skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why are the big intangible transfers in Finance and Insurance, or Health Care, or even sometimes Real Estate all of a sudden a problem now?

Because those transfers are becoming less and less attached to tangible transactions of value while increasingly allowing the middlemen to embed themselves into the economy through regulatory capture. That's not to say they weren't a slowly growing problem before, but there was enough productivity to be gained through low hanging fruit to justify many middlemen who could claim to efficiently allocate it while taking a cut. Lawyers who can navigate complex regulatory schemes, investors who can free up capital by stripping companies in a dying industry for capital to invest in a growing one, bankers who let companies hedge their bets and trade their extreme highs for less risk of a catastrophic low, insurance companies to do the hard work of data collection so that risk/reward can be accurately priced, and so on.

There is a lot of room for all of these industries to act as middlemen while providing value, but just like a bunch of farmers can grow so much of one vegetable that they all collapse economically (taking the food supply with them), so can these middlemen go too far and bring the entire system down with them.

Take health care for example: we spend more of our GDP on healthcare than the vast majority of developed nations with worse outcomes despite the fact that the majority of research and development for drugs/devices/therapeutics is financed and carried out in the US. How much of that money is going to health insurance middlemen who structure the system to obfuscate pricing from consumers through layers of bureaucracy? How much of that money went (and continues to go) to corrupting the nation's politicians to prevent proper reform of our healthcare system? How much longer can we go with out of control healthcare costs before there is a reckoning like Medicare for all that wipes out the medical insurance industry - essentially putting everyone in the terrible spot of trading the livelihood of millions for the livelihood of millions?

That has always been a problem and it's only getting bigger.
Brexit: Home Office sorry for EU citizen data breach
The real reason is probably that the retailer wants to show the lowest price. Especially for people who might choose to cross-shop different stores.

The legitimate reason is that sales tax in the US can vary by city, or county, or state. Personally I think they should include both prices on the tag. I suppose if you live somewhere that has sales tax you get used to doing the math on the fly. I live in a state with no sales tax so it always surprises me when I shop out of state.
‘Don’t Ground the Airplanes. Ground the Pilots.’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

^ So to be clear this is normal too?
Is their egress more expensive than Amazon's? Because when I had a look at that, it sure wasn't cheap either.
It depends on the city, but I see plenty of people biking in Cambridge who, based on apparent age and time-of-day, are almost certainly commuting to or from work. Also a few on kick scooters (not as good for longer trips, but easier to bring on public transit or a sidewalk if necessary). Going to work is not optional for most people, but (depending on where you live and where you work) there can be a variety of choices for how you get there.

Biking (or scooter-ing) is faster than walking, gets you some exercise, is much cheaper than owning and fuelling a car, can be faster than a car in particularly bad rush-hour traffic if bike lanes exist... there's plenty of reasons beyond being a daredevil, if the relevant addresses line up for it.
Cell phones are older than 20 years. Those corporations were AT&T, MCI, Sprint, and GTE (I'm forgetting a few I'm sure). And shockingly, you could even have your conversations eavesdropped on by anyone with a $100 radio scanner.

So yes. Tech people have been aware of the privacy issues for a while.
If you were obviously a murderer, and then publicly railed against murder, it would make it seem suspiciously like you were up to something, which would tend to make people doubt what you're saying.

It doesn't make what they're saying automatically invalid, but knowledge that the person saying something is obviously a hypocrite is a form of evidence about how likely what they're saying is true.
Do any planes do cross-sensor sanity checks?

For example, if the AoA sensors say the nose is too high and the flight control software trims down to compensate and then it doesn't see the AoA sensors report lower pitch, couldn't it check the Attitude Indicator (AI)?

Angle of attack and attitude aren't necessarily the same, because the wind vector is not necessarily parallel to the ground, but AoA changes and AI changes should be well correlated most of the time. If trim changes are showing up in the AI data but not the AoA data, then you've probably got malfunctioning AoA sensors.
"Survey: Self-Driving Cars Need to Reduce Traffic Deaths by at Least 75% to Stay on the Roads"

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/international/2018/06/01/...
There's been a lot of reporting on this really dangerous situation, here's a recent article:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/apr/11/china-hi-tech-w...
Lines of code is not, and will never be a metric for gauging project contribution.

Most of that 850,000 lines of code is likely boilerplate setup code.
C++ is for sure extremely complicated, but I’d argue that a full understanding of value categories (glvalues, xrvalues, etc) isn’t necessary to be productive with the language.
read this while sipping water at work. I hope you enjoy the imagery of me spitting my drink across three screens, interrupting a call going on next to me, and the failed attempts as to why I thought it was hilarious as I fumble with paper towels.
Would they be willing to get a bus driving license ?
Thanks much! That was another program I thought I'd try but it was too complicated for me to really have the time to learn.

