skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> recently won

No, that's ongoing. All they've "won" was that a judge denied a motion to dismiss the suit.

> What context do you think was left out?

I'm not going to waste time looking at the video in the first place, so don't bother asking.
Yes--this is my fear.

We alll know corporations sole existence is making money, and most show zero restraint.

In the USA, foreigners can buy real estate with a click, or a phone call.

(I don't believe foreigners should be able to buy our land. Become a citizen first, but that's another matter.)

And yes---I don't want to live next to tourists, and short term renters.

There's a delicate balance in most neighborhoods. The last thing Americans need is rich guys buying up housing to rent short term.

The rentals are never near the mansions, so they don't care who's there.

In my county, one, or two towns (Sausalito, and Belvedere) stopped short term rentals. (I believe it's still in effect, but to tired to look it up?).
Those features exist. The article mentions that it is not specified whether or not the driver assist features were even in use in this instance.

> One of the men killed was in the front passenger seat of the car, the other was in the back seat, according to KHOU. Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman told KPRC that “no one was driving” the fully-electric 2019 Tesla at the time of the crash. It’s not yet clear whether the car had its Autopilot driver assist system activated.
Most people don't want to live in flophouses, and they certainly didn't pay to live in them, either.
Alberto here, I made the bot.

The vaccine situation in Veneto is complex. It's not "first come, first served". There are different cohorts. Right now the only people that are eligible are people over 80 and people with pre-existing health conditions.

Many of them have troubles using the official portal, and they ask their children to help them. Their children are around 50, and have to actively poll the website trying to get a spot.

I didn't build the bot for young, tech savvy people who want to get first in the line. It's exactly the opposite. By smoothing the UX it makes booking the spot for the vaccine accessible, and it removes the burden of constantly check it. It may also help in avoiding wasting doses by sending last minute notifications about new available spots.

I have few emails from people thanking me because they were frustrated by the official website, and the bot helped them to book a spot for their parents.

[edit: add whoami]
Just as with reporting on the J&J vaccine possible complications, I feel like reporting on self-driving car accidents deceptively obscures the reality that self-driving cars are already much safer than human-driven ones, on average. ("Yes, some people may have had blood clotting, but many more people have had much worse blood clotting from Covid.") For those who are unfamiliar with the cold, hard data on both subjects, such reporting paints almost exactly the wrong picture and should generally be treated as anecdata
I think it was more people doing stupid things than the environment since no one was driving the car. I wonder how old the people in the car where.

Also they need to stop calling this thing autopilot.
Can you prove neither of you Googled anything related? Surely either you or your office mate could have done further research later on, which would involve searching those chemicals online and browsing Web pages related to them?

Alternatively if someone near you overheard your conversation, and Googled it, then Google could link all of your locations together and conclude that you are all interested in the same thing. This is how Facebook has its creepy ability to indirectly predict what items you are interested in - usually someone near you searches for what you're talking about later on in the day, and it guesses that it's important to both of you.
You completely avoided the main point of the article which is people having their internet access revoked becoming equivalent to losing your drivers license. Right now you cannot be banned from the internet, the only way government can withhold internet access is through imprisonment, the internet should be open for all.
The Lytro was incredibly long. It was like a small telescope. My phone is insanely thin (please make the battery bigger and phone fatter). But the optics wouldn't come close to fitting.

The Lytro also had a low resolution. It was fun to click and shoot.
> The US has a different culture and has most economically dominant companies.

The US's post-WW2 dominance doesn't explain why layers of lower management from the US stationed abroad insist in scheduling 3 weeks worth of work into 1 week in spite of being fully aware of how long the task takes, and afterwards boast to their leadership that their non-US teams outperformed US-based teams by a long shot while leaving out that team some non-US developers had to pull consecutive all-nighters to pull it off.
This seems like a phenomenon beneath the same umbrella as the NEETs and incels of the western world. A difference, though, is that in all the presentations of hikikomori I've seen, they lack the same toxicity and anger at the outside world, even though their situation is a similar manifestation of broken confidence, extreme social anxiety, so on.

I wonder if this is true, or if there's a darker side to the hikikomori that we just don't see as much of.
So the full text is:

"Jurgen has a headache that won't go away. He knows his fellow scientist Simon is watching him, waiting for him to be careless and kill another rat. Ben knows all about these mistakes, and more. But he's online, always online, talking with others. He's in trouble and doesn't know how to get out of it. Mark fears he knows what actually is going on in the lab and the consequences for all three of them could be fatal. Who is the liar? Who is in danger? Who will die?"

