skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you admit there might be other use cases than yours?

I have a Fitbit and one of the biggest reasons for me is its sleep tracking, which totally doesn't work if, um, I take it off to sleep. As a result I usually end up charging mine while I'm showering.

Unfortunately, if I forget to do that when I hop into the shower in the morning (which easily happens when I haven't had enough sleep and pre-coffee), I very much appreciate that my Fitbit's battery lasts more than a single day.
This seems true for most modern, western economies: they are migrating from a producing economy to a service & knowledge economy. Logistics is big (moving stuff) and services are big (consultancy, lawfirms, etc), but the actual factories are gone. And that makes sense: with higher education levels you can make more complex things than the "regular" factories do. Stuff that requires trained staff - brains.

Oh - and btw: the US likely not only refines most oil, it also consumes it: the US have grown to a country based on consumption, spending and borrowing, but not on producing anything. So if goods only come in and money only goes out, there comes a time where the money is gone. And that is when the trouble starts...
Most software you use doesn't inject shoddy, high-risk code into nearly every running process on your system and the kernel, though.
My take on the whole Uber vs Taxis thing is much more about just convenience and user experience.

If the taxis got together and created an app that you could hail a taxi, track its progress, and follow it to your destination, and take the payment automatically, there would have been no (or far less) need of Uber.

I have had several experiences where I called for a taxi, but none arrived. Then I went to the main road and hailed one within minutes.

So it's all about user experience.
i've given up subscribing because pages look like shit in telnet:80

:D
IIRC the zenbook has a proprietary connector but you can buy adapters for a regular M.2 ssd.
While I admit that there may be customer demand for this, even if there is not, Amazon has certainly made a great marketing message.
And private police, private military, private customs & border security... You cannot live in a modern nation and not rely on services that are paid for by taxes.
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Atomic transaction FTW.
Keep limiting how people can earn a living and taking away flexibility and freedom. You'll end up distributing poverty instead of richness
Ah. My apologies

Because your government said reprocessing was not allowed because they base their decisions on decades old technology and ignore any advances, there is now an excess of nuclear material. Ergo, reprocessing is a bad technology

Aside from that: If anyone who can avoid calling people "idiotic" and cares to read (I addressed the Chernobyl and Fukishima issues) wishes to continue discussion, feel free. I would love to. But I don't really see a point with this person though.
Maybe you could impress them by showing how you can use devtools to forge a tweet or bank balance or boarding pass.
How are you being forced? You're free to leave the country and live somewhere else where there is no health care for the poor.
It sounds as if the Swedish people are fine with the system. It works for them. It works remarkably well indeed.
Now now now Mr. Monkey, these fighter jets are for your protection! And the blanket banana surveillance we conduct on you and your community is also important so that we can collect a banana salary while protecting you from people that want to hurt you :)
I get that taxes are one of the few certainties of life, but this article makes me think of yesterdays "how to hide $400m" article about tax sheltering and offshore incorporation.

I wish there were a way to ruin tax sheltering for the wealthy by finding out the exact formula for what they're doing (say register a business in the Cook Islands ), then commoditizing that via an online service (like Wordpress does for websites), and using bitcoin. Now the masses can pay $29.95 to have a VPS on the Cook Islands, set up their bitcoin wallet on it, and have their own little tax-exempt haven.

Try to structure the system the exact same way the rich people do it, so that authorities necessarily have to shut down the rich at the same time.
With the drop in oil prices from the past years, getting oil out of the ground in the US became too expensive. A lot of newly installed sites were closed because they could only operate efficiently with an oil price near $80 a barrel. I am quite sure the US imports a lot of oil...

Edit: quick results from 2015: 25% is imported.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=32&t=6
Then you don't have privacy anyway since a long time, and since it is not a slider, this doesn't change anything...
I think there definitely is, but some people just get carried away with it.
>[Besso's] weakness is his truly insufficient spirit of decision

That sounds like a slightly Victorian way of describing ADHD. The entire quote is basically a paraphrasing of something every intelligent kid with ADHD has probably heard a million times, "You are so smart, why don't you just do your work?"
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> They are culturally anti-business and anti-entrepreneurial.

http://www.technologist.eu/sweden-the-land-of-unicorns/

Neo-liberalism has gone too far. Anything that limits the company power to do everything is seen as "anti-business". It is not like that, good rules improve fair competition. That rules can hurt ONE or a FEW companies while creating a more healthy system that benefits the rest of companies and citizens.
I suspect that Amazon will not only be dropping prices, but will be adding new ways to store data with variable pricing (e.g. new tiers as well as reduced redundancy). Not to mention that if you have 100PB in AWS you might get preferential pricing? Google recently increased their spread and now have 4 tiers. There is also an interesting article about Glacier storage and pricing here https://storagemojo.com/2014/04/25/amazons-glacier-secret-bd....
This happened on the Yellow line, which is entirely underground.
Stone age and profiting b/c people keep giving them money. Damned if I'm going to spend $hundreds on paper tickets, parking & over-priced junk food when the location of the seats(in said price tier) is determined by someone else to fit their preferences. The capacity for customer service is huge, but TV ratings and ads are all they seem to care about... tired pandering script and contractually required player comments to the 'great fans' notwithstanding.
> there are limits

