skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. My apologies, when I looked at the link I didn't notice it was for a particular region and not the UK.

You are absolutely correct.
Sirix – An Open Source Time Machine for Your Data
I'm familiar but none of them are very good. The only really good way to avoid capital gains taxes is to die and use your estate tax exemption on the securities you hold. Which is why increasing the estate tax rate and decreasing it's exemption in tandem with an increase in capital gains is the best way to tax the wealthy.
Once you share something private, it's no longer private, is it?
How is this on the frontpage
People with welfare are in a very different situation than UBI due to the fact that the welfare will be lost if they do go work.

You bringing this up at this point in time as if it's relevant almost seems trollish.
Or maybe just spend more time with aides trying to grasp the technical issues?

I'm going to send some letters to my Senators and Representative asking them to work closely with the EFF, EPIC, etc. to formulate any regulation on this, rather than Facebook itself.
Given that employees are told they can no longer use the word "shadow profile" to describe them, I suspect he knew what they meant.
>Make the most of every campaign with these four strategies. Unlike display ads which target people based on cookies, Facebook lets you define and reach the exact target audience you want. You'll get the right eyes on your ads, while maximizing your time, budget and growth potential.

Zuckerberg is going to lose his shit when he sees what his Digital Ads team has done behind his back. Facebook is brazen about being a grossly invasive advertising company, just not when they're talking to their users. [1]

[1] https://www.facebook.com/business/a/performance-marketing-st...
Net-positive fusion reactors still don't solve everything sadly; they're likely to be really costly and because of those economics will only serve really populous energy grids.

One thing I learned from someone wise is to not down-select technologies for a solution (i.e., this is most dangerous when the government down-selects technologies). Something might arise other than solar cells specifically that accomplishes their goal.
That looks pretty cool!
Credit agencies and data brokers

Don't forget ISPs and mobile phone service providers

government's interest in Facebook's data practices is not so much to regulate it as to copy it

Nah, they're just trying to look like they're doing something in response to public outcry.
It will never work. Nobody will pay - no users.

Remember app.net?
Is lying in front of congress a crime?

If I was a senator, I would have asked these two questions:

When I look at a product in an onlineshop like Amazon, afterwards I see adverts for this product on Facebook. How does this work?

When I visit a physical store, afterwards I see adverts for this store on Facebook. Even on my desktop computer. Even though I don't have any facebook apps on my phone. How does this work?

If he lies and says he don't know, from then on he would be at the mercy of many employees at FB whith whom he has talked about this type of data collection and sharing.
I (and I'm sure many others) did this for my Ph.D. project (group robotics) because it was the only way to get anything close to an acceptable frame rate on real time video using the ARM boards available. Colour processing is a big overhead, and the higher the definition of the camera, the worse it gets - so there's a definite trade off between the extra information from colour, and getting more frames/s to process. When you're extracting information from movement - i.e. the differences between frames, colour isn't what you're looking at in any case.

But knowing all that, and now knowing Tesla made that short cut, there is no way on the face of this earth I am ever driving a Tesla, or for that matter, driving a car anywhere in the USA that has them on the road.

You guys have a really good train network, right?
There are lots of things people"should" do. But in general, the more indispensable a thing becomes, the more governments try to help people decide better or even try to decide for people, as people will do whatever is convenient to them.
Yeah and global warming is easy to solve, all you need to do is get everyone on board...

Capital, like water, takes the path of least resistance. There's ample academic literature which shows and explains international tax competition exists, we can't pretend it doesn't. Any country that increases taxes just signals to the increasingly mobile tax base that they ought to go somewhere else. And tax coordination, i.e. countries agreeing on minimum tax levels, is an incredibly difficult political problem. You're literally putting the heart of a country's budget on the negotiation table, it doesn't get more political.

As such, it's not at all extremely easy to solve. It's not just an issue of integrity, it's also an issue of international politics.
This is all optimistic speculation. Being able to remove diseases from our genome is not equivalent to being able to create mega-geniuses with blonde hair. The "spelling-checked" persons DNA is just that, their DNA. It says nothing about how they're going to be raised, environmental factors etc. Before we can even start to think about "engineering" ourselves we still need to figure out how we're engineered to begin with and how that engineering changes throughout the span of our lives.
It may be called "preliminary profile" or similar internally. That would allow him to be "unfamiliar".
Does anyone here believe the top 1% and 10% are being taxed enough? The most oft-expressed opinion I’ve seen, even expressed below, is that the rich don’t pay enough as a percentage of their income.
State of the art, and (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16819684) ”In all air combat training scenarios, F-35s blow F-16s out of the skies” ?
Right, I remember advanced 3d software fitting on a floppy. But now a simple Android app can be over 50mb.

