skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is getting tangential, but opinion polls on voter ID aren't comparable to opinions on a national popular vote. Replacing the electoral college with a popular vote is the entire policy. Voter ID is complicated - we don't have a required ID nationally, lots of people don't have drivers licenses, state IDs cost money, how are we going to get gov't-issued IDs to people that don't already have one - do we make it any easier/cheaper or do we just tell them "you've got 4 years, figure it out"?

Also disagree on the comments on the popular vote being a mess - why should the population of someone's state factor in to how much their vote matters? Disenfranchisement is someone who lives in California's vote mattering less than a voter in Wyoming. Especially problematic is the winner-take-all way of determining electoral votes. Having a state pledge all of its electors to one candidate when 49% of its citizens voted for the other is an absolute failure of representation.

I'd say that the 2000 election coming down to 540 votes in Florida is a much bigger mess than the idea of a popular vote.
India never had a famine before the British landed on its shores, when all was said and done, they stole over $45 trillion dollars worth of value from that single nation...

I imagine Africa's stolen loot was many times larger (just the gold export records from South Africa are staggering), not even counting the rest of the world. China would have to maliciously work for decades (maybe centuries) to do the same kind of economic damage that Europe did to these regions.

Realize we are comparing the Chinese, who invaded almost nobody in the last 2000 years, to Europeans, who have invaded almost everybody just in the last 500 years. Not even close here....
I don’t see anyone mentioning AWS Lightsail.

https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/

I use it and it seems to be pretty great. I also like that it brings you into the AWS ecosystem at a low price, so if you need to scale or you want to make a bigger application, AWS is right there to hook into. Furthermore it’s a really simple UI and not as overwhelming as the normal AWS web console.
The sheer number of animals abused and killed for food [0][1] is 3 orders of magnitude larger than the number for research [2] (at least in USA). Animal research is more abstractly upsetting-sounding than killing animals for food (perhaps because we've been doing it for a briefer part of our species's existence), but the horrid conditions of most livestock raised for food in the US don't seem any better than those of lab animals; at least rats are anesthetized for the more gruesome experiments. There's also no clear reason to eat meat other than pleasure and food tradition, whereas animal medical experiments provide a unique means to massively improve our physical wellbeing.

I think that once we've reduced our meat consumption by 99.9%, then it might make some sense to spend energy coming up with alternatives to animal testing for medicine. For now, it's hard for me to see animal testing as the key bottleneck. If you profiled your code and found that one badly-implemented function was taking up 99.9% of your execution time, why would you ever waste any time optimizing the 0.1% function?

[0] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/report...

[1] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/report...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK218261/
There was a stand up comedian of Algerian descent explaining that situation when the French administration tries to do the census of their colony. The custom was to use your father's and grandfather's name as a name. Problem is, many people, including brothers would have the most popular name (I think it was Mohammed). Having a Mohammed, son of Mohammed, grandson of Mohammed was common.

So the French admninistration gave arbitrary names to families. Algerians were rightfully angry about that.

But then it got me thinking about what kind of acceptable solution you would have. There are naming conventions that are good enough to keep track of people in a village of mid-sized town. Given name + Parents names.

Family names start appearing when you need to be able to identify a person unambiguously among the population of a big country. Some places never went through that phase, yet being able to identify unambiguously a person who may have changed address or even country is perfectly valid.

In the absence of a universal ID scheme, I don't see a way around forcing a working pattern into every culture, with the acceptance that some things may be lost in translation.

Jesus would have registered as "Jesus Bin Yoseph" to get a passport or an Amazon Prime account. His (hypothetical) children would have "Bin Jesus" as their family names.

Hopefully one day we have a UID for humans that can be mapped to a variety of naming scheme, but we are not there yet.
Another consequence of insisting on surnames is that those without a surname are forced to append say their father's name as a surname, with the result that their name now becomes twice as long. Each of the individual names (of the person and their father) was about as long as needed to be somewhat unique (some sort of universal "full name" length), but with the artificially added surname, the resulting length is now two times that. Quite annoying to spell out such long names on the phone for instance.
You can set the bar to always show certain widgets. I have mine always show keyboard light, brightness and volume control. This doesn’t require any 3rd party software

But it still lights up whenever you want it to be dark (like when a full screen video starts), and is dark whenever you actually need to look it it (when you decide to adjust the volume a few minutes later).
"Being a giant sponge for salable personal information makes for good business, it turns out."

That's the real backstory here; anonymity, tor, silkroad, and the darkweb, were thus widely demonized 'cos they're explicitly bad for mass-harvesting of people's private information for advertisers and other nefarious causes. Bulk info that proved very profitable in the wrong hands. A huge tech-bubble built upon enforced transparency of people's real identities, private interests, and personal activity.
I'm working in a product right now where we've run into this and we have a ticket to remove the family name requirements.

