skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could encrypt the (T)IMSI somehow, but using what? You could use a pre-shared key but then to support roaming this would have to be shared among operators but that’s trivial to defeat for state actors. You could go for an asymmetric scheme like HTTPS but there has to be some way for the network to “get back to you” much as you have to reveal your IP Address to kick off a TLS handshake. You can’t rely on alternative addressing schemes because then how do you allocate these? You have to stick your head over the parapet at some stage.

This is the nature of the zero-trust peer-to-peer nature of the global telephony system.

I wonder if there’s an application for some kind of a blockchain here ..

EDIT just to note, your example of laptops and wireless APs, you must reveal at the very least your MAC address which is if anything less secure because it doesn’t change - at least not trivially.
Sounds like the Open Office noise pollution problem...
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So there was a definition of a kilogram based on an actual physical thing with an arbitrary amount of mass.

Does this new definition essentially try to approximate that mass as close as possible? What is the margin of error there?

I would love to know this for a second as well, although I don't know what we used to measure a second before we locked it to the vibrations of a cesium atom.
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> I don’t see how any of this supports GDP per capita as a QOL metric.

My bad, I should have clarified.

I was trying to make a point about teaching being a relatively well paid job in (in this case) my home country of India and that thinking of COL or QOL in simple terms of scalar multiples is not all that helpful.

That being said, your other point totally holds. GDP is 100%, a flimsy metric to gauge QOL. Also, India-US disparity may be closer to 7-8x, but in the Ethiopia-US case it appears to be closer to 60-70x.

You correct, that 800$/year is a laughable income to live any kind of life, and no difference in GDPs or cost of products is going to make up for such a massive difference in wealth. This is a country living almost entirely in poverty, and earning a standard deviation for two more than the median would still leave one in crippling poverty.
Not just the stock market. Money is a measure that became a target, with the usual results.

Goodhart's law is always in effect.
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While appreciate this catalog of options this is a lengthy article about different visualization libraries and there are no actual images of what they look like.
That's... wow. That's... impressive.

I'm kind of laughing because it's simultaneously like...

(a) impressive that they even pulled this off

(b) you might almost have to know what the original Space Harrier is "supposed" to look like in order to recognize what the heck is going on there
The problem with the free market is really language. Humans tend to converge to a small number of words for everything. It's Google for search, iPhone for phones, and Coke for cola. If we solve this language problem, then we can hope to solve the problems caused by monopolistic behavior.
I think we're just in the age of "if you have an opinion on anything, no matter how shallow, you should share it and suggest it's self-evident, universal, and the only thing that matters."
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If only it did. For one, its absolutely a package manager. You need a special tool to manage flatpaks.

Also, flatpak has a lot of problems in my opinion, not the least of which is that it has no mechanism for installing to a different disk without creating an entirely new "installation", which in its terminology means a completely new dependency chain too.

The "portals" idea is a pretty good one though, on the whole.
Unfortunately for now :)

One of the awesome things about Linux and it being open source is that if you don't like it then you can work to improve it.
You're trying to engineer a solution to the problem of "how do you make everyone happy" (albeit in a specific scenario). If you change things, someone will be upset by this. At best you can hope to optimize this to make the MOST people happy and the LEAST people unhappy, but you can't get a perfect score here.
Right, I get that, and if anything I feel less dumb now that I've asked it publicly and people seem to think that it's a non-dumb question, but when talking about fundamental constants I understand there is a practical nature to it all, but just as we have a nano-meter and a light-year I figured we'd have the same for mass.

Why do I need both kg and u as fundamental constants?

I believe the comments here have answered it. It isn't something weird, like quantum gravity or some such. If I understand everyone correctly it's just a practical decision we made at some point because we didn't want mass to be in u and that's that.

I feel better about it now.
Due to the weather, you can miss out even if you had gone.