No you don't need a video on your login screen.
Likely a circular effect. All of those things can be disruptive to sleep.
Except this CEO has an engineering/development background, and I'd expect him to be deeply familiar with the criticisms on his company.
Plenty of them fail to stylistically harmonize even if they visually harmonize. Of course, in some cases, it's debateable whether stylistic harmonization is even possible at the human semantic level. The bicyclist on the bridge in the scream painting was quite bad, and the Eiffel Tower in the cityscape was noticeably degraded by the fact the painting didn't have the colors that the artist would probably have actually used, so it's rather bluish.

What's more impressive is that several of them work quite well, and barring anachronism, at the sizes given in the samples you might not know what was added if they didn't point it out. The park bench I found particularly impressive, for instance. I suspect if we increased the resolution it would break down, but at this size it works pretty well.
I don't see what Jeff Bezos's wealth has to do with computers and the internet (aside from the fact that it's Amazon's domain of business). Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller were wealthier than him.

Increasing inequality is the natural trend of capitalism because it's easier to make money when you have more money. The only way to reduce this is to raise taxes (like we did with our 70% marginal tax rate on incomes over $5 million/yr in 1940 in today's dollars). Problem is we elect politicians that don't make this happen.
Arguably, mobs have gotten a bad rap.[1] Bond argues that mobs end up being the way we see them on video largely because of how they are treated (ringed by armored cops with shields and bombarded with tear gas, say).

FedEx, firefighting teams, the Hurricane Harvey response[2], and soldiers in battle offer other examples of people instantly communicating with one another.

I don't have a brief for Facebook, and it does seem that what we (perhaps falsely) think of as "mob rule" is more prevalent in social media than face-to-face.

[1] https://youarenotsosmart.com/2014/07/21/3093/

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/social-media-becom...
List of the top smart contract vulnerabilities
You should consider opening the 'Now Playing' drawer with an actual, direct gesture instead of a trigger on a detected swipe. The way it is now feels weird for iOS.

I really missed the album artwork color extraction from iTunes and seeing album covers in a reasonable size, so thank you for that.
Cite a study
Wow, that's too bad. I remember the warranty process being a breeze. They sent me two new pairs; the cable was crap and always failed before 2 years so I did feel like they should make up for it, but I would in no way say that they didn't treat me fairly or I didn't get my money's worth. Sounds like they care more about their US customers :/
Yes, my gut is telling me the same thing too. The junior dev needs to be motivated (out of the box motivated) to learn and improve. If that isn't there, no amount of coaching/pair programming will help.

It's depressing. Sometimes it's not the lack of mentorship but the lack of motivation on the part of the student. It's almost like someone stuffing a gold coin in one's pocket and that person refusing to take it because it's too far or he can't be bothered.
You raise a good and apt point.

I would say firstly, we don't have to know how to achieve it exactly, since once we have the hardware we can just experiment. The human source code is about seven hundred megabytes (fairly precisely, DNA is almost precisely 2 bits per base pair) so somewhere in that is the encoding for human intelligence, since humans inherit it. So we know that there is some < 700 MB program. Now 700 MB is a ton of source code, but it's not an unimaginable amount. We know some of the compiled results, as we can see how human brains are built actually. So there's lots of indications that we will be able to get similar results once we have the hardware for it - which we do.

Secondly I would point to many of the specific advances reached using machine learning as excellent indications that we are quite near the kind of algorithmic breakthroughs that are necessary. Since the topology of these algorithms is in many cases closely inspired by human neural topology, and many algorithms achieve many similar results, it seems quite likely that we would be able to reproduce some of these effects experimentally.

More than "likely", in many domains the computers have done just that.
Or as facebook is doing just people tracking.
Yeah, that really surprised me: for a font in particular, why wouldn't you use em? (Is there a benefit to using pixels that I'm overlooking?)
Ask HN: What tools do you use, subscribe to or so on
Am wondering about this to see where I and a group of other professionals could spend our time profitably.
We're mainly looking at SaaS targeting both consumers, professionals, and businesses.

The usual suspects for the companies I work at, which I believe is not that interesting:
- AWS
- DigitalOcean (different company)
- G Suite
- Evernote (hold up from the olden days)
- Sendgrid
- Wix
- Office 365 (other company am still involved with)
- RescueTime
- LinkedIn Premium
- FreeWallet for quick and easy cryptocurrency wallet

Would've probably used Paypal if we were not in Lebanon. Currently looking at Stripe Atlas to create a legal entity for our collaboration.

There's definitely more, but I'll need to dig through my receipts to remember it all.

What makes your life easier?
Hear hear.

While I agree with your main points I would object to your objection that someone can't launch a social network in and of itself. But I do think if you're going to launch a social network you're going to have to tell me how to differentiate your product from all the other products out there.

