skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they raised tuition and have record enrollments due to demographic change.. The construction to take advantage of continued revenue trends (to put it in financial terms)... but maybe I missed your point?
The formalisms of quantum mechanics are widely accepted, but as you know, there is considerable disagreement about what may actually be happening underneath:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_m...

(Aside: Bell’s theorem additionally requires one to dismiss the possibility of superdeterminism.)
China and many others
This seems impressive/frightening, but ???
If I interpret you correctly, I think we mostly agree, on (at least) the following points:

* English is clearly dominant in the US and enjoys a special status both in law and in practice.

* However, linguistic pluralism is accommodated to a significant degree in the US, to a greater extent than it is in some other countries.

* Whether to designate an official language is more of a cultural/political wedge issue than something that would have a meaningful practical effect on life in the US.
Working on an ad platform, this definitely makes sense.

As a company we moved away from user targeting to context targeting where app developers provide all the context. Our case is specific to transit but I think in general this invasive ad model needs to go away
It's absolute bliss.
You can. The public side of the schema of objects (views exclusively in many recommendations even back to the beginning of relational DBs) visible to an app are it's logical data model, the base tables and the way the views are implemented on top of them are a separate concern which can be isolated from that model.
I think your optimism is misplaced. App developers would soon figure out how to charge 99 cents for a Skinner box.
~all tech jobs are anonymous cube farms or open offices in the US (and probably other places)
Thank you very kindly. I will take a look at it post haste.
Then tax-funded colleges could be just like that. Some states already have free community college.
> The GDPR says that you need to have the user explicitly opt in,

No it doesn't.
Grellas commented that companies used to provide that feedback all the time. Just that as freedom of association was changed by the amendments following the Civil Rights Movement, it became legally untenable for companies to continue doing so.

Here's the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1989713
There's elements of both censoring and causal inference here. For a given customer/checkout: if they buy you know the demand was higher than what was displayed. If they don't buy, you know it was lower. But exact demand is censored. The causal inference aspect comes in since you can only display one set of options at checkout time so the demand in the counterfactual case (if you showed the customer a different set of display options) is completely unknowable.
There's a library for that: https://github.com/ct-austin/ifmt

In general, a lot of things that are language features in higher-level languages, can and are implemented as libraries in Rust. It's possible that this will make it into the standard library at some point.
That’s what Google says.
"Given the nature of modern internet advertising, I would assume that the tracking would be happening regardless of whether the ads were being relayed through the host website or not, and it wouldn't change my security stance."

I think I'm not describing the proposition I made - it was, literally, paste this line into a page:

<a href="https://rsync.net">rsync.net</a> - Cloud Storage for Offsite Backups

No tracking. No engagement. No stats. No performance tracking. Nothing. Open up a regular file in 'vi' and paste that line into it.

Impossible.
People would either (a) pay to place ads on sites they knew had a decent amount of traffic just from reputation, or (b) would hire ad-buying companies which made it their business to know what different sites' ad space is worth.

Needless to say, this could be inconvenient for the adwords-make-me-five-bucks-a-month scale sites. It'd work out OK for the New York Times-es of the world though.
Well, theoretically, they will have to remove these to remain in the AppStore with the new guidelines. I hope Apple is able to enforce it.
I interpreted the OP's use of the word "baggage" not to mean a burden or impediment for individual speakers, but instead a cultural and political reason why some Indians might hesitate to consider English their national language.
Just wanted to say that I respect your freedom. Life can be far more cruel than most people can imagine. Life for most people seems to be really happy-go-lucky, and anything else is an existential threat that must be blocked out.

I see your plight, and I give you the freedom to feel how you feel (not that you ever needed it from me...)
Politicians have been talking up what they call evidence-based policymaking for years. That'd be the equivalent of citing empirical data for policymaking inputs. Unfortunately it's not that easy, as the endless edit wars and fights over what constitutes a reliable citation shows.
macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including Python, Ruby, and Perl
Right--it could work at the DNS level. Yuck.
> When I think Google I think "search" first and foremost, and I didn't see a search demo or anything.

I was expecting something related to search as well. This project is about the Google applications, though. That's ambitious and a great thing! I wish the devs the best of luck!

Sadly, though, I don't use those sorts of online apps and so I'm not in the target market.
You can't imagine how thankful I am towards the two doctors that approved my mother's euthanasia in The Netherlands. I could not bear to see my mother suffer for much longer. I wished my father was able to get euthanasia while his Alzheimer's was getting worse many years ago. Of course, I am sad that my parents passed away but I am happy that my mother wasn't unnecessary suffering.
Should we really leave such complex logic to CSS? What if you need level 3, 4..?
> usually the latter gets all passes in the world for calling for actual physical violence, and the former gets banned

And I switched the "latter" and "former" but it's too late to edit... Duh.
I am not familiar with the ad space, but isn't there a provider/method/framework that would allow people embedding ads on their apps/websites/platforms to select the types or categories of ads they'd be comfortable with?
> Hindi and Urdu, by any reasonable linguistic definition are not separate languages.

