skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example it's usually in peoples interest here to join a union rather than to not join one.

Exactly. You take away worker's freedom and fairness to improve the situation. Freedom is what causes the problems that unions attempt to solve.

When people are free to operate any way they want, in a fair market with no restrictions, they will undercut others to everyone's detriment, be that through accepting lower pay, willing to take greater risks in dangerous jobs, and so on. Again, a union takes away their freedom to do those things, and takes away the fairness that treats everyone in the same way, so that everyone else doesn't feel like they also have to do those things.

> Furthermore, firing people for being in an union is blatantly illegal where I live.

There is another freedom lost. Do you still not see how freedom is a bad thing here? Surely you agree that not being able to fire people for being in a union is a good thing, even though it comes at the cost of less freedom?

> I'm just living in such a culturally different place on this subject that I just can't understand what your points are.

Possibly. Are you an American by chance? It get the impression they place such high value on freedom and fairness that anything else they like must also be free and fair, without even taking the time to think about what that actually means. I see several comments here where people are getting upset at the idea that unions aren't free or fair, even though there is no reason to be. It is perfectly okay to not always be completely free or fair.
1. Install Duolingo on your phone
2. Change your phone's microphone default language to Spanish
3. Practice by dictating spanish directly to your phone without typing
How do you route the power from Antarctica to where it needs to be? That'd be an impractically large expense.
>Circular.

Circular, self-referential. Works great until it doesn't, then fails catastrophically. Most people don't think about the kind of risks that have low odds of occurrence but drastic consequences when they do occur (coughGFCcoughFukushimacough), especially not when blinded by $$$ in their eyes and/or the idea of being part of the next big thing.

One interesting line of research in the field is in ways to anchor the security of the system or value of the network to something external. PoW does this by anchoring the value of the token and the security of the network in the cost of electricity. There are other experiments going on trying to anchor it to a basket of fiat currencies, for example, or other forms of cryptographic randomness. PoW I think will remain the most robust, but worth experimenting.
World's Biggest Pilgrimage Now Underway, and Why You've Never Heard of It
> So you're saying the only reason they were admitted is the color of their skin and no other criteria were considered? What are the criteria that are normally used to evaluate a white student that were thrown out for these black students?

No, he's saying that they were selected over people who performed better in the interviews and other selection criteria because of the color of their skin/gender/religion/...

Now in some way that's equivalent, in the sense that they would not have been selected if not for their skin color (they would have been third or fifth on the list where the top spot gets hired), but in other ways it's not. It does not mean they don't have any ability at all, for instance. Just less than would be required if they were white males. And I'm sure if executive compensation is tied to this, that there will in fact be cases of no ability at all, but I doubt it will be the common case.

And we all know the methods executives will use to hit their targets while lying about this, for instance to make sure it looks fair, when it isn't. Going in and changing interview reports and scores after the fact to make sure they "didn't select based on skin color", except it'll be blatantly obvious for their colleagues that's exactly what happened. And in fact I bet those other team members will have to work more, harder and ... to compensate for the lower abilities.
Would that necessarily be a bad thing? E.g. taking a very under-developed country and giving it the Singapore treatment?
Different approaches work for different people. I wish people would understand that, instead of assuming that what works for other people is ~secretly harmful~ and they should just use what works for the speaker.

The first and only ironclad law of productivity is "Do what works."
First memory when I was about 1.5 years old, where my family, specifically the man who I now called father is having a dinner.
It also helps facilitate transactions, ensures the security and integrity of a network of mutually distrustful agents, and establishes a price floor for the currency loosely based on the price of electricity.
Washington pot sales surpass $200M in one quarter
New immigration rules make it easier for Americans to work and stay in Canada
In a deterministic universe, there's a sense in which that's always the case. But really, probability is always "given the information available". "I know everything about a deterministic universe" is just a special case.

Related to the broader topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoring_rule#Proper_scoring_ru...
A communications platform is useless if its user base is small; who will you communicate with? People have some limit on the amount of different communication platforms they can participate in simultaneously. The number one way to get more people on your communications platform is to have lots of people on it already; the number two way is convincing people to use it (that is, marketing).
I recently bought a Nokia 6310i. I simply wanted to own one, as when I was a teenager I had always looked up to the business people that had one.

Back in those days this phone even came as an accessory with certain cars, such as Mercedes-Benz.

However, placing it next to my iPhone made me appreciate our progress and the possibilities we've opened up by adopting the new smartphones and the whole app ecosystem.
There's a PBS (I think) series called "the machine that changed the world". This is the best history of computing I've seen yet.
If you imagine Im at 0 on the x-axis, and I create an entangled pair, then send one to L and one to -L, then measure both: can't I, at x=0, verify they (don't) match at time L/c rather than 3L/c?