My U-verse TV was at least $120 a month considering I had two boxes and HD (why is HD a fee in this day and age?) I dropped it for two FireTV's with Playstation Vue and Netflix and because I have Amazon prime I get all the Prime TV and Movies. We pay $50 a month now for TV and get an unbelievable selection of TV's, movies, and Netflix/Prime originals.

I think the only reason we had ESPN was because it had to be bundled with the package with Bravo and E! my wife wanted. How many people are paying for ESPN when they don't need it? The bundling is completely out of control with cable TV as well as the box rental fees. How can Amazon sell me a wonderful box that has a great interface and has native apps for Netflix and other services for a one-time cost $99, but U-verse and Comcast want me to pay $20+ a month for their shitty boxes. Over a few years I've paid for those boxes several times over! Consumers aren't stupid. They've been ripped off for decades but its only recently we can get a cable-like experience with cable-cutting.

Sadly, the margins on these services are very high so neither AT&T or Comcast wants to do price cuts. AT&T is instead launching its Vue competitor instead of making its cable problem more competitive. I think these companies want to continue to milk non-cablecutters for as long as possible and try to bring back cablecutters with these services, which ultimately reward the bad practices of the cable industry. So its almost like the worst of both worlds.
> If you cut the filler, you can have 13 episodes of quality with more shows per year.

The BBC model
A very distant 4th, though. We consume far more steel than we produce.
Visiting the first link (Dell 15.6-Inch Gaming Laptop) on amazon the price i see is $799.99.
Visiting in private browsing https://www.amazon.com/Dell-15-6-Inch-Quad-Core-i5-6300HQ-Pr...
the price changes to 699$.
Is this standard practice for amazon?
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I'm from the project team. This is a very interesting point.

While it is easy to crawl many songs from the internet, it is a little harder to gather the same amount but with proper genre/style/etc labels, although it is not impossible.

For now there's only one genre, which we call it "the genre of whatever is on the internet". So whatever music files on there, many of them quite "crappy", were used to train the model. Also there are many other problems on how to better structure and flavor the composition.

This is just a very early-stage attempt, as a CS student's fun side project. We are working with people with real musical talent now and hoping to make better songs in the next version.
What are your thoughts on this statement, Guy?
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VCs have LPs and LPs are typically "normal" people's wealth pooled and invested, teachers pension funds, universities etc.
Canada is way to weak to get anything with NAFTA.

We don't even win cases against America that are cut-and-dry.

The problem with trade agreements, is that ultimately, issues are grey, and therefore political.

Making an 'anti dumping' case against Uber is a little bit of a stretch, meaning - Americans will tell us (Canadians) to f* off.

If we try to enforce even more material issues, then we get the threat of other things (border fees, travel visas, no pipeline approval).

There's 1% chance NAFTA will be re-negotiated.

A) I don't think Trump actually dislikes it, he's just being populist.

B) He would not negotiate in a fair manner. Way back, when it was done, it was done in the spirit of trade. It was an intellectual thing. With Trump, it will be 'America first' - not about the value of open trade.

Even if Canada is forced to the negotiating table, we will have a very weak hand, and our strategy would probably be simply to delay, delay, delay until someone other than Trump is in charge.

There are basically zero other Presidential Candidates who would be against it.

Also - maybe Trump doesn't like it ... but he's not going to do a trade deal on his own. 99% of Republicans and probably 80% of Democrats are 'for' NAFTA. They have powerful constituents.

The moment negotiations started, a lot of CEO's will be screaming bloody murder, and Trump would listen.

But as far as Uber-NAFTA - I doubt there will ever be anything raised.
I hope my POV can serve as a piece of history some day then :)
And if you could allow them to leave without taxing them 50% of their wealth on the way out the door, a lot of them would go. You pretty much hit the nail on the head in 2 directions. People are not given the option to vote with thier feet or their dollars. I know I wont ever need social security (if it even still exists by the time I want to stop making money) and yet I can not opt out of it. Why? The reason why is I'm not paying into my own retirement at all, I'm funding someone elses. I'd even happily give up everything I've already paid in if I could just stop paying in the future.

