skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A story of repo cars driving and scanning tags has been seen on HN first time many years ago. Meanwhile a buddy of mine works for a "secret" company that has cars driving around ten most criminal infested cities (such as Detroit) and mass-scanning people's faces behind mirror glass. A single car in a busy city is able to scan over 25,000 people daily. This info is later fed into the system and usual clients are Sheriff offices and bounty hunters. I wish someone like VICE did the story on it, but my buddy only showed me screen shoots, no company name, nothing.

In 2019 you cannot assume you have any sort of privacy once you leave your door step, literally.
If grades don't matter, why did you show up for the exam?
Prompt: When I went to the toilet, I found out that
Suggestion: my wife was getting hard while I was inside the toilet and she was crying.
> Is there a caniuse.com for SQL?

Not exactly the same, but: https://modern-sql.com/
Sure. People have different opinions of things, to some extent social change is zero-sum. I've just given my opinions.
ABC 010: Privacy in Blockchain
>Start using products like nicotine lozenges, gums, patches

All options with abysmal success rates. It's so easy for people with enough knowledge to be dangerous and no skin in the game to support nonsense like this.
It also disproportionately affects lower income families/individuals. Very similarly to smoking.
I suspect they are a tad annoyed that you are potentially getting something for free that they payed for.
I'm not sure that was the best example to use of an abstraction that leads to more complicated code, with database code I feel like it's way simpler to have it separate from your business logic. That way, there's fewer places where you need to make changes anytime there's a schema change.

Abstracting away the database also makes it easier to write unit tests for your business logic.
In the Bay Area (Palo Alto) you can get 1 Gbps Comcast service and it works well, but getting it is hard because everything else about Comcast is bad.

- It's hard to order the service because the price online is a stupidly high price no one should pay if it's listed at all.

- When you call two thirds of the sales reps don't know what gigabit is and will tell you it's not in your area (even though it is) rather than finding out. I've had them tell me it requires a $300 installation fee (it doesn't) or that they'll email me when it's available (it was already available and they wouldn't have). You have to call until you get someone who can do their job.

- The upload is capped to 35mbps

- I was able to get 1gbps for $89/month, but it required a two year contract. It's also not listed on the bill as this, but as 'performance plus' with a gigabit add on which makes things confusing.

- There's a 1 terabyte/month data cap and it's $10 per 50GB after that capped at a max cost of $200. You get two 'courtesy months' of this, but then you get charged. You can pay $50 to have 'unlimited'. After months of using 700GB or so per month suddenly my usage spiked to 2TB so now I have to pay this - it's very hard to determine why (nothing on my end appears to have changed and my ubiquity software shows no massive increase in usage).

- Comcast also has a gigabit pro plan which is real fiber to the house (no modem/coax cable) - it's 2gbps up and down, but requires a $1000 installation since they're actually bringing fiber to your house and special hardware to make use of it (also good luck finding a rep that will let you actually buy it - none of them know about it, twitter is best option to find a good support person).

While the service once set up is good (except for upload) everything else about interacting with them is terrible. After the two years runs out they'll drop my speed to 25mbps and double the price and I'll have to call and negotiate the plans with a rep all over again. Any interaction with the public website or billing is also pretty bad.

All I want is to pay a reasonable price for faster service. I'd even pay more (potentially a lot) if I didn't have to deal with all of this.

Even in a competitive market Comcast has problems.
Thanks, helps a lot.
It is an unsolicited, however we pass all requirements.

Is it generally okay asking the company if there is any vendor behind the RFQ (will they really reveal this?)
SOS 010: Sustaining Unified with Titus Wormer
That place is absolutely massive! For a simple comparison, add about 6,500 more solar parks of that size, and we would generate enough electricity* for the entire planet. That would cover an area of 242,000 square km (which granted, is about the size of the UK, or a bit smaller than Texas). 2,500 solar parks of that size would replace all coal plants globally. 1,500 would replace all natural gas plants. So that is 4,000 of those to replace all fossil fuel plants that now exist.

Of course things like base load generation and you know...night time need to be taken into consideration, but I think it really puts it all into perspective. A few more years at their current growth, and renewables will be generating more electricity than coal globally. Coal is also decreasing which helps.

I used some data from here to make rough estimates:

https://www.iea.org/statistics/electricity/

I did this to make myself a little less depressed about global warming. Fight for renewables in your towns!

edit: oh yah, that would cost $26 Trillion...but that's for ONLY solar panels which isn't practical.
On the Canary Islands I'd rather expect a skimmer in the ATM, not getting mugged. Also, the tourism industry there is notorious for exploiting employees - when people pay in cash tips tend to be higher.
Virtually anything you pirate these days will be supported on virtually anything you might want to watch movies on these days. The obscure edge-cases are things that HN users might be aware of, but simply aren't a practical concern in practice. DLNA is generally the case where you might run into issues, but a transcoding DLNA server solves that problem.

