skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same idea goes for art supplies. When you're learning to paint, the cheap paints are good enough for your skill level while you learn the basics; when you understand why your paints are the cheap paints, you'll understand the value of the expensive paints in a way you couldn't before.
Trump is moving forward with his plan to regulate social media
What about AR glasses with prices dropping for each individual the longer they stay in the store?
As far as "vote rings" are concerned, the CTO (and others) would emphatically remind people not to upvote to ensure we didn't end up getting flagged.
http://archive.is/tAlWl
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I also liked the transcript below the video so you can read along. I wish more sites would do that. I'm not hearing impaired (though it's definitely a boon if you are), but it's a lot more convenient to just see the words sometimes.
Protest Movements Can Hijack Surveillance Tech for the Public Good
Always give (your area code) 867 5309

It is registered in almost all systems already and you'll get the discounts. They get nothing (except the knowledge that apparently Jenny buys everything). Plus, nowadays most people working at checkout don't even know the significance of that number and don't bat an eye when you give it
7 nm is the best for shipping products 5 nm is in production for apples next mobile chip later this year.
In the spirit of 2020, maybe making the problem worse will ultimately make it better?
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First you create a problem, then you propose ways to fix it? Sure, give it a try...
I don't even get why people were denying it during Wuhan lockdown.

Did the fact that they're building not one, but two field hospitals with gear within weeks not give them some clue that shit actually hit the fan, and the only good news is there isn't a lot of direct flights from Wuhan to North America?
> and get an authentic

Man, the "silicon valley" writers are crushing it today!
This is potentially concerning, but it's worth playing devil's advocate. What are the confounders? Most people have been more sedentary than usual this year. What impact does that have on circulation?
> People didn't pick Google because it was hard to switch, they converged on Google because the product was that good

That's not how I remember things from that time. I started to use Google, because it was faster than dogpile and the other oddly named search engines.

It wasn't a quality reason. There was the expectation that a search for information would take longer than a single click, so a little digging wasn't an issue.
They are almost certainly a vicious cycle of TBI increasing the chance for TBI-related* behaviors in the future. (*either getting or receiving).
In my circle of friends I’m the de facto photographer and usually use my iPhone and while we all have the same technology the majority of my friends end up using the pictures i take of them. I think even with a flattened playing field technologically and near endless storage the ability to edit and see the best side of someone is still a valuable skill
I get a piece of mail from my local Meijer (midwest grocery/department store, think Walmart) every week on Thursday, a couple days before my grocery run on Saturday.

It contains about a dozen coupons for the exact items I typically buy:

- Store-brand milk, 2%

- Honey bunches of oats with almonds cereal

- Bone-in chicken breasts, family pack

- Noosa strawberry-rhubarb yogurt

- Old spice aluminum-free deodorant, if it's been a few weeks since my last purchase

etc. etc. etc. It's not the generic "all Pepsi/Nestle products on sale" mailers. It's the exact stuff I've bought in the past. And yes, I admit I'm a creature of habit. There's little $4/hour coupon clipping or recipe selection required (I hate that), I can pretty much shop my normal list and then swipe the coupons across the scanner. And tell you what, if I skip a week at Meijer and go to Trader Joe's instead, there's likely a few more coupons for a little deeper discount the next week.

It's more than a little creepy. I have no idea how they got my home address, maybe scanned from my driver's license when I bought alcohol? And I don't use a store membership, they must be just tying my debit card number to my shopping habits.
At the end of the day, I can rest easy knowing that all of this is to shove products in my face that I still don’t want or have any use for.

All of the analytics of the internet, all of this data collection and machine learning - all to show my a picture of a $69 leather jacket. Or a Muse headband. Or a Peloton bike.

I’m not a consumer, these tricks don’t work on me.
I needed a watch while travelling in Vietnam and bought an F91W from a market stall for a few bucks. It's such a cheap watch I didn't even consider that people sold fakes.

A few weeks later I noticed it was slowly losing time and had some other issues, clearly a fake or reject watch. So that's how, I guess.
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Totally agree. What’s more, if you discover that guitar playing isn’t for you, you can always sell it if it is a decent one. It may not cost you more in the end than if you bought a cheap one and threw it away or let it rot in the attic.
It organises storage so that operations like "drop all entries from before X", "get entries between X and Y with tags A or B" are cheap and so that storing ~linearly increasing values is super efficient with stupid ratios like 1:800+ for DoubleDelta.
There's a decent audiobook too, if that helps.
Reminds me of the entire city of London.
For me the issue is that it was apparently done in secret. The difference between CCTV that's stored for a day or two and then permanently deleted and cameras tracking behavior and recording data forever is different enough to require a very different kind of disclosure / signage.

