skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Law has 4-5 kids per teacher

Is this true? When I was a kid my daycare was like 30 kids per teacher. It was called "Mother's Day Out". I can't remember the cost but judging by the amount of time I spent there it was basically free.
Eighteen Is Too Young to Vote
All of them except biosciences :)

Condensed matter physics in a well-known university. But it does involve working with engineers and quite a lot of pub-going.
Correct, I misspoke: My first use of "orbit", I should have said "the area up around the planet, not down on the surface.

The difference in difficulty (mainly, fuel requirements) between a flyby and an orbit is a crucial distinction often overlooked.
Show HN: UPUP Simple Credit Card Verification to Reduce Fraud
Users are lazy. You can educate all you want, they will still use the same passwords everywhere, or weak passwords. You have to bake the security into your workflows, processes, and code if you want it to matter.

This is from infosec/opsec awareness training experience I get paid to provide. Not all users are lazy, mind you, but enough to be emotionally depleting. Incentives matter.
"But this time really is different." Sigh...
That conservatives see no ownership of problems characterized as specific to their black and brown neighbors (family, selves...) is orthogonal to the issue of what to do about those issues.
I feel like YT used to be better at recommending stuff to me. Now it just sends me more what I've already seen. It seems like it's falling into the "you just bought a lawnmower. do you want to buy 500 more lawnmowers???" recommendation engine trap.
Detection Deficit: A Year in Review of 0-Days Used In-the-Wild in 2019
> It seems faster/easier just to pirate from the get go

Then the author doesn't get paid. That's the difference; buying an encumbered file and removing the encumbrance still pays the creator.
For niche areas forums are still doing alright. More general purpose forums sort of melted away and moved to Facebook and the like.

Forums require a lot moderation and maintenance. If you don't keep the software up to date they're easy pickings for hackers. Without active moderation they're quickly overrun with spam.

For most people forums end up expensive pains in the ass. In terms of ActivityPub, the lasting conversation topic-centric nature of old school forums doesn't really fit in the model of pushing new activity. A hot-topic Reddit clone fits that model much better.
> One silver lining of living in these United States is that you can be assured that complex technology picked up by cities and counties (and often even states) will be implemented carelessly and wielded by only the hammiest fists.

This is absolutely not assuring. All this means is that the wrong people are going to be surveilled, arrested, and punished.
What hypothesis?

If you found life on Mars you're going to be rendered immortal as long as knowledge survived. No one is refusing out of pride.
Thanks! Some more? :D

Scientist drives down a road (darkness, rain, a forest) and reachs a town (darkness and rain again, occasionally a streetlamp, high contrast, lights are blinding). Checks if paper is still in their pocket and accidently runs a redlight. Then: deep roar of the horn of a truck, t-boning the car a moment later. Blue lights flashing. Firefighters pulling the scientist from the car, the ambulance drives off. Coat is seen at the site of the accident. ICU, ECG beeping: the scientist is still unconscious or in a coma. End of intro.
But I'm already immune to credential stuffing because I have long, unique passwords, no? And credential stuffing would be taking my username and password from Foo and using it with Bar, right? But I'm talking about the username and password from Foo being used with Foo.
Biggest Tech Billionaires Testify Before Congress (Full Hearing)
There is much truth told but

> Nokia's elegant, long-life, feature-rich devices, the company who popularised first the cellphowe and then the smartphone? Now rebadges Chinese/American kit.

As someone who paod a lot for these early smartphones (N80, N800) they were highly inconsistent. Maybe ahead of it's time but when the iPhone hit the market Nokia quickly lost it's share for good reasons.
Not surprising, since they have control of the platform and the market. But it's ethically questionable.
Twitter in turmoil after month of crisis leads to concerns over leadership
By "load" I'm pretty sure they mean "insert initial data into an empty table." So a different use case.