That is a common misconception. You are confusing colloquial Hindi and colloquial Urdu with the pure Hindi and pure Urdu.

Pick a word, any word and there is Hindi equivalent and there is a Urdu equivalent. Just because the spoken Hindi, primarily in India, uses a mixture doesn't make them same or even similar.
The elephant in the room is that "passing" is often little more than wishful thinking, and people are starting to understand this. Ultimately, a shared focus on full transparency about being 'trans' or 'cis' is quite helpful at de-escalating hostile attitudes and discrimination about the matter - one could admit of rare exceptions, but by and large, anyone who feels like they must hide themselves for "safety reasons" is likely better off leaving the unsafe environment entirely!
This is correct. This was the primary thing we were attempting to solve for in this case and the bug in the algorithm started the chain of events documented in the postmortem.
The most qualified applicant will have dual degrees in computer science and English
Oh yeah I don't want to get into a gun control debate either.

Even as someone who is pro gun I do agree with the society cost.
> You do not seem to have a good understanding of the word "identity". I'd consult this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_(social_science)

Gosh this is getting ridiculous! You do not seem to have a good understanding of what I wrote in the first place. I am talking about splitting Indian identity on religious lines. I never said Indian identity is only based on "religion". How hard is it for you to understand that? Pakistan was created on religious lines. Pakistan did not take language, caste or social issues with it! Those remained in India. Makes sense?
You're not just selling the bike, you're also selling subscriptions. On top of that, there is the gamification of competing with other people/yourself.
That drastically increases the cost of the game though along with the physical copy itself. One of the major benefits of a cloud gaming platform is that games become cheap. If you really like that type of swag though it's still available via crowdfunding
> I doubt firefox will ever focus on security. The security mechanisms we are talking about require breaking compatibility or performance. This isn't the stuff one rearranges deck chairs for.

This is just wrong. For example, major changes have been made to the internal architecture over the last couple of years to support process-per-site "site isolation". See https://bug1523072.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=9061... for the new architecture.

It's true that Firefox is still behind Chrome in this area, but there is a lot of effort going into it.
> One of the things I'll give the US is as crappy as the leaders get, the system still remains cohesive rather than suffering a bloody coup every four years.

Pretty much every system in the world has that feature. Heck, that's a standard of quality so low North Korea’s government passes with honors.
>can use a single [private] key regardless of which randomized version of her public key was used to encrypt.

I have not seen this before. Trying to wrap my brain around how this works. In terms of ECC I thought public and private were a single pair. Can anyone explain what is going on with public key randomization?
My biggest niggle, is it doesn't have to be "perfect"... just good enough.

* Do you need it now?
* Is there a simpler solution that gives most of what you want?
* IS there an iterative approach you can start with?

As much as I've appreciated being on projects with CI/CD all the way to production, etc... there's something to be said for... does it run locally? can you containerize adjacent local services (db, api, etc)? can you containerize your build and local deploy? Do you have a CI/CD pipeline for pull requests? master? Integration tests?

It doesn't all have to be done at once, it can definitely be ad-hoc and can grow as your application(s) grow. Don't start with k8s when dokku will work. Don't force everything to be ready before any features can be built.
I actually think grid is simpler. The flex properties are confusing and make common cases complicated. Grid fits my mental model of what I am trying to achieve pretty much 1:1.
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Can we get this rule for adults too?
I don't understand what the point of this is. HaveIBeenPwned exists, they acknowledge (and use) their service, and offer the same exact services as they do. What's the point? It's just a reskin.
However, insulin and adrenaline are both used as drugs, i.e. administered to patients. In the case of BRCA1 the subject was the information content of the gene - Myriad asserted, for example, that others could not run tests of a patient's sequence. This is extremely different, as in no case was a physical product at issue - Myriad wasn't in the business of manufacturing BRCA, which would be pretty useless.
ah that's awesome, been following the tech blog for awhile now. I assume since the office is new, you aren't sponsoring visas? I work in the NZ energy market and this opportunity sounds interesting
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Google's design language is pretty unsurpassed, well documented and very user-friendly, thanks also to a ton of research that has been done in connection with Android, I guess.

So I see nothing wrong with him using that, in fact it would be a major factor for me personally in considering any Google service alternatives.

Keeping the switching barrier low is key for successful and widespread user adoption.

