skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One things is certainly that we would like our tool to be agnostic to data science tools and work with all of them. So you can use pretty much any visualization or ML library.

Another thing is that we’d like to eliminate the need to do any programming or HTML/CSS as much as possible.

Th jobs that are available as a part of the hosted solution is not yet part of the open-source library but this is certainly something for us to consider moving under open-source too.

We are currently at quite an early stage and a lot of work is still ahead. We’ll appreciate any feedback and suggestions on where to steer the roadmap.

Gonna work on preparing more use-case specific tutorials within coming weeks.
I guess what confuses me is that, even assuming good intentions by the new Postmaster General, why and why now?

I believe the main stated reason has been that the USPS loses money and they want to make it break even or profitable. Assuming that's the reason (and not election interference), why should such an infrastructure be breakeven or profitable? And why now, during a pandemic?

There are plenty of government services that aren't even close to breakeven. I imagine USPS actually might be one of the most self-sustaining federal departments. Why should this particular one be profitable? Why should this one be privatized, out of all of them?

The USPS has been one of the most stable, reliable, and predictable forces in my life. Their informal creed speaks volumes to me: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

I'm open to hearing arguments for why the USPS should be profitable (or privatized) and why now is a good time. I'm finding a very hard time imagining why.
Ben Krasnow actually did this at home!

https://youtu.be/Tx2B5hI4w1U
Keep in mind that a lot of this was written during an era where even modestly complex data structures/algorithms had to be rolled by hand.

The philosophy is really to not waste time implementing optimizations that may not be necessary. Naturally you should reach for the best tool you have in your tool box. So if you language of choice has a hashmap that can be used with no additional work, go for it. But don't wait two days rolling your own red-black tree because it might be better.
Not only is it hard, it's the one thing that if you get it right, your technical foundation will be rock solid. But it's the thing most teams and organizations neglect to spend enough time on. I often wonder why this is the case -- my first mentors taught me that logical data modeling was a really important skill. But I never talk about third normal form or any such things with my peers.
Well... can they fix that? Please? At least for the future so this doesn't happen again?

I'm not opposed to nonprofits creating systems to make sure donor money is handled appropriately, but it seems to me there's something seriously wrong with the current structure. In hard times, organizations generally need to focus on their core initiatives, not branch out even more!
Not impossible at all. Divide the subject matter into thousands of specialist areas, and let each area be moderated by it's own community moderators/editors. It only becomes a problem when you try and publish every comment on every subject through a single organisation.
DRY is really valuable for noobs. Like, defining magic numbers twice in adjacent functions is really common behavior for beginners. Likewise, writing the same exact logic several times in different parts of the code without encapsulating into a function. Stuff that would be obvious for even junior devs.

But I do think it falls apart when applied at a more macro level.
That there was so much of it they didn't have resources left to spare for the child porn.
You can also use straight baking soda as an emergency laundry detergent. Depending on the machine and size of the load, 0.5 cup/125 ml to 1.0 cup/250 ml. Just put it in directly with the clothes. No dispenser. Also, definitely NO dishwashing soap should be added...
Enemy #1? I hear more about Facebook in the Firefox default startpage than _everywhere else I look_.

Today, in fact, there is a huge pseudo-advertisiment (at least in fr_FR) about "how I should not feel guilty about browsing Facebook [through Firefox]" , which almost made me puke.

As a person who doesn't care about Facebook whatsoever, I didn't get the impression that FB was enemy #1, but rather I assumed FB was paying them money like Google is...

I can actually see FB being happy to just give money away to Mozilla, just to influence them away from Google.
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This is literally their positioning, California's lawmakers just hate them.

What these changes amount to is removing qualification from the leads, which to me seems like the sort of anti-consumer outcome the law should not produce.
Many people argue that those kinds of contractors are employees. Often your an employee of the contracting firm AFAIK too, so you have to follow the implicit orders of the contracting firm.
>"If the appeal doesn’t work out for Uber, it will be banking on voters to determine its fate. Khosrowshahi said if that’s the case, the service would likely shut down in California until November, when voters in the state decide on Proposition 22, ..."

I'm curious has the current situation with Covid-19 affected the likelihood of this passing? Would't the fact that CAREs Act allowed gig worker to collect unemployment assistance have swayed public opinion on upside of being designated a full time employee and the ability to collect unemployment when things go south?

