skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really is something

>"Google’s Eric Schmidt summed up the tech industry’s concerns about collaborating with the Pentagon at a talk last fall. “There’s a general concern in the tech community of somehow the military-industrial complex using their stuff to kill people incorrectly,”

I sure am surprised that the discussion has already reached the point where tech companies are debating whether they kill people 'incorrectly'. I must have missed the democratic discussion about private businesses assisting in killing people at all, a duty traditionally exercised by states.
This is Daniel Nazer from EFF. Trolling Effects is still maintained and we still welcome any demand letter submissions. This site is not one of EFF's more successful projects, unfortunately. We've found that companies are generally reluctant to publicly post the threat letters they receive (perhaps fearing a vindictive response from the patent owner). In the year or so after the site launched we spent a fair bit of time encouraging companies to submit but had very little success.
That does not sound profitable.
Mix it up with Vanguard and I ll move all my funds from Betterment to Coinbase.
You desperately need to grab someone from the street and see if he knows what he's looking at. The UI is not very intuitive, or you have specific target audience.

- Age range input.
It took me a minute to understand what this is for. I assume the lower bound is my current age and the upper bound is the retirement age

- How much do you currently have saved? ex $1,000.
I actually tried to type a dollar symbol and nothing happened.

- Aggressive vs conservative.
Huh? What are you talking about? What is aggressive/conservative?

The list goes on...
Gary Cohn to Resign as Trump’s Top Economic Adviser
Bayesian Optimization for a Better Dessert [pdf]
Right, and great point, but aren't the adversaries targeting a specific model? Are they agnostic to setups differences?
Lol. Highly unlikely.

It would be awesome though if you help the community add Litecoin. That's why I made it a wiki. So anyone can add missing information. Crypto is so big now I definitely can't do it all.
If someone were to use Prisma Cloud (or self-hosted) would they need to put another server in front of Prisma if they wanted to execute arbitrary code? For instance if I want a certain graphql mutation to first make a call to a 3rd-party api and then perform prisma data mutation based on that 3rd-party response would I need to orchestrate this on a server that sits in front of Prisma or does Prisma have the ability to run arbitrary node code?

By the way, graphcool and prisma are amazing ideas with really great UX execution and open-sourcing Prisma is also very cool so thanks!

EDIT: I think I know the answer now but just a suggestion- you might want to add a bit more contextual information as to how Prisma fits into a conventional stack. I know you guys are probably crazy busy so I imagine more copy/documentation is to come!
>It may sound improbable, but revolutions always rely on fifth columnists who change sides. In China Miéville’s October, a masterful, novelistic history of the Russian Revolution, he recounts how the Cossacks, the Czar’s most brutal shock-troops, took the revolutionaries’ side, refusing to mount cavalry charges on protestors and keeping their horses perfectly stationary while protesters openly crawled between the mounts’ legs, technically complying with their officers’ orders to “hold the street and do not move from your positions.”

Unfortunately, for the Cossacks, the Soviets basically committed genocide against them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decossackization

This goes to show you that before you switch sides, sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know.
Trump will be a blip provided a Congress willing to check his powers is elected to office, and doesn't itself go down the same path. It might be one election away from stacking of the courts and all that jazz. Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
Be careful not to judge the author by his judgment of the cover of his book.
If correct (in some form), could this be used (in some way) to make Mars more human-friendly?
Low maintenance costs mean cheap transport. Coal doesn't care if the trip takes an extra day.
I was trying to do some calculus the other day, and ended up reading about the history of logarithms. As you may know, logarithms were valuable in the pre-mechanical era because they allowed people to reduce multiplication to addition and a couple of table lookups, which is much faster to do - a huge boon if you're doing navigational calculations on a rapidly-moving ship, or calculating vast astronomical ephemerides.

What i hadn't realised is that before logarithms were developed, people used to do it with sines and cosines, exploiting some identities from spherical geometry, and the tables they already had for navigation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosthaphaeresis
>A more circular orbit of Earth around the sun — leading to years with no great difference between summer and winter

I recognize quality science journalism when I see it! And I see here none.
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You're probably cloning repos of dead people all the time. We all do.
DevOps Security at Scale:  Security as a First-Class Citizen
Sorry but let’s not forget the “fashion” in “fast fashion”.
> the violence has simply changed into a series of proxy wars between nuclear powers, at the expense of non-nuclear powers

Still thanks to technology (e.g. radio, satellite, improved espionage capabilities).

