skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UBI seeks to avoid a permanent underclass by enhancing labor force mobility.

A long term policy of government as a mandatory employer of last resort with make-work jobs doing work for which there is no real demand is a route to creating a permanent underclass. (A short-term policy of government as mandatory employer of last resort in response to an unusual economic disruption where this serves to maintain skills in jobs for which market demand is expected to rebound, to provide bridging income support, and to leverage temporary labor surplus for public infrastructure is a different story. As is a permanent policy of government offering non-universal last-resort employment in regions or industries experiencing short-term downturn without an economy-wide collapse, though that obviously can't replace general universal safety-net programs.)
> What would be nice to know is whether this can work on top of an existing PG database, providing easier syntax.

That would require introspecting arbitrary relational schemas and trying to represent them as an object graph. I don't think something like this can be done automatically and reliably.

That said, we have a tentative plan to introduce support for external databases (through FDWs, so not necessarily Postgres). The mapping specification would have to be explicit though.
Can we keep age discrimination out of this discussion please?
As soon as apple allows to ship an actual browser engine on the ap store. Until then Firefox for iOS - like every other browser on iOS - has to build on top of platform WebKit/WebView APIs
There is a huge difference between not-avoiding an accident and causing an accident. It didn't just drift, it actively pointed itself toward the barrier. That shouldn't happen at level 2, or level 3, or level 0.
How long do you think it took for the commercial development of North Sea oil rigs?
I've measured the "realism" of graphics in terms of resolution for many years now, because nowadays we generally have realistic graphics, as long as the resolution is small enough. (Compare with, say, an NES game, where no matter what you do to that image nobody will ever find it realistic.) There's a lot of techniques/artists/etc. I've seen that are perfectly realistic looking at 320x200 (say), but couldn't sustain the illusion of realism at 1920x1080. This way I get a reasonable metric of whether or not graphics are "photorealistic", or in this case, match the style of the painting.

It would be interesting to see them do a higher resolution version, or if they have them. It's possible it would indeed fit right in even so; now that I think about it the microscale of these paintings are probably very stereotypical and the algorithm might be able to reproduce them well. It would be especially interesting to see if it would correctly reproduce brush strokes, which have a lot of context to them. Given that "deep learning" can do things like reproduce the structure of a TV script accurately, it doesn't seem out of the question.
I've used Duolingo French mostly daily since last August, along with reading children's books of gradually increasing difficulty. (I'm into the first Harry Potter book at this point.) I think I could've learned substantially more efficiently than with Duolingo, if I could've focused on it as a top goal, but it worked well enough as a way of turning time when feeling tired with no initiative into learning time. You just fire up the app and do what it asks you to, for some delimited time per day, and gradually do get good enough at French to read real books. I wish it were better still -- some other responses have pointed out criticisms I agree with -- but by the standards of when I grew up, in the 80s, it offers something that afaik just didn't exist then. I took several years of Spanish in school but probably could not read it as well as I read French now. (I'll have to grab a Spanish Harry Potter and check.)

Conversations out loud might be a different story.
This doesn't make much sense as an urban project, where chargers are close by, lane-switching is frequent, people are likely to be on the road, and which the article invites you to think about by comparing the cost to an urban tram.

but it makes ton of sense for long-distance highway journeys, which is a problem that really needs solving before electric vehicles can be practical.
Cold Turkey!

I messaged everyone I wanted to keep in contact, send me your contact info (whatever I didn't currently have).

It helped me see who I actually wanted to be friends with. If I don't want to take the time to get your phone/email, why the hell do I care if we're facebook friends?
A reddit group is not a substitute for contacting the company directly.
I remember trying it out, but it was so so slow. Thats pretty much the only thing I remember about it.
I've always gone with "for really small values of infinite"
title was not click bait. they can actually see it. nice. can't wait for the bodymod crowd to catch up on that one
The Japanese lessons are listed as being in beta.

But yeah, I think they're going to have to do a pretty complete revamp of the Japanese course, and possibly add some more features like handwriting recognition for learning the characters. I did a little of that on my own, putting together a flash card deck that I could type in Japanese in, and used Android's Japanese handwriting input method to enter characters, and found that pretty good for learning kana, but I didn't feel like putting all of the work in for building such decks for the kanji I was learning as well.

I find Duolingo much better for the lessons that are more well developed, and which the software was originally written for, like French. I think that they could eventually get to the point where the Japanese lessons are useful, but now is not that point; they will need both some software updates that make Japanese learning work better, and a revamp of the curriculum.
>What you're basically saying, I think, is that there shouldn't be any easy way for ordinary people to communicate directly with each other and organise politically.

This isn't an either/or.

There's a world of possibility you're missing.