Not to mention it greatly simplifies other matters. If you drop a bunch of movies onto your kids tablet, you no longer have to worry about being away from a cell tower or wifi AP. Furthermore, concerning this very article, there is the matter of too many streaming platforms existing. Maybe you only need Disney because you don't let your kids consume any other brand. But probably more likely, there are numerous desirable movies that are on one streaming platform but not another, or on none at all. And a movie that might be on a platform one year could be gone the next. A harddrive full of movies avoids all of this mess. Subscribe to two or three services a year and you'll be spending a lot more than $8 a month. Maybe it still seems trivial to you with an inflated tech salary, but I know a lot of people who think a single netflix subscription is too expensive so they share an account with other friends/family. This is pretty common.

> HN users seem to be way out of touch with the average user.

I am certainly not out of touch with my own friends and family!
RNR 135: The Why's and How's of Keeping Current
That's AMAZING!
Or just get rid of license plates altogether.
Mrs 096: Daniel Pritchett
Go to a different country, and Netflix offers a different set of subtitles for a given title. Why can't I get Swedish subtitles in the US, for titles Neflix has the subtitles? I know this is to simplify the UI, but just offer it as an advances option, like they do for
non-apathy mode (ie, stop playing at the end of one episode so I don't lose a day sitting on the couch).
I'm quite willing to entertain the notion that RMS was a problem in some sense (though, if he has been 'coddled' for decades, one has to wonder if that problem was due to any fault of his own that he ought to have been cognizant of!) But pay attention to what this post is actually saying. It's inappropriate to defend Minsky in the wake of the Epstein scandal? (And there are people, considered reliable by others, who have said that when sex was inappropriately offered to Minsky, he turned the offer down! Of course RMS did not say that, and what he did say was rather tone deaf to say the least. But still...) RMS must go because he is fat and ugly, and thus makes women uncomfortable (the horror!) even when he's simply trying to joke around and be charming? Come on.
jfc... sql :(

i've written thousands of lines of cypher queries. i just can't do sql though, it's not like i refuse either... it's that my brain just doesn't get it.

practice would surely help. i took an intro class once, and that improved my skills a lot (i.e. 0 -> 0.1)... teaching about the math of what's being done and giving me some ways to think about it... but it all just seems so incredibly tedious.
.NET 006: Async and C# 8 with Filip Ekberg
Exercising your ability to sit down and Just Do It instead of giving into shortcut temptations probably did change your life trajectory over the years.

Also, seems like a weird bar. I doubt any single class "changed your life trajectory." Why would it need to? I could say that about very few things in life.

But I get it, liberal arts bad, STEM good.
I've heard -- and much prefer -- the term "Waterfragile". It's funnier, and IMO more descriptive of what's going on.
> data costs for bandwidth costs hasn't gone down at the same rate

For clarification, at the business level data has always been charged by capacity and not volume. And the costs have fallen at double digit rates since they've been measured.

http://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-H...

ISPs plan their networks for peek capacity, the only reason they charge by volume is because they can.
Right, but it turns out it was just bad customer service, not fraud.
> This is just taking “politically correct” to far. It’s like saying “Firemen” or “one small step for man..”. The context of “man” or “men” is obviously “person” or “people”

Er, no, it's not. In fact, in the popular “one small step for man” quote (“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”), the intended phrasing was “a man”, it referenced the speaker (Neil Armstrong), a specific man (not a person of unknown and unspecified gender), and was contrasted with “mankind” which had the general sense.
iPS 272: Apple Event Analyzation
Throwaway accounts get throwaway respect.

Why are you "acting" indignant? you created a throwaway for this exact purpose.

("Acting", because it's funny to think about robots acting)
> guess people do not matter anymore

I agree with this sentiment.

only groups of people seem relevant nowadays. makes me really wonder about the philosophy and history of individualism.
> specifically because there is a ton of evidence that youth get addicted to nicotine via e-cigs
> If you want to smoke tobacco, go ahead, you're still free to do so

So we should freak out about youth using a thing that's a 95% harm reduction compared to smoking tobacco, and not ban tobacco. Got it.

> Start using products like nicotine lozenges, gums, patches, etc

Last I checked these were half as effective as e-cigarettes for quitting.
There's always going to be some people who agree and some people who disagree on anything, but I'd argue that there's less polarization on a couple of the things you mentioned.

