skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some of this obviously requires 'abstinence' and not having the same 'cool toys' as other people. I.e. if I buy lots of fancy apps that I actually rely on for my daily life, then loosing this Google Account will hurt.

Pleco is a necessity for me, but it's not tied to the Google account. It has its own registration system.

Same goes for WeChat.

The Android Kindle app isn't really a necessity, but it's desirable. It, too, has its own registration system. It's certainly tied to my Amazon account, but not to my Google account.
I rebuilt my old browser based racing game from 2006
Hey there!

I used to run a fairly popular browser based racing game back in the day like around ~2006, and during Covid et al. I've had some time to redo it and would love some new player feedback.

https://www.racezone.org

I really don't know if there's much of a market for these types of text based games anymore, but if you've got 30 mins to kill it would be fun :) Feedback welcome.

Cheers, Thom.
Location: Houston, TX
Remote: No problem
Willing to relocate: Yes, especially to cooler climates

Technologies:

Mathematica, Python, .NET (C# F# WPF EF6 Powershell), SQL, tcl, git, amateur exposure to system administration on both windows (set up an academic lab) and linux (set up a home lab). I have plenty of experience using a variety of statistical/modeling/optimization tools.

Résumé/CV:

Available on request. Quick summary: Currently employed as an economist; I have authored a textbook on mathematical modeling of some specialized chemical separations processes and worked on real-time/online optimization of industrial processes. I like solving interesting problems using computers, especially in the mathematical modeling and optimization space.

Email: "tkleos" by way of protonmail
Damn, this is a long but good read!
One can redefine functions on the fly in Common Lisp. One can retain the source associated with compiled functions (even if the Common Lisp doesn't natively support that, by augmenting DEFUN via the macroexpand hook). I have done just this in an in-core mutation testing framework for Common Lisp, which creates and tests hundreds of mutant versions of a function, automatically.

In general though, there's little good reason to edit Common Lisp code in core. Common Lisp is a language with structure at the character level (reader macros); reading in a form loses all this. This is unlike Interlisp, where everything, even comments, were s-exprs and could be edited in memory with sedit.
So what do you conclude per our discussion?
> but why compare the US to Norway

Because it is currently fashionable in the US to esteem, exalt, or even hallow many things Scandavian. If you live in the US, you’ve no doubt seen this.

To many in the US, the Scandavians have just nailed it everything social-economic. Personally, I wish we’d take more influence from their diet (fish! fish! more fish!)
At this point, which cryptocurrencies do you think have the best risk/return?

Or put another way, which are you currently most invested in?
Ask HN: When was the last time you changed a deeply-held belief?
Intel had to kill consumer ECC as part of making it a feature that people can "pay up" for. That's very intentional.

> AMD is only changing the game because they are trying to undercut Intel. They have been putting pro features into all of their CPUs including over-clocking, extra PCIE lanes and ECC.

You are correct to call them a corporation. AMD is not your friend, but they are the good actor in this fight.
It seems like you are responding to something other than I said.
yes! That is it. The game is https://thimbleweedpark.com/
On average, sure, unionized workers may make more; I explicitly acknowledged that. But it also reduces the higher wages the top performers are paid. I've generally been in that group.

> No one is forcing you to work a union job.

They kind of are. While this one is a minority union, those are usually steps towards mandatory ones. I shouldn't be forced to join a union because enough of my coworkers voted on it; they have no say in a private agreement between me and my employer.
Tesla supports this in some markets where they’ve partnered with the utility to orchestrate aggregate EV charge demand.
Can someone update the URL to the "Old" Reddit which loads much faster and has more information density: https://old.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/kqbgnn/i_belie... ?
If he were in Brazil, he could get between 10 and 15 years in jail. (If we consider changing the temperature as a form of poisoning)

> Poisoning of drinkable water or food or medicinal substance

> Article 270 - Poison water, of common or private use, or food
or medicinal substancee destined for consumption

> Punishment - reclusion from 10 to 15 years.

> Envenenamento de água potável ou de substância alimentícia ou medicinal

> Art. 270 - Envenenar água potável, de uso comum ou particular, ou substância alimentícia ou medicinal destinada a consumo:

> Pena - reclusão, de dez a quinze anos.
I would imagine that those questions would be easily answerable if true, similar to how a border guard might ask seemingly random questions in that context but a series of 'uh, uh' answers might indicate something else. Sometimes investigators ask questions just to keep the target talking and build a report. Those questions are reasonable to expect a public figure politician and their staff to answer.
I had this same problem - correct password but google wouldn’t let me in. The alternate email was from a domain I owned 10 years ago. I didn’t have access for a few years, but eventually I resorted to re purchasing that domain and setting up a mail server.

