skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To make a long story short, I used to be able to swipe to the right and see all my friends stories, sorted by last update time. Now it's some horrible Mish most of these stories on the "friends" page, and I can't see the stories I want to see.
Most companies would never build a Linux app.

One notable example is Skype: their Linux client sucked so much it was unusable until their Electron version made the Linux version just as good and modern-looking as the rest.
This looks like a lot of fun.

Would have been perfect for an automotive project years ago.
Likely not a common combination of characters. Most people reporting issues seem to have commonname@gmail
This is why self driving cars are so much harder than one might think. Just getting the basics of self driving down is challenging. Now throw in all the possible edge cases, some of which shouldn't ever happen, and you've got a wildly interesting and challenging problem. It would be a blast to work on that team.
I agree but if you live in a rural area in one of those than the change to SALT matters much less to you.
`Bespoke` in the marketing community.
I think that this is cool, but I recall reading papers for rail launched vehicles, mostly from the moon, back in the early 80s.
I dunno. I think there's more to the draw of cities. Like, I personally know I'm saving less living in a "city" than I could be living in my hometown... But, there's a lot more to do, it's a lot more culturally diverse, etc etc. I value that more than the extra money I could be saving. I'm willing to bet others value things like that, as well as the career opportunities, that come with cities.
Good podcast on how bad it can get - basically a woman's diary of her experience: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/burnout-diaries/id124788...
Please let him be playing the long game.

Hyperloop, magnets, battery arrays, solar, boring company, etc sounds pretty cool.
There are many such jobs available. We discuss this in detail at my weekend seminars, which you may attend for the low low price of $20k.

Seriously though, I think I might know of some semi-retired lawyers who make that sort of money, but that only happens after a lifetime of option #1.

Edit: you could make this kind of money with very little work as a board member of a large corporation. Once again, see option #1 for how to get to that point in your life.
I don’t think the novelty of the research is the fact that elephants have personalities, but instead the study of the personalities themselves and how they develop and are influenced by the environment and the species. If people stopped researching after determining that “yes, in fact, other animals have personalities too”, that would be pretty boring.
City ambulances don't service counties. If the county outside the city has less available ambulances but high demand then wait times go up.
That's a blog post, did they log actual bugs?
Sure, that works too, although I wouldn't call it crap just because you don't subscribe to the publisher either.

Judging by your other comment, blocking both ads and paywalls seems rather indefensible if you feel entitled to reading their content.
The sentence was not a garden-path, which can be seen by the contrast that was being performed.

Company you've never heard of because they're in the business of patent lawsuits

vs.

Company you've heard of because they're big enough to sue

"Big enough to sue" refers to company B being sued, not company A (the patent troll).
My point was that the OP's objection would be valid if the statement being objected to were about architectural limitations of the hardware.

However, the statement being objected to was under the section about the 3rd level of abstraction: "The Embedded HAL to the Rescue", which is detailing an extra semantic restriction imposed by Rust. The final two sentences of section 2 even allude to the prevented actions being legal but almost certainly being a logic error. To object that the hardware allows nonsensical actions without trapping is to miss the point of section 3 of the article. At the third level of abstraction: Rust prevents something legal but nonsensical.

Now, if this particular board doesn't clear output state when switching a GPIO pin from input to output, then it's a valid criticism that perhaps the developer wants to set the output state correctly before driving the pin and the prevented action is in fact semantically meaningful and perhaps the intent of the developer. However, that wasn't the OP's objection. The OP's objection was simply that Rust was preventing something that the underlying platform allows.
It sounds like what you're describing is replacing the functional (read: relatively stable inflation-wise) swiss franc with... ?

Assuming you implemented a POW blockchain-based, decentralized (anyone can download and run a node), virtual currency, this would remove control over the supply and generation of the currency from the Swiss National Bank (fiscal and monetary policy experts) and give it to...Chinese cryptocurrency miners + whatever group of developers Switzerland decides to put in charge of maintaining and upgrading the swiss blockchain?

What your friend is referring to is actually an idealized economic concept, the "Stablecoin" - one that is pegged to the exact right basket of goods, services, and semi-finished industrial products that it experiences little to no inflation/deflation and can be counted on as a store of value.

All countries are or should be trying to create a Stablecoin relative to their own economies - allowing private citizens to assume their $5,000 USD will be able to buy roughly the same amount of goods and services in, say 6 months.

All this to say...the Swiss have already created a Stablecoin for their economy...the franc. There is no reason to break up and decentralize an organization that is competently managing a currency. It only makes sense in cases (such as Venezuela) where the central authority is doing a terrible job of managing their currency, and is nowhere near achieving "Stablecoin" status. Or for markets where there is no accepted "Stablecoin" because they are illegal/no enforcement mechanism to honor the transaction (e.g. you can't bring a lawsuit in a US court against a drug dealer if he takes your USD and sells you bad drugs).
Depends on what time of day you have your emergency and what is happening.

