skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skip this.

There's just a "sign up" page, and nothing else.

Only 1 mention of Go on the page, no mention at all of WASM, etc.

This may actually be some kind of scam. ;)
A year prior to this, the US turned away a boat of Jewish refugees.
It was buggy, mostly about detecting and overriding changes, but also some versions had problems with 0x00 and 0x1A bytes in files ... after losing a few files to briefcase, the only nostalgia I have is for eradicating it from any machine i used.
Your voter registration is public record.

They build this sample data by compiling huge swaths of public records and buying private data.

Your political affiliation is not the worst of it, they can have the school your child goes to, the grocery store you visit, anything.

The worst really isn't the violation of privacy, it's the propaganda.

Most of the time the surveys themselves were meant to push information, the questions and answers were usually loaded.

Source: worked as a CATI technician, typist, and interviewer for a survey company in college.
Google has two classes of shares, GOOG (no voting rights) and GOOGL (has voting rights). Despite being worthless for the foreseeable future, meaning until Larry and Sergey sell their shares, the price premium for GOOGL hovers around $5.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/052615/whats-differ...
For lots of things, though, that really isn't the clear cut choice.

You pay health insurance so you don't have to pay the full cost later on. And it could easily be that the shipping cost + taxes generally means that the system stays afloat. And besides, if you tax correctly, it wouldn't be the same rate for everyone (income taxes should be higher for those making more, for example) nor would it be more than the flat shipping costs so long as the tax money actually went to the postal service.

In both cases, are the employees getting paid fair wages?

Does the tax mean I'm not getting charged for receiving packages? Are there hidden costs to the lower amount?
I’m often wondering if Putin is, in fact, the most powerful person in the world by a very large margin. He might not have a billion people or a space force, but he plays everyone like a fiddle.
We're definitely spoiled.

The first iPhone was very impactful. Now everybody has something much better on their pockets and it's just meh.
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Hi guys, I'm very excited to share that I was working on developing an IP blacklist tool checker as a virtual intern. I've learnt a lot during the process and I'd appreciate your feedback on the tool.
Oh, that's a clever counter. Is it possible to think of a way to circumvent that?

Perhaps it is sufficient to simply ransomware the data in the first place and then refuse to give it back. Any measure that makes the victim immune to that will make them immune to the true ransomware folks as well.
A question about the cases/stats in the US. Looking at the wiki for this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_Unite... and comparing the growth in cases vs growth in reported deaths, they don't match. I'd expect them to, offset by about 2 weeks (or some shortish period) as the patient recovers or dies.

Instead the case rate grows by consistently over 1%, but the deaths grow by about 0.5% - both figures are very approximate bit you can see what I mean, one doesn't follow the other. Why might this be; am I making a basic stats mistake?
> Google Apps and Google Maps are both huge presences in the tech economy. Are they paying for themselves, or are they using search advertising revenue as rocket fuel? Nobody outside Google knows.

Arguably Apple also learned the lesson of how valuable Google Maps is. Direct ad revenue from maps is not the only source of revenue. Maps is a key feature of Android phones, (and iOS really) and Android OS is valuable due as a source of search engine traffic. And the money search engine traffic makes is able to invest in more improvements in Maps.

> The online advertising business has become a Facebook/Google duopoly which is destroying ad-supported publishing and thus intellectually impoverishing the whole population

There is a pretty insightful twitter thread from a journalism prof I can't find just now that made a persuasive case that newspapers killed themselves. They had 30 percent margins in the 90's and instead of adding staff and growing the business they focused on cost cutting. Ad-supported publishers kinda did this to themselves, and it was craigslist who knifed their cash cow (classifieds). And really, Craigslist sat on its ass too.

> The world needs Google Cloud to be viable because it needs more than two public-cloud providers.

IDK how Tim thinks public clouds are funded. Cloud vendors have massive startup costs -- every server you buy takes years of customer billing to pay off -- and I don't think anyone is gonna be down for a bond issue for 'we promise to just be like Google but smaller' spinoffs. I can name a dozen public cloud venders[1], but none have any where near the clout. And yet for some reason Tim isn't talking about why Amazon is a near monopoly.

> the real reason Android exists is that Google needs mobile advertising not to become an Apple monopoly.

This is the same reason Apple Maps exists (and dozens of other services you've never heard of). I have no idea what breaking up Android would accomplish though; Android Inc would pretty much have to replicate the same state of affairs via contracts with Alphabet, with diminished ability to integrate. It's super weird that Nokia face planted a decade ago in their role of providing a third option.

