skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OTA Insight ( London startup) receives $20M in funding by Eight Roads Ventures
It would be good to see a definitive playoff. I've no real doubt that AlphaZero would triumph, but in people's breathless coverage of the games nobody seems to point out Stockfish's various 5-10 pawn blunders (all of which my version of Stockfish finds when annotating the games with 60 seconds per move).
I've never been to the US, so forgive me if I'm ignorant, but if the problem is poverty, surely the solution is more money? What's wrong with a UBI or some other mechanism to deliver that?
Pretty well in my experience.

If a particular instance is harassing you, ask your admin to do something about it, they will ask the other instance to stop and if that doesn't work, block the entire instance.

Additionally, you can set your profile to locked so people cannot follow you without permission.
Link n1 presents some interesting information:

"The picture is a bit different at private schools, which do not receive state funding but have nonetheless seen substantial tuition increases. At private nonprofit colleges, the spending categories described above — student services and faculty and administrative salaries — together explain most of the tuition increase over the past two decades."

So perhaps this is a case of misattribution - you have people talking about the excesses of private schools in terms of administration and such, but the article is talking about public schools. Are people just talking past each other here? A good question to ask would be if we're looking at the same rate of student loans/defaults on loans. If students in private schools predominantly pay their loans, then this points to the reduction in state funding as the primary culprit, but it could be the other way around as well.

There's also this:

"Among for-profit institutions, it is much more difficult to pin down a reason for tuition increases, though recent research suggests that one big cause is the generosity of federal student aid: Some institutions may be raising tuition in order to capture as much government-backed money as possible."

Since federal money and state money comes from the pockets of the same people, is it not reasonable to suggest that this "generous federal aid" is siphoning off resources into for-profits, where most of the tuition increase is "administrative bloat", instead of going to state-funded public schools, at least to some extent?

One final thing - the article doesn't go into detail as to why state funding has decreased. Is it because the states have redirected education funding into other spheres, or perhaps that the states have to fund way more schools(per capita) than they used to? This is another missing piece of the puzzle.
> ... but is it bigotry if it's based on actual lived experience?

absolutely. because you are generalizing an anecdotal experience to unrelated individuals who happen to be in the same general group.

Also, if it's about "way smaller stuff" then the benefits by far outweigh the costs.
Bitcoin has absolutely no utility as a currency. Look at the current mempool [0] to see why.

People then switch to arguing that it's a great store of value. Given its volatility this makes no sense.

[0]: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#24h
As the question was about bitcoin, I'm not sure how prime factoring is relevant.
I, as ex-soviet sphere of influence country citizen, love NATO and consider it only way to fight Russian revisionist policies.
Unless of course the problem you are trying to solve is how to raise money really quickly by cashing in on the latest fad.
Excuse my completely naive and ignorant views and questions.

Moral issues aside, do they have to bring it back to US? I dont see what's wrong with it sitting there doing nothing.

Are there no other way to invest the $250B cash generating 2% yearly interest? i.e Additional $5B / year? ( Isn't that is what subsidiaries are doing ? )

Why is it every call to maximize only shareholders value? Could they not provide more value in their product or product line up with those additional Interest from Cash? Investing into better after sales services particular in South East Asia Region?

Apple could provide iPhone as a Services, much like iPhone upgrade program in the US but worldwide. Combining iPhone + Apple Care + iCloud Backup as basic, and with top up like Apple Music and future Apple TV. Making Apple being the actual creditor themselves, that needs lots of cash.

As a matter of facts I have long wanted Apple to be a Virtual Mobile Carrier. There are lots of people in the world without Credit Card or dont want themselves associate with credit cards, which is different to US. And prefer to have Mobile Billing, a monthly payment. These people also failed to get iCloud backup, which is increasing dangerous as we put more important things in our phone. Apple could finally offer Visual Voicemail, and free iCloud Backup over LTE during off peak hours like 1AM to 5AM, iPhone, Apple Music, Carrier Services, All under one monthly fees.

There are lots of thing to help and improve, invest to bring more value and future returns, dividends is ok, but share buy back to me seems dump. This is speaking from a long time $AAPL investor.
Most of those are probably Japanese accounts, which while still being real accounts, isn't comfortable with the Twitter crowd due to the kind of media usually shared on the japanese instances (the kind of content which is illegal in the US and most of the rest of the world but totally fine in Japan, which is another reason for Mastodon tbh)
Luckily that did not happen.
Can you imagine a "defense" network led by those junior dictators in Poland and Hungary?