Like, people should be able to freely communicate online, but maybe not on platforms that psychologically exploit them for ad revenue (and other, potentially nefarious, aims should the wrong person get hands on the levers.)
What women at Microsoft face, and why many leave
Thanks for articulating this. I had a lot problems with this person exclusion of the 'frankenstien' complex as an inseparable part of Asimovs robot stories. I couldn't put my finger on it, as you did.
It's surprisingly easy to make government records public on Google Books
Can anyone explain to me why FB and Google surveillance of me does not violate the 4th amendment? "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..."
Reddit is not owned or controlled by Conde Nast or Advance Publications anymore, however they are still a large shareholder.
If anybody interested specifically in Japanese Anki tips, see a previous discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16748008
In this case I'd agree that the cons outweigh the pros. Surprising Tesla can legally market the feature or even offer it to the general public in its current form.

EDIT: typo
They use VGG-19 pretrained weights which are derived from ImageNet which consists of mostly copyrighted images. It is currently untested whether this is a legal problem or not.
I mean MySpace was eventually sold off to an AdTech firm (for its user data, yes, literally selling the actual user data, and it ran annoying autoplay audio ads on every single page), but if people want to remember MySpace as a reminder of a simpler time, more power to them.
The Global Housing Crisis
here is a usecase with WordPress installation

[1] https://www.nginx.com/blog/installing-wordpress-with-nginx-u...
My point is that the halting problem doesn’t prevent you from analyzing any particular program for exploits.
In the last few centuries, all developments of technology and the economy have repeatedly involved "quite a leap". I find it both intriguing and exciting.
WannaCry Sinkhole Telemetry Data Now Available to Organisations
Actually, Myspace Sold Your Data Too
Most things Apple are just disposable toys now anyway. If you're not in a tech hub and don't need it for development testing, why would you get a product that's inferior to what both google and amazon already offer?

Notwithstanding fans buying some. Apple TV comes to mind as a similar too late to market product.
Some things have made a difference for me:

- Working on side projects that have less overlap with work and scratch technical and creative itches that aren't a part of my day job.

- Getting in the habit of sitting down to do some small task every day. Some days that turns into a multi-hour super-productive hack fest, sometimes it's writing a piece of copy and that's it. Now that I'm in that habit, I put in a really productive session about 2x per week on average, but I try to not care about that statistic.

- Setting easily achievable goals every week, and trying to consistently surpass them (examples: add an 'about' section, write a query)

- Getting serious about working out and eating mostly right fixed the afternoon doldrums for me. I normally do weights and cardio in the morning before work and a jog/yoga/swimming after.
Is Fark still relevant? Their Cohen raid night thread was really long.
NV is widely considered to be the best neo Fallout. Additionally, people seem to prefer either FO3 or NV, but rarely both. So if you found FO3 lacking (as I did), then it's likely you'll enjoy NV.

With the caveat that it's a nine year old game at this point.
Because I want to stop for at most 10 minutes every 2 hours. (better yet I want a self driving car where 8 hours latter I wake up where I'm going, and the farther I get in that 8 hours the better) With gas cars we can do this, with batteries that requires a lot of expensive, heavy batteries (the heavy is important because energy is expended just hauling them around).

I don't know if this is a good/useful solution to the problem, but it is an obvious idea to consider.
I believe it. Do you?
Related to this is the maxim to "make it easy to do the right thing, and difficult to do the wrong thing".

When applied to programming, a first step towards that could be as simple as using a safer language, where it's more difficult to shoot oneself in the foot, and where all sorts of errors are prevented by default.
Sure. But that doesn't change the common moral stance that one has of "X government should not be able to force a company to do things outside of X's jurisdiction" for any values of X, even if that is at odds with what currently happens today. And some people's morals may extend the quote to "if company is not headquartered in X" or "if company does not do business in X" or whatever they may think. But the conversation on the morals themselves cannot be had if all we do is replace values of X for three reasons: 1) it assumes people have inconsistent morals, and 2) no two situations are the same and 3) the conversation is diluted.

To your broader point about US internet hegemony and government influence, I think it doesn't sound cool to many regardless of where they reside. If we must draw equivalence for history's sake here, one could look at the dissemination of culture over and over again and protectionist measures by the encroached upon in order to retain power, often against the will of the citizens. Over time, people will do what they want, in the meantime all most want is those with power to limit themselves. It also has value to recognize the environments that foster these cultural innovations and fight fire with fire instead of power.
Yep, and the article pretty much admits that in the second half. The featured picture itself is years old. Title is pure clickbait.
Violence is Violence
Keep in mind that HTTP gateways are provided just for convenience.
Due to WebExtension API limitations embedded node can't act as a local HTTP gateway and extension falls back to public gateway. I imagine it was what you were experiencing.

