skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would You Ride In This Uber???
Possibly, UBI or negative income tax (which is probably easier to administer) may be required, but it may not. In India, they still employ someone to sit on a chair in a lift pressing the button. Even in the western world we employ doormen.

Of course while people vote against their best interests (the false belief that hard work guarantees success) I'm sure that those with the power will continue to exploit those without.
It might have had some effect but decline in Union membership and collective bargaining power are much more important. After all, we're seeing record profits and a massive transfer of wealth to the top 1%. If workers could effectively organize, the increase in workforce wouldn't matter.
We can't. Labor and capital need each other, but they are forever at odds. Good wages and working conditions can only be won through negotiating from strength. Modern America favors capital. Elections have consequences.
uuencode and uudecode - why do we have yet another tool for an obsolete tool that existed decades ago for binary files?
You may also be interested in the Ogallala aquifer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer), which is kind of important to agriculture west of the 100th (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ogallala-aqui...).
It's a "paid by the hour" problem.

If, as a company, you pay someone by the hour to complete a task, it's in your best interests to employ only people that do the most work per hour, and then to treat them in a way which gets more work done (to an acceptable quality) per hour.

If instead workers were paid for getting the work done to an acceptable quality, then the workers could decide for themselves what quality of life vs income they wanted.

Salaried work with performance based bonuses are somewhere in between, and perhaps strike a good balance.
Yeah, articles about the dangers of general AI basically missed the simpler, immediate problems of human using mechanical means to modify themselves and their environment without any ability to collectively, wisely consider the consequences (problems that begin long before machines are intelligent).

If humans are a collectivity, "we" right now have created the means for most people to live without working. But upshot of this hasn't been paradise but increasing privation in advanced nations as everyone still needs a conventional job for social and material survival but fewer and fewer people can find them (and the oversupply of workers reduces their price). Just as much, those who leverage the transformation of society using technology have benefited greatly but the resulting inequality of wealth distribution has produced tremendous despair for a significant percentage of the population with little indication that any further transformations are going to fix this (basic income is one effort but I don't see how this can happen without severe inflation, etc).

A similar unthinking dynamic can be seen in climate change and the effective total lack of serious response to it.

It will be a long time, if ever, before some AGI rules humanity. But the use of mechanical processes to control human behavior began not with AI, not with social media but longer-ago with mass media and it's certainly in high gear at the moment (in both mass and social media of course), allowing whatever well-connected actors to control the "news cycle" and guarantee the lack of coherent, collective discussion of the overall, serious problems of this society (as mentioned above and as most people can see in front of them).
Ask HN: How did you learn to code?
How did you learn to code? Formal education or completely online, when did you started, which resources did you follow and would recommend to others?
Charge recruiting companies to contact them (check the EU GDPR regulation to avoid legal issues)
Apache Subversion 1.10 Release Notes
That’s great news both for you and for all of us.

I hope all patients that would benefit from this treatment will have access to it, to save their lives and to validate and improve the therapy for all those to come
Yet in the rest of the world many people use the train to get to the airport. When I fly into Moscow DME, why would I want to sit in a traffic jam for 90 minutes when I could get the train in under half that time. Taxi from Amsterdam Schipol? That would be crazy. From Tokyo Narita? You're having a laugh. London Heathrow? Get the express to Paddington and a taxi from there. Or just take the tube the whole way.
That it’s given for pain does not make it anything like what people think of as a pain reliever. It’s nothing like Tylenol, ibuprofen, or opiates.
Apple complains Amazon's US site is selling fake products

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37715531
In addition to the online tools that other commenters have pointed out, I strongly recommend finding a regex "cheat sheet" (there are dozens online) and actually printing it out - I have one pinned to the corkboard next to my monitor and it is invaluable. It will save a lot of time from having to remember all the character classes, which characters do/don't need an escape \, and crazy lookaround syntax ("was it ?<! or ?<=")
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I recall reading this too. It's apt to think now how gracious we've been afforded that software innovation has not kept up with hardware innovation. While computers have got relatively that much more powerful as he states, they are still performing maybe a little more than they were in the 90's. One day I think one of these dystopian realities will happen but I like to think we as humans are actually just really stupid, and that an army of super smart machines if they do come into existence will only happen once we actually stop killing each other.
I don't even think Phi is intended to be anything other than an individual/hobby project. Has the author even commented here yet?

