skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTW, I am running their code that produced the article results (on small freebase data set) right now and also studying their code.

BTW, part 2: I know that Facebook and Google get a lot of criticism over privacy issues but the flip side of the privacy coin is how generous they are in sharing results, pre-trained models, etc. (even given that publishing great results, data, and code is a great way to attract more potential employees).
There was this document called the "Declaration of Independence" that I believe you might find useful in clarifying the answer(s) to your question.
1) A government collects and stores all location data about the citizens of another country.
2) Citizen of another country attains a powerful position in business, politics, etc.
3) Use data from years ago to extort, blackmail, influence, etc.

The internet and smartphones have been around for long enough for this to be a reality for today's leaders.

Adversarial foreign governments could choose to exercise surveillance and storage power over citizens of another country. That's one of many reasons why access to location data should be locked up tightly.

The analogy with Achilles doesn't hold up because it is possible to act at a distance in today's connected world.
> a private room, bathroom, and shower

What trains have you found that offer this? As an American unaccustomed to such trains, I'd be super interested to try them.
> Bitrot does set in over time, though, and the less distributed a work is the worse its odds of living through each new tech transition.

Eh, I feel like we've almost fully gotten away from bit-rot. Bit-rot was a problem because individuals don't bother to go to the effort of constant IT administration, and don't have the economies of scale required to afford good data redundancy.

But individuals don't have to back things up "personally" any more. With one command, I can send three copies of any file to three object-storage providers. Each one (according to the Dynamo architecture, which they mostly all implement) is holding 17 copies of the data on 17 shards, and replaces copies from the good ones whenever they go bad. Each provider's copies only exist in one region, but the region is different for each provider selected. As individual object-storage providers die, I can find new ones and sync my data over from the surviving ones. As long as "cloud [redundant] object storage" as a concept exists, I won't have to do much at all to ensure continued integrity of my data. All the details—including porting my data to new physical substrates when old formats die—are being handled under the abstraction, and converted into (tiny!) monthly fees that are lower than what even a zero-redundancy tape library would cost me.

And, of course, the data I'm sending is encrypted, and not even with a symmetric key, but rather a PKI key where the decryption half of the key is held in cold storage (i.e. in hardcopy base64 in a safety deposit box at a bank; and a few other places.) If I'm uploading rips of something copyrighted, nobody will ever know that but me. I'll be able to get the data back out when the time comes to dust it off and share it.
As both a startup programmer and having worked in the financial industry, it's really hard to know how companies like these will be viewed by history.

The technologist argument is: we are enduring losses, even large ones, in the short term so that we can bring inevitable future tools forward in time (i.e. "Of course everyone can get anything delivered on-demand in the future, so why not now!?")

The value-based investor argument: This is a gross subsidy to "tech" companies that is distorting/subsidizing markets and creating huge opportunity costs where all these billions could have been invested in better, even more fundamental technologies.

There is a third argument which is what's really giving these companies legs: they do genuinely have a lot of users who love the services. Who wouldn't want a VC-subsidized meal brought to your door?
My summary of where all the money goes:

-- Every on-demand service struggles with the problem of peaky demand, variation of >50% in peak to average traffic / demand

-- Peaky demand is inherent in our consumer / passenger / people behavior, not going to change any time soon -- think of the daily hours typical for commuting, eating, etc.

-- These services make their money / entire value prop on serving peaky demand quickly, but you need labor willing to match those times, otherwise people are sitting around underutilized

-- Until you have automated cars / labor, you have a really hard time recruiting people who are happy only to be paid part-time

-- Drivers / labor have to be paid pretty much on a full time basis to keep people working for you (whether overtly or implicitly through promotions, marketing, sign up bonuses), otherwise they sign up with hopes of steady income, and then quit. ("I love being able to set my own hours", etc is the exception, not the imaginary bulk of people working for a living)

As long as these conditions prevail, this is where those companies' cash is hemorrhaging to.
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If you think privacy is unimportant for you because you have nothing to hide, you might as well say free speech is unimportant for you because you have nothing useful to say.
Does it support collaborative editing?
There’s a coach from Oslo to Malmö. Not sure if it goes on to Copenhagen, but it’s easy enough to walk to the train platform and be at Copenhagen in 40mins.
I figured it was interpreted that way. But it was a genuine question and I thought the question had merit on its own.

I wouldn't think many would come to defend batteries, that they are awful for the environment isn't a controversial idea. They do however enable things like electric cars and such, which arguably make them worthwhile.

