skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will speak as an Immigrant with double citizenship and minority.

When I decided to immigrate to Country "A" Is because I value country "A" values and laws AND I want that continue like that. If I decided to go to X place I do expect somethings. So I want my country "A" to retain its laws, values, and traditions.
So what I do?

1. Enforce language learning on my kids and parents;

2. Understand local history;

3. Understand that some popular customs may be different, but it is way are here;

4. Don't break the law and try to be most compliant possible (hire CPA, check with a lawyer).

5. Work and work. I don't have an immediate family, so I have to work for "now" and my future

to dr; try to be a nice guest

Now why I left my country "Z."

1. High Corruption and Violence;

2. My personal view clashed with original local culture;

3. Not enough opportunities and life were too hard (3 jobs, high taxes, and bad conditions).

4. All my education had to be paid privately and health too so NO I am not "robbing" resources.

Tl dr; I am sorry country "Z" we are not compatible;

Now, Do I think country "A" HAS to allow me in? No. Country A is doing me a favor. My grandfather never fought for country A, or neither has any parent mine done anything for country A.
I see myself as a guest, and I will try to be a nice guest. Not sure we will get along but while I am a guest I follow Host laws and culture.

Do I think I OWN anything to my original country? No! Indeed I think I should earn money back as my taxes, social security is there, and I will not be able to collect back and never I studied on Public school or used public health system.

What do I think about other people like me that aren't a good guest? The ones that break law? Marry to get a visa? Steal?
I do think they make my life and others harder. And they are ungrateful.

What do I think about diversity? I don't want it. I want my son to be the "diversity" because if country "A" is good for me is because of its original and majority people and I want to keep the demographics in favor of that.
TL DR; There are no poor country only corrupt ones. Have the right culture and mindset and favor it.

Is it fair? Life is not fair. The people born here they have so easy. Easy jobs, easy money, no accent they understand all culture, jokes, etc. But their parents make an effort or sacrifice as I hope to make to my kids and grand son. Maybe sometime in the future, they will call my grand son "privileged" ..
> Where does the money go for Lyft/Uber?

Mostly into customer discounts and driver incentives.

Both companies are burning billions of dollars on selling people a $10 taxi ride for $5, while paying the driver $12.

Once they stop spending their way to market-share, customer demand, and driver supply will drop.

There's a price point where they are a viable, profitable business (After all, taxi firms have existed for centuries), but that price point will be higher for riders and lower for drivers, than it is today.
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"Milwaukee’s Socialists were so fiscally and socially responsible that historians to this day hail them as exemplars of a uniquely American form of democratic socialism"

I'm not sure why we are even comparing the Socialists of these days to our version of socialism today. Socialism today has nothing to do with 'fiscal responsibility' and there really is no plan to pay for the enormous amount of government programs proposed.

Well, there is a plan. Nobody wants to mention that the plan is to drastically increase everyone's taxes, because it's unpopular.
I suppose in the case of Netflix and the like, it stops me from getting some lossless downloader browser extension that would surely exist but for the DRM and... what? Getting stuff to watch after I let the subscription lapse? Giving copies to my friends?

The former is about the same effort as torrenting and about as obviously dishonest. The latter is mostly possible using Netflix as intended as long as I don't mind sharing my password with them.
This topic always leads me to think about this great talk from Gil Tene on how NOT to measure latencies (basically, don't use averages!).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8ydIuPFeU

I'm also a huge fan of how Dormando showed latency distributions in one of his recent Memcached Extstore posts. The default is 95th percentile but you can change the percentile to what matters to you (i.e. 99th percentile if you ask me!). Scroll down to see what he did and play with it.

https://memcached.org/blog/nvm-multidisk/
Soon, you won't even have to push the "I'm feeling lucky" button, they will just show you whatever they want (a bit like TV).
On an iPhone, you can tap the power button five times consecutively to disable biometric access. However, I think the only way to do this on a MacBook with TouchID is turning it off.
I don't think this is what I'm looking for.

> In the transition from physical to digital media, something has been lost. We have more convenience than ever, but no feeling of excitement or engagement.

> What you get is a searchable, surfable magazine about your music.

I don't want excitement or engagement, or a magazine. I want to listen to music on my phone.
The best option should have one change, since there are direct trains from Stockholm to Copenhagen, and from Copenhagen to Hamburg (this train goes on the ferry). I would expect an additional change in Malmoe could reduce the cost and increase the time.