Also this notion of a well protected society is total bunk. I could have paid $50K in taxes last year as a self employed guy, but if my business collapses this year and I don't have a wife or children there is no safety net for me. The government isn't going to swoop in and pay for my rent and bills while I get back on my feet. Something I could have easily accomplished for myself with those same $50K. The federal safety net pretty much excludes childless single men entirely.
> If the taxis got together and created an app that you could hail a taxi, track its progress, and follow it to your destination, and take the payment automatically, there would have been no (or far less) need of Uber.

They did. Before Uber even existed.

Check out http://www.taxi.eu/en/
People with 100 PB are not using 4 TB Western Digital drives in solo mode.

They likely have multiple racks of high performance storage, likely in multiple data centers.
Does this faster-dissolving sugar have a higher glycemic index, and if so, how does that affect glycemic load?
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If other economies are more scared of Trump than the American economy is, and if both are right to react so, that would imply the markets believe Trump's promises of benefiting the American economy at the expense of others. Unlike some common rhetoric that says Trump's proposed changes would harm the American economy.

Disclaimer which seems necessary even on HN these days: I'm just pointing out implications, not stating my own beliefs or preferences.
If somehow a technology is developed to allow local storage cost to drop by a factor of 10, don't you think S3 would make use of the same technology to stay competitive?

Cloud storage is a commodity these days. The market saves you in this case -- if one cloud provider didn't use the 10x technology and pass along the 10x savings to the customer, another company would do it and steal all of their customers.
Right now, I'm on my laptop. When the goal is feedback, put it on the web. Then iPhone, and Android, and Windows, and Linux and Kindle users can chime in.

One of my standard comments about apps is that getting feedback and communicating with users is nearly impossible because people who use Play and the App store are Google's and Apple's customers and Google and Apple are not going to share their customers with developers.

Finally, the game sounds interesting. It's your actual product. This more time you spend on it and the less time on futzing around with platform details the better it will be.

Good luck.
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I appreciate your POV, but why is this monkey not able to produce his own bananas from the trees and the soil?
thanks! really excited to hear you like it!

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> 1) They are super, super aggressive when it comes to tax things. Cheating on taxes is worse than some major crimes!

Yes. It is seen as freeloading. Which, in fact, it is[1].

> 2) They are culturally anti-business and anti-entrepreneurial.

That is simply ridiculous, unless you want to define a recognition that externalities are a thing as 'anti-business'. Or put another way, what exactly is it about the profit motive that transforms bad behavior into good behavior? (You may define 'bad behavior' differently, but that's a different question.)

A friend who lives in Sweden, and has spent several years living in the U.S. put it well. Americans are weirdly uptight about sex, believing that public acknowledgment that humans like rutting at least as much as other animals somehow poisons the commons. Swedes are weirdly uptight about preservation of the commons itself.

It isn't anti-business to recognize that commercial activities, like any other activities, effect others in potentially good and bad ways. Every first-world country does. Nordic countries generally value the social norms and structures they've built more than they value enabling the scraping every possible niche for profit.

[1] You may not like the bundle of services provided, but the obligation exists. That's how government works, at least until someone builds that infinite-land machine. I'm really not in the mood for a rerun of Net.libertarians vs. Rousseau, so won't respond to that argument.
You suspect, but you don't know.

Most people have suspected that AWS bandwidth costs would go down.. but by and large, they have held steady for 5+ years.
Reality is more like:

2 out of 10 monkeys spend all their waking hours sacrificing and working so their children can have more than 1 banana and then give 15 out of the 20 bananas they earn to the group.

The majority of monkeys in the group gives 0 bananas, but continue to say that the ones that do give the most aren't paying their fair share (and need to give even more).

They then have many discussions on how they can force the other monkeys to give the rest of the group even more bananas, rather than putting energy into earning their own.
What I mean by uncompressed is that you're reading the cytosine (C), guanine (G), adenine (A), or thymine (T) as being two bits per base pair (1 of 4 possibilities). There are 3 billion base pairs, which is 6 billion bits, divided by 8 to get bytes you get 750 MB.

The human genome is somewhat redundant and can be further compressed. That is just the string of "ones and zeros" (ACGT) could be run through whatever compression algorithm you wanted.

But don't take my word for it:

>"When the 4 bases are packed into one byte ( .2bit format) the size is 770M (hg18.2bit) , but you'll need an extra tool to decypher the data." [1]

2.

You raise an important point:

>And keep in mind that those 700MB only describe how to prepare the basic concept of the brain, whose memory is then packed with information we get from the culture.

Yes, absolutely. I simply called it an upper bound on how complex a brain's architecture could be. DNA obviously encodes the brain's architecture, since humans all have human brains. Beyond that, there is a very large variation in people's mental capabilities and brains, and the largest variation of all comes from culture.

But culture could be given to a virtualized brain (called training).

