skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've heard many who are scared of the available shelters, due to threats, drug dealing or harassment from other ill-fortuned inhabitants.

And so they move to a tent encampment? This makes no sense.

The problem isn't even the bad and catastrophic decisions that homeless people made to get them into the situation -- would that it were -- for the permanent homeless, it is the bad and catastrophic decisions they make on a daily basis to keep themselves in it.

How to treat this? Involuntary mental health incarceration. Police ticketing and other harsh actions to break up the cycle and keep people from being comfortable with their homeless situation. Destroy the social anti-patterns that are keeping people trapped.

Do you know anyway with a child in this situation? Ask them how their offers of money and help went, and what happened when that help was delivered. You may have an interesting conversation.
Good explanation. Makes sense.
Maybe you own a $150 chromebook and can't run video editing software locally?

I could see this being useful for youtubers without access to decent hardware.
AI augmentation, human-machine symbiosis, etc, are definitely interesting.

What's up with vimeo though? Almost 2020 and it still doesn't work properly. I don't think I've ever played a video without constant stutters, buffering, etc.

Letting it play all the way through in order to buffer the whole thing, so that you can play it again, this time 'preloaded', results in it starting the download over - arrghh!
There's also a significant niche of people who want assurance that a transaction can never be reversed. For example online entertainers who get donations for thousands of dollars only to have them charged back months later.
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I don't know if it helps, but I've recorded myself quite a bit. In my profile I could set a native language and accent, as well as additional language and accent.

There has to be that data somewhere, right?

https://i.imgur.com/Zfj9F5V.png
The owner of the device consented either explicitly or implicitly. For everyone else it's not immediately obvious where to assign the blame: is it the owner of the device recording you without consent, as it would be with a normal microphone, or is the smart device manufacturer at fault?

Just telling people "ask every guest for permission" ostensibly clears this up: it's the owners fault for not getting permission. Of course in many places courts are in the habit of disregarding completely unrealistic disingenuous demands.
AWS+Lake+Formation+Automates+Data+Lake+Management
TBF I never had any good luck with Apple's TouchID (which most people seem to love) - some of us just have hands that are incompatible with the technology. So while the many for whom it worked flawlessly lamented the loss of it in favor of FaceID, I was cheering.
I think they meant get near editing Kubernetes yaml files (or some abstracted equivalent there of)
We can see light that was emitted from it billions of years ago, before we split apart. Similarly, they can see light that ours emitted billions of years ago.

They can never be affected by anything we do now, or vice versa. This doesn't make it "read-only", though -- we can't read it either. All we're seeing is their distant past, back when we were mutually able to reach each other.
Like what? What is the reasonable alternative to 'neoliberal' economics?
I found it a lot of fun writing a double entry system, but the fun stops when implementation is finished and the "real work" begins. Next comes a costly and risky endeavor of defining the rules governing accounting events transacted by the AIS. This is where real difficulty and liability lies. An event triggers a series of transactions that must be financially sound and sufficient for meeting the expectations of an audit. Competent, qualified people must define these rules. These rules aren't universal truths. Accounting rules aren't black and white. This lead me to imagine that it is difficult, if not impossible, to define universally-applicable accounting events across all kinds of business. With that given, Square might be able to achieve these rules exclusively for the mom and pop retail customers whose types of business transactions are very similar, but the truth of this can only be revealed by third party auditors.

So, approach this space with a healthy dose of skepticism until its been appropriately vetted and certified by third party auditors.
There is lots of functional language code in production.

As a recent example GitHub uses this Haskell application for code analysis: https://github.com/github/semantic

Also, Erlang powers a huge amount of the US’ cellular infrastructure, as well as RabbitMQ, which is used in a ton of production workloads.

There’s actually a pretty decent list on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
> Not only that, but I can manage the search result weigths and preferences from within Algolia with no special experience.

This was a major selling point for us when we switched to Algolia. The business people want to be able to manage things like search without having to go through the programmers, just like they manage GA/GTM and such.
You're right. The star could not have been more than a few billion light years away when it emitted the photons that we're seeing. Otherwise, not only would the photons have not reached us yet, they will probably never reach us because the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light.
They could go the AWS route, start high and decrease prices.

Also they could combine this with discounts, such as if someone preallocates capacity for X month, they get f(X) % discount.

They should build a core customer base. Solicit feedback about what niche feature they would happily pay for.