For all the talk by the companies behind Prop 22 about a "third way", why wasn't the this third classification made a ballot initiative instead of simply saying they should be classified as a an independent contractor? Does it not seem odd to believe in a "third way" but have your legislation call for classification using one of the existing two?[1]

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_22,_App-Based...
excited to be here :D
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Org Babel with emacs jupyter if desired.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dljNabciEGg
https://github.com/nnicandro/emacs-jupyter#org-mode-source-b...
“my family built this country by the way”
Surely the 'scale' issue's answer is for a community to moderate itself. That way, the community should be happy. That's what Slashdot did (does?). All users take part in moderation [if they wish], and take part in meta-moderation.

Using a statistical consensus, and correction of outliers, but doing so through the userbase such that as the community grows so too does the base of moderators.

Making it statistical means that no one moderator can have undue influence (other than site owners).

HN does some 2nd order stuff, flags/vouches from trusted users i think are weighted (?) but doesn't go to the next level of then decreasing the weight of votes for those whose votes were meta-moderated as 'wrong' (ie contrary to community consensus).

In theory that should handle brigading, for example, because you don't know what you'll moderate before you say yes, and you can't choose to moderate - the site chooses you.

Slashdot also had several dimensions to it's moderation and allowed users to choose to consume content contrary to the community norm - eg you can choose to see more humour, even if the community in general doesn't like to view humour.

Still the best system, on paper (I have no idea if they have to constantly fix things!?!) that I've seen.
If I understand you correctly, I think you may have missed the OP's points 1 and 2. All content moderation sucks in this way.
I think I was a pretty cynical bastard at 22 so I would actually have thought they were full of it.
For more algorithm fun exactly like this, check out the classic Hacker's Delight book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker%27s_Delight)
To me, this increases the value of family, the very important human work needed to help new people thrive.

Perhaps we may continue to see expansion in gender role freedom.

The human work is always there and the people who do it are often undervalued. Maybe that will change too.
This is totally possible with Storybook Docs. It also supports markdown (MDX).
I think, in most cases, if you have n items in memory, and you want to find m of them by id, or some such thing, your default should be to represent the n items as a hashmap, not a list, and look them up from the hashmap. There will be cases where this isn’t the right choice, but it’s a good default. And it’s almost always virtually no extra complexity to represent them this way, i.e. often something as simple as: myMap = myList.groupBy(_.id)

Don’t write complex optimizations until you know you need them, but I think defaulting to code with good O(N) complexity, where it’s simple to do so, is a good default.
Well , keep in mind that making money with real revenue , making money of an strategic sale and Improving / solving a real problem are all not always aligned. It is fairly common to achieve one or two of the three and still fail or succeed.

VC funds needs to make money, that only comes of an exit , if you can have real revenue before getting an exit it is great , if you are solving a real problem even better, but those two are not going to help VC meet their goals directly .

You as founder are spending 5-10 years on one thing , for the VC your startup is one among the dozen he is getting on, their tolerance of your failure is far higher than your own tolerance for your failure
I assumed you might be looking for clients in the US. If that's the case I do think it pays to price yourself up rather than down.
There are counter-examples showing that distance is not sufficient to ensure protection. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-restaurant-air-condition...
Thank you. Nice resource.
This take is completely ignorant of the history around this. It is illegal to build anything other than single-family homes in many places in US cities. This is due to an (often-racist) history of homeowners creating laws to keep lower-income people out of their neighborhoods. This continues to this day, where many NIMBY homeowners will fight tooth and nail to prevent any kind of dense development being built in their neighborhood.
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Why is it more 'comfortable'?

From my perspective as a free range kid in the 2000s, by far the most dangerous was crossing the 40 mph streets into other neighbourhood and getting a threat to call the police just because I briefly cycled in the neighbor's backyard.

In that era, I would want less dangerous streets to cross and actual interconnected bike trails.
Yeah, I do well writing dumb inefficient code as default, and optimizing it when needed, which is almost never.

If I know beforehand we'll handle a lot of data, I can pick something fast and complex to begin with, but that effort is probably mostly a waste.
Not as good a system as cabs did. Especially with uber black I got picked up in very very tough areas in a prior job/career. Cabs didn't come period.
Azure DevOps or GitHub?
I've used Atari 800, it was good 4cm tall. I've used laptops, they were too hot.
I'll go back to Lynx if that happens. We need FF and the Gecko engine.
I buy Apple iPhones for the quality of the design and manufacturing, the 5+ years of updates, and the focus on platform security.
Do you use TDD? I'm not religious about it in general, but when I'm lost, confused, and easily distracted, I start with TDD to write the dumbest possible code.
I've always been curious about "content moderation." Theoretically, if you could perfectly allow only content that was Legal in the jurisdiction, wouldn't every website allow everything Legal and be able to just point at the laws and say, "if you don't like it, change the law"?