Use window.ipfs property to play with pure IPFS (without HTTP gateway):
window.ipfs.id(console.log)
window.ipfs.add(Buffer.from('hello')).then(console.log)
window.ipfs.cat('/ipfs/QmWfVY9y3xjsixTgbd9AorQxH7VtMpzfx2HaWtsoUYecaX').then((data) => console.log(new String(data)))
More info: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/blob/master/...
I don't get it. What exactly is changing? From the screenshots from the reddit post about it, it looks.... like reddit. There's posts and the posts have upvote/downvote buttons, and there's a link to the comments that shows how many there are. Am I missing something? The OP article doesn't actually have any screenshots of changes, and I made it several paragraphs into the article still not understanding what is changing.
The claim is that employees working for the wages Walmart pays still collect government benefits.

Whether to impute those benefits to the store is a fair question, but the idea is that Walmart employees are literally collecting more government payments than the Costco employees.
Yes, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Horseshoe
Instead of making a "meta" post complaining, you could reply to those folks with your questions. That might help develop the discussions you would like to see more so than this tactic.
I have to use Forums for a few hobbies and after switching to reddit years ago it feels so different. I'm clearly not getting my "NEED INSTANT COMMUNICATION!" dopamine injection from forums like I am with reddit.
I'm sure people will fear this too. Driving by the same people who probably will make a ton of money speaking about how bad it is for you. Of course in both cases that science says there is no harm is best shouted down.
...trying to cram their prepackaged square-shaped tools into a variety of circle-shaped holes. All languages are different and each requires a different approach.

The first half of this is dead on. The second half is wrong.

Duolingo's top languages are in the Indo-European family. (Their most learned language is English, next is Spanish.) Their techniques are perfectly adequate for gaining elementary vocabulary a basic grounding in the grammar of those languages. The most common languages in that language family are positional. You really do need to learn to say "black shirt" in English versus "camisa negra" in Spanish. Saying it in the other order is wrong.

Their tools don't work well for other language families. However they do work for lots of languages that people want to learn.
How does light bend around my finger tip?
Propaganda is fundamentally about convincing people of things that, if believed, are beneficial to you-- regardless of whether they're true. Accordingly, this often includes "spin."

- CA Section: It's someone else's fault.

- Compensation: Misdirection, obviously false statements (e.g. "It couldn't happen now")

- Scraping: Lies (e.g. "found out about [scraping] abuse 2 weeks ago")

- Accountability: Act as if it's only about firing people.

- Data safety: Not actually addressed.

- Business model: Actual lies (e.g. "FB doesn't sell data")
When we began to acquire the ability to improve life, the value of humanity went up, and even proposed a mechanism (that with age comes more value). You didn't say anything about it, nor did you support you "cattle is cheaper" assertion.

If it's cheaper to let people die, then it follows that med tech is a waste of money, which (almost) anyone can see is not true.

Consider a simple example, Vitamin C. Cheaper to not know it's necessary for life? Things we consider expensive treatments now, become cheap in the future; hence this thread.
I really appreciate the role the site guidelines play in making HN a useful place to read comments (often more than the actual articles). However FWIW I appreciated this particular usage as I read it as a form of parody which i might not have caught had simple emphasis been used.

It may be that there's a slippery slope problem so maybe objecting to it is still a good idea, but I thought I'd simply mention my feeling for this particular case.
You know you're getting old when the new piracy medium is 5 years old and you've never looked at it :-/

Gramps here still over on alt.bin.juarez.
There is C available for an 8051. The Keil 8051 compiler (now owned by ARM) was pretty good and it had a nice GUI environment. The 8051 is pretty good for certain tasks but when you push it beyond the limits, your effort switches from solving the core problem to managing memory and micro optimization to make things work. Meanwhile with an ARM MCU you don't have to worry about a lot of things. I once spent a couple days optimizing a 32-bit divide for an 8051 to squeeze a couple % improvement in product performance.
The silent majority, really? They don't use it because the benefits outweigh the loss in privacy - they don't understand the impact of the loss in privacy.
UX Case Study: How We Designed an Arabic Lifestyle Magazine
This is super cool. I look forward to a future where I'll be able to 'draw' beautiful images without actually having much skill in the way of drawing.
Yeah, it's also bugging me. From a perspective of a person that's really into this topic and creates some stuff/software - this is invaluable info, only if would be more descriptive. Unfortunately most people treat such topics as "this title is bogus, my experience is completely different, here's why in one sentence, since I won't waste any second more about this". And that's why I love real world conversations since you can immediately receive feedback just by asking 'oh why is that'. In Internet this question just strikes the emptiness and that person doesn't feel obliged to provide any feedback.
And also makes discussion a mess since commenter doesn't provide any context to challenge that opinion - is he native in X language? Is he student/PhD/professor, etc.
Costco doesn't compete with Walmart. It is much more selective about where it places stores (each store needs to serve many more people) and it stocks a smaller number of mostly higher revenue items.
If you think C code doesn't run before main() you're very naive. Just try this:

#include <stdio.h>

static volatile int* x;
static int y = 42;

void __attribute__((constructor)) foo() {
printf("[foo] x = %p\n", x);
}

int main() {
x = &y;
printf("[main] x = %p\n", x);
return 0;
}

And before you complain about that being a compiler extension yes, it is, but it's also not rare, either, and you're probably using C libraries that do this.
I was thinking of open source projects that killed other companies -- Ie, Wikipedia shuttering Microsoft Encarta - but then I saw your comment..
> Technically, that's sorta true. By releasing information and opinions about the ongoing investigation, Tesla decided not to be a part of it.