For example here's a GitLab issue that I think people would (might?) use: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/15536 (provide a "lock service" or a queue with max concurrency gate and launch pipelines / jobs)
Public interest is a defence for not having obtained permission.
Why should they care? Generally speaking, people want privacy when we fear that disclosure will cause us some harm. I'm aware that there is a spectrum of viewpoints on this issue, and that some people value privacy as an end itself. But I think for most people, if they do value privacy for its own sake at all, it can't be a very high priority. If it were, they wouldn't use Google, credit cards, or cell phones.

Google, Amazon, etc. have a pretty good track record of not using private data against users. Which makes sense, because it is generally more profitable to act as the user's agent. This is exactly how most people think of private data in the hands of these big tech companies.

There's still some data they'd rather these companies not have. Even if I trust my lawyer to act as my agent, I'd prefer they not have a video of me having sex with my wife. On the other hand, if they had access to an occasional snippet of conversation from an incorrect hotword activation, I wouldn't really care. I know, and my lawyer knows, that their economic interest is in maintaining my privacy. There's almost no value for them in disclosing my conversations, and they would lose my future business.
I might be wrong but I don't think Android phone are always listening by default.
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> I really doubt Microsoft's 90% figure.

In fairness, it's from IDC, not Microsoft.

The same report predicted that "500 million apps" will be created between over the 2018-2023 timeframe, which looks suspiciously like someone saying "100 million a year, what do you think Frank?" and then getting the nod because "a billion" is even more clearly absurd.
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I wonder why does Google need the web activity to be turned on for subscribing to the Podcasts? Is there any realistic reasoning for it?
That was an interesting note about the FPC. It's something I've wondered about for years ... and proof I didn't read until the very end of the linked article I guess :)

It reminds me of the small vestigial canal in Cambridge, the Broad Canal, that is one of the last remnants of a much larger canal network that ran through East Cambridge. I've always wondered why that last bit hasn't been filled in. It's a man-made canal, so if anything, filling it in would restore the original land. There's an old steel draw bridge spanning the canal that I don't think has actually been opened in 20 years. The bridge is actually a bit of a burden: the state recently did a good job widening the walking/bike bath along the Charles River but there's a pinch point at the bridge because the old pedestrian walk way across the bridge is so tight it can't readily accommodate the bike traffic it gets a lot of now.

There has to be some reason why they've left the bridge. My dad said when he was a kid he remembers barges delivering coal to the power plan that runs along the north side of that canal. It's all gas powered now, but I wonder if it could use coal in an emergency and they've left access to the plant for that reason?
Trying to manage an “application” in microservices world is misunderstanding the whole concept of microservices, IMO.
Hacker News generates 86.10% of referral traffic for algolia.com:

https://www.similarweb.com/website/algolia.com#referrals
That is entirely wrong. My implementation of DoH and DoT (running in production at the University of Cambridge) uses nginx as a proxy for both protocols in front of our normal recursive DNS servers. DoT is widely used by Android devices on our wireless network; DoH is only being used by a small number of lunatics such as me.

https://github.com/fanf2/doh101

https://www.dns.cam.ac.uk/servers/doth.html
Hydro is the one type of renewable with built-in long-term storage.
What has he done? Everyone’s commenting he doesn’t like HN but when I clicked the link everything looks fine. Serious question.
More throttling?
I had to Google MAU, and MRR. Monthly Active Users, Monthly Recurring Revenue. (Couldn't you just say users access revenue on this case?)
I think you still live in the case that he’s describing. I have someone similarly close to me who’s bipolar and both him and I still enjoy black humor. We learn to laugh at our past situations regardless (near-death encounters included).

It doesn’t make you more naive but it might be an indicator that you’re not able to cope with all the realities faced in your life all the time.
If it wasn't for the expansion, and if the universe had positive curvature, then yes.

As it stands, there's not only the expansion, but the universe also seems to be flat -- meaning it's spatially infinite, not just borderless. That observation is also compatible with a very, very small curvature, but in that case the size would still be so large that it wouldn't be practically possible to circumnavigate even if it wasn't expanding.
S10 5G user here, with an IQ shield protector (wet application/ very soft yet strong gel type).
Scanned fingers with the original protector, didn't rescan with the IQ shield which I only put on a few weeks ago.

Can only unlock with my scanned fingers, so will leave my scans as is until a fix eventuates (if it does).
This reads very similar to the classic Dropbox response. You seem pretty unaware of the technical expertise of average people.
Worst case, all couplings to the SM might be so small that it's undetectable on earth. A purely gravitational direct detection is probably out of reach for quite a while.
280W is for the 32 core chip. Rumor has it that there won't be a 16 core TR, but if there were the TDP would certainly be much lower.
Let's be honest. Even solely from money and evaluation point, being accepted to YC increases your evaluation for your startup significantly.
I'm not advocating that this is why you need to apply, but FOMO on YC companies is real among VC's. On demo day same companies who are pre-seed or just started get new rounds on $15Mil+ evaluation.
From what I have heard and seen the biggest value is advice, but getting so much hype to raise big money is not bad for founders.
Presumably some of that is the £1 billion that May promised the DUP to get their votes.
I'd say finger removal is a few steps less likely than knocking someone unconscious, esp. if you can knock them unconscious and then clone their fingerprint.

