skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I correct in understanding that Medicare for All plans to abolish private insurance? I prefer there be a system where you can get private insurance if you want, but if you go without you are automatically on Medicare.
Companies care only about click fraud in as much as it costs them money.

My guess is that this kind of add-on will make your traffic stand out like a sore thumb too so while some companies will happily log that you're into every ad they throw at you, most won't bill for your fake clicks and simply have a very easy time tracking the pages you visit across the web. Where you go says a lot more about you than any ad you click on while you are there.

If enough people use something like this it would force shitty low effort ad platforms to implement some basic fraud detection, but forcing minor players into investing in their services isn't exactly screwing anyone over.
Surface Hub 2S advances Microsoft’s vision to empower teams
Without further elaboration on what "uninvited physical contact" means, this smells like manufactured outrage. It's definitely not right to conflate uninvited contact with sexual assault this way, because that trivialises actual sexual assault.
Interesting, I like the news.
That's very optimistic of you. I can definitely think of a few situations in which I would be better off without that "bonus time". I'm not sure we have enough information to know how a brain would perceive being activated but without most it's sensory organs and the busy it was grown in. If you're used for experimentation before they have a way to communicate, stuck in void with only yourself for company is really a best case scenario.

It's sort of like being given a choice at the time of death. Would you rather everything ended now, or do you want to opt for a small chance at future life if there's also a chance that life consists entirely of torture of one type or another.
Sometimes there are comparatively simple lifehacks you can establish to prevent complacency from leading to problems.

A little example from my life is forgetting to secure the buckle of my motorcycle helmet. Once I've done everything else and gotten my gloves on, it's a pain to take them off again to buckle it up if I forget, and a few times I just shrugged it off and rode anyway.

Then an instructor suggested he always follows exactly the same procedure each time, to the point that he always even puts the same glove on first. It made me wonder if I should do that, and in thinking it through I realised if I changed my order to always buckle up before putting my glasses back on, I'd never forget. There's no way I'd ride off without the glasses (because I can't see without them!), so if that step can only come _after_ buckling up, then there's now no way I'd ever not buckle it up either.
What? It is extremely bold. The boldest thing I can imagine a company doing actually...
You already have other mapping options like Garmin. And you don't have to pay much for them either. They are 100-300 bucks. They work pretty well... and could really use a boost in what seemed like a dying market.
Haha, came here to say the same thing. I see the HN anti-fun police have reacted swiftly!
The journalist Joseph Menn looks like he has stellar integrity as a long time writer (despite hiding Beto's involvement with Dead Cow cult) so it must just be me.
diseases that were effectively eliminated returned

Measles doesn't spontaneously (re)appear in a population on its own; it's always imported.
Ah, that's rather annoying. I'm kinda excited about these. I wonder if the slight gap in the fold when closed is causing a bit of instability in the joint.
It depends what it is. The government is efficient at sending people checks and retail stores like Walmart are efficient places to buy things. It's hard to see how to do much better for supplying people with new stuff.

On the other hand, thrift stores also have an important role for getting used stuff like clothing to people who need it, and charities do some of that.

Then there are various services that charities do, which is a whole different thing and not easily replaced. But some of their funding comes from the government.
>This is not what happened. Access to the account provided no additional information, it just would have protected her identity somewhat.

doesnt matter; it's still a CFAA violation. if the facts as they have been presented are correct, assange is guilty of conspiracy.
Finding the Right Match
It's a syndicated article
Apple maps still has a ways to go. I say this as someone who tries to use it frequently because I much prefer its UI, especially with Carplay. But it still has much worse traffic data, still sometimes sends me on weird routes through neighborhoods that don't save any time nor distance, and lately has a fun glitch where it sometimes instructs me turn left instead of right or vice/versa because it apparently thinks my vehicle is facing 180° from what it actually is. The turn glitch has now happened to me several times across two different devices. I thought I imagined it the first time.
Idk, I don't think these things are so linear.

I'm not sure what exactly is a "mediocre office job", but normal jobs require a different set of skills and priorities. Athletics benefit from a very singular focus, it's clear what you need to do and largely how to do it. If you're not good enough, it's generally made very clear pretty fast. There's often a huge network around you and lots of emotional reinforcement.

Normal living and normal jobs are not so. The big difference being that your priorities are scattered and there's no clear item to focus on. Very easy to miss things and make a mistake. Jobs are full off odd negotiations and office politics and proving something is hard. It's not very clear where you are.
unintentional my foot

the code to implement that functionality didn't come from nowhere
I thought maybe looking into how people in comas experience their time, but apparently it's common for them to have experienced much of what happened around them as a hazy dream[1], which means a lot of sensory input was still being processed. I'm not sure what it would be like to actually lose all sensory input. There's probably some disease that causes this, so maybe I'll stumble on it eventually, but even then we'll only get answers at this point if it's reversible...

