skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
==To assume unquestioningly the intelligence of our rulers during the Trump era is just, wow.==

Who did this? I laid out the case that modern large corporations (no need to bring politics into it) are some of the most effective moneymaking machines in history. We can observe them investing heavily into customer surveillance/tracking. We can also observe the primary players in this industry thriving from a revenue and market cap perspective (Google, Facebook, Amazon).

The hypothesis is that both main street (through revenues) and wall street (through outrageous P/E ratios) are signaling that the data being collected does, in fact, have value.
Poor people should stop having sex. Got it.
Usually the snippets are outright crap. But this is the end result of SEO noise overwhelming signal.
You don't really own the land when it's mortgaged. Selling property to reduce risk is a good strategy in times like this. No rental income on a property is a negative return, that can't be managed for long.
Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google
Although I think UBI might be a good idea, I feel like this talk about "lifting above the poverty line" is meaningless in practice. The poverty line is constantly moving. If everyone got a $10,000 check, the poverty line would be quickly redefined, and not many people "lifted above it" would actually stay above it.
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If you lived in a multi-generational household, your share of the household labor absolutely decreased. And neighbors also picked up some of the slack.

I'm talking about early 1900s, based on stories from my grandparents about what life was like.
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Just spent 3 months in Hillsboro, Oregon, and Intel construction work there is full speed ahead it seems. Of course that could change pretty quickly, but right now it sure looks like they intend to keep fabs going in the US.
CVS started to refuse to scan the 'house' card as of about a year ago. and they try to collect your phone number when they hand you a card for the first time.
The names of nodes from companies like TSMC don't correspond to the actual size anymore.
> The argument that made them stop was when we told us that we where hosting the applications.

I didn't get that, can you please rephrase?
Okay, that Python example is pretty cool - plain virtualenv + pip install, that's a long way from where Lambda is. SAM comes close, but this looks nicer and less painful to work with. Although, probably kinda misleading since I imagine most of Python is out of reach because of the transpilation. Does `pip install <any popular dependency>` actually work?

> The main requirement for compiling to JavaScript on Workers is the ability to produce a single js file that fits in our bundle size limit of 1MB.

Compared to Lambda, that's a pretty restrictive size limit. Theirs is 50Mb, or 250Mb if you upload the package to S3. Is there any plan to change that to be closer to Lambda or will anything with larger dependencies always be out of scope?
I don't think that was the case for a long time on the tooling side, OCaml has a great support for ARM64 for a long time now, but Linux ARM64. But well most developers aren't actually using Linux.

But a thing that is going to change is supporting iOS, one of the reasons that this PR was approved(and it adds support to iOS) it's mostly because there is a Mac ARM64
> They might notice the pattern it makes while they are typing it.

that's only a problem if the minimum wage worker behind the counter cares, which I doubt.
Google's flight service is not a booking service. It's flight search. It just redirects you to the airline in question.

Personally I love it. It's so much faster than all the competitors. Further it not covered in ads. I just went to SkyScanner and there's an ad for fried chicken. Seriously WTF!
It very much depends on where you live.

In Norway, you can "slave away" while paying the equivalent to a $1500/month rent on a small-to-medium apartment, or pay down mortgage on a $400k "starter" apartment in the city.

But if you're lucky, you can find a more rural job, where you only pay like $500/month rent, or could just buy a whole house for the same price that'll get you a small 1 bedroom apt in the city.

There's a ton of variance in the prices here. But then again , larger cities = more jobs. Especially in tech.
> Let us not kid each other. For most people their "work" is not a choice. The system is set up so that it is either you take whatever job you can to survive, or it is homelessness and no health benefits for you and your kids.

I'm not about to complain about my software development job in the US, but if not for job insecurity I'd rather clerk (not even own) at some small retail shop in Europe. And yes I've done "menial" jobs—take away the stresses of US healthcare and retirement systems and worries about your kids' ability to pay for school, add European amounts of time-off, and lots of those jobs are pretty damn great, actually, job-insecurity aside (which is not a trivial thing, I grant—point is about what's "fulfilling" or satisfying in a job).
Feature Ranking with Recursive Feature Elimination in Scikit-Learn
OK. The plot thickens. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/big-fleas-have-little-fl... so .. this is the phrase I remember. Probably the "motto" used by the SF author. Now I remember Peace on earth... and BTW à propos the article cited .. the spy bugs there have very partial vision .. and if I remember correctly they recompose scenes from the multitude of images... I think this is as far as I am going to get. Thank you!
You're overlooking sales, property, and business taxes that folks don't see directly (e.g. property taxes built into rent), which go to the state and local governments. But overall, about half of all government spending in the U.S. is at the state and local levels: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/reg_cit_glance-2018-41-e....