Thanks for your interest in the application, leave some comments in the slack section on what you think.
Again, indictments != convictions. There's many things you can indict that you'll not win a case in court on.

> Assange distributed emails stolen by the GRU.

Let's say he did. That does not mean he knew where they came from, or even that he received them from the same/original source.
In 1999 when Palm Pilots and Blackberries were there, showing a clear trend towards greater handheld power after things like brick cellphones and gameboys?

Yeah, that was the general consensus about what the future would be.
Section 31 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act:

Where—

(a) a person—

(i) has been arrested for an offence; and

(ii) is at a police station in consequence of that arrest; and

(b) it appears to a constable that, if he were released from that arrest, he would be liable to arrest for some other offence,

he shall be arrested for that other offence.
For me: there's a world of difference between giving someone your private data and having third-party services (Scorecard, Quantcast, Criteo, Tapad, others) give it to them.

Just because I happen windowshop some store doesn't mean I gave them permission to ask for my info around. They're free to ask me. But that's just me.
He's just whining.
X Windows on an Early Amiga
Same here. As a company you can go "we need this to save our asses, I don't care if it costs $50k in a 4 person company", but personally I kind of do care about the cost for retrieval...

I've been comparing cloud storage prices to hard drive prices for years now. My first thought when seeing the storage prices was "huh, that might actually be worth it", but depending on the retrieval costs, you might still want to roll your own no matter the storage costs. For private use, I am (was?) planning a variant of this as soon as I am finished doing a server migration: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7rjcdn/home_ma...
Does Greece even want it?
Maybe this solution will be what you stick with?
I’m not a big fan of centrally planned cities, but this author has it out for China. The original articles about “China’a ghost town” were also not true. A narrative was invented to sell an interesting story about some failure of China... this article is a non-story, and just an attempt to revive a topic parroted since the last decade.

Many of China’s urban districts were centrally planned and sat empty before they were eventually filled, including the famous Pudong district of Shanghai.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepar...

"If you look around, you will think this is a normal city and just assume this is the way it always was, not knowing that 10 years ago people were calling it a ghost city, 20 years ago it was just apartments and villages."
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.abc.net.au/article/9912186

Short story is some developments work, others don’t, but investing in real estate is one way for people to park money so people still end up buying up all the properties.
I think this is an example of Tu Quoque[1] logical fallacy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
I think this was a really good distinction, because it suggests a course of action. It sounds like you would support a requirement in a consumer contracts that a person's contact information may not be used for marking purposes or shared with others to use for marking.

This could essentially decimate the direct marketing industry, but that might be the desired outcome. Unfortunately governments don't like to pass laws the decimate any industry no matter how small.

I think it is also very valuable because it more clearly defines what you mean by privacy. The privacy violation happens, not when they collect your contact information, or when it is put into a list, it is when it is used to send you advertising which you find unwelcome.
Noted - it's on the list of to-do's. Thanks!
That's obviously your choice. Just be aware you're prioritizing (hopefully) getting more widespread adoption most likely at the cost of the business. The people likely to make money on it will be someone other than you. That's just the harsh reality of open source.
Actually the City of Cambridge installed a bike counter on one of the main thoroughfares toward one of the bridges over the Charles River into Boston. There are more than 1000 trips in each direction on a weekday.
The pilot training is part of the overall systematic design, neither the equipment, nor the pilots exist alone.
I think "impoverished" is too strong a word. I think Orban does more damage in people's mind long-term than economically.
No, but if it was an "unlikely man"... I work with Computer Engineers and Scientists, and I know what is an "unlikely" person. That's a really handsome soft-spoken guy, wearing a shirt and clean shaven. That guy tries to sell you software but you know he has no bloody clue what he's talking about. If it was some "unlikely minority" - for instance Asian person regardless of gender would not be checked, while some other groups might be seen with more suspicion. You can see this as a security check. Yes, it's prejudice - but, in a way, it's a good kind. We aren't saying "she couldn't have done it because she's a girl", all we're saying "based on our life experiences - person of that age, gender and demographics is unlikely to have played the most important role in such a project". Now we try to check our suspicion, if it's proven to be wrong, and indeed she was the most prolific contributor - then next time similar person would get an award we would be less suspicious! All about life-experience!
I spent five years in the C++ mines, and spooky corners and edge cases and arcane rules like this made me happy to leave.

