skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue I found when I tried using Google apps without invasive data tracking was that Google has no middle ground: Either you let it know everywhere you are at all times, or it doesn't even retain location search history of any kind or even suggest locations close to you.

I feel like a navigation app should be like a weather app in what it knows about me: Roughly, what zip code I'm in. Google Maps without location history doesn't even act that smart, it's too dependent on invasive tracking.
> using Apache Arrow MEMORY MODEL

Probably got cut because of maximum title length but important nonetheless.
I always think debt is a loaded term because a lot of people reflexively hate debt. I think viewing it in terms of Accounting's "Liabilities" makes it a lot more clear.

So the basic accounting equation is Assets = Liabilities + Equity. Any increase in liabilities must be balanced with an increase in Assets (you use a credit card to buy a lamp) or a decrease in equity (taking out a predatory payday loan to cover utilities).

The flipside of this is if you increase your liability to gain an asset worth even more, your equity goes up (take out a loan to buy a house that appreciates in value beyond the interest rate). This is what the goal of technical debt should be, increasing the "equity" of the software.
Those personas are not mutually exclusive. Projects that divide the two don’t tend to be successful, leading to maintainer burnout, and autoclosed issues.
Sorry about the completely noob question, but in your mind, do you think it actually helps these kids to separate them from their bio families in the first place?

What are the most common situations that require a kid to be placed in foster care?
The comparison between different languages gets tiring when it focuses on making a black-and-white statement like "Julia is better" or "Python is better" and "x is never going to overtake y". Yes, Python has many more libraries thanks to it being much older than Julia, same for R. But at the same time, Julia can be used for impressive work that R/Python struggle with and which only seem solvable in these languages because of large investments into certain packages by big companies.

So I find the fact that many hard problems can be solved very generically and performant with small libraries written in Base Julia much more interesting than countering that much larger and older Python packages with millions of developer hours poured into them are currently more feature-complete. Yes, they are, right now. Why wouldn't they be. But does what is being done in Julia with much fewer resources not point to an impressive ability of the language to facilitate such development?
The project has code you can try; virtually all of the work has gone into that, vs the website.

An FAQ addressing the Q's posted here will be live on the site late on Jan 18th.
one would like to think the most accurate story was awesome-most precisely because of its accuracy. IMHO you are merely complaining that it isn't precise enough to convince you, though it couldn't be improved much without written accounts?

And then it a sense of incredulity is showing, it's unimaginable, 100,000 kya is unimaginable, as if the world was fashioned in the mesolithic.
- set automatic email forwarding from your Gmail to your new email service (just buy a domain and use Fastmail or something similar). It's in the Settings and it's easy

- some services like Fastmail have a one click email import Transfer all emails and then delete any content on Gmail

- go through all existing services and change your email address, most services allow you to do it. If it's not possible then consider closing and reopening account

- never use 3rd party logins (Google, Facebook)

- start replying to emails with your new address, people will update the contacts over time, you have to start somehow

- you can keep your old Gmail address around for a long time, it doesn't cost you anything
What does pricing at Kaiser even mean? When I last looked at them, every plan had a $0 deductible and even surgery just had a single copay. Is that the price for someone out of network who goes there in an emergency?
What kind of idiot goes around screaming on the town square that everyone needs to repent for their sins because the apocalypse is coming, never gets to bring any credible evidence and still think is going to convince anyone?

If the game is rigged and you truly believe so, yes, it's one more reason for you to put skin in the game.
I tried it with an iPad and it works great, however the text-quality is sadly not good enough for my use case: as a second screen for looking at API documentation, PDFs and coding. I wish this could be improved - software such as Parsec(only for Windows hosts) can achieve better quality (though not perfect).
I have an idea of answer but I can't know for sure.
I don't like not being able to participate in society when the bank has a technical problem or my credit card company thinks I am committing fraud.

Taking away cash puts me at the mercy of these systems, which is uncomfortable.

I'm also more financially responsible when I have cash, and there are never any 'pending' transactions.
Therapy can only explain things, not solve them. I’m a man. A man can be dead in a ditch, he won’t get help. A woman or a dog would. Such is life. Can’t change that. I have been to about 200 therapy sessions of 5 different psychologists. Cost me thousands. But people don’t offer their nice side to men. Can’t change that. Not many other ways than silencing your internal monologue to shut up the frustration. We are supposed to take all of them, together, and not ask.

I do have negative thoughts.
SETI@home style distributed computation is not suitable for training something like GPT-3, unlike for SETI, the unit of work a node can do before needing to share it's output with the next node is really small, so very fast interconnect between the nodes is needed (Infiniband and NVLink is used in clusters to train it). It would probably take a decade to train such a model over regular internet.
your analogy falls apart at "serfs".
So, I get that and its a general advice you can find in win friends and influence people type books.

