skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had to work pretty hard to get some dogs to trust and approach me. Some cats, even on the street, a hi kitty is enough to get the most wonderful figure 8 oflove around my legs.
Skimming the actual complaint (unhelpfully, not linked by the article) clears a lot up about what happened.

https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/do...
After Deadspin
The advantage here is due to artifice and not necessarily generalizable.
A while back, I experienced a technical problem with my carrier. As a result, my subscription stopped working. That meant that for everyday I used the internet connection, I was to be charged 4 euros.

The solution was obvious: airplane mode! You know what? It didn't help. They kept charging me 4 euros a day. Then I replaced the APN in the network settings with a fake one and suddenly the daily charges were gone.

Airplane mode didn't help, some byte was still passing through.

The phone was an android phone. The carrier refunded me right after fixing the problem (which took them a month and half).
Without rabbit-holing too far on this, I'd note that the people in concentration camps at the border were trying to do that. May not be as simple as you seem to be asserting.
New Corporate Owners Gutted Benefits: How to Deal?
The company I work for was recently acquired. We've just gotten the list of benefits the new company provides, and it's markedly worse than what we had, for more money per month.

Clearly, the obvious option is to start jobhunting.

However, until I find something else appropriate, what do I do? I feel a profound sense of betrayal by the current remaning management, the past owners who cashed out, and the new corporate overlords. It was no secret that acquisition was the goal, but we got told over and over again that the vetting process was considered and thoughtful, to make sure that our company was merging with a partner who shared common corporate cultures.

As an engineer, I feel like I have very little recourse other than to vote with my feet, but I want there to be repercussions for us being treated like this.

How do I go about daily tasks when I keep asking myself "why bother?"
This is the reason I use Gnome. Sure, I could spend time tweaking and theming KDE Plasma's bars or messing around with i3 config files. But Gnome is pretty straightforward. Sure there are extensions and GTK themes. But it's primarily designed with one workflow in mind, kind of like iOS. I find myself doing more work when I'm using a Gnome desktop environment.

When I use Windows, there's a lot of "update work" to do that ends up distracting me. Updating WSL Ubuntu, updating chocolatey, checking individual apps for updates, checking windows for updates, etc. I end up being more focused when I'm using Linux.
There have been a few electron vulnerabilities that affected signal. Plus signal demands that you have a phone number in order to use it. Also the fact that each device has its own key promotes the users to just blindly accept new keys.
I plan to study and play chess and go once I retire. I also want to contribute to OSS. I think if you engage in truly intellectually challenging activities daily then you will be lucid for your entire life. The brain needs stimulation like a muscle in order to retain its ability over time.
Still no plans for concurrency? Such a waste.
For more than 50% of the population to oppose secession, you'd need a voting turnout of ~90%, and for all the people who had not previously voted before to vote against secession. (50% turnout with 90% for secession -> 45% of voting population voting for secession)

If you get 100% turnout, and no one who voted in the referendum changes their vote, you'd need 91% of the new voters to vote to remain a part of Spain. Is it truly that implausible that some of the "leave" voters would have stayed away from an illegal referendum too?

Assuming that the results of the illegal referendum were accurate of course.
> And I was talking to the commenter directly, not generalizing to all bitcoin users.

That is worse. Personal attacks on HN are not acceptable.
Electric-car batteries recharge in ten minutes when the heat is on
Cat treats. I've used it to train my cat, she will run to the cat chair next to my desk. Hop on it, roll around, and start the loudest purrs for some tasty cat treats. I just shake the can, where ever she is hiding, I got instacat.

Shes smart though, I don't always give her a treat with a can shake, soon as she runs to me. She will sit and wait for me to "remove" the lid before she hops on the stool. But I figured that out, and just removed the lid, and I get the look like "wtf", so I pet her a bunch, then give hear a treat, not before.

I even got her to roll on her back and let me pet the soft belly. But that backfired, she now demands belly rubs, and will lay there while I'm on the computer, expecting my hand on her.

And yes, lots of slow eye blinks, shes a happy puss.

Just gotta understand them.
But 10/10 would still party with people who torment animals?
Perhaps you are better suited to a business analyst or technical project management role.

Plenty of exposure to the tech and instrumental to the end result without what you dislike about the practician.
I just read in another HN thread about Million Short. Knock off the top 100,1000,10000... sites in your search results

https://millionshort.com/
Cities Examine Proper–and Improper–Uses of Facial Recognition
Citation needed, because I'm calling BS. The Mexican government used to send serial numbers of weapons suspected of originating in the US to the ATF, but stopped after nearly all of those weapons were determined to have been sales to the Mexican military.

