skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot understand how the feminist movement and women’s rights and welfare organisations aren’t in all out war with Saudi Arabia.

The only theory I can come up with is that most feminists believe in freedom of religion as well as women’s freedom and the conflict between the two induces a sort of moral paralysis.
Agreed, we regularly do 500+ MB/s bytes out on 12 broker cluster and we've tested more than twice that. We've seen brokers handle close to 5GB/s before performance degraded.
This is 99% likely the case. Everyone thinks that we need technical voodoo to figure out who a user is.

No, people are just far worse at separating their “new” identities from their old ones than they think.

You don’t even need a shadow profile tracking previous info to do this. Just infer PYMK via a few friends he adds on the new account.
Exactly. The comparison is useless except as clickbait
FWIW I also read the GNU Make manual, and based some code for automatic deps off a profoundly ugly example it had. Then later people on HN showed me a better/simpler way to do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15060149

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Automatic...

After reading the manual and writing 3 substantial Makefiles from scratch, I still think Make is ugly and, by modern standards, not very useful.

In my mind, the biggest problem is that it offers you virtually no help in writing correct parallel and incremental builds. I care about build speed because I want my collaborators to be productive, and those two properties are how you get fast builds. GNU Make makes it easy to write a makefile that works well for a clean serial build, but has bugs once you add -j or when your repository is in some intermediate state.
Haha yes we sure trolled them with our overly-politicized space exploration! Totally on purpose. Deep state.
Aziz Ansari got a lot of sympathy because the accusations against him were so meaningless they didn't pass the laugh test for most people regardless of political persuasion.
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>2. There are many 3rd party companies that sell data packs that derive residential IPs from VPN IPs (we use some at work). A trusted/good VPN is a must

link to some of those companies?
> The author is trying to spread awareness that this seemingly common assumption about default colours is wrong.

I guess I could've made that point more clear in the post. Thanks for your replies in this thread :)
Privacy is like drinking water: no one in the US cares about it until it's on the news.

Why don't people care about clean water? Because federal agencies set standards and test for them. You could bore someone to death talking about it until Flint happened. And sure some people buy water tests to verify they're not getting poisoned, or setup their own filtration systems but most people don't want to waste the time or don't have the knowledge. Just the same as privacy.

Not every can or will get educated about privacy, and really they shouldn't have to, it should be a waste of their time. But it's not because we don't set standards for it. Most people give it away without knowing it's value only to have it bite them in the ass later through identify theft, data breaches, or eventually giving into a surveillance state where the government and big corporations know more about your than your mom does.

This is why it needs government intervention, because without it corporations will claim to give you a choice every step of the way but no one will understand what those choices entail, and it turns out they'll badger and pester you to make the choices that benefit themselves.

Relatedly, this is why I am OK with iOS being a walled garden. Sure, they make bank from it, but that incentivises them to make it protected. As I said in another thread, they're the only one capable and willing of enforcing privacy rules until the government steps up.
I hear it's (also?) called 'woke' capitalism.
Scientists are training AI to diagnose mental illness
It's great but code on a GitHub repo doesn't mean that's whats running in production.

Note I'm not saying you are doing anything nefarious but that the source code been available isn't sufficient alone.
If you really care about short-term weather forecasts, learn to read surface pressure charts and rainfall radar. It's not particularly difficult and it gives you a huge amount of additional information.

A summary forecast can only tell you so much, especially in changeable conditions and complex microclimates. Knowing the range of probable conditions is often much more useful than knowing the most probable condition.
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The process: a quick phone screen, a screen-share technical interview, then an onsite to meet with the team and pair with someone on a problem.

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San Francisco has more Doggy Day care than Kid Day care...
Egg Vending Machine at Glaum Ranch
That's after he bought the house too. A zillow search shows that a 2-bed house in South Hadley, MA is around $150-200k. If bought in cash, his total savings was probably 750-800k.

It may be a good reminder for readers of this to realize that if they want to do something similar to the author, having roughly that order of magnitude of savings is a good start -- and even then, having the expenses of living in a big city (Manhattan, SF) is still unsustainable.
Dash Venezuela Respond to Embezzlement Allegations
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HN: Anyone know of a data science health economics project?
Does anyone know of a project (on a mooc, on a blog, in an academic paper) where someone uses datascience to explore health economics in the US.