The problem is, what if you have no one to say "yes" to? What if you live in an area where everyone is getting married, having families, and generally either doesn't socialize outside that or has closed nit groups?

Sure, say yes to everything. But, what happens if you have nothing to say yes too?
The extreme sides actually join together around the back.

Just the reasoning that tends to get a bit muddy - for race/country/flag/god/people. I think the line tends to be when somebody starts mentioning 'the enemy' - and points to some formerly-considered-random guy nearby.
My apologies. Between the username and the expected HN demographics, it seemed like a safe call.
Wow this is a brilliant way to mass produce tons of unique YouTube videos and get lots of views. I wonder what the ad revenue is like.
Wow, you might already know this but in the USA people decline ambulance trips because the cost out of pocket can break them financially. A ambulance helicopter trip (which people are usually not in a position to decline) costs roughly 40,000 last time I read about it, a lot of people crowdfund to pay for this.
I think the argument is that if you're depending heavily on a "batteries included" standard library of a high-level language, you in fact aren't really building it yourself.
I did this for a few years but I found it to be a hassle, there's always that small percentage of websites that only accept well known email domains. And it's not like I can't use their services since it's for stuff like local utilities.
I looked up TAOCP (The Art of Computer Programming by Knuth), and (unsurprisingly) this trick is mentioned there, and already by the time of the first edition this trick was folklore, with its origins lost to antiquity: the last exercise in section 2.2.4:

> 18. [25] Devise a way to represent circular lists inside a computer in such a way that the list can be traversed efficiently in both directions, yet only one link field is used per node. [Hint: If we are given two pointers, to two successive nodes x_{i-1} and x_i, it should be possible to locate both x_{i+1} and x_{i-2}.]

Answer (in 1st edition [1968], second printing [1969]):

> 18. Let the link field of node x_i contain LOC{x_{i+1}) ⊕ LOC{x_{i-1}), where "⊕" denotes either subtraction or "exclusive or." Two adjacent list heads are included in the circular list, to help get things started properly. (The origin of this ingenious technique is unknown.)

The "either" is modified to "e.g." in the 2nd edition [1973], and further slightly modified in 3rd edition ([1997], first digital release [December 2013]):

> 18. Let the link field of node x_i contain LOC(x_{i+1}) ⊕ LOC(x_{i−1}), where “⊕” denotes “exclusive or.” Other invertible operations, such as addition or subtraction modulo the pointer field size, could also be used. It is convenient to include two adjacent list heads in the circular list, to help get things started properly. (The origin of this ingenious technique is unknown.)

With modern languages and compilers, even if doing these operations on your language's pointer type is implementation-defined/undefined behaviour as mentioned in some of the other comments, you can still use this trick with your own "pointers" (indexes in an array, as Knuth does in many of his programs: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pointer_(computer...), I guess.

Anyway, this gives me another point of appreciation about why the TAOCP series of books were so highly regarded: they were (are) encyclopedic and gathered/organized much of what was known at the time, in a highly compressed way (packed into exercises etc).
> HR is an agent between you and the company.

No, HR works entirely and exclusively for the company. Just like the lawyer working for the opposing party in a process.

If you want an "HR" on the employee side that thing is called "union"
My complaint is exclusively with the title, not the article, which I don't think supports the claim in the title.
If someone were to give a jist of what happened without
giving personal/geographic info, one wouldn't be able to
ascertain whether it happened in Russia/China/Iran/<insert your fav "evil" country>.

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Edit:

From the down votes it appears that I've hit a nerve here.

My reference wasn't this particular article but what happened with her in December. [0]

There was an armed raid of her house where her equipment were seiezed.

I see it as intimidation for going against the state. Perhaps others don't.

0: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/07/florida-poli...
> a well-designed GraphQL schema looks like the shape of data required for component rendering, i.e., for the user experience.

I agree with this. GraphQL might seem like an interface to query the database, but I think it’s the reverse: an interface to populate the front end.

It is a constant struggle advocating for that when everyone seems to default to expect the GraphQL schema should just model the database tables. But I think it’s worth it. It gives you a fighting shot at heading off otherwise inevitable spaghetti UI code.
It's an offhand suggestive hypothesis made in good faith on an open message board to spur debate.
It's a cooperative yield point so while the code containing the `await` blocks and waits, the underlying thread/core is released and "stolen" by the standard scheduler for other work, and then resumed when the processes it's waiting for complete or are cancelled.

What problem is there beyond that?
It will work better if you use downvoted comment threads.
The response to her actions seem to be overkill. With that said, what she is accused of doing is illegal (especially downloading PII from the government).

