skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is digital paper not an option here? If we're talking about a timeline of 100 years, I'm almost certain we'll have something thin, reusable, with low power that you can write on with a stylus.

After all, we're almost there today: we're just missing the thin part.[0][1][2]

[0]: http://myboogieboard.com/

[1]: http://remarkable.com

[2]: http://noteslate.com/
> I also think it's reasonable to believe that activist groups are still exaggerating projections

When you say activists, do you include climate scientists?
In the same vein, I always draw a stick-figure horse when I have to sign for deliveries at work.
People in diverse communities "don't trust the local mayor, they don't trust the local paper, they don't trust other people and they don't trust institutions," writes Putnam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_multiculturalism
PasswordPing API
I know several CS PhDs from “world elite universities” with undergraduate math or physics degrees who switched to CS for grad school because they decided that math/theoretical physics were too difficult or too competitive, and found their CS programs comparatively much easier mathematically, with most CS fields requiring much less background to get to the academic cutting edge (as should be expected for a much younger and more application focused field), with an easier path for newcomers to publish meaningful results in high-impact journals. YMMV.
Getting lots of people together to work on a large problem is an engineering problem in itself. It has its own language and constructs. Doing it wrong means millions or billions are wasted, and enterprises lose ground on the world stage.

Some of these ideals don’t translate well to smaller scale. A 5 person team doesn’t have to work out much except the work. How do you get 1000 people to agree on a plan, an IDE, a language, and to row in the same direction? Not magic. Study and practice.
How to test a random number generator (2010)
Hipster tries from 2011?
good question, what is the shovel equivalent of the blockchain?
If it can be built by someone with no experience in less then an hour, then is it really building in any true sense.

Or to put it differently is there a real difference between building something and assembling something out of a kit-set?
One Year of Design 2017
OT: Just wondering why so many people are using password managers. When you use a password manager you have one single point of attack and failure. I wouldn't like to give all my credentials to one single entity.
> Tesla has the rest of the industry scared, so they're all rushing to announce electric models so they don't get left behind.

And that for me is the real risk. Too much herd mentality, too little thinking. There is likely just one chance in our lifetime to get such a big transition right. It’s still an open discussion if electric cars really do provide the needed environmental breakthrough (even if they are fueled with green energy). I believe there should have been, e.g., more investment in alternatives such as hydrogen before committing the world to electric cars
Why are we surprised or shocked? Hasn't society always used servants, police, soldiers, miners, loggers, garbage men, wardens, and such to do tasks that the rest of us are loath to do, and to keep certain stuff away from 'civilised' society?

Why would online be different suddenly? Analogues of all the above are needed online too. And somebody who has no other option will be unfortunate enough to fill these roles.
> There are occasional claims that magnesium or some other substance can help reverse Adderall tolerance.

I went to a particularly expensive Silicon Valley psychiatrist who did of course immediately put me on Adderall, but also put me on NAC supplements to "avoid tolerance". It's been okay, they're cheap, never bothered not taking them to experiment.
I can confirm feeling better after eating foods with magnesium, mostly because they're good for you.

BTW, if you're on amphetamine+guanfacine you need to avoid all of caffeine, sugar, and alcohol. What a bummer.
If you want an absolutely egregious example of how bad this can get here is an article I wrote a few months ago about the security practices of an American Credit Union.

https://metafarce.com/lafayette-federal-credit-union.html
In this case it's mainly attributable to the DEA's scheduling system. People have to rely on personal experience because there isn't proper research being done.

This is my greatest frustration around the use of drugs. I think it's ludicrous that more research isn't done on substances that millions of people take.
I've noticed eGovernance increases paper usage
What a human can manually generate with pen and pencil is usually a fairly trivial.

Look back a few decades and people used to have shelves full of manuals and binders full of product specs. The cubicle designs are totally different now, partly because we don't have all that printed stuff to deal with.
People still uses paper checks all the time here in the US. Maybe not for small things but...

- Rent payments to independent land lords are generally via a mailed check.
- Some monthly bill payments aren't doable online.
- Transferring money to people.
- Large purchases.
The password manager is typically on a machine you control. If your machine is owned, you've got issues regardless. A password manager provides a way to effectively utilize higher-entropy, per-account passwords. As with all security-related matters, it's a tradeoff. I expect many choose password managers for this reason.
In Sweden we can transfer money instantly between banks. You essentially register a service tied to your phone number, and people can use that phone number to instantly transfer money to persons or companies without any fees. The service is called Swish [0]. The only requirement is that the receiver has registered the service to his/hers phone number, and that you can authenticate yourself using mobile BankID [1].

