skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Co-author here. We designed a statistical model, which is never 100% sure a re-identification is correct. There is, e.g., a non-null probability that two individuals in the US share 5, 10, or even 15 demographics attribute.
From what I've heard, kotaku stopped paying its writers years ago. Right now it's basically a hobbyist blog aggregator.
> Lot of people still "recharge" their prepaid phone bills with cash.

Didn't India outlaw cash?
I agree, I think the government guaranteed wage is only 100rs per day if doing roadwork or similar. (Not sure the correct term).

I believe in the Kolkata superb area, many people with a bachelors or equivalent only make $60-80 usd a month. (4000-5500rs)

Of course, there are many many many people who make much more.

If I think of what it costs to eat out in the US, and what it costs to eat out in India...
200rs is probably more equivalent $15-40 dollars in the US. For buying power.

Examples:
Throw pillow that would be $30 USD, is 150rs, or 315rs at someplace like Anokhi.

Streetfood that would be ~$10 in the us is probably around 70rs ? But that’s even a hard comparison, as I’ve been able to snack for 20rs, but not a full meal.

A knife I bought to open coconuts, that isn’t pretty, but would probably be $25-$35 in the US, was 325rs, and I probably could have gotten it cheaper.
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Plaintext email is really troublesome if one wants to mail in an right-to-left language. There's simply no compatible way to override the direction/embedding without HTML * , so content is often scrambled.

Many mailers won't even align to right automatically if all input is in an right-to-left language. In practice, HTML email is the only compatible way to get a semi-decent experience for these languages.

* To answer the obvious: the unicode bidi override characters are not a solution. They are often stripped out, and editing zero-width characters is a very 'pleasant' experience.
If they operate in Europe then I am pretty sure that the GDPR legislation is pretty straight forward here. If you can de-anonymize the data then it is by definition not anonymized.
I just can't stress this enough: if you're reading an economics article that relies on anecdotes from owners in the service industry, DO NOT READ IT!

You can find a service industry business owner to shit on literally anything local government does. If there aren't hard numbers in the piece, into the trash it goes.

In the city where I grew up, they implemented a Bus Rapid Transit system that has definitively helped the businesses on its corridor. However, from the moment it was announced, article after article would come out where business owners would blame the BRT for their declining business or even failure. The evidence never backed these claims up.

The case that the minimum wage hurts the service industry, in particular, makes sense to me. In fact, I'm sure it's somewhat true. However, when the best an article can do is a 2018 survey saying that the majority of businesses have increased prices (curiously - no numbers about any negative impact on their bottom lines) - toss it in the garbage. No thanks.
No, do not download and run random stuff from shady places and you're fine. This relies on you explicitly downloading and running a self-extracting shell script, it doesn't get installed by itself.
1. 480p resolution is almost retina at about 20 inches distance on a 6 inch screen.[1] Maybe I'm part of a minority, but I find 480p quality to be totally acceptable for viewing on a smartphone.

2. Users in India access the internet via data packs and not wifi/broadband. Most are on a daily data limit of 1-2GB/day. Netflix uses about 1GB/hr for standard definition streaming.[2] So most users will likely be able to watch only 1-2 hours of video per day. Had they been streaming in HD, this would drop to about half an hour a day.

My opinion is that this is brilliant move by Netflix.

[1] https://www.designcompaniesranked.com/resources/is-this-reti...
[2] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87
> This group of german companies founded their own security group [German Cyber Security Organization (DCSO)]. That speaks a lot about their trust in their public services.

> The only time I've been involved in a hacking attempt (it was ransomware) the company I work for contacted the CCN-CERT. I wonder if US companies contact NSA/Other gov agencies or deal with it themselves with security companies.

In the US, most large companies that have suffered breaches contact the FBI.
The irony here is that you appear to be unaware of the former work on algebraic effects, to the point that this one lightweight blog post forms your entire understanding of it and you mistake it for a limited and ill-defined language construct...
People find comfort in franchises, especially characters they've grown up with. Instead of investing time in making new intellectual property, some fans would rather make expansions and sequels despite the risk of cease-and-desist orders.