Thank you for your feedback.
Writing a back cover does take skill. Others have commented that they like it - but I'm not arrogant to claim it's flawless. It will appeal to some and not to others.

Hmmmm it has got me thinking on how to improve it tbh... It's been such a long time that I've thought about my work.

The line you quote, is supposed to convey paranoia. You're right why care about Jürgen killing a dumb rat? But
then there is Ben and Mark etc.

I would love to have your feedback on my book (it sounds like it would be brutal). Personally I can't see that Ive sold you though ^^

Thanks again
> it should have all the necessary building blocks to do anything that can be done with the table API

That's true in that the table api itself is built on top of the datastream api. But to run the example you'd have to implement your own joins and retraction-aware aggregates and then we'd be testing the consistency properties of that implementation, not of the datastream api itself, and we might as well test a mature implementation like the table api instead.

> The file source can be used for testing streaming behavior, for example by using a directory and using a PROCESS_CONTINUOUSELY watch type.

Ah, I was only looking at the table api version (https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.12...) which doesn't mention that option. I guess I could make stream and turn it into a table?

> This is expected, that's how Flink deals with late data...

I should clarify in the article that I was surprised not because it's wrong, but because it's very different from the behavior that I'm used to.

> Also, it seems very odd to me that a watermark of 5s is used while the expected out-of-orderness is 10s. Why did the author choose to do that?

To explore how late data is treated.

There are some plausible sources of inconsistency that from late data handling that I didn't get to demonstrate in the article. For example, it sounds like even without allowed_lateness if two different windowed operations had different window sizes they might drop different subsets of late data, which could causes inconsistency between their outputs.
> The more I read Elon’s responses to these things, the less I feel like he actually cares.

He doesn't. Why would he, would you?
Many words have multiple definitions, as you are surely aware. Legitimate is one of them.
The ad infrastructure can still exist -- it would just have a restricted set of data (IP, device fingerprint, the surrounding content, and whatever info the first-party publisher voluntarily submits about you) to decide what ad to serve. Small, niche websites may do better than big news sites under this regime since you can infer more about their visitors by the fact that they chose to visit.

I could see bigger sites expending a lot of energy trying to bring the tracking and inference in-house, and even federating these efforts, creating a kind of soft-paywall that requires you to "pay" by validating an email address or some other stable identity marker in exchange for temporary access to content, so they can watch what you browse and build a shared model of you that they can feed back into the ad networks. I could see the NYT continuing to manipulate and fine-tune its headlines and graphics, trying to sort its visitors into cohorts based on what appeals to them to squeeze every last cent out of a pageview.

At the same time, so much content discovery and consumption happens in the belly of the beast (Facebook, Google, Youtube) that most ads will continue to be targeted based on the considerable information those websites have about you, regardless of what browsers do or what happens to third-party tracker networks.
I like your point about condescending language. I’ve found myself using phrases like “It’s easy” in an attempt to not scare people away, but I see how that can backfire. I’m going to keep that in mind.
Two guys died because fraud Karen sells vapurware but the Tesla shills on hackernews selling it as not a tesla problem.
You Are Not the CEO
Well, you'd be mistaken. The only use the torque sensor in the steering wheel. There've been news articles with Tesla engineers asking for a better system, and Musk's explicit response was that technology like eye tracking or such would be ineffective.
Correct for HN, but perhaps less so for general public...
>the reality that self-driving cars are already much safer than human-driven ones

[citation needed]
When you open up vaccination to less vulnerable groups long before those who most need the vaccination have gotten it, then you end up with a lot more dead people than necessary.

That policy makes it look superficially like fast progress is happening but in the end extra dead people makes sad news.
The article's description of cultural pressures on young men seems crushing. One must work obscene hours, never lose face, represent the family at all times, and support a family on one salary.
My fear is that it will end up exactly like the do not track headers and that at some point Google won't listen to the disable Floc header.
> ignore Vertias involvement

Sorry, no. They've tainted the well too much to do that.
> So evidently it even looks at how long you look at certain content

It does. Instagram constantly sends back telemetry including your scroll position, which can then be used to determine what you were looking at and for how long. Scroll right past an ad? you probably won't see it again; the algorithm knows it didn't have an impact on you. Meanwhile, spend a few seconds reading what it says, and this teaches the algorithm that you are interested in similar content.
Yup, that or just showing off a sort of autopilot variation of ghost ride the whip to his buddy. Really sad and dumb reason to die.
Bitcoin has no value over the long term.

