skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So productivity growth has led to a rise in living standards.

I love seeing this statement. It's true but the people who post it never follow up evaluating whether or not productivity growth has far out-paced the rise in living standards. If productivity growth has been exponential while the rise in living standards has been linear that's a sign that there's a problem regardless of whether or not living standards have risen.
"seems" is awfully wishy washy. They cut ties with the company and directly state that the science simply isn't there to start selling a particular way of pickling delicious brains.
It doesn't matter if it's complicated. Probably they can't do it faster because they have to melt so much steel.
تحميل برنامج تسجيل المكالمات Call Recorder 2018 لجميع الهواتف
Yes, but its expensive... last time i looked, there was a lot of paper work, proof that you have the resources to do so, etc... Probably easier option is to use a re-seller API... I think name.com have one. FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a name.com customer, but do not get paid by them...
It’s like financial advice stating that you shouldn’t spend more than you earn. If you are in debt, spend less money. If you are overweight, eat less food.

Of course both of these advices are easier to follow for some people than for others.
The x470 and 370 chipsets are identical it’s a rebrand.
They changed some of the power delivery requirements to match the higher TDP of some of CPUs and apparently not all previously made boards were upto snuff or at least that is the party line.
We Are Bob, series covers it as a big feature, though there are a few larger ones in the series.
If even PhD's can't be expected to adhere to basic standards of intellectual honesty and critical thinking, then how can we ever expect the general society to grow up and realize the value of these things? How can we, the enlightened few (I say this half-seriously, of course, because obviously I am not without fault myself), ever expect to be able to lead a logical conversation with most normal folks we encounter in our daily lives, even with our parents, spouses and children? Seriously, most of us will never be able to choose their spouse from that tiny minority that understands honest and logical discussion. They will have to settle for something less. Most of us will have children who will never understand what we understand, simply because the school, the society and even our spouses will teach them to act based on emotions and false values. Basically, we are doomed to be eternally dissatisfied with the way our lives turn out to be!

I have to admit, conversations about critical thought in society invariably make me depressed.
Why not-so-big data may be your best data
Not to mention this recent finding: http://archive.is/wykD9

I think they wil lose way too many analog details.
Apple is not even close to a competitor to Spotify, they don't even have a web interface for listening to music..do you think everyone in the world is Apple product user?
@eevee@mastodon.social was surprised by all the people suddenly following them... As they've tooted, a lot of what they post could definitely be seen as not safe for work.
Yes now that there's a name for it, I can see it everywhere.

For example (thankfully the number of people that I know who are climate change skeptics has dwindled hugely in the last year or two):

- the world isn't warming at all

- anyway if it is warming, it's not because of human activities

- and even if it's caused by human activities, its effects will minor

- and even it it's happening, and it's caused by human activities and its effects are going to be serious, it's too expensive to do anything about it.
Having a loved one stuck for an extended time in a maybe-not-permanently-dead-but-probably-so state doesn't seem to give people more peace with mortality, judging by what I've seen of, e.g., people with family members on life support, missing-but-presumed-dead, etc.

So, insofar as this is viewed optimistically as something other than a combination of assisted suicide with weird storage of remains, I'm skeptical that it would be psychologically beneficial to the survivors.
Packet wants me to contact them for a quote? I like BackBlaze's transparent pricing but won't be pairing Packet's compute service with it. Sorry.
No potential suitor in their right mind would buy a car company whose main factory is in one of the most heavily regulated areas in regard to air pollution.
You can also, if you see a particularly bad example sitting at the top of an active discussion, email us at hn@ycombinator.com. We moderate the threads to try to prevent shallow dismissals from sitting at the top, but we don't see everything.
Or you can die with a private key of a Bitcoin address containing a few bitcoins memorized. And a tattoo or something that will says you'll give half to whoever revives you. Hopefully Bitcoin will be here for a long time.
Just like there are no bugs without security impact, is it real to say that this has no impact on flight security? Any error can be a contributing factor.
I might not have been clear enough about the point I was trying to make.
OP's comment on the Super Mario Bros neural network was really insightful to me: "Seen as tinkering, that work and video is good work; seen as research, it is atrocious because of the complete lack of scholarship". This made me understand his, and most likely the academic, point of view. What I tried to convey is that I believe that there is value in embedding your knowledge in the network of previous knowledge but the academic world has perhaps gone too far in focusing on this aspect and too little on making sure that the created knowledge is applied.

In regard to saying that something is seriously wrong; There is no doubt that the academic world has produced a lot of valuable knowledge during her existence. It's the current academic world that is in crisis. With the H-index as its ultimate false god. The H-index exists only since 2005. Why should I not be allowed to criticize that? If the system is still good, it will survive the criticism.
Why sad?
Sure, that's fine. That's part of using statistics to the best of our ability.
So, bear with me on this, because I'm certain a lot of us have tech-illiterate parents and will understand what I'm getting at here.

