skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recommend cancelling prime for a small window of time and reevaluating, if you can manage. Partly to see how thirsty Amazon is for you to sign back up for prime. You could fill a textbook with the dark patterns. The article mentions one of them, needing to confirm your cancellation three different times. Imagine a conversation with a real human that goes like this:

Me: I would like to cancel prime.

Amazon: Do you want to cancel prime? Yes or no.

Me. Yes.

Amazon: Look at all these great prime perks. Say either "Nevermind" or "Cancel, I don't want these amazing benefits"

Me: Cancel.

Amazon:

Me:

Amazon:

Me: Cancel, I don't want these amazing benefits.

Amazon: Are you sure you want to cancel? What if instead of paying $199 for the year you pay $20 monthly?
'It's a Career Ender': 2 LGBTQ Former Dell Workers Share Their Stories
This really pisses me off because you don't even have an option to not do business with the DMV. Even if you don't drive (highly unlikely in FL), you still need a non-driving ID card so there's no way to avoid getting swept up into this bullshit.

I see they have included an opt out link. That's nice. I wonder if they honor it. Even if they do, 99.999% of the population will never even know to do this because they've probably never heard of this company (I didn't until today).
Nah prime is great even if ur in NYC. I lived there and used it all the time.
300 California Cities Secretly Have Access to Palantir
I used to get them all the time, really annoying when you've just bought the (typically non consumable) product from them.

Yes Amazon, I'd love to buy a kettle 3 days after I just bought one from you.
I got curious and tried the names of a bunch of public figures. Some of "<first and last name> e" yielded "email" as the suggestion. But these did not: elizabeth holmes, tom jones, tom cruise, brad pitt, gwyneth paltrow, roger federer, will smith, jimmy carter.

Since Hillary Clinton is not unique, then it's not proof that her results are treated differently.
Advertising was in a separate bucket and Google Pay numbers were approximately known. It worked out to about $10/phone.
They should put "There's no such thing as The Turing Test" somewhere on there.
Using Futhark with PyOpenCL
Great recognition!!! Excellent design as well. Well done 'Bank of England'.
Hungry elephants fight climate change one mouthful at a time
I think that applies more to people like Mark Cuban, who are "internet rich" in the sense that they haven't overtly tried to use their wealth to push a dystopian anti-privacy vision of the future.

Thiel on the other hand owns Palantir, which is a service designed for governments and law enforcement to analyze volumes of surveillance data that are being collected about the citizenry with or without their knowledge. Right now it seems like its main clients are US organizations, including USMC operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, but I imagine there's plenty of interest among foreign governments in implementing those solutions in their countries as well.
Just "Google it" means to find an answer, if that answer is being changed by a megacorp for unknown and sometimes nefarious reasons, I'd say we have a problem.

Would you want to use a library that filters its books to push an ideology? Would you want to listen to the radio if they only pushed top 40? Would you want to have a doctoral thesis that needs corporate approval? Research books that exclude facts based on corporate profits?
There is no standard mapping between "your C code" and "what your computer will do" if your code has undefined behavior. Your compiler will produce some assembly, which you cannot rely on, and that will be "what your hardware does". If that's what you're trying to say I think we agree.
This is pretty bad. The usual argument of "if you don't like it don't use Facebook/Google/(insert company here)" doesn't apply here. You have to interact with the government to get a DL, there are no competitors. Therefor government services should treat personal information with the utmost respect and discretion, not sell it off to the highest bidder.
You can pass null, undefined, or remove the property.

JSON Schema – a whole topic unto itself – gives you further control over locking down how this can be represented (e.g. field MUST be present but can be string matching this regex or null).
recursion can introduce thread killing bugs. Not the first tool to always reach for.
As someone that has been incarcerated, I would be instigating a riot in those conditions.
Based on my experience at Reddit, memes are the regular content at this point if you're looking at r/all.
For sure. The combat only got interesting about a year before it was cancelled.
Yes, at least half the time I search about a particular topic, it seems the first few pages are written by some contractor in the Philippines probably getting paid $2 / hr who just spent the prior 30 minutes researching the topic.
The relevant point is whether it's set to do so automatically by default (as the consumer version is). Any operating system can be configured to automatically update, but many of them do not.
This article gave a different look at landfills and was honestly quiet eye opening for me. I had not considered the effects recycling could have if not done correctly, and what benefits landfills have when monitored well.
> As a developer, I search using keywords;

So did I.

Around the time I left Google behind I had started to search like my wife did, using full sentences. it sometimes worked better I think.
And indeed it wasn't illegal in 50s England either (in a heterosexual context).
And/or start disincentivizing advertising more. If there were more hoops to jump through, maybe more people would find something better to do with their time than advertising.
No, I mean the tradition of having a public consultation of which historical figures to include on the currency.
I think about this all the time and was sad to see Sqwiggle die -- excited to see this evolve.