> What we do know is that people who try to make a living as YouTubers sure do complain a lot about arbitrary, ham-handed changes of monetization and content policy.

I don't see how a spinoff saves Youtubers any grief. Tim's general thesis is that Google should spin off it's services, watch the profitable ones thrive and let the break even (or worse) ones die off. If Youtube is a break even affair, I don't see how viewers or content producers benefits from less platform competition in the space. If it's capable of standing alone, what's the harm in Google owning it?

[1]: Google, Oracle, AliCloud, Azure, Rackspace, IBM/Softlayer, Digital Ocean, Saleaforce, VMWare, OVH, Hetzner, Linode,
I like the old plugin model for its one click development cycle. The new plugin system forces to build the library which make the compile execute run cycle much longer
Party registration info is widely available and its use is often unregulated: https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/access...

And that's just official sources; when it's gathered via private questionnaires or inferred from other data, it's even less likely to be regulated.
Back when the system settings could be reached with less clicks, were organised in a logical way and didn't use most of the screen as white-space.
Internet Maturity and the Growing Importance of Network Effects
I can't tell one liberal talking head from the other.
People really need to pay attention to the permissions they grant apps to their Facebook accounts.

What happened was people installing a quiz app or game which requested unnecessary data access but collected profile data and then (against Terms of Service) provided this data to a third party.

I don't consider this Facebook selling data. And auditing this kind of behavior is incredibly difficult.

Don't install apps that request access to your data, especially if you don't understand who owns the app and what their motivations are.
I misremembered section 1152, clause (a) (3) here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1152

My error. That should not happen unless there are too few participants, you're right.

It's country-based discrimination, certainly, but the cause is just.
They had a pretty strict policy on that: we lived behind a border wall made from stone, and you couldn't enter unless you were invited.
Good question. Yes, I still use the CPAP and I really love it. It's not something I even notice when sleeping any longer. The devices are also very quiet now (I use an AirSense10 with heated line and nasal pillows). Combining SleepyHead software to look into the data and with a Dreem sleep device for EEG, it's incredible the quality of sleep I get. I used to also add pulseox data, but I've since stopped since it never fluctuated while using the CPAP correctly. I've also had turbinate and nasal polyp issues my whole life until I began CPAP usage--the filtered, warm, moist air has done wonders for my sinuses, to the point where I avoided surgery.

So to answer your question, no, I got my time with the MAD. I do not expect to be able to go back to it. I view it as a temporary solution in hindsight since around the 8-10 yr mark it will permanently change your jaw. It allowed me freedom to sleep at partners houses and travel, but now that I have kids and stuff, I no longer need the flexibility of the MAD. Plus, I like being able to chew food normally :)
Sure, but that's moving the goalposts so much that you're invalidating your entire premise.
Looks like that code could have been refactored to be better self-contained. Though I suppose removing it altogether is a fine way to go about it; it can always be reintroduced in the future if folks commit to maintaining the support going forward.
> Local lambdas are ideal for this.

The problem with lambdas, you can't mark their operator() with __forceinline or __attribute__((always_inline)) attributes. For this reason, when writing high-performance manually vectorized code, lambdas are borderline useless.

> MSVC is not what you should be using if you want performance.

Security and compatibility has higher priority. gcc and clang don't deliver their C runtime libraries with windows updates. Also, debugging and crash diagnostic is much easier with MSVC.

It's same on Linux BTW, only with gcc.
Hackitat – 9 layers of political hacking
Because China subsidize the cost of shipping from China to US. But US is charging you for that part.

Also for big mailers, they are even subsidize in US shipping.

This is kind of political theatre, US sellers will never match up with chinese sellers even after this change, even not in 5 years.

US is trying to close this 75M usd gap in 5 years with this agreement, what china will do? They will just subsidize 75M more.

This 75M will not make any difference in US pricing of mail. Chinese will continue with free shipping, US prices at best will get little lower.
Bad imitation. Doesn't support the all-important right-mouse+left-mouse click combination.
I agree with this. Half the battle is knowing that something is possible. Once that step is complete you can replicate it and continually improve it.
Bivector.net

Implementing computer graphics should be done with geometric algebra.

I don't know anything about this field but I know the difference between a clean, consistent API and a random hodgepodge of hacks.

Since I don't know anything I'm not sure if GA allows you to avoid errors such as the one in the article but in typical HN fashion I'll be derailing with some left- field claim and a link to some other project.
Something doesn't have to be zero-sum to be detrimental for certain parts of the population and beneficial for others...

And the idea of the positive or negative general sum doesn't mean much - unless you're not affected or you believe in trickle down economics, or you're into sacrificing yourself for some greater good.

