skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, taking a snarky, passive-agressive tone to people making legitimate criticisms makes me not trust the list at all.

By saying "this is ethical, that is not", you are assuming a position that must be defended.

edit: I am contributing to the cause. Ethics is necessarily a conversation. By minimizing and handwaving away the part of ethical decision making that actually matters, you're doing more harm than good.

We don't need users to blindly use services somebody has slapped the "ethical" label on, we need to inspire users to bring ethics into their decision making process when choosing software services.
It's the BBC, they're taxpayer funded and don't advertise (within the UK).
When the Police Come for Your Driver’s License
> die all the time

> ur died, Babylon died.

Your two examples are from 2-3 millennia ago. I would think if cities "die all the time," you would have more recent examples.

Maybe it proves the author correct that the first cities that came to mind are from 2500 years ago?
You might not like it, but java.com/download is still the first result when searching for Java.

I am aware what OpenJDK is and who develops it, and I can handle the changes to our systems just fine, but I'm an engineer, not a manager. I can assure you that the confusion around Java is very real, as well as IT departments worrying about machines updating to a Java version requiring a commercial license.
That leaves out quite a lot.

Back in the mid-20th century, the Fillmore was a thriving black community, with around 50k black residents in a relatively central part of the city.

The city, however, considered it "blighted." Too many homeless people, too much drug use, too much property and violent crime.

And so the SF Redevelopment Agency decided to knock down a bunch of blighted Victorians, relocate the black population, and replace the Victorians with modern apartment buildings.

That was the beginning of the end of African American SF. Obviously some relocated to other areas of the city, but just as many left for other pastures.

Housing policies since then have hardly helped the situation, but YIMBY types need to understand the history of redevelopment both so they don't make the same mistakes and so they have empathy for when poor folks in a community are skeptical of their promised land.
I think you can also write
use @import("std");

but then you've just imported all of std into your own namespace. (probably not using the correct terminology here).

At any rate the const indicates you're not changing, and the std is the name given to the root of the hierarchy for importing "std" into.

Sure go lets you do this too, but has shorthand.

import "fmt"

can also be done as

import fmt "fmt"

but why would you do that?

The go equivalent of zig's "use" is

import . "fmt"

"." means "the current working directory" on unix so it's familiar to folks in that sense perhaps. Principle of least surprise is nice when the syntax is terse.

Still, I think I like zig. I feel like I want to try to write something non-trivial with it when I look at the features.

I've already done that a few times with Go, and I enjoy that too.
Exactly. Are Detroit and Baltimore dead? May as well be, for most intents and purposes.
Companies are not the problem, San Franciscans are the problem. By all accounts, Texas regulates companies less than California. But Texas is at the national average in cost-of-living adjusted poverty rate, despite being a majority-minority state, while California tops the charts in poverty: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevor.... As compared to California, Texas also has much higher rates of home ownership and lower unemployment for Hispanic people, with a lower Hispanic-White gap on both metrics. (The home ownership rate for Hispanics in Texas, 55%, is closer to that of Whites in California, 62%, than to Hispanics in California, 42%.)

I spent almost two weeks recently in east Texas. I was shocked. It was a more diverse and egalitarian place by a good margin than San Francisco or Palo Alto. Everyone shopping at the same stores and eating at the same restaurants. Versus my memory of Palo Alto, where you’d only see whites and Asians in one place, and Hispanic people over in East Palo Alto (or in service jobs). It’s the difference between a functional, integrated society and a broken one.
TIL teaching isn't a real job.
As I said, I dislike apples decision, but involving government agencies and suggesting a monopoly implies that there are no viable alternatives and that’s simply not true. You can just not buy macs anymore and refuse the update.
Corporate pressure is important but the fact that people in the tax preparation industry form a decently sized and committed voting block is even more important.
I mind, because turbotax actively lobbies to make the tax system more complex, and to put us in this situation.

Pretty much all the major tax preparers do this, and they are pretty scummy.
JFC, I skimmed top comments for something that wasn’t “but, but...”, and as of this writing all I got it is either that, or the page won’t load with an ad blocker.

To the page author, I for one appreciate the effort. No, your definition of “ethics” probably doesn’t fit mine. But having just skimmed it, I think it will give me something to chew on later. Like many, I’ll have my share of “but, but...”s, but it’s the thinking about it and not the curated list, that is important to me.
The question I have is whether a government provided automatic filing would actually be cheaper (or more effective) than say, Turbotax.

I see a couple of ways in which it might not be as favorable:

1. It costs more than $100 per tax payer per year to implement (about the cost of Turbotax). However the flat $100 or so that most people pay to Turbotax can be seen as a kind of regressive tax.