Mind you, there are some quite dumb criminals, so "likely probability" besides "how likely am I to get robbed?" likely goes out the window.
The 'fort' is short for fourteen, so fort-weekly would be every fourteen weeks.
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Sometimes it's beyond me how tech savy people are struggling with the easiest things online.

The page itself has only very few links. Randomly clicking through it logged in would have a high chance hitting one of the links that would either lead you directly to one of the links where you can CONTRIBUTE: https://voice.mozilla.org/de/speak, your dashboard where you can also find links to the CONTRIBUTE part or just the huge microphone symbol.
Add your location to Git commits
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Hacker discovering data breach asks for park tickets gets charged with extortion
How does a small suburban area afford roads going all over? Building rail is about the same cost as roads, and can be cheaper if we put as much effort into making tools for building it as we do roads today. Trains are more expensive than cars, but given they carry more people and last longer the cost per person is less than our current costs for cars per person. There are also mass production efficiencies that have the potential to bring the cost of a train down significantly if only we had demand for more.

Note that subsidies for transit also apply to local roads. Each area is different, but in many cases gas tax doesn't reach the city and the roads are all paid for from other taxes.

The problem is getting there. It is to predict how it would work out if we there today (see my assumptions above, I think they are reasonable but you might disagree and that will of course change what you come up with). However getting there is hard. Big cities are already making efforts to get there, but they are hampered because there is a complete lack of cost control and so trains cost way more than they should for no obvious reason. https://pedestrianobservations.com/2016/01/31/why-costs-matt... has some good information (read his other blog posts for even more data)

Of course in the end all trains don't make sense in the first place. Cars and trucks are flexible and so there will always be need for them. Farmers and construction workers need to get their supplies to places without infrastructure, while dirt and gravel roads are enough. Even baring that, the flexibility of a personal car means that the end of the personal car implies the complete end of modern civilization (your new job is manual labor: running a hoe)
Then no programming exists at all. When writing a C code you are describing a program that runs on the C abstract machine. The same thing holds for all "programming" languages.
Are you not aware of the Ed Snowden revelations? I mean the NSA is piped into all these corporate data streams.
Tangential, but I recently got a massive speed up in my zplug-based load time with a simple `touch $ZPLUG_LOADFILE`. More discussion here: https://github.com/zplug/zplug/issues/368
>Ask forgiveness not permission.
That's all that matters to big tech, that's what brings in the $$$
Ryzen 3900X (and probably 3950X) would agressively limit all core boost to fit in the TDP.

A Threadripper with a higher TDP limit (and better cooling) will be able to boost all core to same levels as single core, ideal for workstation workloads.

Some of that TDP is also spent on driving additional memory channels and PCIE 4.0 lanes. There were rumors of TR having 8 channels now. And judging from active cooling on X570 chipsets, PCIE 4.0 is hot.
Could you elaborate on this a bit? Basically calling a functions form an other is how a step-by-step algorithm would work in FP, no? And pattern match on what comes in, and return an immutable copy.

For example you can put functions in a list, and push a datastructure through them, like a pipeline.

edit: https://probablydance.com/2016/02/27/functional-programming-...
hmm not quite true, Desoxyn is actually big pharmas crystal meth because it IS crystal meth, literally

https://www.drugs.com/pro/desoxyn.html
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/17/samsung-patch-fingerprin...

What is suspected here is that registering the finger with the screen protector on is masking the shape of the finger while still registering the touch action. As a result, it's enrolling a blank print. Then anyone else can unlock it afterwards with the screen protector still on.

Consider that screen protectors are designed and tested only to make sure touch actions work correctly, but this ultrasonic fingerprint ridge-shape detection technology is new, so they're probably not mutually compatible.

I don't know what was wrong with the swipe sensor. They're discreet, easy to keep clean, and hard to screw up. Maybe the only downside is they would keep them too close to the camera lens for accidentally lens smudging.
This is why I've preached this for a long time:

It's not that regular users "don't care about privacy" as many are quick to conclude, but the vast majority simply don't understand.

