skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One of the authors is a former US Air Force colonel.

I was curious, so I looked it up. There are about 3,300 colonels in the US Air Force:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/239365/total-military-pe...

> Lest it be any confusion, scramjets are fast, but are nowhere as fast as ICBM's

I agree that's weird phrasing and incorrect on its face. That said - as I understand it, cruise missiles don't have the launch signature ICBMs have. While it would take longer for a cruise missile to travel the same distance as an ICBM, it might in fact give the target country less time to react if they aren't detected until they are well on their way.
I must have missed something entirely, did this all happen before the weekend? Where is the 4 days coming from? Amazon's RSS feed hit our Slack on Saturday morning with an explanation that the power had gone out and the backup generators failed.

Is there some post mortem that just came out?

>>We want to give you more information on progress at this point, and what we know about the event. At 4:33 AM PDT one of 10 datacenters in one of the 6 Availability Zones in the US-EAST-1 Region saw a failure of utility power. Backup generators came online immediately, but for reasons we are still investigating, began quickly failing at around 6:00 AM PDT. This resulted in 7.5% of all instances in that Availability Zone failing by 6:10 AM PDT. Over the last few hours we have recovered most...
More people wanted HRC, though. That's how elections work. It doesn't mean the loser is unpopular or broadly disliked. It means there's another candidate voters like better (or dislike less).
OK dying might have been the wrong word, but I'd count retreating as similar to what I meant.
Your website looks really pretty on mobile and Desktop. How can I build something like this? If you don’t mind me asking. Thanks.
It even records the mouse movements, generate hotmaps, etc. You have to do extra efforts to filter out certain input fields, like passwords or credit card details.

https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012439167-How-t...
I absolutely love my Panasonic DMC-ZS60. For me it's the perfect blend of features and quality vs weight and volume. It doesn't quite fit in a pocket, but fits comfortably in a neoprene case on my belt. Some sample shots:

http://flownet.com/ron/trips/Seabourn2019/Pages/422.html

http://flownet.com/ron/trips/Seabourn2019/Pages/496.html
I hope Taiwan is watching closely, for that and several other reasons.
As an American I write exactly 4 checks per year. Two for county taxes and two for town taxes. Both have a credit card option I can use, but it's through a third party that charges extra for it.
Continuous Compliance
Raising kids is hard enough with two dedicated parents. Marriage at least comes with the promise of staying together in the long term. Makes it a little harder for one partner to just leave.

I have two kids. The idea of raising them by myself seems nearly impossible. Maybe it's doable if you're already independently wealthy or can heavily rely on nearby family or both. Still doesn't sound as healthy as having two dedicated parents.
This doesn't appear to take into account Major field of study (which I would think would be a pretty significant predictor of salary).
No, I wasn't saying it's not a good value. I was saying it's a ridiculous thing to ask of someone that may have a completely serviceable phone that might even be brand new. It's like telling someone to buy a Mercedes or Volvo. It may be a very good product, but that doesn't mean there's not a lot of assumptions in any recommendation to buy one, especially if it doesn't consider the quality, cost or age of your current car other than "not a Mercedes or Volvo".
>Could part of the reason be that online dating pairs people who are more suitable for each other?

I’d want a source on this because an algorithm matching people does not seem to be the most effective. yes there are special occasions where lifetime partners have met online but I don’t think online dating is the sole purpose behind the decline of marriage.

Currently waiting for class to start so I can’t search for a link right now but iirc, the economy health is one of the main driving force behind marriage numbers dropping. In a healthy economy, more people are willing to marry, start a family, purchase land, etc. When economy is bad, all of these extra costs become more of a risk than before.
That's not remotely true and has nothing to do with my point.
It should also be pointed out that while MLK wasn't interested in engaging in violence himself, he had rather harsh words for people who cared more about non-violence than civil rights (see: Letter from a Birmingham Jail).
It turns out that measuring discrimination and opportinity is a pretty well studied topic. It's mainly the discipline of sociology which quantifies this but there are plenty of other disciplines, such as economics, that do it as well. You can do a Google scholar search to learn more.

