skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on a blockchain solution that gives consumers the ability to control and monetize their data:

www.databook.one

@dasil003 I agree that Facebook's ARPU is super low. However, with that statistic is related to ad revenue, not revenue from the sale of data. Facebook doesn't publically sell its consumer data. Thus, we're talking apples and oranges.

To buy raw data, you need to go to data brokers, who are currently earning $250 billion per year from selling consumer data. Raw data is super valuable because you can build predictive models with it. With very small samples of customer data, powerful models can be built that can deliver millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars to a business' bottom line.

I can testify to this because I led the technology team for company that earned millions by leveraging machine learning to predict who would sell their house bellow market prices in the next few months.

The problem with buying data from data brokers is that the quality is awful. For example, the accuracy rate of America's largest data broker, Acxiom is only 50%. This problem is holding back the advancement of machine learning. If consumers linked and verified their own data, we could improve that accuracy rate significantly and deliver much more accurate models to businesses.

Thus, we expect that compensation paid by companies to individuals sharing their complete data profiles could be significant.

I've seen estimates that the value of data will reach $7,500K per American per year by 2022.

Even if we reached 10% of this estimate, I'd want that money in my pocket instead of some data broker.

What are your thoughts?
And good riddance to the 9-5 workday; it's a relic of an work-era long gone. In terms of poetry and art, well yes, people will not quite understand the reference eventually, but this is already the case with older art (who understands the references in 20's folk music?)
Trump began video game meeting with 'horrendous' skull-splitting, impaling clips
And, independent of local zoning, our financial system drives hard for the type of stuff that zoning also reinforces. When easy capital supports single family houses and large projects, everything in between is crowded out.
I like that direction, but it also sounds like it might be hard to know the reference points. I wonder if it'd be easier to separate if you used musical notes in conjunction, where the octave/note/chord/scale is mapped to the indentation?

Even better would be tools that are aware of indentation, that you can't see the indentation, and help you debug problems without having to make it so explicit all the time. It could get really weird / grinding to have to listen to monotone speech that's constantly changing pitch.
Companies do lots of focus groups and market research. If there was enough demand for repairable devices to justify it, some company would see there was an unserved niche they could serve.
Hopefully they are expensive, full-spectrum bulbs that allow producing Vitamin D, or else everybody is gobbling a handful of supplements every day. SAD is a real thing.
The national dispersion strategy was established in the late 40s and early 50s, almost 20 years before the Department of Housing and Urban Development was founded [1]. By that time, suburbanization was well advanced.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ho...
I've had this puzzle solved in my own head for quite some time thusly: Distance is a fiction /aka: arbitrary manifold created by our (conscious?) selves interacting with "the world," which is really just a big array of ordered values (N-tuples).

To say that "X is N distance from Y" is no more of a valid proposition than "Blue is Louder than Yellow".

We attach lots of significance to distance (e.g., 3D space) owing to its utility for "doing science." (Insert "All models are wrong; some are useful", but at a grand, multiversal scale.)

My 2¢: YMMV.

(me: Philosophy major with a good bit of sci/math as well)
The internet is a communication platform that allows to send messages and share files from millions/billions of machines in a global network. A simple definition that explains it's capabilities, something blockchain lacks.
What sort of properties would you consider a "textual string" to have that a "binary string" would lack?

Offhand I'd assume you mean some of the following, but I'm curious if /my/ assumption about your needs is correct and complete. (Also, note that some of these may be implied by values elsewhere in the specification, it isn't strictly a data structure.)

* flag:isValidated
* targetEncoding
* flag:isNormalized
* targetNormalization
* lengthMemory (not including the implicit size of the type's metadata)
* lengthCodepoints (distinct encoding elements)
* length(Some word meaning complete display elements, but not the actual width, height, etc.)

Do you also need actual random access to individual codepoints/"full characters"? Or is the assumption that if such a scan is in progress the entire sequence or major parts of it are being fully-scanned?

What if, within a given function call*, the underlying storage could be referenced with zero-copying and substrings made? (On exiting that context they'd be copied if retained.)

It might be useful to have library iterators that split on say, a single given character, segments up to a maximum memory size of N (and scanning backwards for the last "full character" or at least complete rune).

Of course, I believe that, by /default/ a program should perform /binary/ interaction with files including standard in/out/err. If there is a process for converting such binary input/output it should assume and produce data in UTF-8 (in NFC normalization) (when converting to/from "text" types) as a default, which should be easy to globally over-ride or set specifically for a given open file (and change mid use).