From reading the comments here I think a new social network needs to say the following up front:

- closed or open source?
- centralised or decentralised? federated or not?
- up-front fee, subscription service or paid for by advertising?
- privacy policy, what is it? share with 3rd party?
- is there an API? how granular is it?
- what about sharing and following?
- what specific niche are you aiming at or are you going for a general audience?
- is your product aiming to be a platform?
- how are you different from the incumbents?
- mobile or web or native or some combination of the above?
- in short, let me know your angle, and give me reasons to try you out

Frankly, for me, the fact that you started another social network and let it die would discourage me from trying your new effort. And stuff like `stay beautiful' strikes me as saccharine and inauthentic though maybe I've become too cynical, clearly I'm not within the target audience.
Ask HN: How to drive chrome using emacs/elisp
Is there any way to automate browser interaction using emacs? I am unable to find anything on google all i get is eww/brwose-url but they are very limited.
I still have to visit the www site sometimes because the compact one is missing a few features (like delete). They haven't done any maintenance on it for years.
HSM stands for Hardware Security Module, which is a physical appliance that safeguards cryptographic keys.
I recently started work on an NES project, and wrote the first part of it up: https://www.moria.us/blog/2018/03/nes-development

It's a lot of work. I've managed to get data from Tiled into my ROM image, and I'm working on figuring out an architecture for scrolling and displaying a status bar.

Implementing scrolling and a status bar sounds simple but is actually a total pain. You only have two screens of tiles to work with, which can be arranged horizontally or vertically, and anything more complicated than scrolling in a single direction (including status bars) requires adjusting the scrolling registers between scanlines, and making sure that your status bar is in a different part of the tilemap (called "name tables") than your world.

A common way to accomplish this is to lay out your graphics memory so a certain address line turns on and off once every scanline, and then putting a chip (called a "mapper") on the game cartridge which wires that address line to a counter, which drives a CPU interrupt line. Simpler games like Super Mario Bros. don't need this extra chip, but you only get a single status bar + scrolling in one direction only. Games with scrolling in both directions often display graphical glitches on the edge of the screen, like Super Mario Bros. 3 (look at the right edge of the screen).

This is unnecessary on newer consoles, and less painful even on the Sega Master System.
> I also feel like the use of "admit" in the headline is disingenuous.

Yet you seem to be saying that Zuckerberg is trying to hide his business model to protect it from legislators. Doesn't that make the word "admit" appropriate? What other word would you use for something someone doesn't want to say during a hearing?
How would that work in practice? Of course, you could eliminate all hereditary diseases, make people smarter, remove certain genetic predispositions; but I'm not convinced that the "perfection" thing is possible.

The most obvious being, what exactly is perfection? If you ask 100 people to describe their perfect partner, you'd get 100 completely different answers. If our species would converge to any one of those descriptions, those who have a different idea of perfection would find themselves in a objectively worse world. Converging to some kind of average wouldn't be any better either.

Just take a look at the standards of beauty even over the last, say, 40 years. There's no constant, purely objective measurement of beauty, so to me it seems impossible to create perfection.
About to read it, so not sure, but if I had to guess from Alice and Bob it's something to do with Diffie-Hellman key exchange, some variation thereof, or some other security fundamentals explanation.

Edit: So, much more meta than that. Looks like a fun read though. :)
Probably useless for any applications, but this is really cool! The page with the definitions of all characters A–Z is here: https://yusugomori.com/projects/css-sans/fonts It's interactive, so you can actually see how the definition (CSS code) of each character corresponds to the actual shape seen.

Something like this (but with different primitives, not CSS) is how Donald Knuth made the program Metafont, using which he created Computer Modern in all its variants (the font used by default by every TeX/LaTeX document). His intent was to capture the “idea” of each letter shape (glyph in the font), by writing a program for drawing that letter, instead of simply drawing it. He came up with something vaguely similar (pens of varying thickness, erasers, etc). The program is described in Volume C of Computers and Typesetting (The METAFONTbook), and Volume E is a thick hardcover book somewhat like this page, which gives the definition of (program for) each character next to a picture of its shape.

More Metafont-related links, if anyone finds this sort of thing inspiring:

- https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/visiblelanguage/pdf/16.1/... (this paper is a work of art!)

- https://www.metaflop.com/modulator (use the sliders)

- https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/423720/48

Metafont may not have had the right primitives for character drawing, and CSS obviously doesn't (it's not what it's designed for), but the idea of describing shapes is very interesting, and I still hope (despite decades of “failure”) that it can catch on. Maybe with interactive input and immediate visual feedback, it would be more appealing, at least for some people.
(UK resident here) - didn't realize the drugs connotation. I just assumed it was interchangeable with 'minger'.
The true cost of housing is relatively flat across the developed world and especially the US. The actual cost is almost entirely a function of local politics.

