skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's something I'd love to do differently. The problem is I don't have the technical skills to build that website myself. As I said in the cookie banner, I disabled all the trackers I could. Unfortunately, Squarespace doesn't let its customers disable all of them, which is extremely annoying.
It's rather intuitive that you can have multiple files.
They're right there in your directory, and you see them:
a.txt
A.txt
And you get that they're files.. It's just plain weird to do extra work to eliminate this freedom.
I don't think anyone needs to explain it to anyone.. If you've already decided only to have files in one case, you'll never need to communicate this.. If you've decided to make use of both, you'll refer to them by their casing.. "mom, please open the myfile.txt, the one with an uppercase M", except, in writing, we don't even need to be so specific..
In my email to mom, I'll write "Please open MyFile.txt" and when mom sees theat there is a myFile.txt and MyFile.txt in the directory, she won't have trouble figuring out which one I meant."
This is dumb. Predictive policing algorithms predict where the police will be, not where crime takes place: as crime data is simply a measurement of policing activity.

If there is bias in policing, it would therefore be amplified.

Ban police from using this technology.
I’m not referencing persecution, but surveillance. I’ll admit that it is a gray area. But dubious or outright false criteria are used all the time until a court orders the police to stop.

As for “putting more patrol cars in high-crime neighborhoods,” that is somewhat different IMO because a high-crime neighborhood actually commits more crime (assuming accurate reporting). But, for example, “plays violent video games,” is a meaningless statistic with no correlation to reality.
Except for this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811–1812_New_Madrid_earthquak...

"The 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes were a series of intense intraplate earthquakes beginning with an initial earthquake of moment magnitude 7.2–8.2 on December 16, 1811, followed by a moment magnitude 7.4 aftershock on the same day. Two additional earthquakes of similar magnitude followed in January and February 1812. They remain the most powerful earthquakes to hit the contiguous United States east of the Rocky Mountains in recorded history."
> don't think Houston is a city that was designed to be evacuated

No city is. Evacuations take planning, discipline and enforcement.

Identifying those most at risk, finding bottlenecks, rationing throughput, deploying support to those at the end of the line and enforcing rules (as well as messaging such enforcement) are key.

For a hurricane hitting Houston, this would start with regularly distributing evacuation maps to residents of low-lying areas. When a hurricane is to hit, the most at-risk neighbourhoods are ranked. Evacuation capacity is measured and schedules set (e.g. X neighbourhood to evacuation before Noon on Monday, Y neighbourhood after Noon). If the smallest easily-communicated neighbourhood would still overcome evacuation routes, ration by e.g. last number or letter of license plates. If the storm is likely to hit before the last group gets going, pre-position resources (e.g. sand bags, generators and fresh water) there. Since the high-risk were evacuated first, these areas should be both less-intensely and later impacted. Finally, police entry points to stop rule breakers. Police the routes themselves, and don’t be shy about arresting and shaming people who panicked or thought they were better than everyone else.
At the cocoa heads user group I heard that ruby is very popular for their services more recently.
Science works so much better than "thoughts and prayers". I hope we learn to apply it everywhere on the environment, especially conservation.
I would use it. But only if it worked ;)
My idea is that I want a model that will basically detect if my kid is whining or not. As a parent, I hate whining, but I also hate monitoring all the time for whining, and would love a robot to tell my kid "you're whining". If I could set up a smart speaker, or a raspberry pi, or a iphone or android app or something to just be listening all the time and tell my kid to use a normal voice, that would be awesome.
So I would pay for it, but I wouldn't pay absurd amounts of money. I would want to test it out and see that it works. If it did, I would need an easy way to export the model into iOS/android and python. If I knew it was going to work, and I wasn't going to run into stupid problems (I get a model but I can't figure out how to run it unless I'm inside your web GUI or something for example), then I would pay a couple hundred dollars. If I didn't know if it was going to work or not, then I would probably only pay 20 or 30 dollars.
The world is grey, not black and white.

These are collectives of politicians, who have a huge number of difficult problems to solve and limited means of solving them. They have conflicting, national, local and, yes, some personal demands. A mass of conflicting ideology, with varying levels of diligence, ethics and greed.

Expecting absolute morals is expecting the impossible.

Compared to virtually any government in history, and most governments today, the EU is far, far from corrupt. Yes there is corruption. But no government has no corruption.

And it's certainly not helpful, or thruthful, to use silly rhetoric like 'The ship sailed long ago on the EU being anything but corrupt'.

That is a lie, and I can only hope you are adult enough to admit it is one.
> Applebot is used for generating attachment previews in iMessage (eg. Send someone a URL — the preview is from Applebot crawling it)

Is this true? I would have assumed that would be done locally on device. The preview image, for example, is what's designated by the Open Graph[0] og:image tag.

