skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating. I have loads of US car dealerships such as Land Rover San Antonio, Mini of Freeport and South Motors Infiniti.

I've never been to the US!

This is the same email that I use everywhere, so its easy for them to get and stuff into Facebook, but surely they are then paying to advertise to someone who isn't able to buy from them. Or maybe this is then further filtered based upon geo location.

Maybe, as soon as I land in San Antonio I'd start receiving Land Rover adverts because they've provided my email address. Incredible how many of them are US car dealerships.
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Two doctors in my family. They have stories about how stupid doctors can be, more than one story of a dumb decision by a doctors killing a patient. I see a cardiologist. He didn't know that ecg apps existed, and so made prescriptions based on guesses about what my heart might be doing when it was not being measured. I got an ecg app, and determined my own course of treatment based on what was actually happening.

Doctors don't do differential diagnosis on most issues. They just suggest common approaches. They may be smart and educated, but they don't use their IQ to diagnose most cases. Relying on experts who aren't optimizing their time to utilize their expertise to help you isn't a great idea.

I was sleeping wrong on my elbow, and a doctor suggested a couple of different drugs for my elbow pain without investigating causes at all. I determined the cause pretty easily, and in the process helped several other people with a similar issue.

I'm just saying that you can't rely on the advice of doctors by default. It can kill you.
How dare people try new things. We should have stuck with COBOL. Or bashing rocks together to make fire.
Much more common this century than last. In the 80s it would have been mainly just shops. Apple, had they had them back then, would have found their flagship store called the Apple shop by one and all. :)
Garbage but valid values are, in my opinion, much harder errors to catch because they can silently corrupt data, than a simple crash/null pointer exception.

I'm not a fan of null (option types seem better -- which V does say it has), but defaulting to an "empty" value isn't the answer IMHO as it makes it much harder to debug by obscuring that there's a problem at all. You may not realise that the 0 is actually an "empty" and not a valid 0 until you realise all of your calculations are wrong, months later.
Here it is, the angry JS dev saying I don't see things clearly and that the current situation in fine. Hello my friend. We meet again, today. We'll meet again tomorrow. Then next year.

Rince and repeat, I said.
I also got a ton of out-of-state car dealerships. It might be worth looking into them to see if they exist. Lots of affiliate marketers use multiple Facebook accounts, and I wouldn't be surprised if they set them up through front companies like "car dealerships". Either that, or some advertising agency represents a bunch of car dealerships, creates a separate account for each, but uses the same contact data.

EDIT: Looking into this a bit, I don't think they're fake... it seems like most of the websites are "powered by X" where X is some CRM/website builder solution targeted at car dealerships, like these [0] [1]. They all have marketing/advertising features, and there is likely some sharing of contact data on the backend, or contact lists are outright sold as "leads"

[0] https://www.dealersync.com/

[1] https://foxdealer.com/
Trump set to announce ‘100 percent’ of ISIS caliphate liberated
I don't think this should be flagged. Individual comments, yes, but the post itself, no. This is a discussion our society needs to have - we need to weight the pros and cons of allowing unlimited accumulation of wealth and power by individuals.
The nicer the code becomes, the easier these projects will be to support. Frankly the shitty old rails code is more of a thorn in the side of the current place of work. With TypeScript, refactoring is piss easy, too.
The brain is specialized hardware. I wouldn't expect a general purpose computer to be as efficient at performing the same tasks.
Yes. While I agree with the idea that brains are extremely efficient, especially at certain tasks like image recognition or any kind of pattern identification, I also thought about what you said, and I was like: when doing mathematical operations, I'd be more efficient riding a bicycle to charge a battery that powers a computer which then does the operations, than doing them by myself with my brain. That's... really weird. And there are so many tasks at which computers seem way more efficient than I could possibly be.

EDIT: I guess someone downvoted you for apparently conflating speed and efficiency, but I still think the point stands.
Everything is possible thanks to the MutationObserver that is now available on all browsers, except IE
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Ha, total opposite, our small company has near 100% conversion from greenfield to ongoing maintenance contracts, some days this is a point of pride AND a cross to bear :)

It can take minutes to remember/read my wiki notes on a project if I haven't seen the code for months but the alternative would be to stop trying/learning new things on new projects.
Hit reload though?
Assuming the business can find new people then basically the ethics-focused opposition is gone and nothing prevents the company from doing worse and worse things.
It seems by "competition", they don't mean a competing social network, they mean competition for advertising pesos.
Facebook Says It Needs All Your Data to Protect Against Terrorism, Child Abuse
A representative republic is the system we have in the US, which is by definition not a democracy. They're two very different concepts, and they are mutually exclusive.