I'm not sure Fark is the best example, given that their demographic seems to be middle-aged folks (or at least older than the Millennial age range). You can't really (or simply shouldn't) do sweeping design changes if your demographic is aging. Every time I wander over to that site, it becomes very clear that a lot of the users are at least a decade older than me (likely in their 40s and 50s).

If it were a tech site, that's one thing, but Fark is more of a site for just anyone. Targeting that wider demo is going to attract less tech-minded and likely less-adaptable users compared to, say, a similar site where the userbase throws around a lot of lingo.

reddit on the other hand can more or less assume that the users that stick around will figure out the new site. They're probably right, or at least not horribly wrong, and are instead banking on retaining just a majority of users, not all of them.
Ask HN: Windows antivirus that has a fully sandboxed engine?
Recent Twitter discussions have surfaced the fact that many antiviruses on Windows still do not properly sandbox their scanning engines, which often use legacy code to unpack and parse untrusted content. So by installing an antivirus, you may actually increase the attack surface dramatically. (For example, when an antivirus is parsing a freshly downloaded PDF file to analyze it, a malicious PDF could exploit the antivirus and run arbitrary code with the antivirus privileges.) I suppose that is the reason why Tech Solidarity recommends users who are likely to be targeted to uninstall any third-party antivirus products and replace them with Windows Defender.

Is there any antivirus that can reliably sandbox and contain malicious code that happens to exploit a code execution vulnerability in the antivirus itself?
One can't "Roll back" in mysql. Mysql also can't easily create N master-master replication nodes.
It's not just "centralized system watching every payment you make", but also a possibility that it could veto your payment.

The crude option is when 'undesirable' citizens will not be given credit cards, or if all their cards 'accidentally' stop functioning the same day to teach them a lesson. When no shop sells you food for money, your options are to beg, steal, or starve.

A more sophisticated option could be 'intelligent' credit cards that only allow you to buy approved stuff (otherwise the payment will fail); with the approval being general, or individual for each citizens, or depending on social class or whatever. This wouldn't happen overnight, but we can get there gradually... it may start by politically acceptable stuff like "you can't buy alcohol or guns using welfare money" and progress slowly.
Finally, There's a Book About Which Animals Fart
In my experience flying, when you have one that is in your vision it's usually too late to make drastic changes. Birds in our area tend to dive when we are approaching them, if you see a bird above you it makes me very nervous. It never stops surprising me how little I seem to be able to do when I do see a bird, maybe a small nudge on the yoke. Also short final or just after rotation on takeoff seems to be where i've had most of my near-misses with them.
They are pushing enough cars, I think. One factory producing about 4000 cars per week is a very large factory, indeed!

I think Tesla is continually thinking of ways to improve the design, develop new techniques that can be automated easier. And I don't think these are all making it into the Model 3. Some will need to wait until the Model Y or even later. For instance, apparently the Model Y will ditch the 12 volt battery and feature a MUCH shorter/simpler wiring harness (which is one thing that's incredibly hard to automate, so making it simpler should help a lot): https://insideevs.com/tesla-model-y-ditch-12-volt-battery-95...

(with the caveat that Model Y plans seem to change each quarter)
> But this doesnt sound "radical" at all.

It really is radical to the current culture of silicon valley where every product must be "smart," collect user data to provide recommendations and "analytics."

There is little restraint done by companies on what data they collect, only on access to that data once collected. It really is a radical culture shift for these companies, and all the engineers that work for them, to switch to a attitude of only collecting what is truly necessary.
We built a PWA with vanilla javascript that does a lot of augmented reality work with the camera. The main issue is the lack of iOS support. Apple recently updated iOS to include support for the service worker (literally like this week) but it still lacks a huge number of features that chrome on Android has and basically every desktop browser has.

You do get access to a lot of the core sensors on the device but the inconsistencies on iOS just really make life a lot harder. Hopefully this will change over the next year but I'm not sure how quickly it will happen. So basically yes, you should build PWAs but until apple gets completely on board you can't really leverage them to their full extent like you can with chrome on android.
Having had many birds avoid colliding with me I can pretty readily assure you that this is false, or at the very least not the whole picture. Most of the time they dive.
Can we stop calling Sheryl Sandberg the "adult in the room"? Mark Zuckerberg is 33 years old, not 16.
The brain is implemented by physics and physics can be simulated by a computer, so I'm not sure I follow you here.
I've been getting more serious about Hyperledger Fabric, and with time, I can't seem to see any use case that can't be solved by a typical distributed app. I see the utility of permissionless blockchains, but private blockchains, I don't get it.
You got hit by a software filter that is based on past activity by trolls and had nothing to do with you. Sorry! I've marked your account legit so this won't happen again.
Yes, Iused to think that as well. Here's the downside: people talking about something doesn't translate into change i the short term. Electoral shenanigans? No doubt, but the odds of that leading to action before the polls close is small. I'm not saying this to be discouraging, just to point out the strategic issues.