> Western Europe isn’t almost constantly killing itself in endless wars

Once again, thanks to technology. We're now able to do more for less, and many of the motivations for war (resources, land) are no longer as much as a contributing factor.
Apple reportedly killing iTunes LP format
It’s interesting that crypto was supposed to democratize investing and level the playing field, but this is only available to accredited investors.
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>much need for humans to take care of the maintenance of the trucks

Is that really true? It seems electric trucks[0] quickly follow from autonomous trucks and from what I understand, electric vehicles are mechanically much simpler. That leaves truck operators with not much need for a greasemonkey wrenching on a transmission when there is a) little/no grease[1] and b) no transmission[2].

Tire & body shops are about the only maintenance jobs I can think of that won't be reduced/eliminated by the coming changes.

[0]https://www.tesla.com/semi
[1]https://www.mckinseyenergyinsights.com/insights/impact-of-el...
[2]https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/a120190...
Lego has reported its first sales decline in 13 years
Hi, this is a side project I've been working on for the better part of the last year. Unfortunately we've also had 5 avalanche deaths in Washington (my home state) in the last week alone. Preventing these deaths is my primary goal.

I originally came up with this idea when I was working on another project to help the Ski Guides of Hokkaido Japan share snow and avalanche information as there is no avalanche forecasts there.

In the US (as opposed to Canada and Europe) our avalanche forecasting is generally only lightly funded. I wanted to find a way to increase the capability of our forecasting while also building a platform which allowed us to improve the forecast products themselves. The Open Avalanche Project is meant to both be a data and experimentation platform for this. Operationalizing the data and using ML to predict the aspects of an avalanche forecast seemed like a good way to begin to move towards that goal.

This goes beyond what existing avalanche forecasts do in that it has a gridded resolution as opposed to a regional estimate. It also has been built to operate at scale as I would like to cover every avalanche hazard area in the world with a forecast.

I'd love to answer any questions folks have about the approach taken or the goals of the project.
Because a government will always be more accountable than a for profit entity. Everyone gets a vote. Anyone can run for office.
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Not the 2016 election, all of them. People only vote for the most well funded candidates, which typically means the most corrupted. There are a few exceptions of privately funded campaigns but they didn't win.
I'd say that the presence of those words implies a practical desire to avoid throwing out the baby with the bathwater in the name of an absurd moralistic bogeyman invented by the sort of right-wing goblins who e.g. work to defund Planned Parenthood with one hand while pushing moronic abstinence-only sex "education" with the other.

It still amazes me how politicians who practically wear their absurd hypocrisies on their sleeves can manipulate entire population segments with this sort of puerile garbage.
This isn't about the relative wealth of two people in similar financial situations, it's about the relative wealth of hundreds of millions of people in vastly different financial situations.

Sure, caps for "basic housing" and "basic pension" might make small comparisons easier. But unless 90% of Americans are (in aggregate) so overspending on housing and pensions that it substantially affects their wealth relative to the top 1%, it's not really crazy to exclude it all.
to this day, i type "update where <where clause>" and then go back and add the set part of the statement. I think it would have been safer to put the where clause at the front of the sql syntax. Like "delete where <whereclause> from table", "update where <where clause> set ..." etc. I know any production database that's of real importance is going to have safeguards in place but it still makes me nervous.
We'd love to integrate with WooCommerce. Unfortunately their app store is currently closed to new submissions, and has been for some time. As soon as that changes we'll explore an integration there.
The US is infighting because the electorate wants to be infighting. When the citizenry is so sheltered and content to know nothing about the world this is what happens.
Seems dishonest to not use a linear scale on this graph:
https://am.coinbase.com/index

Also, the minimum investment and management fee found here don't look too appealing:

Minimum Investment: $10,000

2% annual management fee

https://am.coinbase.com/#invest
I’m a Shogun fan. I was on a tight deadline to design, build, and launch our new site on Shopify. Designing a new site is enough work without introducing new functionality through apps you’ve never used before, especially in the time frame I had. Not the recommended way to do things with so many ways it could go wrong, but this was just the situation.

Shogun was an important factor in me hitting the deadline as it was very easy to learn and build with. There are a lot of page builders out there, and many hit a solid level of functionality, so it can hard to describe why Shogun is better.

For me, the difference is the speed that I can build a good design at. The UI, prebuilt templates, and backend speed all helped me move faster than with other page builders. While I haven’t used their support, a lot of their reviews on Shopify talk about how good it is (one reason I decided to take a look at the app)
I don't think you can skirt them. Time on-duty counts against their daily limit even if they're not driving (the example given in an official guide is a trucker taking a bus to get to the truck), so they must still get a proper rest afterwards. So Uber can't count the "not driving but watching the road" as time off.
Automatic and cheap balancing.