The town I grew up in is 45-60m to an ER during the day, 30m at night. It’s a volunteer squad, so typical response time is ~20m, longer during the weekday. If someone else has an emergency, they will likely need a mutual aid call, which adds 15-30m. If you need ALS, the ambulance may need to pull over en route when a county paramedic responds. If you are further out, the times increase rapidly. Many common emergencies like stroke are guaranteed fatal.

In the small city that I live in, first responder for a medical emergency will arrive in <7m. Transport to hospital is ~5-10m.
This means nothing.

Native apps cost 10 times more and take a lot longer to build since you have to build 3 versions instead of 1.

So..?
Of course it depends on what you intend to do with your money, but for living and operating, local currency is usually most important.

Cryptocurrencies serve many specialized needs, particularly in global transfers, but they have little use in day to day, local transactions.

Anything that can be traded for value can be considered a currency, so you could theoretically trade equities with other people for goods and services. But usually, that is much less practical than exchanging local fiat currency.

Same goes for virtual currencies. Instead, you'll perhaps use virtual currencies as an intermediate currency for simplified financial transfers, or perhaps for storing some of your investments, or for utility reasons (such as tokens which are the utility fee tokens for some exchanges), or perhaps as a form of startup investment (as with ICOs).

I do wonder if the effectiveness of bitcoin as a transfer currency was any motivation behind the recent improvement in EU bank to bank transfers. What previously took one or maybe two business days for SEPA transfers has recently been improved to be near instant (so I've read; I haven't paid attention lately). Maybe the banks felt pressure to keep up?

Meanwhile, US banking customers are still passing handwritten pieces of paper around. Once US customers get verified accounts with some of the cryptocurrency money exchangers, quick USD->bitcoin->bitcoin->USD transfers are nice and fast and relatively inexpensive (with the recent dramatic drop in bitcoin mining fees).
They have the scanners installed, but no software to actually do the validation? Somewhere there must a team working on getting the software built/deployed already. How could something like that possibly just "fall through the cracks"?

I haven't crossed a boarder in years, but I imagine the scanners must be useful for something. Maybe just reading the information off the passport and cross checking it? How hard could it be to add the validation?

If it's a standard cryptographic signature they shouldn't even need to interact with external services, they could just do the validation on the device. It can't possibly be more than a 2-4 month project, even for the government.
> We can't reason about strong AI precisely because we don't have as good of an existing example from which we can extrapolate. The best we have is the human mind.

It's actually human minds. Organizations of humans like major corporations and government possess the sort of resources that we imagine a super AI would have.
Valuation Models for Cryptocurrencies
Yes I always get a good laugh watching the Cruise cars trying to drive. They are not smooth and do weird things that a human driver would only do when drunk.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I hope my questions did not come off as condescending; if so, it was not intended.
Yes very much thanks for the breakdown and look forward to an email from me in the future!! best!
Yeah but I think you need a much higher income than you used to (relatively) to feel reasonably assured of a comfortable retirement. If you believe that a middle class person should feel relatively certain they'll have a comfortable retirement if they work for 30-40 years, then it messes with the definition of what "middle class" really is.
I have chatted with people providing tech support for this. The level of monitoring is beyond your wildest imagination.

The anecdotal number says Xinjiang spent 30B RMB on the security and surveillance. I have no details about the exact expense items.
Yea well, you're also beta testing some 16 year old's brain on 6 pints of beer, or some 90 year olds brain who missed their afternoon nap.

You're beta testing a lot of shit on the road. I pray for the day when the only thing we're really testing, is the software, and not some idiot's brain.
> We don't even know if or to what degree 'super-intelligence' is possible. For all we know, there may be fundamental trade offs between the different skills necessary for general intelligence that may provide functional limits to the degree to which intelligence can be super human.

While this is true, it would be extremely surprising if evolution's first stab at higher intelligence (humans) came anywhere near the theoretical limits of what intelligence could be if directly selected for.

Just remove the size and energy consumption constraints imposed on the human brain by what the human body can support, and you should be able to get a significant improvement without changing the base architecture much at all.

Digitize and allow for copy/paste of "brains", and now you've got 30,000,000 copies of Einstein working together on problems but each specializing in their own pursuits, each of which doesn't get tired and lives forever, and can open very high-throughput direct neural communication channels with the other Einsteins whenever they need to share knowledge.