[0] https://medium.com/@etiennebr/swish-the-secret-swedish-finte...

[1] https://www.bankid.com/en/

Edit: Clarification of who can receive your money transfer.
If you're "ADHD" it affects having fun just as much as working - imagine you can't finish a book and you can't hold down a conversation with a stranger long enough to start dating them. There are pretty universal subconscious skills medication improves here.
> I made a ridiculous amount of money and feel “depressed”

A lot of people are going to read that and think - how the hell is that even possible?

It does not seem to matter how many times it is said, or what studies show, but people don't seem to get it into their heads that how much money you have and how happy you are are completely unrelated once a certain level of income is attained. Or, putting it another way, happiness is mostly unrelated to the amount of money you have in your bank account.

I was once £150K in debt, and people don't believe it when I tell them they were actually some of the happiest years of my life!

So what to do?

I would talk to someone first off. I would suggest a good life coach as a starting point - Tim Brownson at A Daring Adventure (just google 'A daring adventure') is a stand up guy (known him for years) and a fellow Brit! He might help you find some focus on a new direction. He's lived in American for about ten years now I think so maybe his accent is decipherable now and he doesn't sound like a mad Australian.

So what kinds of things affect happiness?

- exercise / health
- relationship
- friends
- purpose
- contribution

and that special little thing a lot of workaholic Americans forget all about:

FUN!
Hypocrites.

Yeah, I've also ranted about this before. My favorite example is Apple board member Al Gore, who, according to Wikipedia[1]: remained prominent as an author and environmental activist, whose work in climate change activism earned him (jointly with the IPCC) the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

Yeah, the guy literally wins the Nobel Prize because of his environmental activism, and has been on the Apple board for many years, and yet Apple embraces planned obsolescence. Not hypocrites, fucking hypocrites.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore
Hi HN! I made this. I’m making an effort to reduce my dependency on Google products, so I created partial.press as a drop-in replacement for Google News in the age of fake news. It marks breaking headlines as coming from liberal-friendly (blue) or conservative-friendly (red) news sources. My app isn’t an attempt to solve fake news or media bias. Instead, it’s sort of like a health warning before you click: it makes you conscious of where you’re getting your daily intake of infotainment.

In two-column mode, left-wing sources are displayed in the left column, right-wing sources displayed in the right column. Compare and contrast biased headlines on the same topic — very amusing!

Hope that helps! If you want more info, I wrote about it on my blog: https://mckn.co/partial-press
> Inter-bank money transfers in US are handled by a system that needs multiple "business days"

I wired some money from my US bank account to my Swedish bank account. The US bank obviously operates on a batch process basis, because around 6AM EST I got an email from my US bank saying that they've sent the money, and I should expect it within three days in my destination account.

It was already available in my Swedish bank account at that moment, because they have no delays whatsoever because what the hell is there to delay? The difference is like night and day, and I do not understand why American consumers put up with their extremely shitty banks that all seem to be stuck in the 70's. It drives me crazy.
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So the bottom of the well can be seen from HN too. I wonder what’s on your hard drive.
When I was a kid, the only thing I liked about LEGO was the fact that I didn't have to follow the instructions.

So I could turn the boring police station into a spaceship.

And the fire station into another spaceship.

And the indigo tropical island set into an alien world.

Then medical building, the random pirate lair, the galleon and the random 18th century fort into a pirate spaceship.

And then I'd dismantle the lot and make a gigantic mega-spaceship, with a diverse crew of police officers, pirates, Imperial British soldiers, island tribespeople, and firemen.

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Fast-forward to today: I assemble the IKEA furniture my partner wants, but I can't exactly get creative with it.

Oh, and since I'm commenting now, I will add that I also feel no attachment to the IKEA crap I assemble and the eponymous "effect" probably does exist, but should have been named differently.
The problem doesn’t go away for other types of content and that reasoning is often repeated but not supported by other markets.

There are apps that had thousands of downloads and great reviews that failed because of peoples in unwillingness to pay for them.

How will you know you’re going to like a news story before you pay to read it?

The metrics you have are the same as any other type of content, word of mouth, reviews, past performance of the content creator.

People will spend 10$ on a movie ticket when critics and reviewers are split on if it’s a good movie. They’ll spend 20$ to try a new dish they might not like on the recommendation of a single person, even an impartial waiter. But they don’t value apps so they don’t pay for them. People will go to app developers with their brilliant idea and act shocked when they get a 5 figure estimate because they figure app development is a dime a dozen.