Cartels are billion dollar enterprises with shipping connections all around the world, to believe they're getting their LAW's and M249's from Billy Bob's Country Emporium is beyond ridiculous.
> If the host really needs to cancel they should have to put the traveler in a real hotel as an upgrade to remove all doubt of the traveler getting into a place that could be worse. They have already received the money from the traveler so they only need to pay for the difference.

New scam: post a listing for a very high-end place you don't own, cancel the booking once you've been paid and book the client a cheap hotel, and pocket the difference
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/spark-on-k8s-operator
Why?

Is it because they expect to lose workers to harassment? Or is it so that they can saturate new expansions quicker?
> You work in exchange for cash, plain and simple.

well, no, we know this isn't true because people take various forms of non-financial compensation (such as working from home, choosing your own technologies).

compensation is a vector that has a variety of inputs; it's not unreasonable to think that "association with company mission" is one of them that's subject to change over time, and as a result, can be protested, similar to e.g. working from home no longer allowed
My friend uses Asus Zenfone which runs on Intel CPU. It works fine. Intel might have failed with economics or marketing, but engineering works.
I've recently dug into the Agile DWH Design and The DWH Toolkit books and the design tips in them all seem really compelling, for good reason. Though as I've actually started modeling, I've found that the creation of "proper" fact/dimension tables has felt at times like overkill, given the technologies we're using (BQ / Postgres / Looker).

So, perfect timing! Really looking forward to checking this out.
Agreed, I have heard at least one person say that exact same thing.

Others just shrug, too ashamed to say it out loud.
Japan is already on top of it!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/06/japan-robots-w...

Also, prison as elderly care: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47033704
Because Facebook occupies a nearly-monopolistic position that has somewhat replaced the public square in modern life. It's not just any other service, anymore; it's far bigger and needs to be legislated upon as such.
This doesn't make any sense when the backups are deduplicated (or incremental). A given file/block/whatever unit of data isn't uniquely associated with a single backup.
"Give me your phone please, unlocked."
The you was italicized to indicate interest in what you would personally do.

I'm not asking for advice.
I don’t comment on the “Jewish are smarter” comment but I always attribute their success to their culture and work “mind”.

Sort of similar to how “Asian parents push their children to become doctors.” It’s not necessarily that Asians are smarter, but they do work hard to achieve what they want… statistically speaking.
FYI, their consumer name is VRBO. The HomeAway office is here in Austin, but the actual app you use is called VRBO (and I think all the offices are getting new signs soon?).
The process generally is complex, but it need not be. The anti-climb is pretty much universal and so all cars have it, as are most other safety features. You could save a lot of money by ordering what someone else already did (changing only the paint scheme). Often though someone makes what seems like minor changes to requirements, but the end result is engineers have to redesign large parts of the car and that drives up price - both because of the redesign and all the new jigs need to be made just for your car that will never be reused.
The author has chosen to monetize this article. They have the choice to make it free to everyone.
The radiological hazard of depleted U is generally considered to by far eclipsed by its chemical toxicity. I just want people to understand that any carcinogenic affects depleted U exposure may have are far more likely to be caused by its general chemical/heavy-metal toxicity. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Radiological_...
My hypothesis is that this is because so much governmental business is done by private corporations. The problem this brings is that there are very few ways you can influence the behavior of corporations.
The low-mass black hole is thought to be 3.3 times the mass of our sun. Previously, the smallest black hole discovered was 3.8 times the mass of our sun. I guess this opens up a new breed of stars that are somewhere between massive neutron star and low-mass black hole.
Transitions are hard, and I'm sure there's definitely that failure case.

However if you look at EA and the acquire/in-house cycle they go through every 4-5 years, there's no way you can hope to be stable under those circumstances. Ditto Microsoft and the 2-3 cycles they went through with similar disasters.

Fundamentally the two types of companies have different goals which drive their culture. Publishers exist to make money, pure and simple. They diversify risk by supporting multiple developers but at the end of the day they want to see growth and cash. A developer on the other hand may be happy staying mostly cash-neutral as long as it keeps them afloat to keep creating the art/experience that drives them.

I'd argue that those two cultures are at distinct odds(based on what I saw play out when I was in the industry) and trying to merge them leads to disaster.
Did they do secret ballots, or did they do public votes like voice or card check?
Sure, but that's not the only kind of political ads. If I believed being vegan were important, and had the money to run an ad in a paper, those are our rights as an American citizen and the newspaper's right as a group of Americans (it is a basic right to agree on a price for something, and then for the newspaper to publish it).
The convenience outweighs the risks for the vast majority of users. My parents need something that is available on all devices, syncs automatically, and requires no maintenance.

You get a master encryption key that never leaves your device when setting up the account. Anything that touches their servers is encrypted with that key. You need that key to setup a new device (in addition to your username and master password).
I assume you mean Graal native-image mode, i.e. ahead of time compiled.