If it were locally probabilistic, then it should accidentally (not) match some of the time between t=L/c and t=3L/c: it cant be both non-deterministic and local if they never match during that time window.

Seperately: fused anyons in electron gases seem to exhibit non-local qunatum numbers. That's why MS wants to use them for quantum computing. Im not sure your sock example is sufficient to explain the stability of topological-regime quantum values against thermal noise and decoherence.
Does Apple's backdoor make them more comfortable?

Last time I checked creating a Google account was optional when setting up an Android device. Can the same be said on iOS?
A godsend for Trump. Next time he says something disgusting and terrible on record, he can just say "wasn't me, Voco did it." Could extend the public viability of his presidency by as much as a year.
I know a group of colleagues who used to car pool and discuss about IT related topics from their previous experiences.

A group of 3-4 like minded people on a conference call would be a good way to share topics about what you know and learn from others.

This may work best while in cars (as opposed to when using public transit)
Wind power kills more people per kWh than nuclear does. Hydro power often relies on dams that devastate ecosystems. Solar is expensive as hell. I don't even know about tidal, does anyone even do that?
Maemo lives on in https://neo900.org/
Pithy.
Oh please... an ad hominem attack on the NBER??

>...The NBER is the largest economics research organization in the United States.[2] Many of the American winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences were NBER Research Associates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bureau_of_Economic_Re...
Maybe people concerned about having their voice manipulated can carry a device that generates an acoustic timecode whenever they speak, or at least some kind of non-repeating tone generator. Supposedly the 60Hz or 50Hz hum in recordings can be correlated with variations in the electrical grid frequency. It would make sense to go further and deliberately tag live audio with a timestamp to ensure continuity.

I can think of a few ways of faking a timecode like that, but they can be counteracted to an extent.
I wonder if this is an extension of the "only hire, never train" problem that a lot of companies have these days.
Oh and let me tell you about the Mexicans. The cartels in Mexico are absolutely no less evil than ISIS is the Middle East. They execute people the same way. For example, see http://motherless.com/095B6A6 . I'll be damned if I want a single one of these evildoers in the US.
I've been using Docker in production for over a year now.

Multiple iterations on it

1. Orchestration through chef, no service discovery, Just containers on machines as micro-services.

2. Orchestrations through mesos and marathon.

3. Kubernetes and Rundeck.

#3 has been the best in terms of flexibility, #1 has been the best in terms of ease of use and fire-and-forget.

The most complicated part about Docker in production is not actually Docker in production it's everything on the way.

From CI to building to publishing and deployment.
I've been happy with the G5. I don't use the LG launcher and keyboard, so it feels close enough to stock Android.
In a mathematical sense, yes, every citizen who gives a certain amount of tax money to the government to pay for research bodies could, instead, give money straight to some sort of central body to distribute it to the same various groups.

But they wouldn't. And you know it. Even the Science Philanthropy Alliance (http://www.sciencephilanthropyalliance.org/what-we-do/resour...), which funds researchers using privately-donated money, says that taxes are necessary to have scientific progress.
I find it interesting how hard the author focuses on disparaging the authors of this paper for daring to investigate this question, rather than trying to argue with the empirical results of their research.
3D Printing Stainless Steel with Giant Robot Arms
For what it is worth the cost of solar is dropping - and pretty steadily at that, if I recall correctly.

Japan has researched and is working on developing tidal energy [0]. But that's the only case I know of off-hand even related to tidal energy at all... and it hasn't been built yet.

[0] http://www.hydroworld.com/articles/2014/12/japan-develops-ti...
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No, once a particular disorder goes over 50% of the population, it doesn't magically become healthy, just because it's the norm. The fact that something is a disorder has nothing to do with how many people are afflicted by it. However, like 99% of social media disagreements among people, it comes down to who's definition of a word is right doesn't it.
If you have a pool of candidates that are equally qualified and you prefer hiring some one based on their gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity that is discrimination regardless of how you look at it.

When you tie financial incentive you are even more likely to create discrimination since if a candidate is merely qualified but not the most qualified out of a pool you are likely to choose them in order to meet the hiring policy especially if your income is dependant on it.

Lastly I've seen some diversity goals in some companies and sorry but these goals are unrealistic, when women make up 15-18% of the students in computer science, engineering and similar degrees there is absolutly no way to meet a goal of 50%/50% split between men and women as engineers without drastically reducing the diversity in other companies.

If the 30%+ goal for women in MSFT is going to be cross department MSFT would effectively have to poach women from other companies and hire across multiple graduation years which either would leave a larger percentage of male engineers unemployed or make other companies less diverse.

