skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original pitch deck for G+ (https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-presentation-that-...) really laid out a compelling view for a social network that worked well for people who had multiple distinct subnetworks ad they didn't want to cross the streams. Personally I thought the presentation was brilliant and I was behind the general strategy until Vic took over and started to wield the plus-hammer.
One thing not considered much on a balance sheet basis, there are a number of different costs. Capital, maintenance, energy, insurance, and taxes/fines/fees.

Battery electric cars exceed or will eventually exceed gasoline/diesel powered cars on a capital, maintence, and energy cost basis.

That sets up a situation where there'll be no market for synth gasoline because the capital and maintenance costs exceeds the energy cost.
> The role of police is to uncover the truth, leaving no stone unturned.

This is the argument for blanket surveillance of everything, at all times. Where do we draw draw the line? If I call the police to report a break-in on my car, I don't expect them to request my bank records, location history for the last five years, and a signed statement from my family, as the truth might turn out to be that I never owned the car in the first place.

> the femonazis who don't care to uncover the truth about false accusations might be upset by this

You're missing the broader point. It's not limited to any particular types of cases: "They [...] will be extended to other types of Crown Court cases over the course of this year"[1] and it's not limited to false accusations: "If information is identified from your device that suggests the commission of a separate criminal offense, other than the offense(s) under investigation, the relevant data may be retained and investigated by the police"[original article].

[1] https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/progress-update-in-meet...
> Most articles we write at this point are less high-level than this one

Flipping through a few pages and I don't see anything all hat redeemable. It's all very generic stuff that "motivational speakers" repeat over and over in slightly different ways. Like, I don't see any specific advice for anything that would allow you to take direct, measurable action.

I get why you do it, though. Like you said, those pages attract the most traffic. It's just my opinion that it adds to the garbage online that does the opposite of helping people.
How to connect your application to IOTA Tangle in 9 minutes
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/multiobjectd...
Who else would you be interacting with? You would only exist through our own technology. You would solely exist in a predetermined state of "existence" created by us. How would that be "transhuman"? It's just a lateral form of the experience we create for ourselves now, just without the inconvenience of objective reality and immediate consequence. We don't even understand the state of our own existence. How can we move forward when we don't even know where we are?
They had no choice but to support it. The emperor is incredibly popular in Japan. In fact, the abdication threw a spanner in the works for Abe and the LDP wrt the constitutional changes hey wanted for allowing Japan to get involved in external conflicts if its allies are involved.

For some history, this is the second time Abe has been prime minister. The first time he had to resign. This was directly after proposing the constitutional change. Now, Wikipedia (and the western media it seems) reported that Abe resigned due to the poor performance of his economic policies. However, at the time my impression was that he resigned over the backlash to the constitutional proposals. At the time my Japanese wasn't very good, so I could definitely have gotten it wrong, but that was certainly what I understood.

Fast forward to a few years ago. Abe got back into power, instituted his Abenomics and then re-proposed the constitutional changes. It seemed like it was inevitable because they had enough time to push through the changes and write the constitutional law before the next general election. And then out of the blue the emperor announced, "I want to retire. Please implement the constitutional changes that would allow me to do so". These changes, perhaps not incidentally, meant that Abe could not draft his changes until after the next general election.

It has been suggested (by the NHK no less -- unfortunately you'll have to take my word for it, but that's where I heard of the notion) that this was an intentional move by the emperor. Who knows... However it is true that he has been suffering from poor health and has not been able to perform all of his duties.

Anyway, the general election was held and Abe and the LDP survived, so presumably they will go ahead with their plans. However, the latest I've seen is that there is still considerable opposition in the populace (with over 50% of the population opposing any changes to the constitution). The last I heard Abe has said that he might not go forward with it.

They are under increasing pressure from the US, though. Also, Japan has wanted the US out of Okinawa for a long time, with the US always promising that they will leave as soon as their base in Guam is complete (which never seems to happen). I don't think the US will ever leave Okinawa without Japan being able to take military action the in the sea of Japan because otherwise China will pretty much have free reign there. At the moment, all Japan can do is show up with the coast guard and say "Please leave. Pretty please".
> to ensure the data is preserved along with a machine to read it or instructions on how to build such a machine

You don't need to preserve the machine. You just need to be able to emulate it sufficiently close on then-current hardware. The nice thing about this approach is that if it's done right, then it scales more or less indefinitely, since you can run emulators inside other emulators. So long as at any given point we have one that covers the previous generation...

