skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is more appraisers and banks that don’t know what to do with a lot of construction outside some norm, so they won’t know how to value and won’t know how to write loans.

And under circumstances of any substantial demand for their services, they don’t have incentives to change — they make more spending a predictable amount of time on activity they know how to collect fees for.

You could take all the city zoning/codes/ordinances away today, every last one, and you’d still have this problem (and lose whatever regulatory benefits might come with them).
You shouldn't read too much into the PowerShell story. Creating your own programming language is in most cases a frivolous vanity project. Spending company resources on your own frivolous vanity projects is the sort of thing that can get you fired.
I think that's part of the point of his current project: Arrow. Specifically, one of its goals is to implement the low level computations, whilst enabling more competition in the space of data analysis API design.
California lacked safeguards for gun owner info
No experience with polars, but I've had quite a positive experience with xarray.

I still use pandas for tabular data, but anytime I have to deal with ND data, xarray is a lifesaver. No more dealing with raw, unlabeled 5-D numpy arrays, trying to remember which dimension is what.
What’s the distinction between those two?
Shanghai Police leaking 20TB Chinese citizens data?
While I agree with the legislature is not representing the people well at all, I disagree on pace of tech change being the reason.

The reason is money. Specifically, bribes are legal here, even encouraged.

The product of that is a government representing money, not the people, and our law says we should be self governed, not lorded over as we have seen happen for quite a while now.
> What if a country like the UAE or Hungary start asking for location data matching LGBTQ events or locations?

Then as an American company, Google will generally tell them to pound sand unless the country invokes right to do business, at which point Google gets to do a fun calculus on whether that country's business is worth compliance.

They pulled out of China once over such calculus.
Maybe the people who run the sacrament can help. A church or faith. I don't know anything about you really, so here's some knowledge.

Gregory Pine, a Dominican friar does a few videos on the nature of marriage and it's hurdles. They are theological and philosophical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itLLHyVW6ek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds34wmpxt9I&t=768s

Some random advice added on to complement his videos, if you're crabby like a lobster in relationships, try not to drag people down, bite down on their beliefs too much, or need to be needed. Strength in yourself to overcome that stuff helps, if it's your vice.

Try to not be an immovable foundation for the marriage, like a rock. Give that foundation up to a divine connection to God, or something else other than your own behaviour.

Move away from fighting the endless fight. If you get burnt, let it go, becoming a virginal undefeated combatant who can't lose, isn't helpful.

Look for a guy who is the image of wisdom and truth to your eye/mind. If he sees you (you might not be able to know this) as the image of love or affection for the good, it's going well. Be a little bit reckless with the timing of pregnancy.

Good luck!
I'd be curious to hear how much Big Tech bent over backwards for Russia in the past few years. Just a couple months ago, Apple and Google were scrubbing their respective app stores for Putin and preinstalling government-made apps on Russian handsets. These kinds of greedy double standards is why none of the FAANG companies are long for this world.
Discussed here:

Benchmarking Malloc with Doom 3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31631352 - June 2022 (30 comments)
I remember the name of one particular jpeg I downloaded. We used to go to the school lab, start the download, put a paper sign on the monitor asking people not to turn it off and come back later for our new jpeg.

(It was atol.jpeg)
Our industry desperately needs help with ethics
> Over the last two years I’ve been on over 120 dates

That is... quite a lot. I've probably been on 10-20 over my whole life.
Deleting data that was just requested by law enforcement will get you in a world of trouble.

I guess you could close shop and leave that specific market, but that's not feasible everywhere.
There's no need for such an policy even if it were a strategic goal. Urban environments have been "nudging" people towards greener pastures since the 1960's.
> We're talking 20-50k/year

Please give a source for this. The huge range is suspect, and 702 orders aren't identical to the PRISIM program.
To counter, you need brakes to make a car go fast.

Some bureaucracy are random stops, others are brakes.
I'd like to see if any of these results and conclusions change if you take into account the total tax basis for suburbanites (income tax, sales tax spent in the cities they don't live in, etc.) versus the relatively less well off inner city urbanites. Not all areas are the same, but in places like the Bay Area, a lot of the high income earners move out to the suburbs (think Palo Alto, Pleasanton, Walnut Creek, etc.).

To add, a lot of the economic activities in downtown areas are by workers and customers who live in the suburbs and commute into town. I don't believe that was taken into account.
This is common at state festivals (and local city festivals), and has been going on for years using “coupons” or other fake festival cash. They do it to skim their rake from the vendors.
It's effectively mandatory. Microsoft provides about twelve different C Runtimes. But if you're building something like an open source library, you can't link two different C runtimes where you might accidentally malloc() memory with one and then free() with the other. If you want to be able to pass pointers around your dynamic link libraries, you have to link the one C runtime everyone else uses, which is MSVCRT. Also worth mentioning that on Windows 10 last time I checked ADVAPI32 links MSVCRT. So it's pretty much impossible to not link.
> When we say data is deleted, we mean it.