If women were 50% of STEM graduates and we still had an issue of diversity in tech that would be a different story, but currently most large tech companies have a higher percentage of women including in engineering than the national average in their relevant degrees and vocational education.

Women make up less than 20% of most STEM programmes especially those related to computer sciences, women make up less than 20% of most coding bootcamps, so exactly where would these magic diversity quotas are supposed to come from?
MacOS: How to investigate high kernel task memory usage?
Also, apps that request Google Account access can't actually read your mail, can they... It's just a verification that you own that email address.
Recent discussion of this study: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12983827
Recently build myself a home box from Ebay parts. Two four core Xeons, 72gb DDR3 memory and six onboard SATA ports. Two 120gb SSDs running Proxmox on that for virtualisation and a 2tb drive for misc storage. Bought an LSI 9211 HBA with another eight SATA ports for fifty euros, which gets PCI passthrough'ed to a FreeNAS VM. Four cheap 2tb drives for the initial pool.

Another VM provides an instance of NextCloud locally and that's pretty much it. Works, feels secure enough and didn't cost more than 500€ total. A four disk Synology Home NAS with drives would cost more and offer significantly less.

As for online backup, being on satellite internet makes uploading pretty much anything too painful to even consider.
Because Americans want all the benefits of socialism but with plausible deniability about not being "commies"
Are there any "Proof of storage" blockchains?

This would force people to have physical objects (RAM or HDD) to mine, but doesn't consume the massive amounts of energy that POW mining consumes.

(i.e. you only need the storage to mine a block, not longterm)

The way I'm envisioning it each "tick" randomly X blocks are picked, and the more storage you have the more likely it is you will be picked (potentially more than once).
"Under no scientific theory can you pluck energy from the vacuum."

You can if you're very patient, have a lot of material, and lucky aim, thanks to the metric expansion of space.

From within a galaxy cluster shoot one end a very very long wire into the central black hole of a galaxy in a distant galaxy to anchor the far parts of the wire, and wind some near part of the wire around the pole of an electrical generator in your galactic cluster.

You won't get much power for a long time by human standards, but you'll get an awful lot of energy (and eventually substantial power give or take divergence in the stress-strain tangent modulus and related quantities) even after the gravitationally anchored far end has receded outside your generator's Hubble volume.

Mining \Lambda dark energy for fun and profit, brought to you by $nabla_\mu T^{\mu\nu} = 0$, where $nabla_mu$ is the covariant derivative. It only takes a large up-front investment that you'll wish you had made billions of years ago.
I started doing this and began feeling a lot less stressed. It's helped a lot with my general well-being.
If this technology is being made available to consumers now, that means it's existed before now, probably for years, outside of the public's awareness.

Makes you think. What's been faked in the last year or two that we didn't know could be faked?
I have no doubt that we need to do a lot more about disease. I am not an idiot and I do see the numbers for what they are, aligned with the ones you shared.

The US national identity will vanish altogether if people like you continue to allow hordes of Muslims and Mexicans to enter the country. It'll then be every man for himself.
The above paper discusses that 'solution' (it isn't one.). The system remains circular, and participants can still grind for alternative histories which grant them more control over time.
You can put the waste there without putting the power plants there.
>> the most high-tech systems in the world...

Calm down. The technology is from the 1990s. It's in the article:

" In the late 1990s, they began designing instruments for the next generation of satellites."

Also, enough with the empty comparisons between the US and "the world". There are many other countries that have developed "the most high-tech" devices too, you know? Like Plank from ESA, which is used to map the background radiation.

And regarding taxpayer dollars: do you know how long it takes for governmend-funded projects to complete? DECADES because the process is so slow precisely due to government red tape.

So, calm down boy.
Driving the generator is going to rob the system of energy. That should be obvious, right? Nothing in the matter/energy equation is changing. This drive would just take electrical energy and convert it into kinetic energy.
2014. But worth a second look, because nothing much has changed, and because the composition of some of those photos is stunning.
Thanks for making me aware of the existence of rclone. I know what my next weekend project is. Getting a proper backup system set up. :)
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"establishes a price floor for the currency loosely based on the price of electricity."