"We track customer movement, behavior and tie that to an individual customer record. We keep this information in perpetuity to serve you better."

Gotta have that "serve you better" on there.
I don't know about superhuman AI, but that system already exists and it's called capitalism.
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Anyone can say anything they want? What if I want to say what your address is and when you are home, and which of your doors is easiest to force open? Even if you had the ability to hide this content from yourself, wouldn't you prefer to hide it from those who would like to use it to harm you?
Because it's a national security threat. The real danger of a surveillance state is political/foreign actors using that information to gain advantage. It's one thing for individual's shopping habits to be exposed, it's another thing for the person's information to be used by bad actors for their own purposes.
Which poll? And what were the full gamut of options/how large of a majority was it? I'd be absolutely floored if 90% of Americans agreed on almost anything.

(I suspect the scissor is murder vs every other option).
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Hey Snowing, would love to learn more about your experience -- I'm a fellow accountant (BS accounting) looking to move into development.
Every time I check out at Kroger (or similar membership-based store) I tell the cashier that I don't want a membership but I do want the listed sale price. They always just scan their own card.
The companies don't care about a few false matches here or there. But if you're one of the people it keeps incorrectly identifying as a criminal who needs to be escorted out of the store, it will matter to you.
> They were not responsible for the Nazis, they were only impressed by the Nazi success and unable to pit their own judgment against the verdict of History, as they read it. Without taking into account the almost universal breakdown, not of personal responsibility, but of personal judgment in the early stages of the Nazi regime, it is impossible to understand what actually happened.

-- Hannah Arendt
Good luck. I work on similar OS database engine for about decade now. It is not bad, but I think consulting is better way to get funds. Also avoid "zero gc", JVM can be surprisingly good.

Will be in touch :)
Or so we’re told, conveniently every single time we try a serious troop drawdown (whether it’s gas attack or dubious “troop bounties by Russia”). Then everyone takes the bait and is clamoring for increased troop pressure. Enough.
> $80 guitar and spending money on lessons—this goes against every piece of advice I’ve ever heard from a guitar teacher about buying your first guitar.

Sure, if you're already taking lessons...

> Yamaha guitars start around $160, and they’re fantastic beginner instruments.

Yamaha guitars start around $160 new.

If you go to a local guitar shop they almost always have playable used guitars in the <$100 range. Even Guitar Center will often have a Yamaha that's discounted because it was returned opened, or because it has a manufacturer blemish that doesn't affect play.

Guitar shops will almost never sell an unusable guitar in my experience (this is not true of consignment stores, thrift shops, or pawn shops).
Human social behaviour is pretty solid evidence for the fact that merely speaking the same language won't guarantee satisfactory conflict resolution ;-)
> Signed values are the way to go!

100% agree!

> For one example, read the docs for Beancount, which is mentioned above.

Do you have other examples too?

You are dead right with this one. It is the opposite way to the way the systems I'm familiar with did it. Debit is positive, And credit negative.

Thanks so much for the link.

I'm still not sure what I would concede that it is conventional ;) But my assumption it was nothing but the other way is definitely incorrect!

I wonder if they did it this way because they felt people would understand negative income being a good thing better than a negative bank accounts being a good thing. The bank account is usually the big problem with understanding debit and credit.

As usual, the world is more complex and interesting then I assume!
QuestDB Head of DevRel here ... Yes, it can be a replacement of Postgres and it will be cheaper and faster. That being said, PGwire is still in alpha and is not 100% covered yet, so while migrating is possible, 100% Postgres Wire Protocol compatibility is not there yet.

For traditional transactional RDBMS data, I don't think it's a very common choice. For Time Series data, QuestDB is by far the fastest choice for Postgres-compatible SQL Time Series databases.
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The study seems to have been conducted on prepared samples of saliva, so not sure if that would translate to working in the field.
That was the simplified version.
In this case, 29 million seems reasonable. One factor was given as 11 million, after all, not 11.00 million. And don’t take my comment too seriously. It’s a minor nit, but one that frequently bugs me.
Companies with lots of deep learning applications, like Google/FB have better chance of experimenting with alternative hardware formats, as NVIDIA has to be compatible with older hardware. Still I'm hopeful that they will come, as they can give further scaling in AI.
Nintendo, Microsoft, and Adobe source codes published online
Everyone wants to avoid censorship until their sister's revenge porn hits the decentralized web.
Reddit AMA: We are the creators of the Julia programming language
How much of this TSMC dominance is due to the patent system? Could it be that there is no way to manufacture chips at these sizes without using some TSMC patent?
IATA: Global passenger traffic will not return to pre-Covid-19 levels until 2024
Glad to hear that :D /dev
The proper solution to this problem is strong, enforced legislation on when and where facial recognition technology can be used.
I for one hate it when buying something online and the only photos posted are clearly done in a studio with lots of post-processing, or worse renderings. I end up having to look at user posted photos or ebay to see what the item truly looks like.
Next has been improving very much recently, and would definitely be my number one choice for the vast majority of React projects. What is making you look for other solutions?
We had a customer that POCed on our systems, then bought some crap from HP + one of the SSD card vendors in 2013. They then called us up in 2014 and asked to pay us to help them achieve the performance they saw on our system, on their 5x as expensive "low risk" HP + SSD card system.