E.g. clean drinking water, I'd argue that we can all very much agree this is a priorty. I'm not sure what basic protections you're talking about which were overturned, but atleast here in Canada we have towns and reserves that still don't have access to clean drinking water.

also yes, protection of endangered species, but even more broadly just biodiversity in general (often we focus only on saving the cute ones, which is also a bit of a travesty). This topic is more polarized than clean drinking water but arguably less polarized than climate change and has much more realistic and attainable solutions.

The problem being that we're in the midst of the sixth mass extinction event and it's caused by humans (not human-induced climate change, though that may be a contributor, but it started much earlier than the industrial revolution). Much of the problem is that we destroy habitats e.g. through mass deforestation, pollution, etc.

We're currently in the midst of a massive insect apocalypse which is the result of the aforementioned deforestation and pollution, largely insecticides herbicides, etc. from bad agricultural practices.

I would much rather we focus on reforming forestry, fishing and agricultural practices using less destructive to the environment methods, which are very attainable, than focusing on mitigating climate change, which is largely out of our hands or would require such unattainable changes to society.

I think we are by and large wasting our time and effort on dubious climate change efforts which would be much better focused on real environmental problems that we can actually solve, like e.g. ovefishing, mass deforestation and habitat loss, mass pollution in water and terrestrial ecosystems. That's my point.

I do believe human-induced climate change is happening, but also not neaarrlly to the degree that alarmists and doom and gloomers would have people beleive. It's a question of how much are humans contributing to climate change change not if, but there's too many extremists that claim the apocolypse on very dubious grounds. I honestly believe the extreme alarmists are being incredibly harmful to science in general because people are liable to dismiss all science when inevitably a too-extreme climate model is proven wrong yet again.

So yeah, my point is that there's many more attainable solutions to environmental problems we can mostly all agree on that we should be going after, rather than focusing our efforts on just fighting climate change which is an extremely polarizing topic and has largely unattainable solutions.
What's the point in complaining on twitter about it? The situation sucks, but the airline was most likely doing its best to resolve it. It's probably not possible to plan ahead much for unexpected diversions.
You're conflating two very different environments. Mass media of yesterday was the establishment broadcasting carefully considered things. Social media today is individuals chatting to other individuals in a manner that can incidentally be seen by everyone. People using say, hackernews, aren't modelling this interaction as if they are on the stage being broadcasted to the world, they are modelling it as if they were talking to someone at a pub.
Thanks for the write up - explains a lot (including what hypothesis is).

I think there's a typo in the last code box? It looks like you repeated "from hypothesis_auto import"? (that, or I understand even less python that I thought!)
MJS 123: Nick Basile
> Why am I supposed to believe that?

You aren’t. You trust that if your money is stolen in a hack, the bank is liable for your losses.
[edit]

This was originally a comment about a book I thought was the same but merely had a similar title.
C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2nd Edition by King is a good beginner book.

21st Century C by Ben Kelemens is also a good book.
At least they contact you these days. I remember my cards getting locked every Christmas and every time I went overseas due to "unusual spending patterns". Yes, it's Christmas. Yes, I am overseas, I bought the airline tickets with your card.
How is obstruction of justice well documented in the mueller report?

Honestly, there's more ground for obstruction of justice charges against Trudeau for his role in the SNC-Lavalin scandal than anything I've seen for Trump.
>NVIDIA Shield TV because it has a perfect Plex client

Pending you don't want to watch something in Dolby Vision.

I can either have Dolby Atmos come from the shield and a HDR video, or Dolby Vision through the TV and compressed AC3 audio of some kind from the TV.

Asking for both is apparently too much...
I think you're being too hard on vacuum tube computers. There were a lot of vacuum tube computers and they were pretty successful. Electromechanical computers like the Harvard Mark I would be a better comparison; they worked, but were too expensive and slow to be more than one-off systems.
Haha. And I think I would have had fun at the Shed too.
interesting article - value based investing is the general principle behind long term sports betting as well, though just as important in sports betting is the concept of bankroll management - but instead of figuring out how much time and effort you should spend on a given "value bet", you allocate chunks of money.
I've wondered about that with JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(obj)) being the fastest way to deep clone a plain JS object in any JS engine. It always looks dumb when it shows up, but it works well enough and I've seen it described as a best practice by some types of data manipulation libraries.
Wow, they don't have a compiler for their "language and programming framework"? That's a pretty embarrassing oversight.
I totally agree. Torrenting (and other piracy) is easy until a necessary part in your workflow is taken down. Finding a replacement is a pain, unless you have someone giving recommendations. Thankfully TPB and co seem quite durable.
Eh more like C++, Zig is more of a modern C
I am not asking to remove based on that I personally dislike it. I am asking to remove it based on:

>But USSR does not exists and there is no reason to keep it. Using it is a kind of propaganda. Its place is in history books and not in the modern internet.
So in other words people pay for the convenience of streaming services and most people don’t want to carry around hard drives, use torrents, etc.