Looking for something where the data is available and hopefully the code is too so I can show someone a way to go over it.
I also like how he referred to me as not a "real user" because I don't need a pile of antiquated ports to do my job:

> I thought about how a notebook would turn out if it were developed not with design, but the needs of real users in mind.
> Is it on purpose? I don't know, but I find it weird that they would tie some unrelated features together. Why does setting a Home address require search history?

I work at Google but not on Maps, opinions are my own.

I don't know if this is why they did it that way, but it wouldn't surprise me if the reason was merely that 99.9% of users opt in to location sharing and the developers didn't feel it useful to spend time supporting the use case for the 0.1%.

You have to also keep in mind that Google is just a company with thousands of individuals who each have their own motives and are given incentives by the company. If a developer is career driven (and many if not most are) they have to work on "high impact" things to get a good performance review. Since Google tries to be very objective, you have to measure your impact with data and sadly 0.1% of users is not really considered impactful. Unfortunately good will earned by customers is hard to measure.

Again just my observation from working here.
I decided a long time ago that it's not worth having to install and learn a different tool for every ecosystem just to avoid make's quirks. Yes, make isn't perfect (it can even be quite annoying at times), but neither is everything else so it's worth it to me (from a personal and business perspective) to just make my developers use one thing for all projects, especially since it's already installed (or easily installable if not, there are packages for everything which may not be true of all the less popular alternatives) on most of their systems.

Not that I couldn't ever see making an exception to that, I'm sure there are some things out there that don't work with the make model and really do need their own build system, but in general make is "good enough" and it's not worth using anything else.
Do you have a source for this? I've done a reasonable amount of work on weaponizing these sorts of attacks and it's definitely nontrivial. I'd be shocked to find out that Facebook had successfully deployed them at scale.
Guardian story written by a bot
Possibly, the cost of parking will go down as the demand to park your personal vehicle will decrease (and cost of ownership increases).
Ask HN: How to work harder?
Hi HN, I am fairly accomplished CEO and the company seems to be doing well. (We have raised ~9M with team of 9 people launching our product in next couple of months)

The one major issue is that I am not that hardworking and I constantly feel bad over it. I am not used to shipping things on time and usually get everything done at the last min.

I'd sign up for some work and give less than half the time it needs to be completed. Which results in either lower quality or taking time out from other things that I am supposed to do.

How do you become both disciplined and hardworking?

Would appreciate any help on this. Thanks.
This will happen -- only if cities do not plan for this. Self-driving cars would not need the same type of parking that other cars would need. You could probably fit MULTIPLE times the number of self-driving cars into the same space as a normal parking lot if people don't actually need to go inside of it.

(Which is why articles like this are important.)
Of course it does (and the sarcasm isn't lost on me), but nowhere near to the same extent.

At least not these days anyway.
Perhaps also because of cynicism — "Government is doomed; logically we should starve it."

And possibly naivete — "I'll be better off without government holding me back."

Not that I'm biased in favor of civilization, government, and a peaceful, just society ...
This. AWS is most valuable when the management overhead is a double digit percentage of your revenue. At some point the AWS margin itself is genuinely larger than DIY. That should be obvious as it has to be so unless AWS’s own costs are dramatically lower which is only possible if their value is smoke-and-mirrors.
And that's when we knew he had way, way too much time on his hands.
You don't have to move out of the US. I see 2 bedroom apartments in smaller US cities (but still decent sized cities, 60k+ pop, within a couple of hours from major metros, has all the same franchised restaurants/shops every other city in the US has) for ~$350/month. Like, lots of them.

If you're willing to live in a mobile home, rent can be as little as $250 a month, it looks like.
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William Nordhaus, winner of the 2018 Nobel prize in economics, advocated for this, calling such agreements "Climate Clubs"

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.15000001
Unless your place is also slowly moving upwards. :)

Most of Scotland is still slowly moving upwards due to the post-glacial rebound from the last ice age. It's a centimeter a year at the fastest in Europe, I think, and technically is slowing down over time, but over 200-1000 years it still might be significant.

