That's not what Dunning-Kruger effect is. Dunning-Kruger effect does not cover people thinking they are more talented than experts, just that they think they are more talented than they actually are.
The arbitrary transition from green to brown on the old maps, when in reality, there is no such transition, is the real problem. When navigating by foot those shapes SHOULD be accurate; I care less about the legal boundaries of the exact park and more about what i'm seeing as I walk around.
I spend less than $20 per year on smart phones, and have had no complaints about them whatsoever. So maybe the marketing is just really working on you?
Quantization means that energy is observed to come in discrete packets, not that those packets are particles. That the EM field is omnipresent is not a mathematical artifact, but corresponds to a real-world phenomenon. Macro-scale analogies continue to not be valid for predicting quantum behavior.
This seems to be an argument against investigating anything ever.
That's as silly as focusing on teaching abstinence. Sure, it'd work... in theory. In practice, people don't like condoms and HIV rates would be largely unchanged.

The best hope we have is to work on many fronts at the same time: education, condoms, voluntary circumcision, etc.
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That book might be History: Fact or Fiction by Anatoly Fomenko, originally published in Russian [1]. It sounds pretty wacky.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko)
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You know what I really never use the map on my phone for?

Figuring out how many trees there are.

Do the directions work?
So Apple's new maps appear superficially more detailed, but are frequently even less accurate than before.

"It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
> HR departments will simply get it right all the time.

They weren't getting it right when they were letting harrassers off the hook.

It's not about truth or justice. It's about corporation trying to get rid of pesky humans doing human things. Harrassing, accusing. Until recently sweeping things under the rug was the best way to deal with it. Winds changed. Now it's cheaper to kick out men even if they possibly did nothing.

Woman reporting harrasment was a problem and was silenced or fired. Now man getting accused is the problem, gets aame treatment as women got earlier because now it's more efficient to get rid of him.

Perfect justice is never efficient.
> After all, if someone knows (or thinks) that they’re getting a great big helping of medicine, they might act in various ways—whether consciously or unconsciously—that have the effect of generating positive health outcomes but which have nothing to do with the intervention itself.

That sounds strangely like the Hawthorne Effect[∆].

[∆]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
Here's my long-ago contribution. Scroll down for the visual.
https://codepen.io/daphneokeefe/pen/Ayxlz
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This is awesome. I've been thinking about attempting something like this in order to improve the accuracy of samples I want for tracks. Looking forward to finding out how it works out