Also, she is reaching far beyond her grasp. And sensationalizing quite a bit. I am sure she is intelligent and competent in her role, but that role is not that of an epidemiologist, data scientist or public policy expert. Why does this matter?

Well, focusing mainly on the public policy, nothing is cut and dry. Understanding how semi-dependent systems work together is incredibly complex. She is so heavily focused on COVID that she lacks the insight into all of the competing forces that make up a society. And yes, getting those forces wrong will also cost lives.

Finally, her dramatization of the number of deaths implies (as many people imply) that any actions (that are not blatantly unconstitutional) could appreciably decrease deaths. Outside of the island nations and China, deaths have a weak correlation with public policy. More suggestive correlations exist for population density (cases) and average age (deaths). And yes, there are outliers (Japan is older, Vietnam is denser) but there are even more outliers on the shutdown argument.

The reason this is myopic focus on lockdowns is dangerous is that if undermines the effective mitigation efforts that can help without ruining society. As soon as any leader attempts to ease anything you have the pearl-clutching "give me lockdown or give grandma death" crowd sensationally crying foul. Our ability for reasoned disagreement was a dead horse years ago, but Covid continues to beat it senseless.
> The big difference between the American healthcare system and the one in these countries is that people don’t have to worry about the bills, which means healthcare providers have a much bigger incentive to learn what cost benefit analysis means.

Can you go into a bit more detail about how exactly this incentive linkage works?
It's not about you, it's about your parents and grandparents.
As an experienced python/data science user, this (creating fast complex column-wise transforms) is rarely a problem for me.

The truly huge advantage for Julia is how it plays with parralelism. The GIL makes it an absolute pain to do parallelism in python. Always ends up in threading hacks with numba or joblib, or multiprocessing, which has its own unfixable flaws
That's a very American way of thinking. I am totally fine that I contribute with a bigger part and it's used for people that would not be able to afford it.
You can't be stopped because Visa and MC don't like what you're doing.

EDIT: here's a quote from when this was discussed in HN last time:

> A society without cash is a society in which every person has no choice but to get the permission of someone they don’t know and will never meet each and every time they seek to obtain food, water, shelter, or transportation, and that permission can be revoked instantly, silently, and invisibly at any time.
Do you notice your musical tastes at a given moment are modulated by Vyvanse levels? I find as I ratchet up the dose, or get very deeply focused on a task, the complexity of the music I listen to goes down. Morning, before the meds kick in, I like high-complexity high-energy stuff: eurobeat, electroswing, hard bop. That gives way to psytrance, then house, then techno, with high-tech minimal being my go-to when I am really firing on all cylinders. Then into lofi, downtempo, ambient, then silence for when I'm overstimulated.
https://puri.sm/products/librem-awesim/
Some authoritarian governments can actually get things done, by taking responsibility and doing the stuff that needs doing.

Others, such as Mussolini's, just use the authority to give fat contracts to corporations they have friends in and aestheticize the solution.

It's a real risk.
Cash can be stolen but it can't be data breached. Steal my wallet and get $40. Steal my card and I have hours of work todo to get back to whole even "getting any stolen money back". I prefer cash for small transaction walking around money.
A simple reply: "I'm sorry officer but it's not that I have something to hide, it's that I have something to protect. My phone contains passwords to my bank accounts and confidential information about my business clients. If you still want to search it you'll have to speak to my lawyer first."
As likely flawed as this prosecution is, you are 100% playing into the hands of China's propaganda machine by making any whataboutism comparison whatsoever to the literal genocide China is sweeping under the rug.
AMA (American Medical Association) is known to play games to limit the supply of doctors, so they can keep salaries high.

http://www.econ.yale.edu/seminars/strategy/st03/nicholson-03...
Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says
First, it's good that the state this time allowed her to avoid a potential police shooting by letting her turn herself in rather entering a home armed with fingers on triggers.

Second, whataboutism is part of the problem, not part of the solution. This article wouldn't even be published in China... and arrests that happen in China wouldn't be published in China. So how does it help to not publish when police overreach due to political interference?
And that's what these projects are great for. I have always appreciate simple things like this that allow me to learn new features of a language, or in this case the stdlib that comes with a language, without introducing too much cruft. I am still learning new tech and these kinds of demos are a great way to learn.

I am just being overly pedantic about the 100 LOC thing because it's been used over decades as a kind of badge of honor/bragging rights. If you implement something that really relies on nothing in N LOC then it's warranted. If it's just a teaching tool, like this is, I feel that it's better to present it as "Show HN: how I learned about HTTP support in the Ruby stdlib and wrote a toy proxy server". The README for this project actually makes it sound like this is something you could use in production, which you absolutely should not.
Yes, your hypothesis is a better fit, and makes fewer assumptions. Perhaps the arrangements with Russia were made hurriedly while Snowden was hiding in HK, days prior to departing, as some reports suggest.

