skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pretty sure this goes against GDPR but I was totally unsuccessful at getting my account deleted.

Did you report this to your local privacy regulator (the ICO in the UK for example)? Not saying they'll do anything (I guess the "4% of global turnover" fines aren't enough to motivate them) but at least there's a record of it, and if anything else, a proof of how useless the whole regulation is.
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Then you have to connect them all with sea cables, those add up if you need another km for every base you install.
The constitution leaves a lot of details about voting to the states. This would probably require an amendment. A power grab like that from the federal government would probably be turned down by even blue states, especially considering the current president.
It would be amazing if some sort of wireless headphones like these Google Buds or Apple Airpods could be done over the ear, like:

http://tinyurl.com/yb6qfpes
(Koss over-the-ear headphones example)
I've considered switching to a dumphone and camera, but anything that doesn't take "live photos" isn't something I'm going to use, at this point. It's the last feature added to a computing device that made me go "holy crap, that's like actual magic!" when it was announced, and went on more-or-less perform as advertised.
#truckbreaker ;) yes, the overall reception was overwhelming, i didn't expect that. i completely agree with your post before, just wanted to point to "ikubun" =)
5VA is still quite a lot. If you're outputting that through a transformer you'll be needing to put about an amp in. And for maximum transformer efficiency you'll want to make it sinusodial. There are easier ways to watch grid frequency.
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Plausible deniability is pure political power.
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I don't disagree. But for some products it's sometimes hard to find reviews outside of Amazon. I also learned how to spot products that have fake reviews.
Nope, the narrative is "the mortality rate is similar to flu, therefore draconian measures aren't necessary".

Implementation examples: South Dakota and Sweden.

It seems clear that the infection rate has been severely under counted, meaning mortality rates are artificially high. Even better (from the standpoint of restarting) that "flu-like" mortality rate is concentrated in people over 60 years old.

What that all means together is the economy can easily restart, with the most vulnerable (old and sick) taking extra precautions.

This entire thing has been a fascinating exercise in how poorly central planning can work given bad information. The cure has been vastly more damaging than the disease.
> not sure what the best thing on Linux would be

Recently I have been a big fan of tmux+Alacritty on linux.
Pretty cool. It would be amazing if a tool is provided to auto-generate a diagram from an existing database (or its DDL), though. (In fact I assumed it would be like that, so ended up a little bit disappointed.)
This is useful. What is next on the integration roadmap besides Zoom – presume Hangouts? Not sure if new FB live features have an API
OTOH staying in their home districts means they may be more attentive to the needs of their home districts, and less likely to be swayed by pressure from the corridors of washington
Love these explanations, thanks
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18528423
You may be right, but my thought was that people can't go back to work if their kids are stuck at home.
Ill use the cheapest AWS lightsail as the benchmark for a low end VPS, which is 3.50 a month.
512mb of RAM, 1v CPU, 20gb of SSD.

Cheapest pi4 is 30$, which gets you 1gb of ram and a quad core ARM v8 at 1.50 ghz. BYO storage, which is not ideal via sd card.

In any business purposes comparison, you can push that VPS much much harder then you can the pi. But who cares? the pi is yours, it's right there, and it's awesome to do real computer stuff on it. Or stupid computer stuff, whatever, it's yours, no-one has to know. So much easier too.
Yes, but you would not need it since you could connect via SSH directly when having IPoAC connectivity. The ping might suck though.
>> - They are ego driven, with legacy execs & others relentlessly protecting their status

At this stage, I could write a book about the idiocy of executives in tech.
I like the concept. Have you considered supporting payments in faster, transactionally cheaper cryptocurrencies?
Take a look at nonstandard calculus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonstandard_calculus

It is based on the hyperreal numbers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number

Practically speaking, I don't think it buys you anything over traditional calculus/analysis. It's just pointing out that there are alternative approaches to formalizing calculus.
If you prefer to read the PDF version: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-030-22...
I'm in Canada (west coast). No restrictions on driving. People are still taveling to their cabins on the weekend. They get yelled at by other people but are not breaking any laws. My neighourhood is full of elderly people walking their dogs. Bicylists are everywhere. Restaurants never stopped doing takeout. But we cannot get haircuts.

Cops have stopped speed enforcement in my area, at least the dedicated speed traps.
Calling it a straw man implies that you don't think anyone is actually making this argument, and that's simply not true.

If you feel compelled to defend your own position instead of the one I'm criticizing, go ahead, but I don't share your certainty of there being better possible implementations.
I disagree, we don’t have opposing views.

I totally agree with you that the secure by default / sandboxes for application approach is useful for consumers and developers too.

