skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a cyclist who wears hi-viz clothing every time I ride (even in broad daylight), I'm somewhat amazed by how many drivers still don't see me. When I have the opportunity I'll ask a driver who clearly missed me what I could have done to make myself more visible, and I am yet to get any actual advice on that. I'm probably about as visible as I can be.

I also have front and back lights (which I only use when dark as I'm not convinced that they help during the day), hi-viz tape covering parts of my bike, and a large hi-viz sign mounted to the back of my bike as a reflector.

A lot of this I think has to do with distracted driving. I've also read that there's a psychological phenomena where someone might be looking directly at something but still not see it because they didn't expect it. So drivers expect cars on the road, not bikes, so making myself brighter might not help. I would need to make myself look more like a car in this theory. I recall reading someone suggest that looking like a person could help, or having motion (i.e., reflectors on your pedals).

Of course, I don't believe that some sort of perceptual blindness is any excuse. Many people would talk about banning self-driving cars that completely missed certain road users, but I'm not sure most drivers would be as enthusiastic about banning drivers who fail the same test.
If there's one thing people hate more than BMWs and SUVs in general, it's the X6. But people also hate hybrids (granted, usually not the same people). So guess what? BMW made a (somewhat obscure) hybrid X6 with 480 HP and 18 mpg. I've been tempted to find one just because it's the confluence of so many types of petty hatred.

One thing to think about is that the effect of a vehicle on the environment depends not just on the mpg, but on how far you drive it, and how many people you transport on average.
His tweets regularly have material impact on the markets.
If you actually read through the responses in the search I linked, you'll notice that the discussion is a little more nuanced than "it's perfect" or "it's trash". It's certainly not perfect in terms of analysis of historical evidence—there are far too few primary sources to support his claims directly, and the trends he points out can be picked apart in particular—but it still has compelling evidence that would be considered valid in other disciplines. I suspect your own professors had a more nuanced opinion than simply "spoke highly of". That doesn't sound like an academic to me.

Additionally, you should check the subreddit out. It's very aggressively moderated and many of the posters are openly credentialed professors or are actively doing graduate research. I have found it's also a great place to keep your eyes open for preprints.
And you think this is an appropriate use of facial recognition?
What papers would you suggest a beginner start with?
From running my own apps and toy startups in college, I don't think its really the age, its rather the ability of the person to do many things from the tech side to the business side from like creating the tech/app to going out and marketing it so you can actually carry the app to success at an early stage, the experience the person actually has with developing and marketing/distributing a product so you can carry the app at a growth stage, the connections the person has to raise money and find cofounders/employees and the financial capital of the person so you can scale a product to and past product-market fit. These things can come with age but a young person with all the above can run a successful business if they have these things.

On the other hand, you can be middle-aged or 50+ and not have any of these things and run a quite awful startup that turnovers like ~20% of your employees each month which my friend works at and can attest to, as they have a rather middle-aged senior management and ceo + cto at their 50-person startup with executives who have been in the tech and real estate industry at companies like Expedia for 7+ years and it is not successful despite raising huge amounts of cash and their company product has never been launched in the 2+ years or any user testing in the period their company has existed and still offer free dinners and monthly bonuses with the enormous cashpile they raised and keep raising.

This is also why I think people like Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs/Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates or Spiegel/Murphy or the Collison brothers, etc. has, which is the ability and experience or at least talent of pretty much any middle-aged startup founder. There are just some people that outshine others even at a young age.
> We are excited to see what you can build with it!

The killer app is typing. Qwerty would be nice for a transition, but someone please invent a gesture "keyboard" more optimal for a free floating hand. Because of the lack of feedback I imagine it couldn't be as good as an actual keyboard. But it could be brilliant as an away from keyboard keyboard.
> not sure if activation requires ID

Pretty sure they all do. I've used prepaid on all the major carriers and bigger MVNOs and I needed to give some form of ID to the signup process.
It's not my business, as I don't use the FB app --and I won't. But even if the original intent was to help the debugging process, this is not acceptable. This is, to put it plainly, copying files from a user's device, without the user's consent.

FB has the means (resources) to route around this and find the ways to properly debug apps.