A couple quick thoughts:

- What's it like to be in two channels attempting to have a "meeting"? Seems like that will get confusing quickly.

- Consider an idle state where a snapshot is posted every so often (~once/minute) until people switch to an active discussion. That way you can see who's around with way less bandwidth.
And even if they don't voter registration almost always requires a real physical address, and is often a public record. So victims of domestic violence, stalking etc are incentivized not to register to vote.
It takes $Billions to get new search engine to same level as Google..

Candidates with $Bs to spare (!) are Apple, Facebook, Microsoft. First two never started it, Bing is quite stupid so far. My default SE in Bing. I wish it was Apple :)
Edited. I wanted to emphasize the refuse, but I guess my language portrayed weakness.
That's still astronomical.
> Given how much of its functionality is embedded in electronics and software, how can you know?

Marketing, mostly.
Heeheehee wow. Who are you so injured on behalf of? Multiple comments are talking about scamming Amazon out of 3$.

Whose in pain? Why can't I want those 40min (+shopping time) and just be happy I have found a way to keep them?
What's the benefit of Latex over LyX? With LyX you can insert latex if you need it, but otherwise you are in a very nice Wysiwym environment
A human contains code that can recreate a complete model of that human....

Maybe you're saying that a human can't fit into a human?
I agree it's not a paradox, but not for the reasons you seem to be implying.
Which is why that standard is unworkable.

If you're giving loans and justifying a factor is the same as showing that it correlates with repayment rate then it's that easy to show a justification, but it will also basically always produce a "disparate impact" because repayment rate itself correlates with race, so any reasonably accurate measure of repayment rate will do the same.

A "disparate impact" standard is useless because it's routinely met even when discrimination is not actually occurring. In fact, finding no disparate impact would be highly indicative that someone was impermissibly taking race into consideration in order to fudge the numbers.

So either you have a disparate impact because that's what naturally happens with accurate predictions, or you do the expressly prohibited thing and take race directly into consideration in order to make it go away.

Imagine a human intervening to remove a factor from consideration because considering it benefits black applicants relative to other applicants, even though considering it improves accuracy overall. Would they not rightfully get their butts sued off? But what happens if it's the same thing, only this time it benefits hispanic or korean or greek applicants relative to black applicants? The only remaining option is to consider all the information you have available, which is what people are inclined to do to begin with.
Cancelled mine one year ago and I think my life improved without Amazon. Amazon doesn't only sell you goods, but a lifestyle: non-stop shopping with no obstacles for satisfying your most fleeting material desires.

Ultimately, I preferred to reject the convenience that Amazon is encouraging for a lifestyle of reduced consumption. While, in theory, one can have Amazon Prime and consume very little, it's hardly worth it in this case.
You don't have to imagine it, just try to change your cable/internet provider.
Not surprising that you are being down-voted for stating the obvious.

Boeing exhibits all the schizophrenic behaviour we come to expect from business as it stands in this age. And they will continue to do so as long as it maximises shareholder value, which is the only reason they exist.

Sure, corp-cucks will blab on about social license and the like, but look at how the market judged them: A $100 drop from $450 to $350, and that's it. Two planes drop from the sky, killing ~350 people, subsequent investigations reveals Boeing fired their skilled engineers and to this day have not fixed their software. The share price barely moves. Why the fuck should they change anything ?
New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model
They all work fine for me, e.g., 'tom jones emai' -> 'tom jones email', only Clinton didn't.
I suspect the filtering is Airbus vs Boeing
>My car garage not doing credit-card payment for god knows why reason.

Tax evasion, avoiding deal with chargebacks, and not having to pay merchant account fees. However, those fees are nearly zero for debit card accounts, and chargebacks are pretty much non existent with Chip + Pin (or Apple Pay or EMV), so I would most likely guess tax evasion. I've been to many restaurants that offer 10% discounts for cash payments, versus card, which works perfectly as they get a portion of the sale on the record for plausible deniability, and a portion off the record.
That sounds about as useful as teaching the principles behind riding a bicycle without giving students a chance to actually practice on the real thing.
> This company is dead.

Doubt it.

For you perhaps, but the short memory of the general public, rebranding, and Boeing rebates (probably some generous amounts of heavy wine'n'dine), mean they will definitively show up at an airport near you.
That's funny, for a few years I worked for an organization that did the front end crawling / brutalizing of most of the major retailers for their data. Afaik most still do not intentionally provide any data publicly and many spend extravagant amounts on anti-crawling tech to prevent it, resulting in an expensive arms race over ostensibly public data.
does uber use facial recognition in vehicles? can you expand on that?
in my city i haven't seen any evidence of facial recognition in uber/lyft vehicles.
I got fliers for colleges. First drivers license - college age. Some marketer put that together.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

Redirect extension to always get old.reddit.com. I've been using it for years without issue. It's one of the very few extensions I have that is enabled in Incognito mode.