You have causality backwards: the difficult changes based on the price of the currency. If the price goes down, people will simply mine less.
Texas Floats Radical New Abortion Laws
I think something like expensive weddings and wedding rings, are totally a product of brainwashing of girls, to set their expectations from an early age. It's totally different from when someone buys an expensive car, or house, or even when a man buys guns, boats or other expensive 'man toys'. Girls have it pounded into their heads from childhood that their wedding day is going to be the greatest day of their lives, and the ring is symbolic of that. So they are brainwashed about the whole ordeal. There is no other word in the English language that better describes this phenomenon than brainwashing. It's no coincidence Weddings happen in Churches either. Church is the "House of Brainwashing", and the building and location around which all brainwashing is centered.
Interestingly, I arrived at the same conclusion not by studying ethics, but by studying logic. Around the same time, I was watching Star Trek intensively and I noticed how comically wrong their depiction of Vulcan logic is: Since logic is the art of correct deduction, any action can never be "only logical" per se, it can only ever be logical given a certain (usually undisclosed) set of goals or values.
This is an article is very interesting (very very long)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-co...
Condensed list of many Mac OS tools and methods to gather deeper info on where your machine resources are spent.
More and more are self selecting into facebook because it's where everyone is.

Everyone was on blogs ten years ago. Had Google kept up their product, people wouldn't need to leave.
I think the big mistake of people talking about productivity is the idea that a single formula works for everyone. For example, I finally discovered that I am most productive when I have no todo lists. I just work better by simply picking whatever has highest priority in my mind and doing it. The point is, if something is important it should be on your mind. If it is not, it probably is not important or urgent. Of course, if something needs to be remembered you make notes, but nothing similar to a todo list. Whenever I have a todo list I instinctively start to slack off.
If you liked that, you probably really want to read this blog post by HN user patio11 regarding his experiences doing business in Japan. It touches on this salaryman culture in way more detail.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/
U.S. Citizens Now Hold About $1.3 Trillion in Student Loan Debt
Yup, and whole companies are blocking new TLDs. Too much spam.
Why Native Apps Really Are Doomed, Part 2
One thing about AI research now is a lot of stuff seems to be built on pretty big local GPU clusters or pretty expensive AWS stuff.

I had an idea the other day that could make that more convenient/affordable. The trick of course is coming up/applying different/new algorithms that don't rely on fast synchronization. Ideally that would be some kind of AI language that could describe/compress complex models/filters/parallel functions/etc. (https://github.com/runvnc/ailang) Then the nodes could exchange 'knowledge' in that special language.

Combine something like turbo.js with a webrtc rpc swarm. Use rpc to pull out of task queue. So we can do GPGPU processing on web-based clusters in the browser.
Can just use public gists with 'gpgpucluster' at end of description. Then use requirebin. Also use webtorrent/instant.io
for imagenet example. Need to break imagenet up into a ton of little torrents. Then make an example that maybe just
searches for certain classes like 'cat'. Example doesn't need to do actual machine learning, just store images in graphics memory
pull them out when they search. And send them back. Maybe just use a subset of imagenet so that multiple clients
can share the dataset and so work together to answer queries.

EDIT: Thanks for the downvotes! I thought it was an interesting idea. But then again, the more interesting I think an idea is, the more likely it is to be downvoted all to heck. Hard for me to suppress my desire to share my ideas even though they are not appreciated.
This is amazing! Audio stuff has always scared me. I want to know more details though. Does it transcribe automatically? Is there some learning involved? Will it fill in background noises?
Focus on driving, you could kill someone.
Isn't the tension that the power of a union is defined by how large its membership is?

Thereby creating an incentive to accept as many people as possible, thereby lowering standards, thereby hijacking the agenda towards protecting incompetent workers.

If you're unionizing a low-skill segment of the labor market, I don't see a feasible alternative. Even if you only accept the best and brightest, the best and brightest are still trivially replaceable at that level.
What about the logging is inadequate? CloudWatch Logs seems to work pretty well.
Its an extension of the overall problem of over-centralization which has always been one of the main issues for civilization in different forms.

See http://reddit.com/r/rad_decentralization
There are ongoing efforts to defeat death.
>It kind of reminds me of the early days of the Internet when you didn't get "Internet" you got AOL, or CompuServe, or whatever. All these companies wanted to control the network you connected into with their own branding. Eventually those companies all died and everyone realized that an open Internet with no one company controlling it at the core was the way things would go.

But aren't we moving back that direction? Now your local business doesn't have a website, they have a facebook.

Turns out? people like walled gardens just fine, it's just that it's not as easy as it looks to build a walled garden and a last mile transport network.
This struck me when I wondered why a lot of scientists are at the same time deeply religious.
Trump Nominates H1-B Opponent for Attorney General
From http://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/company-facts (straight from the mouth, as it were) and ignoring shareholders for a moment, WalMart employs 2.3 million people. They also reported $10.4 (American) billion in profits. That works out to $376.81 per worker per month.

So it seems possible to give each worker an extra $100/month. But now you have to sell this to the shareholders, which may include institutional investors managing retirement accounts. Good luck figuring out that mess.
We can control the weather with cloud seeding.