skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are making the wrong assumptions. I am a EU citizen, but live in the US. I will vote in an heartbeat for a 1st amendment like in an Europe law. You just don’t see how Europe speech is reatricted, and how laws like GDPR contributes to it.
What do we want? Change. When do we want it? As soon as we can be convinced we need it.

The next evolution will be "you know the integrated home is great, but everyone's wifi still goes out every once in a while. wouldn't it be great if we could make that more robust with CAT5? What if we could do ethernet over your existing electical wiring? Then we could do Lights over Voice over IP over ethernet over AC. The best part is, we soft launched at hardware stores about 100 years ago". Welcome to the future!!!!!!
Maybe the best advice this article could have given would be to look for those careers. Taking the job with the most money is reasonable, taking the job job you love most is reasonable, but if we're talking economics then the comparative advantage is in finding the job you like most relative to everyone else.

On which note, I don't think it's an accident that some subdomains of programming have really happy people making good money. Sure, it's work they love, but optimizing compilers or whatever else appeals to few enough people that it's a great fit for anyone who does like it.
I get similar annoyance with how gmail and email is now "synonymous", much thanks to the heavy handed nature of the gmail "spam" filer (anything not from a big name provider gets automatically binned, apparently).
Your link appears paywalled, here are some others:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC?locat...

https://www.google.com/search?q=us+power+consumption&oq=us+p...

Also, I have no skin in the game, but the US deviating from this isn't really a sign that it's flat out wrong.

I also found this article with some attempts to explain the plateau/decline in the US.

https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/evidence-of-a-...

I don't love wordpress articles, but I'll see if I can find some better source material. Their argument is that it supports the Rebound Effect – US is using more lighting (lumens) but less energy because of efficiency gains in light bulbs!
All the federated stuff (e.g. based on ActivityPub) is quite interesting right now. Mastodon has done the "Twitter clone" quite well IMHO, but other aspects are missing, e.g. more private/closed things, like groups or (big thing when talking to Facebook users) event planning: invites, RSVPs, ...
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Last time I read about passive income here on HN it was mostly non-passive side hustles being shown.

Or stuff like ad revenue from apps or sales of books. Maybe passive now, but probably took quite some effort getting to there. It may be passive if the long tail is much bigger than the initial investment, but for most people I guess it's not.
There is an inherent issue with market making on a blockchain. Here's my understanding of it, maybe amluto and ScJa can correct me if I am wrong.

Let's say X coin is worth 1 ETH now. As we are using a decenteralized market this price is stored in the blockchain.

Now, an hour later someone wants to buy X coin at 1.2 ETH. This information needs to be updated in the blockchain. But then the update has to go through confirmation etc. So till the time price is fixed, this intent is stored in the blockchain mempool.

There are two issues here. The price intent is public now. And a miner can selectively delay including this price change in a block.

So, if someone is able to read the intent he/she can race with the fund owner and buy the coin at 1 ETH. Once the price change happens they can now sell the coins back to the contract at 1.2 ETH.
"our companies"?

Facebook isn't only a US company. Facebook Ltd is a UK company and they have many more companies around the world.

If you want to operate in UK and generate revenues there then Facebook Ltd must follow UK laws.
>Joining a CSA/farm share helped a lot too

Seconded, including a winter CSA, which gave me new appreciation for several root veggies I'd neglected (e.g. parsnip, rutabega, turnip). It can be an engaging challenge to use it all - in an Iron Chef sort of way.
Congrats! It's very encouraging to see video tech with a solid customer base, and good investor support.

Which factors do you think contributed most to your success? Was YC helpful in opening doors for you? How important is the right kind of investor?
I know how to cook, on the whole I really enjoy it and I'm even pretty good at it. But the fact that I know I'm required to start doing it every single day as soon as I get home from work, mainly to satisfy other people, no matter if I feel like it or not can really suck joy straight out of it for me. If it was purely upp to me I'd eat out 3-5 days a week and save the cooking for when I wanted to.
Either you never used FAT* or were very very lucky! It (and other old, naive, filesystems) used a pure first-available-block strategy that almost invites pathological fragmentation especially in a multi tasking (or worse, multi-user) environment.

Also, I've seen ext* filesystems just as badly fragmented as NTFS ones in similar environments.

One key problem I've seen on NTFS volumes in the past is with those that were converted from FAT (IIRC old Windows NT installations would do this even for fresh installs: install on FAT* for the first stage then convert to NTFS before the second) - the conversion process didn't move files around when converting to 4KByte blocks from larger ones so left a small chunk of free space after every file.
Alternative details at

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/all-media/police-use-experian...

Looks like this is a follow up to previous HN submissions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14312923

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16490738
> I wouldn't trust a 23yo lawyer or doctor

You don't need to.