I hope this would find its way to Google Play blocking the app and a class action lawsuit. It's the only fair outcome.
Perceptual blindness is a thing even if it isn’t an excuse. Biking somewhere where biking is common and motorists are used to bikes (eg in the Netherlands or even China) is actually very effective, if unachievable.
You know, it’s funny, this exact ad is the first thing that came to mind when I read the headline. It’s a very popular package. I wonder if it was part of the decision.
"DOUBLEING TARIFFS ON ALL CHINESE IMPORTS TMRW!!!"
pose detection is a mixed bag because it encourages always-watching devices (like how alexa is the killer app for always listening mics)

That said, incredibly useful for interacting w/ technology in physical space. Could imagine this doing really well for handheld drone landings or hybrid human / robot factories.
For an embedded database, they could certainly emphasize that more.
They should only notify users if they both have each other's phone. Otherwise it is trivial to create several thousands of accounts and upload thousands of numbers from each to get a mapping between an id and a phone number. Here is a quote from a head of Russian company that claims to do this:

> A phone number used by [Telegram] account @silovikicat was discovered using a program titled "Insider-Telegram" developed by the "Center of research of legitimacy and political protest". The head of the "Center" Eugene Venediktov explains: "Currently the database contains over 10 million of numbers. We just go through all possible numbers and check whether they are registered in Telegram: for example, we take all numbers starting with a prefix +7911 and check them. You automatically see all contacts from you address book in your Telegram, don't you? We just have a very "fat" address book with phones of all users from our country."

> When a phone number provided by Eugene is added into an address book, Telegram automatically matches it with account @silovikicat («Siloviks' cat»).

Having a phone number means that the government can track its rough location and know owner's identity.

This also means that other messengers using similar contact discovery allow to de-anonymize its users the same way.

[1] (in Russian) https://meduza.io/feature/2019/08/10/kto-takoy-tovarisch-may...
driving is not an issue. Parking on the street would definitely be
> I suspect there might not be "one gene" that makes a person a homosexual, but a collection of genes that increase the odds of someone being homosexual.

One theory I've heard is that having lots of boys in the home, increases the likelihood that the next baby born will be gay (from Professor Adam Grant of the Give & Take fame). Somehow, all that testosterone in the home seeps through the womb and flips a switch on the unborn male baby.
What prevents me from masquerading as an individual when I’m really a company?

See: https://twitter.com/jhooks/status/1167480182157889536?s=20
The wisdom of never leaving your hotel room
You also don't need to use these private numbers with friends, keep your main number and just use this or some voip number for stuff you want private.

The problem is this would both a) need to be used by Signal as the primary number ID b) your friend would need to know this separate number just for chat (unless you also use it for calls and other stuff then no biggie)

Of course this also kills new friend discovery, which is probably not needed by most.

I haven't tried using SIP on my phone app while simultaneously having a SIM number so I'm not sure Signal can be routed through an arbitrary number on your phone. But I could be wrong. Maybe someone else knows?
For every Gates and Zuckerberg there are a large number of counter examples. It isn't subtle, it's a large gap; there is a dearth of founders in the 18-22 range that have started consequential tech companies. For every Michael Dell I can add to the young group, I can add several founders over ~28 that started companies like ServiceNow or Splunk or Zoom.

It's unnecessary to list Microsoft, Facebook or Apple because they're the hyper rare, very well-known stories the media pushes as clickbait. They're the reason we're buried in mythology stories about young tech company founders.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin fall in-between, although on the younger side, at 25. They're neither in the category with Gates & Zuckerberg, nor of course in the heavily populated 28-30x group.

Here's a counter list of prominent names:

Bill Gates (20, Microsoft), Paul Allen (22, Microsoft), Mark Zuckerberg (20, Facebook), Dustin Moskovitz (20, Facebook), Steve Jobs (21, Apple), Patrick Collison (22, Stripe), John Collison (20, Stripe), Michael Dell (19, Dell), Marc Ewing (23/24 Red Hat), Ted Waitt (22, Gateway), Evan Spiegel (21, Snapchat), Bobby Murphy (23, Snapchat), Marc Andreessen (23, Netscape), Aaron Levie (20, Box), David Karp (21, Tumblr), Palmer Luckey (20, Oculus), John Carmack (21, id Software), Helen Greiner (23, iRobot), Sky Dayton (23, Earthlink), Sean Parker (20, Napster), Shawn Fanning (19, Napster)

Some in the mid 20s mixed group (which includes the Google founders): Drew Houston (24, Dropbox), Tobias Lütke (24, Shopify), Doug Burgum (25, Great Plains Software), Tony Hsieh (26, Zappos), Sachin Bansal (26, Flipkart), Steve Wozniak (25, Apple), Jerry Yang (26/27, Yahoo!)
Yes, moving to where cycling is more common definitely would help in this theory.

After writing my post I've found there's a lot of research in this area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness
Is it worth considering advanced protection as a normal person? Would it make life a pain in the butt?
As the gp said, async/await is rarely used in hot loops, so it would probably never get jit-ed in a real webpage.
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The same is true in Hong Kong, no ID required.