For many of the things people complain about (transit, housing, education, policing) 90% of funding and 99% of oversight authority happens at the state and local level. Republicans in national government have pretty much zero say over say affordable housing policy in California. Trying to pin California's failures in those areas on Republicans in Kansas is specious.
Right - but if you have 50 people living in an apartment building on that land it becomes reasonable again.
Hexadecimal floating point literals in Perl and C++17
Wow I love the #embed directive..
Valid reasoning but I've encountered some situations where you definitely don't want the cheapest possible object when starting out. For instance, when I was learning guitar, at the time, the cheapest guitars were junk and wouldn't stay in tune and had other problems that affected one's ability to use them to practice music. A more expensive instrument is worth it because a beginner stuck with the absolutely lowest tier instrument may never get started because it's so bad. I still think it's wise to get a modest instrument though.
Oh man, I remember about 10 years I got so annoyed with my buys-ass gym and having to wait in line to use a machine that I came up with the idea to track real-time gym attendance and machine usage. It was going to be called WaitLift. It never went further than that awesome name.
Win a turn at wielding the whip, of course.
Someone could produce a new, free version from the now-liberated original German though.
An easy guide to investment valuation ratios
Telegram Messenger Introduces 2GB File Sharing, Mini Thumbnails,Auto-Night Mode
Ask HN: What do you use as ergonomic peripherals?
I work as a full-time programmer. I am interested in improving my ergonomic setup. What keyboard & mouses would you recommend? Not sure if it matters much but I use Mac primarily.
hi there - co-founder of questdb here. The demo on our website hosts a 1.6 billion rows NYC taxi dataset with 10 years of weather data with around 30-minute resolution and weekly gas prices over the last decade.

We've got example of queries in the demo, and you can see the execution times there.

We have posted a blog post comparing the ingestion speed of InfluxDB and QuestDB via InfluxDB Line Protocol some time ago: https://questdb.io/blog/2019/12/19/lineprot
CES 2021 Is Officially Cancelled, Will Be an All-Digital Experience
Interesting. Having worked with both Gatsby and Next I definitely prefer Next. But also this web app is going to need a lot of dynamic content so I would not choose a static site generator like Gatsby for the use case.
Those are all scammy sights covered in ads and tracking by 30-60 ad companies. I prefer to be tracked by just one and not served ads
>Every time I check out at a Kroger store I tell the cashier that I would like to get a membership card.

Seems like a win for them. Now they can tell their investors that their loyalty program is super popular and constantly growing!
I've had this work occasionally but often the opposite experience unfortunately.
I used to buy F91W watches all the time. they were fun and practical, but wasteful.

the most shameful fact about the F91W isnt its spartan design or its affordable price, but the fact that the timepiece with its ten year battery will easily outlast its resin strap, and its springbars are nothing more than pot steel held into the soft plastic lugs by friction alone. Chances are, when you replace the band after a few years youll pay just as much as the watch to do so, and run a pretty good risk of damaging the springbars to the point of rendering them warped or broken. the simple act of removing the springbars themselves is enough to strip out the lugs sometimes.

the clearances between the lugs and springbars are also very tight, so it discourages aftermarket additions like NATO bands or third party straps.

the B650WB is somewhat more durable.
I can imagine the headline now. "Rite-aid banned me because I "look like a shoplifter"".
Restaurants cheap in America? Surely you're kidding, unless you include McDonald's as "restaurant". In my experience, the restaurants in California are twice or more more expensive than France or Italy (especially if you include all costs -tax, mandatory 20% tip) and on average worse quality, so it's not like they compensate for the price with better quality.
Except Fractionnal Reserve. It kinda throws off the idea, how do they do then ?

Let's see, when they lend money they don't have (which is what it is) they increase the number on your account, that is they create a big liability for themselve. On the other hand they create an asset wich is your debt to them. So accounting-wise, it works out, like theorically I could do that (lending) even if I have €0, it's all paper.

But then you're gonna go and empty that account to buy your house, reducing their liability and taking (reducing) their cash instead... that they don't have !

So how does it work ? Does it just work because you don't actually buy houses with bills and coins but with bank transfers, then just shifting the paper magic to another bank ?

To be honest I know they can do something my broke self can't, and it has to du with central banks, but what is it exactly ? Something like "if everybody happens to empty their account to cash at the same time, don't worry mate we'll print them bills and give them to you, pinky promise" ?
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Gerillass: The coolest Sass library!
Gerillass is an open-source toolkit with a set of Sass mixins to help designers and developers create better, faster, and consistent user interfaces.
I wonder that the numbers look like now. I could see someone searching "MSN" for "Google" because MSN was set to their home page, or the default search. I wonder if those practices are still widespread enough to create this same effect.

