skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wrt soda, and highly processed food, I think that FDA and similar agencies could make an effort to evaluate the consequences of prolonged consumption of such food and figure out what quantities are safe. They could require proper labeling and not allow children to buy such foods (as with cigarettes and alcohol).

For credit cards, maybe he meant that in some countries, where individuals cannot default, banks are comfortable taking too much risk and advertise credits aggressively. I have personally witnessed several victims of this (yes, people can be dumb).

Wrt "car dealerships and (most) sales people", it is probably not affecting the individual so much, but if you look closer at "enterprise sales" and government spending, you will certainly notice some "interesting" practices. However, I think that this is a lot harder to solve than the other case above, because it is not so directly aimed at the masses.
It's amazing how vastly different TSA is depending on what airport you're at.

Even within the same airport it seems to differ. I flew international out of JFK for the first time in a decade a few weeks ago and had been hearing horror stories of what to expect. Yet when I got there I spent less than 15 minutes in line for security, spent less then 60 seconds going through the actual security scan (metal detector, not x ray scanner) and was treated perfectly fine.
By and large you're mostly right. There are some inequities in the way China treats foreign firms though. Completely blocking all the main US web technology firms for example. However I don't think the harm being done to the US economy by the trade war is worth the benefits to be gained, even though there may be some benefits.
> Also, since I believe it's now actually agreed upon that autism rates actually ARE increasing, and not just increased diagnoses, is there any candidate theory as to why mutations would be higher in developed countries recently?

This paper is mostly about the impact of de-novo mutations, i.e mutations that are found only in the child and not in its parents. One theory is that as paternal age is rising and a higher paternal age is linked to a higher number of de-novo mutations which leads to a higher chance of de-novo mutation related genetic diseases like in this case autism (and other mental disorders).

Note that the paternal age in developed countries has been at a historic low in the mid 20th century, which may have lead to a historically low rate of mental disorders in the last decades.
I prefer to say stabilising.
I do like freedom to do what I like with my devices. But Apple 1) clearly does vet apps, and allows only approved apps to be installed, and 2) makes broad claims about privacy.

If Apple wants to make broad claims about privacy, it should kick all offending apps from its store. But it should also allow users to install whatever apps they like. That puts responsibility on users.
Alright, so who gets to relocate about a dozen major cities?
A collection of fraud detection research papers
Cryptocurrency Real Time Tracker
A curated list of papers about fraud detection from the following conferences:

Network Science

ASONAM

Natural Language Processing

ACL

Data Mining

KDD

ICDM

SDM

WWW

Artificial Intelligence

AAAI

AISTATS

IJCAI

UAI
We initially thought to migrate versions from staging to production with a sort of composition, but we didn't implement that because there was a high risk of mixing credentials between environments.

That said, you can easily copy a config from one env to another and update that new config in no time.

comfy get env1 > tmp.json;
comfy setall env2 tmp.json;
comfy set env2 <key> <value>
If I ever get around to updating the article, this is going in :)
Is Fake News Spam?
This is a nice little run through of a real life example.

Once you realise that awk's model is 'match pattern { do actions; }' everything makes a whole lot more sense.
Reminds me of story how "desert greening" was run in Hebei.

Trees were planted, counted by officials, and then uprooted and the same plants were replanted again the next day.
There’s another proverb that I think applies better: “measure twice, cut once”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varig_Flight_254 is an interesting story.
> This could result in 175 million trees being planted in one year. If executed properly the Philippines will get 525 billion trees planted in a single generation.

This sounds a bit... well, odd. There are 390 billion trees in the Amazon, as a point of reference. As much as I love the idea of greening our world, how is this even feasible?
Having done that, can they be sure that another seller won't try to horn in on the new UPC code?
Well, bugger.
Yes, Google effectively has final say over what goes into golang; that's never going to change. But then again, the same could be said of the cadres of people managing other languages. At the end of the day, SOMEONE has to be in charge, and that someone probably isn't you.

I personally like to have strong leadership behind such fundamental things as languages. I may not agree with all of their decisions, but at least I can count on the stability, which we all need in order to collaborate successfully. With strong leadership, I know I we won't have another Python2 vs Python3 mess.

And the ability to fork is very handy. I've forked my own golang compiler to allow warnings for unused imports, variables, etc [1] because I don't like fighting the compiler during debug or exploratory coding sessions.

[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/go
Did you even try ?

`docker exec -e foo=bar -it ....`
Brainless Tourists Slaughter 5k-Year-Old Sacred Scottish Tree
I think the US has a large strategic reserves for the rare earth for a year or two. But the rare earth is not just mineral, it is a little link of the whole supply. For now, the supply chain is totally controlled by Chinese companies. I think the cut from China will cause the rising of many key products' price in the US.
Well of course the average person is less intelligent than the rest of us.