In ETL work, for example, it's not uncommon to truncate and reload source and staging tables on each batch run. So the tip would be helpful in those scenarios, more than in an OLTP case (insert this record, update that one).
He apparently filed for bankruptcy because he "owes" $179 million to Google?

My question is, how is he paying his (presumably very expensive) lawyers?
I'd argue that neither problem is unique to Amazon. E-Bay was notorious for being the dumping ground for burned out/damaged computer parts, though they did start weeding out people that do that because sold as-is or not, it caused a lot of problems and damaged E-bay's brand. Best Buy has been the target of return scams forever because they are easy marks. If you live in Texas then your probably familiar with Fry's Electronics - when I used to buy parts from them we started marking all of the stuff we returned so that we wouldn't buy it again.

I've had > 99% good experience buying from Aliexpress but you have read carefully and make sure you know what your ordering. Only bad experience I had was ordering a dozen i2c multiplexers and receiving a child's leather minidress instead, seller would only speak to me in nonsense sentence fragments regardless if I contacted them in English or Mandarin, and it took three weeks to get a refund. But on the bright side the exact same nail files that CVS sells for $10 each I can get 5 for $1 if I'm willing to wait 2-3 weeks.
His examples have so many mistakes, it's hard to take anything in this seriously.

- Ada (French). Ada is not french, it was developed for the US DOD. I also wouldn't call it dead.

- Pascal/Modula-2/Oberon: ... garbage collected ...: Neither Pascal nor Modula-2 are garbage collected. Modula-2 and Oberon are probably dead, but Pascal in its modern iterations is very alive and still widely used, apart from having a significant legacy.
NASA set to launch its most complex, ambitious rover yet to Mars
> What is worse, is that Apple doesn't remove the app from the user's device.

This. Is. Ridiculous.

We all know this is an intentional design decision by Apple and that they would absolutely not have designed the workflow this way if they had to dogfood their own platform.
Most likely "Who's behind the wall?" [0]

[0] "Кто за стеной?" (1977) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECvsD4b0JlU
(disclaimer: I work for OmniSci)

I think this is a good point. On GPUs, SIMT is effectively automatic vectorization, so our focus has been on the memory bandwidth wall (we make use of cuda shared memory in nvidia GPU mode for aggregates like the above query). Non-random access compression on GPUs also has been a nonstarter, at least historically. With more recent GPUs and more recent versions of CUDA, perhaps this is changing. But on CPUs, we have started looking into vectorization. There is a tradeoff, though -- the vectorization LLVM passes do add time to the compilation phase, and at subsecond query speeds that time isn't always worth it.

There are also a few other tricks to get closer to roofline performance. If you sort the input data on the key you're grouping by you can see small performance improvements, mostly from better cache locality. But, part of the "magic" of OmniSciDB is that you can group on any key and get good performance without ingesting, reindexing, etc.
Integrating Contentful with Eleventy to create static sites
Tech CEOs Testify at House Hearing on Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon
Your explanation is actually what I've intended to say. We don't cling to them. They're not important as-is and not to be chased.

I've also got my fair share (of experiences) but, I don't remember any of them except one or two odd ones. I remember them because they've proved to be some pivotal moments which my life became better afterwards.
Gut check here on Zoom customer service. Has anyone heard from them in the last 2 months? I've been on a pro plan and 10-seat plan and had 2 issues about events sent to their customer service starting June 3rd. Have not heard back anything besides regular "we're moving slow because of COVID 19" template updates". They used to be responsive, even had a "chat" feature but now that's disabled.
I'm glad that Apple can't remotely delete apps from my device. It would be somewhat dystopic if they had that capability.
I ran the full site for about two years after 2017, using the code I inherited from AVOS, but a lot of people assumed the site was dead because they tried to visit delicious.com. That was never part of the sale and has been kept for some unknown purpose.