This is basic civics. It's taught, or I hope it's still taught, in grade school. It's not controversial, it's not surprising, it's fact.
Actually, if Winterkorn is found guilty, he could be thrown into jail for up to 25 years, and he would be personally financially liable to the tune of his entire fortune. So, yeah, he's not getting off easy like most executives do in the US. Let's see the US even try to do the same thing to bank executives. Oh wait, democrats declined to pursue any of them and were happy with a single low-level scapegoat.
In the TV series "Doc Martin", the main character comes from such parents.
Australia has a gun registry that is essentially ignored by the majority of its population. I read once that they believe their registration percentage when they implemented it was around 1-2%.
Awesome he made his own VSTi available which we can use to make chip tunes plus impulse responses of tiny speakers to give it a realistic sound, and released it all for free!
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I used notepad when I first started learning PHP.
> you are not even allowed to record information like password, sexual orientation, credit card even if you have the consent

Wait, why can’t a website record my sexual orientation with my consent?

How will dating sites work then? Or is there a difference between asking about sexual orientation and asking me about what gender I would like to see / what I am looking for? If there is a difference then what’s the point of not allowing sexual orientation to be stored? From a practical point of view the question phrased like what I am interested in / looking for gives about the same information don’t it?
I would imagine most of them have the basic level of intelligence to know that it's a good idea to target such houses when the owners are not present...
German antitrust office limits Facebook’s data-gathering
That's the joke. -_-
Typescript has overall been a godsend on larger frontend projects. I'm replying more to add to the public thought and support of it.
>Some iPhone X users claim they get a headache when looking at the phone at the lowest brightness setting (OLED is even worse in that regard than LED, IIRC).

And on iPhone XS this is even worst. I wonder if there are any solution to PWM problem.
I’m not taking anything away from the goals of this project but I do feel it’s worth mentioning that there actually are lots of languages that offer interactive coding and are embeddable. Eg JavaScript, Python, LISP, Perl, Lua, etc. Heck, even BASIC fits that criteria.

I do wish the author the best with this project though. Plus designing your own language is fun :)
This is what I do, my opinions on e-commerce have changed over the years, I source following this priority: locally boutique or small stores, boutique or brand websites, local big box, online big box.
In defense of parent comment, I think this is actually a correct usage. As a verb, 'prosecute', doesn't necessarily imply criminal action, just pressing a claim. The first definition per Google is "institute legal proceedings against."
Clicking on "advertiser's" on the preferences page gives me a "no internet connection" error within the Facebook mobile web app. Don't get that anywhere else .
If you make a POST request to https://www.facebook.com/ads/profile/advertisers/ with your facebook cookies then you get the JSON back with all of your advertisers. Looks like I have well over a thousand of them.
Open source drives innovation in the UK public sector
The claim that the language is guaranteed thread safe without data races is also unsubstantiated. Avoiding data races, and more importantly, dead and live-lock, are incredibly difficult problems to solve.

V looks interesting, but I'll wait and see before I jump onboard.
I think part of the advantage of DNT for fingerprinting is that it's a user set signal.

BTW you can query the WebGL render to identify CPU / GPU information for iOS devices which is slightly more useful than just the UA
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Create unique email addresses with a password generator and don't distribute them. I don't buy into they just guessed them, tbh.
If you think that's true then there is no reason for the "good guy" to leave.
This seems like a more difficult problem, is there any marketplace that has solved the fake review problem? Spotting a fake sneaker is probably 99% accurate for a trained buyer, but spotting a fake review, not so much.
The core of this essay is indisputable that the comparison is Apples and Oranges. A computer puts in more effort and gets a better result. However when choosing between more efficient or better results, I'd prefer better results. The human brain's bias towards efficiency is an evolutionary handicap on intelligence. I can provide my body with as much energy as it wants to consume - I'd rather be able to burn energy learning things than have to put up with a brain that keeps trying to take shortcuts at every turn to conserve energy, and I would love to be able to think deterministicly! It is a stretch to say humans are out thinking the machine with that frame, machine intelligence might simply have firmer foundations.

I do have challenges to the method of calculating how much power is put into the human training process. 10^8 might be too many orders of magnitude to breach, but humans:

1) Use data picked up visually to provide basic concepts used in playing go (like "connected", "lines", "territory", "me", "opponent"). Many of these concepts are potentially developed from visual data, and humans process a lot more than 50 bits of visual data in a second. This observation is very hard to quantity respecting how much visual data can be employed to learn about Go - how much of an advantage does the concept of territory give humans in terms of learning? It is probably huge.