My point is it's not like they are intending Phi to replace sublime, they're probably just doing it for fun. Even if they are more serious, they're being honest about its short comings right now.
I don't think covering all devices available is necessary before this approach brings some benefit to kernel developers. Also, this service would not be necessary if all phones ran the same version of Android and had displays with the same number of pixels, none of which is that much relevant for kernel developers.
It told me that my account doesn't have access to this feedback.
Beaker dev here, quick question: did you try our beta release? We've done a ton of work in the past few months to make it less opaque and to freshen up our UIs. Would love to hear your thoughts on the beta if you have the time!

https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/releases
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Importantly, it's outside of town and there are no houses very close.
> The mess has dealt the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons environmental management program yet another setback, following more than a decade of engineering miscalculations across the nation.

I get how some insignificant/"checklist checking" agencies can cause governments to fumble, or worse markets with complex fast changing circumstances resulting in revolving doors of hiring within industry or uselessly slow reaction timeframes....that's almost old news at this point, a reality we've seemed to have accepted.

But when agencies with such critical mandates as this are also so dysfunctional then it makes it hard not to cynical about the wider system from which these "solutions" continually spring from, or maybe it's just the fundamental constraints from which they operate (such as the type of people who typically staff these agencies).
I don't think they value goodwill over protecting their core business.
>They cost more than $100,000 a year, can have serious side effects and help only some patients, generally fewer than half.

Fuck you and the fuck the US healthcare system. Daddy or mama gets to live a few more years, but it will put the family into lifelong debt. I'll say it again, fuck you.
Why is this shocking? I can't think of any proprietary software, offhand, that has a public bug tracker.
ESPRESSO FOR ANDROID: ITS DRAWBACKS AND USE FOR a TEST AUTOMATION ENGINEER
Thanks for the feedback. To clarify, do you mean you'd like a way to share your results socially or via email to others?
Even worse...

https://s31.postimg.cc/7jmudkjob/feedback.png
Why Docker for Data Science
Just signed up. The community looks wonderful and I'm really looking forward to participate and learn. Thanks again for the share.

Cheers
> It's 'intractable poverty' following WWII was only 'intractable' because of colonial exploitation - the British Empire squeezed it for cheap resources, labour, and wealth (By forcing Indian markets open to imports, and by banning some forms of local production - Gandhi's salt march was an example of resistance to that.) At the same time, the empire did not actually invest in the same kind of infrastructure that Europe enjoyed for close to a century.

You are extremely confused about the history here. The British left India in 1947; WW2 ended in 1945. India and South Korea had a similar GDP/capita in 1950; they were on opposite ends of the spectrum 50 years later after 50 years of a wide GDP growth gap (during none of which time did British India exist).

I believe more than most people in the path-dependency of politics, especially with respect to things like colonialism. A lot of the sclerotic, Soviet-influenced, bureaucratic strangling of the Indian economy during this period is at least partially attributed to (reasonable) democratic political backlash against the abusiveness of the British economic system, in the form of eg labor laws that have been harming the economy for half a century.
Wait, Google has customer service?

The googleproductforum.com (whatever it's called) which is usually the #1 result in Google is absolutely worthless.

I am not joking. It is infuriatingly worthless.
How about software.. Open up a program or website... You lose original purpose of being there instead mindlessly browsing
We asked NASA astronauts: What movies get space exploration right?
Fair - The article seems more about discrimination, workers rights and intimidation more than the uniqueness of the problems.
How much do you think raw materials are going to cost in a world with free labor? What's to stop rich people from just buying up all the resources? With free labor they can use as much resources as they get their hands on.

There are structural problems in our society that cannot be solved with new technology.
The point of a PWA is that the app store is not needed. Why would you be trying to get a PWA into the app store?
> writing emulation taking into account quirks

I believe quirks would be added as they are uncovered. It'd also become a form of documentation. Emulation doesn't need to be precise to be valuable - if we can test it against an emulator on a commodity machine before testing it on metal on a somewhat busy machine, it's still a win - we don't need to waste time on a real multimillion zSeries or Cray if it crashes the emulator.
This is absolute nonsense.

Really? Let's look at some specifics around PWAs and media content.

Mobile Safari has historically set relatively low and hard limits when storing data for offline use through the various relevant APIs. This is a much more significant limitation in a world of offline-friendly PWAs.

HTML video elements have had so many problems it's hard to keep track, from relying on a broken plugin that didn't do things like sending cookies properly with requests, through to refusing to play videos in-page on iPhones.

Mobile Safari has stuck with only playing H.264 videos even as every other major browser supported open standards.