This takes care of file formats and software. Maintaining compatibility with the physical medium on which data is archived is trickier, because you can't emulate the reader. But on the other hand, with digital data, you can just copy it over to the new medium. So, again, as long as the archives are regularly updated to keep up with the tech - not even current, just whatever is still available - we're good.
I know that doesn't feel like optimism to you, but in my experience whenever people decide to let things get so bad that there has to be a revolution, bad just becomes the new normal. The only advancements I've seen in politics, in my few decades of paying attention, have come from people working incredibly hard to make tiny improvements.
I fixed that. Thanks for pointing it out. Not sure how I managed to spell it incorrectly once and correctly once in the same sentence.
That's a terrible excuse for having bad customer support.
Most readers on HN are fully capable of doing that or have done that before. Running a small to medium site isn’t too hard.

Acquiring users, finding volunteers for content moderation.. that’s the hard part.
I sure hope so.

We were getting a blood work for wifr, and when we checked pricing online we were shocked to learn that self pay price was around 300 and through insurance it would be 8k. Crazy, and no free market would function this way.
Except when they are not free and have messed up regulations.
How many people are you willing to let die to get to that revolution.

Then, once the revolution comes, how many people are you willing to let die while you iron out the operational bugs in your new system.

Fixing the US healthcare system is going to be like changing an engine mid flight. It will require long term planning and consist of a lot of bandaids and ducktape while we work on it. Unfortunately, our political system is by-polar, so plans need to be designed not by what will work best, but by what cannot be dismantled when leadership changes.
You understand why I would have an interest in what my medical procedures cost then, yes?
If you really feel this way, go read the comments in the thread about Eric Schmidt leaving the Alphabet board of directors. Larry and Sergey are far from an "ideal" and the blind hero worship is unlikely to serve you. It's fine to recognize their successes, but understand that they made plenty of mistakes.
Then you'll just get offered $1000 with some places offering secret $900 coupons. Hospital master sheets that nominally satisfy transparency are basically this.
It's not exactly what you're asking for, but we have a large bucket with billions of files (don't ever do this, it was a terrible idea) and we manage deletions via lifecycle rules. If your file naming convention and data retention policy permits it, far easier than calling delete with 1,000 keys at a time.

Also just a word of warning, if you do have a lot of files, and you're thinking "let's transition them to glacier", don't do it. The transfer cost from S3->Glacier is absolutely insane ($0.05 per 1,000 objects). I managed to generate $11k worth of charges doing a "small" test of 218M files and a lifecycle policy. Only use glacier for large individual files.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/user-guide/creat...
If it's such a great way to make money, why did you stop?
There is a way. It seems node-gyp and node-pre-gyp is used for that. Here is project that has precompiled binaries http://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/en/stable/install/ .
I really like this list as it seems to cover the core aspects of what makes C++ a good language. But the one issue I have with resource such as these, is the lack of covering how to build real work projects. The list itself seems really good and after giving the topics a light skim, I really want to dive right into it and read everything.

But the biggest thing that I struggled with (and still have no idea about) when learning C++ was trying to learn how to build real projects. This includes things like, how do you use an external library? How do you set up a build system? Which build system to use in the first place? The last time I was trying to learn C++ (about two years ago I think?) I couldn't find answers to these questions, which was pretty discouraging as I thought C++ was a really useful language to learn. I wish this article covered some of these topics for beginners looking to build something more than a simple program.
> From a business side, they really haven’t done too much.

Myopic. They've greatly increased the eyeballs available to them through new products and business relationships
Vodafone claims backdoors found in Huawei gear in 2009-2012: Bloomberg
Memory didn't serve me well: it was over 10 years ago, not "a few," nor did the paper fire ALL of its copy editors. From a 2009 story: "Between early 2005 and mid-2008, the number of full-time copy editors dropped from about 75 to 43 through buyouts or voluntary departures. It has declined further since then, but Post managers won't provide precise figures beyond saying that six took a recent buyout offer." https://lisagoldresearch.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/the-washin...
ARRRRRRRRRRG ya gots it right again me fren!
"driver-partner" yuck.
The One Habit Every Writer Needs. Now
I’m not a physicist but I’m assuming because the most stable part of the chassis is at the front of the vehicle inertia is less likely to make it unstable. I’m sure, if you took those go karts in reverse to the same speed as a go kart with a single front wheel moving forward, that turning would be equally unstable.

As far as straight line stability I’m sure it has to do with being pushed vs pulled. I wonder if a FWD single-front-wheeled go kart would be more stable than a RWD single-front-wheeled go kart
This is one attempt:
https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/rate-...

It is in medical providers best interest to raise prices.

Efficient markets need more competition, but in healthcare the market is fragmented and once a provider or insurance gets big enough it gets acquired by another leading to larger duopolies.
WhatsApp and Instagram to add online shopping as Facebook takes on Amazon
Um no....I'm just saying don't be beholden to these mythical lists, go do your own thing. I don't advocate my life to anyone, I just described how things worked out for me, the life that I've had without a prescribed list. I advocate creating your own life and experiences then come back when you're 30 and see what you can do. And this doesn't need to involve bikes and doobie smoking :)

> On what do you base this? Have you "got it"?

