skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://president.ee/en/media/interviews/13471-our-citizens-...

Article by Estonia's current president, Kersti Kaljulaid.

"As the President of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has a state. And this position has made me question whether the state as we know it today is fit for the 21st century."
> Customers don't always have an idea of new things they want, or the solutions to the problems they need fixed, but they very, very often know exactly what's broken.

I think this statement is really insightful and gets to the heart of the issue.
The 64 beam output seen on their website [0] looks very good.

A couple of good things going for them:

* Clean, dense LIDAR data [1]

* Readily available (as per their claims in different articles [2])

* Small form factor

* Relatively cheap, compared to Velodyne [3]

[0] https://www.ouster.io/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC6isLZo5Do

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2017/12/11/robocar-...

[3] https://www.ouster.io/buy-now/
It's not necessarily social media it's people's belief in what they see in social media. Our ability to analyze from a skeptical point of view has not kept up with our ability to distribute information.

Sadly MSM did not help us in that matter as they adopted the "get it out first" and "clicks are the only thing that matters" point of view.

Finally I put a lot of blame on the Murdoch/Fox propaganda machinery which was very good at getting out media which was specifically designed to confirm the hateful opinions of their audience. It made it possible for people to embrace "double-think" - distrust of media while at the same time trust in their media.
Strange - seeing as the problem was that it doesn't meet the legal requirements for a meal replacement, could they not just slap a different label on it that says "tasty shake (not a meal replacement)"?
This guy’s legit. It’s refreshing to see a tech leader admit to the part luck plays.
Distribution is really key for their business, and refrigerated shelf space is pricey and hard. If an industry insider is needed to make it happen faster, go for it
I've already reached that state ;-) Though, I'm so cynical I don't even believe everything I see with my own eyes.
Most of Shazam's engineering is in London. Going rates for engineers in London are way below the valley. Facebook/Google/Apple pay UK engineers about 30-40% less than their US counterparts.
The rise of new Victorianism.
Programming in MSPaint
You may want that but there is not clear line for a blurry and highly politically charged concept like sexism. A comment such as « my gf just cook an amazing cake, she’s awesome » could perfectly be labeled as sexist by some activist because associating a woman with cooking is deemed sexist.

In addition, in the European context the racism part will be used to censure comments critizing the immigration politics of Western Europe countries (which every citizen should be able to discuss given the importance of it) and any discussions about Islam that don’t go the way the government want it to go. In fact, this is already happening for years and it is a worrying fact.
Yeah I don't really understand who is complaining. You have to go pretty out of your way to find these "sexual streamers" and they have pretty low viewer count to be honest.

If you stick to browsing Twitch by game you almost never see them, and the top game streams have 10k-20k viewers at all times. You have to specifically go to the IRL section of Twitch to find camgirl style streams, and most of these "sexual streamers" have under 1k viewers. It's hardly a mainstream part of Twitch, and is something you have to specifically hunt down.
But it is. The folks who used to be machinists or warehouse workers or assembly line employees, are now working McD's or worse. It looks like employment but in fact the total value of US employment is dropping like a stone. The stats just say "92% employment" and we say "Yay! That's good" but its not good if most of the new employment is a drop in pay and standard of living.
There are some fintech startups working on this idea. One of them is basically trying to bank the unbanked and then give their "safe" customers access to a no-interest loan when they need to make a large purchase or have an emergency come up (this is similar to schemes like PayPal Capital, except for consumers). That, combined with more education around the axiom of "I'm too poor to buy cheap things" would help provide more knowledge around reducing consumer culture.
AI translates chicken language
> It happens to follow the Law of Rent.

The Law of Rent requires a bunch of things to be true that frequently aren't true in practice, or that are only true in cities like SF with restrictive zoning laws that prevent new housing construction.
HPC-As-a-Service Finds Toehold in Iceland
I like MacPorts over Homebrew because MacPorts lives in its own directory. Homebrew can hose your system binaries and that was enough for me to never use it.
> Very HQ centric. Nintendo of America is only considered a marketing/translation arm. They get virtually no decision making ability.

I think that is a really big problem for Nintendo going forward. For a long time now I have gotten the feeling the Japanese executive decision making apparatus is very very out of touch with the American / European consumer demands. They understand the Japanese gamer market but they have continued to "not get" the western marketplace at all. The fact they depend on strong sales of their first party franchises should be a strong indicator that Nintendo is not a healthy organization. That will work for awhile as they sell of nostalgia but newer kids don't have the same attachment to Mario, Zelda, Metroid etc. The Nintendo online story is still a joke compared to Sony and Microsoft.
I like to think that we're in a golden era where most of these hideous diseases are eradicated or at least made manageable in the next 25 years, with the problem virtually solved in 100 years. Too late for me, but what a world it will be then!
The red tape is needed for legal reasons. As a company you can't just throw around money via Paypal, gofundme or whatever, the risk is too high that it will end up being a tax/audit problem.