I went to Haleakalā after being recommended to go after a visit to the big island. The early morning that I went via a local outfitter, it was raining cats and dogs, visibility nada, so it was wet and uncomfortable. I had opted for the ride down the mountain on bikes option which seemed adventurous at the time. Riding down fearfully slick roads and switchbacks with limited visibility and having the bike ride leaders joke about having to pull guests out of ravines with ropes did not help. But that was my personal Haleakalā experience.
I'm sure IBM's marketing department would love you to believe that ;-)
I love this idea: zero profit capitalism. Sure some people would abuse savings accounts more than others, but taxing standing profits on a gradually increasing scale the longer they stand (sure the market already does this at a minute level, but it's not enough to deter wealth hoarding) seems like an effective way to solve the wealth extraction problem corporations introduce.
Sales pro tip: The first thing out of your mouth when trying to sell someone is to ask who they are and what they need. Once you have established those two things, you then tailor your pitch to match exactly that and no more. For example, if you're selling a Thingmabob and your target is a small dentist office in the mid-west concerned about filling their schedule, then spend the time telling them about how other dentists' offices have used your product to attract new customers. Don't spend any time telling them about how Thingmabob helps to drive down costs even though it does this 3x better than the competition. Sell people what they are buying not what you are selling!
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Cloud Platform is not a separate company, it’s a division within Google.
Combine github data with linkedin data to get connection of developers to companies, and use that? Not that I'm suggesting them to do it... :)
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We need significant, international corporate reform well beyond just tax policy, or Western liberal democracy will be lost as corporate 'citizens' completely dominate the human ones.
The Maps example is real. However in their confused current branding Google Maps Platform is outside of Google Cloud Platform yet within Google Cloud, alongside Chrome, Android, and G Suite.

They haven't done any pricing change like that, nor anything else effectively equivalent to forced short-notice deprecation, for generally available Google Cloud Platform services. (The famous Google App Engine pricing change happened upon GAE's departure from preview.)

Hopefully the new CEO can disentangle the horribly messy branding conflation of orgs which work rather differently.

Google is now effectively a conglomerate, even ignoring Alphabet, maybe even multiple conglomerates within Google. The impacts of their org chart on their users shouldn't be this opaque to people who haven't worked at Google. (Disclosure: I have worked there, though not since 2015.)
Willful ignorance or cognitive dissonance may also explain some of this. See Nazi Germany: citizens knew something was going on, but they willed the whispering away.
The discussion here is between Rust & Go. My point is swaping the GC for the borrow checker in order to get ADTs is a net win to me.

If we're veering off into hypotheticals that don't have anything to do with the question at hand, I personally write compilers and interpreters in Rust rarher than another ML because my use cases tend to be worst case latency sensitive enough that a GC is a non starter.
It's just as important at a bigger company. CEOs end up traveling more as the company gets larger, mainly to meet customers, and it's especially critical if the customers are also big companies.
We are an early GCP enterprise customer and Diane has met us numerous times. A class act.
Right now I would say that Bad Apple is about the best burger place. Kumas stretched themselves too thin with expansion and ignoring service quality in their original restaurant.
That this is declared in explicit terms by the publication -- not to mention the author recommending prayers to the reader at the end! -- makes it pretty much the opposite of a "stealth agenda". A "stealth agenda" would be if a newspaper editor selectively picked stories to support their political goals while not declaring this anywhere.
Outside of the lenses used, where does this other cost come from? The lens itself squeezes the wider image into the same shape as the sensor. The NLE or other DI processes would then just stretch it back out into whatever frame size is needed. It's the same concept 16:9 DVDs used too fit the wider content into an SD frame.

A camera sensor doesn't care what shape the image is, as it only cares about if photons are hitting it or not. Yes, you can tell the camera you are shooting a certain aspect so that it doesn't energize parts of the sensor that's not needed. So some additional dev costs to add that feature.

What else am I missing?
I think it would help, you could also have a link to a separate page where you show screenshots and how it works if you want to keep your landing page minimal.

It's just a trust issue, not in particular with you, but if I come across a website that wants my email address but doesn't clarify what if offers in return, I'm hesitant in giving up that information.

Also it is not clear to me, if my full name would be shared with other users of that page. I certainly don't want my new employer to know that I'm looking for a study buddy for "Java 101" right after accepting that offer for a senior position :)
Hahaha thanks for the laugh. Hmm well, Spanish has the RAE, (Royal Spanish Academy) which I at first thought a silly idea - an academy to control spelling. But over the years (of learning Spanish) I came to appreciate them. They did most of their work in the 18th and 19th C, changing Spanish spelling to be much less like French (e.g. getting rid of 'gn' in words) and reverting a lot of words to their 'proper' Latin consonants (like making sure 'b' and 'v' weren't swapped).

There's this lovely story - How an eight-year-old boy invented the new word 'petaloso' - thanks to RAE's Italian equivalent.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35653871
26 data points is utterly useless as a representative sample.

Even if it wasn't, people tend to overestimate crime.
Then... make uint32_t the standard and this is never a problem ever again?
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I've been playing doom 2016 using steam's wine offering, proton I think it's called. There currently aren't a lot of games the steam client beta supports, but it at least was painless to install and run. Hopefully they'll continue to support wine going forward, and start working with publishers to get more big budget games working.