Edit: this topic lures interesting accounts out of their hiding.
Also there's no reason asymmetric crypto has to be used. You could use Lamport signatures, for example.
Clickable links are but one of the "quality of life" improvements paper authors could provide - but don't. It's not like there are no tools (like nogbit suggests); for example, Jupyter Notebooks are a document format which can incorporate various kinds of content, from latex typesetting to interactive charts to executable code. The problem is that such tools are simply ignored by most of the paper authors. I do understand some of the reasons for this ((over)reliance on journals for instance), but that doesn't change the fact that it makes for much worse experience for the readers than it could be.
Yeah yeah and Germany is a GmbH...
It doesn't matter if a company isn't making a profit. It still has assets - whether physical, intellectual, goodwill, brand, or anything else. If you own stocks in a company you literally own a part of all of these.
Merkle. They were invented by Ralph Merkle, not the chancellor of Germany. This would be a Merkel tree:

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/D5AYH7/german-chancellor-angela-mer...
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Cloudflare is not directly an ISP (they do operate their own network and BGP though, so they are) for this case, rather, they were the hosters and Stormfront were the customers.

While I'm personally not happy that they killed a site they don't like, the site was still just a customer and it has nothing to do with Net Neutrality.
Line continuations could be treated by the Lexer.
True; he trash everything not apple: tesla, MS, etc. without verifiable evidence ...
Meshcoin: Ethereum Innovators Are Reviving the Fight for Net Neutrality
The heads of almost every major industrial giant are sounding the alarm about the coming need for UBI. If they are right, and we come to a point where only a relatively small number of us are doing most of the productive work, and the rest are just collecting checks, the remaining producers are going to have a tremendous amount of leverage. So much leverage that I doubt there is a political arrangement capable of containing it long-term.

More than a mere imperfection...
As a Pole - that's the dumbest idea I've ever heard. Joining NATO was the best thing our country did, possibly even better than joining the EU. Being in NATO gives me peace that we won't be attacked/occupied/annexed by Russia again. We could have the greatest army in the world and without being in NATO, a covert landgrab like the one that happened in Ukraine wouldn't be stopped.
The second image is showing Red Army soldiers in uniforms with characteristic PPSz sub-machine guns running by burning building.
I doubt it is a picture from Kristallnacht.
They don't require trusting the database operator. (And why does that matter? With trust comes costs.)
There’s no formal peace treaty either, but the GDR acknowledged the border in 1950 (Görlitzer Abkommen), the BRD in 1970 (Part of Warschauer Vertrag) and as part of the 2+4 treaties, the Oder-Neiße border was once again confirmed in 1990. So even if there should be no formal annexation, there’s absolutely no doubt about where the German eastern border is.
Why are you still with them?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15920864
That would mean that the value of the stock would be decoupled from financial success of the company, which is clearly not the case. A company with very few assets and record profits every quarter will have an expensive stock price.
These guys are not doing what Tesla are doing.

Tesla as a company is focused on building a manufacturing plant that is capable of producing Electric Semi Trucks. That's what they're working on. Electric Trucks is the product of the thing they're working on.

These guys are working on making Electric Trucks.

The more apt comparison is that these guys are competing with the robots that will go in Musk's factory.
When I was with Three they had a phone password which was not the same password as my online account password. I have nothing informed to say on the security of this approach, other than that asking customers for their online account password would be completely unacceptable in all circumstances, and shouldn't even be helpful because as we all know passwords should not be stored in a reversible format.
Fix their neighborhoods how?

If you don't want to use income, I guess you need to rezone the housing? That's also extremely impersonal.

There's not much you can do as an individual, unless you want billionaires to pick random neighborhoods to sponsor. And that does very little to fix the overall situation.

They could move their companies elsewhere but even if that helps the neighborhoods it's a lot closer to abandonment than fixing.
Monetary policy is hugely important yes.
Yeah, unfortunately see it done often too. Here's the text:

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> Amazon Linux 2 will offer long-term support.

> It is available as a VM image for on-premises development and testing.

> It includes systemd service and systems manager as opposed to System V init system and also includes new version of compiler and build tools.

> It provides the ability to install additional software packages through Extras mechanism without impacting the underlying LTS stability of the operating system.
They knocked him down on the street, arrested him, charged him, dragged him through two years of trials. After winning the appeal, the chief of police mocked him openly and called him a liar. There was ZERO repercussions for any of the involved officers.

That's not broken?

edit: and you could look up the historical cases like Tonny Askevold. Charges of first-degree murder was dropped. The police can and will do whatever the fuck they want.
First off, well done.

My big issue with method chaining is exactly the one of requiring the line-continuation-escape, or enclosing the whole thing in parens. You also need to wrap the initial value, then possibly unwrap it at the end, and you're limited to the methods you define (mind you, this seems like a pretty comprehensive list).