2. It is less effective at finding the biggest possible return.
Must have been an A/B test or something else specific to my setup. Saw it on google.co.uk in Chrome in the source.
> Too many turns made it very hard to read. It was quite an ordeal to draw a route.

Perhaps it's just me, but I find the 'robotified' look of the original much easier to parse than the large rounded corners, which seem more of an aesthetic choice than a practical one.
Is there some sort of course that we men can take so that we can reclaim our dominance in this domain?
Google Images still checks for exact matches. The ML stuff is an extra.
"Money laundering" is the term you're looking for; IANAL, but money laundering is illegal AF.
You have a point, and I agree OB has been disappointing. I think there's a middle ground where you offer something that still provides value for personal use, attracts potential patnerships (see Flux) but doesn't give away the "keys to the kingdom" so others can profit off of your work without you, as a bank, benefitting from building the platform in the first place.

I suspect there are is a decent number of 'techies' and early adopters who found Monzo's API, despite its limitations, attractive to them. I've used it to save myself a bunch of time with expenses and it's nice to know that, if I wanted to, I could use the internal API too.

In its current state, Monzo could easily expand the existing personal API (which deliberately doesn't allow you to scale - only whitelisted user IDs can use your OAuth client) whilst minimising intermediation risk, provided that they didn't add the same endpoints to AISP API.
Unlocking the secrets hidden inside your voice
Did pre-built in google map available on jio phone?
read:
https://jiodth.website/jio-phone-3-booking
On dignity and self-respect of programming as a profession
They use WiFi but not like that. As far as I know even signal strength is dropped as it fluctuates too much. They often use only presence or absence of networks to tell between which 'known' locations the user is moving.
The whole problem with the article's line of thinking is that, for the most part, immigrants have just as little interest in living in these places as the ones who already left.
Legacy music streamer RealNetworks zooms in on face surveillance
> This could be the start of fragmenting the ecosystem all over again.

Absolutely not. The OpenJDK is the official reference implementation, and Oracle has open sourced everything important.

The only question is how quickly the various OpenJDK packagers will provide security updates. The Red Hat option looks very practical if you're a Red Hat user.
Did you publish your benchmarks anywhere?
The contiguous USA has a population density of ~104 person/sq mile, which would put it at around 140 on the list of most dense countries on earth, just after Lithuania.
A generic beer that was too cheap for Saskatchewan
Sounds like private property is better managed than public property in SF...
A good citation can be found in the one you provided:

Under Key findings:

Its main weakness is health care outcomes. The UK appears to perform less well than similar countries on the overall rate at which people die when successful medical care
could have saved their lives.

Among its strengths, the NHS does better than health systems in comparable countries at protecting people from heavy financial costs when they are ill. People in the UK are also less likely than in other countries to be put off from seeking medical help due to costs.

So: main strength - cheap, main weakness - health care outcomes!

It's no surprise that fewer people in the UK skip medical care due to costs when it's (close to) free. The problem is that the health care is bad when you get it (according to your own provided document)!
Same. The huge wobbly inner loop is far too distracting.
Huh. That's changed, then, since previous updates were always tied to the OS. Still not great support, though. Chrome supports back to 10.10, Firefox back to 10.9, Vivaldi back to 10.10, Brave back to 10.10, etc.
You can get an emergency radio capable of receiving VHF NOAA weather alerts. There is typically at least one of the frequencies within range where ever you are. You can subscribe to weather alerts through RSS on their site as well.

https://alerts.weather.gov/

You can even pass lat/long points to the forecast page and it will pull up the closest weather station, even points in the ocean work.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.4802&lon=-1...
YC moving to SF for more signals the beginning of the end for them more than anything else. There’s such a thing as being high on your own emissions.

SF is antithetical to the kind of startup that YC used to be all about, for many reasons stated eloquently by TFA.
> Oracle remains the only member of the OpenJDK community participating in the vulnerability pre-disclosure process.

I don't know if that's true. I know the vulnerability group [1] has members outside Oracle [2], but I know next to nothing about that process. I'm told that nobody gets any advantage on security issues.

> They are also not releasing source for JDKs after 6 months.

What do you mean "after 6 months"? There are no longer major versions. Comparing the update schedule for 7 (a major release) and for 11 (a feature release) makes no sense. JDK 11 is more similar to 7u2 or 7u4, which also got security patches for only six months.

All fixes go into the OpenJDK mainline. What Oracle engineers won't be doing much of is backporting the fixes to old versions, which, again, aren't major versions. They won't be backporting much to 8 (which is a major release) now that it's five-years-old, either, but that's the same as under the old model.