Working in a language where I can be concerned with the task and hand and not ownership issues is refreshing.
IIRC, it was Elon Musk that said something along the lines of it's not too difficult to get self-driving cars to 99.9% safety - but that's still 1 accident in every 1000, which is terrible all around. You need to shoot for many, many 9's before it can be considered a practical alternative.
Algorithm that made the first black hole image possible
Tesla's approach thinks white trailers are open sky. The river comparison is not unreasonable at all.

Almost all of the startups in the space are following the Tesla approach of just throwing machine learning at the problem which means almost all work in the space suffers from novel input producing unpredictable results. This is one of the things that has killed trained and evolved systems in the past and the fact that few of the companies in this space are even trying to manage it (either by building interpretable models or by using models and using ML to do parameter fitting) is a good indicator that the whole business is either a fraud or is built on the premise that with enough data or, for the un-cautious and unaware, enough simulation, the problem solves itself.

I think what we are actually seeing is that Waymo (where, in ten years, they might have a solution) and Tesla (which is mostly worst-in-class but as a company is the master of hype) drove hype around self-driving. Then Uber and Lyft latched on (because they needed a story to paper over their terrible economics) and pushed it even higher. The Otto thing and Cruise's acquisition made VCs pay attention.

So these companies are acquisition bait for the assumed-clueless big auto companies. They will not deliver self-driving cars. At best they will deliver next-generation enhancements to emergency braking, etc.
For a moment, I thought the drones were delivering homes, and I was very excited. I am still excited, but less so now.
>Taking a walk alone down a dark alley in a city at night where a rough looking person in a hoody is approaching you from the opposite direction with their hands in their pockets and happens to be a member of the race that is responsible for 90% of the homicides in that city may be enough to change your mind about stereotypes in the modern world...

Well. That's one of the more overtly bigoted comments I've seen here in a while.

It wouldn't change my mind. The assumption one would assume you would expect to be drawn from "the race that is responsible for 90% of the homicides in that city" to "all else being equal, members of that race are likely to be homicidal," is not at all reasonable, or even mathematically justifiable. Anyone approaching you in a dark alley at night could be a threat, and still, on average, most likely isn't, regardless of race.

If this is the best you can do to justify stereotyping as reasonable then I stand by my comment.
This isn't entirely true. There is a way out. Media outlets who publish things like "Facebook Showed Me My Data Is Everywhere And I Have Absolutely No Control Over It" could also remove the Facebook scripts and widgets from their sites and write articles to the effect that it's a good decision. The way out of it is to stop with trying to shock people with the fact that they're being tracked and start taking proactive measures to prevent it in the future.

There's some logical fallacy at play when people truly believe that Facebook is the sole perpetrator of this issue.
> Also they refer to you with derogatory nicknames for homosexual people.

You're making a generalization about people, that is the problem right here.
Why not, may I ask? Just means both sides are wrong.
How about elevating those public spaces up two floors and leaving all of the level beneath to motorized transport (preferably electric only)?

The safest engineering solution is to separate heavy motorized vehicles from human scale things.
I agree, and just as important as weight/reps and number is the speed of reps. Muscle growth comes from the amount of time the muscles are being utilized under weight. If someone cranks out 10 bench press reps quickly, that will have vastly different results than a 3110 lift. (3 seconds up, 1 second hold, 1 second down)
That has nothing to do with the subject at hand. You are conflating issues.
Is that the same JS used for Analytics? I think that's just for GTM. Here is the analytics script I see more often and it doesn't have jQuery: https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
Do people from the South (that aren't a part of traditionally discriminated groups) get discriminated against actively because of their birthplace?

In 2019, it has become fashionable to impute beliefs on another person on scant evidence. Perhaps as little as what someone looks like, or what 'type' they are based on the first impression.

Back in the day, we used to call this bigotry.

I dream of the day when all Americans will be judged not by [surface signifier] but by the content of their character.

EDIT: If you are on the Left, then it is especially incumbent on you to call out your own side. What's more, if you're afraid to speak up, or frequently decide to hold your tongue, start asking yourself why.

It's a frequent trope in history: Sociopaths co-opting a cause and the language of movements.