Give a company a proper bill with VAT, and they'll stuff you with money.
All subjects exist in their environment. Their own individual truths are unique just as they are.

Suppose you look through a bucket of polluted water. It's difficult to see through it. Heck, it's difficult to tell what's even IN the bucket because the water is murky. If the water is clean, and you shine a light into it, then, things in it are visible.

The analogy is to the degree of truthfulness of an individual's consciousness. The higher the truthfulness, the higher the degree of precision with which they can make confirmations about what exists as it is.
But presumably there was revenue.
https://www.easypost.com/address-verification-api.html is a great place to start with growing international support. It's not open source though
There is no reason you shouldn't be able to have all of these things together on your vehicle

Really? Because I thought of three just while reading your comment, and I don't even work in manufacturing. Reduced SKUs, ease of manufacturing scheduling, and some package options might exclude the options of other packages (you can't get heated seats and cloth seat coverings as one example). I'd even argue that they could be good reasons, as creating the packages you'd like add expense and it has been (hypothetically) found that customers won't pay the extra.

OTOH, though I don't spend a lot of time perusing automotive options packages, of the ones I've looked it appears that the packages are additive. You can have package A, with X, Y and Z. You can have package B, which has X, Y, Z, and the addition of W and X for an additional $900.
I got the same warning, opened Appstore.app and found a pending update for the Command Line Tools that wasn't there earlier today.
40 Years of Microprocessor Trend Data – Karl Rupp
Nintendo is a toy company. You don’t buy their hardware thinking that you’ve got a device which is going to take over your living room, delivering television and games and voice recognition and baking you cookies. You buy a big ol’ expensive toy. The kind meant for kids, but also the kind that’s such a good toy that you’ll love it even if you’re not a kid.

The Switch, of course, did it perfectly. Daaaaaad don’t want to go out I haven’t reached a save poi... oh wait. Can’t play Switch because your mother is watching TV? Yes you can. Want to play Mario as a fun, motion controlled casual scroller? Yep. Want to play Mario as the single best speed-running title around with a pro controller? That too.

The Wii was a fantastic toy! Well executed motion controls, with games that took advantage: The kind of game that a six year old and sixty year old could play against each other in a fair match.

The DS, a plasticy clamshell with the heritage of the bomb proof gameboy, was in the hands of kids everywhere, that graphics by necessity somewhat simpler, but no less satisfying.

And then: the Wii U. It was not whatever the aforementioned things were, or maybe it was in a failure-of-execution sort of way. I never saw a kid particularly excited about playing the Wii U. Too much video game, not enough toy.

The Switch doesn’t have gimmicks, it has features. It’s not a primarily first-party console, it has hundreds of indie games on the Eshop from a dollar up. It’s not great because it can be played in the hand and on the TV, it’s great and it can do those things.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=freelancer%3F%20seeking%20free...
Absolutely, Singapore is a top place for tech companies. I was comparing Estonia and the country I live.
IMHO, HN itself has change dramatically over the last couple of years. Most of the comments in this discussion are very positive.

Change does happen: Look at the massive shift recently in the U.S. on gay marriage or, in earlier times, interracial marriage.
I was playing Goliath last night (boop, FFA) and both of these craft do have their uses - they're actually far more worrisome to the Goliath than a Predator or Tornado.

The Prowlers are great at whittling down a Goliath and otherwise being a psychological nuisance; while there is some counterplay involved a lot of it comes down to a mixture of luck and intuition.

The Mowhawks are just downright nightmares over open water. They fire much faster than you can deflect, can maintain enough range to avoid the missiles you do deflect, won't die outright to one of their own missiles you've deflected, and will often outrun your missiles. In open waters they should win a 1v1 situation through overwhelming bullet hell mechanics; your best bet is to take them into mountains where you can limit their movement advantage.

I do think it would be interesting if each craft had its own upgrade line, but I imagine that'd muck with being able to change frames during gameplay.
recurse center anecdote: one of the engineers on our team did a 8 week sabbatical there to dabble in erlang and machine learning. they had a fantastic experience and enthusiastically recommended it to everyone else.
Your comment made me wonder: would quantum computing help with simulating plasma dynamics in a way that would help us improve fusion reactors?
krud – REST API Generator for Mongo+Express
And they started as a playing card company and instead of growing to include video games, they pivoted and abandoned the old business.
can't reply for some reasons ...

anyway, yes sure fusion is nuclear power, I just read in your comment nuclear fission which you did not wrote ... so never mind I am just tired at some airport ...
In the video Donald refers to Walter Stromquist.
We've already seen this with images and Photoshop. Society and their heuristics of belief will adjust as these new capabilities become widespread.