For this reason I decided to emulate clojure's threading macros instead, as a pair of functions:

pipe_{first,last}(
init_val,
some_unary_callable, # so far so familiar
(some_n_ary_callable, *args), # puts the piped value first or last, depending on {first/last}
...
)

Unfinished is the version that makes `(callable, ...args..., _, ...more_args...)` work, is that what you mean by the _ lambda operator?
> Why should I have to pay increased taxes for your ignorance/provincialism?

You don't think that the influx of tech workers from places like Nebraska has any relationship to driving prices up for the locals?

If you're young, relatively new to the area (without a lifetime of friends and family here), and don't have kids, the prospect of moving away to some random, unfamiliar town is going to seem much easier than it really is for most people.
I created nearly the same presentation this week. It's good to see that I didn't miss much, though this one goes deeper, which I don't do on purpose. I'll probably send the attendee this presentation afterwards for those who want to go deeper, very cool!
It is my impression that corruption measures usually indicate corruption available or actively done by normal people without power (eg. bribing officers to get licenses or similar things).

Corruption by big corporations and similar things is usually another thing (although if things are corrupt in the low level, they will for sure be in the higher levels).
To clarify: Bitcoin is deeply flawed, and I agree with you that Bitcoin is probably worth less than many people speculate it is worth (but not zero).

Cryptocurrencies in general have a lot of utility and solve real problems.
If I should pay taxes to subsidize people that feel a fundamental need to be on "the cutting edge of change", I'm going to quit work and sit in an SF cafe all day so I can "ride the wave of change". You need to pay for me, because I need to be here.
The thing is that even if you are logged out like most of the people every thing is saved in the default profile so when you logging in to chrome you just take all the passwords , think about college computers farm or public computers ....
When it's a big player of course they can chase and track you.

But when it's your photo, music, YouTube video, so one, ideas, there's no one to protect you to be stolen.
I sorta draw the line at autoplaying music. Apart from that, he's done a good job. How many of us are bold enough to put long list of glowing reviews on our resume?
Ask HN: What to ask for when entering as co-founder
Hi all,

I've been working with a SaaS company for the past few weeks to test our compatibility as co-founders. The company has raised 1M so far but burned all of it over the last 3.5 years..They have now pivoted (hence the understanding that they need a new co founder). There are currently 2 co-founders and 3 employees.
I was offered 5% from the ESOP and a minimum wage salary (as the company will be dead soon without an additional investment), with 4 years of vesting and a 1 year cliff. There might also be a future ICO where I will be getting 1.3% of the tokens.
Each of the founders holds 25% of the company.
I was thinking that a 5:1 ratio is not a good deal for me, especially as I am risking a lot entering into unclear waters and my contribution is significant.

Any thoughts you might have about how to negotiate and what is important to ask would be great. I'll just mention that I was hoping to get 10%-11%.

Thanks!
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> Or when you don't want to finance your government by printing money.

The point is you can finance your government by just printing money. If the value of your expenditure raises the wealth of the nation by the same amount, there will be no inflation.

Though I would say it's just a hidden wealth tax.
It's the same in western Europe.

Motorbike gangs like the Hells Angels got outlawed or severely restricted and violent youths on welfare looking to get involved in crime didn't have the money for expensive Harleys either way.

They started street gangs involved in drugs and fought with brutal violence for control over the nightlife and prostitution, as they had nothing to lose either way.
Don’t Fall for the Hype – Why Bitcoin’s Price Doesn’t Reflect Its True Value
I hope TPB will teach copyright owners a lesson that there's no point and no way to fight piracy.
Correction:
Yamato --> Yamamoto

Apologies.
You will be waiting a long time.
I’ve often felt the same as you, and I think there is room to disrupt google in this area: a search engine with an API, and a search engine that covers the “deep web” (not Tor, but content that is not currently indexed, like a lot of content in apps).

FWIW Bing has an API.
Is Amazon's "Extras" something different than RHEL/CentOS's "Software Collections"? At first glance, they appear to be basically the same thing to me.
No it's not the tracker, it also works for magnet links and people get letters for downloading.

There are companies who join the download swarm and register all other downloading parties. That's very easy with bittorrent, since the protocol is (originally) designed for fast download sharing without any regard to anonymity or pseudonymity.[1] The process is not reliable for providing evidence of copyright infringement, though, and the German system mostly works by scare tactics of lawyers - many people don't want to risk a lawsuit even if they could win it.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/thousands-of-spies-are-watching-tra...
But this is not an attacker this is anyone you don't need to compile dll
When you got one computer with several passwords to google accounts you can than sync them to your chrome browser and so on
you can steal millions of google accounts and sync it to one malicious account.
people probably doing it right now :(
> I'm a layman when it comes to this but I'd be very interested in any refutations of this paper.

