skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This argument applies to all kinds of taxes, right? If you tax labor, I'll just move my factory somewhere that labor isn't taxed. If you tax my income, I'll move myself to a lower-tax place. If you tax my land, I'll just buy land somewhere else. And so on.

Yet somehow most countries are able to tax labor, income, land, and so on, without losing their entire populations.

Not to say that people won't leave because of taxes. Just that there are also reasons that make people stay.
The link redirects to a https URL that doesn't work (Firefox and Opera).
I'm not using a https anywhere addon so I was very surprised that wget http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/05/application-data-caching... doesn't get redirected. Loading the downloaded file in the browser let me read the article.
Horses were good at one thing: dragging stuff around. Humans are a bit more adaptable.
>How can you build engaging web applications if you are not even allowed to rely on standards like JS (e.g. if the user turns off JS)?

You can, but you an't force the user to interact with your 'web application' in the way you prefer. But you could never rely on the user's browser settings being optimal for the experience you wanted to provide anyway.

If you want absolute control over what the user sees and doesn't see, then build a native app. The price you pay for the ubiquity and convenience of web applications is putting control over the interface in the hands of browser vendors and end users.
Having no background in farming I'm at a loss. What exactly does this do?
Depends strongly on the situation.

It's true that where heating would be used, if mounted in such a way that all that heat is available (ie, not recessed into a ceiling fixture), the 97% is useful. (But not necessarily maximally efficient, because if you wanted heat in the first place you'd be better off not turning your energy into electricity, a process with ~50% efficiency at the power plant, and then incurring further distribution losses.)

On the other hand, if cooling would be used, it's even less efficient because now you have to cool away all those 97%.
The underlying hardware of the provisioned nodes would still be under the control of easily-bugged machines in large datacenters from the perspective of government level actors.
> night and day

Tsk tsk.

We're do you source the bulbs? I've recently tried f.lux and I definitely get better sleep - I'd like to upgrade my home lighting story.
Wouldn't big LED be happy to license the new tech and push that?

Especially with LED sales waning as more and more people have 15 year bulbs.
They'll kill it by not killing it.
I think the author has somewhat conflated the concept of CRI and color temperature in the article. An incandescent bulb or a candle has 100 CRI because they are almost by definition close to the ideal. That said a typical incandescent bulb is going to be somewhere in the 2500-3500K color temp. Lots of cheap flo bulbs tend to be both relatively low CRI and have a color temp in the 5000-6000K range which is more like 'daylight without benefits'. They tend to have lots of blue and greens and nothing else. Lots/most LED lights fall in this range as well. My personal opinion is that lighting products should be required to list CRI and color temp, just like nutrition information on food. :)
I totally agree with you. I should have been more clear.

In my opinion, some people want to work. They want to contribute to society and receive validation in the form of a variable salary that can go up or down according to their contribution. Others don't. Both are fine.

Calling people "useless" is not a great selling point for basic income. It strikes a nerve with some people [1], and while I think the post I just cited went over the top, I see what they're getting at.

Useless is subjective. I wouldn't call monks or anyone else useless. Yet, this is one of Altman's reasons for supporting basic income [2]. I don't think he intended his statement to be interpreted that way. It is what it is.

[1] https://medium.com/the-development-set/silicon-valley-s-unch...

[2] http://www.techinsider.io/sam-altman-praises-basic-income-on...
Yes, the spectral power distribution is smooth for any approximate black body radiator. That low temperature (2700K) incandescent and high temperature (5000K-6500K) daylight have a range of "color temperatures" doesn't negate the smoothness of the distribution. Human chromatic adaptation accounts for this difference automatically very nicely.

I guarantee you it's very straightforward to reproduce color mismatches with 5000K "daylight" fluorescents that have CRI 90 and higher, compared to actual daylight. The CRI is just short of complete utter nonsense. It's very useful in specific comparison contexts, but requires qualification. It's almost like having your kid come up with a report card that says B+ and you think, yeah OK not bad kid! But then realist they got A's in everything except they got a D in history. Oops.
Too bad incandescent bulbs are illegal here! We'll have to change the laws.
Maybe it could be used for modal keybindings if your gaze changes modes e.g. focus between the panes of an IDE. hjkl moves the cursor when looking at the code, but it traverses the file hierarchy when looking at the sidebar, and enumerates tabs when looking at widgets.

Kind of like how keys are reused in Vim yet have similar meanings across each mode. You don't have to remember so many unique keybindings.

Some editors let you switch between panes with keybindings, but once you have more than a few or some in weird shapes, you end up needing tmux's `C-b q` pane selector. Seems like gaze could replace most of that.
People in Peoria pay into pension funds.

