skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this! I've avoided all the personal tracking apps specifically because I don't control my own data. I love options like these that offer hosted or DIY variations (data ownership!).

Especially for DIY people like myself, you should make the github link a lot bigger. I would have missed it if I hadn't gone looking for it, which I only did because it was linked through HN :)

Some questions (and I haven't dug too deeply yet):

1. How much do you perform/use (if at all) analytic conclusions from groups of people not just individuals?

2. Is it mobile-web friendly?

3. Do you have plans for making a mobile version (I saw something about a REST api, and it seems just having a bidirectional channel to iOS HealthKit might be valuable)

4. What data sources do you use for supplement information/listings (eg examine.com and such). Especially since copyright of such source could be a contended issue in the future.

Thanks!
It was a joke, when Curtis was dis-invited from speaking at a conference due to writings he made as Moldbug, the argument he made was that the Moldbug persona and the Urbit developer Curtis Yarvin are separate so there was no problem or worry about Curtis saying wacky racist things during his presentation about Urbit, because the person that says wacky racist things was Moldbug, who was not invited, therefore would not be coming.
Pensions are a great use-case for smart contracts. I would feel much safer having my retirement assured by a blockchain than a bureaucrat.
If you force touch the settings icon on your home screen, you will see Wifi, Bluetooth, etc. Just tap the menu item to go right to the settings screen.
Maybe they meant those mid/high-level employees have enough cash/stock that they can peace out of the work force or work less and pursue something artistic.
One additional thing to further the article's points is to mention @std/esm [1][2], doing a similar thing for node module loading. Between the tools the article mentioned and this library we are quickly approaching that big inflection point to start distributing only ES2015+ modules for many libraries.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@std/esm
[2] https://medium.com/web-on-the-edge/es-modules-in-node-today-...
Small world! Congrats on the app launch :-)
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Some provisions in Wisconsin's Foxconn law could be unconstitutional
If you're interested in knowledge (broadly defined) then Anathem must be near the top of the list of your reads.
And what about border policy? You can't have open border policy + UBI together... I mean why not try to come to America then. I would I come if I had a chance to get UBI and live there, and millions, millions of others. Would the system still work?
Not defending IBM, but IBM's job was to install "off the shelf software called PeopleSoft" to create a payroll system. They 'installed' it and walked away as that was what was required of them. They are now being called in to do more and that has contracting costs associated with it. The Govt of Canada has as much blame in this as anything - poorly written contracts with little knowledge of how software works.
Oh, come on... Don't tell me you even for a second thought it might have been another kernel.
I take public transit and walk about a mile to work. I bike when I just need to go on a small errand. I drive a fair amount for other stuff.

Sidewalks work in cities where traffic (vehicle and pedestrian) is always high and areas where you have massive amounts of space for them (mostly places built up after WW2). For areas where sidewalks are not practical a wide shoulder is almost as good IMO. Obviously it depends on the nature of the road as well.
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If you cross Chestnut St. NW in Washington, DC, from Western Avenue to Oregon Avenue, you will see "No Sidewalks in Hawthorne" signs, but now also "Yes, Sidewalks in Hawthorne". The No signs are older, and the opposition had some odd arguments--sidewalks would lead to more crime. (Who is that is ready for burglary or robbery, but afraid to walk in the street?)

In my own neighborhood there are arguments back and forth. I'd be happy to see sidewalks added where they aren't, but I'd hate to see mature trees damaged.
According to that page it has a 10000 mAh battery, and according to this [1] review it lasts about six hours.

[1] https://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/hands-on-with-the-pinebook/
You have to ask for it to be done. The post office does not magically know when you move, or what your new address is.
It's not free pay. Your salary accounts for the empty times when there isn't a client project to assign you to. When you do work, you are billed much higher than the pay you get.
This is the warning I got when I borrowed someone’s three volumes of Feynman’s lectures in physics except with pages of calculus. It was a wise warning.
Bill Gates loves this book: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Seveneves
Excellent, as an American I wish them all the luck in setting up an alternative currency standard.

The US has been hurt by the 'exorbitant privilege' of having its currency be an international reserve standard. Dollars that pile up on balance sheets and central banks' books get recycled into US assets and debt. This is part of the dynamic that drives the trade imbalance, which (on net) imports unemployment into the US, via lack of competitiveness.