We could have a flood of nice, brand new homes for $300k in Silicon Valley and nice older homes for $200k, in the same way a city like Tokyo or Houston does, if the people of California had not made the deliberate choice to pull up the ladder behind them.
Because a "loss" can disrupt the momentum and public support that is snowballing with these Facebook headlines. Think about the failed attempt to break up Microsoft in the 90s. Regardless of how you felt about the breakup idea, Congress was spurned at that decision and avoided taking action on other emerging monopolies.
Yeah, I think it's one of the more interesting "Linux on a phone" projects out there. The hardware differences between phone generations aren't as pronounced anymore. An OS that let's you run a device with updates for 5-10 years is a great idea.
So if I'm understanding you correctly, if the "playing field was level", we wouldn't have inequity? Or as much?

I'm not sure I agree with that.
Could you elaborate more? From my very amateur point of view, fishing seems like something that could be completely automated pretty easily, but it seems like I'm not seeing the complexity.
The next social network I join will be decentralized with a heavy focus on design and usability. Gtfo
Better energy storage will revolutionize everything from phones to electric cars.

I can't wait for the e-ink patent to expire. We'll see an explosion of research on color screens that don't need a backlight.

There's a lot of exciting things going on in DSP, OCR and automated transcription these days. Being able to convert various sources of information to text without having to do it manually is exciting.
> That's why he kept conflating post-visibility settings with privacy / tracking settings.

Interesting. That's pretty clever, which gives me confidence that's exactly what he was doing.
To put it simply: the world gets fucked up if only a small handful of people matter/have any power and the rest have none. This happens on various levels, it's not just "oh that's not fair and also all puppies should be happy". This stuff has real consequences that you and I and everyone will be influenced by. Even if you think yourself safe for being close to enough to the wealth so you can just enjoy the ride, the issue still exists for most and can and will bubble up. From almost every society issue you can think of, you can go down the thread and find it's also related to the economic system, to concentration of power(economic or otherwise). This is basic enlightment stuff, just start trying to get to understand human history and society and you'll get it, it's inescapable.

Ever heard of aggregate demand? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregate_demand

Think oligopoly, democracy, absolutism, slavery... All these concepts, they're not just useless words someone came up with to be a bitch, a lot of them were the 'status quo' one day and people wrote about them and frequently refer to them because it was a mess to disentangle them. There's a warning in each and everyone of them, you of course can not care or think it will all just be ok, but they're still warning regardless.
> Part of the tedium is only having a few registers so programming in assembly begins to resemble solving the towers of Hanoi puzzle.

Solving the towers of Hanoi puzzle can be done completely mechanically (exercise: derive the really simple algorithm). Programming in such a constrained environment is something where you have to think for yourself, since I am not aware of any mechanical solution.
Many entry-level lawyers have historically been involved in document discovery. AI-based software and having a significant impact on the job market for freshly minted lawyers. Software now performs ediscovery.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609556/lawyer-bots-are-sh...
The effective tax rate in the 1950s wasn't actually substantially higher than it is today. [0] A high top-marginal rate is only a small part of the story.

[0] https://files.taxfoundation.org/20170804133536/Average-Effec...
My favorite genre of games are still platformers. 20xx (A Megaman X roguelike) is my favorite game I've played this year.
How can one protect himself against this?
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/chi.2014.0062
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And what's worse is that privacy controls explicitly don't control ad targeting. Years ago I had a long term relationship end. We hid our relationship status and only ended the status a year later. Immediately after changing a status marked "only me" in privacy settings I got bombarded with dating ads.
I complained that this was a huge privacy violation and they said "we didn't share your relationship status with them. We matched you to them because of the relationship status"
One of my biggest issues with the current political system is that - with few exceptions - only lawyers go into politics.

This means that you have people who have never taken Econ 101 setting fiscal policy, who don't understand technology trying to regulate tech companies, etc.

I'm not sure what the solution here is, but I think we're asking for trouble when our elected representatives lack a basic comprehension of the domains in which they legislate.
China OKs Self-Driving Tests on Public Roads
The post I was responding to talked about welfare, not UBI. I'm aware that you can't work and collect welfare.
And if one person owned all the income, that one person would pay 100% of the nation's taxes. How unfair!

The fact that the 1% can pay 40% of all taxes and still be wealthy is an indication of how massive inequality is on the US.
I do care, that's why I don't use FB. Problem in using it is the network effect itself multiplied by the untrustworthy, closed and centralized foundation. I.e. you don't just harm yourself by using it, you are harming others by proliferating its use, because by using it, you are encouraging others to use it too.