1: https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-for-you-to-awaken-aft...
If you're willing to loosen your definition of "strategy board game", games like Die2Nite, Supremacy 1914, and Neptune's Pride have a similar, turn based gameplay where you have hours to think between moves.
The chain is based in China, but one of Miniso's founders is actually Japanese.

I recently ran into a "Yubiso" in KL, meaning there's now a Malaysian clone of a Chinese clone of Japanese stores (Miniso is basically Uniqlo and Muji mashed together).
What Is a Data Scientist
I enjoyed the first years of the Internet as well, but as fun and exciting the early web, IRC ad Usenet forums were, there was no Google Maps, no Wikipedia, no next-day shipping of almost everything, no Youtube... many things I could live without today as I did at the time, but overall I think they have a decent utility.

What the Internet has lost in terms of mystique and pioneering freedom, it has gained in terms of utility and convenience, IMHO.

The main reason I would like to go back to 1999 would be because I would be 20 years younger :)
FileVault is encryption at the disk level; you unlock at startup. Unless you have other encryption methods for files or directories, once you're logged in, they are unencrypted as far as Google Drive or any other app sees it.
Since no one seemed believed it's almost trivial, I went ahead and implemented it:

https://imgur.com/t7ivg0V

It took about an hour of Googling OpenCV questions. Also, I've never actually used OpenCV before, and don't use Python regularly.

I haven't tested it against the full set of images. Even if it's not perfect you could at least use this to narrow down ones that are within some threshold, then manually verify they were tagged correctly.

I'll post the code shortly.
I see that the playground has syntax highlighting and uses `ace`, whose syntax definitions are defined in JavaScript [0] and look fairly usable. I guess it could even be converted into a `.sublime-syntax` file without too much trouble :)

[0]: https://github.com/projectfluent/play/blob/a4f49a4a7eeb93535...
Not even clear he's talking about vandalized glass. Sounds like maybe he's referring to those squishy resistive-touch displays found in ATMs and POS terminals and other kiosk-type applications, and early consumer devices. Did those ever work well, even when new?
Except then, you have autofill/extensions that form fill for you.

Generating simple math question/answer can work well enough to keep out non-targeted traffic (someone not targeting a bot tailored to your site).
This is exactly what I was thinking during the whole read. It's what Comcast did in the early 2000s when they were scamming people by adding random charges. Just keep them sandbagged long enough to give up, and it's basically free income.
This is now considered Carbon Sequestration, and will help save the planet.
Bloomberg is paywalled so I wasn’t able to read much of the linked article; Reuters, however, wrote about Don Quixote in August 2018 [0].

Interesting retailing concept. I do wonder if Japanese consumers will ever tire of the novelty. Then again, 29 years of growth might suggest otherwise.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-don-quijote/japans-...
Whether you like this or feel like it's not as powerful as you'd like, try http://recursivedrawing.com/ in a similar vein with discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3951255. It's simultaneously simpler and more expressive than this tool in my opinion.
I have been actively repairing and reverse engineering a number of lisp machines from Symbolics- including original L and G machines (36xx).

I have working disk emulation, ‘breath of life’ for bringing up new system disks, and a number of folks can probably attest I’m the best home to preserve these long term.

I can arrange pickup.

I also will keep the systems together, safe from keyboard collectors.

Please, get me in touch with your friend.

My love of these systems and desire to properly preserve them runs deep: ifinder@outlook.com
Continuous loop? I feel for their employees' sanity.
Civilization IV/V or maybe even VI is good strategy game and can be played online.
The outrage isn't because the incident happened. It's because DataCamp didn't do anything to reprimand the executive, and because they issued a completely tone deaf response, and because they tried to hide it.

I'm against bogus sexual assault claims as much as anyone but if you're DataCamp you really have no choice but to just fire this guy and move on (and it's obviously too late now to even do that).
Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (Batna)
Are there just PR departments behind the scenes leaking things like this following the other bad press received by other tech firms? Anybody have experience with this world? How far out can you predict media coverage I wonder.
Ok, now explain why I should trust a bank with my money, but not $any-internet-company with my personal info.
GitHub ingested a ZIL detector and printer into their system within 36 hours
Keeping Master Green at Scale
There is a second, smaller screen on the back (or front, I suppose) of the phone.
Why? Isn't that how signatures of any Linux distro work too? The packager signs the package not the developer.
There have been a lot of data breaches in companies. If a company has information about you there is a decent chance it will become public sometime in the future. Google knows who you are and everything you've searched for and almost every website you've looked at. Facebook knows who you are and every picture and profile that you've ever looked at. Someone could leak this information and then everyone will know what a horrid little pervert you are.