What's more troubling is that as media becomes falsifiable, solid evidence of...well, anything, becomes hard to have. The ultimate loser there is the truth, sadly.
Looking forward to the local, last mile communications monopolies to promise nothing for effective higher prices.
They don't it's just really hard to attract talent towards the West because in general, people don't want to live there.

I would have no problem.I love that BBQ and lower cost of living.
Also Macports works in a multi user environment without problems (as long as one either gives all users sudo access or sudo port access).
When the bottom drops out, there will be people who kill themselves, or have seriously damaged their financial lives. If people speaking as a voice of reason can convince at least some of those people to reconsider, or to at least not invest more than they can lose, I view that as a service.
That second one is interesting, considering how many of their games/marketing materials/etc are full of references to their history.
That's just every Soylent thread, or more broadly every nutrition related thread. It's one of those things everyone thinks they know a lot about, whether from investing a lot of time and money into a fad diet or just from watching a youtube video with more emotional than scientific content.

Since small changes in diet don't really affect the health of most people when compared to the sum of everything else, I imagine we tend to get a lot of meaningless confirmation, too. One time I gave up on eating vegetarian because I was feeling worse. So I wrote off the idea of vegetarian meals for years. Looking back on it, the problem was probably more about my extremely high stress levels at the time than the food.
Pretty much what happened with UFO photos, ghost photos, etc.
Can the FTC enforce net neutrality? Not against the 4 biggest violations so far
Pfft. I'm a switch owner, and while I do agree the dual nature of the Switch looked gimmicky, it turned out to be surprisingly useful, more than I expected. But that's besides the point.

The thing about "performance" is that, in the end, nobody gives a crap about that. Really. What the customer cares about are what games are available, and how much fun they can get out of it. The console market is one where walled gardens fight with the IP they have, not with the performance of the consoles (though that does help strengthen the IP). Now Nintendo is in a super strong position there : They've got Mario and Zelda, basically the icons of video-games. They also don't exactly target the same age-range. Nintendo is all about family games, targeting a very wide age-range. From what I've seen of the "lead" games of Sony and Microsoft, they've all but abandoned that segment.

I don't think Nintendo ever really declined. They screwed up with the WiiU, but that's basically the only screwup in recent history.
Worthwhile and "fully online" are pretty much mutually exclusive.

If you want a degree then actually go to the college. Watching videos is very different than actually talking to lecturers face to face, doing exercises under supervision and guidance, having access to labs and having someone to ask if you don't know something.

There is also the aspect of self-discipline - it is very easy to goof off instead of doing your homework and sitting in front of long lectures on a computer. In a college where you are likely paying tuition you will likely think twice whether you flunk a test or a project or not, forcing you to actually work on your knowledge.

There is also the aspect that pretty much no employer (or grad school) will recognize your online-only "degree". So you may have learned a lot but in the end wasted your time because it doesn't bolster your credentials in any way.

Online programs are a good complement to a classical curriculum on campus but not really the same quality.
Program support for planetary science at the HQ level. Great place to work in the sense that I imagine Google to be — I was never the smartest person in the room.
Are they? Usually unless you're known, they bring in next to nothing.
At first install, prompt the user to opt-in? Occasionally re-prompt a user, say, once per year to choose to opt-out if they’re opted in, just to check they’re still cool with it and haven’t forgotten and/or changed their mind on how comfortable they are with the practice? People’s opinions on that sort of thing don’t always remain static.
Ask for permission - opt-in not opt-out.

The current behaviour isn't sufficient for the new GDPR requirements coming in May. Contributors and any relevant companies (or their subsidiaries) in the EU could be liable.
I'd agree that they need more than just Zelda and Mario[kart]. There certainly are games available, but there are not too many of these that I'm particularly enthusiastic about playing.

However those titles are extremely good - they're not just churning out sequels for the sake of it, they're genuinely producing great games. They're just not making too many :-/
People love Nintendo for some reason, but they just don't move the needle for me. But I'm first and foremost a PC gamer pretty far out on the grognard end of the spectrum and always have been; I'd rather play Crusader Kings or War in the East than twitchy platformers.
I'm a little surprised that they didn't standardize the SSD capacity, or perform tests on empty vs nearly-full SSDs. Increasing size slightly decreases read speeds, just like L3 caches.
From the worker's prospective low cost of living doesn't work out if you have other debts. Your student loans are in raw dollars and saving 20% on 80k is paying them off at a slower rate than saving 10% on 200k. Not to mention if you're targeting raises at % year over year the lower your base salary the worse your future comp is tied to.