And there are also other applications for batteries, such as even out supply and demand in the grid. But that doesn't really require them to be that environmentally friendly themselves to make sense for the environment - since they might enable more solar power etc.

But as energy storage for the sake of just storing it? It might be worthwhile for a household (perhaps mainly because selling the surplus electricity often isn't a good deal). And the economics might even be worthwhile on larger scale as well. But is it really environmentally friendly?
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> What if you design a web browser that just ignores most blobs of CSS/Javascript and renders content in a very different way.

that describes every command line / terminal web browser.
While it's true that vegans are also vegetarians going strictly by dictionary definitions, without any other qualifier the term "vegetarian" is usually is taken to mean lacto-ovo vegetarian, at least in some circles.

Whether it's confusing or not or obvious or not, it was an extremely common term in the online vegetarian community I used to participate in around 15 years ago. Not trying to make a judgement on the term, just informing.

"Hackers" have their own version - *nix.
This video ("Can We Terraform the Sahara to Stop Climate Change?") examines how we might do just that. The conclusion is that it's technically possible (like many things), but the cost far outweighs the benefit. It also introduces new climate risks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfo8XHGFAIQ
While you can generally search trips, last time I checked you couldn’t book anything that doesn’t either start or end in Germany.
Lanthanum + Actinium actually do have the electron configuration you'd expect for a leftmost d block element--their third electron goes into the d block instead of the f block.

In practice, the period 6 and 7 elements have quite a few violations of the Afbau principle, and some predictions of period 8 predict some truly anomalous things for electron configuration (e.g., let's start filling up the 9s/p shells before the 8p shell is finished).
If this helps...

"In Europe alone, several new affordable options have materialized too, running more utilitarian services (no guided excursions, just overnight schedules). In 2017, the United Kingdom’s Great Western Railway (GWR) relaunched the Night Riviera, traveling between London and Cornwall, one of England’s sunniest corners. Also in 2017, Italy’s Trenitalia-owned Thello debuted new sleeper cars with en suite showers on their Paris to Venice route. And in June 2019, Scotland’s Caledonian Sleeper will debut highly anticipated new cars with routes from London to Glasgow and Edinburgh and Highlander routes to Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William with en suite showers, double beds and plenty of whiskeys in the bar car."
I just plugged those two cities into the Deutsche Bahn website, and can now buy a ticket for a train leaving Stockholm in 8 hours (6:25 local time).

2 transfers (although routes exist with only one), 11:37 travel time. Saver fare still available: 99,90 € (regular would be 225 €). And it's not the only connection tomorrow.

That said, your point somewhat stands: it really depends on the route if good options are available, I've also looked at trips that seemed possible but I couldn't make work at all. Biggest problem is often the lack of overnight connections/night trains, which mean you're limited to what you can do during the day unless there's one of the exceptions on your route. Not fun if the only overnight "connection" means spending 2:30am to 4:45am on some train station.
>> Take any airliner, knock out all its control systems, and it will continue to fly.

Until they hit an AOA that puts the tail in the wind shadow of the wings. Then some will pancake. They can slip sideways into scary turns/dives and will not recover on their own. And they are delicate. It doesn't take too much force to twist them out of shape.
I have no issue at all drawing a line between Breitbart and a mass murderer manifesto. I find this "slippery slope" rhetoric rather disingenuous and non-constructive. With this type of argument you can shoot down any law, any power given to the government. "First they force you to wear seat-belts and the next thing you know you live in communist dystopia".

I guess it makes sense if you're a libertarian/anarchist or something in this vicinity but if that's the case this discussion has been rehashed millions of times before and I don't think we'll find a common ground here.
Not sure if it exists still but in 2012 I took a round trip Berlin Paris in a 4 bunk bed room around xmas. It was about 200 euros per person. About 13 hours in train, not the best sleep in such room.
Something I'm interested in - how did the move to Boston go? Why move back to SF?

I often wonder about the viability of starting a tech company elsewhere. Does being a VC company impact this?
Sci-hub is truly a modern-day Library of Alexandra. I hope the modern day counterparts of Julius Caesar fail.
BTW, I just realized that I got this part backwards:

> In the one-bit case, if C and K correspond (i.e. are both 0 or are both 1) then M is 1.

That should have read "... then M is 0." (Obviously.)
Yes and no. Some parts of the documentation can be clarified in my opinion.

For example: if you change the default payment method of a Customer, the default payment method of all this customer's Subscriptions is not changed. The documentation is not clear about that.

Also, if you remove a payment method from a customer, the subscriptions seems unaffected. If you're not careful you might still end up charging this customers card when the subscription auto-renews.