My point is that when this is wrapped up with a closed software distribution platform (Windows Store / App Store) or with a Surveillance Capitalism business model that relies on monetisation of user data there is a problem for the consumer.

The PC accidentally contributed to breaking the control IBM had over the market.

Antitrust investigations into IBM and later Microsoft are also key to the freedom we’ve had. The worry is that we’ve forgotten how bad it was and we’re potentially headed for a cartel like control of our computers.
I think the problem is that people are often only taught base-10 so they confuse numerals with numbers. If you learn base 2 and then base 16 and then base pi, you start to realize that numbers are something more abstract than whichever numeral system we use to represent them. Rightly or wrongly, the way I imagine integers now is an infinite set of different numerals (base infinity?) such that there is only ever 1 digit (I don't actually have concrete pictorials assigned to those numerals).
What part of "most" do you not understand? Core concept?
"my schtick"? Jesus, you can't talk about stuff online anymore.
> intentional that VS and VS Code automatically download types

Are these coming from DefinitelyTyped?
Not calls like the title says, but unprotected Zoom meetings:

> Media correspondent eavesdropped on Zoom meetings as staff were told sensitive news of pay cuts and furloughs during pandemic

He first accessed the Independent meeting with his own FT account, before logging in with an anonymous account.
License plates should be done away with. Replace them with RFID tags that log, and can alert the driver each time they're activated. Drivers could switch them off when they're at home or parked.

Anyone, not just the government can operate an ALPR system and record this data for whatever purpose they wish.
I think I would much rather they secretly capture multiple frames and compute structure from motion or use flash-based segmentation to avoid the presented real world failures. The given "wave their phone in the air for several seconds" dismissal is a pretty strong exaggeration. For one thing, my hands are moving anyway, because I, like everyone else, open the app before holding up the phone to take the shot. And seconds? What is this, 1995?
> The same goes for abs. The first ten thousand set-ups you do just may give you that 6-pack abs you want, but another thirty thousand sure won't get you the 7-pack.

He picked the one type of exercise which doesn't really change. If you're lifting or running, you see increasing returns for a long time. You get stronger by lifting heavy weights, and you need to lift light weights to be able to lift heavy weights.
With the exception that holographic film images the diffraction pattern produced by two interfering laser beams, so typical grain size there has to be on the order of tens of nanometers. It can certainly be done, just is pointless for normal film =)
There are programming languages with rational number types, but none that I know of that represent numbers as repeating decimals.
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Have you tried the Google Pixel Buds 1? It might be better to compare their track record when it comes to headphones rather than home assistants.
As an amazon employee:
>There's little place to hide at Amazon

Meh. I definitely know of teams that slack off for multiple years.
No. Per capita, our testing is absolute crap--South Korea and Singapore are good examples of countries that actually have done thorough jobs in testing everybody.

South Korea's positive test rates are somewhere in the single digits, the US is around 20-30%. That's not a sign we're "testing far more than most countries."
Base 12 is a better base overall. It is divisible by more numbers. That is why it is used in various monetary, time and measurement systems.

It's the one issue I have with the metric system... But that ship has sailed :) look up the dozenal society if you're curious how fervent some supporters might be.
I think the idea that Jobs had "great taste" is a myth. What he was good at was implementing an all-encompassing product strategy that established Apple products as status symbols. I don't think it's an accident that Apple "arrived" in the late 90s. Why? Because that's when their experience with education enterprise could be combined with the broad marketing lessons to be learned from products like Air Jordans.

Apple products were visually-distinctive, but I wouldn't call them beautiful; they were relatively easy to use, though I wouldn't call them intuitive. But because they passed the bar in those two respects - in other words, because Apple products were not ugly nor difficult to use, and therefore not completely repellant on their face - the way was opened for Jobs to execute his coup de grace: positioning (through advertisement, third-party association, and pricing) the iMac, iPod, and eventually iPhone as markers of one's own affluence and taste. Everything else coalesces around that kernel of desirability, whether it's warranted or not. The "unifying sense of taste" of the products themselves is an illusion; what matters is that everyone agrees that Apple is the premium choice, in a society where premium (not necessarily fit) is of utmost importance.

This is why Apple stores and support are so crucial. Every generation of Apple product has a competitor that's more elegant, better-performing, more durable and reliable, better integrated within its own ecosystem, etc. But, again, what Jobs understood was that humanity always trumps engineering in the way our social and cultural hierarchies are constructed. Concierge and community are more desirable - more premium - when problems inevitably arise or UX inevitably fails. They maintain the illusion of usability when usability itself breaks down.

