skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that your core distinction then is nonsensical and I'd wonder what it contributed.

What if I said that? Is this hypothetical tense helping the conversation?
I wasn't commenting on confusing vs. safe so much as confusing vs. familiar.
Did you switch modes? There was a mode switch.

In grayscale mode, you got 1200x900 resolution. That was about 200 dpi, so quite sharp for the day. (typical was more like 85 dpi back then)

In color mode, the screen was blurred. It was a 3x3 blur, without the typical pixel/subpixel distinction. Effective resolution was something like 692x519 based on the number of green pixels.

Color mode in the sunlight would look grey, but it was still blurry. You had to switch modes if you wanted the full 1200x900.
My current favorite is ZCY (X30 and X32). They are basically Intel BayTrails. You just need to remember that BayTrails have this funny feature where they would not boot off the GPT partition, so you need to make sure your boot devices are MBRs.

Just got another X32 for a different project. I replace broadcoms with Atheros and use little VESA mounts mounts from Ebay that I drill into a dry wall by the ceiling. After that mounting them on a wall is no different than attaching them to the backs of the monitors.

I recommend AliExpress as the source for the systems themselves ( blows ebay out of the water ). Strangely, mounts are cheaper on Ebay.
> We understand that your Guild Wars 2 accounts are important to you and we take that trust very seriously. Our goal is to continue to foster a safe and fair community for all. We believe that everyone deserves transparency, which is why we're providing this additional information.

Wow, what a non-apology.
You can buy excellent cars that will last a long time for far less than $500 a month. $500 a month for much more car than you need is a very poor decision because you can get by with much less and invest the rest.
Zillow, Aggregation, and Integration
Wonder how important each of these in the overall performance. Assuming each is a scale 1 to 10. Would you need 10s for all of these or a few 8s or what.
I was always taught (in the UK) to check your mirror before signaling, and then make a final check before the maneuver.
> That's the entire business model.

Umm...that's comically wrong. The fortune-500 company I worked for paid more than $40k/yr to license their data and update it monthly. Given the description of how Apple is using it, they're probably paying six figures per year. Neither of our companies were buying credit builder services.
Does the treatment outlined in the article apply to just warehouse workers or does this policy apply to software engineers/office bods also? (pee in a bottle etc?)
It is fascinating how frequently modest increases in quality of living in third world countries is wheeled out as justification for the predations of capitalism. If we're going to have a serious conversation about how the world is doing that has to include the fact that the global economy is predicated on continuous growth despite finite natural resources. There is also a few environmental issues that might be relevant.
Quick google search: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2016/06...
The unreasonable effectiveness of the forget gate
I also recommend Nick Land's "Meltdown".
This actually works really well :) I've been looking for a simple time tracker for awhile, so I'm definitely signing up for this
I remember reading this recent Financial Times article[0] about how China is innovating in the area of providing immunotherapy and other breakthrough treatments.

[0]: https://outline.com/tdDNdd

[1 non-outlined link]: https://www.ft.com/content/30b5a944-3b57-11e8-b9f9-de94fa33a...
I have a pile of notes that I was planning on organizing and publishing over next week or so. I will get back to this thread or submit it when it is done.
Unfortunately, the status quo today is, that's where the users are.

I've seen a few people make this argument, but no real data. Does anyone have any relevant stats about web vs. app store sales, perhaps the ratios between customer numbers and/or revenues through different channels, that they'd be willing to share?
Coinbase confirms acquisition of Earn.com
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2016/06...

Instead, buy a used car for $5,000 to $10,000 and use it. Invest the rest. Hell, financing a car for $200 and investing the rest would be much better than financing $500 worth of car per month.
I don't agree with this sentiment. Semantics aside (pens and paper are considered technology whether you like it or not), technology is what you make of it. If you can apply said technology to be more productive in class, then allow yourself to take full advantage of that. If you personally know you're going to spend most of that time in the classroom going on Facebook or Twitter, then you should have the self-control to not bring your laptop to class.

I'm someone who gets distracted very easily, so my compromise was blocking websites that caused distractions during class so that I could focus on annotating class powerpoints rapidly.
After watching someone go through their training, I'm not very impressed. They also enormously inflate their job placement statistics by giving graduates a difficult set of hoops to continually keep jumping through in order to be counted at all. For example, miss posting a blog one week, poof!, you're no longer counted in their placement statistics.
Not everyone has that kind of luxury. If you have hungry kids and a late car payment you sometimes just need a pay check.
Thanks for the share. I've been meaning to study category theory for a while now. This course and the suggested literature looks really helpful.
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I can believe it. I think A16Z is also an investor in Coinbase.

Definitely seems like some insider dealing. Especially considering Earn.com seems like a very immature (bordering on useless) product.