By the way, targets do not need to be attainable in order to produce (also quantifiable) positive effects.
The GP comment in this thread specifically calls out doing something as the only way to effect "positive change". It's a little bizarre to respond to someone pointing out that that action won't have the intended effect with "what do I care about changing anything?" It's a valid opinion, but not the conversation anyone on this subthread is having.
I worked on one at StarText in 1983 or 1984, a bunch of people wrote various chapters most of which were almost unrelated to other chapters, then I wrote the final chapter somehow bringing all the parts together. I'm sure it's long gone to bit dust.
Mental Health is big business. It should come as no surprise that the weakest of the species will be preyed upon by the sickest.
"breach of the peace"... Considering that the legal system is descended from the British system (and actually this law dates from British rule), this means:

"when a person reasonably believes harm will be caused, or is likely to be caused, to a person or in his presence to his property, or a person is in fear of being harmed through an assault, affray, riot, unlawful assembly, or some other form of disturbance" [1]

This is legal speak to mean violence against people or property.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breach_of_the_peace
can somebody explain in simple terms what Brave is actually accusing Google of doing? The article seems to be written in a way that matches the language of the GDPR legistlation, instead of language actually meant to be read by people, and i can't figure out what the "workaround" actually is.
What is Arcs
oh ok, got it

and yeah, agree with you, this should either be escaped or some explanation added regarding delimiters
I disagree, the technical issues are relatively easy to solve, assuming there’s enough budget, buy-in. The issues with these forms of targeting are structural/cultural and AdTech is a surprisingly slow moving ship.

Technical issues are mostly used as an excuse.
> Marriage at least comes with the promise of staying together in the long term.

I'm not sure the divorce rate agrees that this constitutes a promise.
I remember reading about how google searches reflected mood. One example they gave was people search for cameras when they are happy with their life. I wonder if in 2012 people were in a happier place.
I sold my DSLR because I seldom used it, and mirrorless is the thing of the future. But they are currently too expensive, and you can't even find mirrorless for sale in some markets (e.g. Brazil). But a good camera is irreplaceble, I plan to buy one next year, abroad if necessary. The mirrorless market should have settled a bit till then.
That makes no sense. BAT is opt-in and isn't even mentioned when you install the browser.
Being a black tree hugger taught me: we must engage all citizens re climate
Although it's nothing like China, by what means can the average citizen in the UK, for example, raise an issue if their representative is of another party? Example: I care about issue x, but the people I live around don't. So I create a petition on the parliament petition website. Just like every other petition to date (to my knowledge) no change comes about because of it. How can I, as an individual citizen, disagree? Some philosophers of democracy argue that voting isn't worth the cost of actually voting, since your vote is unlikely to make a change in the first place.
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Oh, cool! This still doesn't quite get rid of my complaint since the size of an array must be known at compile time, but it's good that they don't all have to be the same size.
Yeah, I think there are benefits to your community/society to have the union formally recognized. People then know who is off limits, couples more likely to work out issues rather than simply breaking up, kids have a better chance at a stable home life, etc.
If you eat asparagus, your pee smells like asparagus (kinda).

It's pretty fun actually
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It's open-source already https://github.com/moshe/moshe.sh , feel free to fork and use
This looks like an interesting off the shelf alternative to Envoy, which currently requires you to implement your own control plane. Moving forward, is this going to be open-core with a paid EE edition type of thing like Traefik?
If Alphabet pays a low rate, then the benefit of a tax deduction's reduced, so I'm not sure I understand the "especially" here.
Moving money between accounts is trivial in the US, all you need to know if the routing and account number...
I'd love to own a full-featured digital camera (and I've bought a bunch over the past couple decades), but unless I enroll in a class to learn to use it well and get in the habit of using it I'm pretty sure it'll collect dust.

Maybe my next vacation.
The multiple axes (facets in a search eg) make great sense to me, thanks. I'm not sure about any kind of behavior-based recommender tool, but we can certainly make offers based on metadata matches.

Is there anything about the fact we're (hopefully) allowing derivative works that gets you interested? After you used the axes to find something new, what would you do with it? Just listen or could you imagine writing/building something that would educate others?
White collar crimes (like this should be) are all about making value calculations. Take the famous Ford Pinto memo. They decided the risk to their customers' lives was smaller (in terms of pure dollar amount, after potential litigation) than fixing the gas tank issue. If you penalize reckless security practices that lead to data breaches companies will be far more inclined to look after their customers. We already issue fines like this with COPPA, so it's not a new concept.

Street crimes have a far different cause and should be treated differently. I'm surprised I even have to type that, it seems obvious.
Ads are not targeted at your diagnosis - that is absurd. Ads are targeted at your browsing habits, which may reflect your diagnosis. One is illegal, one is legal. If we want to have an open discussion about advertising making claims like that only hurt privacy advocates.
Is that how you really feel?
Polyomino
Why the downvote? Care to provide a reason?
And in doing so, forced Asians and Asian-Americans to attain higher test scores than a comparable white person to get into their programs. Diversity in action.
Fair enough. I did go a little overboard in the name of completeness. IT just boils down to actually understanding what a reference is in Perl (which is something that needs to be done for anything non-amateur), and then realizing there's one -> or not depending on if it's a reference (and doing the wrong thing will fail, not do weird stuff).