The problem was that even years after making the site read-only, I couldn't cope with the level of spam traffic directed at delicious, and had constant problems keeping it online. Rewriting that read-only version so it's not a bloated layer cake of 20 services is my attempt at bringing it back online more sustainably.
Got any examples of such monitoring metric setup? Would love to get an idea what it's good to monitor :)

I am thinking of using Grafana with Prometheus. Love to find a nice resource with good ideas of rules/monitoring to have
Elite New York Private Schools to Test Preschoolers over Zoom
So, does this mean I can replace CRC32 with XXH ?
yo be real
SkyArk: Discover the Most Privileged Cloud Users
SMS 2FA exposes a person's cell phone account to attack, and the carriers aren't hardened to handle it. Jack Dorsey getting hacked proves how stupid using SMS for anything. Please, implementing this. Use FIDO U2F or TOTP. It's not that hard, my 70 year old mother has it enabled and has no issues with it.
So all it takes is a jerk then..
That's a reasonable position. The problem here is you and other people hound me and insist I must be wrong and have no right to state my opinion about my health, no matter how carefully I qualify it.

That's not a reasonable position.

I get that you disagree. I expect people to not be convinced that I'm right. Skepticism is warranted.

What's not warranted is harassment.

Repeatedly insisting that I cannot possibly know what I believe to be true when I have already agreed with you that my statements are opinion, inference, etc and unverified by testing is harassment.

I have my reasons why I am confident in my conclusions. No one cares to hear those reasons. They just want me to capitulate, admit defeat and announce that I'm wrong and stupid -- both factually and morally -- for engaging in the same behavior many other people engage in on a regular basis without being similarly mistreated. (That behavior being telling an anecdote about my health and stating a personal opinion about my own experience.)

I'm not capitulating. No one is required to agree with me or be at all interested in what I think about my own health or about health generally. But, like any other human, I am entitled to have an opinion about my own health. I'm not going to pretend that I think you are right when I don't think you are right just because you insist over and over again that my opinion is, in your opinion, factually wrong.

You are not more right than me. Just as I cannot prove I had Covid-19, you cannot prove I did not. Thus you cannot prove my opinion is factually wrong anymore than I can prove it is factually right, yet you feel some strange compulsion to try to insist that your unprovable opinion about my life is somehow more right than my unprovable opinion about my own life.
Okay, the argument about credential stuffing is fairly weak. 2FA on a given service makes it an ineffective attack against that service. If you have 2FA on all of your services, credential stuffing won't work on any of them, so you're then immume. Moreover, not all services are identical - Email merits two distinct hardware keys, my Steam account warrants an emailed password, my BeerAdvocate account... probably doesn't need anything.
Apple takes back $100 from you. You now owe them $30 more than they ever paid you.
We produce way more food than the world needs, but where do we produce it? A 10 lb bag of rice may be very cheap to produce, but getting it to a remote village in the middle of a warzone is expensive.

Even if the food is grown locally, if it costs 50 cents per piece of fruit to ship them to America where they'll sell for $2 each, that's still dramatically more lucrative than selling them locally for $1 each, which might be a day's wage.

Even if you're producing food locally and people can afford to buy it, that could all change if social or political instability wreaks havoc on the local infrastructure and economy.

Unfortunately, even in giving food aid to those who can't feed themselves for the prior reasons, you have now destroyed the market for local food production which justifies investment in the infrastructure that will keep them from starving should the aid ever dry up. Best case scenario, the farms exist but grow cash crops instead of food staples; worst case scenario the region loses the experience and the means to grow its own food and is rendered permanently dependent on aid.

World hunger is a symptom of global poverty and underdevelopment, and reducing food waste won't fix those problems, it can even exacerbate them. Real progress will require systemic and complicated changes.
> Federal prosecutors are also seeking three years of supervised release and an agreed-upon restitution payment of nearly $756,500 to Alphabet Inc’s self-driving car company Waymo

> Levandowski filed for bankruptcy protection in March, shortly after a court confirmed that he must pay $179 million to Google to end a legal battle over his split from the Alphabet Inc unit.