I actually think bad UI design is THE single greatest impediment for widespread adoption of free or open-source software imho. A lot has been written on that subject but I think the trope is "open-source developers cannot create good UIs". It is an old but well-accepted axiom, same as "Poland cannot into space", and it seems everyone adheres to it... ;-)

So using an established and "known good" design language is in fact ingenious.
I finished my first game-ish C/SDL project a few months back, and found it to be a very instructive experience. It compiles to WebAsm so you can fiddle with it here:

https://nematode.farm
Where were those airports out of curiosity? I've flown hundreds of times in my life, airports across Europe, and I have never ever seen this.
True, although I presume there's an Android version too...
Jaroor/zaroor is Urdu word. Hindi is निश्चित (nishchit).

Just because zaroor is commonly used doesn't make it Hindi.
Surprised that thermal expansion is so hard to test against--seems like you could just heat up the DUT and compare against the thrust measurements?
Doesn't work if the newspaper publishes total nonsense and smarter or better informed comments point that out, which is 50% of the value of comments.

I'm pretty sure a big part of the reason the Guardian stopped opening comments on most stories was the cost of 'moderation', except the reason their moderation costs were so high is that their moderators would routinely plough through comments by hand to remove people pointing out mistakes or absurd statements by the journalists, and as the Guardian changed over the years the articles became ever more extremist, so that started to be most comments. That is, they defined making their own staff look bad as abuse (regardless of whether it was written in vitriolic style).

Even now if you go read one of the few open threads they have, you can find commenters pointing out logical or factual problems with the column.
I tend to favor automated, or at least scripted provisioning... if it can be exercised quickly and easily, it's more likely to be exercised more often, meaning one can be more trusting.
There's a few YouTube videos about the Ernest Wright factory. From memory, one details how elderly, master scissor makers were staying on well last retirement age in order to pass the skills onto a new generation of apprentices. I found it fascinating.
I get that. It's just a mammoth caveat that somehow gets lost in the debate over free college and, if advocated, makes it a much more fundamental and far-reaching change than any candidate is letting on.
I wouldn't be GOG surprised if it was GOG that stole Valve's market share in Europe because no one buys physical copies of PC games anymore, especially when most of them are just boxes with just the Steam code.
Given that putting 'try' before the variable definitions would probably interfere with the 'var' keyword, it makes a bit more sense to me that it should be put after the assignment operator (something like var try v1 = Thing() is probably lexable consistently, but it would be confusing to remember if it goes var try v1 or try var v1, unless it supported both which seems ish)

v1 := try someFunction()

I like that, primarily because it has echos of how the go keyword already operates. But the important thing is that it should be disallowed anywhere that isn't directly next to an assignment, which might be difficult. Like

// compiler error
fmt.Printf(try someFunction())

Not sure how easily that can be enforced without affecting the lexability of the grammar or compilation speed, but in a way, it should be thought of as a tokenized part of the assignment, not the RH-expression, such that the assignment tokens become

=
:=
= try
:= try
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"Bloom Drive" is a paid service. 30GB free, then it starts to cost. "Secured by SSL", which probably means the data is not encrypted against access by them.

The Bloom Drive site is one of those sleazy "sign up and then maybe we'll tell you something about what we're selling" sites.[1] You can almost hear the sucking sound of the onboarding funnel.

[1] https://bloom.sh/drive
I really struggle as a potential investor in this (after IPO).

The business is real and lucrative and profitable.
This is already so much better than say Uber.
But the equities market demands perpetual growth and I'm not seeing enough audience for this in the future, who have not already bought it.
In other words I feel it would be a very nice private company but it might struggle a bit as a public one.
https://arc.io/product#how-does-arc's-cdn-work-technically
>it is a procedure by which potatoes are cloned rather than bred.

I might be wrong, but this is how many edible crops are propagated. Apples for instance are generally clones, because the alternative is getting a new kind of apple every time.
“Another text saying that the founding fathers of quantum mechanics were not only wrong but idiots, as some current geniuses revealed. In reality, it's the other way around, of course. [...] I don't think it makes sense for me to discuss the paper and Ball's summary more deeply. One would have to correct every sentence that is wrong or at least misleading – which is basically every sentence both in Ball's text as well as the text in Nature.“

https://motls.blogspot.com/2019/06/experimenters-and-especia...
Did you try looking for Rust bindings to ImageMagick? If it's really that much faster, it might make sense to just call out to it. I found https://github.com/nlfiedler/magick-rust with e quick search, but I don't know how well it works.
Not euthanasia, but how would you call it ?

I mean sure, was she given a lethal injection in a clinic ? Well, no. Is this not euthanasia ? Why the hell not ?

