skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can’t wait for ad tracking to be regulated

Might want to pack a lunch.

You're talking about crippling the business model of two of the US' most profitable companies (Alphabet and Facebook), not to mention the lifeline of many digital startups whose business revolves around packaging and selling user data.

And the people who would be in charge of putting forward such legislation would presumably be the same who depend on this level of tracking to hold their congressional/Senate seats the next time an election rolle around.
Yeah... So I guess it's tragically comical rather than wryly amusing
Third party sellers are cash cows once you finish monoplising the market, sellers will be begging to give Amazon more and more marketing money to move their products.
David Koch dies at 79.
For reference Cylance was acquired for $1.4B by trashberry
There are much better solutions that target the actual large polluters. People living in suburbs is a small percentage of total global emissions, especially when you consider transportation of goods. Transporting goods across the oceans is a far larger percentage of emissions than people living in suburbs.

If the goal is to continue to survive as a species, there are much more effective strategies to implement.
The first time I read about Monsanto being evil it was in the fiction novel Freedom(TM) by Daniel Suarez (sequel to Daemon).

Daniel Suarez had neatly integrated Monsanto suing farmers[1] into the storyline.

It's a great (neo)cyberpunk read, as are his other novels.

One of the things I love about novels of this style are that they prompt me to go off and learn more about a subject.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/12/monsanto...
Their shipping practices have also degraded. Amazon usually ships anything they can in bubble-padded envelopes. This is ok for many things, but for books it's a disaster - softcovers almost always end up with damaged covers, hardcovers get dented corners from being dropped without any protection. I've also received movies and video games with cases damaged worse than what you'd see in a second-hand store. The (supremely ironic) result is that Amazon is now my last choice for buying books.
Every other time I buy a specific brand of cotton canvas (James Thompson), it’s fake on Amazon but close enough that it’s not worth the effort to file a complaint. And this is a brand that is supposed to be verified by Amazon’s brand registry.
As an Australian I'd say yay but our economy is going down with China.
Isn’t that info leaked anyway as part of transmitting data packets, given iOS maintains persistent connections to Apple anyway so it would cause keep-alives to be sent regularly?
A Primer on Quantitative Easing (QE) and Its Inherent Limits
Julia(lang) is “ like bringing home the artist boyfriend without a job”
China is the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter. So its a cute idea, but countervailing tariffs would be swift and deserved.
Makes sense: lobsters are essentially insects, and eating insects, such as cockroaches is disgusting for most people. I still refuse to eat lobsters and shrimps for this exact reason: I'm not eating any insects, ever.
To be fair, I think the businessmen did do most of the "making money" in the subsequent Oracle acquisition.
It's completely fair though, and I wouldn't want people trying to use druid while really basic functionality like menus is still being worked on. The only way I would recommend druid is if people want to roll up their sleeves and help build the toolkit.

If it's still dismissed in six months to a year, that would be sad.
Cylance at first used to be pretty good about not doing that, but they took a turn for the worst.
It's the neoliberal Panglossian response -- the best of all possible worlds!
You don't have kids my guy. Cases are necessary with kids
It seems like the best way to get stuff changed at Amazon is to have the Wall Street Journal send them feedback. WSJ is essentially doing free work for amazon - “hey these products are not legit” “oh shucks, our bad, let’s remove those, yea” “hey they reappeared,” “oh our bad let’s remove them again sry”. clearly it’s not a priority for amazon...
Do people who don't own or have interest in owning a car really get that upset about other people's choices? The way you've worded those makes it sounds like they're feeling pretty judgemental.
I just use a text file for each series. Let's me also take notes about stuff I might forget due to really bad memory. Put a web or video link in there if relevant, too. If wanting less steps, search takes me right to name of the file if I wanted to do that.

Simple, text editors been helping me solve problems since EDIT on MS-DOS. No reason to learn something more complicated. The method is cross-platform, too. :)
Filtering by the referrer should be a good start.

It at least used to be the case that this could be gotten around with flash, though that may be fixed, and many people won't run strange flash anymore anyway.

Another way, if you're using WebSockets, you can establish that the latency is unrealistically low to be a switched physical network, with pings (with cookies).
Do they disagree?

From the NASA article you linked:

> As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years.
He already could have taken a victory lap and done effectively nothing with the first offer from China. He chose to double down.

I'd say there is no plan and it is just the randomness of a capricious old man.

That's a glib take I admit, but I really think that all indications are we're dealing with a very glib president.
"pretty much the same as any caviar"

Considering that there are a few types of caviar and they all taste, smell and look different...
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Why not apply a value added tariff instead of purely import tariffs? China actually buys more from the US from a value added perspective than the other way around: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-12/the-1-4-t...
I thought I was alone on this! I ended up going to a local hardware store instead because I couldn't figure out what was trustworthy.