But I still feel your pain whenever I'm on another computer without the extension and forget to type the old url.
Chiming in from Canada. Tap to pay is mostly ubiquitous here. You will find the odd fresh fruit/vegetable stand that doesn't at least have something like Square set up, but that is the exception. I only have cash on me if someone happens to repay me in cash.
Does that actually work? I must be old school, I always delete such IDs before searching, but then again I used Google back when it actually did what you told it instead of misinterpreting everything for you.
Aren't most of the things sold by fast food restaurants contaminated and thus un-recyclable?
> I had a phone with broken gps and I didn't really notice.

I certainly noticed in the UK on an iPhone 6 where the GPS chip was borked. You would drive for 10 minutes and then you would get an updated location. This was in outer London.
I knew a retired couple near where I lived growing up who, I found out later, were software programmers on the Apollo Program. Quite possibly worked in that lab. The husband passed away soon afterwards, and I never got around to asking the wife about her experiences (they both worked for the program!). But it was really cool reading about how the core software was written.
None of those other people were involved in major stories with email in the headline. If you look at the actual results, you'll see that it doesn't make any sense to not get suggestions for "Hillary Clinton email".

Compare these results:

* https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hillary%20clinton%20em...

* https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=will%20smith%20email
jealous much?
Those articles almost always contain a well thought out or unique description of the algorithm or topic being written about. Often there will be an inline demo with visualization. Your response comes across as a survival bias, as I would relate the HN highly voted articles to the good recipe sites. What about the myriad of articles written on those topics that don't end up on HN which are often the copy-and-paste content of another site (eg from Wikipedia)?
AWS Console uses unminified version of React?
That isn't unusual. NY and other states bordering Ontario sell driver data to the private company that operates the 407 toll highway. The galling thing is that most Canadian provinces have data privacy laws that prevent their own citizen's data from being shared with the same company.
> However, do you know why two flight enthusiasts from Dayton, Ohio succeeded?

This just makes me think that Alberto Santos-Dumont also "invented" heavier-than-air flight, only 3 years later and it was better.

Wouldn't we still have the same flying ability if the Wrights never pursued flying?

Previous discussion on Santos-Dumont: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9542480
> But I have never seen one that can do that _and_ produce quality.

I've never seen a mediocre dev produce quality so it isn't needed in order to be 10 times as productive as a mediocre dev.

What I think usually happens is that the 10x dev produces 10x as much technical debt as everyone else, so the team thinks that this guy is blocking all of them when it would have been just as bad if they put 10 mediocre people to do it instead, just that then the blame would have gotten spread out among 10 persons.

Or he produces 10x the quality and 1x the code of everyone else, but his mediocre colleagues doesn't notice that his code is better since everyone else added so much crap so he is seen as just a decent 1x dev.
This is very annoying and disappointing. I am a resident in the Tampa, Fl area. There is no other option where I can get a new driver's licensed renew the title for my vehicle. Since I'm finding out about this now my guess is there is no opt-out option either. This sucks because I get rid of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp trying to secure my self a little bit. But I just get screwed in another way.
> "can you consciously stop decoding the English I'm speaking now?"

as a speaker of English as a second language this used to happen to me once I was sufficiently tired.

I can almost do it in my native language if I am distracted "just right" (easier if it's being spoken with a different accent)
Cancelled last May, so about a year and a quarter ago when I was abroad. Haven’t looked back and don’t miss it at all.

I get Amazon gift cards through work occasionally so I just choose slower shipping for the orders I make.

Everything else I order goes through B&H, or REI primarily.

Most of the time I need to shop, I just go to a store. Gets me out of the house, get to walk around NYC and people watch, gets me a little exercise and fresh air.

Works for me! Never liked the anti-union and warehouse labor stories I read about Amazon.

Do enjoy putzing around with AWS though (although I use Digital Ocean for my personal VPS’s.)
Why Shoot Prairie Dogs?
Yes. In Indonesia, for example, less than 3% of the population have credit cards, yet online shopping is extremely popular, with many payment options (reverse ATM, as you describe, or paying at one of the ubiquitous Indomaret or Circle K convenience stores, and so on).
I've always found the Sheets Solution to be a little bit better as it feels more like a database. It also allows you to store lots of data in different ways, but maybe a google docs / sheets solution would be the best all round for something such as a blog.
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I almost never use Amazon's streaming because they mix in paid crap with free-with-prime crap so it's hard to browse. Also their UI tends to perform poorly on any given platform, compared with Netflix (I suspect more use of Web frontend tech in Amazon's apps).