Fuck you google.
My wife is a provider in the health care industry who is licensed to provide primary care in two different states. I pay close attention to the industry, and how it functions locally, regionally, and nationally.

The best model I've found for trying to understand health care is the Tri-dimensional Chess game that is a recurring prop in Star Trek The Original Series, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess#Star_T.... Different arrangements and alignments of chess boards exist in each regional market in the United States, with the chess boards representing integrated health care systems, city, county, or state-owned hospitals and care facilities, and public and private hospital groups.

As the Wikipedia article suggests, careful observation of Star Trek TOS episodes shows "boards are sometimes not even aligned consistently from one scene to the next within a single episode." This is akin to different dominant health care systems co-existing in the Philadelphia area, in Central New Jersey, in the western part of northern New Jersey, in the eastern part of northern New Jersey, and in several different areas in Downstate New York. In addition to these existing realities, in certain cases two dominant health care entities from adjacent areas collaborate to deliver services in certain hospitals and practices in areas where their respective markets meet each other.

Creating a business at scale that would be disruptive across multiple regional markets even within a 100 to 200-mile radius in certain parts of the U.S. would be extremely difficult.
Sure - but what has that to do with warlords?

Do you have to go to a ‘Warlord’ to buy a My Little Pony too?
FWIW - I suspect the "IP reputation" site you referenced is utter bullshit when it comes to its "Proxy Detection". Looking at my own residential public address it calls it a 'low risk proxy' when I can assure that it most definitely is not. It doesn't help that their explanation for how they attempt to detect this is a pile of marketing word salad. I don't expect them to be completely transparent to their methodology, but they should make some attempt at presenting a bit of technical background.
Telegram has so many anti features and dark patterns that I really wish it was less popular. I honestly use WhatsApp over Telegram because at least I know WhatsApp is insecure while people sometimes act like Telegram is a secure platform.
It looks like a clean search engine when you first land on it.

https://i.imgur.com/mtqISep.png

Scroll a bit down and you see what looks like a footer giving testimonials.

The links to curated categories are off the screen on desktop. No idea what mobile looks like.

Next to the search box, it states that this is by a data scientist. If that is in any way relevant other than in the sense "this is by a smart person", what it means to me is that there is a massive amount of data here which is intelligently filtered and subject to a decent quality search.

The Venn diagram on the left promises good results, eliminating the problem that good, cheap items are needles in haystacks, buried in fake reviews.

Turns out that the data scientist is just writing consumer education advice columns and reviewing some products he has not actually tried himself.

E.g. 4K projectors:

https://www.goodcheapandfast.com/articles/best-4k-projectors...

There is no way he owns all of those. I would much rather read the Amazon reviews or whatever from people that bought those things, especially from people who had issues. That's in spite of the issue of fake reviews; oh well.
thanks, it seems ill end up learning both but i should start with go
I clicked on the gaming monitor category because it's actually something i've been shopping for.

I was really expecting good content and a single recommendation or two that would replace hours of reading crap reviews, reddit threads, etc. but instead was met with what could be auto-generated list of monitors with scraped descriptions and links

I can really see why this would be flagged as just search front-running for affiliate money
Grocery delivery has grown by a massive amount since AB 5 was passed.
Nope, if you are stupid enough to talk about important confidential topics in front of rando strangers you have no expectation of privacy. These are the types of people Chinese spies target and harvest information from, if anything this staffer should be let go for mishandling information.
Using ML to analyze The Office best scene
I'm not really sure what to think of that site. I think it's above average for an affiliate marketing site, but I also wonder how reliable the recommendations are if they're derived from automated analysis of other systems like reviews, pricing, etc. when we know those are garbage systems that are constantly gamed. Even filtered, it's still garbage in garbage out, right?

I think that (affiliate based monetization) is a really, really tough market to be in right now because Google and Bing are absolutely _dominated_ by low effort, garbage affiliate marketing blog spam sites. There are days where I'd pay per search if I could filter out sites that have affiliate links on them.