Jobs was just really good at playing people.
This is an e-store page. It makes sense to follow the region instead of language preferences.

The problem is they ideally should separate UI language from region settings, but most sites don't.

And they may have some difficulties to do so because they could have specific products that they simply don't have info in languages other than the local one.

If you just want to read the description, you can simply change the region below.

If you visit https://www.apple.com/jp/shop/, it only has Japanese too. You can't use JP region store and have it in English at the same time.
What is that based on?

As a relatively rich country, the US has a natural advantage compared to poorer countries, but compared to other countries that have a similar per-capita GDP, that doesn't seem like an obvious conclusion. Hell, given how badly the creation of the original assays by the CDC went, and how distributed the healthcare system is, on top of the current political climate, the opposite conclusion seems warranted.
I do not fully believe we are in a computer simulation but more so multiple realities exist based on your choices. Your existence is the variable, life is the constant. And life is rendered based on the variables and constants you give it.

Brains are the computer of the human, dummy shells we live in. The skeleton, bones and joints are the mechanical elements, as like the engine, axel and wheels is to a car. We know we can make alterations to our computer with drugs which can access the control port. Whether it being LSD or Caffeine. The same as you can with a car by adding a turbo or an induction kit.

If you take my understanding of of quantum computing where a state can either be 0 or 1, 0 can be 1 and 1 can be 0, what's there not to say that alternate realities can't exist at the same time?

Does even behind me even exist? If a tree falls in the woods and there is no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?

As a thought experiment:
I want to head to the supermarket. I can either take route A by turning left out of my apartment, or I can either take route B, turning right out of my apartment.

What happens on route A happens because I am there to witness and what would of taken place on route B, I do not know. Would the same set of events of occurred on that route if I had taken route B instead of route A?

Does myself being a variable alter the constants? Would the guy with the red jacket who walked route B, when I took route A, still be walking route B if I had taken route B initially? Or is it because I chose route A they appeared in route B?

I do believe you can live in two realities, not at the same time as you can only be one of yourself, sort-of; but that you can be part of both.

This was just a ramble to pass thirty minutes of my time so I can finish working from home. But if I actually worked those thirty minutes rather then writing a loose HN comment theory, would I later tonight do something different then what I am going to do now. Even though I am sitting at my desk, in the same location. If I hadn't of written this comment would the tracks in my shuffled playlist be different to the ones I've just listened too?
I often hear this repeated with Amazon, that it's pointless to try to compete with them because they can just undercut you on price, but I have seldom seen any evidence for it. AWS is one of the most expensive cloud/hosting services for compute, data, bandwidth, etc., the products sold on Amazon are almost always more expensive than buying them from alternate sites or directly from the source.

The only cheap thing that Amazon offers is fast shipping for low-cost products, e.g. buying a $3 cable and getting it shipped for free the next day (assuming you have Prime). But for anything above $50-$100, Amazon is almost always the more expensive option.
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From the looks of it, and what I am already able to do with Visual C++ I bet it still is more functional than what Rust currently offers.

And that I won't need to rewrite it when I try out the same code with another C++20 compiler.
> It sounds like you're taking the opportunity... to be combative and argumentative.

I'm sorry it comes off like that. My intention was to point out that this situation isn't of advantage to anyone regardless of their social or economic standing. Sure, a lockdown is harsher on some people than the others, but life, in general, is harsher on some people more than on the others.

The pandemic is doing a great job at ringing the alarm bells. I hope it stirs the government and the policy makers into action and not use it instead for abhorrent religious and political mileage at the expense of steering away from building a support framework for all its citizens.

> ...using your command of the language to minimize the situation.

I'm not the one mentally replacing at the expense of with in contrast to.

> The pandemic and quarantine haven't just aggravated an untenable situation, they're pushing it to the limits.

You'd find that we are in agreement. I don't understand what part of my comment made you think I'm cold to their struggles.
I think something similar happens in the UK. It's generally believed here that laws telling you to retain data take precedence over the GDPR telling you to delete it. (I am very much not a lawyer, as you can doubtless tell.)
Yes, it's quite clever. An equivalent proof is dividing 0.999... by 9 using long division, which comes out to 0.111... which is equal to 1/9. Now use fraction notation and it simplifies to 9/9 = 1. Not quite as robust as the limit-based proofs but it's a quick answer and gets to the heart of the issue of repeating notation not capturing the whole picture.
Unless you work on anything beyond a small codebase, and suddenly half of your code cannot be composed with the other.
The large retailers are not monopolies though. Some would argue Amazon is, and therefore must be treated differently.
I understand, but it’s reasonable to think that engineers might copy the work of other engineers, even if that work didn’t find commercial success.