If so, is the crux of the problem that 1. we don't know what is legal, 2. We can't perfectly allow it, and or 3. Something else.

If 3, is it that websites don't really fear legal repercussions, but fear bad PR, thus alienating users/revenue? If so, doesn't it follow that the level of content moderation will track the projected cost of losing the projected users/revenue?
Does anyone else not click the upvote button when the article has 314, 666, or 1337 upvotes?
PHP and Go, Together at Last
Interesting. In Germany you see kind of the opposite: The (often wealthy and well-connected) people in local politics vote for whatever drives the prices for real estate upwards. Guess who owns the real estate that is not (yet) allowed for building?
I think the Vec example makes the opposite argument from the one you put forth. Vec uses unsafe internally in order to have the desiref API and performance characteristics, but it exposes a safe API. If there are bugs in the unsafe blocks that can cause UB all over the place, but it also makes it easier to audit.

> There is just no way to avoid it and do something useful at the same time.

I don't think that's true. Your code might have to rely on code down the abstraction layers that uses unsafe, as interacting with the hardware is inhere you unsafe, but that doesn't mean that any code you want to write won't be able to leverage the safe abstractions. The argument you're making sounds to me, and please correct me if I'm misunderstanding, that trying to create safe abstractions is sheer folly so we might as well not do so.

I've been writing Rust code for years now and I've never had to write unsafe code myself other than when interacting with C code and when doing so I've found issues with the way the API the C libraries were exposing having fundamental issues.
Primary argument is that most of the entire rest of the world has moved to profitable, privatized mail carrying.
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Would you consider all labor and environmental laws to have been crafted as a weapon?

One could argue that much of our labor and environmental protective apparatus was written to curb behaviors of specific companies (or "business models," if you prefer).
There wasn't an approval process initially because I didn't expect this to be so public/popular, but I've switched and now there's an approval process!
This is silly.

Companies have ALWAYS had test products that they offer to a subset of customers.

There's no legal test to be applied here.
As I was reading, I was slowly understanding that N-bit division would require (in the worst case) an N + 1 bit magic number. How in the world could this be solvable in the general case? My assumption was that we just did division for those numbers the "old-fashioned" way.

But, at the end of the day, the actual solution -- ((n − q) ≫ 2) + q -- is ingenious, fantastic article!
Moderation, even at scale, is a decades old solved problem, and not even a particularly hard one. The reason places like FB etc say it's 'impossible' so they don't open themselves up to legal liability.
Use whatever makes for clearer code, unless you are certain it's the bottleneck.
You know very well that that's not what "explain it" means. If you think the process isn't a secret, then find a document detailing the entire process, with specifics, end to end.

What happens in the extra screening? Is it the same throughout the country? What might vary in the process (YMMV, after all), etc.

You have a purely anecdotal account of what can happen at an airport that isn't even staffed by the TSA (https://www.flysfo.com/about-sfo/safety-security). What everyone else is looking for is a specific, detailed, transparent description of the entire process.
CA is a huge state, and while the big cities are mostly liberal, the rural parts of the state are very conservative. Nixon and Reagan hail from Southern California, and up until fairly recently, Orange County and the Inland Empire were more conservative than the Southeast.

A number of far right groups can trace their origins to the Inland Empire or to CA's far North.

As for the homeless issues: multiple states admit that they use CA as their dumping grounds for their homeless. It was, and still is, the unofficial policy of the state of Texas to buy their homeless tickets to LA. (Former TX governor Rick Perry used to openly brag about this, including when he was running for president.) A recent survey conducted by the LA Times last year found that more than half of LA's homeless aren't even from California. They just came here because authorities back home suggested that they would enjoy CA more. Excluding the non-local homeless, LA would have enough beds to house its own homeless. We just don't have enough to house the entire country's homeless as well.
Is the search deal not expiring?

e: to your edit.

I'm not sure what is wrong with the question. My understanding is that the search deal is expiring and is the source of most of the FF related revenue.

If that is not the case I'd like to know. It seems like a reasonable question.
I agree with you about rush hour and with central downtown locations only, although even at those times and for those specific routes the Bay Area only approaches parity with the other cities I listed.

I think the point about geographic density is completely fair as an explanation for why the disparity exists, but it mostly serves to confirm the general point.

If you consider the percentage of locations or population addressable in a unit of time - e.g. in 1 hour, by public transport. The Bay Area does terribly.