Well sometimes some folk just get it lucky and the timing is right for their thing.
It has a reasonable workaround: check that all glyphs belong to the same writing system. That is, post.com should have all glyphs from Latin, почта.рф, all glyphs from Cyrillic, and ταχυδρομείο.ελληνικό must have all letters Greek. The fact that the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek glyphs have same-looking glyphs like o or p is not dangerous if you can't mix them up.
A perfect system is hardly necessary. Just a good system. Tests have worked for a thousand years. People wouldn't use them if they were useless.
I think it's a great idea. But, it's pretty obvious from the people testing it out that it has some major flaws.
I still don't understand what a cover is. Is it the cancellation stamp?
If you want extra attention all over the world, keep your clothes in Pelican cases. Customs always thinks I'm bringing something in - just my clothes, thanks, take a look.
Are they proud of it? What is going on? They used to lie about this stuff. Maybe they are trying to pin this law on Trump? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/way-nsa-uses-section-7...
Well, my answer is this: Coming from the perspective on a Pythonista, C++ seems tedious and error-prone. Rust, on the other hand, is merely tedious -- which is progress of a sort, one has to admit.
Yes it also quotes the phrase “Police have a duty to pursue all reasonable lines of enquiry,”.

Who's judging what's reasonable here? What stops them making requests victims would rightfully consider unreasonable so the police can just claim that the victim was uncooperative so it doesn't negatively impact police statistics?
Are you aware that an actual bank - the kind of bank that the entire world economy relies on to function - would on average hold maybe only 10-20% of the money in their clients accounts? How do banks do it? They invent money out of thin air.

If Tether was a bank, its 73% reserve rate would be considered spectacularly high. The crypto world is basically re-inventing fractional reserve banking now.

> The only thing Tether has to do is buy back Tether at any price lower than they sold it for and they make profit.

How would Tether be able to sell Tether at a higher price than market price but then simultaneously buy Tether at a lower price than market price? Tether would have to wait for its price to drop and then rise again, just like any other trader. Curiously, Tether could spread FUD about Tether and then refute it.
I am sure the "and securities" is rock solid.

Just kidding! Suckers.
Totally. A few years back I asked both my doctor and insurance company how much a procedure would cost in advance. They both knew this answer and both flat refused to tell me until I got the service. How would that possibly fly in any other sphere?

A friend of mine that works in health care admin and IT described walking into a doctor’s office ‘like walking into a used car lot.’

It seems to be one of those few holdout areas where the information economy hasn’t affected. Maybe it’s even perverted it, by enabling data holders to optimize inefficiency for their own benefit.
> Stolen classified material, data used to commit/coordinate criminal activity, child pornography off the top of my head.

Conversely, data could be attorney client privileged, HIPPA protected, or classified. Many situations would require a traveler not disclose their encryption password.

The government is free to examine these devices, have fingers pressed to keypads, but IMHO they are not free to compel disclosure of the password.
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5874

This seems like reasonable suggestion.
A failure to reject the null is not evidence for the null. Most of the (6yo or younger) children in this study didn't even have any cavities!
Really? Seems a little drastic for attacking a company..

Edit:.... I did not leave that other comment..
Because right now you can only upload individual distributions to PyPI. A release is implicitly created when you upload the first one. If PyPI implemented that change, you could only have one distribution per release.

The proper fix would be to make publishing a release a separate operation. But that breaks all existing tooling and workflows.
"Regulations are anti-American/evil/distort the market."
Related: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/usa-border-phones-search-...
I once asked my history teacher why his multiple choice questions followed predictable patterns. Such as, "all of the above" or "none of the above" were always the right answers.

He laughed, and said the stupid kids needed a break.
Arguably, that's being incompetent. If their task involves a social interaction, then to be competent at it they must know how to successfully manage that too, even if they are generally unpleasant.
What is high cardinality, and how do time-series databases compare?
I drive with AC on and windows opened.
If Tether were an actual bank, in the US it would be regulated and insured.
Privacy is usually not about things you don't want anyone to know. It's about things you don't want everyone to know.
NYPD uses ‘Minority Report’ system to identify bad cops
I feel the the homogeneity is a result of what they’re looking for - people sharing pictures of their vacations are not the same as people trying to be “influencers”.