The review / product discovery market as a whole is a disaster right now. The last good review site (IMO) was JonnyGURU and there hasn't been a new PSU review there since early 2019 (since Corsair hired him?). The thing that made that site great was that shitty products got shitty scores. It's not like the affiliate marketing reviewers nowadays where everything is 9.5 stars with the primary goal of getting you to buy _anything_ they can slap an affiliate link on. Even the site in this article is a bit guilty of that. "Here's a list of good value products that you can just buy without thinking," right?

Off topic... If the site owner is lurking, I'd love to know why sites like Anandtech, or almost every review site from what I can tell, stopped doing endurance testing on SSDs now that manufacturers are packing them with shit quality TLC and QLC.
Right that issue was in mind in my last comment. But that was almost 4 years ago, and the type system has become a lot more capable. Including the template literal types as used in my dumb little non-negative int or in compile time JSON, SQL and GraphQL parsing. Which are still horrendous but a great deal less so than some of the hacks from 2027, and a lot easier to read.

It’s definitely not an ML type system, but I’d bet a dollar it takes more inspiration and guidance from F# than C#.
This should be either His evil intent or His professional negligence that estimated 1.5 billion masks has entered the oceans in 2020.

https://www.greenmatters.com/p/how-many-face-masks-ocean-202...
CVs should be done in times new roman font or some basic font that doesn't scream. As boring as possible. Use a LaTeX, microsoft word, or some basic document layout tool and make a resume. If you need to make the resume look pretty, you're making up for something. No offense meant. This is how the real world works - try applying to jobs with a beautiful resume.
Hmm...So I have Telegram installed via F-Droid (so presumably without Google Play Services). I do NOT have the "People Nearby" feature. I am curious if that means my location is not published?
How can telegram give you government issued ID if it doesn't collect it ?
As the saying goes, Everyone has a Test environment. Some people are lucky enough to have that distinct from Production.
We paper over the fact that stocks and real estate are predominantly appreciating due to the low interest rate environment. It's the only way to keep the party (and economic growth) going.

I concur. It's rich to me that, for some problems, papering over is a completely legitimate approach to 'solving' the problem, but when the same approach is suggested in a different context, it is immediately dismissed.
You are establishing weird timelines on these decisions. Uber, Lyft, etc set themselves up in California because they consider themselves tech companies. The state of California likely couldn't have cared less about the special class of workers they employed until the group reached a critical mass which obviously didn't happen before these companies were founded. I don't know specifically when they reached critical mass, but it was likely within the last 5 years. At that point it became clear that the state needed to do something. AB5 was one of those attempts.

Companies like Albertsons who could benefit from these businesses weren't willing to commit to embracing them until there was stability in the industry. For all the faults of Prop 22, it provides stability through its incredibly high requirements for repeal or amendments. Companies like Albertsons now have the stability they desired and will embrace these rideshare companies to save a few bucks by shifting a greater financial burden onto individual drivers.
> “Bayer dithering” uses a Bayer matrix as the threshold map. They are named after Bryce Bayer, inventor of the Bayer filter, which is in use to this day in digital cameras.

My Dad! I can hear him talking about this...
> Have you ever stopped to consider that, lockdown or not, people simply aren’t choosing to do the things they used to?

So we don’t need mandates?
I saw "Love is the Message, the Message is Death" at the SFMOMA.

It was the first and only time I have ever been reduced to complete sobbing in public by a piece of art.
>[Line] fixed it by adding a random number to the user's destination

This is a imperfect solution. There's two possibilities: the offset (aka "random number") is dynamic, or it's fixed. If it's the former all you have to do is sample enough times to get through the noise. If it's the latter, it's not vulnerable to the previous attack, but if you have a known point of reference (so you can deduce what the offset is), then you can still stalk them (forever?). IMO the only way to do is "properly" is to quantize people into map cells, like how apple does it with their coarse location feature[1].

[1] "Apple doesn't reduce the accuracy of location fixes by adding noise. Instead, they've carved up the world into regions, allowing approximate locations to preserve the user's current city when possible." https://radar.io/blog/understanding-approximate-location-in-...
Monopoly capitalism disfavour workers, restricting it favours them.
It's a shame that people still use Telegram when Signal is so much better, and has better credentials all around.
> Is google really encrypting each individuals email based on a password they have no knowledge of?

We're talking about giving out a forgotten password, not getting access to email contents.