After finishing their education, doctors and lawyers start working, but that work is largely training (i.e. further education) except that they're also earning money because they're already somewhat useful (not as useful as full-blown doctors and lawyers, but more useful than someone without equivalent education). In many countries in Europe, doctors need aditional 4-6 years of training before they can work without supervision and carry actual responsibilities... similar for lawyers, they need at least 2-3 years of work before they can pass the bar exam.
if you are running PG like a KV store (simple lookups/simple updates/inserts) where most of the dataset fits in memory then it quickly becomes CPU bound and changes in PG configuration/access patterns can have large effects. for example i've seen running pgbouncer on the same host drop performance by about 33%, and switching from simple protocol to extended protocol single use prepared statements drop performance by 33%.
EEA residents, not EU residents.
With all the comments about not wanting EU law to be the international standard, it’s not really that unusual for regulations in one country to do this. For example, U.S. fuel efficiency standards have a significant impact on the entire market. If these are reduced by the current administration, but California maintains the same standards, even California’s regulations might be enough to keep the same or nearly the same impact on the market.
License Plate Surveillance Company Attacks Nonprofits for Filing FOIA Requests
Ars is the only news site I actually have a subscription for. I'd always appreciated their journalism, and learning about the fulltext RSS feed was the feature that got me to sub. I'd love to see more sites offering that option.
Um yes, yes it can. Think about all of the times you here of bullying/suicide cases prompted by social media.
IRS protocols very frequently override contracts in this regard. If they determine that you should be treated as an employee by the 20 Factor Test (see above), they will go after the company for their half of your back payroll taxes. The form to initiate such an inquiry is Form SS-8: https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-ss8

While an SS-8 is pending, you can file your taxes as if you were a W-2 employee by filing Form 8919: https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/form-8919-uncollected-social-...

I did this in Canada (long ago) with a former employer who contracted me but treated me as an employee, and the Canada Revenue Agency sided with me, regardless of the contract text. All I've read suggests that the IRS is similar in this regard.

Keep in mind that if you do this while you're still employed, they are likely to fire you. The ideal thing to do here, if you can negotiate with the employer in good faith, is to have them void the previous 1099s and file back W-2s for you, so you can then file amended 1040s and get back your previously paid tax. Unfortunately, an employer who would do this in the first place is likely just trying to avoid payroll tax liability, so I doubt you'll see much success going this route.
Have you tried eul? How does it behaves compared to the official clients or other non-native alternatives?
Yeah it's a social problem. But by making rating 110% slightly more cumbersome to give vs a 100% rating you ensure that people giving 110% went out of their way to give when they could have just pressed ok.

Actually making it even less options might make it simple and removing a number system all together.

Scale would be:

- Horrible/bad/did not do the job at all/etc - For when the job/ride did not completed or something truly awful happened. Can play with wording. When choosing this you get a big box to type in the issue and a customer support service should reach out and see what's wrong.
- Did the job but slight issues - When choosing this you have to say what the slight issues were, so there is some friction still in choosing this option
- Did the job, no issues - This will be the default, friction-free option. So if they pick this they don't have to type anything else. Quick and easy.
- Exceptional service - If they pick this they are also forced to type in what the exceptional service was.

You could even socially tweak/test it with forcing people to tip if they pick exceptional service (so effectively putting their money where their mouth is, if it's exceptional you need to pay why). With countries where tipping is optional this is a good play (but in USA maybe not so).

The tipping part is just an idea. But the idea is to make choosing exceptional a bit more friction then just choosing job done. And also how to translate that culturally to other markets. By making them type in more for those situations it should funnel only users willing to type to give those ratings.

And an option is for users to see not only the ratings of drivers but what other people typed in the exceptional (or typed in the slight problems) categories.
US is generally corporation-first, EU is human-first. You can see it permeating many aspects of society, work, law etc. Don't hold your breath for too long for it, it would require clusterfuck on another scale to materialize in US
They may be founded in the US, and primarily headquartered there, but the large sprawling EU headquarters of the same companies do apply US cultural norms locally. I don't see the unfairness in the comparison.
The one big thing for me with RSS is that it provides me a way to see what exactly is new, when it is new.
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Cool, but its way cooler to run OpenHAB2 on a raspberry pi. True home automation system.
It's not a gender neutral barrier.[1] It's facially gender neutral, but not gender neutral in fact. Forcing people to spend 7 years in unnecessary schooling before even starting on the 7-8 year grind of establishing one's career has a disparate impact on women, because it overlaps their biological childbearing window. Getting rid of that unnecessary school would be better for everyone, but especially women because it would get rid of unnecessary constraints on their career/family planning.

