skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Individual rights are not processes of checks and balances. Those rights can be withdrawn in a jiffy, whenever required or convenient. What good does the right to bear arms do you as an individual when you're deemed a dangerous criminal, or as a group when you're deemed a terrorist organization? What good does the right to free speech do you if your speech is inconsequential?

> The fact that if a piece of evidence is acquired against you in an unlawful way it cannot be used against you in court as a US citizen

The US has repeatedly manufactured and framed political dissidents when it has felt politically threatened historically. Those rights you're talking about were useless to them.
This is the style in which Brian Greene wrote much of his Until the End of Time, here is just one example: "the position and the speed of a particle—that a classical physicist in the mold of Isaac Newton would adamantly claim can be specified with complete certainty but that a quantum physicist realizes are burdened by a quantum fuzziness that makes them uncertain."
> An effective PhD advisor/thesis isn't wandering the woods to find something. It's a guided coaching exercise, with an outcome in mind.

There is a tradeoff here. One of Eric's selling points for his lab is obviously that students get a lot of intellectual freedom to develop their own ideas. This is the "wandering the woods" approach, which was my advisor's as well. The advantage is the freedom, as well as the responsibility and intellectual independence that comes from exercising it. The disadvantage is that it can lead to a lot of wasted time and dead ends.

The "guided coaching exercise", when taken to the opposite extreme, results in an advisor that hands a project with clearly defined goals and outcomes to the student. That kind of approach usually, in my experience, leads to more and higher-impact papers. It does not develop the student very well, but it does develop their CV, which is quite important, and once that student becomes a postdoc, it is do-or-die time, and every CV item helps.

But if we just view this advice as "how should someone doing a project conceptualize their project", this is good advice. Although you would be astonished how many PIs don't follow it. I've had PIs want to write papers before seeing a single figure. I've had countless collaborators send me data to analyze without any clear idea what sort of results/analysis they want, without a hypothesis even.
Thanks! I know many companies get away with it, but I still find it odd for shareholders to not have any control. They'll own it but have no say in how the company is run.
The problem of finding the Centreline of the banana is similar to an issue you get in the GIS domain when rivers are captured as polygons.

Although it's not a straightforward process a series of Vorononoi polygons makes a pretty good Centreline. I think it might work for bananas.

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/318721/creating-cent...
Show HN: Qew – a tiny queueing library written in TypeScript
This is my first published NPM package. It has a very simple API but I'd welcome any feedback and suggestions. Thanks for looking!
Not sure if they will keep this edge given all the loss of talent.
It looks even much better than 2016 at least earlier this year before the pandemic. Haven't been there since the shutdown.
Python Mmap: Improved File I/O with Memory Mapping – Real Python
Very cool, thank you! Will do! And I didn't know about about:crashes page, very interesting!
I probably wouldn't mind Vegas except for one extremely important thing. The whole place reeks of cigarettes and I can't stand it. I don't ever want to live in a place where indoor smoking is legal.
> In American capitalism's latest crisis, the combination of growing unemployment and worsening inflation has confounded all the usual experts. The most powerful nation in history cannot erase poverty, provide full employment, guarantee decent housing or an adequate diet or good health care to its people. Meanwhile, the rich get richer. Only Marxism, as an account ofthe rational unfolding of a basically irrational capitalist system, makes sense of our current chaos. In class struggle, it also points the way out. The rest is up to us.

I'm calling baloney on the "fact-based information". That's not an objective source; that's a true believer being a cheerleader.
I read Business Model Generation and found it super hand-wavy and not very helpful/actionable at all. YMMV but I really disliked it.
As an Albertan living in Edmonton and as per the feasibility study mentioned in the article, I don't think this is happening. That said, if by some miracle it does happen, that would be awesome!
Today you can randomize the URL to the asset in the page. With bundles you can randomize the URL to the bundle, which then can randomize the URL to the asset.

It's one level of abstraction but if you can control the content of the bundle then you can also control the URL to that bundle, therefore there is no difference. If it's from a 3rd party then you can block the domain or bundle address. If it's 1st party then it's all the same abilities as today.
Or right up until FedEx and UPS agree on burner phones Dec 1 that they aren’t taking more than a pittance of the holiday spike traffic, leaving Amazon in the lurch.
I'd guess that a lot of the delay comes from auditing and then getting someone at the SEC to actually read your filing before publishing it. In terms of how many people are involved, this might help give you an idea: "We have engaged Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (“Morgan Stanley”), Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Allen & Company LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Jefferies LLC, HSBC Securities (USA), Inc., SG Americas Securities, LLC, CIBC World Markets Corp., Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., and MUFG Securities Americas Inc. as our financial advisors."
The budget for operating the root servers is unlikely to be shared with the budget for operating Sitefinder.
There's a Toolbar setting for whether to have the bar at the bottom or top. It's under Settings > Customize.
Galaxy Note 20 Ultra teardowns show two different cooling solutions
They're mostly above 50, but are still incredible athletes. The team I'm on is all 20-somethings, most of which played Division 1, club or similar, with a mix of some recent ex-pro Eastern Hockey League players; just the nature of the league, top talent needs somewhere to play if going pro isn't an option and none of us want to sandbag in a lower division, that's just not fun.

