skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the volume of photos and videos from US, UK, etc that were based in Afganistan, Iraq etc you can deduce a smartphone is quite normal in those forces, so I would assume the same in Ukrainian forces.

They might not wear them out on patrol or manoeuvres, but back at their tents/barracks, I would assume some if not all have their personal phones. You only need a couple to track them.

I also read once Strave/Fitbit type trackers was rife at army bases and used to work out patrol routes.
I bet even Google doesn't really know. It's pretty hard to break out cost numbers within a company with so many shared services.
The only "real" solution is to get an actual Linux phone, such as the PinePhone[1] or Librem 5[2].

1 - https://www.pine64.org/pinephone

2 - https://puri.sm/products/librem-5
Nostalgia: How We (Accidentally) Shut Down Our Company
Yes, but that’s because Arizona is doing more testing. If you click the “lab testing” section on that site you’ll see that the testing positive rate is also down substantially (from 11% to 5%) from our peak over a month ago.

It’s one of the things that public health officials have been warning about pretty consistently: as testing increases, positive cases will go up, but that shouldn’t be looked at as a bad thing.
I didn't come up with it. It is the yardstick that he suggested we use to measure his performance :)

And it's a well-known issue with executive compensation that CEOs will juice numbers in the short-term to get their payouts which is likely why he proposed this as a measure of his performance.
I noticed that usually Americans are in favor of family planning and family support policies like these. And I, as an European, have seen the dark side of it and am becoming a bit wary of flat out, all trust social policies like these. "who cares, in the long run the benefits will outweigh the costs". Not my opinion. I might be wrong, though.
There is nothing sadder to think of than a desperate man, crawling through the desert, body burned, lips parched, just begging to know what year Ted Nugent was born in.
On Unix systems, you can use /dev/urandom to do this.
You're being downvoted for being right. People without stock market share or who work as FTE for the hyper-successful tech companies are the only ones befitting under the guise of "lifting up underprivileged people around the world". It's disingenuous at best, nefarious at worst.
No doubt, but I suspect that the mid 20th century is a historical anomaly. I'm also surprised that only 60% of women work for pay at present.
I plan do do this for many more counties. I'm sure it isn't a coincidence how difficult many are to scrape. This data often feels purposefully obfuscated. It only seems right to me that everyone should see local data aggregated like this. If police intent do use data to track the population, we should be able to track them as well.
A slightly different read given what they said is that they didn't realise that legacy automakers would take advantage of production mandates to snuff out new entrants by selling as few subsidized EVs as they were forced to delay progress as long as possible.

Could equally be considered poor engineering but might be looked on slightly more charitably.
Other than waiting for a superior product to emerge, nothing can be done to stop their monopoly besides seizing the google.com and youtube.com domains and permanently shutting them down.
Second time I've seen it mentioned today across the internet... Time for a rewatch...
Thanks for the response Petr, and for being transparent. I appreciate that. I didn't mean to suggest foul play on either party.

In my head I was saying it in a facetious way, but I see it didn't come across that way. I was hoping to get recommendations on open source solutions that I could maybe integrate in a hobby project, or self-host.

I will consider Feedly in the future though. By many accounts I've seen, you guys are the best.
I'm picturing every community building their own cloud provider (AWS equivalent) and I don't see how it would be more sustainable than having Amazon do it. I think there would be a right balance between "every community does everything with full redundancy!" and "have economies of scale take care of everything!"
Namespaces is an idea that I have considered, and I have defined a kind of namespacing called "Unusenet", which uses "un" followed by the number of components of the domain name that the namespace belongs to, a reverse domain name, and then the rest of the components. The domain name is normally the domain name of the server where the newsgroup originated; if it is then federated with other servers, they use the original domain name for that newsgroup and not their own. (For example, a newsgroup originating on "example.org" named "misc.xyzzy" will have the full name "un2.org.example.misc.xyzzy".) This is what I have on my own NNTP server. (You do not have to use the Unusenet convention, but I use it in order to avoid namespace collision.) However, I currently have no "feeds" or "blogs", but only "forums"; if I do implement a blog then I would probably implement in that way, though (and as I already mentioned, this was even my idea before you mentioned it; we just happen to have the same idea). But I run my own server rather than using those of others. Of course, not all users will want that, but that is why they can have a server where users can create their own access-controlled groups in a namespace in a few minutes easily like you mentioned.
In Germany, Takeaway [1] bought most of the competion and the small players quit (like Deliveroo) since they couldnt compete... well looks like this is actually working:

https://corporate.takeaway.com/investors/results-and-reports

Prices were raised and I doubt restaurants and delivery guys are making more money in this scenario than they used to.

