skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phone books are supposedly common in parts of the US but they do not publish cell phone numbers. It's also illegal to telemarket to a cell phone. Of course, nothing is done when phone providers knowingly forward said illegal phone calls to cell phones anyway.
This seems like a nice way to collect info for companies that are generating a nice side income. No other info is given about the process.
> Abortion is not murder.

Abortion is the termination of something. That something is genetically human, genetically not the mother, and definitely a child in 9 months or less.

Terminating that is at least arguably murder. It at least cannot be dismissed with a glib denial.
We had 2-3 cats in a rural area, and several times, when their numbers fell low, they'd recruit an additional cat. So all we did was make sure the new recruit truly was a stray, and if so, go along with the adoption.
A book is usually a single work attributable to a single author (or a group of authors). And you don't usually stream a book as "let's stream pages 175 to 185" [1]

In case of music assigning ISBNs to CDs doesn't really work because people more often than not listen to, stream and broadcast individual tracks. And there's no global ID system for individual tracks. This becomes even more messy when you consider that "Original performance 1983", "remastered 1994", "best of 2003" and "Japanese Christmas Special 2013" are all different tracks (even if it's the same track with the same song), often has different distributors and rights holders, and people will fight to the death defending a particular version :)

[1] Audiobooks are a slightly different beast, but they are still much easier to match to an author.
As I understand it, the problem isn't so much with the details of this particular case. Rather it is with the precedent that it sets.

It does strike me as odd that the headline references filming police when the interpretation appears to apply to any exercises of speech (e.g. protest). However, that makes the situation worse not better.

In terms of the discussion of "loitering": I think the larger point is that there are numerous similarly broad laws that could be used as a pretext for probable cause. For example, disturbing the peace.
Not necessarily, it's just a new random pick :)
Don't think so. 4chan encourages contrarian opinions because posters care about replies, not upvotes or likes. Pretty much the only reason you post on 4chan is to reply to people and get replies from people, i.e. the discussion itself. While, agreed that voting style sites like HN and Reddit encourages echo chambers by having a points system and making highly voted comments more visible. There might be some middle ground between these.
Would you please not post flamebait to HN? Especially not nationalistic flamebait. It's pretty amazing that the commenters who replied stayed so level-headed, because normally a comment like this would lead straight to the inner circles of hell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We're probably going to have to agree to disagree on this one as I just don't see the nuisance and I see some positive aspects to the existing convention which I highlighted previously.

The classic, and really intuitive, experiment that requires one to understand the movement of both the carriers and the charge at the same time is the Haynes Shockley experiment [1]. It has not been my experience that charge convention gets in the way of students interpreting this experiment.

For the vast majority of practical (artificial?) electronics, when designing one only needs to look at the movement of net charge. Passive sign convention (used by spice) is about the flow of charge, not carriers. Maxwell's equations don't even mention the carriers. It's not clear to me why one needs to visualise carriers to design circuits. In my experience (i.e. transmission lines) it can actually hinder students to consider the movement of carriers when designing a practical circuit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haynes–Shockley_experiment
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_sign_convention
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Immutability is quite nearly the opposite of useful here. The most common way for data to be wrong is at the interface boundary: it was entered wrong in the first place.
..as is evident but the responses to your comment ?
I think it's meant to be at least a little tongue-in-cheek.
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ABS isn't the best example because it does prevent lots of accidents in its own right, including a >50% prevention rate of some types of accidents in rainy, snowy, or icy weather. The overall fatal accident reduction is 15% for cars and 27% for trucks and light trucks. Source: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

And, anecdotally, I've had ABS kick in in some occurrences for which I was very thankful.
More to the point, revenue doesn’t include expenses, so it doesn’t matter that the targeted ads cost more....
Exactly. This study completely ignores the fact that retargeting through the Facebook and Google pixels is highly effective for advertisers. I have run retargeting campaigns with ROAS (return on ad spend) as high as 30x.

Without the ability to retarget, advertising revenue at both Facebook and Google would plummet. The majority of conversions for advertisers come from retargeting (behavioral) campaigns. Advertisers run cold traffic campaigns (non behavioral) just to be able to cookie a group of users interested in their niche of product or service. They then show a different set of ads to those that clicked on the initial ad and met some behavioral criteria - for example they read to the bottom of the landing page or watched more than 1/2 of a sales video. It is this second set of ads that results in most conversions from new customers.

So the entire model falls apart if we lose the ability to run retargeting (behavioral) campaigns. Most advertisers lose money on cold traffic campaigns, and make up for it with behavioral campaigns. When behavioral advertising stops, so does non-behavioral, and the whole Facebook and Google house of cards comes crumbling down in a hurry.
[Disclaimer: not an aeronautical enginner or pilot.]