Of course I don't normally need to care about the encoding of data directly; libraries with parsers and writers typically do that as well as other encoding/decoding for that format for me. Everything else tends to be copy / compare and do not change, or making filenames (mostly append bits of "should all be UTF-8").

Actual, hard core, manipulation of encoded streams seems far more like a composition editing issue (A specific editor where default input dialogs are insufficient) or something that underlying libraries need to worry about.
The Forbes article quotes Musk saying 50% more production should be achievable.
Which browsers does let break?
So I got down voted, probably by someone who didn't watch the whole video. She said at the end (paraphrasing) 'if someone updated the amiga and I'd love to use something where it wasn't on the verge of giving out, the mouse worked properly, ...'

Processing [1] is about the closest thing to her Amiga code, and is totally cross platform.

[1] https://processing.org
I don't disagree with your assessment, but I point out that it makes the implicit assumption that Tesla customers care about fit and finish.

Tesla is selling every car they make. Not a single one lands in a parking lot at a dealer while picky buyers survey it and compare it to something else. At the moment, the Tesla market is completely people who will buy it even if it has old In-n-Out wrappers in the back seat.

What that means is that for Tesla, today, putting any money into fit and finish, rather than in speed of production, loses them money. Once they have a pipeline that can make more cars than they have pre-orders for, and start putting them out on lots for more discerning eyes, then the investment in fit and finish will give a marginal boost in sales.
If they wanted to build a Unix, they’d have said they were building a Unix.
Haha, it looks like. Though I haven't opened registration, i should have.
If you want to have a bunch of people who typically get ready at 0800 with their children for school at 0830 and work at 0900, it's much easier to adjust what time 0800 is compared to solar noon rather than have a negotiation between various employers, schools, school busses, school meal subcontractors, etc, to simultaneously replace times people need to be places by +/- 1 hour.

Most of the timing isn't formalized to contracts, but is to customary agreements.
Eliminating changes for DST - good.

Introducing a fifth timezone in the lower 48 - bad. Are they trying to open a stock exchange in Miami to open an hour earlier than New York?

Just dump this abomination of DST and stay on Standard Time.
Why is it 120MB?
> Researchers should ask these questions to determine if the correlation is actually caused by anything real, or if it's better explained by some other underlying factor.

Yes, absolutely! But this only works if people apply the same skepticism towards the theories they find more politically palatable. See: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demands...

Since people are notoriously bad at being self-skeptical, the best way to learn what is actually true is by encouraging viewpoint diversity: https://heterodoxacademy.org/
A friend of mine found a bug in memmove over Christmas. Rust would have caught it (signed/unsigned issue), but the bug was in sse2 assembler so would still exist if they allowed optimised ask in the rust version.
Great link and thanks for the tldr!
There are few surveys of Tesla owners because Tesla refuses to disclose buyer lists to third-party research companies that have been trying to conduct such surveys.

Also, anecdotes are data. They're not observational data, but they're data all the same. One or two anecdotes might not indicate anything, but when you're dealing with dozens or even hundreds of anecdotes from disparate groups of owners, that's data that something is seriously amiss with Tesla build quality.
It's predictive to an extant. Many people who have taken up the mantel of IQ have taken it too far. And their (largely political) detractors have dismissed them merely because they have taken it too far. But much of it is still true from a more measured perspective.

Which has some very inconvenient / awkward implications for many people who are seeking to dismiss it outright, rather than dismiss particular proponents of it...

But taking any idea to the extremes, bulldozing over context and constraints of the data, and making grand generalizations from very simple base ideas is the bread and butter of politics, economics, and any bestselling non-fiction.

Popular discourse may be a tribal battle between extremes, but real life isn't...
White House meeting on video game violence was unproductive and bizarre
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis
>How do you know you haven't simply written a test which measures how much time the person has to think about brain teasers?

Come on man, do you really think a century's worth of psychologists never considered such trivial questions?
I just joined indiehackers a few days ago but haven't really participated. But man, i think get the message lol.
Well, part of the family-unfriendliness is competition for cities' limited housing supply.

If a family with two adults and three children wants a 3-bedroom property, their budget depends on two adults' salaries minus the costs of three children.