Suppose I am a political bad actor and want o manipulate an election. I study precinct records (and have a small army of motivated assistants) and identify key places where a small change can make a big difference. Of course, my opponents have poll watchers out looking for such shenanigans, and I suspect they may try to disrupt my shenanigans by rallying people to protest them. So I just implement shenanigans at more locations than I need, and ideally im places that are easy for my opponents to get to but where I don't actually have any hope of affecting the outcome. With luck they'll declare victory on my false target while never noticing what's going on at my real one.

The basic weakness of swarm tactics is that whoever has the best information operation can easily divide and conquer over a short timeframe.

So yeah people are more motivated and more aware than in previous elections, which is definitely a good thing, but stay alive to the fact that a political opponent is equally capable of iteration and has motivated activists of their own.
Optimalverse here we come.
Whenever news like this comes out it makes me more cynical towards any sort of life sciences research that produces actionable health advice. Which is really a shame, because I want to be able to decide and participate in which activities are healthy!
Yet another article mining (mostly misplaced) FB outrage for clicks and views. Yawn.
FYI: This video on PGM by Bert Huang is pretty easy to follow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCWRTKnOYYg&index=20&list=PL...
At this point Reddit's look is authentic. I'd stick with it. Others here have mentioned craigslist as an example. People aren't leaving Reddit because it doesn't look flat and bland like so many other sites. Reddit is an old zoo. It should look like one.
It appears to me, based on looking last year and this year, that the L train shutdown is starting to distort rents in desirable neighborhoods outside of Wburg. People are fleeing Wburg in favor of places like LIC, Astoria, and Downtown Brooklyn before L service is suspended. Probably a great time to look in Wburg if you can commute via ferry or stay in the neighborhood though.

Edit: I should add that people aren't just leaving Wburg, anywhere along the L line is impacted. I suspect it's creating a rental price floor in other parts of the city, at all price points.
What Is a (Crypto) Currency Anyway?
>"Starting their own label is exactly what they need to do to remain competitive. It's exactly what Netflix ended up doing and I think it's turning out pretty well for them."

This seems to be a common refrain that Spotify can just "pull a Netflix." And this is very unlikely.

Firstly no matter how much opriginal content they could create, if they don't have back catalog it's going to be a total non-starter for the mainstream. A streaming service that has no Beatles, Pink Floyd, No Motown, No AC/DC etc is going to shed users pretty quickly.

Also music and movies occupy very different spaces in peoples lives - emotionally, socially, where and how they're consumed and shared etc.

People need music for their commute, for their workouts, for their parties, at bars and for their workdays. People only need movies when they're home or maybe stuck on an airplane.

Lastly Spotify needs to stay in the record label's good graces. If they were ever to be viewed as a competitor or a thread to any the big 3 record labels it would be reflected in punitive price increase when it came time to renegotiate their licensing deals.
When it's free in the EU, then you'll have a point. Until then you're not addressing his argument.
I'm curious what this means practically. What will he be doing all day? Is it still research or code writing, or at this level is he focused on managing people and projects at a high level? If the latter, what does that even mean?
Is it interesting though? People put to forefront that it is distributed, but I think that being distributed is a secondary attribute (after all you can run this software solo). Mainly it is immutable and public. Immutable public database - is it that much interesting? And for what exactly? I don't see many possible applications, even for government since they all come with multiple cases against this tech - e.g. voting on blockchain, cool, now it is very hard to falsify voting but it comes with a neat option to harass and discriminate people afterwards since blockchain is public. And so on.
Simplistic statement, but stop and think about it:

In a truly cashless society, where every transaction is tracked and has the potential to be controlled, nothing is fungible.

Sure. There might be a thousand identical widgets in inventory. But if you are not allowed to purchase one, or sell your inventory...

Cashless: The guise of easing transactions and security. The trojan horse of controlling transactions through "security".
2020? Just last year they said they'd do it by 2018.
The "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies" on Coursera helped me gain an understanding cryptocurrencies. Until I took that course I knew very little about the subject.

It's possibly a little dated now, but it's a good primer.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency/

I'd love to hear what other cryptocurrency courses others recommend.

As many others mentioned, Andrew Ng's course on Machine Learning on Coursera was also very good.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
> It's an extraordinarily portable project, IMO

is it, though ? I write daily in C++17 and have yet to find a relevant platform where a pure C89 program such as CPython would work and mine wouldn't. I mean, for hell's sake, you can target Commodore 64 and MS-DOS with the latest c++ revisions.
IIRC the tooling is not smart enough to resolve them when you import a subpackage directly.