If you're on the side that gets negatively affected, the fact that "in general the economy/GDP is better off" doesn't mean shit to you sleeping in the street.

And it's doubly hurtful to see it used as a smug argument by people positively affected. Even more so when the benefits to the economy go to an ever smaller segment... (so you can have a 2x larger pie, but a smaller slice than before, even in absolute terms).

Addressing that with empathy (for those negatively affected, those positively affected doesn't need as much) is how real progress is made...
And maybe the most recent is Stephen Hsu of MSU: https://statenews.com/article/2020/06/michigan-state-geu-cal... (though it's not surprising, he seems rather unsavvy when it comes to communicating about sensitive topics)
Setting realistic deadlines is already a big win.

In the startups that I have worked with, most of them don't give nearly much time to devs.
Here is some simple advice for sustaining a side project over a long period of time.

1)

Work on it consistently. Ideally, work on it every day. It doesn't have to be a big block of 2 hours each day, browsing through bug reports for 10 minutes can also be enough. But it has to be consistent.

The benefits are:

* It keeps the project fresh in your mind and ready to go. No time wasted on figured out where you were at the start of each session.

* It avoids the that demotivating feeling of guilt that may creep in when you think that you've neglected your project, or once again "started something, but not finished".

* It provides a consistent sense or forward progress which helps generate motivation.

2)

"Motivation" is a resource which needs to be managed. Projects will have a mix of interesting tasks (motivation generating) and dull tasks (motivation consuming) tasks. Be aware of this, and mix these two types of tasks so that you don't bottom out on motivation. Developing some self-knowledge of how you work as a person pays off here too.

Demotivating tasks can also be chipped away at by working on them a little bit per day over a longer period of time. Consistency is the key here too!
right. and something like 4g of sand is a very small volume. ever cough up a mucus thing when you're sick? that's about the same weight for a couple of those. so smoke from smoking under 5 packs of cigs over a full year. we probably get that amount over a year from second-hand smoke. There are plenty of people who smoke a pack a day. This is one cig every 3 days. Tiny amount, easily cleared out. the flour example would be a cig every day. I'd say that's a pretty big difference. kinda like going 30 vs going 90 on a side street in your car.

As far as your question - I'm not sure what you're asking here. the soot statistic is in grams. the statistic for weight of crap in cig smoke is per puff, and is in mg. when you add up the crap in a pack of cigs, it's about 2000mg as the simple arithmetic shows. you are free to google factor/label method, or take an 8th grade science class.
I think all of the USB-A jacks i have are made out of a sheet of metal folded over on itself, with the join on the bottom. You can tell which way up a jack is by looking for the join. See this picture of some random bitcoin gizmo:

https://www.ccn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/usb-top-botto...

It's certainly not as easy as with ADB, but it only takes a quick glance to orient a USB jack. I can't be the only person to have noticed this.
Management says: Easily usable interface with almost no confusion: bad, looks ugly. Barely usable interface with barely discernible elements: good, looks modern.
Thanks!! this is easily the most awesome, comprehensive guide I've ever seen for routers
It's insane to me how people here are so libertarian when it comes to experimenting with drugs or legalising it, which has the potential to incur far more costs to society and harm to others than venturing into the wild, perhaps unprepared. For the record, I'm not advocating people be stopped from either, but IMO the latter will appeal to far fewer people, and so is a much smaller problem, and has more positive benefits.
iPhone 12 Models Won't Include Charger in Box, Power Adapter Sold Separately
Interestingly enough, Putin's space force predates Trump's by years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Aerospace_Forces (Air-Space Force, in Russian).
Here is something that I stumbled upon that I think was a big loss: HTML Help [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help]

It's unfortunate that Microsoft didn't work toward making it an open source standard for documentation. We'd have avoided every other documentation having it's own format, style, etc... Plus you get the whole documentation in a single file, not worrying about broken stuff, missing images, broken links, etc...
>NY is the only state that really saw the full potential impact

That's because of practices like dumping patients with COVID into nursing homes full of healthy elderly people. NYC was notorious for this, and that's why nearly half of all COVID deaths in the US were in nursing homes.

>Now US states reopened and cases are growing exponentially again and deaths will follow

This is a guess, but it ignores the dramatically different testing criteria. Now tests are available everywhere easily to practically anyone who wants one. At the "peak" there was huge constraints on testing kits (so only the sickest possible people got them).