These days I typically do product research off-Amazon, not on Amazon itself.
In that case it should be called "flashover"
This is what really scares me about cities like Phoenix, that can get so hot, have a high elderly population, and are increasingly vulnerable to blackouts. What is going to happen if the city loses power on a 110 degree day?
> Watch ads before and during the content

Which service does this? That seems quite crazy and you even define that as "often"!

> Honestly people loved to pay $50+/month for cable before.

That's the price of 3 services and more... people start complaining when they have to pay for 2... Netflix screwed people perception of content value.
Side note: I'm filled with dread just thinking about buying a motorcycle helmet from amazon.

Buy it from a reputable source? There are specialist stores herearound, which sell nothing but helmets and have staff on payroll with an actual clue.

Sure, you actually have to leave the house. In return you get the possibility to actually try the helmets on display.

If price is the issue I think it's exactly that general attitude, which triggered that downward spiral in quality we're observing in the last few years.
Sorry to disappoint you my friend, but the ads and paid subscriptions are just a small fraction of their income. The real money maker is in tracking user behavior and selling that aggregated data.

If worst comes to worse, they can just track your behavior on their website alone.
I don't think society did. It's just that no one imagined someone even worse in almost every regard becoming president. I don't think anyone thinks better of GWB, simply that the bar was greatly lowered.
If the container doesn't require root. Just do a FROM image:tag and then add a User in the Dockerfile
> for our company

Is that in a single location? If so, then it's not really impressive. A good website loads fast even when the client is on the other side of the globe.
I don't think you understand how China or the CCP works, my friend.

There is no need to be condescending.
If it’s convenience you’re after, I’d rank touch screens by themselves at the bottom, but that’s not what the Model 3 has.

Driver side dash as you call it I would rank in the middle for convenience. There is also some convenience in having certain controls like sound and climate accessible by the front passenger, so most are driver side plus middle, but I’m accounting for that in my ranking. Even with that, still in the middle.

At the top of the convenience scale would be a hybrid system with minimal multi-axis, multi-function buttons situated on or around the steering wheel, augmented by a touch screen for rarely used features. And for display. A screen that is not blocked by the steering wheel no matter what your height. And a screen robustly mounted so you can rest your hand on it while making selections, so any road shaking is mitigated. A screen big enough to read easily. A screen that never needs to be interacted with for most driving functions with the exception of tweaking the way the car is currently doing autopilot when it is. And a screen that lets a front passenger reach controls that are safe and useful for the passenger to use. That is the kind of system the Model 3 has. Not just a touch screen.

If it’s convenience you’re after, driver side dash may be more convenient than your perception of the Tesla. But your perception is wrong, based just on what you have just said.

I recommend to everyone that they test drive a Model 3 in order to feel how it drives, and feel how tight the control is, the driver’s connection between the wheel and the road. I don’t know how long your test drive was, but a test drive is generally too short to understand the full functionality of the easily accessible steering wheel multi-axis button controls and how driving works day to day in all situations.
It could be worse. They could be cold and using heat instead.
Well if it was some sort of "bounty" that involves handling it the solution could be more logistically sane. No sense adding in needless shipping. Say that packaging comes with a N cost tax stamp deposit. If it doesn't wind up processed in an acceptable way then it is forfeit.

If anyone reprocesses it in an acceptable way (recycling to a valueable material, trash to steam) the manufacturer gets some portion of the value back and the recycler gets some just to ensure that they do the proper paperwork to ensure the system is working correctly.

A company can also be their own recycler to get a full refund.
More insects for me!
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> Now they can remove all third party sellers from their platform and cite a trust & safety risk.

If they remove third party sellers from their platform, I might go back to buying things on Amazon.
May be just create a new PEP to replace sqlite3 with it.
Yes, but that length of time to mature means population growth can only be slow, even in ideal, unfished circumstances, and as the article explains, sturgeon have been overfished everywhere.
"And it should install automatically to somewhere under C:\Program Files, not C:"

Using directory names with spaces is a hassle when you use the Windows command line, so I disagree.
Not all Qt libraries are LGPL, some are GPL likce charts.
> Seems like a product that wants to do to much.

Hence, burnout?
> I'm convinced that the people behind OpenAI understand this nuance, even if most non geeks struggle with the difference between possible and feasible. This means that OpenAI mixed the two up on purpose.

You should probably actually read what OpenAI have to say before making claims about what they have to say.