People in Wall Street invest that money in Silicon Valley startups.

Silicon Valley people get rich and look successful because money is being showered on them.

People in Peoria lose their jobs because their own money is disinvested from their community and worse, used as a weapon against them.

People in Peoria vote for Trump and say "burn baby burn".
Amen I guess?

I expect that for a lot of apps-that-really-should-be-websites their owners will realize that having to (pay to) maintain both their Android and IOS apps, and the 'normal' website is a costly affair, and that maintaining one responsive website is a lot more efficient.
There's always Google's API!

https://www.google.com/cloudprint/
Because allot of the "marketing" of the "experience" has been focused branding the individual person behind the coffee rather than the coffee it self.

Go into any "artisan" coffee shop and the barista would pretty much look identical, many of them will engage and have their own "shtick" to make the experience of drinking their coffee "unique".
The coffee it self is also going to be heavily branded and sold to you as some fantastic story with many images which again will be heavily focused on the people who were involved in the entire process from growing the beams to your cup.

This is what we are buying now, 20$> an ounce "fair traded organic beans" with some nice retro photographs of Bolivian coffee farmers combined with some 20 year old millennials inspecting the beans to make sure you get the "best" ones in your cup.

This is what you can't replace, brewing the coffee and even foaming milk is something that a machine can do easily, and arguably better than most people, heck even latte drawing can probably be better done with a 2-axis drip nozzle than a barista with a bamboo stick but when you pay 7$ for a cup of coffee you aren't paying for coffee you are paying for the experience that no machine can actually give you simply because you don't want it. You want the human contact because at least in my personal belief that is a coping mechanism we have adopted to make for the isolationist life style that many of us live today in which we spend more time with our phones than with people, and so we care now more about how our coffee and burritos are being made and by whom than ever before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumen_%28unit%29
And as far as I can tell, organizations struggle with doing multilevel and multidisciplinary optimization.
Were you expecting a virtuous "Build it and they will come" thing to happen in the community? I'd imagine a ton of reports coming out all the time, not everything of value bubbles to the top right away.
Storm is a low level system for managing (optionally) transactional multi-machine tasks. It makes no assumptions about what is being processed (ie. analytics, data transforms). The primitives you are talking about exist in the child project Trident which runs on top of storm. Storm itself is no more for analytics than a web-server. It is a lower level tool.
They knew it was round, damn it
Agreed, humans and mice are very metabolicly different. For example, Ketosis* is a normal state of operation for humans, but a sign of sickness for mice.

*Ketosis: Creating ketone bodies from dietary fat, or if unavailable, body fat. In this mode the bodies energy needs are met by FFA (free fatty acids), ketones, and glucose (generated via gluconeogenesis non glucose substrates, including lactate, pyruvate, glycerol, and some amino acids). Human's ability to function well in this mode is why humans have zero essential (dietary) carbohydrate requirement; this would kill a mouse.
I'm a developer who knows nothing about AI but is fascinated by the recent painting/music/"dreaming" applications of it.

What would be some good resources for 1. getting the bare minimum knowledge required for using existing libraries like Tensorflow 2. going a bit further and having at least some basic understanding of how most popular ML/AI algorithms work ?
It's ironic that the factories that make incandescent bulbs are being shut down.
One more reason for not opposing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_around_the_world
It didn't work for me until I did the following:

- Zoom in so that my gaze is actually looking at distinct parts of the physical screen

- Look at the cursor while clicking a few times to train it

- Take off my glasses

- Move way closer to the camera and hold relatively still

It was a lot of hassle to get it to work but after it did work it was a lot of fun!
What is STT?
A general that had a bonus clause on the contract offered by the Nokia board if he managed to sell the company.

If you had such a bonus on your contract what would you do?
That would be about the worst form of leadership possible.

Not quite. The worst would be to do that, then have a office suite converted into a nursery for just your own kids.
Ah, thanks. The article does a poor job here, too, since it uses LED/CFL interchangeably. But if that's a known euphemism it gets a pass on this one :)
I wonder if anyone has experimented with using something like this to make an incredibly inexpensive assistive technology interface
Couldn't it be a secondary stream to the same endpoint but using a different keying (ie, encryption with server's pubkey) mechanism (the metadata then wouldn't be E2E encrypted, but that's not covered in WhatsApp's E2E security page)?
That's so exciting to hear, thanks for this feedback
Pipistrel is trying: http://www.panthera-aircraft.com/technical-data
Well, that's kind of what you have to do. The definition of a bubble is contingent on the burst at the end. If it never bursts, it wasn't a bubble. So you take today's valuations (which you assume are bubble-inflated) and then compare them to the valuation at some future date. If the valuations are a lot lower, then there was a burst and thus a bubble. If not, no bubble (or it's still ongoing).
Philips Hue + Amazon Echo + Custom Integration = Glorious