You can even purchase cards without ID that also work in Mainland China and aren't subject to the great firewall.
Russian Ballistic Missile Defense: Rhetoric and Reality (2015) [pdf]
Furthermore, a phone number allows the government to determine rough location in real time or see an archive of previous locations for several months. Also, in some countries (guess which) all SMS messages and phone calls are recorded and stored for at least 6 months.

It is dangerous to use such messengers like Signal (or Telegram) with a real phone number.
What is the craziest startup idea you have seen someone execute successfully?
Quantum Radar
Turn A Passion Or interest into a fulltime income
Are you ugly looking? You’re probably just exposed in the wrong crowd of girls
>The researchers go on to compare their quantum radar with conventional systems operating with similarly low numbers of photons and say it significantly outperforms them, albeit only over relatively short distances.

No rendering stealth aircraft obsolete just yet
The difference in height between a wagon and a crossover is about two inches, using the Subaru Outback/Forester as an example pair. And the ground clearance is quite likely the same, which means the difference in the height of the CG is probably in between.

To me, it seems reasonable to question whether an inch more or less does in fact make a "considerable" difference or whether this is another moral condemnation of something trivial.

It's gotten really irritating to me the way people, not just you, continually make remarks that assume quantitative evidence for something, and throw in the word "externalities" as though that proves a point.

Externalities are everywhere, but it's not reasonable to use them as an all purpose short circuit for everything. And they are finite. People treat "externalities" as arbitrarily large, as though that was inherent in what they are. That is, conversationally, the purpose the term now serves.
Oh, I never realized that the new reddit for mobile was an AMP app. It's the second slowest website I browse regularilyony my phone: so much for the «accelerated» part of AMP …
“But wide adoption of the optional security setting would make the app far harder to use for the vast majority of its more than 200 consumers, who rely on uploading phone contacts to identify friends and family members on the app, the source said.”

With only 200 users on the app me thinks adoption will be fast - think they forgot a “K”
People complain about the bad sides of it. - memory dysfunction is the root of all effects.

If you loose memory why do you care. Did you worry about memory when you were kid?

Practice learning by self experience not by reading other researchers work. It works only for them.so discard it.

It's a holy herb and cleans your mind.

If you had memory issues it probably removed things that you don't like.

Now start looking what else you are. You can't. Because you wasted your time with social influences.

Instead practice meditation.

Worship your mind. Keep it disciplined.

One man's took another man's weapons.

If you are a fool, you will remain a fool.

Stay cool, and think what you can do.

It changes perspection. If you don't embrace it, you will see it's a loose shoe lace.

Be original, learn to be good and right. Expand your knowledge from there.

Memory is killed because it kills unhealthy influence you had and you forced yourself to be that.

Be grateful that it gave you memory issue.

Rebuild yourself from cleaned mind.

Being Grateful comes from meditation.

Once weed kills bad memories, being grateful helps you grow knowledge from the pure memory.
This feature should never have been enabled in this one-way manner but being a social platform means trying everything to get users tied down to it.

It’s just like Venmo. I’m seeing users in my newsfeed because they’re in my contacts but not because we added each other. Really bizarre.
That link went nowhere. Sounds quite close to ANDF. $20 says it ends up the same way: couple of guys work on it for 18 months, make some, but not a lot of progress, there's a PDF or two of conference talks, and it stalls out.
You can compile the open source and compare the result to the version on the store.
The Bible works on many levels. Advanced knowledge of the context will unlock certain levels, but isn't required for many of those levels (including, I think, the deepest levels).

Jesus himself explicitly addresses this, saying: "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight." (Matthew 11:25-26)

And there are places where Jesus seems to explicitly speak to the reader (Matthew 24:15, "Let the reader understand", spoken orally to a presumably baffled group of disciples with no stenographers present), and even to readers of a far more distant future time than today (Matthew 16:28, "Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.")

See also Deuteronomy 31:21, "And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants". God revealed to Moses that even in the far-flung future when people have strayed far from God, the required context will still be printed on every man's heart.
The issue with m3u lists is now the cool software has the VideoClub option. You should try to build something for Windows that can utilize that. That's a big windows pain point.
Homo economicus doesn't buy premium brands unless they come with premium outcomes. He probably also has diabetes from all the bargain basement corn syrup drinks and salmonella from economic rationally produced ground beef...
So, you're saying he's an incompetent executive. Which is like saying he doesn't know how to follow organizational policy 25 times.
> think they forgot a “K”

an "M" - 200 million users as of March 2018. https://telegram.org/blog/200-million
Jumprope – Turn your URL bar into command line
"my biggest weakness is that i prioritise code quality, completeness and long-term maintainability above all other concerns, without understanding the broader engineering or business context where sometimes an ugly short-term hack or ignoring edge cases may be necessary to get a release out the door on schedule for a marketing campaign, or temporarily mitigate a production issue, or allow a project to be delivered on budget"