After all, 90% of drivers have above average skill!
Until a simple bugfix breaks your system because you relied on the wrong behavior.
You're specifying subnets that are reachable rather than _specific IPs_.
"Leshan Shenghe Rare Earth Co. Ltd., a Rare Earth company in China, holds a non-voting minority interest in the company." - company website.
Migrating DB without downtime (how we migrated to mongodb atlas)
Data Science Version Control (DVC) & ML Reproducibility Challendes
Firstly, I don't know what they expect to achieve with these threats. I think the US has shown so far that it's not going to easily bend to such threats, this was a bad move on their part. Maybe they knew this, hence using the media to broadcast this message. Still, this very much sounds like escalation talk rather than de-escalation.

Secondly, these "rare earths" aren't actually rare, most mines were simply shut down because they weren't competitive with China. The Chinese deliberately drove the price of various materials into the ground in order to gain a monopoly (a security risk I think the West should have seen coming). A local example of this was Sheffield steel.

Thirdly, if the cost of such materials was to rise significantly, hopefully it would have the affect of removing planned obsolescence being built into products. A mobile for twice the price might make people hold onto their mobile devices a little longer before upgrading, for example. Hopefully we can also get modular devices popular again with planned upgrade paths, rather than the glued-together mess we currently deliver.
If go wasn't a strongly opiniated language curated by the core team, I fear it wouldn't be the same go.

Example: I don't like all the things gofmt does, but if I accept what gofmt gives me, I can learn to live with it, and eventually be super happy :)

If go isn't opinionated, then what's the point? Whether owned by Google or a foundation, if the core team isn't small and opiniated, then aren't we just reinventing C++, hehe :)

Disclaimer: I work for Google, this is my personal opinion.
(I actually haven't used golang since joining Google, but that's a different story)
Where I run into trouble with awk is gawk incompatibilities with the implementation on Mac. The gawk manual really sucks at telling you what exactly is an extension to the language, and I haven't been able to find a good source -- you just have to either guess and check, or cross-check against other ones' manuals (like BSD). Otherwise it's an amazing tool...
The router, os and browser can cache so whitelist takes a while
We hear mixed voices. Most people seem to think $50/month is cheap for a small- and medium-sized company (with lower volumes).

For bigger sites Volument is indeed more expensive than Mixpanel for example, but we justify that with providing data that helps them do more of those valuable conversions.

And Heap Analytics is much more expensive for bigger sites than Volument.
that is one way of looking at it.

Another way would be to say that effective government ensures that the rule of law is maintained, that contracts are enforced, that the environment is protected, that trade is conducted efficiently etc ..

Granted, none of the above are absolute, some governments will do better than others and some will abuse their power.

What is the alternative? Somalia in the late nineties? All government functions handled by corporations? something else?
Yes I know he says that but in general if they're are no real incentives to achieve delivery and no consequences for non delivery, as is usually the case for public servants, then the results tend to be not very good.
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No any router supports doing that
I'm commenting on this type of interaction with the police in general.

No, police aren't all out to get you. But you'd be dumb even in Iceland not to have some basic situational awareness and consider how that interaction started out. You didn't come to them on the street, they sought you out at your home.

So if the police knock on your door open up and talk to them there. If they just want to talk you you they'll be happy to do that there. If they seem more interested in going inside your house than having a chat with you at the door perhaps they're really there for something else.

Hedging against that by doing something that costs you maybe 5 seconds ("let's just chat here") is just common sense.
capacity growth is already factored in: Global energy consumption is doubling only every 20 years.
Not that I'm defending Apple, but why is significant locations so bad? I turn it off because I don't need it, but my wife likes it being turned on and as far as I'm aware, the data is encrypted on the device and never leaves.
IIRC glibc reverted those avx-512 string functions, precisely because it turned out that in most real programs outside microbenchmarks, the clock speed hit negated the benefit from wider instructions.

But IIRC, back when AVX was introduced, there was some issue with that as well, and similar with AVX2. But now those seem to have been mostly addressed. I guess in some years the same will happen with AVX-512 too?
It is easy, get rid of laws that keep other people out of your area. All those houses in San Francisco that are worth $1 million or more, would only be worth $50,000 in Iowa.
So let people build small, close and tight, and they will solve this man created problem.
Created by all those pigs in $1 million houses who fear them turning into $50,000 houses.
Well, get this, houses and rents are so high in SF that it has already begun it's decline as people simply refuse to work there to pay 75% of their wages for a tar paper shack.
This worker and IPO mobility will soon become a rush, I mean a bigger rush...
My main concern with overpopulation isn't how many people the world could support as a maximum, I'm sure it's very high, it's how many it can support without dramatically degrading the environment.