[1] https://corporate.takeaway.com/
Not OP, but I'm in a similar situation and a lover of App Annie's product. Are you hiring only in Vancouver or is the role open to remote? (US, Pacific Timezone)
Setting Up Single Sign-On for the NodeBB Forum Package
I'd be interested in seeing the data on this. My wife's a teacher, and in her school district there is no maturnity leave, you need to use sick time. So we were trying for the opposite - to make sure our child is born during the summer.
CA is more lax than TX? I find that surprising.
I'm not sure the snark is warranted. If you're truly living in 400 sq ft apartment, you're probably already used to thinking of your space utilization in a manner akin to 3-dimensional tetris. If that's the case, I'm sure you can find space for a small vermicomposting bin and one of those vertical planters. Even better if you have a small balcony or patio that gets some sunlight. When I was living in an apartment, more than one unit in my building would set up a small garden on the patio using various planters to host tomatoes, peppers, herbs, etc. No, that won't replace your need to go to the grocery store for fruits and veggies, but it will compliment it.
People should never be allowed to claim suffering from political speech. It is that simple in my opinion. Yes, this legally allows Nazis to hold rallies outside of a synagogue. However, in practice this rarely happens, and is arguably a benefit to society since these people (Nazis) are now outing themselves as insane.

On the other hand, human history has shown that political parties will attempt to censor anything they can. We can see this with the alternative realities constructed by Fox News/MSNBC and we can see it in totalitarian dictatorships like North Korea. I am not aware of any counterexamples of a country where the government does not attempt to influence the narrative.
I haven't looked into it much, but it looks at least better than base 10.
Where did you get this idea? It depends on the item, but most things do get rolled over from one day to the next.
Here's some past regulatory attention:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/01/googl...

And some upcoming regulatory attention:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/technology/google-antitru...
> Symptoms of what?

If you're looking for root causes, the place to look is human nature. What do people naturally do, without even thinking?

You get cities because people need things from other people, so there's value in living close together. Cities overstrain the environment because, well, you packed in a ton of people all doing things in close proximity.

You get inequality of wealth and power because of network effects. Why do people form networks? Would it really be better without these networks?

> And poverty breeds overpopulation which again breeds more poverty...

Yet many nations got out of that cycle, so it's not that simple. And poverty is consistently on the decline globally, so doing nothing is a great strategy at the moment.

> You want to solve tax theft or thousands of other government problems?

Tax avoidance is easy: lower the rates to what people will actually pay. Even when you can charge high rates, you still quickly hit a point where it's counterproductive. Governments, like all kinds of organizations, work best when they limit themselves to a well defined mission rather than trying to be everything to everyone.

Why are we stuck with governments? Again, it's human nature. It used to be that people were stuck with a dictator running their life: you'd work all day and send a portion of it to the dictator, who used that to bribe his lieutenants to support him, and they'd make sure some other invader didn't take over.

Democracy simply means that instead of having a dictator confiscate our wealth, we elect representatives who take our money to bribe our neighbors so they can stay in power.

We live with this protection racket of taxation because, fundamentally, power struggles are inherent to human nature. The best we've been able to manage is to set various groups at odds with each other so no one has too much power.
I’ve always liked Carmack’s walking the walk. It’s common on Internet forums (like this one) to talk about how some code is shit or whatever. Carmack submits patches and sees them through. An ideal to aspire to.

His Twitter is a great replacement for his planfiles. One of the few I follow.
I've seen every single piece of equipment worn out over the past decades except the CPU.

Hard disk and GPU are the worst in my experience. They have the shortest lifespan and they're the most impactful when they die. Hard disk die suddenly destroying all data, self explanatory. GPU die slowly, progressively having rendering error then crashing the system erratically.

I've taken 3 GPU to their grave between my personal computers and my family's.
I don't see what this has to do with this conversation. Those companies were not censoring coffee shop or bar conversations of citizens WITHIN the United States.

We aren't talking about economic monopoly exploitation - we're talking about monopoly control over domestic communications.
> can't query on non-primary
columns,

That's incorrect unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean with primary columns.. It's just not as efficient.

And missing joins are by design and one of the reasons cassandra is as fast as it is. And as I said before: it's not a drop in replacement. You need to architect your application around it's strength to leverage it's performance.

It is however usable as a rdbms replacement if you know what you're doing and your data is fine with eventual consistency.