Personally, I like that it forces you to be aware that this data structure is likely in use somewhere else as well, and your changes may not be local (which is true of deeper levels regardless).
Marriage is a wonderful institution and the children that come from it are the greatest gift you can be given.

Our culture tells us the opposite. But our culture is insane and wants you to be an isolated, rootless, consumer wage slave.
Credit card networks can vary regionally even under the same brand names (like MC/Visa). They are not ubiquitous. Depending on the network the merchant is using, they may or may not be able to connect to your specific card's issuer.

I'm from the US and I've had my chip based Visa pin debit card declined in France due to network incompatibility that neither side could figure out (at a McDonalds of all places) - the authorization just wasn't making it to the issuer.

Basically the further you get from you issuing bank's region/network, the more likely you are to run into problems, regardless of what country you're in. In the US because payment processing industry is so big, merchants are more likely to accept more networks than in other countries because they're paying more to support it or have negotiated better rates with middle men like FDC or directly with Visa/MC.

I think in Germany most MC is actually run using the Maestro network and merchants get hit with either per transaction fees or high interchange rates for using non-maestro cards (if they even opt-in for that with their acquirer).
I wonder how this idea relates to things like masonry, where free masons are a highly ritualized organization but at the same time I’d imagine that they have a first principles understanding of their trade.
> Common reaction from them I receive very often "We never knew that JS/TS can do that"

Maybe it's about what you cannot do in ReasonML, and not about what you can do in TypeScript? :)
Im gonna use this in quotes "I have become skeptical when I hear about “tech” companies. I feel we nerds need to be value driven, too, and not die in beauty." Thanks.
At least in the case of corporate defense, most of them are the "free market solves everything" types who believe that if completely left alone, business will turn the world into some utopia.
Its still just two categories revenue/costs. Not all costs are legitimate business expenses and tax deductible.

Certainly, penalties that follow as a result of violations of law should not be tax deductible business expenses.
I've run the numbers on that using one a biofuel crop heralded as "the biggest breakthrough that there is out there".

The numbers don't add up.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1wo2hl/boeings...

We use mind-boggling amounts of fuels, and although aviation is a small fraction of the total, a small fraction of a very large number remains a very large number.
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IBM had something like this once, forget the name, something like TeaLeaf. We were forced to use it in our mobile apps until it became obvious it was terribly broken.
Your statement only applies for the FAANGlike companies/monopolies form SV working on the latest AI thingamajigs where they have enough AdSense/VC funds to support costly talent without worrying about making money.

Everywhere else around the world software development is just a SCRUM powered meet grinder where if you don't sprint fast and cheap enough your competitors will eat your lunch.
nr and ni meant that the real part and the imaginary part could be modulo different numbers. For example, the real part could be modulo 7, and the imaginary part modulo 3. If those two numbers are not the same, it turns out not to be a division ring.
Misinformation Spreads–and Why We Trust It
You just described Alex Jones's business model.
I don't know if the French Revolution is a good example. It certainly didn't produce a stable democracy. The First Republic quickly turned into an empire, and they didn't get a long-lasting democracy until the Third Republic in 1870, about 80 years after the Revolution.
I don't really understand ideals, so... I don't know. I think so, but I think that a quotient ring isn't quite the same as a division ring.

For a division ring, there has to be a multiplicative identity, and for every non-zero element of the ring, there has to be a unique reciprocal.
I dunno man. This reminds me of the time that someone at defcon said they found a vulnerability in my last company's product because it flashes a WiFi password to an iot device instead of making a user type it in.

"What if we capture the flashes and steal the password?"

Well, if you're positioned to capture the flashes, you're definitely positioned to just watch me type it in...
Amplify is 'just' graphql too. That's a disingenuous argument. Ironic even because 8base is all aws services bolted together.
Marriage is expensive and divorce is even more expensive, especially for men. The antidote is to marry only in your money league, or higher.

Women used to do that, for their own protection - now men must do the same, and obviously the mating pool shrinks.
- The 2014 "Umbrella Movement" was peaceful yet the only thing achieved was the incarceration of the student leaders.[0]

- On June 9th this year, a million people joined a peaceful march fighting this bill. Carrie Lam's response? Go ahead with the Second Reading anyway.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_Movement

[1] https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201906/10/P2019061000710...
I happened to met Oscar Perez, their COO at StartupGrind Miami a few night ago.

Great guy and super cool product from a company that is passionate about supporting the local developer and startup scene.
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Yikes, just looked on Glassdoor, $30k yearly for EMTs in the Providence, RI area. These are professionally certified people with numerous skills, first-contact for emergent health issues, and they get paid barely more than very low-skilled service workers, many of whom are now receiving $15/h (that's great for them, but damn EMTs deserve more).
And remember, kids, this is for plants only. Had someone show up touting this in one of my mushroom foraging groups once, where following this advice for every mushroom you see would probably get you killed within ten foraging trips in most areas.