I'd been meaning to cancel, actually, and this reminded me to. Looks like they already got me for a year a couple months ago, but I've got a reminder set to cancel next time. It's really, really not worth it.
"It is worse than a crime,—it is a blunder"

( https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Fouch%C3%A9 and https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand-... )
How are you computing that number? It's definitely wrong.

Assume Google receives 1 trillion queries per year, and has been around for 20 years. Using a bloom filter you can achieve a 1% error rate with ~10 bits per item. So a 200 terabyte bloom filter would be more than sufficient to estimate the number of unique queries.
>They did several things differently, from doing their own research to building wind tunnels to validate their data and eliminate guesswork.

>Sometimes the non-glamorous lab work is absolutely crucial to the success of a project. - Wilbur Wright

>Since the 18th century, engineers had been using Smeaton’s coefficient to calculate the density of air. After running over 50 simulations using their wind tunnels, the brothers determined its value to be 0.0033, and not 0.005.

>They also used the data from wind tunnels to design wings with better lift-to-drag ratio and used them to build their 1902 flying machine, which performed significantly better than their previous gliders.

The wind tunnel work was crucial to their success, arguably the single most important element. It enabled them to iterate their designs and compare them quickly. In today's language, it helped them to fail fast.

Had they been better funded, they might have committed the error of trying to iterate mostly with full-sized fliers, which would have drastically slowed down iteration.
Have no axe to grind here.

I just don’t understand why unsubscribing from a service merits a blog post, and even more confusing, an upvote to the popular category of Hacker News.

There are thousands of individuals enrolling and de-enrolling from hundreds of services every day. If they all posted blogs, we’d drown in them.
I was looking for personal opinions to gather data from, hence the question. I was not trying to cite stats & persuade with anything more than my personal experience. It would have been very easy to link to articles such as this Yale study - https://www.networkworld.com/article/2225489/research-buries... if I wanted to do that. FYI, this argues the 2 are fairly close.

Also asking for personal opinions will give me much different results than looking up a blind test research as brand loyalty will play a big part in ones like Duck Duck Go.
I believe that they're unique in a sense that nobody has typed in that exact query previously.

Of course, Google knows better but to treat every search query literally. Slight deviations and synonyms work for the majority of the people, even if us techies highly oppose them and look for alternative solutions (like DDG) that still treat our searches quite literally.
Oh man, I totally forgot Stephen Hawking died until you reminded me. :(
There’s a reason for this; click through rate on ads is higher on pages that don’t achieve the user goal.

I suspect that the AI models powering the search results develop a sort of symbiotic relationship with the spam - if the user actually finds what they are looking for by clicking through an ad on an otherwise spammy page, everyone “wins”; the user found what they were looking for with minimum effort, google got their ad revenue, and the spammy page got a little cut for generating content that best approximating the local minimum that links the users keywords to actual intent...
what about the other way around? Generate a diagram from your existing cloud (and then maybe tweak the diagram then round-trip it)
By providing him with an advice on dealing with the opposite side of the coin. Unless you're unable to comprehend how this world work, everybody's gonna figure it out sooner or later in life how to be successful. So the OP will be at one time in the future object of envy as well.
I just tried and your options are "cancel now", "remind me 3 days before it renews", or "switch to monthly next time it's about to renew". I didn't see a way to say "keep what I've already paid for, but never charge me again".

[EDIT] incidentally if someone finds that option, please let me know because I'll go select it right now. I've got a reminder (of my own—like I'll notice a reminder email from Amazon, haha) set to cancel in ~10 months but if I could click something now and not have to worry about it that'd be better.
> While I'm sure it's inaccurate, that's about the gist of it, isn't it?

You forgot the waste of electricity and people-hours that is designing the spam. Otherwise, that's about it for the primary waste. There undoubtedly are second-order effects as well.

What's worst, this waste is practically unbounded. The answer to your competitor acquiring customers through sending out spam is to send out even more spam.
You only "made three bucks" if you were going to spend the $25 either way. So did you save $3 or did you make an unnecessary purchase because you were offered a $3 discount?
AP sources: US struck Iranian military computers last month
I found it remarkably interesting. The site itself is a simple platform not too caught up in news site trappings of ad overflow and trackers galore, but with the same quality of writing I'd expect from a more contemporary publication. It has its fair share of pretense, but almost nothing else quite feels right for so thoroughly bohemian of a figure. Do give it a look, it's rather engrossing.
Many schools provide computers running Windows or macOS to their students but prevent them from putting their own software on it anyways.
Agreed, but insert an equivalent hop without alcohol and you'll see what I mean.
Yeah sure. What bothers me though is that they know the country I live in and still give me the unlimited movies bait before signing up for Prime. You get so hyped and then they let you down.

No harm done though. At least there's a trial.