If you search for "now", it's 22:52, so you may get odd connections as the journey planner tries to make an overnight journey.
My hypothesis is that they intentionally disabled or relaxed fuzzy string match based ban lists in China.

It is common knowledge that you have much better chance to re-register without any trickery in a big city, than in a small one.

Imagine, you have few hundreds Liu Chens running some undescript Zhongguo Electronics in every megacity, and very likely all having addresses like "Northern/Western/Eastern Industrial Park Zone 123" – add some fuzzy logic here and you have a recipe for disaster.
So what do you propose? That there should be no social media, including Hacker News?
Lots of claims in this comment I'd love to see backed up.

==Working at home saves you daycare.==

Is this true? Most people I know who work remotely don't have enough free time to also watch their kid, they are doing their job. It does save the 1-2 hour round trip of commuting each day.

==It lets people eat lunch at 11am or 2pm.==

Can't most people in an office environment already do this? I do.

==It keeps you cleaner and healthier.==

How does it do this? I see very few overweight people on my daily train commute. I figured that the walking involved in commuting plays a role in health, but maybe the stress of commuting is a net negative. On the flip side, my wife works from home and although she likes it, the lack of human interaction frequently has a negative impact on her.

==It makes you care about your local community a lot more.==

In what ways?
Border Patrol has become the KGB. Hopefully this will reach a boiling point soon and they'll harass someone important enough to get the gears actually moving toward ending this madness.
The solution is rather obvious, we should just ban sarcasm.
They lost $17 billion in 2018 and I haven't even heard of them.
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I made such a library for FreePascal (http://benibela.de/sources_en.html#internettools)

Windows WinINet, Android JNI for Apache HttpComponents or OkHttp, Linux OpenSSL through another FreePascal library
Swedish railways have been staggeringly mismanaged and neglected since the 1990s. I wouldn't be surprised if they're one of the worst managed railway systems in the entirety of what used to be known as the developed world.

But it would be wonderful to have them restored and have international overnight services added. Hoping, with some skepticism, that the politics translate to reality here.
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Whats the best route to deploy a python YOLO system to a desktop app? E.g. have .zip file you extract, install, then run - everything is included , tensorflow/keras libs ... no need for user to setup envronment with conda yadda yadda
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For those who don't want to read the press release, it's Daniel Mattes, former CEO of Jumio Inc.

He agreed to pay more than $17 million to settle the charges
It is completely valid to question the value of being first to market. Will anybody care about Uber or Lyft if a new player, Company X, has a fleet of hundreds of thousands of autonomous vehicles in all major U.S. cities? Consumers have shown us just how easy it is to switch to a new app.

I concur that the branding wouldn't matter-- if the existing rideshare companies couldn't strike a deal with makers of autonomous vehicles, they won't be getting a share of the autonomous profits. Of course, these companies are actually developing their own technology. But that is far from their singular focus today.

Quietly, I assume there are folks operating on the thought that market dominance doesn't matter. We don't hear about them today very much, because they don't get much media attention.
Remember my school trip..denmark to italy. Drunk most of the way and still felt like being on a moving train hours after we got off.
That sounds a bit like Drew Wilson's Plasso, which was recently acquired by GoDaddy and promptly shut down.

https://web.archive.org/web/20181206180323/https://plasso.co...
'The Machine Stops' by E. M. Forster
https://youtu.be/aNRXeourusk
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I agree, but regarding this particular drug,

> it has already been shown to be safe.

> In 2007 this compound was tested in humans as a potential treatment for obesity and type 2 diabetes because it improves cell sensitivity to insulin. The studies, regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, demonstrated that MSI-1436 was well tolerated at high doses and did not harm patients.
If the "waste" is subsidizing services you actually want, is it really waste? It's more of a transfer from investors to landlords and drivers, who certainly wouldn't be as happy with less money.
Thanks for your comments

I'm going through my employer agreement to see if there is anything on this subject.

Early on as I was putting together my notes I got the feeling it has the potential for a blog post, so I made the document very generic, and was careful not to mention anything about our internal data, DB versions, OS etc..

So it would be somewhat difficult to re-word the document, maybe I could change the example data, but even then the overlap would be quite large.

Next time I will do a company specific one, and keep the generic examples in my head to do in my own time.