> Therefore, users of non-Oracle supported JDKs will be exposed to a zero day attack between the time of Oracle's CVE disclosure/patch release and the time that their OpenJDK distribution creates, tests, and releases a patch. I would love to see these communities thrive, but the reality is that Oracle is strangling them in the crib by taking control of the most important support functions.

You're talking about users who choose one of the two new release models, and pick the one that's been designed as a paid service. If you're concerned about that, you can pick the other new model, which is not only free but easier overall.

[1]: https://openjdk.java.net/groups/vulnerability/

[2]: https://openjdk.java.net/census#vulnerability
i thought one of the features of bitcoin was that mining would eventually become too computationally expensive -- because the total number of bitcoins is fixed. so at some point, mining does not produce coins and you're only mining to process transactions. so isn't there a plateau somewhere, relative to the throughput of the network? nb: non-expert here
40% of American's cannot afford a $400 emergency. For those without a family / friend support system something as simple as a car accident, hospital stay or losing their job could quickly lead to living on the street. I think the vulnerability of low income people is very underestimated for those who don't have a safety structure such as family etc.
It would be nice to filter out/in Live Nation, large corp. ect. events. I personally like the idie fests. Great job!
Affects large number of people is not the same thing as those people having no viable alternatives. Utilities are often monopolies, and arguably Microsoft was in the 90s, but a company with like < 50% of desktop market share?
I had it too, but typed them into my Atari 800 - after which I'd save it to cassette tape.
Trying out alternative OpenJDK builds (from Azul, RedHat, Amazon, or IBM) is a good opportunity to also try GraalVM: https://github.com/oracle/graal/releases
I don't know man?

I'm not too sanguine about the possibility of either of those things happening in the United States. Public transit has always kind of gone nowhere in this nation outside of the great coastal cities and Chicago. And as for the housing proposal, I can already hear the howls of "SOCIALISM!!!" that will be raised by certain very powerful interests and political parties.
I'm self employed and had to explain to my kids why taxes in the US were so complicated and took hours to do over the weekend.

There must be powerful forces at work because Republicans have touted a flat tax or a return the size of a postcard for decades but when they controlled all three branches of government couldn't get anywhere near enough votes to pass it.

It's truly an abysmal system and I hope my kids don't have to do a giant math problem every year when they're adults.
Are they supposed to be interested in every druggie?
> Everybody means men, too. Sorby’s program, for example, improved the spatial skills of male engineering students as well, boosting their scores on tests. Because they start out ahead of their female counterparts, their gains often put them ahead on spatial cognition tests after the course. However, Sorby says, the course has made a small difference in retention rates for men, “but we’re seeing a big difference for women.”

phew
Not really in terms of just listings of code, but there are plenty of 'Learn Language X Through Games' type of books like 'Land of Lisp' or 'Automate the Boring Stuff in Python' that have the same feel.
Some flash website sites from the government don't do much to address actual concerns.

Weak security: [1]

Cost overrun: [2]

Inability to design a highly available website From [3]:
> The basic architecture of the site, built by federal contractors overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, was flawed in design, poorly tested and ultimately not functional.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/epic-...
[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/obamaca...
[3] http://swampland.time.com/2013/10/24/traffic-didnt-crash-the...
>forex consumes magnitudes more energy than Bitcoin mining

Source on this?
Actual, current picture of Tokyo subway map: https://www.tokyometro.jp/en/subwaymap/
> I can assure you the damage to Java is very real.

I've seen exactly zero sign of this. In fact, I think most _knowledgeable_ people are very happy with these changes.

Your IT department is clueless.
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> which is why they aren't usually tried as adults

It seems to me that America and the United Kingdom often try children, not just adolescents, as adults.

I'm sure that's reporting bias, and it only happens to a miniscule proportion of underage offenders, but what is the actual guideline there?
EU publishes guidelines on developing ethical AI
HTTPS has whole series of side-channel leaks, which can be exploited to fingerprint the tunnelled protocol: many implementations don't add padding or active probing resistance.

Sizable communications with an uncommon IP can be singled out by netflow analysis.

But yes, it usually works.
Just for historic record: Google finally started showing a link to the original pastebin page and it is the first result. I suspect it's because someone submitted the page to HN, which shows as the second result now. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19609280)
Your background is in engineering so that informs your choices. Further, math/CS are not linearly enumerated fields. E.g., there is no field of CS, it is a domain of many fields. Think tree, not list. That domain would take you a lifetime to get through all fields, even for an undergraduate level. There are now millions of people around the world and some are developing new material at the cutting edge. These are the reasons why degrees are now given in Systems. The only reason to try to learn all these areas is if you are designing a systems tool or the tool is you, yourself. Systems is a little appreciated area but one of increasing importance.