I would also say that the younger players are way higher aerobic conditioning and the speed of top amateurs approach pro level speed now in these top tier leagues. I track my speed on my Apple watch I regularly hit low/mid 20 MPH during these league games, and I'm probably the 3rd or 4th fastest guy on the team (and def the oldes - thank god for those REHIT sprint workouts I do). So when you add it all up, the ex-pros have their hands full for sure. It's a lot of fun though, and generally the ex-pros play hard but rarely get worked up/hot/chippy and our games against them tend to be the most clean, skilled games we have. And no, they most certainly don't win every games, they're in the top half for sure always though.
Data is just as much a story you choose to believe as mythology is.
Drawing on making the quiz optional and taking some inspiration from HN.

Two ideas:

1. ‘Verified’ comments sort to the top.

2. Unverified comments go 50% grey.

Eg “Wait whys my comment gray? Oh actually I’ll answer that verification question to push it up”
You can email the mods using the footer Contact link and ask them to dupe them all together, if you provide them the HN story links for the dupes.
It probably has split too.
Sorry if this post seemed like a response to yours. It’s not. I didn’t find your post unreasonable, nor did I think you were implying that climate change is non-existent. You simply were pointing out fire’s role in nature, and I added my own response in-line with your post to call out what I see as a distinction between milder forest fires and the ones that are becoming more common today.

In general I aim to respond to people directly if I disagree :)

[But in this particular case I was responding in frustration to a trend of comments, not one in particular.]

I’m sorry that my post added additional stress to your day — it really was not my intention.
Do we have enough atoms?
Sounds like your country isn't as commonly affected. Lucky you :)
I'll disagree. There are too many regressions in the new UI (FF/Android Beta, 80.0.1 over regular FF/Android 68.0). I use FF everywhere exclusively and that includes on my tablet, where keyboard and mouse shortcuts are totally missing; not even ctrl-T for a new tab. The UI breakage and uncanny valley only seemed to increase when I checked out Nightly to see if things got better there. Also, while I understand why a phone friendly layout takes top priority with meager dev resources, the loss of the "desktop-like" layout on the tablet is kinda painful on a tablet. A cursory search about these things is that Mozilla simply needs to focus on the major points first and edge cases like tablets will come later.

On the plus side, the webview capability is wicked cool and I have several PWA's "installed" to my home screen. I'm really enjoying that.

I understand things will improve with time. It's just a bit of a rocky experience right now.
BBCOR has solved this problem with metal bats; their COR is identical to wood bats (and likely worse in the aggregate).
I gave Google the domain YouTube.com.cn
people LIKED the fact that Flash content could be bundled that way

Developers did. People didn't. People hated Flash because it was bloated, downloaded slowly, and killed anything with a battery.

All this pining for Flash is just revisionist history inside the HN bubble from people who have forgotten how much Flash was hated by the general public.
Bah. no 2 dimensional model can be taken seriously here, the problem is 3d and therefore much more complicated. insert $500k grant proposal
why people keep dragging Google into this, when Android has plenty solutions for distributing APK outside their play store?
It's an excerpt from Palantir's S-1 that was filed today, not some kind of mastermind PR.
"I have proof", but no proof is given.

Perhaps Reddit is just trying to stop a misinformation campaign.
> But "data mining" is also a term for analysis which finds patterns or insights in a large dataset, i.e. data is the input from which more valuable results are filtered/composed/summarized. I thought Palantir was all about that.

Indeed, that definition is definitely how I, and most tech-oriented folks I interact with, would define data mining. First and foremost.

But as stated in a different comment thread above, they don't "do" data mining, they just sell data mining tools and how-to manuals! Totally not the same thing!
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Their private valuation is more SaaS like, though. Revenue of 724 million, last private valuation of 20 billion, which is a 26x revenue multiplier.

IBM, on the other hand, has a 2x revenue multiplier.