I see is guilty of a few things, but the size of the fines seems astronomical. Does the scope of his crime justify this punishment?
Downloading Web Pages – Web Browser Engineering
SMS should only ever be used as a proof of investment. IE making sure a bit setting up hundreds of thousands of accounts (because they broke your CAPCHA) needs to buy tens of thousands of real phone numbers with service.

It’s a one time thing at account creation and should be immediately deleted afterwards.

Real 2FA should be set up afterwards to actually protect the account. A yubikey or even a simple TOTP app is a lot of protection against account takeover. The only big weakness left at that point is the help desk.
Engineering Metrics Are Business Metrics
Capture Keys with the Keyboard Lock API
I do have anecdotal evidence for this (probably incendiary, but certainly not intended that way) point of view: Europeans tend to love creating and mastering complexity; Americans at their best despise complexity and produce simple approaches that cover most of the use-cases. (Also, the author doesn't mention the HP 200LX PDA - a full DOS box, CGA on which I have running a C compiler, scheme48, RF design s/w and much more. Still works great. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_200LX)
Anyone can clarify what sensitive docs he took with him, citations appreciated?
I love structured repositories of knowledge and documentation like this because it opens a lot of doors for automating some broader software engineering talent.

This could be a really cool opportunity to programatically find common subsets of fields/operations that are sent together in many APIs and see if there's a way to build libraries and tooling across a bunch of languages to handle operations on those fields.
Don't aimlessly learn math. Even if its from a statistics or machine learning book. Choose a well regarded model and then study all math that it takes to understand and use the model well. Learn nothing outside of this. Rinse and repeat.
They also keep 100% of what they make after refunds have been processed and yet another cut is taken.
I would argues SMS is worse than "nothing at all", as it moves the responsibility [unwillingly|unknowingly] to the person's carrier, who likely [demonstratively] are not hardened against attack.
They appear to be using blender to generate data for machine learning!

So if you want to be able to recognizes poses or hand gestures from video or image stills, you need data to train your network.

The bottleneck is often high quality 'labelled' data - real data that requires people to laboriously label each frame and region with the 'ground truth'.

However, if you automatically generate the poses using something like Blender, you can also automatically label, and also generate a huge variety of systematic variations in camera angles, lighting, levels of noise etc.

Obviously there might be a worry that the Blender generated images may somehow inject their own bias, but they claim it's working really well.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0...
Ah yes, the "I am rubber, you are glue" argument.
I'm not arguing that that's what's further down the slippery slope we're on. I fully believe that's where we're headed.

But that's not where we are today, and the distinction is important. Because once the latter happens, that justifies a completely different response from the populace than what we're facing today.
CC Processors like Visa and Mastercard do refund fees on CC processing, but the interchange or % of return is smaller than the actual gross. You don't necessarily get "all" of your refund, if you're a merchant.
Was Mark Zuckerberg already on? I'm most excited what he has to say.

Edit: This is hilarious, clueless congressman don't know what platform he is talking about. Trump Jr. was banned on Twitter and he asks Zuckerberg why he banned him.
If you're doing a MITM attack, Google's behavior doesn't matter; you can handle all the http requests and send them to Google (or whoever) as https and fix up all the internal links etc. If the user's browser is willing to go to google.com with http, it's probably ancient (no preloaded HSTS lists).

If you're actually on an ancient browser, Google's behavior does matter --- if they send you to https and don't work with ancient SSL/TLS stacks, then you can't use their products. For anything with a login, that seems reasonable, but for search, it seems pretty useful to allow HTTP for ancient browsers, because it's very hard to use the web without search.
If he's any smarter than me (and he clearly seems a lot smarter than me), he probably keeps many of his assets in bankruptcy-protected accounts/LLCs.
Uber was gonna cover the cost but only right before judgement did they renege. I'm guessing he still has enough for the bankruptcy court to disperse.
It's good they're providing refunds, but the decision to shut down whatever service the glasses relied on in an excellent way to demonstrate "When you buy a product from us, you can't trust that it's going for any given period of time, and we'll just brick it when we get bored of it".