Also another example of a startup having more money then they know what to do with and not returning it to shareholders.
"The Machine Stops"
E.M. Forster (1909)

http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
21.co / earn.com is a serial flop, pivoting markets and functionality multiple times. I wouldn't be surprised if the funding was simply a way to secretly do something. Nefarious or not.
The show is now called "Gruen", they dropped "transfer" for some reason.

At first I thought this HN post was publicising the TV show since a new season starts early May. Perhaps the OP is a fan of the show. It's a bit random linking to a short Wikipedia article on the Gruen Transfer? A page that happens to mention the TV show twice.

As for shopping mall design, I suppose we're not far off from pop-up holographic personalised intrusive social tracking considerations. Apparently some restaurants at least are designing their interiors to be phone-camera friendly, but also... you get the picture.
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Ask HN: What's in your information diet?
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$500 a month is $6000 a year. $6000 a year invested from 26 to 66 at 10% interest per year is $2,921,110.87. At 12% it's $5,154,854.34.

Keep in mind this is just from a single decision the average person is making.
Ya, I do believe a FC warehouse job sucks pretty bad, but for some reason, this particular article seems strange. The journalist is clearly trying to find sensationalist material for his book. I'm not sure how much I can trust his sources.
Out of curiosity, what is your model for the dramatic examples of India and China, which were faced with relative stagnation and incredibly dire, largely-intractable poverty for decades after WWII; followed by liberalizing (incrementally) their markets and explosive growth+massive declines in extreme poverty thereafter?

I don't know a ton about the economic history of these two countries, but prima facie this seems to belie your claim that it was simply energy availability.
I thought it was crap, too, until I read:

The cheapest way to give 100 books to someone in the third world is to give them a laptop (and a way to power it.)

Also, for most of their target audience, the laptop would be the brightest source of light in their home.

This image, in particular:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6990034.stm

So, no, don't think of it as a "laptop," it's just an educational device in a laptop form factor.

That said, I had major problems with how OLPC executed on that vision.
This can be turned off in settings; I’d be interested in knowing how many of us have done that (I have mine on).
Imagine a house, where every room is familiar, but you have to get to the master bedroom through the hall closet and the front door leads you right into the bathroom.
The problem with Marxism is that in many of the places where it's been implemented in earnest, it's killed millions of people. Think of Russia under Stalin, China under Mao, and Cambodia under Pol Pot.

People try to rehabilitate Marxism every so often, but the problem of the murderous regime pops up again and again, for a simple reason: when the state arrogates to itself enough power to remake society according to some Marxian vision, it opens the door for abuses far worse than anything Amazon will ever perpetrate.

Are you sure you're not thinking about Social Democracy instead?
> Hopefully the Chinese won't ban their companies from selling to US companies because we'll be screwed... specially because US companies design things to break fast.

They'd have to think of a different rational, as this action is apparently because ZTE violated sanctions against Iran an North Korea and further violated the penalties it agreed to when it was found guilty.

Also, any Chinese action that would direct the supply chains of American companies away from China would likely be welcomed by this administration.
Mind you the founder of 21.co was/is a partner at a16z.

Remember these people don't play by the normal rules as everyone else - so while there may not hard evidence, it is entirely plausible.
Yeah, company level self-regulation doesn't seem to work very well. But maybe it could be done at an industry level?

Like the game industry did with the ESRB.
True. He'd just better be very careful to have an explanation when he starts cashing in the 'lost' funds... or titrate them very slowly into his lifestyle. Tax Evasion is often caught not only by transactions, but by inexplicably high lifestyle.
I've read Kurzweil's books. Reflecting on them over time, I think he's kind of full of it. It's not that the material was un-interesting but rather that the claims he was making were a bit wild and overly-optimistic. I see the same kinds of flaws in the reasoning of many people of his generation, where they compile this list of truisms and try to get you from A->B but really the fundamental assumptions from A aren't that solid.

Kurzweil wants to live forever. He wants to become a cybernetic being. That was his undoing in those books--his desire to outlast death forced him to make wildly optimistic predictions.

The dangers facing us are not AI but simply mundane databases. Everything is being tracked these days. Compliance is being shoved down our throats. You are being watched on the Internet and in daily life. "But I have nothing to hide." Yes, you do. You just don't realize it. You should read up on how people were treated in East Germany and the Soviet Union because that is your future. Technology gives zero shits about humans.
I've started cutting my Amazon usage too. It's difficult because I've become dependent but I can cut the delivery part for most products.
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> I am glad that websites cannot play audio without the user first interacting with the page. I am also glad that websites can't play audio in the background

> These are higher-level permissions and should not be free for the taking.