Maybe this isn't the best metric to use, and Palantir does have better margins, but I just can't see these numbers being worth their current valuation as a services business.
Note that TransPod is the maglev vactrain variant of hyperloop, distinct from the air bearing system in the original hyperloop white paper. This avoids new technology, and lets you use existing COTS maglev track, but... would be more expensive per mile than air bearings. Curious choice for a train in Alberta.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransPod

As other commentors have noted, this is a pre-pre-pre announcement. They're not even talking about breaking ground for another 5 years.
Wow, it's quite impressive to raise that much money without a public product. Congrats!
Vegas is not bad for outdoor activities either. World-class rock climbing, good hiking and mountain biking, 2 hours to the Grand Canyon, 2.5 to Zion National Park, 5 to Mammoth (not close but no worse than Los Angeles). Alex Honnold owns a house there.

If I ever achieve my dream of being a seasonal nomad, Vegas just might make the cut.
I mean the Microsoft Store charges 30% for games, Google play is 30%, Steam is 30%, I'm sure there are app stores I'm not thinking of that charge 30%.

It seems to be the industry standard App Store cut.
Incidentally, this affects how my ISP implements its domain blocks. Non-HTTPS sites are 307 redirected to https://assets.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html, whereas connections to HTTPS sites are just halted (IIRC, it sends a TCP reset, but it's a while since I looked into it).
Incorrect.

Requiring HTTPS would absolutely protect against hijacking of top-level domains that aren't registered, as no SSL/TLS issuer that's trusted by browsers will issue certificates covering those domains.

A first step towards that eventual outcome would be to default to https:// for anything typed by a user that doesn't start explicitly with http:// so that they are protected from NXDOMAINs in that regard.

I hope that the various browsers implement at least that first step.
The address to the bundle will also be different in that case, therefore you can block the bundles themselves.

You might lose some granularity in the filtering but most blocking is already done per-domain rather than specific assets.
an interesting article

thanks for sharing this

thankfully Kindle is not selling very much (relatively) so it is not a big issue if they collect a lot of data
Network Embedding as Matrix Factorization: DeepWalk, Line, PTE, Node2vec Unified
I visited maybe 4-5 years ago. I had just read about Hsieh, and his business philosophy, and his attempt to revitalize downtown Las Vegas.

It was ... odd.

My immediate impression was favorable. A very quirky looking area -- a small outdoor mall, with the buildings framing a little courtyard area. Built out of shipping containers, or something that looked like that.

But the businesses. Each one was quirky in the extreme. A combination convenience/art supply store. A store selling nothing but socks. A store selling used luxury goods. Maybe one of these could survive in a high traffic area of a conventional mall, but there was nothing to draw anyone. There was a bar that had some odd twist, but I don't remember what the twist was.

I didn't see how the area could survive. It wasn't right in the middle of downtown LV, so I don't think they could rely on people visiting there. I'm sure there were people like me who somehow heard of it, and went to visit. But one visit was plenty. There was absolutely nothing to draw me back. And it was pretty deserted.
> This aspect feels like the problem in the US of big business battling for deregulation which... isn’t always so great.

Big businesses actually battle for narrow carveouts of existing regulations along with the addition of more regulations that are easy for them to handle but hard for newer entrants to handle. Big businesses actually like regulations as long as they're carefully crafted to already match whatever outdated practices they're already following, to hamper competition. Most of this has already happened in the past which is why we have companies like Boeing now who cannot innovate anymore.
Well good thing you started with that since you are clearly not familiar with him at all. He is very very well read and highly involved with the charity.
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You do, but if I built a game using Unreal Engine then I'd be using my developer account to sign my game.
Here is Palantir's Github presence, with almost 200 open-source projects: https://github.com/palantir
Do you want my business? I have gone elsewhere with my money instead of solving for crosswalks before
A prudent leaker may easily spot some of the techniques
None of that has anything to do with how it was bundled.
It will be interesting to see how many of these IPOing company employees move this year and next to avoid CA capital gains tax. (Asana, Airbnb, Doordash, Lemonade are others).

California taxes capital gains at 13%, and 9 states have none (Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming). As an employee, you could save $130,000 on your $1 million dollar gain.

That pays for an awesome rental house in Seattle or the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. It will be a lot more tempting since you can just ride out covid for a year or so and keep working remotely like you are now. You can time this to your liking since the trigger is you selling the stock, so you can move in 2021 and sell in 2022. Realistically having 1 successful IPO is very lucky, maximizing the return makes a lot of sense.