Update: my agreement has a "Social Media Policy" section and so long as I mention that "the views expressed on the blog or Web site are yours (mine) alone and do not represent the views of the company", it would seem I'm OK
I would even risk saying that what Google has been saying is damaging the trust in the industry, especially online services (if there ever was one).

I reflected on my gut aversion to stadia, and realized I had the same to most walled-garden online services. To be fair, Google is far from the only one shutting services down (and users out of it).

My solution is to use open source software, with a preference for federated or distributed solutions.

Discord/Skype/MSN/Hangouts/etc -> Matrix/Mumble

Twitter -> Mastodon

YouTube -> PeerTube

Etc. Those are the most recent ones I used. I still have some work to do before hosting a collabora online instance to offer to my family as an alternative to Google docs.
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Now we see those cities starting to price in the negative externalities of these businesses. The congestion pricing in NYC is directly tied to the rise in ride sharing. This could change the economics even (especially?) in the profitable cities.
I think it's unreasonable to assume the government is lying about vaccines because you would have to establish a rational reason for the government to do so.

Now the anti-vaxxer might say 'they are lying about vaccines not causing Autism' in which case that would be an irrational reason for lying. It would have to imply that governments around the world are solidly collaborating on the dangers of vaccines. This would not hold up to any scrutiny and is why anti-vaxx beliefs would be solidly irrational.
I took an overnight train in Sweden from Stockholm to Åre a couple of years ago. My experience was average at best, but possibly not good data. I was in a 6 person room (3 beds stacked on each side), and I ended up on the top bed.

It was pretty hard to fall asleep on a slowly, but slightly rocking train, then add in other strangers you are sleeping around, and it makes it even less comfortable.

I ended up just sleeping in 30 minute intervals, woken up by the rocking of the relatively smooth train. I would imagine it might be a good experience if friends/family took a cabin together, but with strangers it's not very comfortable (although some might disagree). Additionally, being on the top bunk made me subject to wider rocking then the people below me. I can imagine the experience being terrible if you don't have completely silent bunkmates like I got lucky with.

I think it might catch the attention of people who haven't done it before, but I didn't think it was anything to write home about.
There's some rail replacement service in some of the offered routes, I assume that's why it's not only one change.
> The agents proceeded to search my belongings and demanded that I unlock my smartphone and laptop. This was rather concerning for me. My phone and laptop are property of my employer and contain unreleased software and proprietary information. I’ve signed a non-disclosure agreement promising not to give anyone access.

His employer is Apple. I was always worried about this same scenario when traveling with an Apple-owned laptop..
Also, Disqus is owned by Zeta Global, a marketing company
that exists to "maintain and monetize customers, using 'people-based, precision marketing'" with a database of 350 million people. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta_Global
I'm an American and I have been detained and searched by CBP without actually ever leaving the country. They didn't ask my name, just that we needed to get out of the car while they let their dog search the car.
This guy gave a talk at my university a few weeks ago. He did some live demonstrations and I was really impressed. With a video camera he did live detection in the room and was classifying dozens of objects. Like the screen was filled with identification boxes. He also did a demo where he used his cell phone. Not as many classifications, but still about a dozen.

Everyone was pretty impressed. I'm always impressed when I see live demos go (almost) flawlessly.
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anyway, you deserve my star. :thumb up
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> Isn’t 12-13 grade 7 if schooling begins at 5?

In the US states I've lived in students start first grade at age 6 or 7, sometimes depending on the month they were born in, but also depending on readiness, but also depending on what age they started kindergarten or preschool if they did. Kindergarten is nearly universal in the US, hence the K-12 system, and preschool (the grade before kindergarten) is what is optional, and daycare before that. I was 12 myself in 6th grade. So though he seems to be in another country (Estonia), his system seems to me to be similar to the US as regards grade numbering. I am not aware of 5 yr olds in the US commonly being in 1st grade. May I ask what country you are in where first grade begins at age 5 on average?
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Wow, that Netflix documentary is reallllly helping grow interest in F1! Enjoyed the long scroll down to see Haas as the winner. I assume the article controls for the physical location of the request (i.e. is Haas fastest because the author is in the US and Haas is the only US-based team and/or hosted site?), but I didn't see it in my perusal.
Every time an article like this pops up (seems like a couple times a month now), I'm validated in my decision to donate monthly to the ACLU. They're always mentioned as fighting this stuff on the front lines.
He's saying he was targeted because he's known to disapprove of the Trump administration? Please. If anything, it was considerably worse prior to 2016.