While they shouldn't be available to every site, these higher level permissions should be request-able by a PWA with the option to grant that permission indefinately. Apple is deciding they know better than me and providing me no choice. This sort of crap is why I don't own an iPhone.

Requiring developer to buy a Mac and pay $99/year to play audio in the background is developer-hostile in a way that is not user-friendly at all.
These people are working in very stressful environments, often for 10-12 hours/day, and making a pittance (which also adds to overall stress). Add a kid, and the idea of having time and mental energy for learning programming starts to sound a bit far-fetched.
I don't view these two perspectives as from different sides of anything. Joy seems to talk about unintended consequences in a more general sense than just superintelligence, and Cegłowski also discusses the serious problems of not-intelligent machine learning.

I'm not terribly concerned about the paperclip maximizer that may someday exist. I am concerned about the pay-per-click maximizer that already exists.
I am in no way an Amazon supporter, however I fail to see how any single company can "wipe out your career". As a skilled engineer, you have many options. And incidentally, from the sounds of it, it seems like if they let someone go, they would be doing that someone a favor.
> Forcing you to use native controls.

This is wrong. Cordova has been around for years.

Furthermore, it’s detached from reality. I released an app made with Ionic. It’s an app for average joe, not for devs or designers. Out of 20,000 downloads, I received exactly 0 complaints about performance or UI. Most users don’t care and don’t notice anyways.

And it’s pretty much the only way how I can maintain an app for both platforms as a solo dev.
Oh, I totally agree... if you can get $13 an hour working at Amazon how much would you need to work in the field or the mine, harder, more dangerous, exposed to toxic stuff. $25 or $50 isn't so crazy.

By the same token, the fact that Amazon retains hundreds of thousands of employees at $13 an hour means working conditions can't be in a different league from Walmart etc. Of course Amazon should be managing this stuff so it's not a Dickensian sweatshop. But of course they know that and they know the worse it is the more they have to pay, and these stories are maybe a little overblown.

Or at least I don't see buying at Walmart instead of Amazon to be a humanitarian necessity or particularly welfare-enhancing.

I kind of see it as a FedEx vs. UPS situation, FedEx pays more and is more brutal, pick your poison as a customer or employee.

Everything you buy that's cheap is cheap because people worked hard in shitty jobs.
You are correct in a Bayesian sense, but until everyone is trained to be a Bayesian reasoner in primary school, we need to build the system in a way that ensures evidence is considered properly.
But proposals need to be politically viable in order to actually be built! Human weakness is a serious failure mode in complex engineering projects and needs to be treated seriously.
I’ve checked NuCypher’s homepage and I find a bit strange to have that much emphasis on the blockchain on your homepage and at the same time only 5 occurrences of the word "blockchain" in your 21-pages whitepaper. Am I missing something?
lol many moronic companies were lured to China 10-20 years ago by '1.4 billion people'.

then they realized they had to give up 50% of company, their IP were stolen, the 1.4 billion customers never came because China's upper middle class income is $1000/month and half the population made $200/month, they had to give up board seats to Chinese officials, they gained some customers in China but lost most of their customers in NA, Europe and Japan because Chinese competitors sponsored by states stole them, they lost sales due to Alibaba, Amazon and Ebay shipped counterfeit products that was copied exactly like their own, directly to customers. And they died.

btw jacquesm did you go to the dark side of dictatorship? why are you openly supporting China?
This implies a world with unlimited energy and natural resources?
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The root of the problem is that the Internet does not intrinsically have a concept of genuine identity.

Yes, first amendment rights are preserved in the "real" Internet through anonymous posting. And information gets shared that otherwise would not if identity were revealed.

But that begets spam, fishing, scams, and a number of bad actors that drive people towards walled gardens for communications.
... and how is spending $0 on transportation a reasonable solution, anyway?
I used my personal $500 mac mini for full-time desktop and webapp development when employed at Citrix. This excludes the cost of peripherals, of course.
I'm not mad at them. However their lack of support for industry standards is why I won't buy their product.
What about for people like me and very likely many here...

The classroom was one of the biggest distractions to learning I faced. Early access to a computer was not only the foundation of my productive education, I don't exaggerate when I say it may have saved my life.
Biologically, this doesn't make sense. One of the more accepted causes of graying-1 is a build of of H202 in the hair follicle resulting in the hair not holding as much melanin. It seems unlikely that this would come from the brain, through the skull since that's not how the circulatory system gets in/out of the brain (it mostly goes through the neck/spine).

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/health/10well.html
> just look at the tiny house movement. Just imagine how much cheaper it would be if something like that was built but stackable.