And knowing what cassandra does with your data is important as well. It's actually a key-value store on steroids. Once you get that, it's limitations and strengths become obvious
In addition, I believe HN deranks submissions with a high comment-to-vote ratio, also as a signal of controversy.
Just out of curiosity: what ideological agenda?
As someone who has been on Linux a long time, but still has to support family members using Windows, here's my perspective:

1) Linux is usually easier in the "happy case", where everything works as it should, and it supports everything that the user needs.

2) Linux is way way way less likely to just change something and break the whole system while the user is sleeping. (This was REAL fun with my grandparents-in-law when their Dell All-in-One PC decided to upgrade itself from Windows 8.1 to Win10 despite Dell not having drivers for Win10 on their fancy custom monitor. I have to fix it for them every 6 months now.)

3) Searching the web for Windows solutions to your issues without being a computer expert feels like it has a >80% of infecting your computer with malware or getting you on the phone with a scammer. As a computer expert it's like 20% (not even zero!).

4) Fixing a Linux problem can be painful, but is often "copy and paste these config lines into this config". Arcane.

5) Fixing a Windows problem can involve having to go into the registry, which can't be copy/pasted and is extremely difficult AND dangerous. (There probably IS a way to copy/paste it, but I don't know it).

6) That said, it's easier to fall off the "happy path" and into real trouble in Linux. Fixing the issue by randomly clicking stuff is more likely to work in Windows than Linux.

7) It's way easier to find someone you know to help you on Windows than Linux, for now.

8) Gaming is still so much better on Windows, unfortunately, but the gap is closing.

9) The few times I've gotten family members to try Linux, they called me LESS often for support. Even on laptops!

10) Windows is becoming increasingly user hostile in every way. Ads, forced updates, forced settings changes, privacy issues, etc.
you make it seem like raising a baby is like taking a vacation.

Let me tell you, it definitely is not.
> I just wish I could buy a Zen 2 chip in a laptop that doesn't look like it was made for a fourteen year old (no offense to any fourteen year olds). I heard someone say the lack of 4k and more professional style laptops could be Intel back-channel fuckery,

Lenovo just released a couple ThinkPads peered by AMD Ryzen 7 Pro CPUs: T495, T495s and X395. They don’t have 4K screens though.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/lenovo-adds-amd-ryze...
>* They looked like they were creating conflict-free environments*

No, they did not. They looked they were creating environments in which inevitable conflict was common, and in which the discussion of that conflict sometimes lead to helpful resolutions and improvements, and sometimes did not.
Show HN: An individual-level pandemic simulation in Python
Hi, author here
I wanted to have a low level SEIR model to play with in order to control individual/geographic behavior. The reason was that here in Morocco, the lockdown has not been uniformly respected especially in popular neighborhoods. This is a modest python attempt to model the pandemic with specific lockdown removal scenarios.

I have been also trying to scale it to more than 100k individuals but it seemed quite infeasible without a graph approach and using only numpy/dict objects.

PS : I forgot the "Show HN: " key work in a previous thread, so I had to resubmit the link (sorry)

Hope you enjoy it :)
I recently started a project using Skeleton CSS (http://getskeleton.com/) which is similar. It only uses classes to deal with the grid (which it looks like neither water.css nor new.css handle).
Btw, I think this exact concept might have been dealt with a bit in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I just can't figure out which viewpoint falls into the "classical/analytical" and which falls into the "romantic/intuitive"... an argument could be made on either side, and as you said it's best to master both and find the balance. Food for thought!
Wait - the whole point of the government program was to assist families. Some families take them up, and suddenly its a problem?

"Exploited" and "used for the intended purpose" are not interchangeable phrases.

Having children is not some accident nor disease that must be insured against. The purpose of such government programs is not to alleviate misfortune. There seems to be some deep misunderstanding of the issue here.
Yes, I know. But it's a nonsensical way to measure it. Is sounds like something he said flippantly without thinking about what that meant, because it's meaningless.
` and why you need pd.DataFrame.copy() all over the place.`
Thanks for saying this!

Also, in the past decade, the R data analysis/munging ecosystem has matured far more than the equivalent in Python. These days, writing (tabular) data transformation code in R is often far cleaner, clearer and less error prone than any other platform imo.
Typescript/React <-> Flask/Python <-> postgres + redis <-> terraform

Also building out a data science team—idk what the preferred stack is there.
Sure, but there are pretty reliable proxies, such as age.
Ask HN: Your must-read HN post?
If you had to choose 1 HN post, that you think every other HN visitor should read, which one would it be?

My suggestion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22943749
As a Linux user, the last thing I want to do is use a computer controlled by Google. I am however typing this on a Mirosoft Surface Pro 7 running Linux.
Haha okay fair point. You do also have to “wait” in the office after you check into for a teeth cleaning, or “wait” after ordering your food at McDonald’s. That shouldn’t be used to indicate that these things are unavailable.