EDIT Thinking about it a bit more, it is very plausible given AlphaGo's endgame play that it never developed a concept of 'territory' as we would understand it. Given that humans judge the state of the game by estimating territory for both players then assuming the winner is the one with more territory, that is a huge deal. It might explain why the learning seems so inefficient vs a human. A human would never make AlphaGo's endgame moves because they are bad by the territory heuristic.

2) Learn Go in a very communal environment. Game records date back a few centuries and all the patterns that are detected get passed on through the generations of professional players. The practical amount of cached processing power available to humans is higher than first inspection might suggest. Humans don't learn mainly through self play, it is closer to supervised learning. A 1900s player would simply lose to modern technique because of this accretion.

3) High level Go players are going to be strongly biased to people who 'got lucky' in how their brains map concepts. An average human probably isn't as good at learning Go as a peak professional.
" Most businesses aren’t doing anything that require leetCode and deep algorithms knowledge. "

And yet, those are still the most popular interview questions :/
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
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It's actually not hardware at all. I say this not to be annoying but to make the point that perhaps we shouldn't be computer-morphizing the human brain. (I know that's not a word but was the best I could do!)
There should be incentive for laboratories to produce bigger and better studies rather than a bunch of small ones.

Especially since a study with 300 participants is worth immensely more than 10 studies with 30 participants.
> Laser pits on a CD are binary, but the music isn't.

All of our digital media have limited resolution. CD-quality audio may (or may not) have enough resolution to completely fool human hearing. But CD-quality audio is not interactive or three dimensional in the way that a concert hall is; you can't tilt your head to the side or move to a different seat to get a different experience. Instead, you get a pinprick of audio information taken from a single point of view which you cannot manipulate or see through. And that's not even to mention the zillions of studio tricks and digital manipulations of that signal. Because of that limited resolution (e.g. 16-bit PCM on an audio CD), you can't "zoom in" and hear sounds that are much much quieter, both because the SNR gets too bad and the fundamental resolution limitation.

The real world has so much potential for "zoom" that it's fundamentally not the same as its digital representation. Buy a microscope and take a look at an insect and then realize the vast majority of our reality which is extremely near to us is actually so small that it is below our unaided senses. Digital representations of it completely truncate and destroy the information below the level chosen. No more zooming. It is fundamentally different in the real world. In the real world, you can zoom deeper than your mind has capacity to process.

But yeah, video games are fun. Don't get too sucked in, though. Not real. If you ever do get a chance to look at an insect through a microscope, then you'll realize that the outside world has about 50 orders of magnitude more complexity than a video game.
In my understanding, the new reality here is that brick-and-mortar stores are increasingly becoming showrooms to support online sales, with brands closing smaller shops and focusing on big "experiential" flagship stores.

The description somebody else gave here of the Pi shop as "more of an event space than a store" would tie in well with this strategy.
Clojure argues that (> data functions macros), but it still has macros and accepts that they are not only useful, but sometimes necessary. Clojure's core.async would have had to be built into the compiler, if it wasn't for macros. Just because it prefers data to functions and functions to macros, doesn't mean that it doesn't recognise the importance or usefulness of all three.
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Some thoughts I've had on the commoditized hardware. Would it be more accurate to say that launches have gotten cheap enough to make it even worth talking about putting up "cheap hardware" into orbit?

I say 'cheap' in the sense that the hardware is not designed/have "engineered lifespans" to actually stay functional for long periods of time in space. As long as they go up, stay on for a few months and don't care that much about cosmic rays flipping bits to make 1+1=3, its good enough.
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The shopping centre is owned by USS, the universities pension scheme; I don't know if that counts for something in terms of being able to get discounted leases.
Looks rather nicer than the Google store here in Edinburgh!
I can see the "About" section, which tells me the "what", but I'd love to read about the "why", compared to other DOM manipulation libraries.
Interesting question. It's a cost most engineers consider when evaluating dependencies, but I doubt many actually track time lost keeping them up-to-date.

"Weekly time" is probably not the best metric, because it's spikier than that, dependent on release schedules / vulnerability discovery. Personally, I try to keep dependencies minimal and limited to established projects known to follow semantic versioning. That eliminates most surprises, but there is still the issue of upgrading when the time comes.

I try to keep within one major version of latest, usually only upgrading when it is absolutely necessary. For example, maybe I need a feature in the new version, or maybe I'm about to write a bunch of code that touches the dependency and now is a good time to upgrade. In reality, what that means is I have a slowly building list of chores in the icebox to "upgrade X to 3.0, upgrade Y to 2.0, etc..."
The retail chain British Home Stores was founded in 1928, so at least since then.