“We are aware that some researchers have the technical capacity to reproduce and open source our results. We believe our release strategy limits the initial set of organizations who may choose to do this, and gives the AI community more time to have a discussion about the implications of such systems.”

https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/
From that linked post: "As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years."
>This among many reasons is is why I cancelled my prime membership

I'm about there as well. I have Prime solely for free shipping, and it's frustrating as hell that when there are multiple listings for an item, the one with "Free Prime Shipping" is a few dollars more expensive, generally by an amount equal to the shipping cost.
the elephant in the room with SQLite is that they refuse to support most forms of ALTER TABLE, that is, to be able to change the structure of a schema.

Their rationalization for this is that the way SQLite stores data, this is more efficiently performed by simply creating a new table and copying all the rows from the old table into the new one, and that one would want to batch all the table changes together rather than emitting individual ALTER statemnts.

from the POV of people who make tools like my own Alembic Migrations, this is an annoyingly insufficient answer because the logistics of recreating table schemas and copying data over is much more complicated than just emitting an ALTER directive. I'd like if SQLite had at least the ability to be extended to support a third party "ALTER" plugin that would under the hood run the intricacies of copying the tables around, rather than pushing this out to the tool creators. It doesn't really matter in most cases, for the use cases used by SQLite, that ALTER would be inefficient.

instead, my users bugged me for years to solve this problem and I have to maintain this thing https://alembic.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/batch.html which I mostly hate completely.

SQLite's typing model is also very idiosyncratic and is based on a naming convention approach, which I think most users of SQLite don't understand very well, because it works in a completely strange way based on looking for substrings inside of the completely arbitrary names you can assign to types. I can create a column with the datatype ELEPHINT and that is a legitimate datatype which will store integers. there's also the "INTEGER PRIMARY KEY " / "INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT" silliness but that's a relatively mild poor API compared to things MySQL does all over the place, I suppose.
I do the same things (at age 60) in the Philly suburbs. I fire up the AC in my bedroom at night only about 5 days per year, and I have none elsewhere in the house.

No, it isn't ideal, but I'm cheap and I don't mind using fans. And frankly, I don't like AC. I hate walking through a blast of 20 degree colder air whenever I pass a register.

I've found that having a big shade tree that blocks direct sunlight from the house helps a lot. (I know this since my shade tree died and was removed a year ago.) My house is natural brick and retains heat from sunlight for at least 8 hours, so any shade helps cool it a surprising amount.
The author of druid himself considers it immature at this point though…

And unfortunately, Azul was abandoned by its maintainer a few month ago for family reasons, so it's unlikely to be polished anytime soon.

At this point there is no viable full-Rust GUI toolkit, but druid may be one at some point.
I don’t see how HS2 can move significant amounts of local traffic off local lines.

It’s a high speed intercity line that only has a few stops (compared to a local or commuter service). It can’t provide local services, it doesn’t have the stations or the track to do so. It also won’t be high speed of it stopped every 10miles.
And that's for an offering including a CI build farm. Not just a website.
Not by physics? Things your body can or cannot do, and what things happen to it and are sensed?

The distinction made by the stupidest causal temporal relationships from senses with some built-in importance in them.
Pulling a listing is not the same as issuing a recall. And your arithmetic does nothing to account for the hit to reputation and trust.
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USD shortage. Chinese tariffs and past import restrictions conveniently decrease pressure on their declining USD reserves (see link to article below).

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3012460/d...
Switching to PyPy is likely to improve the overall performance if it's not database or I/O bound.
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I use it for http://nametango.ai/ (a startup/product name generation assistant). There are more details on my page, but in a nutshell, it takes about 7 seconds to generate a result on CPU (I generate a batch of 40 results for every query and de-dup them), and it runs in about 300 milliseconds on a Titan V GPU.

That is, however, a very batch friendly application, so a serial generation may perform somewhat better on CPU only.

(I'm comparing to dual xeon gold 16 core CPUs). When using the GPU to generate the GPT-2 results, the CPU is mostly bored.

(responding to a comment that someone deleted, yes, it does suggest a lot of existing names, I haven't yet added something to filter out stuff that already exists... noted, and suggestions appreciated, but this probably isn't the thread for it! Feel free to drop me a note)
You lose your ability to grep, though.
The electoral college has been criticized for generations: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-07/electo..., though the contours of the debate have changed.

As for the charge of hypocrisy, were Republicans passionately praising the wisdom of the electoral college in the 1990s? It cuts both ways.
per-capita China emits about half of what the US does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
I am also baffled by the difference in license ratings. My guess is that some parts of Qt are licensed differently (like their WebAssembly port) and it's not immediately clear which parts are licensed under which license.
That’s seems to be happening over NAFTA, you’ll likely just end up with a somewhat update NAFTA 2, which I’m sure will be the best trade deal in the history of trade deals, unlike the largely identical previous NAFTA.