Likewise I doubt many people appreciate the true cost of the content they consume.
I think it's a good idea. Contribution is definitely a factor in happiness. It's probably not the complete solution in this case but it will certainly help!
> A decade later, books haven't changed much at all. And only Amazon has the clout to really drive what could and should come next. Not by making pixels just like paper, but by embracing the difference.

Yep — they're all about using screens to mimic paper. Even their product names (Paperwhite) show this. Instead, they should be thinking about ways in which reading on screen can be better than reading on paper.

To their credit, they offer the Kindle Cloud Reader, which lets others tinker with content and how it's presented. But this is only accessible on computers and iPads — they block it on iPhone (yes, even Plus models) and all Android devices. But regardless, this is more open than iBooks, which doesn't let third-party services access their books at all.
> Facebook will have 7,500 content reviewers by the end of December, up from 4,500, and it plans to double the number of employees and contractors who handle safety and security issues to 20,000 by the end of 2018.

Seems like the bulk of these roles are contract. "$24/hour" was mentioned in the article. Probably no health benefits. Probably no counseling.

251 working days * 8 hours * $24 = $48,192. Less taxes. Less sick days. Safe to assume these workers aren't all going to work out of the main office in SF.

Seems like Facebook would have to set up some sort of work from home system, like people who transcribe medical records, or some sort of off-shore system, to make this work for workers. But... spreading out the people who do this work is likely to increase security risks that sensitive data will be shared, and reduce workers ability to find comfort with peers.

No way to look at this where automation isn't going to be better.
Some very cheap ones in the lowest price brackets would definitely have a hard time surviving moving (hell a sofa I had barely survived being used), but climb up the price ladder and there's very sturdy stuff to be had. Also, over here at least, when you move up the price range you notice that other furniture increasingly becomes competitive and that IKEA == cheap doesn't come up as automatically true.
That sounds like a policy that would efficiently erode trust and cause an exodus from your platform.

The platforms are in a tricky position, but I agree this job should pay more with perhaps some regulatory oversight.
Sites?
When I call my bank to de-block my debit card after 3 wrong PIN attempts, they use the same 'security questions' to 'secure' the call (establish that it is truly me calling).
I attended the New Jersey Institute of Technology (it's been >10yrs so things may have changed)...the curriculum may not exactly overlap but with thoughtful selection of electives you can get pretty close.
> By removing controversial posts

We're talkng about images of children being raped.
>Some heavy users care about certain strains and the like, but I have a feeling that for most people weed is weed.

I'd be surprised if that's the case, and even if it's the case in the beginning, I'd be surprised if it's still the case after a few years.
> Why would online be different?

Because you don't have to look at anything you don't want. Because it's not bounded by physical space limitations, so everyone can have as much "space" as they want. Because you can travel from any point to any other point almost instantaneously. Because you can be in as many different places simultaneously as you have the capacity to keep track of. Because you can come and go as you please without anyone else even knowing.

The internet is nothing like the physical world.
I hate to assemble stuff (furniture comes first) because it does not teach me anything useful to me. I would pay someone to do the gardening, if I had to have a garden (the thought only makes me shiver).

OTOH I build electronic devices and program them even though I could buy something similar in a shop.

So I guess it comes down to what is interesting for whom, and it will wildly depend on the individual.
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500 was the minimum. We pressed up 2000 because we were hopelessly optimistic.

This was 1980, 7 inch 45, we sold about 800, gave away the rest over the next 20 years.

Total cost of production and pressing was at least $5,000, which wasn't a sum any random garage band could muster up. We broke our piggy banks and hit up our friends because our success was a sure thing.

The good old days, I guess.
USSR, night, 4am, door bell ring in Rabinovich apartment.

Rabinovich : "Who is there?"

From outside of the door : "Just postmen. Rabinovich, would you agree that USSR is the best country in the world for people to live in?"

Rabinovich : "Yes, i agree."

From outside of the door: "Then why do you want to leave this best country?"

Rabinovich : "Because in the other country there are no postmen coming to your apartment at 4am."
'Everyone will have 5 years to get their car off the road or sell it for scrap'

http://www.autonews.com/article/20171105/INDUSTRY_REDESIGNED...
Only consumers in Western Europe pay ~2.5 to 3 times as much for fuel due to differences in taxation.[0][1]

[0] https://www.touring.be/nl/artikels/benzineprijzen-europa
[1] https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/
>>2. send people in heavily armored rather than heavily armed. If you can make your SWAT team immune to bullets (such as by, say, encasing them in an Armoured Personnel Carrier), then they're not going to be feeling threatened and shooting anyone.

It's way easier to figure out ways to pierce armor than it is to develop it. Green-tipped ammunition is more than good enough to pierce all common and easily-worn body armor today.