I'm still a fan of Stripe though. I have my fair share of experience implementing other PSP's and they were an unbelievable PITA. As far is my experience goes, Stripe is miles ahead of their (european) competitors.
Let me add to that. 2008 crash and bailout. WMDs in iraq. Revelations of NSA. Opioid crisis. I even heard somewhere that streetlights have cameras and microphones?
Most antivaxers are relatively wealthy, and believe that the “improbable” likelihood of measles can be dealt with via their wealth while the idea of getting autism is incurable.

Many vaccines are available for free even without insurance. If there is a wave of poor people now tagging along it’s because they’re falling to fear campaigns led by the original movement.
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Mandela wrote about this back in 1994 https://books.google.se/books?id=_ewvL93kFx4C&printsec=front...

But that is South Africa, not really a poor African nation.
The German railway has shed practically all of its sleeper trains, but the Austrian Railway has picked up some routes and has been expanding.
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Paris-Warsaw (and then to Moscow) exists, and runs once a week.

There's no official (government/public run) website, so Seat 61 is probably the best resource.

https://www.seat61.com/paris-moscow-express.htm
I've definitely gotten boosters for all the standard stuff as an adult at various times especially when I've been going traveling to remote Asian or South American locations. Plus some others like typhoid and yellow fever as required.

Whooping cough is part of the Tdap booster.
are you running hackintosh? Or a linux flavor? Also how is the track corners, are they easily tappable?
What if it's PII?

If anyone finds data for 72167,7570, send a copy back to me.
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> but that Percentiles can be misleading as well.

I'm not sure I agree. If they're computed wrong, sure, but this is what your system is actually doing. And honestly, the tail has a way of dictating your system's performance as a whole.

> the 99% at 867 ms latency makes you have a moment of panic, but when you see that 95% is 60 ms

It's easy to write off 1 in 100 users, but the reality is a little more dim. If your P(slow request) is normally distributed (it isn't always -- some requests are more expensive, some data is on worse disks, etc.), then you can compute the (extremely rough) probability a user will run into a slow request in a session:

P(slow request for user) = 1 - (0.99)^N

N = number of requests.

For example, lets say a user visits 15 pages in a session with that call in each. They have a ~13.9% chance of running into that 99th percentile. :(

Now if you're fanning out lookups (as one often does), you could easy have 50 lookups for a single request. Now you're at 39.5%! What happens in 1% of requests can become extremely important and essentially dictate your user's experience.

The Tail at Scale [1] talks a lot about this. I'd recommend it as reading.

[1] https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/01/15/the-tail-at-scale/
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> The next recession is going to hit hard, and I’m guessing a lot of the gig economy jobs will get a lot worse if not disappear.

It'll be a double whammy hit. As the unsustainable businesses collapse and prices rise back to reality, it'll cause an even larger drop in net sales due to consumer's reluctance to pay the full cost of their poke bowls. Combine that with a bunch of gig economy workers having their only income source dry up and you've got a financial mess at a large scale.
Agree with you. I took a night train from Venice Italy to Paris. The next day in Paris I had essentially prolonged motion sickness where I felt as if I was still on the train rocking with the rhytmn of the tracks about to fall out of the top bunk I had tried to sleep in.
Your knowledge is yours; that's what lets you get hired by another company while making use of skills developed at your current company, and that's what lets you talk about your previous work at interviews. Your employment agreement probably carves out exceptions for things like trade secrets and customer lists, but not for just understanding MySQL.

Creative expressions are subject to copyright. Ideas, facts, and knowledge are not. Therefore, any actual writing or code samples you do at work are likely owned by your employer, but things you have learned are not.

I recently learned some interesting quirks of the select system call at work and wrote up a two-page document about it for internal circulation. I'll likely write up a personal blog post also, but on my own time without reference to the text I wrote at work. (The text will have to be different anyway, because it won't reference the specific OS and kernel versions we have at work, nor the specific recommendations I had for what to do about it.)

Your employment agreement might have more to say about this.
I think you misunderstood (or I misformulated): I'm not accusing Norway of selling more certificates than they should, I'm saying that the buyers of the actual "green electrons" won't feel the tiniest bit dirtier from the certificates having been sold. The "double spend" would be virtually clean (from a certificate) plus actually clean (but with the certificate sold).