Unfortunately, no. Stalling is a function of the wing's _angle_ relative to the flow of air, not of speed. If the angle is too sharp the air can't follow the curve of the wing. The critical angle is (pretty much) independent of speed. For example: if you stick your hand out of the window of a car traveling at 60 MPH, and hold it almost flat to the wind (say 80 deg.), then the air can't follow down the back of your hand. All of the "push" is backwards, and there's no push up. If you hold it at 30 deg. then the air flows around your hand, which deflects the air down and your hand up, very strongly.

Even if you're only traveling at 5 MPH, if you hold your hand at 30 deg. the air will flow around your hand and deflect it upward; it will just be a very weak effect.

The angle between the wing and the air flow is what is called the "angle of attack", and what the AoA sensors measure. The only other instrument that comes close is the Attitude gauge (the globe thing). However, it measures the plane's angle relative to the horizon, and air moving relative to the plane usually isn't parallel to the ground in conditions where the AoA matters.

Wikipedia article, with much detail, pictures, etc.: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_attack
In the neighboring cities of Vancouver, the "known and obvious" laws are false. We have developers building skyscrapers full of condos which are selling for 500k-2M for a 1 bedroom. They're largely vacant because they're bought as investment properties. The ultra-rich can afford these places, but don't need to sleep in them. The demand isn't just people who need a place to stay, and rental prices are absurdly high.

We've got a new tax in Vancouver that's helping: the empty homes tax. But that's only Vancouver and not the outlying area.
The OP simply misspelled 'principal'. By ">50% of principal" they meant that the interest paid over the life of the loan is more than 50% of the original loan amount.
Regardless, I appreciated the discussion! Maybe I'll give it a whack. It all comes down to whether or not I could build "future" efficiently on a GPU.

I don't want to pretend I'm an expert at all. I've looked at symbolic manipulation and chess mostly as a hobby (since the Chess community has so many cool bitwise algorithms they've invented). And the GPU-community is small, but interesting to me. HPC programmers / C++ programmers in another bunch... information really isn't flowing as well between the "styles of compute", I'm just trying to connect a bunch of ideas that other people have thought up together.
I'm using my own tool, Static Marks[1], to manage most of my private and work bookmarks. I'm also sharing my project bookmarks with my team. It looks similar to your tool, but it's completely static (the bookmarks are managed in a yaml file and the web app is a single html file).

[1] https://darekkay.com/static-marks
By not voting you're still expressing a preference for who represents you.
"Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Another, more optimistic way to describe it is that students are spending more of their wealth to invest in their own human capital, which isn't measured in statistics.

Statistics can measure this fairly easily. Just these particular statistics cited in this article do not.

However, the root of the argument is probably depressing. It is pretty unlikely that all the money spent on higher education produces a true positive return on investment (please do not cite any "college grads make more money" stats without controlling for co-variant effects). Most loans taken out to fund schooling are forms of malinvestment.
No, most ad impressions are transacted in real-time through an auction where they receive bids from dozens of adtech companies representing thousands of advertisers and millions of campaigns.

Sometimes campaigns are bought on a flat-rate basis for a certain amount of impressions but as of 2019, these are just treated as any other bid in the auction and only override the bid price where there's danger of not meeting the final quantity.
Has this always been the case? I remember hearing way back in the 80s various (and probably hyperbolic) stories about how the dollar value of the land in greater Tokyo was greater than the dollar value of the all the land in the entire United States, how if you dropped a $10,000 bill in Tokyo it would be worth less than the land it covered, that sort of thing.

It's possible for land to be valuable and worth owning while buildings are not viewed as investments. I'm not convinced that SF owners of single family properties would necessarily be financially harmed by a major relaxation of density restrictions. It's entirely possible that the value of living space per square foot could go down while the value of land per sq foot goes up.
Not sure how much impact leasehold vs freehold has on appreciation/depreciation but I think many appt buildings in Japan are build on leaseholds.
But why should Amazon be prevented from running said software? "Because I don't like it" isn't a good reason.
Yes. What I meant is that Google only seems to care about the current Pixel i.e., Pixel 3 now.

Pixel 2 was only discontinued a few weeks ago, and the unboxing experience is bad as I discussed above.
I think its not about retrofitting and more about retrofitting (engines in this case) in the wrong place.
"Liberal" means center-left (ie into free markets). In European discourse "liberal" parties are centrists, and US socialists use the term exclusively to refer to centrists Democrats.
This comment breaks the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them and following the rules when posting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Umm.. this article is about illegal dumping. That has nothing to do with politics.