"Alexa, I'm ready for bed." is like I live in the future (warms up the lamp colors like flux on my mac). Still working on tying the coffee pot into the morning wakeup alarm though.
QE benefits everyone who borrows money for anything. We bought a house with a 3.1 rate, something that would have been unheard of in generations past. Same with rates for auto and every other type of loan.
the difference is that there are lots of parties that stand to profit by moving the production back to the u.s.. if a u.s. packaging company is able to be price competitive with a chinese counterpart, it will certainly emerge... over time, the whole supply chain can reemerge.
By the powers bestowed upon me by hacker news user account creation, I absolve you from your sin of shameless self-promotion. Seriously though, I am as remote as possible from that industry (film and TV content creation!), but it absolutely fascinates me. I devour all and every article and paper (that I can understand) about this and HPC as well. You did well in video, we should do a documentary together on this theme!
Google didn't want Youtube. They just wanted no one else to have it.
> I wonder if it irks him that the Chinese film which has made the most money ever in the history of Chinese cinema

Why should it? That's awesome.
This is related to the mirage/Solo5 integration, which you can read about in this blog post: https://mirage.io/blog/introducing-solo5
Sorry, not sure what's wrong. I tested in the latest firefox, safari, opera, and chrome and it works for me.

Edit: blogger doesn't do SSL on custom domains. Sorry =/
Siri 2.0
I need to build a notifications service for our application, and it would be nice if one of my existing tools like Intercom provided the service instead. I want to be able to send messages of varying levels of urgency - e.g. "send password reset now" vs. "this message should arrive within an hour and can be bundled." The service already has communication details - email, phone, push notification info, maybe even facebook auth. I wish it would intelligently route to the correct notification method based on each user's responsiveness (did they open the email?), cost (can I save money by using push vs. sms?) and available methods (e.g. I don't have a twilio number in their country). An API for marking messages as read via a UI notification center would be cool too.

Message spam is the worst, and building intelligent routing across communication methods is becoming a pain.
wow. that is so fantastic. i wonder how they came to the 40% figure.
Sounds pretty correct, only nitpick is that the data is not "outside of Docker", but rather outside of the Docker image.
Still no cure for $1300/month rent for a 2bed apartment two hours east of Cleveland...
Good - no more toxic chemicals from so-called eco-friendly bulbs in our homes.
A similar instance on my part: I started working at a new job last year, but didn't add that information to my Facebook account or any other online account (even LinkedIn, which I trust even less than FB). Within a week all of my new coworkers started showing up as suggested friends.

Now here's the fun part: My government job has a strict electronic device security policy, and employees are forbidden from carrying cellphones, smart watches, and any other connected devices into the building; I have to leave my phone in the car. So, how does Facebook know that I have new connections with these people? The only thing I can think of is that each of them looked me up on the site after meeting me. Another more insidious thought is that Facebook is using GPS location data to see where I go every morning and depart from every evening and is assuming that it's my new job (Google did this in the past when I had an Android phone and had Google Now enabled, it figured out on its own where my last new job was, but that was a documented "feature").

Either way, Facebook now knows where I work even though I deliberately chose not to tell them.
And, in fact, games are one of the cheaper forms of entertainment that people partake in, so the destruction of jobs is pretty damn high.
I like the idea, but it gets tricky, what if the robots are in a different country?
Have you been to /r/btc recently? It's mostly a bash-the-other-subreddit thing now.
Yep. I've replaced about a lot of the bulbs in my house with LEDs. The key is to buy a number of them, find ones that you like, and then put the ones you don't like in places that the color doesn't matter as much (garage, storage areas, etc).

For me, a lot of the Philips LED Soft White (2700k) bulbs worked.
Not really. More like we're just looking to see if any sales/BD folks actually use any location/mapping tools for their work.

I'd assume that lifetime values and sales forecasting would probably come from one's own data.
Our eyes can adapt pretty readily to differences in color temperature. What is harder to adapt to (or maybe theoretically impossible) is the non-continuous spectrum. Even if some things look "natural" under such lighting, other things won't, it will shift colors in weird ways. It depends on the pigment etc.
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I've tried two brands so far (GE and Hyperikon) for LED bulbs at 2700k and 3000k and they all were incredibly white and nothing like my incandescent bulbs- and on top of that, even the "dimmable" LED bulbs suck. I want to have LED all over my house, but there's honestly almost an "uncanny valley" feel to the LED bulbs I've tried, and so far I'm sticking with my incredibly inefficient bulbs.
AI is (only currently theoretically) capable of infinitely more than a human.