I'm not sure 5 year olds share the same fears as adults so think of it more as an explain like I'm 15.
Yup, creator of Aether here. Small difference, this is federated, Aether is decentralised. Far as I understand this is more like Mastodon where some people host servers that talk to each other. Aether is more like a decentralised Usenet, every user is a server.
TickTick is my favorite.
"it's not so much the fear mongering, it's their distrust of scientific studies due to economic incentives."

It's fear that fuels that distrust and places the burden of proof on the pro-vaccine side. A rational person, unmoved by emotion, would see that there's far more reason to trust vaccines than to not. It's not irrational to say there's some reason to scrutinize medical industry studies, but in the case of vaccines there's also overwhelming evidence that they work. Fear turns that small case against the studies into a foregone conclusion which must be disproved, instead of simply the side with less supporting evidence. And it's much harder to disprove something than to provide greater evidence to the contrary.
off topic but ~20 years ago Lemmy was a beautiful,native vi clone for Windows. I wish the author had kept it going or made it open source. Vim has such an ugly GUI.
Not to mention they failed to lay the fiber competently.
Counter 1: zuck uses Facebook.

Counter 2: I don't trust you doesn't mean I trust no one. I wouldn't give you 20k to watch either, but I would give that much to a bank without a second thought.
I love this and it demonstrates the kind of statistics I wish I was a lot better at.

I've just ordered a huge box of fun sized M&M packets and will try using computer vision to count them to copy this study from start to finish for learning purposes.
I've found that the "Azure Storage" services (blob, queues, table) are pretty decent (for what they are). If you don't have huge throughput or size needs that is. Different beasts, but definitely useful imho.

If I need really high load/throughput, I'd probably reach for Cassandra on DO for best bang for the buck. YMMV though, and not too big on Cassandra unless you really need it.
Who on earth thinks drinking helps you sleep better? I've missed out on the best factoids it seems.
Did you know that languages even within different states in India can be vastly more different than the differences between French and German, all with a different script and all? Yes, India is probably more diverse all on it's own, compared to all of EU perhaps.
Other than raising the money, that doesn't seem too hard to solve. The Federal Reserve could buy index funds and be a passive investor like everyone else.

I'm reminded of Matt Levine's running joke (?) about whether or not index funds are socialism.
Melbourne, Australia has had a pay-what-you-can restaurant (actually a number of them coming and going) since 2000: https://www.lentilasanything.com
I picture one of those Our Incredible Journey-type posts, capped with "and all city utilities and emergency services will be shut down at the end of the month".
They already make money with it by the data it collect and the users it retains.
Yes, of course safety is not comparable and is paramount in importance. However just in terms of the day-to-day experience of living in these places - I'm not so sure London has an obvious advantage.
Yes, it seems most people are unwilling to give up a concrete benefit to avoid a hypothetical threat. I think the privacy threat will only seem concrete when a higher percentage of people are expressing concern over it. I have not found a short, compelling argument that works for everyone, or even most everyone. The best approach I know is to tailor an argument to the individual in order to present the privacy threat they might most care about. Even with a tailored argument, I would guess that less than 20% of nontechnical people are swayed by what I say. I take hope in the fact that there is evidence societal norms can be changed by a surprisingly small minority[1].

[1] https://ndg.asc.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Centola...
In my own experience, I've found it much easier to install tensorflow with GPU support from scratch (including cuDNN...) than it is to install Spark/Hadoop.
> mapping options like Garmin

Except Garmin - having been decimated by Google and Apple maps - is getting pretty bad too. I've been using them for >15 years with multiple devices and every update lately seems to make their routing worse AND for some unfathomable reason makes the GPS reception less reliable (if I were a sceptic I'd suggest they are trying to force you to go for a new model via slowly crippling the device with every update).
This is why I think most people don't care about privacy issues. They may run into all kinds of situations where they are screwed over because of the data companies have collected from them. Their health insurance rates might go up, they might not get a call back from a potential employer, they might even have their identity stolen but they won't know any of that was caused by the data a company took from them that was eventually sold or leaked to others.

If they don't know when their data is used against them, or how, or by who it doesn't change the fact that they are worse off for it, but they don't have the ability to connect the dots and see the problem.
Sure, but what makes the analogy not hold? Just as there are more parties interested in harming a president, there are more parties interested in spying on Zuckerberg than you or I.
> That the biggest tech forum, in the biggest tech city in the "freest country" in the world, can not even talk about their country's President and [...]

Not everything has to be about politics.

Also, this point doesn’t seem especially coherent to me. A country is generally considered tyrannical if one cannot criticize its leaders, not the other way around.