My response was simple. No.

I invited them to throw away the crap they bought and buy the right thing from us, but that was politically untenable. Turns out spending multiple millions of dollars for crappy half baked "solutions" versus a lower sum of money for something that actually worked, would likely get some people fired.

The world isn't fair, and sometimes not even sane. The people who made these decisions, despite being disastrous ones, were promoted. Enough of these built up that we couldn't survive.

Incredibly frustrating.
Privacy is a major feature. Morality is most definitely something a business can be better at. You can't just hand wave it away like it doesn't matter. DuckDuckGo might not give the best results, but I would trade that for privacy 10 times out of 10.
The browser enables advertisers and malicious users to exploit your privacy.
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This is a great example of taking an innovation and positioning it as a solution to a real, painful, and timely business problem.

Many startups in their place try to come up with some original messaging and as a result overcomplicate everything. Density keeps it simple: "Count people."
I kinda disagree with him. Bringing up borderline cases is not just about signalling. It's also how important precedents are set.
First positive case at a school is gonna have a lot of people sent home.

Our school it was.
The entire classroom
The teacher
All secondary teachers / aids that kid interacted with. Possibly the kids the secondary personal interacted with.
After 14 days everyone allowed back.
Repeat each time a kid gets sick.

So with high false positives, everyone would be in quarantine perpetually.

General opinion was school would open, then very quickly get shut down.

Finally school just went 100% virtual. Except teachers have to come in and teach virtual lessons. Oh and they have to wear a mask while teaching lessons to the virtual audience. This is for kindergarten. So parents will have to be with kid 100% of the time or it’s all a waste.
TSMC doesn’t have free capital from the government to make those decisions.
It's pretty obvious that thought experiments have existed for a long time ("If I kill him, I can mate with the females").
I think what the blog post is saying is that thought experiments applied to physics became popular with Einstein.
Guess it doesn't mean anything then. According to:

https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/canada/

there's nothing between Yom Ha’Atzmaut and Mothers' Day.

(TIL about "Loyalty Day", but that's also US, now deprecated.)
I got that. Just what is the process of actually making chips smaller and smaller until the limit would eventually be met.
I realize you can read irony into what I wrote. ;)

But it's actually true. In any social situation, we have layers of emotional defenses that we build up, and they're especially brought out in a portrait session. Am I attractive enough? Is my smile genuine enough? Am I confident enough? Am I trying too hard? Not enough? Am I wasting my money? Is this worth it? Should I just leave now and cut my losses? This makes us tense and pretty much as far away from our authentic emotional self as we can be -- and it shows on our face, clear as day.

The job of the headshot photographer is to undo all those layers so they can capture your expression when you feel totally at ease, believing in yourself, without all those worries and tensions layered on top. They're almost amateur psychologists or acting coaches in this way.

So I get why it seems ironic, but being emotionally authentic in an extremely artificial situation isn't a natural thing. It takes a lot of work. But it's still authentic -- it's not creating something fake, but rather working to bring out what's most real about you.

(At least, this is what the good headshot photographers do, which is why they make $$$. Bad/cheap photographers will just tell you to smile, get a forced uneasy expression from you, take a bunch of shots, ask you to choose one, and call it a day.)
I am interested in support for other languages; so I'm gonna echo tullo_x86's inquiry. You seem to have missed it.
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I can't be sure it wouldn't have arisen, but it has indeed been confirmed to me more than once (kinesiologist, physiotherapist) that the shoes had been problematic because they led to wrong posture correction and that led to a transfer of energy (post absorption) to the wrong places. There is more than one way to that things could have been better, for example I could have strengthened my muscles on either side of the knee to hold it in place or I could have practiced the correct posture without shoes, but ultimately the shoes were both a major part of the problem and also the only thing that I, as a beginner, was able to focus on and do something about.. until it was a bit too late, and I was going to clinics to figure out why that pain was present. Which is kind of my point: as a beginner you're not knowing yourself or the field well enough to know better.
Paying ransom is illegal in some jurisdictions because it’s seems to be the easy way to prevent ransoms if it works or not I don’t know.