I doubt there can be refutation in the sense that "its conclusions are obviously wrong".... the catch is how you interpret/act on those conclusions.

Yes, stereotypes become stereotypes because they are, or at least recently were, "largely true" (in the statistical sense - i.e. not always but "too often to ignore"). E.g., in my country, a lot of the petty criminals are gypsies - it would be foolish to reject that truth. However, the stereotype "gypsy = criminal" is still incredibly harmful (despite being grounded in truth), both at the individual level (producing harm to innocents) and at the group level (doesn't solve the problem, only contributes to making it worse).

The bigger problem is that people are ill-equipped to handle these thoughts in the brain simultaneously: that a stereotype can be largely true, and yet it's harmful/a bad idea to act instinctively based on the information it provides. The correct responses to a stereotype are complex/should be based on reason - those based on instincts/reflexes are very often wrong. But it's so hard to resist the instincts, that often it's simpler to just dismiss the stereotype as "false".
It's already possible if you have technical skills. Just find a company to sponsor you.

I once emigrated to Austria. Permanent residency would have been offered after 5 years, but I came back to the US before that.
Alternative reason they charge such high rates: because they can. The demand (and the system/society that encourages it) is there. All of those items you listed I believe are the effect of having more money, not the cause of collecting more.
I really don't get the motivation of the change, aside from basic greed.

I mean, it seems like a dream business model, you basically channel donations to content creators taking a cut, collecting goodwill along the way.

Their service cannot be more than a (refined and well designed as you want) CRUD app with payment processing, it's hard to imagine having such high costs that is not profitable.
Prototype of an AR display with per-pixel mutual occlusion capability
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Regular people buy contraband all the time though.
Communicating Advanced Mathematics to Kids
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Tldr: Crytek allows Amazon to create a cheap fork of CryEngine, then sues CryEngine users that switch to it.
Does this allow companies outside of India to accept payment from Indians without an international credit card?
When used effectively pre-hire assessment can have a major impact on performance
Is ethereum a bubble? Or is it creating an ICO bubble ecosystem and it will win out?
Too many people? Are you serious? San Francisco + Silicon valley has 3 million people. That's less than half of New York City.

The amount of money the region makes is more than enough to support that population over that area...
Ask HN: Who else is using knowledge graphs?
Our startup has built an Ontology containing medical terms and their relations. In simpler terms, we have the names (diseases, symptoms, medications etc...) and the relations that they have to each other. It is used in the back-end for our current products. We are thinking of opening it (the medical ontology) for public access and building a community that uses and maintains it.
Forgive my google skills, but I see very little interest in this tech and almost zero applications that use anything similar.

Should we take the trouble to go through with the project?

Is there anyone using this kind of structured knowledge base? How?
It looks like theres not a huge amount of overlap.

Pipetools is all about implementing a "clever" syntax for data flows, whereas PyFunctional looks like it's much more about providing a library of functions for manipulating data in functional ways.

I would expect that PyFunctional could probably implement the pipe syntax if they wanted, as just a layer of syntactic sugar on top of their core, however that would break OR semantics in places so I'm not convinced that syntax is a good choice, as "clever" as it may be.
This seems like much ado about nothing. Yes, in joining these countries to NATO the west violated the letter of this agreement but under the Yelsen administration this probably was not percieved as hostile and no one forsaw the retrograde in the relationship between Russia and NATO at that time.

I believe in fact that at the beginning of Vladimir Putin's first term there was still talk of Russia joining NATO.

So, to treat this as some nefarious western ploy is basically to ignore the thawing in relations that occurred in the nineties, the trust that was growing at that time and the hope we all began to take for granted.
Well, since it was about things that long ago, new people grew up for whom that might be newsworthy.
If you want a laugh, check out what I think is the funniest Storify story ever - https://storify.com/ahchrissawyer/the-peanut-factory-sex-bur... (The Peanut Factory Sex Burglars)
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“On a scale from 1 to it's-literally-the-worst, how much do you hate giving out your email address?

How often do you open up your inspector tool to bypass annoying shit on websites?”

Clever, that made me smile :-). But I’m still not giving you my email address and I’m still annoyed you don’t show me all the results. It would be nice if there was a “no thanks” option.
Why is this called a paradox? It's a greed and winner-takes-it-all culture. What are the mechanism in place which would guarantee at least a mild version of wealth redistribution?