So that includes all online and offline + offsite backup systems, presumably? And hopefully any such data is "de-trained" from all applicable ml models and systems, of course.
Honestly, Google doesn't have the luxury of that shortcut thinking. It's very "if man were meant to fly he'd have been born with wings" reasoning.

The amount of good enabled by data collection far often outweighs the bad. Better to collect, use for benefit, and protect than to just say "This area of technology is forbidden to mankind."

Besides, it doesn't solve the problem; countries can do their own data collection without Google.
Nah I've seen this too. It is considered an expected behavior. In a way it makes sense. But it's not well documented.
This is a neat project!

It makes me think about the worlds of 1985 and Fahrenheit 451 - what does it look like to make it impossible to express something? When you see a dystopia, what are the mechanics moving underneath its surface, supporting what you can see?
We've replaced the baity wording with more representative language from the article, in keeping with the HN guideline: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The problem is that this is relying on equivocation around the word "entitlement." One type of "entitlement" is an actual right that you can fight over in court, it's called the license. The other type of "entitlement" is just a pejorative euphemism for the word "expectation." By slipping back and forth between those meanings, you can create the impression of a proof that people's expectations are a type of illegal assault.
There's also UCRT, which ships with the OS since Windows 10. The logic of this rant was a real head-scratcher. If you must blame one side, it's LLVM. Fragmentation of C runtimes is annoying but inescapable. Glibc for example isn't any better.
Emails that look good in any email application (MDX and MJML)
I am amazed by level of comprehension that DALL-E shows. At first glance the results also look amazing. Zoomed in though it turns into the stuff of nightmares. Quite literally actually. I am an enthusiastic practicionor of lucid dreaming and this stuff really feels similar to what I see when I closly observe details in lucid dreams. Ostensibly everything looks real but this reality falls apart when actually observed.
Find and join a church, they're great places to meet people. If you're an atheist or agnostic, you can still join a Unitarian church. Although at this point, picking and engaging fully in a religion (whichever) might not be such a bad thing to try.

(Warning, possibly discouraging? ... If the original post is true, then you really must already have a clue about what's up. It seems impossible to me that you could be all that, and do all that, and still really have no idea why it's not working. If none of your friends can possibly fathom what's up, then maybe you need more honest friends. There's something they're not telling you, or that you aren't letting yourself recognize.)
Also Slutshole, Kent
To some extend of being a human you are. Are you entitled to expect things to go exactly your way? No. Are you entitled to get what you want without trade? No.

However, the whole claim of "we are going to do everything we want" and you're going to give us appreciation and some kind of resources (admiration, money, time, commits) is just selfish.

Humans are social animals, what you create and put out is mention to be used by someone. It's not just wankery that is there for people to not get something of it.
> How many ways can you think of would there be for your statement to be false?

Not as many as you might think.

The systems at Google may seem incredibly complicated--and they are--but when I worked there, the scenarios where somebody intercepts and exfiltrates data without your knowledge are extreme.

> If someone "higher clearance" than you decided to make you believe the above, but actually retain it somewhere in someway you weren't allowed to see.

The way this data is stored, it is designed so that access to the data is logged and the logs have various alerts / auditing procedures to catch exfiltration attempts. SREs will periodically create user data and try out clever ways of destroying or exfiltrating it to test that these controls work. The Snowden leaks also cast a long shadow over work at Google, and since then, basically, all the traffic and data in storage has been encrypted in ways that make it difficult for state level actors to surreptitiously intercept it. These systems are a bit nightmarish to design, because there are competing legal/compliance reasons why data must be retained or must be purged. For example, certain data must be retained for SOX compliance, data may be flagged as part of an ongoing investigation, data may be selected for deletion for GDPR compliance, etc.

Obviously, it is POSSIBLE that someone is still exfiltrating data, but you have hundreds or thousands of smart engineers who are trying to prevent "insider risk" and "state level actors". People within the company are a big part of the threat model, and agencies like the CIA, Mossad, KGB, etc. are also part of the threat model.

The stack may be complicated, but it's also designed with defense-in-depth to prevent people at lower levels in the stack from subverting controls at higher levels in the stack. For example, people who work on storage systems may be completely unable to decrypt the data that their storage systems contain.

If you're going to get pissy about it, it's obviously true that we are not 100% certain that data is destroyed when we say it is. But this invokes a standard for "knowing" that precludes knowing the truth of any statement which is not an analytic statement.