And if you're exactly the opposite...?
I did read through the responses. The highest upvoted comment on the post "What do you think of Guns, Germs and Steel?" comes from someone that explicitly says that they are not a historian. The bulk of the criticism comes in the form of people alleging environmental determinism and the denial of human agency, which isn't actually a criticism of the book but rather a rejection of book's core claim that geography is a more decisive factor in human development than society and culture. That, and a healthy helping of people alleging western chauvinism, despite Diamond explicitly rejecting the narratives of Western social or racial superiority and pointing out that Western Europe made little contributions to Eurasian development until the mid-late 2nd millennium AD.

Sure, my conversations with professors were more nuanced: one talked about how the geographic analysis prompted them to examine history through the lens of quantifying available resources to a society and levels of urbanization. They agreed with the core theses of the book, and said that it offered good refutations to the common layman's narrative of Western cultural superiority. I could spend the rest of my evening recounting the conversations in the comments here but for the purposes of this discussion saying that they "spoke highly of" the book conveys what is necessary.
Unless of course you don't tie your real identity to your phone plan or more accurately your IMEI.

Which I've done personally for many years. They won't tell you it's possible at the stores but they don't ask questions if you say you forgot your drivers licence at home.
The System Design Interview for Mobile Developers
No, you can't. Since GDPR was rolled out, venture capital investments in the EU have dropped by a third.[1] According to that paper, the companies most hurt are early stage startups.

1. The Short-Run Effects of GDPR on Technology Venture Investment: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3278912
Really, most of the time when I feel that I'm over-engineering something, if I repress the feeling and get away with it, it becomes useful later, when I've already solved a problem I didn't know I was going to have.
Basically you sum up why having 1 major, huge company that supplies a vast array of website coverage, is a bad idea, aka google adsense/doubleclick which powers so many ad networks.
Yes there is facebook/twitter and a few others but google is the one with the crazy huge coverage.
Also yes there are other formats but we live in a very digital age where it has potentially better returns for less cost when you use google adsense rather than traditional media. When you are a small company these cost differences are a huge deal.
I've used only a credit card for years. I like the protection - US credit card law is very favorable to the customer. I pay my balance down to zero once or twice a month, so it doesn't cost me any fees.
screaming automation doesn't bring up the specters of xenohpobia/nationalism etc. besides that, the image of robots taking all the jobs is evocative and easy for the average person with little to no understanding of economics to respond to.
Eyeball surveillance. I remember school. The teachers eyes were far more piercing than any camera.

Seriously though, where exactly is the privacy if attendance is taken either way?
Even better, Telegram should allow to register without a phone numbner (they could charge a little sum in Bitcoins if they are afraid that there will be bot registrations). This could even increase their user base because there are users who don't want to give away a phone number.
You mean like accusing people of treason? (punishable by death) He’s already done that from his account. To my knowledge Comey hasn’t been lynched.
I've adjusted the list, cleaned it up. Should simplify the regex.

Each person segment is now separated by (ended by) a semicolon.

Commas are now only used to separate age from company name within parentheses.

Multiple companies by one person are separated by a vertical bar.
Self driving car's LIDAR will love this
The X6 has super-heavy steering, terrible visibility in any direction other than forward, has crappy rear seat space and headroom and laughable cargo space, has left me stranded twice, is kind of weird looking and yet is an unabashedly aggressive joy to drive, especially the 5.0 or X6 M although the 3.0L is no slouch. I love the thing. It is a horrible idea raised to near-perfection.
Lihkg, forum used by most Hong Kong protesters, under DDoS attack
But how would that kill millions of people? There’s a super indirect chain of events there.
Dev.to is shadow-banned on Reddit
It's called a trade war because historically people were actively killing other people, starting with the Anglo-Dutch wars in the 17th and 18th centuries.

We've now largely abandoned the practice of actively killing over trade, but the nomenclature remains by precedent, and is understood by all.
Actually I am and was an atheist, but I had recently been on an "I'm going to read the encyclopedia!" mission.
Pretty much, yeah, because it’s a joke. You get jokes, right?

If you do a work that needs strict citations and not cite properly, your project itself could be at stake. No one will pay 10,000EUR to be questioned by the ethics board about their work.
Talc is probably one of the more dangerous substances to inhale. Not only is it often contaminated with Asbestos, it might have some asbestos like properties of its own.