Say, did you ever read or see "Ready Player One"?
No. Paper books for schoolchildren are extremely cheap[0]. They work without power. They work even after getting a bit wet. They work even if you sit on them. You can highlight and underline stuff on the pages. You can share it easily. You can even take small notes on the books. You can do exercises right on the book. You can take photocopies easily. There is simply no competition.

[0] https://www.amazon.in/Books-NCERT/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A97...
OLPC is certainly history now and Sugar Labs, while still active, is struggling to keep Sugar relevant.

We at OLPC France started https://sugarizer.org : a HTML/JS rewrite of Sugar. Real-time collaboration on pedagogical activities, the journal to browse past activities, all this in plain HTML/JS.

Contributions are welcome!
Navigation is not a pure map feature, either.
Windows Phone hit that spot. Perhaps "luxury device" is pushing it, but as a utility - particularly in the WinPho8 days, before Win10 introduced performance regressions - it was a fantastic platform.
Of course, it's so easy - there's no apprehension of the fallout from your decisions, no lingering self-doubt, no fear that maybe you contribute to the problem and self-advocacy might amount to petulance, no implicit duress from the question of where your food and shelter will come from.

I guess it might not be a bad metaphor, but I gotta say, your advice seems facile and sort of in poor taste from my point of view.

You're exhorting people to stand up and say 'this is not okay', but that additional burden shouldn't have to be borne solely by the people who are already shouldering the worst of the situation's negative externalities, should it?
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I've been pretty descriptive about my desire to have Programmer Dvorak added to the list of available keyboard mappings.
> The problem with Marxism is that in many of the places where it's been implemented in earnest, it's killed millions of people.

That’s the problem with Leninism.

The (biggest; there are others but this prevents even useful discussion of those) problem with Marxism is that people (even those who oppose Leninism and disbelieve everything else associated with it) accept Leninism’s propaganda that it is Marxism, rather than a system which adopts the rhetoric and stated end goals of Marxism, but abandons both it's mechanisms and explicit preconditions.
Today, I hope!
The Power of the Algorithms – On the Arms Race in Artificial Intelligence
I've been working in software for the better part of two decades, and from my experience the answer is... all of the above and more. But ultimately I don't believe anyone can give you a formula that will work specifically for you since only you know you the best.

For me personally it's reading every pertinent book, magazine or blog post I can get my hands on, endless sandbox experiments, side projects when I can, and meeting other developers face-to-face. YMMV.
Agree, outdoor magazine has a detailed piece about this [0], somewhat ironically the author, a friend of mine, was killed recently by a vehicle (an accident; the truck hydroplaned into him while he was fixing a flat) [1].

[0] https://www.outsideonline.com/1930211/bikes-vs-cars-deadly-w...

[1] https://www.outsideonline.com/2282551/author-and-cyclist-and...
You may want to check the seal on your next order of Mountain Dew from Amazon.
And now they've buried this information and are building thousands of homes there. Literally thousands of families live on radioactive ground. I know because we almost bought one. https://candelasglows.com
I did not mean it like that. Jobs at all levels, have many options. A warehouse level job is very transferable. I know, because I spent years doing it.

Also, if your in that role, you can more easily move to different industries than say a Phd major is a specific subject. My point remains, it is up to the individual.
Someone close passed away from lung cancer last year. He received immune therapy (keytruda), and while it may work wonders for others, it comes with drawbacks; My main issue was that it takes 4 to 5 treatments (with weeks between each treatment) before you even really know if it worked or not. This is valuable time that could be used to treat the cancer with chemo (which admittedly has way worse side effects than keytruda, but still).
Why are you generating apps? Sounds like you need a website. Do your apps use the camera, accelerometer, AR, ML GPS or any other parts of a device? Or is it just a website with the cachet of being “an app.”

Most people releasing apps shouldn’t.
Where did OP say about job requirement to pee in bottles?
> tolerance. I find this is often glossed over

This was specifically and prominently addressed by the article:

>> However, at 25 days the effects had levelled out.

>> The study's authors suggest it could offer an effective rapid treatment for people severely depressed and at imminent risk of suicide and could help in the initial stages of treatment, as most anti-depressants take four to six weeks to become fully effective.

They see it as a bridge treatment which is temporarily useful until anti-depressants kick in. Because, as it said, after 25 days the benefits begin diminishing... which sounds perfectly reasonable and has the added benefit of reducing the risks of addiction.
So the technologies such as blockchain are too complicated and require significant UX work, yet “view source“ and copying and pasting HTML code is somehow a better user experience?
Insider trading only applies to publicly traded companies.
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Most of those early demos were hand assembled anyway, so the "source code" is a bit of a vague statement. You might be getting a bit more structure/comments in the original .s file but maybe not. Most of those demos required heroic program shrinking to fit in memory, and that's almost always a disaster for readability.