[0]: https://ogp.me
Which is completely different.

You do understand how what you perceive and what they intend are different things, right? And that jumping from "it is inconvenient for me" to "they only intend to cause me harm" is a serious leap.
The choice is don't build for MacOS. In the long run Apple won't be happy with that and maybe they'll waive the fee.
The government was supposed to represent people, but since we made corruption legal, its mainly accountable to money. Corporations and the government alike are therefore controlled by those with wealth and intent. They're two sides of the same coin.
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This has been hashed out many times. Government cannot be allowed to use private companies as a shield. For instance (this has been tried in the US/canada/uk etc) can a city violate the rights of citizens if it hires a "private" company to conduct policing? Can a city ban certain people from walking the streets if it puts those streets in the hands of a "private" holding company?

So what if the government partners with all the large tech companies to have them voluntarily enforce restrictions on speech? Oh, you're free to say whatever you want, just not online. Or on the airwaves. Or in public parks, which were recently put in control of a private management company too. You are free to stand in your bedroom and talk to the wall. Just don't talk loud enough that your corporate landlord kicks you out for a noise violation.
"Insane" how? Its budget is $5,430 per person, 33rd in the nation. The highest is North Dakota at nearly $20k per person. California falls between Nebraska ($5,024) and South Dakota ($5,575)[1].

It's big because it's a big state. If it were a country, it would be in the top 50 in the world by population, and 5th by GDP. It's got issues of its own, like any other large organization, but there's nothing particularly out of line about its budget.

They're doing this not because the budget is in deficit (it was going to be in surplus this year, before the pandemic, and had been in surplus for a while) but because it wants to shift the burden of its budget to those with wealth (and away from the middle class, especially the lower-middle-class). It may or may not be a good way to do that, but it's not because it's desperate for money. Quite the reverse: it's got so much money that it gets to choose how it funds itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_budgets
Show HN: Symbolic AI: automated reasoning in a browser
I do not agree that's clearly a statement of fact. An unrelated example that demonstrates why: laat week, I was having a (text) conversation with two other people, and I made a comment to the effect of, "I think it's a waste of time for you to argue about X, figuring out how to do Y would be more productive instead." To which one of the other participants responded, "...but we were talking about Z, not X!"

The literal words we had written were the facts. Their meaning was up for interpretation. If something as basic as the subject of a conversation cannot be necessarily be agreed upon, something more complicated like "does this infringe on a patent?" certainly has room for disagreement.
I keep hearing this, but it is not as if native applications are sitting still while PWAs catch up. By the time PWAs hit current native application levels of functionality--if they ever do--native applications will be operating at a higher level of functionality yet again.

I've got some PWAs on my phone, and they're great. They're also very simple compared to many native apps I use. And I think that will likely be the case for some time to come, and maybe forever on iOS for security reasons.
Not exactly related, is it that perhaps doctors are one of the major professions where there is not much of an audit or continuous review of outcomes once they are appointed?

Perhaps there needs to be some type of continuous formal evaluation system as is applied to airline pilots.
People are Awesome...
In the US, the first scenario is not a problem anymore since the Affordable Care Act requires coverage of pre existing conditions.
The Covid-19 Bradykinin Hypothesis
Building a Culture of Experimentation into Your Software Delivery Process
The ship may have sailed, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t push back against further abuses of power. It’s easy to give more power to them, but much harder to remove it.
uBlock says 9 domains, and the article starts with a "trigger warning". Hard pass.
I'm not even sure case insensitivity would be the naive human thing to expect. When I first made contact with computers (and typewriters!) in elementary school around 1990, whenever I pushed space while holding shift I got worried that I created an "uppercase space" and quickly deleted it with backspace. I kept that habbit for quite a long time.
Seems like you're trading one risk for the certainty that you'll eventually flood your house. Flooding basements isn't uncommon, if you move your living area downstairs then you'll be flooding that instead.

Also, most people don't want to live in daylight bunkers to mitigate a risk.
This is why I love opinionated frameworks, why I love hand-holding tutorials, why I love abstractions. I don’t like code. I don’t like writing it, I don’t like reading it, I don’t like thinking about it. A mechanic doesn’t love his crescent wrench, he loves working on engines. The wrench is just a tool. What I enjoy is the final product and seeing a project come together as time goes on.

“The right tool for the job” doesn’t matter for most regular CRUD boring programming work. Django vs Rails vs a huge bundle of JS libraries cobbled together at random... for most programming work it doesn’t matter. So why not pick the one that lets you get your job done the quickest and easiest?

I get nothing (nothing but added stress) from trying new frameworks and new libraries and new packages constantly. I want to learn the right way to do something and then get down to business. My boss and my stakeholders don’t care what language or framework I’m using. The only consideration I need is “how quickly and easily can I get this done” and to be honest most of the time that’s Rails.