What LA needs to do is setup cameras in those areas with license plate readers. Also LA has also always had a problem with illegal dumping. Maybe offer a tip line as well with cash rewards.
It sounds like you're saying SF's housing crisis is due to illegal immigration. That's obviously not true.
The day someone very high up the corporate ladder truly gets held responsible for this type of greed & negligence and will be put a way for a long prison sentence would be a good day for society. But I am not holding my breath...

But I hope that the CEO Dennis Muilenburg deep down understands he seriously fuxxed up real bad and every now and then is having a hard time falling a sleep in his $10M mansion knowing that he is ultimately responsible for hundreds of peoples unnecessary deaths due to his failed values as a leader.
> I suppose this is really my fault for not spending enough time, not doing enough research, not reading enough forums to buy the correct phone. Maybe some people are just too stupid to deserve a good phone.

A common conceit among those who uses a tool or product that is impenetrable to others. It's particularly bothersome when this weak rationalization forms an equally weak pillar of that person's identity, a.k.a. the fanboy / fangirl.
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I'm not sure what rule I've broken here.
Id invite you to review some other comments here and compare them to my own and email me so we can come to a easy conclusion
Can you show your sources? And is it possible that you both can be right?
Here on HN was an article about Japanese economy growth (nominal) several decades ago, because companies were investing in real estate, which was constantly increasing in cost.

In short, search for "Japanese housing bubble".
I wish that regulators would stop assuming that "cultural values" are more important to me than paying half as much rent, and that I shouldn't be allowed to live in a cheap studio with a built in mezzanine.
They are private in ways specific to Japan that, what I know, you pretty much won't find anywhere else.
It seems disingenuous to compare something abstract like advertising to the process of adding value in manufacturing. They are concepts in two different classes.
It's not hard but can be expensive. Since illegal dumping is not being enforced, people are getting away with it to save money.
What a PR disaster. It only takes one incident like this to tank a product. Testing is so important for IOT stuff but it usually gets shipped out way before it’s ready.
Thanks for this link, really interesting review. Very convincing. And it does deliver, just see the notes:
https://www.lurklurk.org/wolfram/notes.html

And if I may, I'll add my favorite quote from Mr. Drysdale's review here.

> Some days I suspect that I may be one of the few people outside of Wolfram's crack team of hagiographers who has actually read the entire book.
Reddit is made of real people too. Met multiple people there. Being miserable alone is not superior to being miserable on Reddit.
There was a monster real estate bubble in the eighties (prices tripled), I think earthquakes were also a risk back then.
Don't forget alcohol and marijuana for placating the masses.
This is what my friends who own houses in Tokyo tell me. Homes are bought with the assumption that they will be destroyed before the loan is up and that the bank will pay it off. This doesn't really make sense to me because there have been big earthquakes in Japan in my lifetime, and there isn't a massive housing crisis while every structure in the country is being rebuilt. So I don't fully understand this logic. But unlike the other comments replying to you, I can confirm that I've heard this many times.

My understanding is that while people in the US pay for housing with 15 or 30 year mortgages... in Japan the 100 year term is the most common. I am not sure if this has any effect on the market, but people certainly don't think "when I grow old, I'll have this big nest egg locked up in home equity". The bank owned the house when they were born, and it owns it when they die.
This is really about two people communicating effectively.

If I saw the original examples happen in the wild, I'd understand the person answering the question to be the problem.
"exploit", you need the quotes because nothing was exploited. Someone else was able to execute better than you were, that isn't a crime.
So he bought a phone that he saw on the Google Fi home page and he was crazy for thinking it should work with Google Fi?
I am not convinced. The attribution to the simple zoning system is surely not a complete proof, if any. Consider a counter-example: South Korea that has a very similar zoning system. Yet the housing price around Seoul soared roughly by 60% the past 3 years---so did rents (to a smaller but still significant rate). All the while the apartments supply has been at record high in 10 years. That zoning policy may be a factor but clearly not sufficient.
Unclear. L2 is an unstable Lagrange point, so the robots wouldn't just stay put. But that doesn't mean they would leave, either, necessarily. They could end up in funky Lissajous orbits and go flying through L2 regularly.

The orbital mechanics around Lagrange points are weird.
You don't need to know all the details, because time and time again I have seen blockchain hyped up by people who don't fully understand it (or who are selling it) and the following runs it's course:

1. People get excited about blockchain because it's the "it thing" and people have some vague notion that it can apply to a distributed trust problem.