My degree is in Computer Systems Engineering and it it is very enjoyable work...if you like massive puzzles and are a comprehensive abstract thinker about applied areas. I need to make this more concrete so here are a few touchstones. Look at the curriculum for schools that offer degrees in systems. Weed out the ones that let you create your own curriculum, those are the ones to choose for a school, but the are too ill-defined to help you set your future. You can also take a look at the Nobel winning economists. Their work touches on both theory and application.

One of my favorites is Schelling's work on the neighborhood problem of integration. The demographic issues of income, race, neighborhood size and shape made it an intractable problem until he stepped in. He used a system approach of using image processing linear algebra to predict who moves in and out of a neighborhood to predict the changes across generations. He solved a problem that others could not and for that, among other contributions, he received the Nobel prize. His work is demonstrated in the free software tool Netlogo. It also lead to the work at NorthwesternU in complex adaptive systems analysis by Scott E Page.

We see it also used in the demograpgic analysis work in the campagns of Obama, Hillery and Trump by Cambridge Analytical. The way I think about this discussion is that "All the easy problems have been solved, now we have to work on the difficult ones." And that will take the use of new tools that collaborate with us, and tell us which tools to use.
The paper you linked mentions the diet twice, and both mentions are positive:

> Early diagnosis of the GLUT1 deficiency syndrome is important because adherence to a ketogenic diet (Glossary) [15] is an effective treatment for most patients [83]; in general, ketogenic diet efficiently suppresses epileptic seizures in childhood drug-resistant epilepsy [87].

Regarding your quote, please read the sentence right before it:

> A thromboembolic occlusion of a brain-supplying artery leads to an acute disruption in blood supply to a specific brain territory, causing cerebral ischemia (Figure 1b). Within minutes, glucose depletion and associated compromised bioenergetic pathways cause extensive neuronal death in the core of the infarction, and over time in the surrounding tissue [90, 91].

The sentence you quoted is in the context of a fucking stroke and has absolutely nothing to do with diet. Are you aware of that?

And again, the brain still has glucose readily available (and uses it) when on a ketogenic diet.

Please do try to inform yourself and/or read more carefully before judging others' views.
I've seen articles that are less political get reported a lot faster than this.
Wait, you’ve borrowed the sword to peel off some gigantic potatoes right? That’s nice!
Perhaps your company should hire some competent managers.
Its missing runbox from email services
This title is click bait, the title should say what the course is. I shouldn't have to click in to a post to have to know whether it is interesting to me. It's intentionally attention grabbing by withholding key information.

I refuse to read articles or click on links that do this so I haven't read whatever this is about.
Aurora and Zoox: Mapping different routes to autonomy
There are many sorts of homeless people. Many wouldn't be able to support themselves no matter how cheap housing is. There are many who wouldn't be homeless if housing was cheaper. This last group is the one typically targeted by laws against sleeping in cars at night. It's hard to give percentages, though.
It's hard to divorce this seemingly good news from the reality that this is probably enabled by the fact the companies like BoA don't hire low-wage workers anymore [0].

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-risi...
Dead meaning what, stable? I still use Dropbox on a daily basis and Paper is now my go-to for note-taking.
Runbox.com is missing from the email services
So the only solution is a even higher population density?
That is nowhere near the breadth or detail of actual noaa data, more of a few legacy services. Its a travesty this is all we get.
It specifically says it is not official toward the end of the article. It is very clearly framed as a proposal.
I disagree.

At this point, there is no reason to support <IE11 style JS, but JavaScript-less browsers are still A Thing and always will be. Search engines, Opera Mini, various accessibility thing, people with extremely low bandwidth, and weirdos who choose to disable JS are all factors.

Yes, if you're making a webapp, there's no good way to do it without JS and you can just be upfront about that. Also, people who can't use ES6+ are going to zero over time, so it's fine to just write ES6. But you should also have a no-JS fallback version of an information page (anything that's not a webapp) because that's an important usecase that won't drop to zero over time.
> Lol do you know anyone who lives there.

Yes I do..

> It has one of the highest property prices and rents in the world.

It's still cheaper than San Francisco.
Those cities were more like nations and the city fell when the civilization did. If we're using Ur and Babylon in reference to the complete abandonment of SF, we would need the entire American nation to collapse and be abandoned as well. Without that, SF will "die" the way Rome did or the way Detroit did. Not the way Ur or Babylon did.
I feel sorry for people living in the US, how can they call this a democracy anymore? Demos means people. You are ruled by companies at this point.