I wasn't aware until now that this is considered an Americanism.
At a certain point, when almost everyone is vaccinated, the odds of having a negative outcome from a vaccine is similar to having a negative outcome from being unvaccinated.

Since we don't "routinely see or know people with the disease" it doesn't take analysis to realize that it may be worth taking vaccine risks into account.

The problem is more of an overlooked "tragedy of the commons", where people who are not vaccinated benefit from the vaccinations of others, until outbreak risks rise too greatly.

That risks from being unvaccinated are low as long as most people get vaccinated, and that vaccines have some risk, makes it a much more difficult decision for some parents than is generally acknowledged.
Lots of folks criticizing a 'visitor' for having an opinion of the bay area here: well yes, people inside the Bay Area don't tend to see it the way outsiders do. As an outsider and frequent visitor this is pretty consistent with how I (and most others I've met) see SF: dirty, and full of angry people with extremist positions who've never had to reflect on their own opinions.

West Coast VCs are happier to fly now than they were 10 years ago, there's no reason to want to live in the Bay Area anymore.
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Sure, rather easily in fact. You just need three laser diodes (Red, Green, and Blue), each pointed into the appropriate side of an RGB dichroic optical combiner cube. The cube redirects each of the three beams, combining them into a single beam emitted out of the remaining side (1) (the prisms can also function in reverse to split collimated a white light into constituent RGB components).

In lieu of a cube, you could use three (R,G,B) dichroic notch reflectors (mirrors) (2) and combine the lasers 'manually', but the cubes are nice because you don't have to build a mount for the I individual mirrors.

You can either scavenge a cube or dichroic mirrors from an old standard projector, or pick them up online for a few bucks. After that, just place the combined beam in the same path at the red laser shown in this example set-up, modulate the three lasers according to an image's RGB intensity values (you can separate an image frame into three RGB frames using openCV), and there you go.

Tangentially, the basic idea of scanning a laser to form an image is what underpins the Virtual Retinal Display (VRD) - a head up display technology developed at the Univ. of Washington and later attempted to be commercialized by Magic Leap (ML) for Augmented Reality eyewear. Even though ML hasn't panned out, I still see the VRD as a very viable path forward for high resolution/field of view AR displays.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichroic_prism

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichroic_filter
Can someone explain to me how a seal works in a vacuum?
...or what frabert said much more succinctly :)
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How exactly is Homebrew not a service? We donate hours of work each week in an honest effort to make the best package manager we can for our users. Analytics help us decide how to prioritize our work.

It’s also literally the opposite of quietly enabled [1] [2].

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/e32c1515432a938093d5ef...

[2] https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics
Interesting you assert they're fake.

> "the U.S. (is) the world’s most evil nation currently, committing acts comparable to what the Germans and Japanese did during the very darkest parts of World War II. "

> "Children don’t need two parents"

> "The future is female"

They sure sound like bay area people to me.
I understood the low level stuff as to how memory, disk, CPU, syscall, network works. Those models haven't changed in years and are useful for anything that runs in a computer.
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Reminded me of Mean Streets, with it's RealSound[1] voices https://youtu.be/WJ4rYt8v--4?t=153

Was amazed when I heard it for the first time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealSound
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> Employers need to also invest beyond the current employee and into communities to get these potential stars out of the vicious cycle of inequality.

Why bother when you have H1Bs?

Companies have no moral obligation to help the citizens over any other human being, just to deliver profit to shareholders.

So while I would like to see this happen, I don't see how it can.
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Ask HN: What is the most efficient way to process large text files in Python?
I have fairly large text files (at least 5GB) and I am doing analysis on them. All I want to do is tally totals in one column and then sort using the STANDARD LIBRARY ONLY. However, after researching on Google and StackOverflow, it seems there is no consensus on best approach.

I have tried using Ordered for, CSV, itertools, buffers but it still seems I am not utilizing all resources available to me to make it even faster. I/O is ridiculously slow.

I have 32GB RAM and an Octacore setup. Should it really be taking me more than 10 min to process a single file? How best do i make sure I take full advantage of the memory and power of my machine?
But they don't get the tip so why should they care?
Efficiency, or better, the ability to dissipate waste heat, is a constraint on computational power though.
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There's plenty of oddballs in the word that's for sure. I recently came across the book - "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" that talks a lot about neurological ticks.
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Probably best to have no Facebook friends also.
> As for quality of life, China already seems to be doing better in terms of public transport. America doesn't have anything at all to brag about here, unless you're comparing to Zimbabwe or something.

How long until the west starts to immigrate into china instead of the other way around?