1) the girl is in fact dead

2) because she wanted to die (after being locked up in youth services for years, including months in an isolation cell)

3) the "original event" is that she was ("probably") raped at school. Repeatedly. She has never divulged what actually happened.

4) according to her own words, she has been locked up in ~30 different institutions in something like 6 years. In at least a few cases against her will and against the will of her parents. [1]

In one case, this was done because she could not immediately be treated by a psychiatric clinic, where youth services then saw fit to lock her in an institution (without school, without access to family, ...). She was not suicidal before this, and became suicidal here.

In several other cases she claims it was because psychiatric or youth services "help" did not find her cooperative or make enough progress and then sent her to be locked up, because that's just what they do (loosely translated from her post linked below). She also claims she met a great deal other youths that were in a similar situation (not able to be treated, and then locked up instead).

She claims she was put into an isolation cell for months, constantly scolded by the employees of youth services, punished unfairly and arbitrarily and that generally she left youth services' care in much worse shape than she entered, when looking for help.

5) she was assisted in committing suicide, even if that was not active suicide, but rather starving herself out.

She's written a book about it. "Winning or learning" (Winnen of Leren) by Noa Pothoven. Dutch book. About experiencing trauma at a young age. About the enormously negative influence the Dutch help system had in her life. No translation available.

[1] https://www.hsleiden.nl/binaries/content/assets/hsl/lectorat... (in Dutch)
It must have been a trial to visit and deal with a halitosis flamethrower-strength handlicker with fleas, a congenital twitch and a leaky funstick. But Winston loved him and really that's all that matters. I wonder how Clemmie coped? Probably tried not to wince too much in public.
This means that if you make an app for kids, and you were planing on using ad monetization, your only recourse is to get acquired by an Ad-Tech company (Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon included) so that you can run "first-party ads."
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The post is speculation; perhaps s/does/might/ or s/does/could/ in the title.
I experimented with one of the early P2P CDN's, which appears to be the same thing Arc.io is doing. Very quickly the widget ends up on all the major adblock lists and... it does basically nothing for you.

One one site that had a few hundred unique visitors per day, and the P2P CDN "saved" me kilobytes per month in bandwidth costs. Maybe a higher traffic site would see more benefit (especially if it isn't focused at tech people who have a nearly 100% install rate for ad blockers).
I've been doing this for years with Gmail but the issue with breach notification services like HIBP / Monitor is that you can't add wildcards into your search for notifications, so unless I plug in every me+service@domain email variant in, I could be missing being notified.
> It's not reasonable to expect content aggregators/platforms to be able to conduct provenance investigations on all content.

Why not? A mere mortal would have to get permission from me to derive a monetary benefit from my content. Why should we exempt Google from that?

People seem to have forgotten that it is not the job of the content creators to make sure that Google has a scalable business. If Google can't scale provenance clearance, then they should have to shut down general uploading.

YouTube is not a search engine and does not deserve the same protections.

> Why should YouTube be liable when someone with a vendetta misuses their platform?

Because Google has legal recourse against the person with the vendetta for recovery. You can also make situations like this eligible for exemption (but Google would have to prove it).

However, this kind of situation is BY FAR the exception. Far more common is someone uploading and monetizing content that is not theirs to do so.
> Obviously because they can control when it is done as well as how the results are distributed, or not distributed.

Let's apply some Occam's Razor here.

I am led to believe they know that these machines are harmful and therefore they are carefully orchestrating all testing of these devices by, among others, all of the following parties: "U.S. Army Public Health Command, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)".

That's all done to prevent some sort of mass lawsuit, which might cost the United States some money.

The simpler explanation is that TSA rules are simply really strict, because that's just how TSA rules are.

https://www.quora.com/Are-TSA-screeners-permitted-to-wear-ra...

The rules don't have to make sense. There's a whole lot about the TSA and its procedures that doesn't make sense.

> We do not know if this figure is the total generation output, or only the total amount put to the target & receiving sensors.

I'm content with the description given that these machines "cannot produce" more than that. You can do your own research on the matter.

> 3) even if we assume .005millirem/scan, at the rate of two/minute, that's 1000 minutes to get a chest x-ray, or 16 hours, basically two work days. In LESS THAN ONE MONTH, they are over the yearly dose.

...assuming no shielding whatsoever. You would hope that after two months without shielding on the device, someone might notice. Even then, such exposure would be well below the occupational limit for radiation workers (5000 millirem):

https://ehs.stanford.edu/manual/radiation-protection-guidanc...

> This does NOT look at the luggage scanners, either for carry-ons or for checked luggage, which likely have much higher outputs.

Fair enough, but you picked an article that was specifically concerned with those backscatter devices.
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