Yes, the dollar would drop in value if the world's banks used a basket of currencies instead of large, dollar-denominated holdings (often T-bills). And that would be good for the US.
What method did they use to determine this was a genuine phenomenon? There's so many "weasel words" as wikipedia calls it in this article. "Computer experts." Yeah, which computer experts? They're just generic experts in computers, not any actual field within computer science? They found 6 results, but obviously those results aren't made available for us, or anyone else, to scrutinize and fact-check.
Really cool! Not able to turn the knobs on a touchscreen, that would make it perfect.
The AM335x processor is still made by TI. We are able to get silicon wafers from TI and then package them together with DDR, power management and passives into a single BGA device that you can use. This makes design and manufacturing of custom embedded hardware easier and faster.
The principal mode of Chinese capital flight is through Hong Kong- and Macau-based invoice factories. A lawyer in those jurisdictions writes an invoice for $50 million and the Chinese firm “pays” it. Bitcoin is irrelevant to Chinese capital controls.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice, nor advice of any other kind. Do not launder money.
I won't comment any further on this story but my point was that the article was written in bad faith with a flawed premise - clickbait if you will. Given that it was the top comment there was seemingly a lot of agreement with that take.
Literally every media outlet is Crackerstream, alas.
Do you think they're more likely to steal the identity of someone with good credit? If you've already got a house and can pay cash for a car and aren't running your own business, I wonder if good credit doesn't become more of a liability than an asset.
Have we suffered more or less since fossil fuels? One could argue that fossil fuels have reduced suffering. Relief supplies aren’t delivered by sailboat.
Heavy numba user here. What Wes is saying is that while Pandas handles some of those missing values in an automated way, if you choose to use numba it uses numpy arrays so you may have to handle some of those things yourself. I have at times used a separate numpy array to indicate whether values are missing or not. You could also use a value which is far out of the bounds of what you might ever see in your real data, then test for that while you're looping over those values (eg. fill missing values with -3.4E38 if you have a float32).

Depending on what you're doing, you might be able to use numpy.nan as a value. It does work inside of numpy arrays. But some methods that operate on those objects might not work as you expect.

For instance, if you run numpy.mean on a numpy array of [nan, 4, 5], it will return nan. If you run the same thing on a pandas dataframe of the same values, you'll get 4.5.
Unicode planes 1-14.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode
It looks like I was given bad information, which is surprising. The information came from someone who sits on the board at a local credit union.

Citation of my error:

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...

Though, that link is strange in a new and interesting way. The page seems to indicate you can pull your credit score while your account is frozen. Except, if I look at Credit Karma, they say you can't register and access your credit report if your account is frozen.

https://help.creditkarma.com/hc/en-us/articles/202041774-I-h...

It's surprisingly hard to find consistent information. I think this highlights another problem with the system.
Right. What most people don't realize is that at planetary scale (or even at Moon scale) things are fluid. There are no solids at that scale. Gravity dominates all other interactions except gas pressure - and that only for things made mostly of gas.

That being said, I would love to see an accurate, 3D, high resolution simulation of the scenario described in Seveneves.
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There's no reason to assume by default that any worker has thought about the ethical side of his job and is in it for anything more than a good paycheck and self-interest.

Techies included (and HN is good proof of that)
> Most of the emoji are 3-byte Unicode characters.

The most recent Emoji standard has 1,182 characters classified as Emoji and 179 of them are in the BMP [1]. Others are encoded as 4 bytes in any UTF encodings. Emoji has been a great way to force the proper non-BMP support to (still) non-conforming softwares for this reason.

Well, and if you instead consider the Emoji sequence (which is a unit of being rendered as a single Emoji) the longest sequence is 7 characters long, or 28 bytes long in any UTF encodings, thanks to flags expanded to cover subdivisions [2].

[1] http://unicode.org/Public/emoji/5.0/emoji-data.txt

[2] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-12.html#Sample_Vali...
> I'm arguing that we have two other credit reporting agencies that appear to be functioning properly, and one that looks like it is in a continuing state of dysfunction.

I strongly suggest you do some research about that. You'll find that the other two CRAs have been equally "negligent" at different times.

> I just want to know what other kind of business in America would still have any customers after the two weeks that Equifax has just had?

Remember the Target data breach? Or the Home Depot breach? How about when Sony was distributing a rootkit on their music CDs? Or when Lenovo was distributing a malware package preinstalled on their laptops? Or when Best Buy was selling digital picture frames that had a virus? The list, sadly, goes on and on and on...

> Do you think that Equifax should now have the right to continue operating, all things considered?

Of course. Since you're here on Hacker News, I presume you must have some knowledge of computer security...do you really think it was negligence that caused all of this? Do you think that the other CRAs are in any way more secure or less negligent? Or banks? Or any business that uses, say Cisco switches (which have tons of vulnerabilities)? Or businesses that uses Microsoft Windows (too many viruses and worms to count)?
It worked for L Ron Hubbard (founder of Scientology)!