Why not agree that both Apple and Google we’re inspired by the Dash?

If this were academia, they would probably be required to site them as a source.
It doesn’t need to be a power-grab (“We’re taking over the election to make sure it’s done right”). In all likelihood it would be some sort of funding incentive (“If you resolve to do vote-by-mail, we’ll give you the money to hire people and buy equipment to do it, and even throw in some money for infrastructure as a cherry on top”).
> it could just as easily be reframed as 0.000...0001 = 0

But it can't be, because there's nothing after "0.000..."; that ... goes on infinitely. It's literally "0s forever, never stopping". It's not a process of "keep adding 0s", it's the end result of never adding 0s. It's not a process, it is a noun.
> considering the programming language landscape at the time, if we leave C++ aside, it would be more correct to say Smalltalk

I'm quite sure Smalltalk didn't have a "new" mapped to malloc, and also most of other stuff that C++ had the way it had. Nevertheless, Smalltalk was also never something performant, it was more "an experiment" not an environment for many commercial products.

Regarding the "landscape" you are right that there were some people that influenced the "dogma" of "how C++ should be written" that actually didn't even know C++ or the consequences of their promotion of some "OOP techniques." Horrible stuff, if you asked me, was good only for the clueless managers and buzzword catchers, but never resulted in efficient applications, where the policy was to "do as the promoters say."
Update: I double counted the probability in 3b, it should be guaranteed death if we are talking full amount of money. I'd still definitely take dying at 73 while starting with even ~$500-700k over average-job-income-expectancy life (a free house and a college degree, basically).
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I don't think it's a real number, but if it was this would be yet another intuitive proof that 0.999... = 1.
Off topic since this is about senators, but to nip a possible related thread in the bud, an important reason why remote voting for citizens is a bad idea is that it can enable massive scale vote manipulation through schemes to buy or otherwise influence votes.

In the privacy of one's home, outside a controlled voting booth, the problem is exacerbated, counterintuitively. A voter at home or in another uncontrolled setting could follow instructions for how to vote and then use a camera, or witnesses who are in on the scheme, to prove that they had voted a certain way, at the behest of others. In a traditional voting booth situation, where nobody else can see or verify how you voted, this kind of manipulation is not so easy to do on a mass scale.
I think the only camera feature I particularly care about is the introduction of high speed video. Having in my pocket a way to take video of things and play it back in slow motion has been invaluable (for teaching karate and other physical stuff).
But they'd need to get rid of it in the 11th year, right? And even before then, they'd need to delete some of the earliest records for someone who has subscribed for more than 10 years. Lots of compliance traps remain.
I fear that if we do this, and Trump wins again, people will not trust the outcome of the election... I'm not quite sure what happens to this country, if people don't think the elections are legitimate. We almost ran into it with Kerry Vs Bush. But people's feelings are amplified when it comes to Trump.
I am not sure how Google is data-driven. Many decisions look like emotional/political rather than data-driven. On top of that, because Google's primary business is, ads it does not matter how badly they do in any other business unit. Once executives had enough, they are going to cancel the product and call it a day. I lost how many Google services got canceled this way.
It's a different strategy. Prime is an investment up front, so it puts people in the mindset of wanting to come up ahead. By buying full Prime, you've essentially prepaid $120 in shipping costs, so you want to take advantage of it and order more than $120 worth in free shipping. Which means you'll likely shift your non-Amazon purchases to Amazon (especially with free shipping making it a cheaper option for some of your orders), and as a result order more there than you would have otherwise.

My guess is that Prime Video exists as a "gateway drug"; you get it for the videos and then realize that extra $4/month or $11/year will get you free shipping, and then you're back to "if I order $120 worth of shipping, it'll pay itself back" thinking.
This virus seems sneaky. It's seasonal and it probably does not like heat. For countries closer to the equator, it has not done much damage. It's hard to hide deaths. I think the numbers are close to reality. But the virus may surge in these countries after summer when the heat recedes.
India is doing the lockdown well. Apartment buildings apparently have taken it on themselves to not allow anyone in and out of the buildings. They let one vendor each for groceries, milk, vegetables, pharmacy etc and that's it. People are not allowed to go out or even play in the yard. And this is not government mandated, the HOA equivalent for apartment buildings are doing it themselves.
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> That's the other way around. From above you get true, and from below you get false.

Yeah, my bad.

> Note that 0.999... represents the limit from above for 1-eps. Hence the result is true.

I mean you can define 0.999… like that if you want. You'll get 1. So what? Your detour via `f` provided nothing.
As in something like the Oxford? https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/performant
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