I don't blame this mentality – it's the kind of loyalty that creative and loved stories naturally engender. It's really hard to imagine Super Smash Bros. having a fraction of its appeal if it had the same mechanics but completely new non-Nintendo characters. Or even the original Super Mario Kart for that matter.
It's all about better L3 utilization. Cilk is good for using L1 and L2, i.e. caches that are core-local, and suboptimal for using L3, i.e. caches that are shared between cores.
To add a counterpoint - think about a much bigger whale - Youtube - automatically upscales to 1080p when network and devices supports it. And Youtube in India is much much bigger over Hotstar and all other streaming providers. 80% of internet users of India use YouTube https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/youtube-india-penetra.... You can see that people know their 1080p when they see it.
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Correct - the fully baked cost of these employees is much higher than the extra $/hr increase. The bigger kicker is this location is fixed, they HAVE to pay their employees this amount. The consumer is NOT fixed and given an increase in prices, has the ability to conduct commerce in an area near Emeryville that was not impacted by the higher wages. So all things being equal, the same sandwich made a few miles away may be a few $ cheaper and for people on a limited budget, the consumer may make that choice. It is similar to when a city/county raise taxes within their limits on certain items, lets say cigarettes, then are surprised when instead of raising revenue, the amount of revenue overall collected falls after this increase. Consumers have the ability to purchase outside of the city's taxing authority when the marginal increase is more than the perceived cost to the consumer to travel to purchase them. This is basic econ 101, maybe 201. While these attempts are great, they fail to factor that in and should be coordinated at the state level to have any impact. Even with that, states deal with this all the time when people go across state lines to purchase booze, or leave high sales tax states when making large ticket purchases. It is no coincidence that just across the border from Illinois in Wisc/Indiana there are best buys / appliance stores that do huge volumes of business.
I look at 480p movies all the time: good internet connection is not easy to find on the move. Honestly I don't care that much for HD as long as the experience is fluid and instant.
If a Leaf does the job, why do does she own a Ford F-150? Is she a fan of agricultural devices?
Thanks for pointing this out.

Really important to have a 3-statement model for your company, meaning a P&L (income statement), Balance Sheet and Cash Flow. This is especially important for companies with big gaps between cash collections and actually earning revenue (such as companies that collect annual contracts upfront but are earned monthly). We've seen a lot of companies trip up on this.

We have a free model on our website that has all three statements and is easy to use: https://www.graphitefinancial.com/open-source-financial-mode...
I'm on mobile so I can't give you an adequte response, but I can link you to a previous commment I wrote on the subject...

Or I would, but pasting seems to be broken on my phone as well. If anyone can search HN for "Sir_Cmpwn Protonmail" and link the relevant comment I'd appreciate it very much.
I'm far from convinced of the utility of algebraic effects, but if you like them, implementing them in Java (or any Java platform language) would be possible soon thanks to Project Loom [1]. The scoped (ALA multi-prompt) delimited continuations provided by Loom are intended for other uses, but they could also be used to implement algebraic effects.

[1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom/
"restaurants have thin profit margins" too many restaurants ? The unit margin is fairly high.
Then you are better off using some format that can stand alone as a file such as PDF. If it is a reference document that is intended to be edited on an ongoing basis it is better to use something like a wiki. Having to root around in your email to find a reference document is pretty inefficient and annoying.
Nice set of features and paradigm mix. To which platforms does it deliver it a binaries? Does it deliver binaries or it is compiled, and where does it run the compiled program?

Can you show some realistic usage or application and how do all these feature hold together? An mvp todo list could make it, for web or for the command line.
> You can make Text-only links look fairly harmless too.

Could you give an example? As far as I know, you cannot do something like making a link look like it belongs to a completely different domain.
Some do while some don't. It isn't foetecide if the woman is willingly aborting. I guess that's the point the parent is making.
Typical WSJ rubbish. Focus on anecdotes, like the guy who sacks over half of his staff because of a < 15% increase in minimum wage.

Having grown up solidly in the class of the "working poor", I can tell you a side of the story that is not often told - there is not enough difference in quality of life between "working poor" and just being on public assistance and unemployed. When you are unemployed, you get government benefits, and most people either have a side hustle (odd jobs under the table, or sometimes something blatantly illegal), or commit some type of fraud like claiming to live on their own when in fact they split rent between many people. I'm not judging here, it's just what happens.

So you get these people who make minimum wage, they aren't really living substantially better than those who don't work, yet they have to work 40 hours a week for some ahole with a Nepolean complex, and we wonder why so many people choose not to work?

The right-wing position is that we should slash benefits because of the lazy ones taking advantage of the system. The left-wing position is that all the poor are just misunderstood. My position is that, from experience, yes there are able-bodied people who are choosing not to work, it is a problem, and the proper way to deal with it is to make sure there are substantial benefits to having a job.

Yes, raising minimum wage will make a minor increase in unemployment, and will make a bit of hardship for a very small number of restaurant owners, those are valid points, that in my opinion are not terrible enough to keep the minimum wage low.
Payroll taxes, unemployment insurance, benefits like 401k matching.
18.04 == 15 months old.
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I'm a German soon to be CS graduate and right now my favourites are SV and London. I'll try to get into a company that can sponsor L1 visa for SV first and then I'll try London.