However, Snowden had been stealing classified intel premeditatively for a long period of time, and had contact with actors who had the knowledge and contacts to plan such a ruse in advance. Given his high intelligence and exacting personality, haphazardly leaking to the press from HK prior to obtaining asylum seems to be out of character.

I do believe strongly that Snowden would have told elaborate, pre-fabricated lies, if it were to his benefit.
There’s PII all over certain kinds of government websites.
Well, the reason why I brought up Newton's impact depth formula is that it quite clearly shows you have to have enough "braking" material up there. Distributing it over a greater area reduces the effectiveness proportionally.

The problem in the end is launch costs. Yes, we're getting better, but that doesn't mean we can shoot up a "visible to the naked eye"-sized impactor. Not to mention what difficulties an object of that size would bring for non-garbage that also occupies those orbits.

Lastly, I have no idea how much research there has been in containing the fragmentation of hypervelocity impacts. But presumably it would be an important part of the mission to not generate more garbage.
Hey thank you for your feedback!

Indeed there is still enough room to improve for Deskreen.

You can try to change resolution of your virtual display to make all look bigger if you need that.

Cheers
> How many examples of objectionable content do you think I can find on Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook right now?

This is why I suggested reading the filings: Parler is not unique for having user-hosted content but, unlike Twitter and Facebook, refusing to accept responsibility for managing it – those services are far from perfect but they don’t try to pretend volunteer moderation is enough, either.

If you read the filing note that the 100 examples were a representative sample and additional examples were provided.

The key point to look at is this:

“On January 8 and 9, AWS also spoke with Parler executives about its content
moderation policies, processes, and tools, and emphasized that Parler’s current approach failed to address Parler’s duty to promptly identify and remove content that threatened or encouraged violence. Id. In response, Parler outlined additional, reactive steps that would rely almost exclusively on ‘volunteers.’”

That’s after having months to develop a serious plan, and after an insurrection involving many users of their service. Beyond the obvious violations of their contract, at that point AWS would reasonably worry that not enforcing their ToS could invite legal claims that their continued non-enforcement constituted support. The direct costs of that and indirect risk to other contracts – imagine, for example, Congress prohibiting federal IT procurements from any company connected to the coup attempt — are much greater than Parler’s rounding-error portion of AWS’ customer base.
"it turns out you transferred $20 to a known drug addict and murderer. Mind answering a few questions about that?"
How accurate is this? Some of the threads point out extremes between different hospitals, is that because X hospital does more stuff then Y, and Y charges you the same as X it's just a bunch of hidden/extra stuff that isn't billed as "MSDRG 343"? Or is it because the hospital like any business can charge you what ever you want and may charge more or less depending on the neighbourhood, rent, etc?
The War on Drugs is a big factor on this. Basically an attempt to reinstate slavery via the criminal justice system created a whole generation of absent fathers.
The point is that js has become a de facto way of rendering content, regardless of its nature, and in some cases this impacts usability and other non-functional requirements in ways that people don't always consider.

Obviously if a company wants tight control over their content then this may work to their benefit - although they may still find that their ability to render their own content requires non-trivial maintenance over time.

But that's a pretty narrow view of the web, and not everyone publishing on the web fits that model.
I suppose one downside of this approach is that you need a bigger datatype to contain the result.
This is the real killer app of cryptocurrency. Monero is a decentralized, untraceable digital cash that preserves privacy. All the arguments against cryptocurrency can also be applied to cash, but that doesn’t take away their main value proposition, which is a mathematically secure way to send payments while protecting the sender’s privacy.
@StefanKarpinski I said none of those things. I didn't mean to hit a nerve. I actually agree with you. I was one of those grassroots people who enthusiastically tried to get friends to try it. Perhaps 'shrewd marketing' didn't come off as positive as it sounded in my mind.

PS. One forgets people like Stefan and Jeff are likely to be on HN. Apologies. I'd have been a bit more careful in my choice of words otherwise.
How the cloud and Kubernetes are influencing the storage world
> Almost certainly not PCI Compliant.

Yep, same feeling here.

And there are even more red flags.
- no information about what company/which individual is responsible for the service (I always want to know who I'm doing business with)
- no contact information (no, Twitter is not a business channel)
- no information about anything even related to liability and/or applicable laws
- no ToS
- no privacy policy (so no customers from the EU + possible lawsuits in the EU for the person who runs it)
- no cookie policy, but still a cookie. Even better, it's valid for 10 years... (and here we go again with possible lawsuits in the EU)

Maybe there is some information about this after the registration, but it is:
a) too late
b) not how a serious company should communicate with potential customers/partners.

I'll pass.
So where does the H come from?