Google of course is famous for doing this with many of its products, but in the long run this type of behavior can make it harder for startups to introduce new products/services. Some customers will ask the question "So what happens when you get acqui-hired in a year and your parent company decides to shut down your service either immediately, or a year after they tell customers that everything will continue unchanged?"

Of course the bigger lesson here is don't buy products which rely on a third-party service to function.
There are many really interesting episodes in Earth's history. The one that I'm really fascinated by lately is the so called Azolla Event, in which it is hypothesized that Azolla aquatic ferns at the North Pole at the beginning of the Eocene soaked up carbon from the atmosphere, to be deposited on the sea floor, taking the earth from a hothouse (where the poles were above freezing) to an icehouse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event
Well, you can see how that's a bit of a bigger ask than "go to Twitter.com and click SIGN UP," right? :)

People really, really want to argue that decentralization of social networks doesn't make things harder, but eventually the defense always shifts to "well, you have to be willing to jump through a few hoops if you believe in the advantages of a decentralized/indie internet, which you totally should," because the truth is that the decentralized way does make things harder. Personally, I do believe in the advantages of the IndieWeb, and I do think it's worth jumping through those hoops. I just think we need to acknowledge those hoops exist, and always be thinking about ways we can reduce the friction for people who say "I like all those ideas in theory, but in practice it's too frustrating."
> In my city, we are working on an ordinance to put oversight of surveillance technology into the hands of a community commission

How would this possibly work?
> Giving up Amazon is different. They actually ship me real, tangible items I need. Items that I'd have to track down from different retailers who would more than likely take longer to get those items to me. I'm making an effort to get certain items from other sources (electronics from Newegg, for example), but I'm still a Prime member.

The other side of this is that Amazon's marketplace is filled with counterfeit products and is built on questionable labor practices. They are big enough to distort the entire market and make small businesses compete in unnatural/suboptimal ways in order to satisfy Amazon. The fast shipping and some of the cheap pricing is taking advantage of a public good (the Post Office) and it's unclear, especially recently, if Amazon is being given preferential treatment in their contracts.

All in all, while it may be more convenient some of the time, the concentration of power and money is not healthy long term for a democratic country. It seems to me that a properly lead and funded Post Office and a dynamic, competitive marketplace of small and medium sized businesses would provide just as good an experience and doesn't have the risk of market capture or complex lobbying operations popping up.
What I would like is a product search responsive web page that would search all local stores, including big box, and Amazon. You could start with a simple Froogle-ish search, and add discovery features as time goes on.

This would disrupt the current model, both online and offline.
Well, he did steal a bunch of stuff and get caught. That's not particularly smart.
We really only have a few ways to generate electricity:

- PV solar generates electricity more or less directly

- Wind turbines use mechanical energy from the wind to spin a turbine

- Hydro converts potential energy to kinetic energy to spin a turbine

- Nearly every other form of generation in existence heats water to create steam and uses that steam to spin a turbine.
>"direct access to the Blender team for strategical discussions. Roadmaps and priorities will be aligned with your requirements as good as possible."

Call me a language snob but this writing is so poor.

"Strategical"

"As good as possible"

Can I submit pull requests to that page?
He could definitely pull several million people onto a new service immediately, but it would just be his most hardcore followers I would think.
I'll echo this as well and add in that Women's healthcare is just a circus.

It's crazy dependent on the provider, the hyper-specifics of the mother, and the peculiarities of the MD/RN. It's as if they all got together to make it so that no single person could ever be billed the same (to paraphrase Voltaire's quip on Ancien Régime France).

The bills, months and years after, are insane. I would not be surprised if the children had children of their own, and yet still you'd get bills for pre-natal care.

Then you throw in the near pervasive distrust in the medical community of women's pain and knowledge of their own bodies. Like, you're an OB-GYN, you deal with women all day, how are you thicker than concrete about this. GAH!
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