These days I’m using AWS Amplify which is an opinionated framework for AWS serverless apps and that’s all I really want... someone to make the “right” decisions for me so I can get my own work done. Because my job isn’t to pick languages and frameworks, it’s to produce a finished product.
You’re right; I had a brain fart. Fixed. Thank you.
People like to have windows, rather than everyone living in a basement. And tornadoes aren't that common anywhere in the US midwest.
The USG doesn't respect speech rights of it's citizens either so idk where this grandstanding keeps coming from that we're still the champion of free speech when every night police beat and pepper spray people for exercising those rights.
Part of the argument of the "abolish the police" movement is that putting cars in high-crime neighborhoods becomes as self fulfilling prophecy. More police mean more crimes, even for slight infractions that someone in a lower crime neighborhood (read: white and middle class) would likely get away with.

I think the issues here are much more nuanced than rhetoric can encompass, but the problem with preventative policing strategies is that they seem to find a way to justify themselves, making them ultimately self defeating and that perhaps preventative policing should be replaced with other preventative measures.
Notarization is an automated process. There's no human involved.
> I know that Daily Mail and the like love to hate Brussels but Brussels is only what it is let to be.

That's trite, and insulting.
It's a good idea but you will run into the following issues:

* Your users won't have enough data

* Your users will have bad data

* Your users will have sensitive data that they can't upload

* Your model would need to be tweaked for best outcomes
You may wish to give Wordpress a look. It's infamously easy to install, and will happily run on a $5/month digitalocean VM. Installing a caching addon (one or two clicks from the store) will make a site that can survive being linked to directly on HN.

Last I knew Squarespace had an export option, so you might be able to just bring all your content over without much hassle.
It sounds like we're all agreeing then. The other cities you're alluding to that actually do build enough housing to meet the demand for local jobs are doing things right. Contrast with the cities we've been discussing in this thread which have not been allowing much new housing development to meet demand and thus are creating all of the problems being talked about here.
This would destroy the ability of businesses to take on fixed costs.

Or imagine a hospital that only did high margin elective care. Instead of keeping the low margin service available while it struggled financially, it just wouldn't offer any services. Winning!

Interestingly, loss/waste aversion has caused problems in US healthcare. CON laws haven't done anybody any good, save incumbent hospitals.
Then you don't. Like you don't build a car yourself.
Can you prove that you aren't yourself? How would someone prove that?? I believe you are allowed to say "free tibet" etc on tiktok without any problems right now.
Yeah, I don't see anything absurd either. It's about the same price as a Netflix subscription. It wouldn't be hard to imagine that there exists an audience for Masterclass.
That would be a good point if the non-metric system we are discussing was based in binary. It's mostly (but not entirely) based around base-12 and uses 1/3 very commonly as a fraction (as well as 1/6). 1/3 and 1/6 does not have an exact floating point representation.
The US also has the highest prison population in the world, I'm so surprised everyone seems to be fine with that. I cannot imagine calling yourself free when 1 in 150 people is imprisoned.
If you are writing about the importance of privacy, you might consider what you are doing about it yourself if you want to be taken seriously.

It is 2020, setting up a website that doesn't send off the data of your trusting visitors to third parties should be totally standard. Yet not even people advocating for privacy can get this done.

BTW. one benefit of not collecting and tracking is that you won't have to show that silly cookie banner.
Nice try. Tell you what: what if you come work for me and deal with developers whose machines break and deciding how to spend a limited hardware budget so as to maximise productivity and minimize downtime.

I am, of course, assuming you will be doing this for free. Certainly the opportunity to troll people will be its own reward.
Somewhat related: Privacy is Power - Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa Véliz

https://www.amazon.com/Privacy-Power-Should-Take-Control-ebo...
Solvitur Ambulando
That means the slowness comes uniquely from IE, not from the engine? I find that surprising, for some reason. I would have imagined the browser UI would be easier to optimize.
If we’re still talking about TikTok here, the concern is that they don’t have the right to free speech — that the rights on their platform is coopted by a government power.
Source article: https://citizenlab.ca/2020/09/to-surveil-and-predict-a-human...
Last update 5/19. Is it really new?
That will be forced to happen as people will need to purchase insurance and demand more pay.

If anything, people will have mobility to move to different jobs and the ability to actually see which job pays more or less, so employers will have to actually compete.

And half the people the US already don’t get health insurance from employers.
And allowing more development doesn't run counter to those goals. It may not be their job to fix all the problems in the US but it's certainly not their job to make things explicitly worse through actively pushing for exclusionary housing policies.
I wonder what other miracle cures are out there that big pharma hasn't brought to market.
I use Google and Google Maps plenty, though I'm one of the ones who might complain about their [lack of] privacy practices.