There are no controls on who is allowed to send and receive money, and funds cannot be confiscated by government if necessary.

A system that permits individuals complete custody over money is not something that should be allowed to exist in a modern society. There is too much room for criminal activity.

The current financial system works better and should not be circumvented.
I would see this as an on-premise tool more than a SaaS, given we're taking about low level access to dbs. My 2 cents.
Cont.

My theory is that we go through this little dance because we can’t stand to admit that there’s anything structurally wrong with our society. If people feel lonely, or unsupported by their community, then well, it just means they’re broken, and should go through years of expensive and intensive therapy. Otherwise, just deal with it and get back to work.

I’m not saying we all need to join communes or anything, but explicit recognition of the problem at hand would go a long way I think.
Stone Soup Onboarding
I haven't read the Act myself but judging from the information in the article framing this as having a special impact Sex Workers in specific seems odd to me.

Talking about the role and responsibilities of platforms, whether we should think of them as a "space" where people can talk, like ISPs or the Mail Service or more like a publisher, the implication on freedom of speech vs freedom not to be offended, etc, would be more productive and cover the impact of this Act more broadly and more accurate than trough the lenses of a specific profession.

The issue of over policing and censorship hasn't anything to do with sex work, they just a one group that will likely be affected but many, many more people who are not sex workers will be affected too.

To me it sounds like talking about the performance implications of a processor design decision for fortan-based web servers, I mean yes sure they will be affected by reducing core count in favor of a bigger cache, but so will a lot of things and there is nothing special about them to warrant them being the focus of such an article.

If this article was targeted at sex workers and/or their clients specifically it would make sense, but vice is a mainstream thing isn't it?

Also I hate this kind of click-bait articles SAFE TECH will not break the internet and even if it did, engineers, tech-pioneers, relevant companies like Google or Microsoft, etc would be way more qualified to explain why it will than sex workers.
I actually fully agree with your point on zoning and building, and your conclusion that the poorest on both sides are being hit is also 100% on point.

Though, let's be realistic: zoning exists and building regulations are - very much unfortunately - a hot mess, and I guess it is a complex topic. As a society, we don't benefit from hyper growth which eventually and inevitably collapses, externalizing the cost of the cleanup to everyone. I guess the Financial Crisis - caused by housing (!) - showed that quite clearly.

I hear your NIMBY sentiment and again, agree on that one, but I guess it's clear that both extremes are not beneficial: Neither totally uncontrolled building nor totally forbidden short term renting is optimal.

So what about finding a compromise of limiting short term rentals to allow for the possibility, but make it unattractive for institutional business sharks and probably much more attractive for the average Jane and Joe? Still not perfect, but I can much more get behind that idea.
> converting transactions to datastream then back to SQL will introduce a materializing barrier

It seems that this would still leave the problem where each transactions causes two deletes and two inserts to `balance` and then `total` sums those one by one? These errors are very transient but they still cause at least 3/4 outputs to be incorrect.

> tumbling event-time windows

Will this work for the join? For a given account, the last update to each of credits and debits may have arbitrarily disparate event times and transaction ids. It doesn't seem like there is window you could set that would be guaranteed to connect them?
That'll change. Reddit wants to IPO. Twitter might want to make money eventually.
Then again, there are vaccines which don’t have this side effect, and are considerably more effective.
> Can you stay an entire month at a hostel? Usually not

Yes, you can. You can probably negotiate a lower rate if you're staying that long or longer.
Who edits wikipedia? There's some serious concerns there, by the co-founder of wikipedia. Basically, you can hire firms to edit wikipedia relatively easily and there's some extreme bias on anything even remotely political.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWQaVx5mGco
NASA to Attempt First Controlled Flight on Mars as Soon as Monday
A Hive of Authentic College Applicants
That statement was to show why there is room to increase hash rate and not how you'd defend against a 51% attack. Most of the miners in the US are not mining for a significant portion of the day.
Another related essay by the photographer herself:

https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/it-felt-safe-here-adcb41...
The Tesla isn't a "self-driving car", autopilot is lane-keeping cruise control.
Some neat stuff here. Only VERY briefly mentioned (so briefly I missed it at first) however: Substituting Yandex for Google is great for many use cases. Being Russian, Yandex is no doubt heavily censored, but only for things important to Russian politics. Ironically, this means that for non-Russian users, it's considerably LESS censored than Google, which has SEVERELY crippled its search in recent years in the name of politics, "politics," DMCA madness, "right to be forgotten" etc.