Just like I said....
Any reason you're spamming?
interviewed with a know-it-all type sr. engineer once, and he asked me an incredibly defensive question like, "why would i use a graph database instead of postgresql, it cant do anything that can't be done in postgres!?!?"

i'm no expert on any of this, but my response was still sufficient to get hired: you don't need a graph db, but it's easier to understand what cypher is doing than what sql is doing... that means more productivity to your lower-cost junior developers.
Ornamentum – Reactive Angular Data Table
The livestream agenda is a pdf:

http://www.oceanobs19.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/OceanOb...
To a person that hasn't tried Linux, your comment portraying the Linux desktop as randomly unstable and slow, without providing any specifics, seems not only like an exaggeration but is also that I as a user have not experienced at all.
Fed cuts rates on 7-3 vote, gives mixed signals on next move
These guys are heroes.
>I recommend using nicotine gums, lozenges, and patches once in a while

All of those options have abysmal success rates. Here's a paper, 10% success over placebo.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8518571

>1) vaping isn't just nicotine alone, there are other chemicals and the jury is still out on their effects, why take the risk?

Because I enjoy smoking, got off of cigs by vaping, and I want to. By your own admission we have no idea what the long term health effects may be. Your argument is backed only by fear, not facts, but is easy to make because it doesn't affect you.
Ha! $NEW_JOB instituted "daily scrums" alias "standups" like my second week here where 10 of us sit down in a meeting room for anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes every damned morning to talk about what we did the day before and what we're doing that day. Maybe what we do is ScrumFail? We had no process at all before other than what apparently is not actual waterfall but fits the literal description of a waterfall in that requirements pour down upon us from a tall precipice.
On 'Biweekly' and 'Bimonthly'
> Otherwise, I can certainly see a few developers manipulating their algorithms for health apps in a way to change people's behaviors in order to reinforce some belief the app developer may have.

Could you clarify here? It sounds like there's a sub-text, but I apparently lack the context to "get it".
A word of advice for those of you that live in the 19 states that don't require a front license: always back into parking spots to make it difficult or impossible to read your plates. There are other good reasons (like increased safety) for backing into parking spots and keeping your travel history private is just one of them.
Congrats on the launch! Seems a little similar to Diffbot.com but they do not require a client download.
Has there been new evidence? All I've heard recently has been the recent cases of an unidentified lung illness (which seems much more likely to be the result of some new product on the market, since it doesn't take years to become apparent). Any new epidemiological studies? Any new direct evidence of harm? (I mean, beyond the long-existing studies involving burning vaping liquid at extremely high temperatures and discovering lower quantities of dangerous chemicals than you would find in cigarettes or marijuana.) Any serious study showing higher levels of nicotine addiction than cigars or pipe tobacco? (Cigarettes have had decades of engineering specifically to make them addictive.)

Are you sure this isn't just another puritanical flap?
What happens if I'm willing to pay, but said movie isn't available in my local region on any of the digital store fronts? It happens all to frequently to me. I know I'm definitely an outlier, but I genuinely have no real choice sometimes, but to pirate a movie. You know what happens when I really like said unavailable movie? I usually pop on Amazon and buy a bluray copy if it's available.

For whatever reason, it seems that certain eras of film from various countries are just missing from streaming catalogs. Not only are the films missing, but they can be incredibly hard to find on services due to naming and translated names. Recently, I was trying to watch Cure aka Kyua (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cure_(film)), good luck asking Siri to find this movie. The name "Cure" brings up nothing related, and "Kyua" is essentially not recognized. I found 1 or 2 films by the director, by searching his name directly. It's a cluster, and it's frankly a shame that I have to resort to piracy when I'd absolutely be willing to pay for such movies.
> By default, the biggest value from this is catching unexpected runtime exceptions with certain values (the edge cases you don't think of yourself).

So it's a fuzzer?
I'm guessing that's Australia.
> "I know this is to simplify the UI"

Why is that even necessary? Youtube offers you the full list to choose from and I don't see users writhing on the ground clutching their skulls in agonizing confusion. Users can handle a list of languages just fine.

This industry thinks too little of users.
Love the quote. Though, I have some people working with me who I would still struggle with that quote. There is an assumption in it that the employee grows from the experience.. yet, I face people who seemingly make an effort not to grow.
We currently live in a world where people don't feel comfortable expressing dissenting opinions about Hong Kong and China from their primary accounts. Any dissenting opinion is immediately suppressed and the user in question surrounded by a hostile interrogation squad.

When they make anonymous green accounts for the specific purpose of airing these opinions, they get accused of astroturfing because they "only discuss" the specific subject. Just think about the irony of that for a second as it relates to what HK supporters purport to be fighting for.