"You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!"
Certainly not. Any UBI policy has to be set for a universal basic standard of living in a contiguous zone of free movement. US citizens can live anywhere in the US - UBI reverses the current bubble of housing prices that is concentrating people in cities that then resist increasing density and thus just drives property values to infinity. It lets people who don't want to live there the option to move elsewhere that is much cheaper and thus lets them live off the UBI.

Trying to peg UBI to regional cost of living costs an incredible amount of money (the cost of living in the Bay Area has to be at least 10x the rural Rust Belt) and has practically no benefit (because all it means is people get the privilege of living wherever they want on redistributed money, rather than choosing to either live where they want and seek the means to afford it or living where its cheapest and costing society less in macrospect.
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An example is UTF-8, where code points are encoded in 1 to 4 8-bit bytes. You can read more about UTF-8 here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Description
This explains why there aren't external forces that can check the growth in credit.

But there has been an explosion in debt within China, financing ultimately non-productive investment. Even with a positive external debt outlook, you can get wild economic imbalances within a country via uncontrolled credit creation. The hangover could be profound.

To put it another way: why do you think centrally-planned economies are frequently outpaced by capitalist economies? Misallocation of resources. Debt binges are similarly distorting.
How is it a fallacy? There's literally a test you have to pass to get licensed and that's up to the discretion of a mandatory observer. There's more than one observer in most cases via the written proctor, the driving proctor, and the eye exam proctor.
> Who is Ray Dillinger?

He is a well known figure within the crypto community. He is also a very private person.

> Why should we trust him with this post?

What makes you think that you should? I'm pretty sure Ray would be the first to tell you that you shouldn't trust anyone, particularly not on the internet.
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> I sincerely wish the Social Security Administration would publish a complete official database of real name to SSN mappings

Given the prevalence of fraudulent tax returns and people working under fake SSNs to avoid taxes, I imagine the IRS would be very displeased with them if they were to do this. It's not just credit reporting agencies that need to reform their identification procedures, it's also government.
What's really at stake here? Your ability to take on debt, which primarily benefits the banks. The bigger problem I think we have here is the cavalier nature in which people view debt. Debt is bad for you. Rather than bringing going into debt under the umbrella of "basic human rights" how about a cultural shift away from debt altogether?
As a black person, sometimes I just want to watch a sitcom about regular black people, doing regular things.

You'd think I'd be able to find this on streaming services. We have Atlanta and Insecure and Blackish now, but those are all tokens of their networks.

BET and other Afro-centric networks/streaming services cater to that need for black people to escape from the constant bombardment of white lives and white issues on television.
I'm afraid that's a non sequitur. Snarky/indignant comments routinely get "a lot of agreement" (i.e. upvotes). So do insinuations about PR, flamebait about divisive topics, etc. Such upvotes are not evidence that a comment was good, they're evidence of something wrong with homo interneticus.

We all need to control this lower nature, so to speak, when posting here, or the site won't survive. HN has survived semi-intact for this long only because most people are willing to make that effort, but it's not a huge majority and we're always dangling by a thread. Contributing to the solution requires a conscious effort at self-reform, at least for a while. Plenty of users here have made that effort, including me; my comments used to be a lot worse than everything I've objected to here.

I'm sure you could have made all your substantive points without the bits that turned the subthread nasty, so there's no significant loss in this.
My technical (but probably mostly insignificant and unexploitable) issue with speck/simon is with the key schedule, which has somewhat slow diffussion with key length >2 words.
"Now pay me" reminds me of Goodfellas
To make this more complicated, in Germany copyright is not transferable at all. The best you can do is assign exclusive rights to someone else (doing that correctly is non-trivial). Even worse: There are some rights that belong to the creator alone and they cannot give them away.
And people say there are too many lawyers. Yet who would be around to file suits like this if we had fewer?
How's that different from gas taxes?
I find it plausible due to the asymmetry of information flow.

Everything known by the public is also known by the NSA, but the NSA only tells the public what it wants them to know.

That practically guarantees that there is a lot they know that we don't.

Of course that proves nothing about this specific instance, and measuring "how far ahead" in years is hard, but I think it is likely the NSA has some extremely sophisticated techniques that we know nothing about.
Yes, anyone interested in doing that already has oodles of options today. Adding one more wouldn't be a meaningful change.
They could make it a constitutional amendment or whatever your countries mechanism for codifying founding documents is that requires more than a simple majority to make law.
We're a long way from a la carte programming because there's no point to it. You watch 5 shows now, and pay $100 for it, which means you've proven to Comcast that you're willing to pay $100 to watch those 5 shows; they will price accordingly.
DJB actually made a post on twitter about Simon/Speck https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/719884030796177409
and a pretty low amount of income.
which means that she does not have a full time job.
since 8.50 € is the minimum wage per hour in germany.