[1] Say you had to be 5'7" to vote. That would be facially gender neutral, but not gender neutral in fact, since the average women is shorter than that while the average man is taller.
A minimum width lane really doesn't leave enough room to lane split. It works in places like California because they have significantly wider lanes than the minimum required almost everywhere.
It is possible since 2012 with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EOS_M . There is a first-party EF/EF-S to EF-M adapter, and all Canon DSLR lenses work on the EOS M series of cameras with full functionality (aperture, focus, IS, etc.) and zero caveats. I'm not sure what motivated your question.
Actual statistics: https://transparencyreport.google.com/eu-privacy/overview?su...

88.7% of requests by private persons. And even excluding those, only 20.9% of the remaining request were made by gov institutions or politicians.

Please don't spread lies, thank you.
And to think the first WWW browser just used Next's Text view.
A lot of these points apply to non-RL and non-Deep-Learning projects as well. I'm currently working on a machine learning project that has nothing to do with RL, neural networks, Tensorflow, or GPUs, but I have encountered many of the same surprises and have converged on many of the same solutions and insights. Here are the ones that I think transfer over to general machine learning projects:

- Implementation time vs debugging time: I've spent vastly more time debugging and rewriting. Furthermore, I was surprised at how much time I spent even setting up infrastructure to allow debugging. Corollary: Don't take shortcuts in initial implementation. Literally every hack I put in in order to get something working quickly has come back to bite me and I've had to rewrite and refactor every one of them.

- Thinking vs doing, and being explicit: There are too many degrees of freedom to just try random shit. One of the biggest tools I found (like the author) was to write everything down. I have four+ notebooks filled with literal prose conversations with myself interspersed with diagrams and drawings. I credit that with getting me past many mental roadblocks.

- Measure and test: Without unit and integration tests, I'd probably go in circles forever. It's too easy to change something to fix a problem and have that break something else. I now have a test for even the most mundane assumptions in my model and my code, after too many times realizing "oh, before I changed X I could assume Y was true but that no longer holds".

I feel like engineering for machine learning requires a different skill-set than traditional programming and even traditional AI programming. Taking a very calculated and deductive approach like the author suggests seems to be crucial.
Do you sell products you're making, or are you buying and selling?
It's not necessary that everyone should be well versed in design. I code in js and can't really do design well. If you can do good UI stuff then you can contribute to it!! They would welcome withopen arms!! Cheers!
It's also exactly as open as WhatsApp, but not as usable.
As a related one, considering Twisted Road (sharing site for my motorcycle).
i meant that we don't buy and sell it in the ways we would buy and sell plumbing services, for example. we don't have a professional organization that sets standards and issues credentials. we can't compare the quality of one provider against another. there isn't a market to buy and sell household care, with the concomitant prices that implies.

but the real question is, would we want to?
Out of curiosity: I’ve noticed a long-term sceptical attitude to telegram in HN audience and have seen multiple arguments against it. Something like that their crypto can’t be trusted, that it’s not time-proven.
Don’t you know any good source with some sort of domain expert explanation, why shouldn’t it be used or trusted?
No intention to start any flame against Signal, only curiosity regarding telegram flaws. Personal point of view is also appreciated.
> Then I've heard stories of parents donating $2M to get their legacy (child) in to an Ivy League with below average grades.

I had a friend who got into Notre Dame that way. His wealthy alumni grandfather took him and the dean out to dinner one night and slid a generous "donation" check across the table. Guy had something like a 1.8 GPA from high school. He got in.
Explorer performance issues have become one of my top annoyances in Windows 10. There's so many apps what want to hook themselves to provide context menu items, icon overlays or something else. If these apps are not responding in timely manner, Explorer gets really slow and figuring out the cause is not straightforward.
No, not usually, that's more like "part time job" or "side hustle." Just like nobody (hopefully) will say driving for Uber is passive. People often don't know what "passive" means, this question gets posted here a lot and most of the responses are not at all passive. A lot of people mean passive = non-wage income, not so. If it requires ongoing time and effort to make money, its not passive.

There's some grey/in between area though, real estate can be passive (1 unit with long term tenants) or a full time job (multiple properties, distressed properties in need of significant repairs, or something like AirBnB - unless you've got employees doing all the work). Same with stuff like writing, if the effort is already done and you just sit back and collect ad revenue or referrals, that's passive. If you're actively writing blog posts regularly, its not passive.

As far as the FBA case, if you've hired someone to do all the finding deals, packing and shipping, it is pretty much passive; if you've got a white label product and you've set up your suppliers to ship regular shipments from China direct to Amazon's warehouse, its probably pretty passive at that point.
I've been using Phoenix for 2 years straight and it's been pretty smooth sailings. Kasper has done an excellent job maintaining and implementing new features every once in a while, thanks Kasper!