I don’t think any of the travel pictures I see on Instagram of shared albums on Mac/iOS are like these. But then I’m not following influencers, I’m following friends and family (travel photos), and dogs (no travel photos, but definitely dogs)
How can Java EE programmer switch to AI/DL?
I am a good Java, Spring, Oracle (7/10) programmer for about 15 years in a decent paying job. I am fascinated by machine learning and deep learning. I have completed 4 courses by Dr Andrew Ng in Coursera related to this topic. I find it hard to just keep learning theoretically and just playing with simple Kaggle problems.
I want to take up Udacity's deep learning course, or robotics course which provides a credential and job search assistance. Is this a good choice? Due to my age and financial needs, I cannot start as an intern again. What can i do to get a good job in this field?
Thanks :)
>it can't be always easy to define how much a treatment would cost without actually doing it.

Actually, it can be very easy. Quote a price prior to treatment and you are not allowed to charge more. Providers will lose money on some treatments, but on a large scale that can be predicted and rolled into the average price.

If there is a small provider, or particular treatment with high financial downside risk to the provider that the uncertainty is potentially crippling for the provider, then the provider can take out insurance to cover their loss if the treatment turned out to be far more expensive than originally anticipated.
> Even for games that don't use a mouse, this convention (and muscle memory) is so established that it makes sense to use WASD, even for right-handed players.

A further argument for movement from the left hand comes from consoles, which starting with the NES if not earlier have consistently (always?) had the d-pad on the left. I remember having some trouble reversing that learning for the PC platforming games that used the arrow keys for movement.
It's finally starting to squeeze the bourgeoisie, so maybe they'll side with the working class this time instead of eating crumbs from the oligarchs.
In the Air with Zipline’s Medical Delivery Drones
We have a super secret medical club we almost never talk about in such articles and discussions: The military.

The article below estimates that 7.3 percent of all living Americans have served in the military at some point in their lives.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-percentage-of-amer...

A married military member gets "free" medical coverage for their spouse and children. The ridiculous cost of having babies as a civilian is some minor out of pocket expense, medically speaking, for military members. It's common for people who aren't planning to make a career of it to try to get the kids out of the way before they exit the service. If you put in twenty years or more and retire from the military, you have lifelong medical benefits for you and your dependents.

Most articles about the problems the American medical system is rife with seem to not bother to delve into what goes on in the military medical system, what percentage of our medical system it constitutes, etc.

It actually makes me a little nervous to leave this comment. It makes me wonder if I am going to mess up the super secret club or something. Because it's really bizarre how we seem to completely leave out the military medical system entirely from any analysis of the American medical system.
Show HN: Exploretrees.sg 2.0 – visualization of all recorded trees in Singapore
Not for me. The ARIN allocation and reverse dns lookup of my external ip address both show the ISP we use.
In my experience it's teens being edgy, not meant seriously. But when it's a depressed person hearing it you never know.

Tbf 30 years ago fights seemed common whereas there were very few when I was in school. Seems like physical violence has evolved into verbal because it's harder to trace and punish. (Just a guess)
There is a water plant called Azolla that actually captured so much co2 long ago that many think it triggered an ice age. Why not incentivize natural carbon sequestration and just produce huge fields of this stuff everywhere? I would hope we find a fish that likes eating it, or find a way to convert it into other animal feed, if nothing else. I don't think carbon tax credits or whatever they are called are enough for someone to justify making an actual sequestration-only operation.
> The guy represents every wrong with tech. Privacy for him, but none for thee.

That's hardly restricted to tech. It's pervasive with government officials.
I mean if you're considering his reign a "peaceful time" you're missing all the things that have happened in Africa, the Middle Ease, or Latin America. I think we just have different definitions of "peace" here. Sure, nobody is dropping nukes or waging a world war, but there's still been constant conflicts somewhere.
> Being pleasant is necessary

Being able to be pleasant is necessary. Being generally pleasant, I would argue, is not.
>Also, just my phone? What about my laptop? Safe from searches? Pickpockets? Malware?

If slogans had to be that comprehensive to be allowed, we would be blessedly free of advertising.

"Your phone isn't safe at the border" is on pretty much the same level as "for everything else there's mastercard" on the accuracy<->drama scale. I think your standards are beyond unreasonable here.
I don't think it was an issue of misuse of tax payer dollars or anything like that.

The point of allowing astronauts to bring personal items was to help keep their mental health stable and morale high over the course of an 8+ day journey in a very confined space under extreme stress. Having crew members thinking about how their side hustle was going to pan out when they got home would be a distraction and not in line with the goal of the personal item allocation.

Additionally, if it was left unchecked then future astronauts would have had to choose between bringing a picture of their loved ones or passing up on a financial bonus which would have led to a bad situation.

I can see why NASA cracked down on it pretty aggressively.
Clearly the "free" profit Tether could make from float is smaller than the legal compliance risks they're taking. It's not the solvency they messed up; it's the money laundering.