I used to work on the indexing system, not GMail, but my vague recollection is there are some master private keys (necessary for lawful intercept, etc.) locked in hardware modules for email storage, where very few binaries are able to get the hardware modules to perform public key decryptions. There are strong safeguards on humans using some of the binaries that do have access. Access to these encryption keys is orthogonal to access to the account password. My recollection of the Aurora attacks is that the intruders got access to some systems that were able to decrypt/display senders and subjects, but we believed they were unable to get at the email bodies.
The ability to find user locations via triangulation is overlooked in a lot of products - it's easy to not think twice when showing a user the distance between themselves and someone else.

In my own products I fix this by aggressively rounding/adding noise before the distance calculation is performed, and then rounding again afterwards, or quantizing into ranges (e.g. '0-10 miles'). Other solutions can be storing locations imprecisely to begin with, using pre-defined geobuckets, and so on, although remember that randomness by itself can be bypassed with enough queries since it will average out. It's rare that you need to know exactly how far away someone is from you rather than a rough approximation. Telegram is definitely not the only product with this issue, but hopefully they fix it even so.
Clean design, I like the UI
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The team & company is remote (USA) and will continue to be so post-covid.

A bit more about the company:

- https://www.oviahealth.com/
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Apply:

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I think this is an interesting idea, and would like to follow the progress.

My only complaint is that the site is entirely unusable without JavaScript. Perhaps consider including some content with in addition to the notice of enabling JavaScript. I get most sites aren't designed with NoScript users in mjnd, but being able to see a little information before whitelisting the domain would be nice.
> you've potentially damaged diplomatic relations with an ally.

The UK has done exactly that by denying extradition to the US.
I’ve heard other folks say WhatsApp is insecure. Do you (or anyone else) have specific examples or concerns?
Subsidiary as in a tax account. They dont have to set up a physical office, employ people. Just a paper org
Shared seems a little scammy
Incredible that everyone in this thread just takes the word of this person like it’s the gospel. Did it occur to you that maybe she is being less than candid about exactly what she said?
I think they are being sarcastic.
Dude the world uses JavaScript, stop making these comments on every thread
It sucks that TheoTown has a small number of "buy with gems" buildings and offers you normal game money for watching ad videos, but otherwise it really is the closest you can get to SimCity2000 on Android, maybe even better.

Almost everything else is a shitware Farmville clone with city building aesthetics.
>> People are most upset about the health insurance aspect. The issues need to be decoupled

The employer should pay for it. It’s a benefit like retirement savings.

If employers want better employees, they can offer fully-paid or low deductible plans to their employees.

I do not want the US government running healthcare.
> why can we not agree that the people who do the job deserve to be compensated with a living wage

Living wage based on locally inflated housing prices is just fundamentally broken concept. It is just ideological cover for wealth transfer from productive economy to landlords (by focusing on 'living wage' based on market housing costs and not on 'affordable rents' based on market wages). If there is an excess of workers and a shortage of housing, one cannot determine apriori where is a proper balance between 'living wages' and 'affordable rents', it is necessary to let market find the balance.
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I would rather have had onea day for 25 days!
Because it’s an extremely long article and it’s a lot of work for me to do for no reward.
You would use the various methods for determining competence used in other less-regulated fields, such as degrees, certification, and word-of-mouth. The major difference would be that individuals could choose how they wished to determine which doctors they wished to use[1].

To give an example, many people who wish to become doctors are required to go through a residency program that features elements such as required 24 hours shifts. Personally, I would be quite fine seeing a doctor who wasn't required to do such shenanigans. As it stands right now, I can't make that choice, because various special interest groups have gained a government-granted monopoly on the certification of physicians.

[1] One objection would be that, if we didn't have the force of law (which is the force of violence) keeping "quacks" from practising medicine, then many people, particularly the poor, would actually have /less/ choice. This is a utilitarian argument, but even if the premise of utilitarianism is granted, this still seems incorrect due to two factors. First, regulatory capture has led to a system that already can prevent poor people from accessing care. No care is probably worse that mediocre care. Second, the U.S. (as a nation) spend more money than other developed nations on healthcare and gets similar outcomes. This seems to indicate that a lower cost of care wouldn't necessarily cause a sudden influx of quacks onto the market.
signal the protocol is (maybe) better, but the app is inferior. People like Telegram for their usability and security is just a bonus.
> If this feature is enabled on your phone, you're publishing your home address online.

Depending on your definition of 'online' this is true of any app you use.

Telegram could at least take a similar approach to Tinder, who have already learnt from a similar mistake.