An ageing population has negative consequences, sure, we'll just have to manage them. Allowing the population to increase indefinitely isn't a solution though, it's just kicking the can down the road until you do hit a hard limit, and then you're in _real_ trouble.
I understand the concept of breaking the rules in order to create momentum for changing them - and I agree with _some_ of the changes Trump demands.

But if trust in the effectiveness and enforceability of rules is eroded by nationalist bluster and unreasonable demands (e.g balanced current accounts) then there will be nothing left to go back to.

It will just be power politics forever, and that will degrade the world's economic strength and increase the risk of war.
China leads in 5G today because they set that objective 20 years ago and steadily invested since.

A strength of China is its ability to set such strategic objectives and to keep at them over 10, 20, 30 years.
"2. OpenVPN never borks my resolv.conf but Wireguard often leaves my DNS resolution in a state of confusion."

Checking the source... excerpt from src/tools/wg-quick/openbsd.bash:

set_dns() {
[[ ${#DNS[@]} -gt 0 ]] || return 0
# TODO: this is a horrible way of doing it. Has OpenBSD no resolvconf?
cmd cp /etc/resolv.conf "/etc/resolv.conf.wg-quick-backup.$INTERFACE"
cmd printf 'nameserver %s\n' "${DNS[@]}" > /etc/resolv.conf
}
Shame on u, IEEE
shame on u, IEEE
TIL: EE, a mobile provider, blocks archive.is as unsafe content for people under 18. https://twitter.com/nvartolomei/status/1133644305812381696
Oh wow, you really have to hope these are not the canonical links. If so, they are doing themselves an incredible disservice and the fact that no one has brought it to management's attention speaks gravely to the workplace culture there.
The discussion is about systems that are too complex for us to understand in their original form. For such highly complex systems, accurate models also sometimes have to be so complex we can't understand them either.

For simple systems, obviously this is not as much of a problem, or not a problem at all.
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In Defense of Utility-First CSS (2018)
Advertising hasn't been about 'persuasion' or psychology for a long, long time.

Advertising today is mechanical applications of the central limit theorem / law of large numbers to sociological problems.
Space (even low earth orbit) is BIG.

Very very big...
Most comments are about the negatives ...but I wonder ...the data is here ...we have the technology to make use of it ... AI alone cant be "trusted" ( as it's still primitive ) humans alone cant be trusted ( as abuse of power and not objective ) there must be a way ? An in between ? I don't have much knowledge about the subject but I'm genuinely curious !
Not all plastic pollution is created equal. Plastic straws are especially dangerous for sea turtles, in the same way that balloons are dangerous for sea birds and 6-pack rings are dangerous to both. People didn't single out plastic straws to "virtue signal".

As for 'the plastic straw wins', I'm unconvinced. The energy cost might be lower, but none of your other reasons factor in environmental cost at all. I don't think any amount of 'feels good' is worth any amount of environmental damage.

Lastly, even if it were entirely symbolic (which it isn't) there's still value in that.
No, its also based on the fact that older parents (and especially fathers) lead to more de-novo mutations (which you can already see in sperm) and in this study now they show that especially de-novo mutations play a role.

If the older parents hypothesis was not true, you would not find higher autism rate is younger siblings or how do you account for that in your alternative explanation?

But sure, as they say in the paper, its most likely not a single large effect variant that causes autism but usually the combination of multiple rare variants. The genetically inherited part may also play a rule. For a complex disease such as this, its not a single cause that is responsible even for one patient. A tall basketball player can be tall due to some luck, tall parents and good nutrition all at the same time.
> Google effectively has final say over what goes into golang

I'm wondering who has more say, Google or the individuals on the core Go team. My guess is that said people's personal opinion matters a lot more, or rather, almost exclusively.

How exactly would "Google" decide what goes into golang? They pay the Go team to do that, and I have a gut feeling that the Go team will do what the Go team wants to do, and not something else.

I would also be surprised if enough of them didn't have a sufficient amount of "fuck you money" to be able to effectively do what they want even if Google somehow managed to find someone who feels like they have any authority to tell the Go team which way to go (pun not intended).
the US actually has more space for landfill than malaysia
Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Are the Trans Fat Purveyors of Our Generation
Yeap, that's google.

Go is not the only such project. For how long did linux hw decoding patch for chromium wait for being merge?

And it's still not merged because of the "maintenance burden" (needless to say big linux distros maintain this patch and apply it to their chromium packages just fine).

Android hw support is merged, no problems. Oh, and Chromium OS has hw decoding as well, while having 0.0001% market share. Because it's a google's product.

For google open source is nothing but a way to obtain free labor and make more money. These are their products, meant to make money for them. Others are mere free contributors.
> There are some easy wins here, at least in theory. I think a great deal of fake news is spam-like and can be eliminated by similar techniques.