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
Companies that do not figure out a long-term partnership model will definitely not find this sustainable. Spending billions of $$ without a clear revenue mechanism in short-term is definitely not sustainable, even though AV will be trillion $$ industry long term. And if you doubt my last statement about AV becoming a Trillion $$ opportunity, read this book on AVs by Spencer Burns (legit automobile guy) and you will see his reasoning.
Would not this make the pharmacy sales clerks who handled the sale, in addition to the pharmacist, indictable both under charges of accessory to murder and under conspiracy to commit murder?
So, 140 failures in 30 years of aviation... ~4 failures per year FOR ALL FLIGHTS IN A YEAR. That's unreliable?
Vox is not a reliable source for information and has a clear bias. They were pushing pro Clinton articles left and right while lying about Sanders' tax plan.
Hi! Thank you for your comment. first of all, well it's easy to say I didn't bring any tangible skill to the table because I wasn't a developer. lol. Considering the fact that I was performing the all-suficiency role aside being the developer obviously. My number 1 job was to get contents which is technically the most important drive of the platform. I remember my CTO agreed to join me and work for free only if I could get him 100 premium short films in 2 weeks. You can imagine the level of convincing I had to do to fellow filmmakers to give a simmingly unknown video platform their precious contents for free! I met the target and 12 days and like they say, the rest is history.. lol

I was also the marketing guy, making pitches and going for startup competitions, exhibitions, film festivals and every other thing you can think of for us to grow. When I had spent all my savings, I had to convince an investor to fund a startup that didn't have the desired traction and making zero profit. I was a desperate young entrepreneur.. Alas, it was a bad decision eventually but it was a life saver at that time.

About the mobile payment integration angle. Am sure you will understand how difficult it is to partner with a telco without the required numbers they want to see. Mobile money is popular in eastern Africa but not in the west where most of our customers were and a few from USA. our best bet was carrier billing but like I mentioned earlier, you don't just contact a telco and ask for partnership! I know a few friends whose startups are very successful and it had taken them almost a year to get a meeting with the right person in the telco company!!!

we eventually found fortumo but we closed shop before we could implement. It's really easy for you to criticize but you have no idea how hard it was for us to run a startup with less than 0.1 percent chance of survival for 2 years. lol.

Thanks for the comment again.
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I hoped you were someone that commented in the slack channel, I mentioned to go there if you wanted the gift card. Alas, my budget is already maxed out and aren't giving any additional cards beyond the people I've already talked to.

Stay active in the slack and maybe I'll do it again later ;)
|no one would chime in and say "No way, murder is perfectly fine, you just did it last night!"

No, but they might say: "Why should we listen to you!? MURDERER!" Then proceed to stone you to death, and see who dares get up on the podium to make an announcement about stoning.
> If you are going to geofence self-driving cars it is questionable whether they are better than trains and buses.

If they could manage to geo fence them to highways and get full functionality there it would be a big win for commuters and road trippers.

However the companies can't then make billions off of automated city taxi services.
Self driving cars are simply a backwards-compatible transit solution. We have already invested so much money in car-based transportation to the detriment of trains. But, we will still need to continue paying billions and billions to repair and build new roads.
Its not exactly the same, If I'm doing it, It might be benefiting me. If other do it might harm me.
Damn you, Netflix Why won't you let me kill Bear Grylls?
Ask HN: HTTP Path vs. Query Parameters
What sort of design considerations might sites like YouTube use when deciding between path or query parameters for identifying resources?

For example, YouTube uses a query param 'v' to specify a video id:

youtube.com/watch?v=<video_id>

Instead of sticking it in the path:

youtube.com/watch/<video_id>
Is there really proof of much of anything in here? Seems like more Russia hysteria.

Lots of use of the word "probably" and "likely" in this article.
Exactly as you have described by naming it - a superdelegate system.
That was intentional, but not good enough. I didn't want to lose the category input form, I'm thinking of a good way to solve this.
My understanding is that the amount of local government debt is pretty high generally in China, but the central government is basically the one backing it all to some extent correct?

So the question is what does the central government choose to do about it?
In one of the recent threads about Microsoft switching their Edge browser to be based on Chromium, I thought I read that one of the arguments against Firefox was the lack of ARM support.

I will continue to hold that the Edge team/leadership at MSFT made a wrong choice betting on a web monoculture here, and I hope Firefox remains popular as an alternative.
TIL <amp-img> is a standard HTML tag that works without loading the AMP JS.

AMP supports a subset of standard HTML, plus a whole bunch of AMP-specific extensions. That's a significantly different thing from being just a safe subset of HTML.
Summaries, Notes, and Reviews from Books I've Read
> It is easy to tie yourself in knots by doing the complicated thing. The solution is to do the simple thing.

Good advice. Corollary: don't use tools that make it hard to do simple things, or force you to live with the not-simple things others have done.
850,000 loc vs what looks to be an initial commit and a merge: https://github.com/klbouman/hopstools/commits?author=klbouma...

if I'm wrong here please point it out
This is complete snake oil.
Assange arrest exposes him to risk of serious human rights violations
> a book on Cryptography in middle-age Venice (how cool is that?), but with publication still many months off.

Sounds interesting, link?