Obviously IE is no longer developed and doesn't support modern PWA APIs, but even IE had better support and more compatibility with some of the other modern web APIs than Mobile Safari.
Sounds like the days when you bought your firewood from firefuel.com, your bicycle from speedbybikes.com and your coats from warmjackets.com

It turns out people didn't trust a large number of separate sellers without a central organisation to set rules, offer refunds and make a consistent shopping experience.
In case you were curious, the Wikimedia Foundation has plenty of money to keep their sites running. Most of their funds are going to other projects, like conferences and "Wikipedia-in-a-box" type stuff. [1] [2]

[1]: http://mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_Donate_to_Wikiped...

[2]: Despite linking to "reasons not to donate to Wikipedia," I'd still prefer more sites run like Wikipedia and less sites run like YouTube, and I think you should donate to the Wikimedia Foundation if you're a power user. Do not donate to the Wikimedia Foundation unless you're heavily involved in their wikis, but if you are heavily involved and have the money, you should. Their donors need to hold them accountable, and that's not possible if they're getting tons of money from people who have no idea what's going on behind the scenes.
"Next time true Communism will succeed."
I did not argue that everyone should live in California, I argued that to declare that we need the blockchain, as if free speech and democracy were foregone conclusions, is anti-social and destructive. And I used California as an example of how legalization can happen.

You're right that some nations will be more oppressive than others, but you're forgetting that those places will more easily ban public blockchains than in places you've hinted don't need it. See Pakistan, Bangladesh, or China as examples.

So you either live in a place where you can fight for your right at a political and social level, and don't need the blockchain (eg. USA), or you live in a place where you cannot easily affect policy, in which case your government has probably also decided you cannot use tools that would circumvent their enforcement... such as the blockchain.
Also from a user's perspective, I'd prefer everything that doesn't need to be a native app to be a pwa. They are much more lightweight and more limited in permissions. Probably those apps don't need to be submitted to the store either, except for discoverability (users are now used to search for apps on the store)
I like the URLs can be saved with parameters so you can bookmark specific filters. CMC is lacking in this specific aspect. Your site is how CMC could be designed so it is easier to use. Thx.
> smart contract-powered decentralized escrow service

That's actually not quite right. I'm one of the engineers here, but allow me to put my evangelism hat on a bit here. We're building a decentralized key management system similar to AWS KMS or Google Cloud KMS -- except decentralized.

We use proxy re-encryption to do this. You can read about how it works in our Umbral blog post[0].

Several large applications are within the healthcare world. This allows patients to be in control of their own medical data and to share/revoke their data at will with other doctors, hospitals, etc. This lets them retain their own encryption keys without trusting another party.

Its market/end user is specifically anyone who has a need for a KMS. I Would also like to point out that NuCypher can be used as a consumer grade KMS -- something that I am exceptionally excited about.

[0] - https://blog.nucypher.com/unveiling-umbral-3d9d4423cd71
...and your solution is what?
I concur; just replacing some sewer pipes on Cedar St in Somerville is taking 2+ years of construction, and plans have been underway since 2013 and still aren't done. It's a residential street without too much odd about it.

https://www.somervillema.gov/cedarstreet
https://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/cedar-stree...
USSR/Russia still operating version of Hanford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayak .

The area around has been thoroughly contaminated over the 70 years. An example of a disaster there - a lake that the nasty stuff had been dumped into gets dry somewhat with wind blowing away that dust from the opened lakebed.
Ask HN: How do you classify your project's difficulty?
Say if you have multiple clients and there are multiple projects done throughout the year, and you wanted to use a point system to classify how difficult each project is. What factors do you use to determine how easy or hard the project will be? Would you correlate it most with hours billed? Would you use the combined amount of points to compare and/or evaluate the performance of an employee? Thanks.
"Everything" from VoidTools is a good alternative. Very fast too.
Beaker dev here. Dat is a protocol that can anyone can implement, and Beaker is a tool that implements Dat in the browser. We built Beaker as a demonstration of what becomes possible when you put a peer-to-peer protocol in the browser, with the hope that other browsers will someday follow along in our footsteps.
Really... One quick google and you realize there's another bundler of the same name. Can the author rename it to save them both for googlability?
Beginner dev: An app to find the right issue to make your first PR on GitHub
oh yeeeah
Could it become cheaper in the future?
Hello fellow Canadian
> Did their mesh network thing ever work?

Yes it did. Anecdotal, but I've gotten my two OLPC XO-1 laptops to network together just fine.

> did it came preloaded with at least a few thousand sciency books on it?

Yes it did. They're called Collections [0], and part of the deployment process is to select what collections will be on the laptops [1]. Here [2] is a listing of the collections on the default English release.

[0] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collections

[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_Guide_2011/Purchase_Agr...

[2] http://alexvh.me/share/olpc-library-listing.txt
No, actually, it doesn't.