You don't have to believe, even for a second, if you didn't work with the wipeout systems. That's fine. I'm not trying to convince that wipeout works as intended, because I know that I can't provide the evidence to you.

However, you seem to be arguing that other people don't know that the wipeout systems work--that it's somehow impossible to know.
Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self [video]
Without going into too many details, yes. The trick is that you can key sensitive data, encrypt it, and delete it by throwing away the key.

I don't know if Google can do de-training (depends on how the training data is generated), but generally if the trained data can't be tagged for removal it also can't be reversed from the output of the training.
Home Sellers Are Slashing Prices in Sudden Halt to Pandemic Boom
Maybe, your IFL Science link is talking about mineral hydrates.
The web has gotten much faster. I remember waiting around for at least 5 to 10 seconds for pages to load over 14.4K.

Still, modern web sites are incredibly bloated. There was a period in the late 90's where I had an early cable modem connection (3 megabits.) All sites were still built for dialup, so things loaded at lightning speed. In general, I'd say effective speeds have remained constant since the early 2000's since site bloat has kept pace with increasing broadband speeds.
Well if it gets to the point that the government is going after basic human rights then I think we're already past the point of avoiding a world of trouble.

But for the specific scenarios you mentioned, I don't see what the Hungarian government for example can do beyond just ban Google's services.
Amazon seems to have done that calculus recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31929957
I actually have been a Feedly subscriber for years (since Google reader closed). However I seldom use it anymore. At some point it gave me anxiety bc of the amount of unread articles. I pay for it yearly... I actually think I should unsubscribe
Wow! This is actually some great work!
Discussed at the time:

The Bullshit Web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17655089 - July 2018 (550 comments)
More useful: make it change 'cloud' to 'butt' automatically, like that browser extension.
I nearly took this bait
The data point you want to use is the modal age of adult death, but everyone is fixed on the mean age of death, which you correctly note is completely skewed by childhood mortality.
I wonder how hard it would be to have my personal residence classified as one of these protected places. Incorporate some kind of business or non-profit, make sure it shows up the right way in Google Maps, then enjoy freedom from Google surveillance.
How to Survive in the Alaskan Wilderness (2017)
Hi there, it might be a good idea to clear this up early on the github page itself. This is a good idea, but I would not read on after the first page if I don't see that it checks my boxes for what I need. And as I can see it is still not really defining it.
Not sure about colab, but its important to note that Anaconda is not free for commercial use.
You got me. But being a Fermion or a Boson is (IMO) a label for a generic property. and we have plenty of other such theoretical constructs named after the inventor: Weyl, Dirac, etc. we need language and labels to communicate ideas, so that is alight. But the Higgs particle and mechanism represents physical reality (now at least) which brings it to the level of electrons, quarks and the fundamental forces of nature. These names will stand for as long as our civilization. Who cares that someone predicted them a couple of years before their discovery when we are a century down the line.
Just imagine if fire was known as the Peterson effect?
Anyway that’s just my opinion.
How much weight you can lose pooping (2016)
Since we are getting pedantic, Linux isn't a UNIX.
It's surreal.

the 750k row sample file seems very real, with names/id/gender/education/marriage/mobile/address/crime record, the latest birthday is 2021; it also contains a table of police cases in Shanghai dated back to 2000s. it also has urls for id photos, plus photos taken in police stations and customs. Hopefully those urls are not actually accessible to the hackers.

the only suspicious part is that it's priced only 10btc, $$$ but still peanut compare to the value for data covering such a large population in China
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell, regardless of how wrong people are or you feel they are. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

Religious flamewar hell and nationalistic flamewar hell are particularly to be avoided.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wonder about persisting location info in the era of an over-state subpoena. Can I discover someone’s proximity to known locations via Apple?
A Non Fungible Future
Last time I've checked it was a lengthy process involving attaching a credit card, leaving the organization and then deleting the account. Has it been changed?
The problem with this is that there's not necessarily a relationship between price paid and lack of slave labor. At least, you can't guarantee non slave labor by paying more.
(I work for MS, though in core Azure rather than Office or Windows.)

I think that PowerShell story was how old MS worked, back in the days of stack ranking, hatred of Linux and the Longhorn fiasco. things inside the company are a lot more functional now. I saw internal politics drama at my first position, but once I moved everything was chill, and experimentation and contributing across team boundaries was actively encouraged and rewarded.