I was working on a go project and I had to convert all of the relative imports to absolute imports for some reason, but the exact cause escapes my memory.
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines. Would you please not create accounts to do that with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
IBM's GPFS+LTFS (tape-based) is also a very low cost way to go on this and a commonly used solution in M&E as well as Geospatial Imagery space (I work in the latter). Assuming you have the facility and staff to run it, of course.

Ray
I don't understand your point. How is 'the academic world' not a subset of 'science'? Is it the same, a superset, or something else?
Wasn't "research attention" the problem before though? Lots of hacked in support for fancy new features, not enough serious maintenance.
Looks good. I am going to wait to see Intel's response, but this may finally be worth upgrading from an overclocked 2600k mostly used for gaming.
Flutter Chat App
If it is suffering from anything, I'd suggest Craigslist is suffering more from the number of scam/spam/low-effort posts ("Honda for sale." No model, mileage, photos, etc in the post) that you have to sort through or the tricks you have to use to avoid them.

ex: When searching for an apartment, I always have to put a price floor in place because everything more than ~25% below market is pure spam and there's a ton of it. It wouldn't occur to the average person that they could filter a bunch of spam out by putting a lower limit on the price of the thing they're looking for, for example. So they get an even worse experience than me, and it's pretty painful to sort through even with various tricks like that in the filtering.
> Yikes, what kind of horrendous wording is that? "it's probably not possible at all but if it is we'll be there soon!"

“At best” means “viewed maximally optimistically”, and, in the context of a development timeline, specifically “no sooner than”. So, it was saying “it’s probably not possible at all, and, if it somehow is possible, we’re at least several decades away from even a demonstration”.

You have badly misread, apparently inverting the sense of “at best”.
If I understand correctly this project intends to integrate a change management editor meta file as part of the language itself?
No, it's not a small trend, trains are quite a big thing in certain places of the world.
I've come to this same realization, except I'm also still quite on the fence for big corp use cases. I feel like RPC APIs or REST could do as good as a enterprise blockchain with better performance.

May I ask what are the Rust and Haskell based frameworks you are looking at? I've been experimenting with Hyperledger Fabric and might try out BigchainDb.
IIRC the original content was in response, not in spite of 3rd party content pulling out of Netflix.
Why your team must believe in your product
Right... and the conventional 'working class' as in service workers, some factory workers, and the like have to live stacked up in probably-illegal conditions while the white collar 'working class' lives in tiny apartments paying as much in rent for a 1 bedroom as a guy with a lavish multi-hundred-acre horse farm estate with 8 bedrooms pays for his mortgage in the country.
I went there recently for the first time in a while and was denied entry because I was using a VPN. Oh well.
One thing which I have adored about Google is X labs ( now part of Alphabet.) very few people are like Larry,Sergey who have the audacity to diversify. They are highly scientific-minded, I see Google/Alphabet both as a tech co and a research , experimentation co. That's what differentiates them from others. Sure, when they fail their success% goes down, but the knowledge acquired by scientific community goes up as a lot of Googlers go on to start their own cos.
Link for the lazy.

https://gist.github.com/cou929/7973956
I'm inferring they meant productive in practical tech role, as opposed to moving on to management or leadership roles, which most people tend to do. It's admirable, managing burnout.
True. For reasons too irritating to explain, I'm often working with pre .Net 4.0 environments.
I apologize I misspelled it, I mean "around" not "Android".
We have taken on interns in the past, but they would probably have to work from HQ and it would probably depend on the type of work. What sort of work are you interested in?
I don't know if Paul Lamere is on HN, but he's likely the best person to answer this question. Short answer: It's not all about user-fed listen data.
There are a number of options for people who have to or need to go bankless. Look around in any poor/immigrant neighborhood and you'll see ads for "currency exchanges" that act like banks, pre-paid charge cards, and companies willing to give all kinds of loans as long as they can verify employment or hold your car title.

It's not ideal, and it's very easy to get ripped off, but it's possible to live that way. Millions of people do.
Some more info in the TF DevSummit video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdG7uKQ2eKk and the blog post: https://medium.com/tensorflow/introducing-tensorflow-model-a...
The tuition is not the biggest cost of education living expenses are.
Oxford is dead expensive and UCL is in the heart of London.
Haven't found a fee free travel card for canadians... in fact our major bank (TD) just increased FX fees from 2.5% - > 3.5% on foreign transactions, on top of a super unfavourable exchange rate. I usually bring stacks of cash on my trips.
It's so frustrating the number of websites that ask for this when you land on their page now days. It reminds me of the bad old days of popups.
Our history of outright Prohibition might have something to do with it.
No Postgres support yet? But there's an ORM! I wonder how easy it would be to make the ORM use Postgres instead of MySQL.