Also, you don’t have to use the word “doublethink” when you just mean hypocrisy. It doesn’t help your point any.

Also, tl;dr.

(For context, I generally considered myself to be somewhat right wing.

Though I’ve never actually voted yet. Haven’t had many opportunities, and didn’t feel great about any of the candidates.)
The article mentions that they only buy returned overstock items from manufacturers at steep discounts. So this stuff was getting made anyways.
Insurer Warns of Existential Threat on Climate Policy
T-Mobile, Comcast launch anti-robocalling feature, claim industry's first
The point about number two is that you don't get to choose who gets the information. Privacy means you choose what information about you is shared and with whom. An invasion of privacy is taking that control away.
Do you mean rerouting? Google Maps is tuned differently than Waze, which caters to drivers looking to shave off minutes or even seconds. It tries to keep directions simple and easier to follow (e.g. not making a large number of turns), even if that means a slightly slower route. That was a deliberate product decision, at least until a few years ago.

What kind of incomprehensible directions and business names are you referring to?
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>However, most of the time you are working on something that is New.

So I was just thinking about that today. I just bought one of those ridiculous 'incline' rowing machines; as you 'row' it lifts your body off the ground to provide resistance (in addition to the normal rowing motions) - I'd bet money this design lasts rather longer than the type of cheap rowing machine that uses gas pistons to provide the resistance.

There's all sorts of ordinary, everyday stuff that must be engineered to not come apart while using the absolute minimum of material (or the absolute cheapest and lightest of material; I imagine shipping was a significant portion of the cost to me)

I mean, that's the thing about engineering stuff. If you are willing to spend money on lots of high quality raw materials, even someone like me without much engineering background at all can design something that lasts just by massively over-speccing everything. The engineering skill comes in when you have to build a rowing machine that can stand up to vigorous use by a fifteen stone american, but they only give you a buck fifty worth of aluminum to work with.

I mean, I guess what I'm saying is that I look around my world and I see a bunch of stuff that must have taken a huge amount of engineering skill to make (I mean, to make at the price point that I got it at... to be functional in spite of the absolute minimum of raw materials) - would all that stuff be 'new' to an engineer?
Your argument could also be used to decline hiring carriers of HPV, HIV, HSV, or hepatitis.
The root cause of the 2008 GFC was improperly risk rated mortgage backed securities and associated credit default swaps, not China’s central economic planning.
I’m genuinely not sure if you intended sarcasm?

It’s not really anything new. Over the last couple hundred years there’s a long history of towns and neighborhoods run by companies.

See:

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_village
Mmm Daiso. Guess it depends on what you're looking for. I love it because it has all sorts of useful things you can repurpose as a maker that you wouldn't find anywhere else locally. (Or at least not cheaply.)

Large silicone mat for $1.50, Nice bamboo slab for $3, stainless steel rulers, fine-point dry erase markers, etc... There are some gems in there.
Ex-SWE here. A metric fuckton of engineering in cloud goes into protecting systems against douchebags (e.g. rate limits, isolation). Those systems are not required for single tenancy systems in small orgs. Furthermore, those protection systems are often a cause of downtime. I think there are grains of truth in OPs suggestion you can roll your own on at small scale cheaper and with similar reliability. The key saving is it would never survive a multi tenancy situation.
How to Use React Hooks in React Native?
The agent I choose it the government, which I am proposing becomes the common agent of all Americans and advocates for all of us - since the expertise to act as a rational agent in this setting is unavailable to most citizens.

This extreme libretarianism stuff is pure BS, health care services in an emergency cannot exist as a free market.
They make no sense because they can't or don't understand the second order effects of not having privacy. Plenty of them still think there is "some guy in the CIA watching me masturbate", and think they are immune to constantly being brainwashed, or that resistance to status-quo neoliberal capitalism is something only "bad people" do. They don't understand that things like the French Revolution don't happen when surveillance is ubiquitous, and when beliefs and desires are shaped by people trying to either sell you something or make you believe something or make you behave.
I'm not sure if many people have experienced losing the "practical obscurity" this article talks about firsthand. Property records are public. So are WHOIS records. But it's unrealistic to manually search all the property records, phone books, WHOIS records to find someone you're looking for. However, some websites index these, and some search engines index those sites. I've had people contact me that I would prefer couldn't find me because my information was searchable due to a WHOIS record.

There are people out there slurping up all the information they can find in the public and attempting to connect it together. If you want to see what I mean, go check out your mylife.com profile. Mine has a big red warning because I have neighbors with court records. It says I "may" have sex offenses. What the actual fuck? This company needs to eat shit.

This isn't about people tracking you to give you better ads. Its about people tracking you to sell information to whoever wants to pay them. Its way fucking worse.