On the other hand, if it's house-shared by four childless adults in their mid 20s, their budget is four adults' salaries, with none of the costs of children.
Unprompted, creepy laughter from Alexa is freaking out Echo users
Much as certain people are very keen on the idea of G, I imagine "attitude towards being tested" and "willingness to guess the unknown answers" - both of which I'd expect to correlate with income within populations - are underrated factors in scores on timed group IQ tests.
I remember being into watching these when they came out first. And then wondering in later years how they were still current while Suchet wasn't aging.
Programming is like Cultivating
This is in late beta, but anyone can opt in, try it, and opt out if it's not ready for them.

But I use it and it's amazing.

Edit:
Here's the "sizzle reel": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvP_RI_S-bw

Here's just someone using Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMjlM5vFSA0

And here's a blog post about it: https://www.oculus.com/blog/rift-core-20-updates-beta-coming...
We call difficult things "rocket science" for a reason, you know ... so, not the most apt comparison.

However, even if Tesla goes out of business because they can't scale up, I will be grateful to Musk for kicking the incumbents in the ass about electric cars. I suspect we wouldn't have the Leaf or Volt without Tesla (see: GM EV-1, for example).
"landed gentry"

Come on now, let's at least use the right words. These folks are "homeowners", not the wealthy living off of rental properties. Used improperly, that term is exclusionary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landed_gentry
Yes, and the fact that we have successfully used fiat money for several decades is a testament to how well trusted modern governments are. It's a sign that things are going well. Though we can argue about what to expect in the future.
Yeah, Problem 1 definitely is a (very difficult) open problem, not likely to be solved any time soon.

Problem 2 just looks to me like a known fact, not really a problem... and Problem 3 is only a problem if you don't accept the standard definition of "elementary", and/or if you worry too much about leftover pieces.

As soon as you can see two separate pieces inside a larger spaceship, and each of the pieces in isolation would travel at the same speed as that larger spaceship, then that larger spaceship is not an elementary spaceship.

Once you take out the recognizable pieces, there may well be sparks and other junk left over. But they might just be side effects of the interaction of the recognizable pieces, not anything that can function independently. There are way too many such fading sparks and such for each one to deserve its own name.

Minor side note -- no spaceship of any size will ever contain a Garden of Eden, because every spaceship by definition has at least one predecessor (itself).
In the runtime itself: https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/art/+/580...

CL is abandoned but it appears to have just be split up into smaller changes, so that should still give a good idea of the approach being used.
When I was in elementary school my dad constantly pointed out that they were teaching me nothing but lies. Sometimes he'd ask me what we were learning and then he'd give me questions to fluster the teacher. Teachers either loved it, or hated it (most hated it).

For some topics it makes sense to start with a simplified view, but I don't understand the general trend of insisting it's actually correct while they do it. It's already hard to convince some kids to learn, when they later find out that most of it was lies it has to sap their motivation further.

The simple solution, when you're dealing with a simplified/incorrect version of something for educational purposes, admit that's what you're doing, and why.

An example of this madness: in my high school physics/chemistry class the teacher asked how many states of matter there are are, I raised my hand and said 4. She said, "Wrong, there are three." I said, "Solid, water, gas, and plasma. Four." Her response, "Look in your book, what does it say? THREE: water, solid, and gas."

I told her that plasma is the most common form of matter in the universe and a textbook wouldn't change that.

I got detention. I got detention for insisting plasma exists, in a high school science class.
It's actually easily provable, and simply by observation, because "smaller things combining" has a much simpler definition than what you're assuming! What it actually refers to is how some spaceships, such as the Waterbear -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on3ZLLKQp-4 -- are constructed explicitly as a circuit of building blocks (as you can see in the video), whereas elementary spaceships like this knightship consist of "space dust" that isn't separable into independently-functioning components.
I think he is focusing more on the efficiency of the manufacturing process than the output quality.

Citation needed. Tesla's current process is known to be a magnitude (or more) less efficient than any other Western car maker. Just a few months ago, they were still building Model 3 cars by hand.

Tesla's having difficulty scaling up to monthly quantities that other car manufacturers can reach in under a week, and Tesla's quality control has dropped through the floor while it struggles to achieve that paltry output. Tesla might be able to achieve "large reductions in costs" and get quality up to industry standards, but after 10 years and 4 models of cars, they have yet to prove that they can achieve either.
Amazon thinks it can invent the office of the future with Alexa
It could be there's not a real correlation between the likelihood of being a musician when you're a developer or vice versa. Proving that isn't the purpose of these articles anyways. I was interested in the relationships between the processes of learning and creating/writing music and code that many developers and musicians I've met (and myself) have noticed.
Glad you liked it, more coming.
> I'd believe Wikipedia less than either.