If even big tech execs don't understand these issues, then how can regular people?
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Elsewhere you wrote that they have a good chance of winning using their "voter fraud tactics", whatever that may mean. Aren't you contradicting yourself?
If you elaborate on what you find underwhelming then perhaps people would not downvote you? They may even engage in a discussion.
No idea why, but this app offers purchases via good old Bank Cards, without any Google mediation.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navigation...
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But then your cake might easily burn.
I don't really understand what you're saying here. It's definitely not a matter of being "cool" or not.

There's always going to be a need for some structured static configuration file format. Be it XML, INI, TOML, JSON, YAML, properties files, or whatever.

From my perspective, YAML and JSON have been more successful and well-liked than XML because they map much more directly to the basic data types common to all programming languages. How do you represent a list or a map in XML? Well, it depends...

Besides missing straightforward ways to map common data structures, XML is also way more verbose and much harder to read and write by hand than YAML and JSON. And no, there really is no way to easily map between XML and these languages. Again, how do you specify a list in XML?

Add to that the fact that for most use cases, marshaling and unmarshaling YAML can be handled directly with common libraries. But to parse XML into your internal data structures? You're going to have to write code, or decide on some schema to encode your data in before converting to XML. So XML didn't actually solve your problem of "how do we serialize this data?" It just provided a framework within which it was possible to write further standards.

Add onto all of this, that XML pretty early on started adding layers of confusing and contradictory standards and associated tools--XML Schema, XML Namespaces, XPath, XSLT. And still, none of those things solved the underlying problem. They just provided the framework.

And to that that XML is much, much more expensive to parse than JSON and YAML...

So I guess I don't get why you are confused. XML addresses a different set of problems than YAML, and it does so in an overly-complicated manner that's both human- and machine-unfriendly.
Average people who edit videos are already doing so with existing native apps or Youtube's in-browser editing capabilities.
As an Indian who grew up watching Hollywood movies, I never saw the US imposing their will on Indian Bollywood movies.

So no - I don't follow where you are going.
A smart phone is just a programmable computer welded to a cell phone, that's here to stay. So I'm going to answer what I think your real question is: "When will smartphones change form factor?"

The current form factor is a best-we-have compromise between ease of use, and utility. I think the next big thing will be the decoupling of utility and ease of use. AR/3D gesture tech in a discrete google glass-like thing maybe.
> it’s unclear why Mozilla is fine with Google’s data practices but not Facebook’s as the company did not immediately respond to a request for clarification.

I often wonder the same.

And also:

Why there is an official Facebook container[1] but not an official Google container?[2]

Why a fresh install of Firefox sends multiple calls to Google, including services that track users such as Analytics?[3]

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/firefox-now-availab...

[2] there is a third party Google container at least https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...

[3] https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/11658588961766604...
Cosmologists talk about "horizons" a lot, and the analogy of standing on a sphere actually works quite well. Remember that horizons only make sense on curved surfaces. You can't see beyond the point where certain features of spacetime (black holes, expansion, or sheer distance) prevent signals from reaching you, just as you can't see beyond a mountain range or the curvature of Earth itself. Of course you'll need to extrapolate the analogy to three, four, or more dimensions, but the basic idea is the same.
What happens if Angolia goes down the tube?
The company founder sounds cool, and what he says makes a lot more sense than the general corporate discourse on the same topics, yet his company ends up selling recycled plastics. Not sure how great that is, to be honest.
Those are all business revenues acquired by the government affairs department, the alumni affairs department, the intellectual property legal group, the provost for research, the athletics department, etc.
Like a full second phone?
Easily noticeable via Wireshark.

Like a folder? Probably noticeable with a utility like WinDirStat.

Like a separate user? Can the other one install apps? If so, you're likely done for if someone gets access to the one account. Also there's this [1] to consider, as well.

I hate shooting privacy ideas down. Unfortunately, that's all I have to contribute this time.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1200/
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Best of luck boycotting google into not funding lobbyists.
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If workers want to put a stop to this kind of activity, labor organizing is the only way forward.

And not necessarily traditional unionization. Googlers who have extracted concessions from the company are following the example of the IWW and labor republicanism more broadly:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/business/economy/labor-bo...

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/alex-gourevitch-labo...
Only if everybody is a subsistence farmer. If you want a modern lifestyle a large dense city is best: all the things you want from modern life are close and produced locally. The exceptions are food (food needs a lot of area to produce), and raw materials. These two are small enough that if they were our only use of transport (meaning you walk everywhere) they wouldn't affect climate change.
These purity tests are not productive and mainly serve to show how holier than thou you are. As Ellen Degeneres said, you can be friends with people you disagree with. Don’t throw the baby out with the dirty bath water.

Sure, they fund groups left and right and they don’t agree with 100% of either agenda. But they want to support causes within each group. What’s the problem?