My personal configuration is written in TypeScript and I maintain typings for Phoenix as well. I try to find ways to improve my every-day and implement them in Phoenix, things like: moving/resizing windows, coffee timer, monitor brightness, terminal hotkey, etc. In the past I've used it to track what applications I spend my time in or to automatically switch Karabiner-Element profiles based on which monitor is connected. If you're looking for inspiration, feel free to have a look:

https://github.com/mafredri/phoenix-config

https://github.com/mafredri/phoenix-typings
> It's somewhat surprising that younger ages, especially 18 to 25, do not have this effect

Not really. My hunch is that it's due to two reasons: (1) education is often much less intensive than a competitive career, so it's much earier to study while having a child (in many cases, you don't even need to attend the lectures, just pass the exams!); (2) probably the much bigger reason is that the "have children before 25" sample includes mostly people in non-professional careers where there isn't a lot of room for advancement anyways... someone with 2 years of experience as a store clerk or receptionist is worth about the same as someone with 4 years of experience, whereas the worth is significantly different in something like medicine, investment banking, programming, ...
You forgot the key Silicon Valley ethos: "Move fast and break things", where things include ethics and users' privacy expectations
Love the writeup!
Very readable for someone like me who works much layers up in programming.

I have also written a primer on go-concurrency.
https://gist.github.com/rushilgupta/228dfdf379121cb9426d5e90...

Thoughts?
Right but according to the link "In 1865, the English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that technological improvements that increased the efficiency of coal-use led to the increased consumption of coal in a wide range of industries. He argued that, contrary to common intuition, technological progress could not be relied upon to reduce fuel consumption" but in the case of our world it actually has produced lower consumption.
It seems reasonable to wait for GDPR to take effect & see the results before adopting it as a global standard.
1 million people genocided in Myanmar, you ignorant cunt.
TensorFlow recently announced TensorFlow Hub (https://www.tensorflow.org/hub/), which I think is similar.
Based on the first link, that letter scares me a lot. I have a feeling that this level of regulation will destroy any social startup. You'd need a compliance department larger than engineering just to remain legal. This is clearly a win to Facebook.
Honestly, those questions should be pretty easy to answer especially if your company is small. If as a business you can’t answer these basic questions about the data you want to collect from me, I’m going to be hesitant to share it.

People keep sharing that “nightmare letter” link but won’t point out which question gives them nightmares and why.
Prison? Are you talking about marriage or a soul-less corp. job? May I ask what were you in for? Was it a low-security "resort" prison?
The second anything becomes a job, it loses some of what makes it enjoyable. When you "have" to go do something, even though you're not in the mood/sick/whatever it's not fun anymore. The advantage people with hobbies have, is that then can pause their hobby at any time and come back to it when they feel like it. If it's your job, you've got to be there doing it. Everyone loves sex, but most people don't want to be in porn.

The job that I want has nothing to do with what I'm doing at the job. It's a collection of things that make my lifestyle of choice possible, and job requirements that allow me to feel comfortable that I'm performing well and not likely to get fired. At the same time, I understand there's going to be plenty of times where I'm competing with some Ash Ketchum type (to be, the very best, like no one ever was) who REALLY cares about the job on a different level. That's fine. If they want the eager guy, they'll take him. If they think my skills work better, they'll pick me. Get a marketable set of skills, truly understand what they are, and then you'll be fine with jobs.
GDPR is more overeaching than that. You don’t need physical presence in EU to be subject to it. In theory, just having a webserver storing access logs (default of Apache and Nginx) makes you infringing it as EU IPs are now considered personal data.
Never had any of this happen, it's quicker and easier than even using contactless credit cards for me. And it's becoming really commonplace in the UK.

1) You've never unlocked your phone before? How weird.

2) How broken is your phone? Never had this issue (I use android pay multiple times per day)

3) This is unusual, to the point of not being a thing here - Applepay is compatible with contactless EMV, as is Android Pay and there's basically nothing to be done at the merchant end to support it.

4) Of course there's a way to tell, they all have the four lights at the top, either physically or on-screen, plus there's the contactless logo the display on-screen.

These imagined impediments are hilarious though, you should have a sketch show.
Now my refrigerator will need a CRISPR drawer...
I used to play 3D games like Midtown Madness 2 in my computer with 16MB ram. Now my iMac with 8GB memory and i7 processor can not handle opening Slack, Chrome and an e-mail app at same time. This is where we are at.
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Sure it is: the cost of day care. There is a very clear economic indicator for whether you should have a one- or two-income household: after subtracting childcare costs, do you still come out ahead?
It's not even end to end encrypted by default. That's the main reason why you shouldn't use it.
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