Also YMMV. I did not have to wait at all for my test. I made an appointment at sonoraquest labs (which I believe is part of lab corps) and I was the only person there at my slot other than the staff.

I did have to “wait” in the sense that I scheduled my appointment for the next day after calling them.
USPS wasn't opening and reading everyone's messages, and then refusing to deliver certain content.

That's why envelopes were sealed.
That one was flag-killed by users (I've turned that off now). Moderators didn't see it.

The combination of taking an extreme contrarian position and presenting it in a grandiose and inflammatory way is pretty reliably fatal. I'm of two minds about that. On the one hand, I don't like to see contrarian views get killed for being contrarian. On the other hand, if the initial conditions of a thread are that inflammatory, we're guaranteed to get a flamewar, which is bad for this site.
Isn’t this a great example, why epidemiologists shouldn’t write in C++? Aren’t there some Python modules for this kind of stuff?

Edit: Oh this is very old code, that could be an excuse.
I disagree, since I think all speech* is equally protected speech, including a crude slur. The reason for that is because it is far too easy for the powers that be to use claims of "only cleaning out the trash" to censor legitimate thoughts and expressions. Throughout history humans have proven incapable of making the right call on where to draw that line, so the only option is to draw it at all.

To refute your points: the owner of the platform has all the power in this relationship, since there are essentially zero repercussions for them over-censoring discussions. Most of the users of a platform won't know, won't care, or will accept the "just censoring the evil speech" argument. The audience itself is also not infallible, since there is a such thing as the tyranny of the majority.

*: of course, there is the point where speech itself requires harming another to create, such as child pornography or snuff films. But that is not what is at issue here or anywhere in modern discourse.
Are you sure it's AirBNB, or the general economy dropping? RE values and rents as a knock on result have been dropping everywhere as demand ($$$ to pay for rent) has dropped globally as peoples jobs are lost and people move in with their parents or similar and drop leases fairly suddenly.

When you really research how much AirBNB is part of a housing market, it's minuscule. One or 3 condo buildings can usually cover whatever supply AirBNB put into alternative demand markets. AirBNB is a convenient scapegoat in most markets, because it diverts attention from building more supply and all the NIMBYs blocking it.
> Don't be ignorant and try to judge on things you don't fully understand.

The first bit was ok, but this is uncalled for.
Pedantically, that statement isn't fair, an investment is only stupid or genius in hindsight, at the time it is just a choice.

They could have saved a lot more by making better choices about what to invest in. :-)
>The easiest way would be to hire inspectors to go around and inspect places during business hours and close them down if they're not in compliance.

Literal tyranny for something that has killed far less people than the flu kills in a year. (Up to 650 000 btw.) Should we start mandating these lockdowns for the flu as well?

We are living in a time of mass hysteria that has been fuelled by the media and governments.
Let me guess, you'd consider yourself in the top tier of drivers?
I was just thinking the same thing!

I started typing a reply out to someone's criticism of this, and it had me think of it this way.

I have my own personal stylesheet that I use as a plugin for overriding blog styles (just because I like to read text formatted in a specific way, a lot of blogs aren't very readable IMO). This style of library kinda extends that where the end user can "customize" or make the site look how they want it to (not that it's something people should be considering when building their blogs, but I think its fairly normal for people to have opinions on these things).

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I especially like it for quickly prototyping internal tools/sites at work. A lot of times I want something to look clean but don't have the bandwidth to really customize a lot of stuff. This allows you to write CSS for what you need, but have the overall page styled for you with minimal effort. (Also building your own css templates like this helps teach generic css. I think it's a good skill if anyone is within proximity of the web).
There are several, one is that you can time it with payroll, so your last day is the end of the current payroll period, just makes it neat for accounting purposes.

Another is that if the company doesn't want the media to pick up the "bad news", Friday is the best time to do it because it'll get lost over the weekend when it's reported on.

And finally, there's less worry about retaliation from disgruntled employees if they have the weekend to calm down over being let go.
Google certainly doesn't need China, but it wants it. It's a heckuva lot easier to do business and make money in a country, when you're chummy with the people in charge. Even if it goes against your ideals, free speech, or public interest.

Even if Google dies, its replacement will still be equally tempted to censor dissenting voices, in order to please the people in charge.
Hopefully that entitlement would require manual user approval, too. I might not want any old free-to-play game from the Play Store to be enabled to run unapproved code on-device, but I definitely want it for Termux.
Development and Validation of a Clinical Risk Score in Patients with Covid-19