A better question would be why someone technically knowledgeable would be carrying a laptop through airline security at all. As soon as it's out of your hands, you have to assume it's been blown, security-wise. Far better to just buy a burner Chromebook at your destination.
Yes, though not as bad as it used to be, IME. It seems a lot of ordinary people now know to pull or wipe drives before disposing of a computer.

I've acquired over 100 used computers, and, once I saw how common leaving data on them was, I began always very promptly DBAN-ing any disks, and wiping SSDs. If it has a non-SATA interface, I destroy the medium. Similar with some kind of wipe of smartphones.

Besides wiping the disk/device seeming a responsible and considerate thing to do, it avoids remote yet severe liabilities.
The Austrian federal railways (OeBB) is doing really well with night trains after the takeover. They even ordered new trains which should go into service in 2022. Really happy for this because the current rolling stock is just ancient and sleepers are a nice concept.
It's called malinvestment, and it's tied to monetary policy. When the central bank churns out money, the lower interest rates discourage banks from lending, making it harder for small businesses to collect capital that way. The lower interest rates simultaneously drive investment from bonds into the stock market and real estate.

Look up Business Cycle Theory
Nonsense. In many cases, vendor lock-in and the network effect present a substantial hurtle to living free of these companies. Sure you can quit Facebook, but they'll still build an internal profile about you. You can also tell your mobile carrier to go f* themselves and get a ham radio - but unless all of your friends and colleagues do the same thing you'll just be talking to Major Tom up in his tin can.

Freeing yourself from the grasp of these companies is hard enough for the tech savvy. For laymen it is virtually impossible.
He said the browser cannot be completed because Google won't allow their stuff to be used in an OSS project. It's clear he never countenanced the possibility that * gasp * somebody could deny him access to their software. He might have offered to pay, but the substance is basically the same: he assumed he could get access to somebody else's stuff, when there was no such guarantee (if anything, Google carefully insulating it from Chromium should have been a big hint of things to come).
Let's be real. It wouldn't be that surprising given how the world actually works. Assuming you aren't an oligarch.
> in some respect I have the ability to change my own countries policy, I can vote people out of office and email my senators (who are supposed to have my well being in mind when making laws), however I have no control whatsoever over a foreign governments decision making and they probably dont care about my well being.

But, again, it doesn't matter that they don't care about your well-being and you can't influence them, because they can't influence you either. Between you and them there is a great space.

(The capacity of your government to harm you) minus (your ability to influence your government not to harm you) is much greater than (the capacity of the Saudi government to harm you) minus (your ability to influence the Saudi government not to harm you). The last three quantities are all small.
Comcast was always terrible, but at least I could call up their support desk and make someone answer for their bad service. Sometimes they even fix the problem!

You can't call anyone at these new companies.
> they do genuinely have a lot of users who love the services.

Turns out selling $10 bills for $5 is extremely popular. MoviePass did in fact get people go to the movies.
I have something just about ready to launch that tries to do this. My goal is to make creating web apps as simple as blogging is when you use WordPress.

https://userappstore.com/public/2-powered-by-dashboard.png

https://github.com/userappstore/dashboard

I am putting the finishing polish and fixes on a platform and marketplace using this software, just working on the final integration tests that verify it all works together.
"Theres a lot of people that spend years telling themselves that they're going to work on rockets. These same people build ad tech platforms and never leave. If you want to build rockets, just go build rockets." -- a very paraphrased Peter Thiel.

If these companies are waiting for the next wave of automation they need to build it. Uber and lyft are trying with self driving but they haven't bet the farm on it. If Uber had spent $800 million on autonomous tech and staked the company's entire future on it, maybe they'd be further.

If Tesla gets to level 4 automation, I doubt they'd have trouble whipping up a ride share platform that connects directly with their vehicles.
> I wonder what would happen if there was a rule that you could only resell equity in a business whose financials had improved recently.

How does that work with failing businesses? If a business turns into a shit-show, everyone on board is forced to ride the ship down to the seafloor?
> Mattes, an Austrian citizen who now heads a private Austria-based company, has agreed to be enjoined from future similar violations and barred from being an officer or director of a publicly traded company in the U.S.

Pays back money + 25%, 4 years later, sternly told not to do the same fraudulent thing in a market he never operates in.

Thats... amazing.

I really need the privilege of a European Union citizenship.
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