Start tweaking the virtual brain's "chemical" environment, and you can probably supercharge them by doing all sorts of stuff that would kill a real human but is fine when all you care about is making a simulated brain work better (virtual megadoses of Ritalin, massive tweaks to neurotransmitter behaviors, etc.).

These are just a few obvious ideas, but it's hard to imagine that together they couldn't scale intelligence up at least past the point where we could ever hope to keep up, as long as we got it into digital form in the first place. You're correct that there will be an architectural "wall" somewhere, but chances are that human intelligence is more in the "vacuum tubes and punch cards" regime than the "Moore's law is done" one. Whatever is there when that wall is hit would be so far beyond us that it might as well be called super-intelligent, even if it can't improve further.
In San Francisco you need to make $300,000 a year to afford the typical home
I say fairly political things all the time -- roughly 10% of my comments, I think -- and they generally stay positive.

Politics and economics and ethics are inextricably intertwined with technology these days, so it's usually on topic to comment about the political aspects of a situation.
I wonder if they plan on selling this approach to other companies?
Bullshit. Britain and the US don't do anywhere near the scale of this collection. Also we have cases like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States which are set to (likely) outlaw ability for warrantless surveillance of position, which they do in China.
You get trapped in trailers and need a car, so it’s harder to get social benefits.

The only way out for country folk is the army.
Completely different project. Nano seems closer.

Despite the negativity here I think iota will likely become production ready too, but the timeline will be longer.
entrenched building zoning and building restrictions that mop up massive amounts of economic potential in rent (see the housing crises throughout the major cities of the US)
In what ways is this different from arxiv-vanity? (Just append "-vanity" to "arxiv" in any arxiv link to get a rich html version)
It is a ton of funding considering the physics seems nonsensical.
Why shouldn't the world focus on cities? If you're choosing to live in an area where you're geographically separated from other people can you really complain that you're not receiving benefits from systems that are more optimal when people are clustered together?
"Are you detaining me?"

I feel like I am getting a whiff of a Sovereign Citizen...
Or they do balance like this but the opportunities you miss out on as a young person are worth far more to you than the cost of living. That's certainly how it worked for me. I could have lived off $20.00/hr in the rural area I grew up in, but I would be isolated or stuck going to church for all of my social interactions. In the city I can't live comfortably off less than $30.00 but other people are right outside my door.
... so you can pretty much go to sleep, assuming you aren't taking off or landing. Got it.
Well, yeah, there is that. I am somewhat fortunate to be the sort of person who doesn't care too much about that, but it can definitely be a sucky tradeoff for many people.
Just ran `pipenv install scipy numpy`. Installs like any other package..
What if the site used your GPU to mine 5 cents worth of cryptocurrency while you read the article?
Investing $5m of your own capital.
We changed that because users complained. The comment DoreenMichele linked to explains.
I heard about Bull in the book Soonish [0], which has a whole chapter on cheap access to space. Readers of this thread might be interested in it.

[0] https://smbc-comics.com/soonish/
But the basis of decisions like Citizens United is that corporations have rights (free speech and so on) because they're just collections of people, who have those rights as individuals. The key idea behind CU is that people don't give up those rights just because they formed a corporation.

In other words, the rights of corporations are really just the rights of the people in them.

If there are no people in them, I could very easily see a judge deciding the corporation itself has no rights.
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Exactly my first thought. A coin to address governance issues lacks access to its own funds due to governance issues.

Poe's law in full display.
What you're forgetting is that the same mechanics that make Chimborazo the furthest from the earth's center (the oblate spheroid shape due to spin) also applies to the atmosphere (though probably to a different degree). So over Chimborazo, the atmosphere is also thicker, I'd imagine (could be more, could be less). I haven't looked at the actual measurements, but you might want to before you compare different latitudes. Also, see my other comment for non-engineering difficulties.
A single and solemn wave goodbye.
This is slightly off topic, but is there anywhere to see a full swath of YC's incubators and their level of (current) success?
I really like that message. It used to be something diffr\erent, which was vague, but this actually tells you why it refuses to run as root.
" Sure, they aren't required to use a product, but if you've been using Gtalk for years, and that's how everyone knows to get hold of you and how you get hold of people"

There's the problem right there. They created a dependency on a single provider that could turn on them at any time. Many providers have gone out of business or done unscrupulous things. One should always have alternatives if anything is really important. In this case, they usually solely rely on one provider for convenience when not also cost (sometimes trivial cost). Still true for things like Facebook.

They walked right into a big problem because convenience or apathy about risks trumped everything. From there, they can be forced in the way you describe to go along with what vendor wants. At that point, they might also start switching and/or avoid doing that sort of thing in the future. In many cases, they avoid the switching cost and do the same kinds of things in other services. Their very nature is to willingly create opportunities for suppliers to cause them problems.