The German job market is precisely as described by GP: you are competing all the time with remote people in countries with much smaller cost of living and the wages are super low compared to aforementioned places. Germany has great schools, and medical system and I think when/if I want to raise a family I'll come back. But until then I want to make money and you do this while it's easy to move around.

You can say this is a cultural problem but I think the problem is different: there is just no big software industry in Germany. It's mostly SAP salespeople, development of various custom ISV software and a small startup scene in Berlin. Most German companies don't need good software for the stuff they are doing.
The visualization is fascinating, but the really interesting thing to me is that Google Earth had what appear to be custom imagery of the affected area within a day or two of the event.
Also notable is that several of those phones don't have Widevine Level 1, and don't get full HD content on Netflix on any plan.
Your points are not objective and judging Iran harsher than all other actors in the region.

First and foremost you conflate Hezbollah, Alewites and Iraqi shias and shias generally with Iranians. This is disponest and therefor your claim Iran colonizing and taken over oil Fields is not true. They are doing same thing as US and Saudi is doing for their allies in the region, supporting them.

Using your terms Saudis have colonized Bahrain and Yemen together with UAE. They have supported a military dictatorship in Sudan and also bad actors in Somalia. They have tried to ”colonize” Qatar but failed. Israel is basically an apartheid state that is destroying the life of all Palestinians.

Iran supporting other entities which are lobbying missiles into Israel and Saudi Arabia is perhaps true. Yet it was Saudis and to some extent US who supported Saddam during Iran-Iraq war. A war where Iraq fired lots of missiles on top of Iran and even used chemical weapons against Iran. You conviently forgot about this war.

No matter how justified US is
maximum pressure won’t work if your are emboldening your enemy and treating your own allies like shit (see any European nations lining up to support US?).

The only country that sanctions worked against was South Africa, but in that case it was against an apartheid state that was highly impopular both Inside and outside the country.
I wish I could be making an extra $1,800 a month. Alternatively, I'd be pretty honked off too if a government regulation cut my pay by that amount.
If they really want me to believe it was because of minimum wage, they should share their business balance sheet and income statement.
Restaurants close down every day. Prices of food, insurance, real estate, taxes, etc are always changing and generally going up. Customers are fickle and tastes change. It isn't unusual for a business owner that is shutting down their business to use the event to make a political point that supports their ideology.
Ask HN: Recommendations for AI generated music software?
It's surprisingly hard to find a solution for these simple requirements:

I want to create AI generated to use as soundtracks on videos - so there must be no question about royalties or copyright

I want to be able to specify how long the music should go for.

I want to be able to save the music.

It would be great if I could have some control over the pace/style of the music but I'm not a musician so lots of options would be detrimental. I don't want to compose music - I want it made for me.

I'm happy to pay, but the prices must be clear and up front and not require me to email the company to "make an enquiry".

I've done a fair bit of searching but not found anything to make AI music that meets these needs. It's strange given there is so much interest in AI I would have thought there would be plenty of good products available to buy.

Ideally I'd like to make music such as ambient music, similar to Brian Eno, Jean-Michel Jarre, Phillip Glass, but it would be great just be able to explore a range of types of music to find what I want.

Can anyone recommend any good AI music generators?
I don't think the tangent off into the topic of cloud-based computing makes a lot of sense.

PUE is a measure of efficiency for the data centre itself — how much power is going into computing vs the data centre. It says nothing about the efficiency of the hardware itself, which can easily beat the efficiency of consumer hardware by enough of a margin that it burns overall less energy.

One obvious place for such savings is storage — there's no reason you need a separate copy of a game for each compute node that's running it!

Then they run into the problem of e-waste, which is precisely the sort of thing that cloud-based/streaming consoles would actually make better!
It's great that you think that it matters but I don't think that what you think that it matters matters in practise, really, the world is HTML email now.
A really detailed and logical study. Loved it ;).
I don't really understand the upside for them to include such toothless yet threatening clauses. It makes them seem a bit juvenile.

Like when we had to come up with laws for our make-believe countries for a class project in middle school and we tried to cover our bases with rules like "if you're a bad person doing all bad stuff, you're not allowed to!"
In a hypothetical scenario where all publishers go out of business, it would be hard to see how much the sales decline overall - i.e. how much sales was driven purely by marketing and how much is people really wanting to buy and play video games.
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However, a significant portion of HTML mail I receive happily violates "accessibility laws" and omit to provide a text-only part. I know that, since I actually rely on accessibility to do my daily work.
It is probably a strategy to make the building owner lower the rent without shuting down first.
I've used ownCloud for years but finally switched to nextcloud and I couldn't be happier. I'm using terraform to set it all up and instead of local storage I'm using a S3 bucket which makes it really convenient to not worry about disk sizes etc.
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I'll coin the phrase Sominization, where 'some' attempt to anonymize the data, and as such, should be used with great caution.
> completely eliminated, without recourse

For breaching the contractual agreement, something the court has also observed and ruled on.