Given that Chrome is the new IE, I wonder how long (or ever) until they see competitors' brands in their popular search terms.
Hey, just as a long-term advanced guitarist, you should look into getting a professional fret-job/setup for your cheapo guitar first rather than buying a higher end model. You'll save a significant amount of cash that way even if it's a couple hundred dollars to get a quality setup from a good tech.

Or if you're really dedicated to saving money, you can always pick up the almost entirely separate hobby of doing guitar setups yourself, but that's probably not worth it at your current stage, based on how you've described yourself.
Mostly to double check my assumptions and try to dig around and see if there is a downside to Next I'm blind to. Or any gotchas or problems that arise that I wouldn't expect a year or two into the project. Maybe excessive due diligence?

But I'd rather ask around while I have the chance before committing a ton of code.
Density (software) engineer here. Our sensor uses active infrared lasers to read depth, and it classifies "persons" with a deep-learning algorithm that runs on the device.
How the eviction crisis across the U.S. will look
> The current lack of support

I'm not sure that's even true from a tooling perspective. It's true that desktop applications often don't support ARM64, but toolchains usually do because both Android and iOS are primarily ARM64 and are hugely popular platforms.
Lucky you? Usually it's my bluetooth adapter, or my AMD graphics card, or my thunderbolt, or my 4 button mouse... or.. or... the list goes on and on. For a normal experience yeah it generally could work out of the box if I just want chrome and facebook like normal people. But none of us here are normal are we?
So, the first thing you need to understand is that over half of users can't distinguish the ads from the organic results: https://www.stateofdigital.com/adwords-vs-organic-difference...

So if you look at the Appendix example below,

> A good example was OpenText, which was reported to be selling companies the right to be listed at the top of the search results for particular queries

...That is actually what Google itself is doing today, in a very real and practical sense. They claim it's different because ads aren't search results, but since users can't tell the difference anymore, the result is the same.

Another example in the Appendix is about trademark squatting:

> For example, we noticed a major search engine would not return a large airline's homepage when the airline's name was given as a query. It so happened that the airline had placed an expensive ad, linked to the query that was its name. A better search engine would not have required this ad, and possibly resulted in the loss of the revenue from the airline to the search engine.

Google does a slightly modified version of this too: It places competitors' ads above the real result for the airline's brand. This means that, in order for the airline to be the "top result" for it's own brand name, it has to pay Google for an ad that Larry and Sergey conclude "shouldn't be required".

If you search for "best buy" on Google and aren't blocking ads, you'll notice the ad at the top is a Best Buy ad. There's no good reason they should have to buy that ad, because they're obviously the best result, the user already knew what they were looking for. But if you want to be the "top result" on Google search, you have to pay for it now.

And we've hit that mixed motivation issue with an ad-based search engine: Google makes a lot of money when you click an ad. It doesn't make a lot of money when you click the organic search results. So Google has a huge incentive to make the ads look like search results, which is why Google search ads now look nearly identical to search results.
My experience was that the quality of the search results were much better.
Well, sort of. Microsoft and IBM etc. moved out of the space because it was unpalatable to consumers. Now the question is whether the same dynamic will affect Rite Aid, CVS and other major retailers. It's entirely likely that it will, and then you'll see those companies pressured to drop these systems. Articles like this (which bring the practice to public attention -- notice that retailers don't seem eager to disclose it to customers directly) are an important step along the way.

Of course, it's entirely possible that in the end, controlling these practices will require legislation (either to prohibit, or regulate, or at least disclose where this is being done.) If that legislative fight happens, it will be very helpful to not have the most largest and most politically-connected tech firms depending on this stuff as a key revenue stream.
I guess there can be an element of truth (10%? 1%?) in the reporting, just greatly exaggerated and distorted - it won't surprise me if Intel actually had a minor order on something from TSMC.

But I do understand your cynicism on Taiwanese media. From the PTT link, I see one comment says,

> 現在放消息都會被當出貨文.....

Which translate to: Right now, whatever the news leak says, it's all believed [by people] to be a pump-and-dump story.
I don't feel like GH is really meant to be a code review platform. It does PRs, but I assume that review should be done offline (like in other tools, like Crucible).

We have used GH as a review platform for an open-source project, but they tend to be relatively minor PRs. If they got hairier, we'd probably find something else.