I suspect Office suffers from a ton of technical debt, along with being architecturally amorphous and dating from a pre-cloud era. as for Windows, the amount of breakage I see in the betas suggests they're not afraid of making deep changes, it's probably that MSVCRT is a living fossil and has to support old programs monkeypatching the guts of malloc or something.
All of the examples I can find using this technology are one-story. That's not promising for addressing housing price problems in large cities. But maybe it could be adapted?
> Doing a large malloc or causing paging could have slaughtered game execution, especially during streaming.

... it still does ? I had a case a year or so ago (on then-latest Linux / GCC / etc.) where a very sporadic allocation of 40-something bytes (very exactly, inserting a couple of int64 in an unordered_map at the wrong time) in a real-time thread was enough to go from "ok" to "unuseable"
Totally agree there are some sizeable maintenance costs, I’ve had to do a roof, windows, remodeling, plumbing, all kinds of stuff. It’s still lots less than the purchase price. And I had to pay them on top of the mortgage, it’s not like maintenance waits to start until the mortgage is paid off, right? Paying off the mortgage simply eliminated one money drain for me but didn’t change the other, so my average monthly expenditure went down.
You're trying to say that I'm suggesting verbal sexual harrassment is worse than rape because it lasts longer? But you're ignoring that rape involves psychological traumas of losing trust in people, nightmares, loss of bodily autonomy and control, being afraid to go out in some situations, or to some places, which lasts much longer than the physical damage (of a non-violent rape). If you include those things then you have both types of attack having mental harm and rape having more of it (because of the intimacy and intensity and loss of control, among other things) and rape having physical harm too, which makes rape worse.

> but verbal sexual harrassment can still be hurting decades later.

In the vein of putting words in peoples mouths, you think this is a positive good thing and a reason you support verbal sexual harassment because it will toughen people up for decades? (I suspect not).
This came up in conversation last night with a friend, and the article is both factual and made me chuckle. I figure some biohacker/nutritionist folks on HN might enjoy it, either the humor or addressing any bad facts.

Enjoy!
This book has about the same information content as The Conquest of Bread: a lot of interesting ideas and idealistic speculation, and not a lot in the way of practical instructions for organizing a robust large-scale society.

Edit: It's worth remembering that the earliest highways in the USA were privately-owned toll roads. And that the first mass transit systems were privately owned railroads. There is a lot to be said for free markets and the price system! But there is also a reason that these pieces of infrastructure ended up under the government umbrella.
Related:

Google will delete location history data for abortion clinic visits - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31956944 - July 2022 (28 comments)

Google will remove user location history for abortion clinic visits - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31954401 - July 2022 (158 comments)

Google will start auto-deleting abortion clinic visits from location history - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31953171 - July 2022 (6 comments)

Google urged to stop collecting phone location data before Roe vs. Wade reversal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31509772 - May 2022 (8 comments)

Democrats urge Google to limit geo tracking to protect people seeking abortions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31507351 - May 2022 (6 comments)

Lawmakers ask Google to stop collecting data before reversal of abortion rights - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31501871 - May 2022 (12 comments)
Obviously I don’t know you and my advice might be off, but maybe it will help. I am also male - but I know several women who were at your situation, and opted to go at it alone (through a sperm donation) or with a non married partner (like being divorced from day zero), and are very happy about this decision.

You really want children, and I think that you will regret it very much if you don’t have them. You also want love - but that’s not something that is so easy to find with so much pressure involved.

Of course it’s not ideal - but life never is. So go make these children. You have all of life to find love.
Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
Reddit has a thread of timestamps for people who missed stuff live, or if you just want to search through for games you find interesting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/vlb4ff/sgdq_vod_t...
Google doesn’t allow people to target data like this in their ad networks and never has.
However, an IC @ Google outside the US still makes 2-3x what their local employment market will pay even without playing all careerist & promo games.

Source: was IC @ Google.

Frankly I've accumulated the cynical opinion that Google wants to asphyxiate the local job markets of talent. They need to do this to keep their lead in advertising, etc., and they can afford to do it because of their lead. Paying 2x what local employers pay stops many local employers (usually underfunded by anemic local investment culture) from firing up some fancy new ad-tech startup or whatever.
1 s vs 1 ms is not a great comparison.

Polars excels when pandas operations take 30 seconds or a minute to complete. Bringing that time down to the second or ms mark is really amazing.
I’m be Doing web development for 17 years. I’ve been through all kinds of frameworks and paradigms.

Most recently I’ve been learning Typescript (finally) as in my new role, _everything _ is written in it. I described it like a toddler. Every time you do something it says “why” and then you explain and it asks “why?” About your explanation.

The advice here is good. Communicate with your team. If they’re worth their salt they will respond with support and good faith.
I thought it was interesting to read the original email thread and the criticism and responses when it was first announced (particularly in light of its success).