JIT based execution still beats AOT due to the continuous profiling advantage, costs a bit more in terms of resources, but for long-running processes, JIT wins.
https://m.facebook.com/
You might not think that a skirt is a lethal weapon, but there's an entire family of martial arts that trains to use it as such.
> While dogs are promiscuous with their affection, cats tend to show affection for a particular person more than others.

Cats have actually been found to be promiscuous in a different way: In a Horizon documentary a few years ago, "The Secret Life of Cats" [1], researchers tagged cats and followed their territorial habits, and they found that cats spend a sizeable amount of time with other families. In other words, while cats may have a home they consider their base, they're not exclusive.

It's a good documentary, featuring real researchers, which made some surprising discoveries about cat habits. In particular, the sheer number of kills is fairly astounding, with some cats averaging 7-8 (if I remember correctly) or more kills a night, including birds.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-22821639
Interesting, I wasn't aware that you could use them in protected mode and they were 32-bits wide from the 386 on-wards. It also reminded me of something else: I think Tanenbaum discussed the advantages of the segmented memory model in his operating systems book, but I never paid attention because coming from the 16-bit word I immediately dismissed that idea. I might have to reread that chapter...
How people go to work at NSO Group, is beyond me. They must pay really well.
I was looking for this reference yesterday but couldn't find it:

Cooperative Metabolic Adaptations in the Host Can Favor Asymptomatic Infection and Select for Attenuated Virulence in an Enteric Pathogen
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30100182
If the backup server has access to the tree structure, then the backup isn't fully encrypted, or at least the metadata isn't. Now you need to have a conversation about what metadata is allowed to be stored unencrypted on the server and what metadata isn't. If you want a fully encrypted deduplicated backup system, I don't see how it's possible to prune without the ability to decrypt, because there's no way to know what needs to be pruned.
The people who crossed the border seeking asylum are not committing a crime (seeking asylum is not illegal unless you stay in the country after being denied at a hearing), and even the people who are crossing illegally are committing a misdemeanor. Do you also support such conditions for people who get parking tickets?
What are your head and your feet? Fluids are flowing in and out of them, outer layers are sloughing off, they're warm enough to be quite bright in infrared, potassium-40 in your head and feet are beta-decaying and so on. A decent fraction of the momentary mass in your brain may be in your feet four heartbeats later (and vice-versa). Are you implicitly considering them in some time-averaged way?

(A comment similar to yours would be that your head is older than your feet because of general relativistic effects. Even if we ignore everything before you reached adulthood, there's a Ship of Theseus thing going on thanks to tissue turnover on timescales of weeks to months e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_remodeling_period ).
Great. That's what should happen.
S3-Fuse has been really unreliable for me (hard-hangs, and similar) ... is that your experience as well, or has it been reliable?
I get that they want to hide the address to total strangers, but I'm sure it would be easy for Airbnb themselves to pull up the google streetview and have it as a static image on the listing.
The Pentagon’s AI Ethics Draft Is Actually Pretty Good
Good! That's fantastic. Some people believe those things. It's not just your voice and those of people like you that should be heard in a democracy. No one in any country has sole authority to determine 'fact'. If they did, we should just appoint them to be king, call them 'god', and be done with the whole government thing.
The blacklist Apple uses to censor the internet in China
Sure, no disagreement there. But I'll note that those institutions all have the liberty (with the exception of specific legal constraints like Title VII) to refrain from providing service to any of the categories you described. In fact, quite a few companies won't hire ex-felons; there's no law requiring them to do so at the federal level. And a recent Supreme Court case indicated that nothing in the law stops a bakery from refusing to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.

These are sliding scales of "how much do I care about the metadata on my customers," and most companies find it optimal to set the scales nearly to zero to maximize revenue. That's not a universal truism.
White Nationalism is an entirely different thing than nationalism.

But both are objectionable.
> the social justice/accuracy concerns

Unfortunately there has been a major cultural shift in the national ACLU. They are now largely uninterested in defending strong sense personal freedom and instead much more interested in social justice. :( (The frown isn't that I think such causes are bad, but only that I don't think that the loss of a strong defense of constitutional free speech is good). If you think I'm exaggerating, you might find this eye opening: https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/20180621AC...

I'm not aware of any large organization that is willing to defend deplorable persons and groups like the westborough church trolls for the sake of preserving the same freedoms for everyone, not like the ACLU of old did.

I do understand that the social justice oriented activities have been utterly phenomenal for ACLU fundraising, however. Particularly because they achieve significant traction on social media... After all, who really gets all that excited about the ACLU defending some piece-of-crap pedophile? Unglamorous civil rights work just doesn't pay like riding the latest waves.
It's probably best to not use a service that fraudulently charges your credit card anyway.
Came to post the exact same thing. Nor does reader mode work.
Or some people don't feel that border control is incompatible with morality. Both opinions are valid.
This Is How It’s Gonna Work
I'm at the convention center now. So far I havent seen anything unusual. Not even a Hong Kong t-shirt.