This is an argument why public transport cannot substitute for ride share or car services in the Bay Area in the way that it can in other cities.

I speak as someone who has personal experience of all of these cities.
Worst case, you can sample the 360 frames to get images with a smaller field of view. However, the app takes in camera intrinsics and positional data so it seems like it would work out of the box.
If it wasn't targeted, then why are there so many exceptions written into the law? Lawmakers added exemptions for dozens of different types of businesses. If this was intended to be a generic law about worker classification they wouldn't have needed to do that. They really had Uber and similar companies in their crosshairs, and they intended to apply this law narrowly to them.
Yeah not really a surprise. Most of the surveys I've read show something like 10-12% of people have never left their state, and 40% or more of Americans have never left the US.

HN is overwhelmingly technical, educated, well-off, and travels a lot -- most of the US (and other places, for that matter) aren't.

See also: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lealane/2019/05/02/percentage-o...
How do they take into account the insects that were in areas turned into fields, industries and cities ?

Are there traps there as well ?
Doesn't that reinforce extremes and encourage enclaves: which is why Reddit end up closing whole communities (the good and bad in those communities). You're just putting off moderation of extreme content that doesn't confirm to a community consensus at all by hiding it in a corner and letting it grow without control.
Parks and many beaches are closed due to covid-19. You can't escape the pandemic when the directive is to shelter in place.
Donors don't fund Firefox. Search engine revenue does. Every scrap of evidence suggests that donations will absolutely not fund work at the scale of Firefox. If they did our overall open source infrastructure would be in much better shape.
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Phone number validation of users has several advantages:

- Information is displayed in real time. This means that the company will be able to monitor changes in users’ location, wherever it is, very quickly. You will be able to see the updated information about each person, whose number is in the database.

- There is information about the operator. You will be able to see not only the relevance of the number, but also find out which operator it belonged to before the transfer using the tool to verify phone numbers.

- You know the current location of your customer. Information about the country of your subscriber is very important. It avoids the cost of sending notifications to a customer before they return to their home country and can use your services.

- It is possible to combine several services. HLR allows you to combine the service with client authentication. The company will be able to perform mobile number address verification and choose the best way to verify the data.

- Convenient format or information. The response about location and other information about users will be provided in the selected form. This means that you can customize the format of displaying numbers, text, and so on.

- Quick integration with the database. At the time of sending a request and getting a response, the database of information will be updated in real time. Current information will be saved automatically, it won’t take extra time.

The principle of the HLR technology is as follows. The databank contains information about those clients who have access to the GSM network. The information is updated the moment the operator activates a new customer number. Telephone numbers are kept in the database until a consumer stops using their number. If clients stop using their SIM card, such information is deleted from the database automatically.
Clancy did embellish a few things and speculated rather a bit to make an entertaining scenario.

All told, a good solid read, and accurate in a bunch of not-quite critical details, but don't lean too hard on the edges of the story.

Same with Red Storm Rising. Very well told, close to a solid "what if", but lots of little touches to make it entertaining as well.
There was a time when you paid by credit card using a mechanical copy of the credit card and data was manually entered at the end of the day. It sadly doesn't work well with new style credit cards that don't have raised numbers, but for that you could just take a picture.

It's not ideal, but it can work. The internet has made a lot of things happen smoother or faster, and some things happen in "real time" that previously could not, but as a whole... life without it wasn't horrible.

Kids used to write notes to each other instead of text messages.

Cashiers used to look at a schedule that was manually created and posted on the break room door on sundays. If you weren't working that day, you'd ask a friend to check for you.
Well, in science you actually usually get bonus points for "surprising" results, so while I'm glad they published it I think the same incentives that encourage scientists to publish some findings and trash others are still at play here.
In my view, that's exactly right.

They should either treat their drivers like FT employees, pivot to a new (legal) service, or shut down entirely (and disband the company).

If they can't treat their drivers decently and follow the law, they shouldn't exist.
The reason to make changes now would be so that they're set in stone before the next administration comes into power and tries to change everything back. This logic applies to every agency, and is one of the reasons NASA's Ares system got cancelled so quickly by the Obama administration (before they had an alternative vision for space exploration).

The reason to privatize this one is because it has direct competitors, and does not accomplish anything which requires the powers of the federal government. Other departments such as the Department of Energy are not interchangeable with a private competitor, and perform functions which require direct federal involvement (guarding nuclear weapons and working with the armed services).

Some people (including myself) believe the federal government should be as small as possible, and the USPS is simply one of the easiest parts to spin-off/get rid of.
This reminds me of this old joke: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1089588