2. In nearly all cases, blockchain is a poor solution for the actual business need. This article, https://blog.smartdec.net/you-do-not-need-blockchain-eight-p... , which was discussed at length on HN a couple months ago, has a detailed section on why blockchain is a bad fit for "object authenticity guarantee".

3. So then what happens is people usually basically end up solving their use case with a kind of "franken-private blockchain" that more often than not is just a cryptographically signed ledger DB.

So yeah, I don't really care if the CTO is Jesus, as far as everything described in the article (which basically just describes a used-goods marketplace, gosh I've never heard of those before), blockchain is a "marketing-speak" solution.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#Applications_u...

Some notable programs:

Adobe Photoshop Album, Adobe Photoshop Elements, AMD's driver tool, CryEngine, Autodesk Maya, Google Earth, Mathematica, Opera, OBS, Skype, Teamviewer, Telegram, VLC media player, Wireshark, QtCreator, Qbittorrent, Nuke, Xnview
Rick roll instead of logging in on selected domains
I did nothing to “tweak” Firefox. I did use their binary installer for Linux because I wanted the latest updates and Slackware is a bit conservative with its packages.

My Linux box at work is an HP laptop from several years ago with a pretty basic business class AMD graphics card in it, I did have to install AMD’s binary drivers on this machine.

And, using Slackware, it’s X. Not sure if Wayland is easily installable or not on Slack but it’s certainly not part of the base install or supported by Patrick.

Firefox is the only piece of my install that isn’t part of official Slackware-CURRENT.

Other than running it in Windows all of my other computers that use Firefox are running stock, no fancy desktop versions of Slack or OpenBSD. I use calm window manager on both. (Sorry, this contradicts an earlier statement, I also had to compile and install Calm on Slackware from source, everything else is just part of the supported packages for CURRENT)

Maybe my low resource OS’s help?
Binary social feedback systems often run into the same issues - people game the system and people use downvotes to disagree. There's no nuance in positive sentiments either - people conflate upvotes with reputation.

It makes me feel like early experiments with multi-variate moderation deserve a second look. I know that simpler systems generally increase engagement, that's probably why everyone (even Netflix) converged to a simple up / down model. But there might be simple ways to split out the types of feedback we're always worried about conflating. You could add little emoji or stickers below each post that are default grayed out, as an option instead of replying.

One of them could be a "this makes me angry because I disagree"-sad-thunderstorm sticker. Another could be spam. That approach would funnel downvotes into separately bins for spam, low effort, and controversial. That sorting could nudge the crowd into providing much more useful feedback. People wouldn't have to ask why they were downvoted.

Gaming would probably happen, but it'd be more diffuse. If there are multiple positive bins, not everyone is going to be gaming in the same way, they won't be comparable.

Allowing this to be customizable on each subreddit could allow for some really crazy experiments. The unpopular opinion reddit could create a user interface that actually encourages the sort of voting they want, as opposed to constantly complaining that people are voting incorrectly.
You can still do this even if you already made a mistake. Remember Japan had an extreme real estate bubble in 1980s.
You say that, but the reality is that the 55 year olds are largely doing the opposite, taking from the young and healthy to support their Social Security benefits, their insurance, etc.
1) are owners of Earth returning to harvest the crop (of plastics?)?

2) are the authors of /r/outside beta-testing a new faction?

3) are humans from the future messing around, then looking up incidents in history books and competing with each other who made a bigger splash?

4) is there a group of humans with so much advanced technology and science that the rest of us are just neanderthals in comparison?
Reporting an accuracy of 85% doesn't mean much in a medical context. Reporting the Sensitivity/Specificity should be the norm.
So let's say an account at Wyze "owned" your device, now they can see your private cams.

This sounds like a backdoor.
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They aren't false. There just hasn't been sufficient building allowed to take up the slack. If Vancouver took a page from Wizards of the Coast's tactics, prices would eventually go down. Namely: you have to convince speculators that you are willing to build (issue cards) until the value of speculative assets falls to the livable price for everyone else. If they were willing to allow unlimited building until the prices fell to the desired level, eventually speculators would realize that Vancouver property is a terrible bet.

Actually the presence of these investors is just a reflection of Vancouver's own unwillingness to allow said amount of building. If the speculators thought there was any chance of them building enough to meet demand, they would no longer view housing in Vancouver as a safe investment. So it's really a self-inflicted wound, not a violation of the laws of supply and demand.

That being said, an empty home tax does not seem like a bad supplemental approach. However, even assuming the tax is perfectly effective, if the population inflows outpace building, prices will continue to rise. And I would guess that is likely to be the case. The tax is a band-aid, but the problem needs stitches and cyanoacrylate.