Its a great business for coinbase: if it had plenty of investors, then they have a very definite measure on what to ask coin makers before putting their coin on their exchange.

Figure they can ask 10% of the outstanding tokens in exchange for the legitimacy that will pump the coin sky high.
The article covers two different things. There's something called Dandelion’s that goes 150 meters down for heat pump purposes. And then there's something else that goes 7 kilometers down for geothermal energy purposes.

The geothermal energy thing is the main subject of the article, but for whatever unknowable reason, the author of the article mentioned the heat pump thing as context.
If that is true, I guess all the “sustainable clothing” brands are just achieving the impossible.
Please stop posting these to Who Is Hiring threads. It's unprofessional and disrespectful in its own right, as well as off topic.

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What do you mean mix it up with vanguard?
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> the information affects all our pockets atm

That's precisely the problem... people will do anything to try to manipulate their favorite cryptocurrency. It's going to be an uphill battle trying to keep this unbiased.
> or 2) immediately transfer the funds out in which case you're still rate limited by the root chain.

That's in there.

> 12. The method of claim 11, further comprising: performing, by the first user device, a respective virtual currency transaction using each of the plurality of decrypted third user secondary wallet private keys to transfer the association of predefined amounts of the virtual currency associated with respective third user secondary wallets to the first user primary wallet.

So I'm not sure how this is supposed to "expedite" anything.
That chart is log-scale. The index fell by more than half between December and February, but you wouldn't know it by glancing at the chart.
> emails with a `+` in them are not valid

Wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Syntax

(I know this is of little help if your email app doesn't allow them. I just want to point out that the standard does allow them.)
>You start by saying how a personal care assistant is rather unspecialized work and then go on to ruminate on the peculiarities of the job that most people wouldn't want to deal with.

Correct. Being willing to endure undesirable work isn't usually included in the definition of skilled labor unless that tenacity is accompanied by another requisite skill or certification. I'm not trying to argue that it isn't a socially valuable skill, just that given the bar for entry it isn't surprising the wage is that low.

>Why isn't trucking an unskilled job just with negative features (long hours alone, danger to health given the erratic hours) too?

Because you've skipped over the training and licensing required to legally operate as a truck driver. You need a Commercial Drivers License if nothing else and many states require the completion of specialized courses before awarding an applicant their CDL. That CDL represents a specialized skill-set without which a person simply won't be permitted to operate as a trucker. Physical endurance and mental tenacity are critical traits in this instance too but they're far from being enough to get you hired.

Edit: Something else I glossed over, but which seems relevant because this is predominantly a tech oriented forum is that the average Cost of Living in America is in line with the wage being paid to the Home Health Aide. It might not be enough for San Francisco or a coastal area, but it's enough in general to pay rent and save some money on the side for additional schooling or whatever purpose appeals.
What make you think that being under monarchy Europe would yield different result? China is a great example of being a communist state where people's life is getting better and better. Political stability is a key to economic growth.
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I've done this once, and only once.
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>Python 3 has has become prevalent in usage around 2013-2014.

Citation needed. Back then it was at best at 20%, and even today it's not much more (source: PYPY download statistics breakdown).

>I don't know anyone who is starting a Python 2 project as of now.

I know several. Any company with lots of Python 2 projects that are not going anywhere soon (Google is one of them), is probably also starting new Python 2 projects alongside them, they won't add 2 different versions to cater to.
Polish tax code and adjudication has been a mess for a very long time. The actual rates have not changed, interpretations do change constantly and you can't get a binding one. There is no such thing. You can officially request some advice from the ministry explaining what the dues are in your case, but what this says is not binding for the revenue service if they choose not to refrain from harassing you with their creative interpretations. Combined with lack of precedence law every issue becomes a potential court gamble (and it is a gamble) if not resolved amicably. That this is new is just hot air about the current government (despicable for other good reasons).
Honestly? Good job. Also honestly? Why not Wikipedia?
We've found that most theme based drag/drop builders are quite limited, and railroad you into the design of the theme. Also it's not possible for a lot of well established stores to go out and pick up a new theme, as they have their own brand guidelines, etc. That said, I'm sure we must lose some customers this way.

Another point here is that most theme developers don't want to provide support. If you read our reviews, our support shines through time and time again. So by using our software, they're getting (and paying for) more than just the functionality.
I think historically societies have been divided into haves and have-nots. Over the last 200 years we slowly have moved a state where it was accepted that all citizens have a stake in a country and should have a say (democracy) and it was understood that if the country does better the benefits should be distributed to all and motivate them.