"You can't fire me, I quit!"

Also laughable from Tesla's statement. "We are committed to transparency as a company, and NTSB was telling us we couldn't release information about AutoPilot, and that was unacceptable to us".

Huh, all those people looking for service manuals may be curious to hear about Tesla's corporate commitment to transparency.
You don't think ridding ourselves of genetic diseases is an extremely large good? Millions of humans have incurable genetic diseases which vastly limit their quality of life and even lifespan itself. To me, this ALONE would be exciting. But when you add on the benefits to editing crops, livestock, microbes, and human traits not tied to disease, the ramifications become downright mind-boggling. I don't think it's exciting in a purely positive way, I honestly don't know if it's going to be good or bad on the whole. I'd wager that it starts off very good and slowly becomes less good, since the best use cases will all be targeted first.
> blames the driver

well, you are driving a car from a paypal mafia founder. why everyone forget that Musk started by ignoring banking regulations and mostly laundering money quasi legally, while later on holding funds from everyone for arbitrarily enforced rules, while completely ignoring user complaints. (bye HN karma :)

seriously, why is that everyone hates paypal ethics but loves musk and hold him as holy?
Google’s “Ten Commandments” for mobile device architecture research
Additional requirements for new apps or updates to apps is something completely different from disabling existing purchased apps and denying end users access to their documents contained within.
I’ve used iMazing and FileApp Pro on iOS for years and years - I had ripped hundreds of CDs at a reasonably high bitrate with EAC not long after that first became possible on Windows - wanted to bring them over just as they were - once that’s all set up, it’s just drag and done - bonus, same folders dragged to a tiny flash drive on my keychain and I can plug it into hotel TVs, many rental cars, friends’ audio systems, etc.
I am currently using Duolingo to learn French and finding it tremendously useful as a way to practise. It's only been for the last 3 weeks or so but I feel that it is working much better for me than if I was trying to learn from videos or books. I should say however that I am also taking weekly face to face French lessons (it was my teacher who recommended Duolingo)
so is web or electron more efficient?

Also, web now has desktop notifications - right?
Does this mean time travel is possible ?
"No downside"? You've been drinking the Kool-Aid, my friend.
Charles Raison on Depression, Immune-Brain Interface and Whole-Body Hyperthermia
Pick the Statistic You Want to Be
Yes that is the VERY reason why I said wouldn't mind having them put on the spot that way we can ask. Provided the right people are asking the questions. If it comes up through the questioning that they are grabbing information I chose not to share with them. I'll stop using the services and go somewhere else no one has a gun to my head.
Facebook Doesn't Expect Revenue Impact Over Privacy Concerns
A "block" list is different from a "people you unfriended" list. I see the point of keeping track in order to not show those "on this day" posts of someone you want out of your life, but the block feature was made for that purpose and should be used for these situations.
It exists and is called WhatsApp.
This is basically the state of Twitter today.
See self-employment tax for a good example. Yes, it really is just the other 7% of the FICA (payroll) tax that an employer would normally pay, but I've seen people get thrown for a loop when another 7% of their 1099 or self-employment income gets taken away than they were "expecting" because it gets hidden from normal W-2 employees.
Up until very recently, OLED were great if you didn't care about color reproduction. My 2011 Nokia N9 had an OLED display. Then LCD made something of a comeback due to superior color fidelity. Currently OLEDs are getting good enough to perhaps finally replace LCDs for good, although there are some promising unorganic LED display technologies already around the corner...
Like I said elsewhere, it's possible (though not easy). This guy has done it multiple times over past 15 years: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...

(I also wrote a book with more stories and advice, with a whole chapter on negotiating part time work based on my experience and that of others: https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/)
Circumbinary castaways: Short-period binary systems can eject orbiting worlds
It doesn't want a squeeze though, it needs resistance/feedback on turning the wheel. Having your hands on the wheel isn't enough, you actually have to give it a little tug, so the alert happens pretty often unless you have a good cadence of tugging on the wheel randomly while in Autopilot.
Flying-car venture Terrafugia expands workforce
No, not at all. Why would you think that?
Seems that the real story about invented language is how the AI manipulated the media to come up
with increasingly less credible headlines and stories about an AI research paper. ;-)