Personally, I really don't like having a gazillion different tools. If we can use one tool for several purposes, then that's what I prefer. If the tool becomes too cumbersome, then I'll work with something more specialized.
Possession with intent to sell cocaine on school grounds.
> how can other search engines who respect you as a user even have a chance

Again, I stay away from google for privacy reasons but just because they don’t respect privacy doesn’t have anything to with monopoly status. You can argue for privacy protecting legislation against google but again, that has nothing to do with monopoly status. Other search engines could choose to track you as well. That is a business decision not unfair advantage.
Upvoted because I was going to mention the guitar as an example. High action makes it very difficult for beginners to get a decent sound – particularly if they’re trying to change chords while keeping time. The learning curve for guitar is already steep enough and a cheap guitar could easily put off a beginner and lead them to believe that they are not cut out for playing the instrument.

I’d also add sporting equipment such as mountain bikes to the list. A bike that is marketed as a “mountain bike” may be fine for cycling on paved surfaces but not be entry-level for actual mountain-biking, i.e., be very unpleasant – or downright dangerous – for off-road cycling.

My strategy for starting new hobbies is to research as much as possible, talk to friends who are already past the beginner stage and – if possible – borrow equipment from those friends. After that, try to buy second-hand. Whether or not you keep up the hobby, you can sell on the original equipment. And if you decide to keep with it, you have a better idea of what you want/need when upgrading.
Which is why I am trying to get additional background on the tool before I commit to it.
Can confirm as my startup addresses this market [https://www.photofeeler.com].

The top dating apps are designed such that photos are literally all that matter. What's worse is all of the popular cultural ideas we have about photos are wrong.

Photos don't just show people accurately -- in fact, you need some level of skill just to look as attractive as you do in real life. So no, that unsmiling selfie you took in your basement isn't "just what you look like" or "authentic."

Not to mention, people think and do. Images are still. This creates a situation where humanity can be easily lost. And where the need to brand yourself and put a lot of effort into showing hobbies etc. is paramount.

It's sad to see so many young guys tie their identities to the good or bad performance of their profiles when it's not really them being judged but the pictures they chose.
Should be mostly the same with anything that’s systemd based
Yandex image search also uses facial recognition, which other image search engines have deliberately avoided.

As a result it's getting a lot of interest as a tool for investigative journalism. This tutorial by Bellingcat is really interesting: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/12/26/guid...
> 2. The approach I'm used to of having negative numbers in the debits and positive credits. This makes all the double accounting balancing much simpler. But I can see it may confuse some people when assets are negative.

So, if people were able to overcome their confusion, would you have balance sheets written like this?

$ in millions

ASSETS LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY

Cash and Short Term Investments -133546 Deposits 117756
Other Assets -859422 Other liabilities 784947
------------ ------- ----------------- ------
Total Assets -992968 Total liabilities 902703

Shareholders' equity 90265
==================== ======
Total liabilities
and shareholders' equity 992968

If you really want to change the signs in one of the sides, so instead of getting the same totals they sum to zero, it would make much more sense to do it the other way: keep assets positive and let liabilities be negative (as other commenters have suggested).

$ in millions

ASSETS LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY

Cash and Short Term Investments 133546 Deposits -117756
Other Assets 859422 Other liabilities -784947
------------ ------ ----------------- -------
Total Assets 992968 Total liabilities -902703

Shareholders' equity -90265
==================== =======
Total liabilities
and shareholders' equity -992968

But one property of the usual presentation is lost: equity is no longer equal to net assets (which are $90265mn). You would need to change the sign of equity when considering it as an asset.
It will happen, and it will become a constitutional issue once it becomes ubiquitous enough.

These systems will likely be networked together, building and sharing profiles on known undesirables such that they can be banned from most, if not all stores eventually. Once that happens, there will be a class of people who cannot legally buy food anymore, because to enter a store would be trespass.
Cayce is a Gibson Character. Part of the characters thing is not wearing any clothing that has branded logos, amongst other constraints.
That's well-said. I think it's worth adding that it's a highly resonate argument against modern capitalism.
It's not just America. One reason is increased costs of living in big cities. If you buy a house, you probably are not going to buy one so large that you, your children, and your grandchildren (who will only be born a few decades later) could all live there comfortably. Instead, you just buy one large enough for you and your children. Or just you and your partner, if you are not planning to have kids soon.

But this means that when your children decide to have children, they will have to move away. If they are lucky, they can buy a house near you; but if there are many people who want to live in the city, and the new houses are not built often, or at least not near you, then they will have to move further away from you. And this is still just talking about living in a city... I haven't mentioned proximity to job opportunities or schools yet.
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Maybe Google's search business and ad business should be broken up...
Credentialism - I saw this word used today elsewhere and it sums up what I am trying to say