Tickets were sold out long before the controversy hit. Obviously there are a lot of us die-hard fans that are upset, but I dont think there's many people here with the intention of causing trouble.
Sorry. I was actually goofing on the fact that Go demos are rehashing the history of C.

And frustrated that I'm not hearing anything from Golang programmers about how it enables a larger class of software.

"We're writing the same software, just better" isn't a reason to come up with a new language.
Seems like there might be ways to combat this with proper incentives though.

Say: refund + 50%, or a hotel you both agree on at cost + 25%. It's in the host's best interest to find a replacement, and they're locals so they're likely to be more capable than the visitor. Either way the host is penalized for late changes, and the visitor gets to choose which deal they think is better.
Ducktape man. That'll solve the problem.
> the police and prosecutors pick and choose which cases they put forward

someone has to decide which cases to bring, unless you fund the police and prosecutors so they can bring every plausible case, which sounds like a strictly worse universe to live in. Is this discretion abused? Yes, all the time. But bringing every case seems more like a police state than a free society.
Several reasons:

1. The Postal Service was established by an Act of Congress pursuant to explicit Constitutional authorization. Facebook wasn't even imagined by the Founders.

2. Facebook is a broadcast medium. Postal mail is 1:1. Very different behaviors, models, and outcomes follow.

3. The Postal Service is not a for-profit enterprise. Facebook is, and therefore has different motives, among other things.

I'll ask the opposite question: Why should Facebook be treated as a common carrier? It's not as though there aren't vast numbers of other, open, "free" methods to communicate with people over the Internet (e.g., email). Usually we designate entities as common carriers where having competition would have detrimental effects (e.g., railroads).
I feel you. Deeply. Some people can do the good thing: good people. And they do all the time. Surround yourself by them. The bad things they do are mistakes. They fix those or try. They apologize.

Bad people only do good things as a means to an end. Usually that end, they believe, will benefit them, and sometimes it does in the short term, but long term, no. The bad things they do are intentional. You can only predict their behavior with statistics. It's not worth it. They never apologize. They say, "You are too sensitive. It's just a joke." But it's not.

Stay good, my friend. Good people will find you. You will find them. They are out there, but they, like me, hide.
Sorry about that. I will just use Github to host my content hereafter. For now, you can use this friend link. https://medium.com/@rajasekar3eg/fastspark-a-new-fast-native...
I've done it, several times.
But total flow is skewed when one county is an order of magnitude bigger than another in size. If you are going to compare counties which are not a fixed physical size, you at least need to account for differing physical size's effects on population or you can't reasonably compare. Were the counties a quarter of their current physical size, capita split and all, would they still appear as significant?
Addendum: after watching an interesting YouTube video on the disaster, it seems that not filling the lifeboats actually wasn't all that incompetent. A lot of people didn't think the boat was really sinking, and there was another large ship within visual distance which could see them and their flares, and which they were radioing for help, so they thought help was going to be there very shortly if they needed it. Unfortunately, there was some very serious incompetence going on at that ship: the radio operator had gone to sleep for the night, and the captain, despite seeing many flares, decided not to bother investigating. After the disaster, apparently his story changed every time he was asked.

Anyway, I think my point stands: trying to murder someone by engineering a disaster at sea like this is pretty ridiculous; too many things have to go wrong all at the same time, which really aren't under control of any one person or small group. Getting the captain to speed through iceberg territory (and honestly, there weren't that many icebergs, they were just unlucky and happened across a big one), making sure a large iceberg was directly ahead, making sure just enough compartments flooded, making sure the radio operator on the other ship went to bed, making sure the captain of the nearby ship refused to investigate, and finally when help did arrive (and it did), making sure the assassination target somehow wasn't among the survivors. Killing someone in a prison cell where there's no witnesses except a camera or two (that "just happened" to be "malfunctioning") and a couple of guards to bribe is actually realistic and possible, especially if state-level operatives are involved.
Or is it because people are becoming more morally aware?
If only we had some sort of system, where individuals could be sued for making damaging statements. Maybe each side could present their case, and a jury of their peers could be the ultimate deciders.
Wow, thanks so much for that. I was trying to figure out how to do clustering for geographic place names (from AIS data) and that one image answers so many questions for me.
Yeah this was a big one for me. TAing classes as an undergrad and then running classes as a grad student removed a lot of the anxiety. I still have some level of nerves, but it feels like it comes from a healthier place and isn’t crippling. Also helps to fail in low(er) stakes situations and realize that the world goes on afterwards.