Let's say you have an expert blacksmith. He comes from a long line of blacksmiths, each a renowned expert in their trade. One day, he starts teaching an AI (which has human dexterity) how to do his job, as his forefathers taught their children. Eventually the AI matches his skills, maybe even surpasses. The AI will never die. It can copy its instances infinitely. We don't need human blacksmiths anymore.

When humans began to take over the earth, the single best survival trait among other organisms was being useful to humans. How useful are we to an intelligence that never gets tired, that can manage all the resources and means of production on earth?

What if humans are seen as a net drain on the earth and its resources? What if 1% of the population doesn't need the 99% for anything anymore?
I recently changed my diet because I felt my energy levels were all over the place. I cut out processed carbs, and generally things with a high glycemic index. It took about three weeks to really get past sugary foods, but then my tastes started to change. I'm pescetarian (mostly vegetarian, occasional I'll eat fish), so protein is a challenge – I rely pretty heavily on eggs and yogurt. I also cut down on the amount of dairy I was consuming in general, switching to a macchiato for my afternoon coffee rather than a latte. Other than that, lots of vegetables in lots of variety.

Data point of one, but after a month I really started to feel a difference. I felt a lot better almost immediately, but some of that was likely placebo. I crash a lot less in the afternoons, and have higher energy in general. Physically the difference was more dramatic – lost a spare tire I was starting to cary around my mid section. Partially this was due to exercise – more energy led to commuting by bike a lot more than I was.

One thing I'd add to the article was the importance of changing your environment. When I first started it was difficult because most of the snacks at home were carbohydrate based – by changing the environment and stocking a lot more protein-based foods at home that were easy to prepare, it was a lot easier to make the transition.
Yeah, good updates are important but something I think can be mostly automated.

BTW, if you're interested in teaming up on it at all, by all means get in touch. I'm never opposed to a capable partner.
Flip side: Journalist writes article with 'bubble' in the title.
Why would people would consider electric for airplanes? You want maximum energy density for weight. Jet fuel is pretty damn good when scored like that. We can make synthetic jet fuel from green electricity - if the process uses carbon from the atmosphere it's carbon neutral. Granted it would be expensive, but that's neither here nor there until fossil fuels surpass that price point.

I suspect well-meaning people like the idea of an electric airplane because it's greener, but FYI we live in a market economy. We will continue to extract and burn fossil fuels until it is uneconomic to do so. No matter how many people shout, no matter how much damage it does to the Earth, even if it kills us all. Markets don't care. If you have a problem with that, as I do, the only practical solution is to make fossil fuels not a cost effective alternative. Electric airplanes could be part of a solution - but only if they can compete on cost. I personally like the idea of taxing fossil fuels to factor in the negative externalities - but given the political makeup of the world as a bunch of competing nation-states, it seems unlikely. Game theory tells us there is too much incentive to be the nation state that doesn't support the agreement. Instead what I think will happen is that we'll innovate our way out of the mess by making green technologies more cost effective than fossil fuels.
The Finn press discovered that the Nokia board had offered a contract to Elop where he would get a large bonus if he managed to sell the company.

This was talked a lot in Finland, you can easily find it if you google for it, but Microsoft haters like to ignore this little action from Nokia board.
A saddle is a critical point that's not a local extremum--the Hessian could just be zero, for example, like x^4-y^4 at (0,0).
I think it's a fair point; these bulbs are not used for heating because that's not their primary function (despite being more efficient at it than lighting). The inverse would apply to, say, a fireplace. Light is an acceptable (even desired) side effect of the primary function, but it would not be convenient to rely on it for that side effect.
Feels like I'm in the same boat with way too many initiatives going on.
I just buy them on Amazon or their third party retailers.
I doubt that Hipmunk's sales are increasing 70% YoY, to account for this drop. On the other hand, Hipmunk's userbase is almost definitely not a representative sampling of the population.
Magic Leap is giving 10 Twilio devs early access to its SDK
Unemployment is more efficient. It's not a choice between 20% unemployment and giving everyone 4 day work-weeks (20% work cut), it's a choice between 20% unemployment and 4.5 day work-weeks.

Training, communication, organization, and a dozen other things are per-worker costs which incentivize employing fewer people full-time. The only exceptions are regulatory distortions that incentivize part-time labor to avoid paying benefits. And those jobs only exist at the bottom of the pay scale (where flat healthcare costs dominate scaling efficiency costs), which is where full-time work is required to survive. It's not just foolishness, the current system is more efficient while being more devastating.

We can absolutely do better, but it's going to take a serious realignment.
Financial reasons for being vegan