Blizzard has officially stated they won't boot you (permanently, apparently there are occasional false positives) for using other wine offerings. I've been tempted to try to install Overwatch using Lutris as well (productivity be damned!).

I'm lucky in that I tend to prefer indie games, which are more likely to support steamos, but I'm certainly feeling optimistic about gaming on linux. I've found that I need to boot into my win7 partition less and less in the last year for games reasons.
Oh gosh, so did I.
That's fair; I think I'm slightly more-pissed-than-usual about this just because it's very easy to dismissive of ramen, especially in North America, because all people remember are those deep-fried dehydrated brick fixtures of every college dorm. It is precisely that it doesn't look like traditional fine dining, or even New American cuisine, that I think a lot of people think it's nothing worth looking at. It's really, really easy to say "this is what it is to me, how could you ever do anything interesting with it?"

I just kind of wish more people (including me) would try more things, you know? :P

(I guess I'm channeling my inner David Chang right now.)
I'm not a fan of Small Chauval (too expensive for what you get), and I'm not going to wait 2-3hrs for a burger.
Not sure that's a culture that only exists at Google... pretty much true at the higher levels of almost any big company that I've worked at.
Recently an ex-colleague of mine who is still working and has been looking put out his CV and it's in non-chronological order so a recruiter thought he was currently unemployed.

She asked him directly "would you be willing to take less because you're not working?"
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The high prices would be to ward off these one-time customers who are only there for the single instagram photo. If someone is invested enough to make a fake ID just for cheaper burgers, presumably they're going to be repeat customers that develop a relationship with the restaurant, which is what he wants.
Thanks for bringing up _kodawari_.

I assume you have seen Tampopo. In case you have not and for others, it is a VHS-era film comedy about two truck drivers who help a struggling roadside chef learn how to really make noodles.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampopo
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In 2001 Wired had an article about a company making a pen that could read microdots on paper while you are writing. It would then be able to uniquely identify the paper that you wrote on and correlate what you wrote with, for example, the form you wrote it on.

I'd wondered a few times what happened to that company (Anoto), thinking they are probably long gone. Turns out they are around, and the pen they are using in this article is actually one of their models. Not sure if it is still using the microdot idea though.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2001/04/anoto/
And to think that those 2 have actual political ambitions... scary!
It's also hard for those Googlers who want to do it to be given the chance, unless already senior enough on the technical ladder to correspond to the top 20% of technical people at Google (a far higher bar than the technical competence required of a manager).

Source: personal experience circa 2013-2015, when I was there and trying to transition from individual contributor and tech lead to first-time people manager. Of course I wasn't considering executive roles like this article is about.
OP here. Just trying to get some basic information about how people ACTUALLY want their news/consume it, really to validate an idea for a startup.
The kilogram was the last one -- we're out of SI base units. This was the last one not defined based on some measurable universal constant, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redefinition_of_SI_base_units .

The meter was originally an actual physical rod (you can see the prototype on display at the fascinating French Musée des Arts et Métiers). Now it's based on the speed of light in a vacuum.

The kilogram was a physical mass (and, yes, it was evaporating). Now it's finally defined in terms of the Planck constant, the second, and the meter.

The second was originally 1/86400th of Earth's day. Now it's based on the radiation of cesium-133 (I don't really understand how this is measured).

The ampere was originally defined based on depositing milligrams of silver from a solution of silver nitrate; it's now based on newtons and meters.

The kelvin was originally defined based on water; it's still defined based on water.

The mole hasn't really changed much? It's based on the number of atoms in a kilogram of carbon.

The candela was originally based on a literal standard amount of light emitted by candles made from dead whales; now it's based on radiation from light sources of a specific frequency and an intensity based on the watt (which relies on kilograms, meters, and seconds).
Agree. Whilst I think that people, or rather popularity, ruins everything, and whilst I'm frustrated that rather explore and discover things for themselves people would rather be told what's good and descend in a mob, I have to admit that I'm part of the problem: sometimes it's just easier.
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> As a wise man once said, it’s such a fine line between stupid and clever.

That man was not terribly wise, actually: he was the David St. Hubbins character in the 1984 rock and roll satire film This Is Spinal Tap.

The quip is intended by the screenwriters to be comically idiotic, and not to portray St. Hubbins as a wise man, because in fact there is a big difference between stupid and clever that is not subtle at all.

It also satirizes such a belief, which permeates popular culture: the belief that something that is, on the whole, banal or stupid can be propelled to excellence on account of some rescuing subtlety. Basically the bulk of the content doesn't matter: whether you're clever or stupid rests in some tiny, subjective detail. Layers of pretense are heaped upon garbage based on this principle.
Wait what? Good support? Not in my experience.