It boils down to the question wether this is true or not:

> but they did have to at least leave Norway in a way that the Norwegians can't count them in their own consumption

This reads as if Norway could only sell certificates for surplus energy they exported (sans certificate), but I think they can sell certificates for as much green energy as they produce, virtually downgrading their own consumption to coal/gas/whatever energy source is greenified with the certificates. Of course it would hurt their on-paper emissions, but who would honestly care about those when you know that in reality you are clean?

I'd certainly love to be proven wrong on this!
Sure, we should do a study to find out what the percentage chance of immediately killing someone. If it's 1%, we'll go for it, if it's 50%, we'll skip endangering anyone with this drug...wait.
Bob was and is pretty famous. Obscure in the sense that few people used it (I did!) but it's well-known, probably moreso than anything on that list.

Known as a failure, sure, but still well-known.
Relevant study in zebrafish/mice with this compound (MSI-1436, aka trodusquemine): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41536-017-0008-1.
Keybase seems relevant here. Do they have any blockchain projects? Namecoin would seem an obvious partner.
> I think it's very fair to say that your average user absolutely does not care about privacy past catastrophic and specific leaks or revelations based on their own private data.

I don't think that is "very fair to say." For instance, you might also claim that "you average citizen" does not care about having a right to a fair trail and a whole host of other good things. If you have any evidence to back up your assertion, it's probably confounded by interference from people's other priorities and problems.

To get a truly accurate sense of how much "your average user" cares about privacy, you need to control for both the ignorance of some users and the likely sense of helplessness of others. It's weaselly to say that someone with undiagnosed cancer doesn't care about having cancer, just because they don't know they have it, for instance. To truly understand how they feel, you have to tell them their diagnosis, and maybe even explain cancer and its implications to them.

> I think we'd be much better off instilling a higher value for privacy than we'd be trying to legislate and regulate the problem away. Companies will find ways to skirt legal measures, but an evaporating user base cannot be ignored.

You could make the same case against antipollution regulation, and it would be just as weak as you argument against privacy regulation. Your proposed solution is fatally undermined by a collective action problem [1]. The solution to the problem of companies skirting legal measures is to either amend the measures or sanction the skirting of them -- both things that are often done in functioning governments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem
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Doesn't appear to have a non-deprecated replacement new users could use though?
not for the reasons you think. Most construction monopolies held to the new units hopping that the affordable housing rules would be removed by the incomming change of government.

also, have to check if that graph is for listed or sold prices. most places go for less than 60% of list price
IANAL so I'm genuinely asking: isn't that the responsibility of the licensed teams/player names/musicians and not of EA?
I was thoroughly confused trying to book a French train yesterday when I realized that the regular SNCF website only lets you browse train schedules.

You had to lookup the schedule on another website (oui.sncf) to do the booking.

Then Iberia airlines kept showing a different date at the top menubar, which was a day before what I was actually booking. Thankfully the date in the body was correct.
Nice! I'd love to use Golang as a frontend language.
Well, I'm sure people will not listen to someone who calls them serfs so I think you should ask yourself what your goal is. If it's to convince people to drop social media altogether you'll have to give them a plausible replacement for the very real value they're being asked to walk away from (and treat them with more respect). If your point is just to vent, then cool. I understand your position, I just think it's a dead end and not actionable.
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Why would “gig economy jobs” get worse?

If anything, during a recession, more people will want(need?) to become gig workers. Uber/Lyft are generally supply constrained today. If there’s a surge of supply because people need money they won’t have to pay new driver incentives, which is one the areas that cause them to bleed cash today. Demand side will fall a little, but people will still need cheap ways to get to/from places, maybe especially if their car gets repossessed.
> What has your experience been that you think Amazon "doesn't deal with" returns?

I ordered something and the wrong item came in. Returned it, another wrong item came in. Contacted support (had a bookmark, as apparently it's very hard these days to figure out how to reach somebody in their UI), they apologized, returned it and what do you know... another wrong item received. Contacted support again, made a fuss, they finally sent the right item but now the return tag was not 'package free' so I had to pay for the packaging at the UPS store. I wouldn't care normally, it was super cheap but I was so pissed off, contacted support again and only then did I manage to return the thing and get my refund.
Here is a good place :) If you have any question I'll be happy to answer them publicly - this way it can also help others. If it's something private, you can write to me (xavier@opencraft.com).
It's funny though, because my experience has led me to the exact opposite approach. Modeling based on real world understanding has been very fragile and error prone, and instead modeling as data and systems that operate on that data has been very fruitful.
So the startups are modern robinhoods?
Ghost?
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> You give up some privacy. Only no one cares about that.

Until they want to bring to light government or employer abuses, or organize a union.
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