That's where you make a mistake. Whatever the reason, the Wikipedia articles on the g factor, the intelligence quotient and Cattell–Horn–Carroll theory represent better what is widely accepted in the field than any other source. This somehow also turns out to be true for other academic fields.

Anyway, when source A says explicitly that source B is wrong but source B makes no such claim about source A, you should usually believe source A. But in this case you can know that the study is right by just learning for yourself what does happen to be widely accepted in the field and why it is widely accepted.
Don't worry about that. There's never a good time to leave and you'll always feel like you're leaving at a critical time.
safari and older ie versions. 10 for sure.

Remember when console.log broke ie? Debugging was fun.
PayPal has a worse track record than most widely known alternatives. And at least in the US, they're less regulated than the banks from which one typically obtains merchant accounts. These two facts together are a bad combo.

I believe they are regulated as a bank in the EU. That said, their EU head office is in Luxembourg, which along with Ireland is one of the most pro-corporate locations they could have chosen and one of the least likely to take a pro-consumer stance where EU law allows them discretion.
670HP electric race car built from ICE road car
In that case, I'll wait a few years, until the fit and finish catches up.
Not in all cases, but in this particular case I think the "stepping on toes" part applies. Assuming that some percentage of repo authors do not want your proposed changes, your automated work is now now creating manual work for them to close the PRs. You either need to signal to the repo author that you have put at least as much effort into opening it as they would have to in order to evaluate and close it, or your proposed changes need to be _really_ beneficial.
Super Smash Bros Coming to Switch
I swapped a NYT login for a Hulu one with a pal, and I've never seen ads. It has a great deal more content compared to other things on the Roku.

I just wish they had an open API so I could use it on Kodi.
That's fair, but I think they're also a huge part of the future too. Machine to machine transactions are a fast growing part of the economy, and APIs are the most common method for handling that.
Do you want Redox unable to run 90% of the world's existing systems software?
It wasn't "found", rather built from smaller components (that were found, of course, and by various computer-aided search techniques plus manual finagling). Its final assembler released a decently-quick rundown in the form of a video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on3ZLLKQp-4
What do they refuse to fix? Did you try another SC?
Well, technically, it is. Open source doesn't imply governance by an independent standards body. There are just requirements for what counts as an open source license.

A project run by a "benevolent dictator for life" (like Python or Elm) is entirely compatible with open source. The same is true for a project run by a corporation (like React).
I didn't flag it myself but I think it is good for the site that people did. It is amusing but not really interesting. Maybe if someone interviewed the journalist about what happened (or the journalist wrote a blog post) it might be interesting (or it could be an amusing side note in an interesting article about something else). But people make mistakes all the time so there is an infinite amount of such content that could be posted. This is similar to how comments that are amusing but don't really contribute anything interesting to the discussion are discouraged (but sometimes get upvoted).

I use hckrnews.com and this is only one of many things that I enjoy reading and wouldn't have seen otherwise but really doesn't fit well with HN. Many people also flag articles that generate poor discussion for any reason in addition to when the article itself does not meet site guidelines.
Sure, okay... all good and no offense intended, but... .

> I don't claim otherwise

You kind of did by making a web page called 'connected minds', saying "something crazy happened today", describing the photos as same clouds and "near identical", then sharing the link.

Be prepared for feedback when you do that! This isn't about me asserting myself as photographer in the room. We all carry cameras.

It sounds like you both live at same location, you were on way home, snapped photo of sky at similar times, as probably others in your neighborhood did. I'm not calling that "junk", I'm just not sure the claims you make equal the event! But let's move on.. all the best, take more photos! I checked out your homepage... Wow, now that is crazy! :)
Big Data Graph Database: List of Graph Data Model
Those books are written by psychologists, maybe they have a good reason to be ... imprecise, underspecific? Be honest: nobody "knows"; Instigate thought: don't serve the truth on a silver tablet. That seems to be true for every advanced topic. Reverse psychology is still psychology.
i loved hulu, but it did a lot of things to make me leave the platform and not look back.

- I was watching a tv show, they aired the season finally commercial during the show and spoiled the whole season for me.

- they switched to some weird way if viewing shows that increased the clicks to watch a show to 7. I stopped watching for a long period of time

- after returning after several months from being angry about the above, they switched to paid model and deleted my account