Ransom works when the target is capable and has sufficient incentive to pay out, if you make it so that you’ll face jail time as a CEO who orders a ransom to be paid out it’s quite likely might reduce acts of ransom.

I know that there is grey area that is common in the energy and global construction sectors where companies might not be able to pay ransom legally essentially have a ransom insurance so when 3 of your workers get kidnapped in Djibouti you have your “insurance company” which also often facilitates negotiations, extraction and repatriation handle the case.

(This is also common for other reasons, especially liability reduction if something goes wrong the company can wash their hands of the case and send the families after the “insurance provider”.)

There is also the grey area of “private emergency services” which range from private medevac on standby to assault teams capable of executing asset recovery missions some even take pride of being able and willing to perform prison breaks.
mmap'd databases are really quick to implement. I implemented both row and column orientated databases. The traders and quants loved it - and adoption took off after we built a web interface that let you see a whole day and also zoom into exact trades with 100ms load times for even the most heavily traded symbols.

The benefits of mmaping and in general POSIX filesystem atomic properties are quick implementation, where you don't have to worry about buffer management. The filesystem and disk block remapping layer (in SSD or even HDDs now) are radically more efficient when data are given to them in contiguous large chunks. This is difficult to control with mmap where the OS may write out pages at its whim. However, even using advanced Linux system calls like mremap and fallocate, which try to improve the complexity of changing mappings and layout in the filesystem, eventually this lack of control over buffers will bite you.

And then when you look at it, the kernel (with help from the processor TLB) has to maintain complex data-structures to represent the mappings and their dirty/clean states. Accessing memory is not O(1) even when it is in RAM. Making something better tuned to a database than the kernel page management is a significant hurdle but that's where there are opportunities.
Whoopi and Joan Rivers are the only two from that list that I actually know what they sound like.
>Technological progress has always been a net good (life now is better than it has ever been)

Benefits can be imaginary and those don't weigh heavily against the harm being done. Bulk surveillance of people who aren't suspected of a crime, is one example.

Sometimes benefits only outweigh harm because the harm is limited - due to push-back (or the threat thereof) from the public.
During my time studying bats we used anabat detectors https://www.titley-scientific.com/us/products/anabat-systems...

To record bat echolocation and visually analyze the waveforms to determine the species and type of call. Different species echolocate at different frequencies and the calls they make when they're travelling, searching for prey and diving to eat all look different from each other and different between species.
The war machine is much more profitable than oil at this point.
Now I have to distinguish between three things when I see 'Otto':

This project.

Hashicorp's dead deployment tool (https://www.ottoproject.io)

Otto Matic by Pangea (http://pangeasoft.net/otto/)
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> Every country in the world would do a great deal to get a FAANG company native to their turf. But here in America we want to wreck them. Sigh.

Harry Truman said in 1945 about the atomic bomb, "We thank God that it has come to us, instead of to our enemies". I feel the same way about FAANG and Silicon Valley as a whole (and Wall Street, and Hollywood, and SpaceX/Tesla, and the Ivy League), that they are in the United States.

That doesn't mean I approve of everything they do. That doesn't mean I can't or won't decry their putting thumbs on scales toward a certain type of bien-pensant ideology. That does mean that, overall, I am very, very glad that they are American instead of Russian, Chinese, or even British, French, or German.
> It seems that a lot of companies are these days are trying to hack their customers instead of treating them right.

This is true, and frankly really well put. But I think it has its limits. Rite Aid and similar stores have an extremely tenuous "relationship" with their customers already. The pharmacy in the back might, but the overwhelming bulk of their revenue comes from the snacks and sundries they sell to people walking by, and frankly those people don't care any more about the store than it does about them.

I mean, it's cynical, but there's social value in having Just Another Faceless Junk Store on every corner. We don't want to be "treated right" as an independent variable, we want the drink cooler and sunscreen to be trivially available and we'll walk into whatever door we see.

In that world, "hacking your customers" is the only feasible path to growth. I share the upthread concern as to whether this is effective, I just don't see a way for these stores to avoid going down that path if it does work.
Ibn Sina proposed the famous "Floating man" thought experiment a thousand years ago
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Based on time-of-day data, it seems the scheduling is more likely to convenience the doctors.
If your real name is discernible from your HN profile, and you own a car, I could likely get your license plate. If you live in a big city, I could search your license plate and find locations where you were. Alternatively, I could find your address, then search for license plates that drove near your house. It's not a perfect system but it has millions of records. And there must be other correlated databases that I don't know about.

The only things we can do is use fake/different numbers at stores, use prepaid or business debit cards and have burner iPhones and rooted Androids. Register your license plate in corporations names, and don't put your utilities in your real name. If we just decorrelate the data, and falsify it, then we could have a chance.