Even as they do this, there's a small subset of the market doing either the opposite or taking steps to limit the damage which make me think this is more willing than forced. If anything, history has shown we have to use things like regulations to force market participants to behave more safely on average. They usually don't do it on their own because they don't want to or don't care. Seatbelts when driving are the classic example.

"The benefits of an open system aren't readily apparent to many people until they start experiencing the problems of a closed system."

I agree. We probably need a way to quickly present that when they make these choices. Enough of the market making an informed choice might sustain more alternatives that are better. This already happens with at least some of the FOSS market where the buyers specifically liked the benefits of open source. The wider, long-term effects you describe will also be interesting to watch. We might see some of the FOSS-friendly decisions on consumer side as they see the benefits or experience the detriments.

"Long time no see/read. Nice to have a conversation with you again. :)"

Likewise, buddy. Although I comment less, I've read plenty of yours. Usually insightful and enjoyable. :)
Social class PSA:

Lower, middle, upper-middle, upper class, etc do not map (as much as news media tries) to income levels. Middle class does not identify a level of income.

To identify income levels use quintiles instead.

Middle class is a social class and annual income has no causal effect on social class.
In the Rosinante trilogy of Alexis A. Gilliland the autonomous AIs are self-owned corporations, and indeed are sometimes addressed with the word "Corporate" as a title, somewhat like "Mr" or "Ms". This is of course fiction; while much of the engineering in the series seems plausible I have no idea if the legal theories are. Worth reading anyway, the AIs are charming.
My political comments are some of my most popular ones I've made. I think it's more about saying something that's actually constructive or different. I think also the fact that hackernews is not ideologically segmented has to do with it, too. We're here for programming and decent, thought-provoking reading, not having people tell us we're right. You can get away with being political if you're genuinely trying to contribute to the conversation.
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Add “outline.com/“ to the front of the url — it also gets past the paywall.
It's true that sugar is responsible for much disease, however "the primary
cause of hypertension"? I really don't think so, unless indirectly, as a
consequence of diabetes and obesity.

In any case, there is no controversy regarding the role of salt in
hypertension. The evidence has been accumulating for a very long time, with
numerous studies and meta-analyses. The physiological mechanism by which
sodium and potassium control blood pressure is also uncontroversial.

And anyway, just because sugar is bad for you doesn't mean salt is good for
you- in the same way that smoking is not good for you just because sugar is
bad.
The headline on HN doesn't match the articles headline or contents.
How would it determine whether or not you've subscribed to other news sites?
I just tried to subscribe. Their registration is broken.
Right on both counts, that it can't be separated and that it isn't recent. The OP needs to amend "The Guidelines state that political discussion is off-topic". The actual guidelines say most and probably, precisely to indicate not all.

Political articles that are on topic are those that contain material of intellectual interest, aren't just garden-variety politics or ideology, and contain substantive new information. Those are comparatively rare, but better able to support substantive discussion. Sometimes they get more upvotes than flags, or we may turn off the flags. There are plenty of examples of this—so many that we hear the complaint "HN has been taken over by politics" at least as often as its inverse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426
I use spectacle myself (https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle)
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My biggest issue is hating all the weird host rules. I don't want to tip toe around and abide by your curfew when I'm on vacation. I also don't want to pay an outrageous $250 cleaning fee. At least with a hotel I know what I am getting and don't get any surprises.
I like to use a brush to get off all the gunk and then do detail work with a sponge.
That made me chuckle. So true. Thanks :)
Whenever I feel sad about downvotes I remind myself that no-one will lie on their deathbed wishing they'd scored more points in the internet popularity contest.
> Redbox != Regular end customer

Nothing in the decision rests on Redbox being a “regular end consumer”; it rests of first-sale, a legal doctrine which generally stands in direct opposition to the idea of “end consumer” as a role to which a seller can restrict goods.

> Redbox doesn't have the authority to sell digital content they haven't produced

The first sale doctrine gives them the right to disassemble and resell the physical items in the box they purchase, which is what they are doing.

Even Disney isn't arguing that Redbox is illegally selling digital product or violating copyright directly, instead they are claiming that Redbox is contributing to infringement by the end purchasers who are violating the copyright license by using a download code without owning the disk, and that Redbox is violating a purchase contract with Disney entered into by the act of purchasing the package at retail that prohibits separating the physical components notwithstanding the right of first sale.

The judge here upheld the right of first sale against that assault and also stated that the license terms Disney is asserting that end purchasers would violate are themselves an abuse of copyright, because they would prevent the exercise of the right of first sale.
Plug the sink next time you're washing dishes.