And I think this is much a much sharper decision than for public company employees. You will have been accumulating stock for 4-10 years and it's been completely illiquid. You get this big hammer of a tax bill when you sell, and it's very tempting to optimize it. This is always happened a little but in covid times, it seems like it will be 10x of the usual. Expect a lot of complaints from Seattle and Austin :-).
There are rules around revenue recognition [1]. These rules provide guiding principles, and there's some human judgment involved in ironing out the details. Its almost certain that the revenue would be spread over the life of the contract, but it's possible that the contract has some growth baked in, so the latter years may be more heavily weighted than the early years.

You can see how much prepaid money is "waiting" to be recognized by looking at Deferred Revenue on the balance sheet. $263 million at the end of 2019.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/revenuerecognition.asp
Sites are allowed to set cookies without consent when they are strictly necessary for site functionality. They do not need to provide you with the option to decline. The gray area is that they need explain why and how the cookies are strictly necessary but the prescriptions around that explanation are missing.
Maybe this is why Amazon sends a huge chunk of their packages via USPS. Part of the deal between the USPS and Amazon included some pretty big incentives to deliver Amazon packages on time. My wife worked for USPS for years and Amazon packages were given pretty high priority.
Does not work, can you point to a tutorial? And does this include the Kindle app?
Today I learned this existed.
That's not really enough. As an example ANY operation involving filesystem or memory access has no defined limit on how long it can take.

Your filesystem can decide to do some housekeeping while you do write and as simple thing as dereferencing a pointer can cause cause context switch to Linux kernel to do the TLB thing. You might want to allocate some memory and then Linux might decide to move a bunch of memory around before it gives the pointer back to you.

What I mean is, to be able to guarantee execution of a piece of code is not a simple task for the faint hearted. You need to forget IO. You need to forget switching context to Linux (basically forget any syscalls). You need to forget allocating any memory after program startup. You need to use really huge pages. Forget being green, because changing CPU frequency or sleeping can cause unexpected latency in the middle of some operation.

Also doing this inside VM is neigh impossible.
I assume at some point the calculus flipped for ISPs to not annoy you with low-quality ads and make customers cut them out, but instead operate a real DNS resolver so you can still sell their real-time browsing history to advertisers. Part of that is the Google and Cloudflare marketing campaigns for their public resolvers, so people had a ready alternative.
Not at all. No. The CCP will bend the law and the laws don't go nearly far enough to protect the individual.

Obviously China is currently an authoritarian, uniparty state, so there's only one way to fight that: revolution.

> It's not really a good sign as you think that people are winning legal battles against the state anywhere, because that's merely a symptom of the state abusing the law in the first place.

Really? That's your argument? There are thousands of civil disagreement lawsuits that are generate from either unintentional mistakes or are grey area at best and far from clear even in statute. The law is of course, not a binary good vs evil thing.

> What matters is how much government abuse of the law that exists in the first place. It might be much higher in the US for all you know.

Obviously when the CCP controls the law, they are free to re-interpret it or rewrite it to place themselves clearly in those bounds. That's the beauty of absolute power, and the horror of it.
It’s called the advancement of science and it’s one of the reasons it is not generally a frontline treatment (because we have more effective treatments now, as well as resistance).

You might as well say that a person is too phlegmatic and needs bleeding when they have gallstones.

The world moves, move with it
If you think it has issues now, you should have seen it pre-downtown revitalization. I went to high school in downtown and you wouldn’t dare stray from campus. Literal meth lab houses would blow up in that area during PE class. It’s not perfect now but you feel safe walking there anytime of day. As for payday loans and all the other items listed, that’s just how Vegas works. It’s sad but I doubt a gambling town could be any other way.
That it works for all devices on your network. Even ones that don't have an etc/hosts :)
Agree, Vegas doesn't fit with the tech hipsters and eco friendly Silicon valley types.
In my limited experience, the role is titled “software developer” or similar, but is actually mostly a technical writing role pretending to be development in order to justify the necessary expense. With occasional development duties. But that’s the only context I’ve seen it approach that figure (including taking into account benefits like health insurance).
Not sure where they got their cost estimate from, but I spend a lot more than $250/year on each of my two cats (and 250 NZD is only ~160 USD). Still, fun article :)
It hasn't.
precisely the question I had in mind

seems like a good dude. Hopefully he kept most of it
I mean that the folks living in a house that's appreciated a lot may want to cash out their equity, adding another buyer and a bunch of money to the market.
I don't think this project will happen, but it has some similar characteristics. Two cities with metro populations over 1 million that are separated by approximately 300kms of flat, sparsely populated land seems like a perfect test case.