Leader in k8s? Not for production. I defy you to do a gcp gke deployment without using beta or alpha features (that specifically say don’t use this for production).
Stackdriver error reporting springs to mind. And working with SSL certs/let’s encrypt is a close second.

If you want a couple more peeves for your list how about documentation? I regularly find documentation heavy on theory light on specifics.

GCP is my favorite thing that is almost good enough to use.
I’m hoping the change of leadership actually improves things. GCP could stand to re-focus on a “customer first” philosophy.
I did some digging and am still somewhat confused. What does spotify have to do with these types of projects? Seems like it has nothing to do with their music streaming business.
The point is, there are ways to distinguish between locals and non-locals. There are merits and drawbacks to having your own ID card vs. using a state ID card.
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Well Russia was there first for everything except the Moon, so not quite uncharted.
1) This doesn’t allow anyone to read anything, it only allows you to inspect phone identifiers which today are random anyhow.

2) Your security needs only to be as strong as your likely adversary OTP over SMS is fine for most use cases in any case this isn’t an argument against it networks with piss poor controls over SS7 which could allow you to reroute calls and texts to another number or networks that allow you to access voicemail without password if you spoof the origin number are.

Yes SMS based 2FA isn’t going to be reselient against a state actor but that shouldn’t be the adversary you protect yourself against if it is you’ve already lost.

In nearly all other cases it’s fine, attacks against it aren’t scalable and extremely hard to pull off outside of purely academic exercises and the benefits from the added security are considerable when compared to the use of only passwords or pre-generated auth codes.
I loved that site. Hilarious stuff for the time.
> What's easier, buying a $100 tablet, or turning a school around?

Buying the tablet is easier, if you have the money. But just how long do you think it's going to last in that kind of environment? Turning the school around is a thousand times harder - but if you manage, you're going to impact more than a thousand times more students than you would with one lousy tablet.

> Poor kids need a way to learn skills that are in demand.

In the context they live in, the skills that are in demand are agriculture and reading - not the current fad in web frameworks.
I think everyone is to some extent, but you can choose whether or not to recognise that there are consequences and learn to moderate your behaviour accordingly. Or not.
Have you seen the GCP billing reports UI? https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/reports

There's also reOptimize for in-depth reporting with a solid free plan: https://www.reoptimize.io/
With these techniques, now I can finally wrangle my bearded dragon a nice 401k
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> Instead of hours and minutes, the mean solar day is divided into 1000 parts called ".beats". Each .beat is equal to one decimal minute in the French Revolutionary decimal time system and lasts 1 minute and 26.4 seconds (86.4 seconds) in standard time. Times are notated as a 3-digit number out of 1000 after midnight. So, @248 would indicate a time 248 .beats after midnight representing 248/1000 of a day, just over 5 hours and 57 minutes.
Theoretically, yes, realistically, not really. For all its talk of openness and freedom for the user, the Linux community has a remarkable amount of disdain for anyone who isn't a C greybeard.

AppImage has already pretty much solved everything I want as far as application distribution. It is at least the third such implementation that has.

However, the community refuses to embrace it and so very little software is distributed that way, just like the last two times.
I've run across that page before. It really needs altair, bokeh and holoviews support.
That still doesn't tell the whole truth. If I wake up every day at 4 am, how much do i sleep?? Well, you can't tell because you have no information on when I go to sleep.
Then again, if you learn one well it's not too difficult to learn another one as well. And once you've worked with a couple different libraries, you start to understand the different data models and it's even easier to adapt to the next library.

Also, for many of the visualizations I've worked with I'm fine to use an older library that's reached a stable point of development. It feels like the whole conversation about whether to build your new project on the latest web framework, or use something old and established like Django or Rails. Boring, relatively stable software in any area is a pleasure to work with if you really want to focus on your real-world problem more than you want to focus on newer tech.
The candela is a real abomination of a unit.
I managed 53 hours once over a weekend of a big LAN party, drove home and slept for 26 hours after that. Apparently my mother called the doctor who just said to check I was still breathing and that I'd probably wake up soon.

I woke up thinking it was Monday but it was Tuesday. That took some explaining at work.

Felt amazing after about 30 hours of being awake and after the sleep's "jet lag" wore off.
What are you talking about? cable TV has always had ads in the very beginning in the 1950s and 60s on through the 1970s when the first cable TV stations came out.
They're the only ones putting people on the space station. I'd say yes. Not to mention they supply the engines for a few different american rockets.
Sounds like classic hypomania. (Or maybe actual mania?)