What helps to prevent spammed low quality apps is the app review process.

Those who are spamming the app stores with low quality, keyword dense apps are those who are looking to make a quick buck, and they do not hesitate to pay the paltry yearly fee.
Most US medical research is highly dependent of public funding. Company's are only interested once the risks drop enough and the rewards are very near.

Looking at just research and eliminating patent dogging efforts, Drug companies don't pay for nearly as much research as you might think.
IIRC they do have an unsubscribe button, or some other opt-out method, because I know I clicked it, and I don't receive any of the aforementioned ad emails.
> None of this was intuitive

It's extremely intuitive!

⌊/(⍳≢b)⊖a∘.=b

Let me illustrate why with q:

q)a:"this is some cake i like"
q)b:"cake"

Form a cross product of text with the substring, testing for equality of each character

q)a=/:b
000000000000010000000000b
000000000000001000000000b
000000000000000100000010b
000000000001000010000001b

Rotate each row of the cross product by n steps where n is the row number

q)(til n:count b) rotate' a=/:b
000000000000010000000000b
000000000000010000000000b
000000000000010000001000b
000000001000010000001000b

Perform AND reduction along the columns to find the full matches.

q)(&/) (til n:count b) rotate' a=/:b
000000000000010000000000b

And there we have it. A naive string search in an array language.

Now some interesting advantages fall out of rediscovering this:

- It's obviously parallelisable: The "obvious" (iterative) solution in other languages isn't, and without some difficulty it isn't clear where the work can be split up.

- It uses "outer product" with compare = instead of multiplication × -- an experienced programmer might forget how deeply satisfying it is when first learning how to compose operators

- With some thought it gives a programmer ideas on how they can do string search even faster. Fast string search in an iterative language doesn't look anything like the naive solution.

b⍷a (b find-in a) is useful enough that an experienced programmer should expect a "modern" language to implement it (in q it's called "ss", other languages of course call it different things) but it is far from necessary, and we might cheat ourselves of something. After all, when we are experienced enough to see these things as obvious, other things become obvious as well.
Do you think the only people on food stamps are the unemployed?

But,

Felony conviction, kids that need watching, physical disability, mental disability, age, lack of language skills, lack of any working skills, lack of available jobs for education level, lack of jobs at all, explicit or implicit racism, off the top of my head.

If you think "laziness" belongs on the list, pm me and I'll send you a digital copy of "Evicted."
Bezos realistically has about 30 to 40 years to enjoy his position in the world and then will go the way of everyone else. If one believes in karma, in a future life he may yet get to experience the fruits of the world he helped to create.
nothing is “prohibitively expensive” in healthcare unless you can’t afford your out of pocket costs, which is perhaps increasingly the case for a lot of people, but even conventional cancer treatment is still way over out of pocket costs, so I don’t see how the cost of this treatment really makes much of a difference.

if you don’t have health insurance, your floor for “prohibitively expensive” is probably way lower than this already.
When studies seem to suggest exercise helps, its pretty dangerous to shout down comments like this. Especially when you're completely misrepresenting the question.
Highly doubtful in this country.
Amazon Business not selling drugs
Not Programs With Attitude?
Big fan of BlueScreenView and WiFiInfoView! Thanks for all the great products.
In general, you can do in a GUI what the programmer planned to enable you to do. As was mentioned previously in this thread, programmers come up with some sort of "graphical programming" frequently, recreating the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect -- Which brings us back to the plain text language of programming and processing where all this is already available.
Part of the problem with that is you uncover all sorts of other stuff under the roads: water mains, sewer, gas, steam, electric, telephone, fiber, etc, and especially in a city like NYC it's not all documented. In some cases, old abandoned pipes are used to run new wires.

When you dig, you have to deal with all of this. If you break something, you have to fix it -- and in the case of fiber or multi-hundred-pair copper, you can't necessarily just "splice" it or easily reroute around your construction site.
AWS is the leader in the cloud because of its 6-7 year head start on the competition, not because their product is better than their competitors. There was even a company built on top of AWS that made money by creating a reasonable UX on top of that product.[0]

walmart.com is better designed that amazon.com. I don't know when that happened but you can take a look at two product pages for the same book and be the judge. [1][2]

That's just the tip of the iceberg. I could rant about Amazon's software for days, but in the end software doesn't necessarily mean they are a bad company. If I order something from amazon I expect to get it quickly and in the case something goes wrong I can talk with someone who will be more than agreeable. That is why they are successful, not because of their software prowess.

[0]: https://www.heroku.com/

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp...

[2]: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Thinking-Fast-and-Slow/20530246