Bear in mind that when human brains receive culture, it takes them years of all-day training before they're even able to speak. So full 1x human brains take a long time to train.

When you see results out of neural nets that are similar to what very young toddlers can do, you should be awed. We have the computational power in server farms to do what full brains do -- if not now, then soon.

This isn't some sci-fi pipe dream. Go ahead and look at the facts.

[1] https://www.biostars.org/p/5514/
because humans are fundamentally insane and inevitably corrupted by power?

Just a guess.
> "but not on producing anything"

That's just not accurate. The US produces and exports a wide variety of petroleum based products and lots of oil as well. We import a lot of heavier oil, because we have the capacity to refine it (unlike most nations) and export a lot of the easier to refine stuff.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/06/investing/us-oil-exports-inc...

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=25532

And, the US industrial output is at its highest point ever.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INDPRO
In the same vein, a South African carrier pigeon was faster than a popular ADSL solution in 2009. It carried a 4GB memory stick 60 miles in about an hour. It took them another hour to upload the data to their system. The ADSL solution only completed 4% of the transfer, in the same amount of time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm

It was an obvious publicity stunt trying to bring attention to the slow connection speeds but it does illustrate this issue well.
My desktop does not have a webcam.
Pretty clever way of reducing the amount, by increasing the rate by which it dissolves. Sounds like a win for both the business side(cheaper costs), and consumer(less sugar consumption).
And if this monkey could emigrate to Sweden tomorrow and pay much higher taxes for much more collective benefits, you bet my monkey tail I would.
Motion is always distracting. Same reason we hate animated ads.
I feel like the discussions of what Uber does undervalue this. Medallion systems are silly, Uber is using some shady legal arguments, etc, fine. But the actual taxi experience is often terrible.

Last time I took an actual taxi in a new town, the driver spoke next to no English, misunderstood my destination, and got lost 3 times. He tried to drop me off in the middle of the woods because his outdated Garmin told him to. He then tried to charge me ~$80 because of all the bizarre detours, demanded cash instead of a credit card (at the end), and tried to follow me when I objected.

That's exceptional, yeah, but not hugely so. Uber's biggest value to me is the guarantee that the driver will have clear directions, not try to change route, take a credit card, and otherwise not scam me. The cab industry in a lot of places is really corrupt compared to other businesses.
No, it's not. This applies only to the images, it's not being pushed out. This only matters if you download and flash a new image to your pi.
> One monkey says to a group of other monkeys,

A monkey can live for himself, in a modern society no human is an island. You need extremely complex systems on place: Communications, education, law, law enforcement, infrastructures, etc.

Millions of human beings in a complex society are not 5 monkeys. I understand your point, but I think that it doesn't apply at this scale.
These anti neoliberal nuts don't understand , for them taxation is just stealing .. They collectively bury their heads and ignore that any business they do is possible because of collective efforts of the human community before them, from invention of fire to quantum theory. And enabling people to study and have healthcare has overall positive benifita on society . How many scientists, engineers have we missed because they couldn't go to college and rather work minimum wage jobs unable to fulfill their dreams?

This neo liberal definition of liberty is just a religion in disguise.
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misrepresenting anything - even a minor issue to the tax authorities - is a fairly serious crime

You have to understand that in Denmark, salaried workers don't have to report their own taxes. Their employers and bank are obliged to do it for them. Only on the rare occasion when the bank or the employer don't have all the information, do most Danes have to edit their tax return. This state of affairs makes it hard to make "an honest mistake", when doing your taxes, and you have to go out of your way to cheat outright.

It's hard to comment on your anecdote about the murderer when I don't know the details, but I can tell you that the penalty for murder in Denmark is between 5 years and life in prison. I think the average sentence is 12 years, but I can't find a source for that.
This is a pretty interesting long form article. Reminds me of a Franzen book or something along those lines, maybe an episode of This American Life.

No popup for me by the way. uBlock Origin might be behind that.
Looks like the ebook's being released later this month. Guess a marketer somewhere is laying some groundwork.
Forced immutability has enormous performance downsides in some cases. Rust can't have that.
As a German, I say that is exactly what is wrong with Blablacar, so this is a good thing ;) Blablacar rpesents itself as a service that matches people having a spot in their car and people needing to travel from A to B, and for a long time they did just that. Now they started mandatory booking though their payment system (with the added benefit of insurance, granted), and everything about it has become worse: my girlfriend lives far away from big cities, but relatively close to the Autobahn, and it is much worse now for her to get a ride. Previously she could message people offering rides that should take them close to her place and ask them how much they wanted, now private communication is prohibited, fares seem precalculated, etc...

I guess it is a hard market, sure, but nobody forced them to compete against simple ride sharing websites, but they did, and now try heavy handed tactics once they captured a big piece of the market... /rant