I think the China tariffs are different. Both sides have doubled down, then doubled down again. It’s even possible both Trump and China see this as an opportunity to reduce their dependency on each other.

China also may calculate thus could take some excess heat out of their economy. If there is a down turn, which many observers have been predicting anyway, they can blame Trump and make enduring austerity a patriotic issue.

A similar dynamic is playing out with Brexit. A no deal exit may be hugely damaging to both sides. But they each calculate they can blame it on the other side, and even paint anyone complaining about the effects as unpatriotic. That won’t necessarily persuade the complainers, but as long as it plays well to the politicians own support base that may not matter enough electorally.
I get this entirely and I was the same. Hopefully, being older and wiser with more commitments I will attempt to get back into the game and try to enjoy it in a moderate and sociable way and not in an isolated gamer way. Unlike the days of skipping homework and sleep to grind out that next level or that next piece of blue gear.
This has got to be a joke. It's not April 1, but it feels like it.
And to think I spent all that time attaching my YubiKey to my house keys, when I could have done this instead! How misplaced my efforts were!
I'm surprised he didn't bring up the joke about what Oracle stands for... One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.
Big bucks Poker game played in public.
That's really interesting.

I've always been a big fan of SQLite and this is the one challenge I've always faced.

Can you give some more insights as to how you achieved that?
Container breakouts typically require running a "bad container" or image that contains malicious code or that has been added after the fact. With the right security tools you can create "white lists" that only allow specific image SHAs to run and that monitor (and even enforce to block) any changes to a running container.

So there are solutions out there to solve your security issues.
This appears to be a similar attack vector, to the one which might have been used for scamming Swiss Revolut customers, by determining legitimate users via the phone number range, in order to deliver fraudulent SMS messages.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Revolut/comments/cu07cv/revolut_sca...
I don’t get it.

I had about 150 purchases last year. Toothbrushes, Apple Watch bands, hard drives, diapers, truffles, pasta, foot massagers, hats, books, etc.

I had 1 bad purchase. I bought a used Roomba 980 sold by Amazon. There was a used 680 in the box. Amazon apologized and sent a brand new 980 the next day.

Am I some sort of uberresultsfilter, or do the whiners just get way too much attention?
Interesting; I have about ~50-70 prime orders a year, in Canada (Amazon.ca), and that's the norm for me - it'll show 2-3 options for shipping, and the slowest free option is usually picked by default. If I want same day / next day shipping, I need to click on that button. Still free, no worries, but needs that extra interaction.
Don't hold your breath. Ad tech is what keeps the internet free. You might be willing to pay for content to keep from getting tracked, but consider the billions of folks out there that can barely afford to get online in the first place.
Sure you could, guess what Outlook 2000-2003 used for email internally.
I’ve long thought this sort of thing would be a really good business model. You could launch a bunch of vertical sites and use the same shipping / fulfillment system. Huge irony would be if you did this with Fulfillment by Amazon, but it would probably work.

I guess the core problem is that when you’re looking for something new, browsing Amazon is a total mess. It would be much easier to do a web search and find bullshitfreebulbs.com to make your purchase.

But if it’s something you buy often, Prime + order history is easily the fastest, most convenient way to buy something.
We don't need AI chips. We need DPUs, data processing units that can sort and merge data fast!
NASA, Snopes is a highly political organization where the founder embezzled money from the company in order to pay a prostitute whom he later divorced his wife to marry.
China's first cloned police dog finishes training
scientists have been arguing about the exact physical forces in this problem for a long time (similarly true for airplane wings). We like to actually confirm our theories with experimental data, and often times, these sorts of papers help the field in unexpected ways in the long term.
>QE is essentially an asset swap where the amount of money in circulation remains unchanged. It does not increase or decrease the money supply directly.

I've always heard of QE as just "printing money" so this was very enlightening!
In general yes but the consensus seems to be that China has been a problem and although Trump hasn't necessarily gone about it in the right way something needed to be done. My guess is the people around him are quite happy for this to continue.
Thanks! Any particular ones to recommend?
"Cookie AutoDelete" extension does have a "LocalStorage Cleanup" option, but it looks to be somewhat experimental and temperamental...
Some travel sites recommends not visiting them both at the same day, since Pompeii is very large, and walking on cobble stone is exhausting.

This piqued my interest, have you been to both? Do you have any general advice or travel tips? Did you go up to the volcano peak, if so, do you think that would be doable also for a small-ish child (~6-8 yo)?

Thanks!
The Qt licencing situation is way more complicated than that. Parts of it are available under LGPL, parts are available under GPL, and some parts are only available under a commercial license which is a minimum of $5500/dev/year.

There's a big chart here:

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtmodules.html#gpl-licensed-addons