Mushroom foraging isn't nearly as hard to learn as the general public believes, but you don't do it like this.
So that is the only source then?

As far as I can tell, all roads lead back to that one Harper's article. I haven't bothered to try and find the book the author said he was working on. The quote is poorly-sourced enough for me to just not use it, and golly-gee-willickers is it a convenient one now that the quoted is long dead and buried. (EDIT: I will point out that I want to believe the quote is real, or close to it. It certainly doesn't strain credulity to imagine Erlichman saying that. Which is all the more reason to be skeptical. <g>)
The algorithm used doesn't need to be any good at matching people for online dating to increase your chance of finding a suitable partner.

A system which showed people to each other in a totally randomized way would still drastically increases the number of people you can superficially evaluate, and even a tinder style photos + blurb profile is rich in personality/cultural clues to base evaluation on.
Understandable.

For JS it's a step forward, for OCaml it seems to be a step back.
Data, sure. Lose the volume, no.
I guess the author prefers people to marry young? It seems to me that the "problem" is that people aren't feeling forced into marriage and are instead deciding to wait until they ready before getting married. Maybe our shifting societal attitudes towards sex before marriage have something to do with it? The author seems entirely hung up on the socioeconomic side of the picture, but I'm not sure that's the entire situation.
This really depends on what you care about. Flow is much better at ensuring type safety in your code while TypeScript has some pretty glaring holes in this respect. In particular, TypeScript allows covariant assignment and param passing which makes it really easy to write unsafe code.
Amazon employees what it calls "FC Ambassadors". These people have openly admitted that they are paid by the hour to tweet about the company[0].

Full thread in a nicely readable format at https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/08/15/amazon-ambassadors-take...

[0] https://twitter.com/rulesObeyer/status/1161758672973811712
I’d love more research on this because my experience with online dating has been significantly less fruitful as compared to meeting people at work/school/meetups.
And why aren't you happy with that yet? What is so hard about it? I looked at Notion as well, and it looked pretty hip, but I wasn't sure if it was just a neat design. I'm gonna take a further look.
Yeah, but that's Firefox for Android, versus Firefox (Quantum) for Windows. Not the same "beast" underneath.
The myth of the social media intern
I was impressed with the 8Base GraphQL strategy since I met you at the GraphQL conference, and am psyched to see how far it has come. I especially like how accessible and affordable 8Base is for any developer. Clearly, 8Base listens to developers.
The real problem is much worse than just data collection. The children's content on Youtube is the most vacuous garbage in existence and young children have wasted billions of hours watching it on autoplay.
Did Google blacklist that signing key from being used on the Play Store, and provide a warning when an app signed by it is scanned by Play Protect?

If Facebook isn't willing to take this seriously, IMO that would be the next logical step to minimize the impact.
> They're just ordinary websites with ads and other tracking cookies.

This is an interesting take. It means that for information to be sold to third parties it must be explicitly negotiated and delivered, through contractual means, as if it were a product sold with invoices emitted.

What actually happens is virtually the same, minus the explicit negotiation and invoice. Information gets sent to third parties, who cross reference browser information and the location from which the info was sent, effectively identifying and tying the user to the mental health related website. That is, in my opinion no different than explicitly selling mental health information to ad companies and should be treated as such.
Don't know why you're being downvoted -- this is accurate.
Ask HN: How do you pay for content with money (not privacy/attention/etc.)?
When I talk about ad and tracker blocking, I get accused a lot of not supporting content providers, which I find puzzling, because in all probability, I pay more for content, and more of it goes to the content producers.

Still, I sometimes find it difficult to find a way to ethically pay for the content I consume, so I'm interested in hearing what strategies other people use to pay for content with money rather than privacy/attention/etc..
are we (u.s.) not already there? if not it has to be very close.
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"I am 12 and what is this" needed a comeback
GDPR definitions are slightly different.

A person is identified, if the ID references only one user in the whole dataset[1]. This also makes any information linked to the ID PII.

the ID would be pseudo-anonymous if one would need some extra data, to which they don't have access to, for linking the ID to one specific user in the whole dataset[2].

So to answer your question, RTB ID is not pseudo-anonymous as it only references a single user out of all of them.

[1] It's also important to understand the definition of PII in GDPR context. Which is any data that relates to an identified or identifiable person. Identifiable is the same as distinguishable. Knowing this helps to understand where the line is. https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/identifiable

[2] Definition of pseudonymisation, 5'th bullet-point: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/ sheds some light on this.
I had the inverse reaction: I discovered that all these apps support swiping from the left. At least the hamburger menu is visible - there is nothing really advertising the swipe gesture.