Even if we remove the family name requirement from our end, a third party we use for identity verification still requires a family name, so how do we deal with that?
There simply is not enough entropy for one name. Even in a small village.

Hence why there are surnames (or equivalents, Jesus son of Joseph)

Not a normalisation.

True, surnames are used for hierarchical system hence why some people don't want to use them for instance.

But websites aren't here to pander to you.

They want to make $. The less entropy they have on you the better. It's not laziness and/or ignorance and/or unwillingness to learn.
If "extreme patterns in precipitation and temperature fluctuation" are doing that, you should see decreased greening in the satellite data. But we haven't.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3004

According to the above (2016) Nature article, 25% to 50% of the globe shows greening, with only 4% showing browning.
this's cool, injecting life into dry programming exercise. But you know, in real world, there're many random forces at work, like traffic congestion, road construction (e.g. midtown Manhattan), or just some unexpected and pleasant distraction -- hey i saw this neat little restaurant in Chelsea that I just couldn't resist going in....
>Hopefully one day we have a UID for humans[…]

that sounds really dangerous
And then I realized, the government gets all of the ID information they need about the corporation the moment the entity needs to open a bank account.

Only if the corporation has a US bank account. A Cayman Islands bank account, not so much.

There's too much tolerance of anonymous corporations. In California, it is a criminal misdemeanor to ask for a credit card number on line before the actual name and address of the business has been given to the consumer. BPC § 17538. Useful to know if you have a dispute.
It raised land prices by billions of dollars, it did not produce wealth or additional housing (as seen by a flat population growth). The economy did not leap forward and far from easing housing shortage, it simply raised the cost of existing stock. The only change was a spurt in home owner improvements likely financed by mortgages against increased valuation

It is indeed a fine example of how eliminating rent control does not result in new housing.

So yes, if you eliminate what rent control there is in NY (which is limited to old buildings), their value would sky rocket along with rental income and the incentive to replace them with larger buildings would disappear.
Moody’s, the security rating agency whose one job was to signal the diseased state of asset backed securities leading up to 2008 and completely failed since the subjects of their analysis are also their clients.

This is just branding for more clients
You raise a very good point about the increase in yield, but the reason Bangladesh has so many people in the first place is the fertile land. The lack of self-sufficiency in recent times may be due to the famines caused during the British Raj era.
P.S. If someone wants to build real app, I was looking for someone to collaborate or for co-founders. Although haven’t touch for few years, it’s still interesting idea.
Facebook and Google Algorithms Are Secret, but Australia Plans to Change That
Shanghai to Rotterdam: Panama canal 26000km, Northern passage 16000km....
I disagree. There's a reason that evidence obtained illegally by the police can't be admitted in court, even if it proves some horrible crime. IMO the fair use of the law for the whole population is far more important than stopping one criminal.
The end that plugs into the wall is a detachable cable, which is nice. Unfortunately, the other cable is hardwired to the charger brick. The charger is $95 (CAD) and I've had to replace it twice solely due to cable damage. What a waste.
Make sure the Bengali alphabet is working in whatever software you are doing.
Maybe the cases of the secret car compartment makers are a good example as well - the 'tool' there is thoroughly harmless in itself.
It saves about 4000 km and 4 days off of Vancouver -> Finland, which for one early transit was worth about $200K:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthro...

There're still a lot of practical problems with the Northwest Passage - notably, the most direct routes are too shallow, there remain lots of icebergs and ice sheets, it's not well-mapped, and there are few resupply ports along the way. I'm not sure I'd agree with all the criticisms in the article (notably, they assume the Northwest Passage will always have ice in winter, but in many "greenhouse earth" scenarios the arctic is ice-free year-round), but it's decades out, not years.
> there is no way to actually diagnose it

Erythma Chronica Migrans rash and western blot blood test...
There is absolutely _not_ too much tolerance of anonymous corporations. If anything, there's not enough. The majority of them are likely used for lawful reasons. What an absurd, anti-privacy statement.
I missed the opportunity to answer this question, especially when I gathered the cues at the bottom of the post to recognize what the question was trying to do.

It's like watching a video about asking people where the matters in a tree comes from. You now know the answer instead of being made to think it out.
It's possible that the boreal forest will just die from lack of water and deseases coming from the south(like the Asian beetle that is destroying trees in Ontario and Quebec) . Just the other day I was reading an article that the forests in South France are dying of dehydration .
Happy to have helped. Good luck. :)
Lol welcome to Hacker News..
I can get a tax rebate for purchasing an Oil-powered vehicle, or are you deliberately misreading what I posted?