I agree wholeheartedly with this. As someone who ran an email newsletter tool that battled spammers on a daily basis (successfully), I see many similar tactics working.

The issue for me, however, is the subjectivity and inconsistent enforcement. Spam has clear lines drawn, especially around opt-in and authentication. Fake news is often susceptible to interpretation, especially around politics.

> For example, a defining quality of spam is that is not just it is unsolicited, but it is annoying.

Sure, that's true, but from a spam-prevention perspective and CAN-SPAM, it's mostly around unsolicited email, not the emotional impact thereof.

Personally, I think it's about definition. If we can define Fake News the same way we can define "unsolicited email" (rather than calling it spam), I think we can begin to tackle it.
No one's being forced to buy soda, eat highly processed food, have a credit card, or use a car dealership. Yet people voluntarily choose to spend their money on these things, so they obviously do find some value in them.

When you characterise them as 'not valuable to people', you're making a prescriptive moral judgement (and not one I necessarily disagree with), as opposed to a descriptive observation of where free agents choose to spend their money.

I don't drink soda or eat highly processed food, I don't have a credit card, and I didn't buy my car from a dealership. But the fact that many people choose to spend their money on all these things tells me that those people do see value in them, and I don't think my preferences are right and theirs are wrong.
Can't you dump out the crash report somewhere and ask if the user wants to submit it when they next open the app?
An unknown Police Office is in a super position of nice and law abiding or corrupt and malicious. If there's no real downside in assuming they are corrupt, you're much safer behaving as if they are.
In rural Canada, if you're black or have prior interaction with them the police might as well be US police. If you're white and in good standing the police is super friendly. RCMP is the only force in Canada that I would consider to be professional.
“Information about people believed to be “at risk” of becoming criminals or victims of harm is shared between civilian agencies and police and is added to the database when a person is being evaluated for a rapid intervention intended to lower their risk levels.”

Remind anybody else of precrime from minority report?
>The Idea that the US is 'losing' due to the trade deficit and that reducing trade with China will benefit America is utter tosh and even the administration's own trade advisers and negotiators are saying so (a bit more politely).

The problem isn't so much the deficit as it is the way the US has been seduced into relying upon the Chinese industrial machine.

The US industrial base has been depleting for decades. This presents a serious systemic risk - the US relies more and more on Chinese industry which can (and probably will, at some point) be cut off. This will result in massive inflation.

In (neoclassical) theory getting cut off isn't a problem because the market will simply bring all of that industry back to the United States. In practice, the flow of goods can be cut off overnight but an industrial base on a par with the pearl river delta would take at least two decades to build.
> if the parts are working together for the greater good

No, it also works surprisingly well if everyone is acting rationally but purely optimizing for self-interest.
The assumption in the example is that the product being sold is a commodity, which cannot be differentiated significantly in terms of pricing or quality.

It limits its applicability, but it doesn't mean the model is incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location_model

https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_introduction-to-economic...

"In Hotelling’s Location Model, firms do not exercise variations in product characteristics; firms compete and price their products in only one dimension, geographic location. Therefore, traditional usage of this model should be used for consumers who perceive products to be perfect substitutes or as a foundation for modern location models."
> Completely blocking all the main US web technology firms for example

That's a question of being willing to comply with Chinese contents-control requirements rather than trade per se. And if they comply they face a huge public opinion backlash in the US...

At the same time, it is understandable that a developing country try to develop its own companies rather than handed its market to US companies... Level playing field and all that ;)
I have a collection of such one-liners, for duplicates including how to form key for multiple fields, see [1]

[1] https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processi...
People here are overreacting.

First, Vice is an unreliable news organization with seriously substantiated claims that one of its founders has backed white supremacists, including Proud Boys. It's also been involved in international drug smuggling. And inflating its advertising numbers by an order of magnitude.

Second, the police in Canada are some of the finest in the world. There are problem spots that I've seen with my own eyes[0] but by-and-large the police and intelligence services in Canada bend over backwards to respect individual rights. If you've never actually talked to members of the RCMP or Canadian IC then I respectfully ask that you educate yourself before worrying that the sky is falling. If you're from out of the country and don't know where to start, try The Intrepid Podcast. Start from the beginning, as it gets more weeds-y as the episodes progress. In my opinion, it's insightful, fair, and nuanced.

https://www.intrepidpodcast.com/podcast

[0] Track level Toronto police working in the tunnels of the TCC were being paid off to turn a blind eye to drug running, but that was over a decade ago and a very atypical occurrence.
Just like heroin and hitmen.
Love the product concept and the problem / solution descriptions. I am not your typical customer though as I was already aware of the limitations of existing solutions.

I just signed up for this and set it up in our website. I have a couple of questions:
- Is the analytics realtime or does it take time to process events?
- Is there minimum data threshold that is needed before anything shows up in the dashboard?