... I mean, in either case, neither you not your children are likely to see it ...
Feeless and Free DLT
Your website CSS is inheriting the system default CSS in a sense. If you're going to override one color, you should also override the other--or override neither.
Is it OK to post as an agency looking for work? Small shop in Sweden doing data science and full stack here.
The right to be forgotten
Nothing about that comment says anything to support your arbitrary narrowing of the device purpose.
Yep, IIRC it was confirmed that FB crosses people's contact lists to match profiles to people.
Interestingly, there are a ton more kids (especially pre-school age kids) in my neighborhood than there were when I moved here 8 years ago.

The combination of high housing prices in Bay Area suburbs and more yuppies willing to stay in the city has noticeably altered the demographics. There are now fewer groups of single 20-somethings walking about, and more families.

I will be curious to see the numbers at the next census.
So, to preface, I'm not a philosopher by trade, so bear with me if I misuse certain terms / labels.

http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/cavalier/80130/part2/Routledge/R_Re...

Going off this article, I'd call myself a "moderate morality-specific meta-ethical relativist".

The article also says that "some critics also fear that relativism can slide into nihilism".

It's true that "radical meta-ethical relativists" would have the same (or at least, as you say, practically indistinguishable) views on morality as a moral nihilist.

My bigger issue has to do with "schools of thought", or the broader labels being used here. "Nihilism" has many other forms, all of which are pretty extreme. So essentially, the most radical end of relativism has significant overlaps with the least radical end of nihilism. (Specifically w.r.t. morality)

Earlier you said "atheism implies nihilism and the extent an atheist disagrees is decided entirely by how convincingly they can lie to themselves". To use the overlap between one end of relativism and the other end of nihilism to then equate the two is taking it a big step too far.

It seems to me like you're deliberately blurring the distinction between these schools of thought in order to take a pot shot at atheism.
I suspect that the VPN provider has nothing to do with it (ie. they're not getting the data from VPN providers ratting you out). Rather, they're linking your ips using third party cookies.
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Liquid holds btc using multisig not just OP codes.
I have a theory that during the cold warn western democracies behaved better towards their own people because they had a 'bad guy's to compare against.

A sort of 'would they do this in East Germany? Then maybe we shouldnt' yardstick.

Also I think a lot of the over reaction to terrorism is just a power/land grab by the intelligence services, I mean they do valuable work but we don't really know how much and what the net benefit of any is.

The leaks have been egregious fairly consistently though.

Snowden has my respect for confirming what a lot of us techies suspected but couldn't prove.
My honest opinion is that the NI/Ireland border is an important issue, and the GFA is an important agreement, but they are not the only important issue and the only important agreement. I think Brexit is a divisive issue, and as a matter of political convenience a certain part of the political world and the public have latched onto the Irish border issue to the exclusion of almost all other considerations, with the effect that the tail has been wagging the dog. And I think this has closed minds and has adversely affected the negotiations and will ultimately result in worse outcomes for all parties, perhaps most of all those living and working near the NI/Ireland border. I find all of this deeply regrettable.
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Windy's NEMS model is awesome for complex alpine terrain.
Having worked on desktop software, I much prefer the services model.

There were endless conversations about a support matrix and patching older versions for customers who refused to upgrade. We were hamstrung by old design decisions and backporting fixes making any change onerous. We couldn’t add value for new customers as fast because we spent a majority of the time supporting older customers. Now those older customers probably preferred it that way. They had software that worked (until a new vulnerability was discovered at least) and that they had paid for and liked. But as the decades (literally software that old) dragged on they became like technical debt that we couldn’t detach.

As a developer, the incentives were clear. If I’m spending half my time supporting people who had already paid and weren’t likely to pay again, then I can be more productive elsewhere, creating more additional value at a company that had a services model. So I left.
OK, so I am as much of a hard core Pythonista as you will find. But I don't think it makes any sense to build C projects (or many other languages) with Python instead of makefiles. C programmers know make, the makefile idiom has been evolving for 40+ years. A seasoned C programmer is going to look at an idiomatic makefile and find it much more readable than some rando doing some one-off Python script to control a build. And getting build dependencies resolved correctly so that you can only build what is need is not trivial.

What I truly hate is all the IDE's that think they can do a better job than make. This is the curse of the embedded world. Building an embedded project requires calling particular tools, with peculiar flags, and I hate with a passion IDE's that obscure all of that in some crappy XML file that is git-unfriendly. A well-structured makefile is your friend in many ways.

make is a powertool. Learn it and your life will be better.