This means companies can't get the critical mass of talent required to make the investment worth it; so they don't bother.
Yep, another for ketochow. Love it. I need to get back into my keto lifestyle. It definitely simplified things.
Couple with this font for a true retro feel:

http://sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/
University of Illinois Springfield offers a BS: https://csc.uis.edu/online-undergraduate-admission

You can save major bucks by doing your gen ed at a community college and then transferring. (Edit: just noticed you already have a BA in another field, so your gen ed is probably all set.)
Yes. It's difficult to listen to live. I'm (we're?) not knocking Knuth - he's brilliant; he's just hard to follow. Once he gets going, he gets tripped up with all that's going on in his head and the "uh uh um" throws off the flow.
If 51% are simply mining empty blocks then tx rate drops by ~1/2 and tx fees double. tx would still go through unless they are colluding.
How do you make money providing no interest loans to the unbanked? Do you have an example of a startup like that?
>the only US laws those cases might have transgressed are anti-competition/monopoly, regulated by the FTC.

That's the point. When you put up a law that says "Cable Co can't do this, but Internet Co can" it offends my sense of fairness.
Better than asking them what they would pay, ask them to actually pay a token amount, with the promise that they’ll get it back if the product never comes to market or doesn’t meet their needs.
Really this is Pres. Trump just realizing his wall isn't going to work, but deportees definitely won't be able to come back if he deports them to the moon. So this is just a pivot for him.

edit: Too many reallys, really.
function readUtf8String(memory, pointer) {
let s = "";
for (i = pointer; memory[i]!==0; i++) {
s += String.fromCharCode(memory[i]);
}
return s;
}

This doesn't read UTF-8, this reads bytes and converts them to UTF-16 char codes, so it works only with ASCII or some other 0-255 encoding. To read UTF-8 into a JavaScript string (which is UTF-16), bytes should be properly decoded from UTF-8 (e.g. with TextDecoder).
Rudimentary math is almost entirely sufficient. Meaning this should* have been learned early in life. I make web backends for e-commerce and I rarely do more than count and add.

Example life skills:
-Balancing a checkbook or verifying an account balance (addition including negatives, ex. e-commerce)
-Tipping (be familiar enough with percentages to eatimate a few simple ones in your head)
-Baking (fractions, multiplication/division)

The only thing not covered is basic algebra, solve for X type stuff. If you can convert Celsius and Fahrenheit either way given one equation, you're golden.

Most of don't need set theory or calculus. We need rudimentary math that should be in any 101 course.

If you're going into some sort of engineering such as fluid dynamics or maybe deep financial territory like banking, then maybe you need some calculus. Otherwise, just be good at the 101 level.
Whats wrong with iota
How difficult is it to implement for ISPs net neutrality and check whether it's implemented? Just wondering. It is really "burdensome"?
It takes time, I think from initial application to having the company set up, it was about 2 months. One month waiting for authorization, another month for the card to arrive.

Setting up the company is then easy. To set up a full bank account you need to go to Estonia. You can setup a transferwise account which gives you a banking facility however.

There are other countries where you can setup companies quicker, or with better tax implications. But I don’t think there’s a good option in the EU.

If I were you, I’d get the e-residency card now and have it available if you want to quickly start a company later.
So, soon men will start editing themselves into videos as the male actor, for private use.
You're right I should have.

The reason I mentioned the Male one, was the recency in the story, and probably a little bias on the topic.

My bad :(.
The time a pea germinated inside a kid's nasal passages
I was informed that its shape and rotation make it very unusual, in addition to being the first known interstellar object.
Coders need to strike now and kill the AI threat. We should not wait for 2040!!!
- No deep learning,
- No Alpha Go Zero,
- No autonomous cars,
- No whiteboard tests,
- No open office,
- No rental increases.
The notification when it first came out wasn’t really noticeable for a tool that frequently has a lot of output an average user running `brew upgrade` would be used to ignoring. Prompting would have been the better choice. I didn’t notice until the change hit HN and created a bit of a shit storm.

PS: Despite my feelings of disagreement on how brew handled this, I still appreciate your work.
Why does India want to buy the world’s emptiest airport?
A sprinkling of ethical project management turns a good developer into a great coworker.
I feel like if these files revealed anything groundbreaking they wouldn't have existed. If there was anything that needed to be covered up, it wouldn't have been done on the books, classified or not.
I think it’s much easier if you use someone like leapin to manage the company formation process.

I’ve not had any of the issues you’ve mentioned (maybe about 3 spam emails).
> unless you count the Consulate, which technically is sovereign ground

Actually, consulates are not considered sovereign ground [0]

[0] - https://www.quora.com/Is-an-embassy-sovereign-territory
https://www.google.com/search?q=excels
> If I sexually identify as a CAS aircraft, will they ban DCS A-10 Simulator as sexual content?

I don’t know if this is a joke, but that is a thing that happens.

Given how long I was blind to my own (relatively straightforward) bisexuality, I think the real answer is that people in charge literally cannot conceive of sexuality that far away from their worldview.