If we go back to the state where improvements in the economy only go to a few people and the rest stagnates we can forget about democracy and just go back to aristocracy.
Boiled down, it appears so.

I only read the claims, however.
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When's the last time GOP leadership cut military spending though?
Python strings are immutable. The only time a string can get its first non-Latin-1 character is at construction time, which is necessarily O(n).
I WISH this is how we learned math in school. Knowing how stuff was used / why it was invented would have gone a very long way in making everything much more grounded and interesting.
You forget it's automated. I think plenty of HNWIs are willing to pay 2% management fee to be able to invest in a diversified crypto index fund.
>Unless you discover an internal bug in Python 2 in which case it will never be fixed.

Or the community -- including companies with huge resources and lots of Python 2 code -- will just fork 2.7 and fix it.
That is exactly what I did, I implemented some cycle finding algorithm, a tortoise and hare variant maybe but I can not tell from the top of my head, on the reminder sequence giving up after a user-specified number of steps. But it irks me that this may abort just a hand full of steps before finally finding the cycle.

And unfortunately q is just way to loose as a bound if it even deserves the name bound in this case. I initially started looking into this because I wanted to print something like »0.577 215 664 <901,532 more digits>« but in that case q is essentially useless because you either have to really search the cycle which quickly becomes impractical once q reaches millions or billions or you have to live with »0.577 215 664 <up to 999,999,991 more digits but maybe also just one>«.
I’ve made this comment before but I’ll do it again because I honestly feel like the way Westerners approach this problem is deeply wrong.

Look to the East my brethren! Get a kneeling bench or meditation cushion set, buy a bench from Ikea, put your computer on it and get to work.

This goes even better with an external ergonomic keyboard like the Kinesis and a height adjustable laptop stand clamped to the bench.

Check it out! https://cloud.disroot.org/s/XZnwfi9m7xicyCx
I agree. Spotify is very strong here in Europe and it's super convenient to follow friends who are better than finding cool songs than I am.

I was a free user for a long time and got the subscription last Christmas. You can tell they really spend time on UX. Clear examples of this are the running playlists that adapt to your speed. We can't really expect Google to match that, it's Spotify's core business after all.
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2% fee is pretty high for an index fund.
Did you just installed some app at hosting and call that a wiki?
Who gets to define what is right?

Indeed this is the right question to be asking. I think moral relativism has a lot to offer here. As SSC put it, you have to think about whether people with different moral aims than you are just not clever enough to see you're right, or know they're wrong but hope to profit (mistake vs. conflict). Too rarely does anyone consider that from where the other party stands, things might look different. You can have two good-faith actors with good (but not totally overlapping) information take up totally opposed positions because they don't see the same thing as being "right".
As somebody who spent wholly too much time on the dead, honestly, it's not worth it. Poring through old things gives you a thin kind of happiness, but prolongs your grief. When people die, information is inevitably lost - an awful lot of it. The real loss is that what they leave behind, including your memories, are very shallow in comparison to who they were. Trying to make up for essential shallowness by just collecting more data is like trying to quench your thirst by drinking spit.

When I die, I hope I am forgotten - because honestly, grief is shit, and the dead neither appreciate it, nor wanted it before they died. People can't be measured, and their lasting forms aren't them in any case - they are just text, video, photographs.
To be fair, there's very little point in the fund if you ask me.

Any third party can robo-copy it and tell anyone how their portfolio should look like.

Also index funds in crypto does not mean the same as in stocks, there is extremely high systemic risk and negative correlations between coins.

These are some weird times.
Yep. Such as .03% vs 3%.
As a few others here seem to have hinted at. Although this seems to be not only an interesting idea and also a natural space for Coinbase it appears to be limited in a number of different ways. Has anyone had any other experience with other crypto style index funds such as Crypto20? If so any thoughts, advice or recommendations would be most welcome.
Self-taught non-US teenager here, created this with a co-founder & friend: https://financi.io/ -- we're an open, anonymous, and inclusive marketplace for creators to collect payments for their premium content through cryptocurrencies.

It is currently being used by adult entertainers, which didn't bring in as much money as we expected, so we plan to pivot and add nsfw filtering options (a la Safe Search) amongst other features before applying to YC. Any other tips to improve our application?

P.s. I wrote all the code for financi and will be happy to answer any questions in comments or `mail@${username}.com`.