Which would yield 98 hours or 24 hours a week. that's way below the average, especially for a single. yes, she has kids, but she would prolly have a better life if working for 36-40 hours a week and bring their children to a kita.
If your power bill has "been a lot higher lately", then it's your air conditioning.

Take a look at the changes that you've made lately with your power consumption, and what's gone up. Once you've narrowed it down to your air conditioning, you can do something about that problem.

(Important note: The biggest use of electricity isn't always air conditioning. But after a hot summer... it's air conditioning.)
I don't think your analysis is sophisticated enough to capture the actual underlying dynamics.

Rating of debt is largely a question of future ability to repay. The concerns of the rating agency, I imagine, is that much of the debt in China is being created for non-economic investment, that ultimately won't be able to pay for itself. And someone will have to foot the bill, whether it's the lender (via a write-down or write-off of nonperforming loans) or someone else (the central government, by assuming the loans directly or some other mechanism).

Yes, the Chinese central government has a lot of capital to play with, due to a very high household savings rate and positive trade imbalance. But the magnitude of the internal debt, and the degree to which it's likely misallocated and ultimately nonperforming, should concern anyone who's paying attention.
iOS 11's animoji are most definitely something custom with an image fallback, like everything embedded in iMessage and won't be able to be used elsewhere. They share nothing with emoji but the image inspiration and name.
The AM335x inside the OSD335x uses an SGX hardware core. You can see more details: https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#Beagl...
>It has left me wondering, are we all just McEngineers serving up soft-serve and fast-food for fat executives and fickle users?

Yes.
>If I download a piece of software, then yes, I can expect to take responsibility for verifying it serves my purposes.

Under current law.

Since the Equifax break in, journalists have been demanding legislation to change that,

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/opinion/equifax-accountab...

https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/09/14/software-is-a-long-con...

>I never asked Equifax to keep me in their database and send my information to creditors.

It seems you can't be expected to take responsibility for reading the fine print in your loan agreements. Quite an interesting bit of cognitive dissonance you have there.
It blows my mind that this is what the company ended up using... Why? Normally the price is the factor that chooses what part is used in a system. Surely it would be cheaper to use literally any regular screen than to retrofit a Gameboy SP topcase into your design...

Maybe one of the devs used a gameboy screen to develop on personally, and made a prototype of the product using the knowledge he already had using the gameboy. As a deadline approached and they ran the numbers comparing development cost of a new display system vs sourcing tons of gameboy screens, and gameboy screen sourcing came out cheaper with their predicted number of orders. Or maybe a dev thought it would be funny, I don't know man.
I keep getting this inaccurate answer of "they're just grapheme code points - you can't do it". That is why my example specifically used the .utf8 view. It's already possible to do exactly what I'm talking about, but it takes 4 complex lines of code, needing two calls to index() with startIndex/endIndex references and offsetBy arguments.

The existing solution to this problem already uses integers (the offsetBy arguments)! I'm not talking about refactoring the String type, or breaking backwards compatibility. There would be no change in how the underlying String storage or access works. It's about adding a level of (zero overhead!) abstraction to simplify a common, basic operation.

Every other language I've ever touched has easy to use substrings. It makes absolutely no sense that Swift requires assigning throwaway constants to represent the start and end indexes for a simple substring extraction. There's this level of superiority regarding the purity and correctness of Swift's String type that clouds developers' ability to see that there is no limitation to doing this. It blows my mind that the most modern major language is this clunky.
> It reminds me of BET... why would we want to segregate content to one specific channel or network? It feels backwards to me. True diversity would be having this content everywhere.

But the content isn't everywhere. There are only 24 hours of programming possible per day per traditional channel but too many diverse interests/cultures/etc to cram them all in during primetime, hence the need for specialty channels.

> I can't help but feel like it is the wrong approach to diversity.

How would you approach it?
What's the compatibility like for existing BBB capes? Assuming one does a quick pin-conversion daughterboard to convert the PB pinout to the same dimensions as the BBB.

Also is the U-Boot/Linux source between the PB and BBB the same? Namely due to the Octavo being more of a complete solution than the AM3358/PMIC/EEPROM setup the BBB has
This goes on to prove that man needs a purpose to be happy. A job gives a purpose. Universal basic income is nothing new. Saudi Arabia already has universal basic income, and people are not happy, and after a long period of laziness, they are unwilling and unable to go back to work, and worse -- they are prone to be attracted to terrorism. Free money, by and large, in a majority of cases, will kill a man's soul.