This man indeed paid for something but then used it in a way that was an abuse from the contractual perspective and (saying this as a regular person) also from a common sense perspective. He showed a lot of bad faith and this undermined his case.
I agree that farming as a whole is important, but how does subsidizing crop insurance help? Why can farmers not just pay 100% of their insurance premiums instead of only 40%?
Thinking about the energy consumption of a data center is absurd. Printing out paper forms and keeping them forever is far more energy intensive and requires more man power which in turn means more energy consumption. There are some exceptions like bitcoin mining which is inefficient by design but they are a minority and the article isn't talking about them.
Hahaha, that's rich. Those laws are not enforced. I actually consulted with a blind friend when writing that up and he agrees that every HTML email is a nightmare for him. Top posting too.
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What was the cost of running it for 20 years (both reported and then times 3 for realistic forecast)
Septic systems need a fair amount of water with the waste to work correctly - more than one flush worth. (washing hands, showering, and other water uses more than makes up the difference)
The number one cost for businesses are employees, often by far. If you raise that year over year, it’s bound to be painful.

Say 60% of my business expenses were employees, 10% was rent and 30% was produce for a restaurant.

A doubling of the minimum wage would likely increase by expenses by 35% - assuming the minimum wage didn’t impact where my food was purchased.

This is why there a large fields of economic theory that warn against minimum wage hikes.

The increase in minimum wage is going to mean those whose rent out buildings will increase prices. Food becomes more expensive, shops have to close, etc. it’s essentially a race to the bottom and as it’s a zero sum game it’ll often lead to the economy to slow (long term). This is as there is a shift in purchasing behavior, or people moving due to employment loss.
Man arrested over phishing attack on UK university
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I'll be honest this was just a guess, I know milk has been driven down a lot lately by almond milk, oat milk, and other alternative kinds of milk.
But an initial google search indicates, I am not too far off:

https://www.realagriculture.com/2018/02/u-s-dairy-subsidies-...
What exactly makes it inedible?
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Examples from what I've seen:

https://account:paypal.com.login@verified-account.com/phish

This, to the untrained eye, might at first glance look like a paypal.com link. In fact, it belongs to verified-account.com and it abuses the capability of URLs to contain a username and password to make it look legit.
An entire article about Chinese toilets, and no mention of four star toilets (or three star, or one star).

I am so disappointed.

https://www.tour-beijing.com/blog/china-travel/plan-china-tr...
Income Gap Between Tech CEOs, Software Engineers:
The american obsession with the word "earthquake" ia fascinating to me.

I have never understood why, otherwise intelligent and eloquent native english speakers, choose to call small vibrations of tectonic plates as "earthquake" instead of what in theory should really be the more appropriate word:

Tremors

French, Spanish and German languages do not make this same error.

Is english at fault? ? Am i wrong? Or is there more to it?
>So you get these people who make minimum wage, they aren't really living substantially better than those who don't work,

Supporting yourself (by basically selling your labor) instead of relying on the government is worth something (non-tangible value, obviously) to a lot of people (though I suspect there are few of those people on HN). It makes you feel good (less bad) about your situation and frankly having your existence be dependent on some entity you have nearly zero control over sucks and is stressful.

Obviously on some level it comes down to personal preference but clearly a large subset of the population feels that minimum wage or nearly minimum wage jobs are a good enough deal relative to government benefits that they do them.

The people who I'd personally want to hire are the one's who are gaming the system by getting benefits and working under the table or having a side gig because they clearly know how to optimize for a given set of constraints. Unfortunately those are the ones that aren't in the job market.
Jim Sterling coined the term "asset flip" to describe cheap, rushed, barely-playable games cobbled together with Unity and pre-bought art assets. These games are a shameless attempt to cash in on the latest fad with an absolute minimum of effort. A substantial proportion of indie releases on Steam (and a majority on Android) fall into this category.

https://youtu.be/5svAoQ7D38k?t=48 (strong profanity)
They were funded almost entirely by Sam Lessin, the husband of the founder, and his Facebook money. There is a massive conflict of interest there which they can conveniently avoid disclosing because it’s all arms-length.

I was surprised nobody brought that up when they were the main source of negative press about Snap. But, keep this in mind when you’re reading material from The Information — it’s the publication of choice for the retired members of the Facebook Mafia.
The only potential maybe issue is that may limit private investment - but that wasn't how it was intended to be funded anyway.
As far as I know they didn't, about 2 years ago they just replaced several high value bills over night to battle corruption (you essentially had to go to a bank to get your old bills replaced, which in turn layed open your income/wealth).