I use it for certain types of searches, and not others. I'm conscious of the fact that what I'm typing and searching, and subsequently clicking through will be piled on to the stack Google thinks is me. So it's usually tech searches, real estate/apartments, street view (property or exploring).

Health matters, personal matters, etc I tend to keep out of their search box.

Though more and more I tend to do a lot of cross-searching if privacy is not a concern.
Nope, you can only generate 5 Developer ID Application certificates for the lifetime of your Developer account. It's a real pain to get another one, I had lost all of mine (didn't have a real Mac, so was using various temporary Hackintosh and KVM installs) and it took 2 months of emails to both Developer support and the Security team to get another one issued [and backed up].
Are there significant costs with sending the test to a far away land? I know some people that work in the medical field, and they've told me about tests being thrown into the request pile most likely for the sake of revenue.
Htop 3.0
Lol, clueless. Mark originally was going to school to study psychology. Something tells me this isn’t from being daft.
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Hi everybody! This is a side project I've been working on during the last couple of week. I'd appreciate a lot if you could give me some feedback. Thanks!
Well, DataStore is rather new AND AWS specific, so I simply assumed you wouldn't even care.

but good to know. Reminds me of the fact that I still have to write mine, lol
You know it’s true because it’s 2020. Remember that whole alien thing back in April? Me neither because about 10 years worth of events has happened in the past four and a half months.
So she already makes 8k a month from her subscriptions and thats scraping by ? Sorry if I dont feel any sympathy.
Insane is a bit of a strong word — it seems like a reasonable way to ensure that the world isn't flooded with incredibly low-effort apps. I know, I know — the world is already full of those, but I imagine it would be a lot worse if people didn't have to put down $99.

Also, the $99 is the blanket cost to be an Apple Developer, including access to the App Store, technical support, etc. and it seems like a reasonable fee to ensure those resources aren't swamped.

It is a shame about people who can't afford it — I know Apple has a scholarship program for students but I'm sure it can't do it for everyone. I'm not saying I'm in favor of it. But it seems like there are some pretty clear reasons why this is the way it is beyond "Apple greedy".
I do not understand what this article is trying to communicate. It starts with a rambling anecdote and ends with a list of some unrelated terms barely tangential to privacy.
Lol. That's all well and good, but it doesn't. That's just how it is.
With Apple moving to ARM it would make sense to focus there first since ARM probably have a decent shot at growing their high end market with Apple's help.
How is this different from Firebase RTDB? And perhaps more importantly, does it address the scalability and consistency issues associated with Firebase RTDB? Google introduced Firestore to Firebase specifically because RTDB has limited usability for larger real world applications that go beyond "sync device state to DB".

Even the offline first paradigm is fundamentally flawed in general and certainly when it comes to offline data manipulation. Either you can afford to mutate your data on the local device and sync it when possible, in which case you clearly don't need subscriptions to real-time mutations of remote data because within that scope you are the source of truth. Or, you're interested in mutations of real-time data from multiple clients in which case you need to deal with conflict resolution (mutually exclusive changes of data) which is not reliably possible with this model and scalability (linear increase in pub/sub * increasing query cost = exponential scaling).

Are there any large projects or companies that currently have this in production?
They're not the same but I don't think that laws from China or Europe or some other country should impact services in America. If we want the same restrictions we can make the laws ourselves.
I had to move into a rental when I sold my home. The crib stayed vacant for two months.

(The commute was too long and we hadn't broken ground on our new home yet.)
> it can more effectively be conveyed in the low-rent wikihow style for free

Masterclass clearly has different goals. It isn't hard to guess that they are optimizing for something other than minimum cost per view.
When I discuss privacy with a friend who doesn't share the same liberalism as me (Chinese, make of that what you will), I often have to point out that it's easy to forget that the spooks will get into bed with political conspiracy - Watergate, COINTELPRO for example. There are very few checks and balances in the US, and arguable none in the UK (You can at least put the US Constitution on your pocket)

"I have nothing to hide" should be considered equal to "I have nothing to say, therefore I have nothing to say"
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I came across this

https://incountry.com/lp/whitepaper/techinical-whitepaper-pr...

Does this work for you?

There are also scanners that do an audit and check.

What is the exact scenario you have?
Use an effort/value matrix to work more effectively with your team
On most airlines the pilots on longer flights eat the same catered meals as first-class passengers. It's not that bad.
I really don't get it.

(In the US,) When I sold my home, the realtor did all this stuff. It was all posted on MLS.

Furthermore, why would I do this NOW if I have no intention of moving?
> So you will only apply them when it is worth the effort.

This judgment is subject to bias.
Actually, his conclusion is correct:

https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/new-cdc-re...