It also remains to be seen that lockdowns don't cause more deaths via economic destruction (poverty is directly linked to mortality) than COVID. So it is absolutely not established to say lockdowns are beneficial for health reasons.
And don't expect the postal services in the rest of the world to compare, the USPS is consistently ranked very highly in multiple metrics (speed, accuracy of delivery, cost, etc.) - not to mention we don't really have to worry about paying VAT/customs on most international orders.
> The revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine of 2004-5 fed Putin’s “dark paranoia” that the Kremlin was threatened by a western plot to topple his regime. The Kremlin has subsequently revelled in escalating conflicts with the western powers as a marker of Russia’s newly regained stature on the world stage.

The US has spent a generation pushing first the Soviets, then Russia, back into a very tightly confined sphere of influence. There is no obvious limit to the amount of harm the US has been wishing on Russian interests.

It is a remarkably cycloptic perspective call such fears 'paranoid' or to paint Russia as some sort of aggressor. Russia isn't the one with military bases set up in North America. Russia isn't cutting people off from the global trade network or invading every other country in Western Asia. They are a relatively neutral country on the world stage in terms of aggressive foreign posture, even accounting for this article.
To be fair the colors were configurable and you could easily get rid of the gradient. Remember doing that, but I'm not sure if it was win98.
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You can see most of them are stalled or discontinued.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for...
Would be nice if it also rendered an animated GIF showing how close it went.
He might be the most powerful in current soviet union that is CIS.

However I fail to see how he can be the most powerful in the world given that USA surpasses russia in both military and economic might (which are pretty much the same thing if you think about it). Russia has no answer to sanctions and those counter-sanctions are just a delusion. USA can make many other countries respect the sanctions due to dollar being universal currency.

There's also China which is simply too populous to challenge for anyone.
shut down the oil and gas out of russia and you shut down putin.
He definitely was a clever guy. He had an enormous ego, but he knew when it was wrong (despite him probably never accepting he was wrong in the first place)
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I think artists are more interested in safe keeping their techniques from copycats. People put in a lot of effort to stand out in a over-saturated market so of course they won't share their tricks.
> this was the golden age. So much hope and so much optimism for what could be

Funny that because I grew up in the 80s and for me the golden age was 10 to 15 years earlier and I saw Windows 98 as the decline.

There was so much variety and experimentation in the 80s, and so much excitement too when GUIs first started appearing on home computers. There was also much more diversity in the computing landscape with different hardware architectures and operating systems. In fact back then DOS machines were some of the least interesting hardware and early Windows (pre 3.x) was just terrible compared to what Acorn, Atari, Amiga and Apple were doing. Then came the mid-90s and everything had converged into x86 running Windows. I remember at the time feeling rather let down by just how boring and crummy desktop computing had become considering all the interesting things that preceded it. Things picked up again once I discovered BeOS and Linux -- I guess even in the 90s I didn't like Microsoft Windows and to be honest little has changed over the years.

That's just my opinion though. The "golden age" is a very subjective thing that I suspect is largely driven by the age of the observer.
I think the term shell is confusing, as here they mean something more akin to a Linux window manager.
The problem is that nobody cares about your model. If it's too grim then people will refuse to believe it. If it's too optimistic people won't do anything.
Face+Mask+Market+Size
I really like both this and the Show HN! Thanks!
Why do you need to document the connections externally? Isn't it enough to reference one node from another and provide some context?
Time Series.

But also prefix lookup. You can do some sweet tricks with trees where lookup on strings can use a prefix and then you get an iterator. You can then use this iterator to read the items until you find one where the prefix doesn't match. I've used this in developing storage systems, but it seems like a useful trick that I might want to use elsewhere.
There's a freemium video service in japan called Nico Video [0] that has been around for about the same length of time as Youtube. On the free tier, you're essentially limited to a really shitty video quality, somewhere around 480p. It also has ads and some kind of rate limiting. Besides subscriptions, they also do tie-ups and other PR related stuff. Video quality has never really been that good even on the premium tier. Their whole selling point seems to be community interaction, where by viewers can post comments directly into the video stream [1]. As far as I can tell, they've been bleeding money for the last decade though they seemed to have turned a profit this year.

My conclusion is that no, users would not get a better service.

[0]: https://www.nicovideo.jp

[1]: http://blog.nicovideo.jp/en_info/2013/01/post-037484.html

[2]: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ニコニコ動画#ビジネス
Apple, AT&T, Jack Daniel’s: Fed issues details on bond buys
niteshsarode.github.io Please let me know any suggestions, feedback. Want to keep it simple
No address? That doesn't happen - is it still the post office delivering unmarked mail? That would be illegal here since only the USPS can legally use mailboxes.
I can't imagine how large a .2AU GIF would be.