Tax rebates for "going green" is irrational because it defies its own purpose! If EV's are great, they're great because they emit less NOx, and that should be the impetus to switch. If Democrats are the Superior party, and they know best, they won't need financial incentives (read: bribery) to promote the Superior Choice. But really by "incentivizing" various things, they are proving what they're actually about: pay-for-play.
> When recorded, and transmitted to Apple, the location, Apple ID, etc. of the recording device is known.

Actually, according to Apple's statements Siri does not link recordings to your Apple ID.

That's a bit of a double-edged sword, though, since it means users cannot easily check what Apple has recorded either. Judging from public reactions, it seems many users think Apple doesn't keep Siri records at all simply because they can't access the audio history.

Reportedly, the only way to avoid letting Apple manually review audio was to not use Siri at all, unlike other voice assistants. If so, I wonder if that was also due to the lack of Apple ID, since if audio isn't linked to a user then it follows that it isn't linked to user preferences either.

I suppose you could still do something like send data from users that allow QA testing to one system and from those that opt-out to another, but apparently that wasn't done.
Thats the burn a forest to kill a few rabid dogs argument.
Seems like a bigger problem for turtles than for asteroids.

I mean, asteroids don't deliberately hide.

Sure, some are darker and/or have a less visible radar profile or whatever, but the variations seem manageable.
"by the police"

In this case it is not the police who obtained it.

I think in some countries, not reporting crimes you know about could count as complicity.
I might be wrong, but in a previous comment [0] a few days ago I noted that the asteroid composition is mostly ice, which means it should be much less dangerous than a "rock".

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20508618
Note that while the Google recording data was arguably "anonymized", the reviewers of the leaked recordings were able to in many cases find enough personal information to contact the people recorded. Which means they were not, in fact, anonymized.

"We let ordinary Flemish people hear some of their own recordings. ‘This is undeniably my own voice’, says one man, clearly surprised."

"A couple from Waasmunster immediately recognise the voice of their son and their grandchild."

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2019/07/10/google-employees-are...
Well, history is going to be written by those who profited rather than those who died, so in the eyes of our descendants (if we have any), it'll be a positive thing. Not sure if that's a comforting thought or a disturbing one.
It was dust (particulate matter) that got stuck under the keys about 3 times.
This is especially important because he's previously successfully fooled Polyphemus by calling himself Οὖτις ('Nobody'), which produces trouble when the Cyclops tries to get others to help defend against "Nobody's" attacks.
I live in BC as well and this is a well known phenomenon. I'm not sure that there is anything new with this finding.
Ironic, since the Ad Council released commercials like these after 9/11 showing someone getting questioned after asking about a book in a library, and ending with "What if America wasn't America?":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgmBFb4jfjw
No, diameter means the width of the filter in pixels. Each side would extend 1.1 pixels for a 2.2 diameter filter.

If you compare filters at the same width, gauss will be softer, which is why you can lower the diameter.
Why not push all these private_persons into a Redis set upon checkout? Anything to save another trip the real workhorse!
I keep seeing people from US and UK equating IDs with totalitarianism. Why? I don't follow the reasoning here.

I believe all Americans have a social security number, right? And all passport holders have a de-facto global UID (but not everyone has a passport and bi-nationals may have several)

I don't see what this enables that would be impossible without.
A cursory look at the V8 source seems to show that it delegates sorting to std::sort which in libstdc++ (gcc) is Introsort (a hybrid Quicksort + Heapsort).
Having a full combination of first + family name doesn't really help for identification purposes, though: "John Smith" may not be quite as unidentifiable/ambiguous as "Mohammed, son of Mohammed, grandson of Mohammed", but it's not too far off it either.

In general, websites don't depend on these names for identification; if a site refused to sign me up because I shared a name with another "Smith, John" then I would rightly be irritated. So why do (many) sites insist on collection first and last names separately, as opposed to just a "full name" field that would be used to address me on the site or via email? Is it purely a data collection / advertising / monetization thing?
It's not like a keyboard. It's like hitting something hard that hurts your fingertips. And you can't compare it to a phone either, because on a phone you type one-handed. The two-hand keyboard typing experience uses much more kinetic energy.
There are many people whose name is Jesus
During real live testing I found that it might be appealing to follow this kind of schedule, since there is no need for decision making. I realized why tour buses and cruise ships are popular.
what is the difference, really? is it all about prepositions now?
The guy is definitely a Chinese operative, just look at his dozens of other articles related to HongKong etc
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-China-criticize-Britain-for-t...
1. They don't reuse the needles 2. Not common these days 3. Feature, not a bug 4. Again...
We are tied to so many treaties and agreements made in the past, that I believe this is not the case.
Also part of functionality which I wanted to add, is to for user to check what stage he/she at given moment and app would adjust the schedule, for example, user can’t make it today for museum A therefore it rescheduled for tomorrow and today just go to point of interest B. Schedule is supposed to adapt during trip.