The image search is especially impressive. Remember when Google Images used to give you actual results when trying to find the source of an obscure image? Yandex still does, and it does a bunch of other neat things too, like automatically trying to transcribe text from an image if it's text-heavy. My instinct is that a lot of this capacity exists in Google Images, but is either mostly hidden from the user or deliberately hobbled to stop the oh so evil content pirates.

Zero privacy of course. Assume the Russian government is watching in realtime as you hammer in another inane search. But for some use cases that's fine.
Changed from https://web.archive.org/web/20210307110938/https://www.gwern.... Thanks!
How would the car still be moving forward if driver assist was not in use?
Did basho have any internal discussion about how to ensure that operations reading and writing from multiple CRDTs were still confluent? The only work I've seen on this is http://www.neilconway.org/docs/socc2012_bloom_lattices.pdf but that seems like a better fit for a streaming system than for a general database.
There are at least three issues with this idea:

1. Not every sex worker are doing it for the money only. Many do enjoy doing this. Not every person goes to sex workers for sex but more of a "hired" companionship.
2. Demand for sex would not just disappear. Sex is human nature and sex work has been around since the beginning, it will never "stop".
3. This would increase human trafficking and more abuse to women because of 2 and it has already happened thanks to previous laws like this as mentioned in the article.

This means increased costs for us taxpayers to pay for increased policing due to 3.

You want to make the system cheaper? Decriminalize sex work and/or go after the sex buyers instead.
Man falls downstairs and breaks his leg.

Pessimist: bad things always happen to me, my leg broke, I'm so unlucky.

Optimist: I'm so lucky I just broke my leg. I could have broken my neck!
You were more interested in delivering a canned lecture. I don't have to justify myself to such a rude person. Sex work is NOT real work, that's not just an odd perspective, it's the majority opinion.
Wow, based on that video it seems that the oil industry backed short sellers are getting pretty desperate.
> Wouldn't the collector literally have to physically threaten the individual to transfer the BTC back, since it's not like they can get a court to order the bank to do it.

What makes you think the court can't order the bank to do it? The court can order you to give some assets up, and if you refuse, they can order your employer to deposit wages directly into creditor's accounts, or the creditor can seize other assets for nonpayment. (For example, some creditors managed to temporarily have an Argentinian Navy ship seized after their default.)
The agenda cares not about facts.
> you can easily express any operations you want

That's true in that the table api itself is built on top of the datastream api. But to run the example you'd have to implement your own joins and retraction-aware aggregates and then we'd be testing the consistency properties of that implementation, not of the datastream api itself, and we might as well test a mature implementation like the table api instead.
Previous discussion ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26706570
While certainly not required, caring about whether one’s company’s products are killing people is generally seen as a favorable quality in a CEO.
StormForge survey finds you can waste money deploying Kubernetes to the cloud
If it bleeds it leads.
I fed it a Mailinator address and it was happy to let me keep reading.
This always makes it's biyearly round.

Psyc 101 grads comment if we are lucky?

Most of the comments are not even from people associated with Japanese culture.
It's true on paper, but you would fight against me starting pumping oil in your backyard because it's economically much more useful than you having a nice quiet family friendly neighborhood. Airbnb has its benefits but it skips most of the regulations, zoning laws, often taxes etc.
Yes, that's what the AirBnB users are coming for... ;)
With more small hotels popping up to accommodate the demand?

AirBNB isn't essential, it's a middleman that provides booking and marketing. If the hammer came down and all they could do is list rentals that are actually legal, they'd wind up looking a lot like a better-designed Expedia. And honestly, that's probably fine.
> According to the study, 4 in 1 million people experience cerebral venous thrombosis after getting the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, versus 5 in 1 million people for the AstraZeneca vaccine.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/blood-clots-as-prevalent-w...
> Just look at exercise studies's summary statistics, and look at how different the results are for individuals doing the same thing!

People might be interested to know that this is not just some fringe theory or freak result. It's well-known in the field that there's a massive pile of studies that show large inter-individual variability and a comparatively tiny pile of studies that are actually designed to examine inter-individual variability. [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6818669/
Urban centers without enough green space can be incompatible with solitude 24/7. Too expensive without roommates, no where outside without other people nearby, possibly only a bathroom or small bedroom without another person in it.
This is make.wordpress.org kinda like a issue tracker for WordPress core
It is easy to forget a tool which one rarely needs, there is nothing stupid about that in my opinion :)
The right way implement this is to tie a sizable chunk of the quarterly bonus to an ambitious company-wide goal that fails 30% of the time. If the company is hitting the bonusable goal 95% of the time, the bar is probably too low.