Besides, if you send people in heavily armored, they are going to feel threatened by nature and will be more trigger happy.
Surely part of the reason that this is the case is that online ad impressions are a fraction of the price of traditional media.

You can "reach" thousands of people for less than $200 online, whereas conventional advertising is substantially more expensive.

This has to be one of the underappreciated reasons that traditional media has been savaged so badly by the internet - the price difference is stark, especially on a CPM level. But that price difference is also jacked up by massive fraud everwhere - for example Facebook has told advertisers they have access to more people in the US, than live in the US.

That's not to say that traditional media is clean in how they measure their audience, but at least with a traditional ad you can turn on the TV and watch it, or pick up a newspaper and read it, or drive past it. How many digital ads never get seen by a human?
> Did you ever resign from a company on your first day?

More or less.

I once received an offer from a great company doing avionics. In a bizarre turn of events I then received an offer out of the blue with a company I'd applied to about 18 months previously and had forgotten about.

The result was I rang the first company and told them I wouldn't be starting the following Monday after all. I felt bad, but the truth is I'm pretty sure they were able to fill that slot quickly enough.

I would follow your heart - that first company really doesn't want to have an employee that doesn't really want to be there...
Tangential, but what other fascinating things can I do with an SDR dongle? I've had one for years and have not heard of this.

* Listen to various radio stations

* Track airplane positions

* Receive weather images from a satellite

what else?

One other thing off the top of my head is combining ship position and cargo databases: https://github.com/marcdacosta/ambient-shipping
Most of those murders in the US fall under the former category, too.
Now compare other restrictions on liberties those countries impose and might be causing co-linear effects. Start with immigration policies, drug trade, and bordering countries.
Excellent, I was about to go the route of reading the led flashes with some kind of sensor but I was reminded that anything touching the meter can be considered meter tampering in the US which is a crime...yikes.

Thankfully passively decoding its RF emissions from the garage isn’t illegal yet!

So HN, which SDR dongle should I buy?
>especially in a country where the use of alternative distribution channels is actively prosecuted

Those issues are true for any device. The xbox isn't particularly different. About the only difference that I can think of is the amount of metadata leakage to MS or other third parties. Since you don't have much control over any of these proprietary walled garden type OSes, you risk additional leakage. I doubt if this sort of leakage itself can be used for prosecution. It's more likely it's used just for data mining.
They don’t have cashier’s checks or banker’s drafts in Germany?
Because if I understtod anything correctly, the methods tries to find the smallest possible changes that causes the network to make the incorrect classofication. And these smallest possible changes just might be very sensitive to whatever small random ripple weight changes a network has. But I am far from neural network expert, so I can't really answer.
Protection from the government was justifiable before, but now that governments have gained so much power, guns in the hands of the citizenry aren't going to stop them.

So what's the point of still letting citizens keep them?
Excellent points. It just takes time.

Just like with the "job-stealing automation", despite the hysteria in the press. These things take decades.
Nice method, but for future record you don't really need to mess with mains to hook up Sense or OpenEnergyMonitor, they use inductive current clamps which work by detecting the field around the a single terminal of your incoming mains. Pretty much as safe as it gets with this stuff.
My impression is there is also quite the hippy culture in Vermont too, and those land prices are a hell of a lot cheaper than Cali!
Noticed that, is this a real API?
> you can be extraordinary by just showing up when others can't be bothered

So true. Awesome! Have a great 2018!
I have a lot of IKEA stuff and build some of it myself or with other people, but I never had this feeling. More the feeling of annoyance. Once I had to go back because parts didn't fit. It takes awfully long time to assemble. A German TV show even made fun of the assembly instructions, when you put it the right way together the furniture would take over the world.

I think I'm just too used to IKEA furniture.
IKEA seems to cover a range from "shitty and disposable" to "surprisingly sturdy," and opinions of the brand understandably vary depending on which end you've mostly encountered.
Most other countries allow direct person-to-person transfers with just a name and account number. In Australia you can put in someone's details and payment for something and it will be there the next morning, with no fees, directly through the government interbank system.

In the US if you want a fee-free transfer, you need to use your bank's app and take a photo of someone's check. And no, Paypal/Vinmo are not good alternatives. They're private transfer systems that are not federally mandated and regulated bank-to-bank transfers. I wrote a full post about this:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/the-american-banking-system-is...
I used to contract transport with assembly when I bought IKEA items, just to avoid the hassle of assembling myself. After three or four pieces of furniture misassembled, I decided to assemble them myself in my next purchases. It was not cost-efficient but I discovered that I liked the idea of controlling the assembly process to ensure it was done with enough care.