Moreover, app is supposed to learn about you, like speed of walk, duration of lunch, etc.
In Afghanistan it's extremely common to have a "last name" that is basically the same thing as an Icelandic last name.

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

If your name is Mahmoud, and your father's name is Jawad, your name printed in English on a passport might be:

Mahmoud Jawad-e

It literally just means son of Jawad.

Other people have family names that are specific to the region where their family is historically from. Met more than a few people whose last name is "Parwane", which literally just means from Parwan province.

This lady literally didn't have a last name and picked her own, it translates as "friend of humans".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmHQYV127QA
From what I understand, private funds, especially hedge funds traditionally charge 2% of assets under management and 20% of profit.

As far as financial advisors go, that doesn’t sound insane, but remember if the advisor is investing your money into mutual funds, etfs, private equity, or hedge funds, those will each charge a nice fee on top of that seemingly small .35%.
> In California, it is a criminal misdemeanor to ask for a credit card number on line before the actual name and address of the business has been given to the consumer. BPC § 17538. Useful to know if you have a dispute.

Interesting, never seen anybody doing this..
Another perspective on how China is able to provide enough food:

- In Shanghai 96% white-collar workers have at least one disease of the "food triad" (diabetes, fatty liver, hypertension), up from ~80% in 00's.

- In Beijing 26% of the whole population is overweight or obese, up from 11% in 00's.

- China has the largest percentage of obese children in the World, only competing with Mexico.

So there is enough food, but this food is low quality empty calories to "feed" 1B people, not nourish them.
I wonder what the expression "one whose name must not be spoken" really is about. Why are there such things or people, or are there?

Recently I've noticed a name which must not be pronounced in vain is "Alexa". If you talk about her she always interrupts with a lengthy diatribe. It has lead to a situation in my family where we speak like "Why don't you ask "you know who" to play that song for you?"
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Halyoxl helps in strengthening the blood circulatory system around the eyes and makes sure that hemoglobin does not leak out and get deposited under the eyes. It is this deposition which gives a darker shade to the skin under the eyes - which we commonly call as dark circles.
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> Algeria

> Having a Mohammed, son of Mohammed, grandson of Mohammed was common.

> In the absence of a universal ID scheme, I don't see a way around forcing a working pattern into every culture, with the acceptance that some things may be lost in translation.

Pakistan has very much the same problem, they've gone for a national ID card system. It hasn't been entirely fraud or ID theft free, but they're certainly trying.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=nad...
You clearly know dogs well.
I've submitted a response on GitHub.
If you don't pay local taxes, you haven't paid for it.

You don't even need a library card to use materials as often as you want; you only need a card to remove materials.
Of course not. It's a little teacup.
I find it amusing at how many Americans seem resistant to a national ID system, but blithely give out their social security number to any number of private entities, along with their DOB, full name, mother's maiden name, etc. Basically a ready made identity theft kit when the inevitable data breach occurs.

You already have a national attempt at a GUID per human, it's called a social security number, it just has incredibly lax security and data handling practices, and no teeth in penalties for its misuse.
Thread from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6226105
it's good to hear there are legitimate use cases. Care to share some examples? For me, and likely many others, the nefarious ones are the first that come to mind.

Assuming incorporation benefactor details would be kept private by the state, the only legit use-case I can think of is protection from politically motivated actions by public bodies.

Or is the fear that no list can truly be kept private, even by the state, and it would eventually be hacked or leaked, violating privacy?
Let's move fast and break things, including our ethics.

Counties have done unethical experiments on humans before, and maybe they do it now. Why should we hold ourselves to a standard, if other groups do not? I couldn't possibly think of a reason why the scientific community would hold themselves accountable, rather than think they know best and act as if they were superior to the larger community they work to improve. I mean, that mindset has never gone wrong.

Personally, I like seeing a community doing some attempt at self regulation. Maybe it's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.
The article describes these algorithms "efficient" on the basis of being linear, and they're not. Insertion and selection require O(n^2) moves or compares respectively (or, n log(n) with use of data structures). As it stands, the page is pretty as heck but teaching a misconception.
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No. Code signing is very different. Checksum would only work for developers on linux. Without code signing certificate, MacOS would straight refuse to run the app and windows will show an 'Unverified publisher' warning. Also things like auto-updates do not work on either platform unless you code sign your binaries.