skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the tragedy of the commons in action. In this the case, the "common" is our collective willingness to post helpful information on websites for other customers. From my point of view, I'm adding value to the merchant and getting nothing in return. I used to get the fuzzy warm feeling of contributing to the collective good of humanity, but now that it's so commoditized I'm not willing to do it anymore. There are two solutions that I know of; the socialist one and the capitalist one.

The socialist solution is some kind of collectively-funded watchdog organization that provides useful review information. The capitalist solution is an organization that straight up charges for reviews, ie, Consumer Reports.

I'm sure someone's working on their startup about it now.
One positive thing about our dystopian future is that it will force us to meet up more in person, if only to confirm our friends are real.
Apple is awful at providing a reasonable spread of devices though. There's no $50 iphone that does everything I need, I'd have to spend at least ten times that. Then I'd have to pay MORE to be able to develop and run my own programs?! At that point, why even have a microprocessor rather than using a simple fixed function ASIC?

Would I be happier if I could get a phone with the equivalent of BIOS and nothing else and vet and install my own software? You bet. If nothing else, I'd not have to install all those Play ____ apps I never use. But given the choices available, Apple is a bad one.
Interesting that the internet is broadcast sometimes and not other times then.
Are you seriously not seeing the difference between [human] giving information to [company], versus [company] making a suggestion to [human]?

I never liked Facebook; I never thought any of Facebook's cool features made up for their creepy business model. I do like Google and Google Mail because I pay for the service and the relationship is extremely different. But that's outside the point anyway. You're giving information to the company by simply using gmail (receiving and sending emails through gmail). Autocomplete is a feature that doesn't gather information (at best a yes/no)...

Seriously, wtf is dystopian about autocomplete? Do you write your code in nano or something?

And how much thought do you put into an email anyway? Outside of development ones, all my emails are extremely standard (the few times I even bother sending any). I won't use this for development emails. What is the problem?
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There is a pretty elegant solution in Europe: you're given an ID card (as a foreigner I paid €28 euro to get one of these in favour of a paper-based equivalent containing just the personal number/tax ID, not sure how it works as a citizen). It's also the same with the Estonian e-residence (and naturally the normal one too).

Most services use public key crypto and your ID card doubles up as the thing you use to cryptographically sign any documents that require proof of ID. You can do this yourself for many official documents with a generic smart card reader, and most places that would require ID in general (like your bank) will use that same system too.

The nature of the system means that while there's still likely to be a list of personal/tax numbers lying around, they are not the secret and there isn't a central database of everybody's private keys out there. If the root cert is compromised it can be renewed and card holders can refresh their card through some system or another (where I lived I had to take it to an office for them to do it for me).

I enjoyed using that in favour of the UK method of telling somebody where I lived for three years and where I was born, along with various other details, in order for them to become convinced of who I am. All I had to do in Europe was plug in my ID and that was enough proof.

Of course, implementing such a scheme in the US and UK seems to be politically toxic for various reasons that can be summarised as paranoia (whether that's warranted or not), where the potential for the government to abuse it in myriad dystopian, conspiratorial ways is still far, far worse than what the corporate megaliths are doing with all of that information already, for profit, as if the natural state of government is to be less trustworthy than a corporation despite reality showing otherwise time and time again.
I've made it abundantly clear, in this thread and going back years, that I consider free speech to have limits. Speech acts have consequences both in law and everyday life, and to pretend otherwise is facile. Incitement to violence against the innocent is one of those. It is you who has kept ducking plain questions and pretending not to understand them.

Just so there isn't any ambiguity, I find your excuse-making on behalf of incitements to engage in rape, enslavement, and massacre contemptible.
This year's build is rather underwhelming.
It’s not just “fake” versus “authentic”, but the incentives are tied to star ratings, and so the text and the rating can be completely opposed. I recently read a review for a refrigerator that (no joke) read “It’s loud, and fails to maintain proper temperature. 5 stars.” WTF?
You never bothered to ask the slaves what they want to happen? Instead your default reaction to a hostage crisis is just to kill everyone. Lets nuke North Korea right?
At least in the demo, the system didn't identify itself as a bot. It pretended (fairly convincingly) to just be a person, and seemed focused on interactions (making a restaurant reservation, etc.) that don't involve someone recognizing your voice. In other words, I don't think the attack surface is any different than situations where you could just place the call yourself, save perhaps for the possibility of scaling it.
Hey, I'm actually arguing your case :). I find sticking to local customs to be self-centered, because "why should I change to accommodate other people?".
I doubt that "do their own tax" is the blocker there, I would expect it's much more about "give up on any kind of legal protection as a worker."
Yup. We have a similar thing at my company. Every time we try to test out of the loading animation, conversion and retention goes down. It’s an amazing thing to see.
“The results were striking: individuals who completed these tasks while their phones were in another room performed the best, followed by those who left their phones in their pockets. In last place were those whose phones were on their desks. We saw similar results when participants’ phones were turned off: people performed worst when their phones were nearby, and best when they were away in a separate room. Thus, merely having their smartphones out on the desk led to a small but statistically significant impairment of individuals’ cognitive capacity — on par with effects of lacking sleep.”
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My intuition is that removing a pickup would not reduce sustain. The magnets are pulling slightly on the strings, which would increase sustain, but not enough to be noticeable.

It really comes down to the wood of your guitar. You can feel the vibration of the guitar when you play, and the difference between one with a lot of sustain vs one without is pretty noticeable.

The pickups and amp, and gain levels also make a difference. The pickups on my guitar are extremely sensitive, so any little touch is quite loud through my amp.
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Could be used if radio is being scrambled.
That famous tax preparation software added several screens to "review" the data.
Why would your friend want to share a body with Kurzweil?
This isn't that different than all the bad actors calling from the "IRS". Educating people about giving personal details out over the phone has always been a challenge and will continue to be one.
You're right. But I think the single-value, hyper-transparent nature of prediction market can create an institutional feedback loop that's more powerful than what arises from the diverse, individually held opinions that others don't know about.
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Yup, I forgot where I read this, but I believe all Gmails are eligible for the model. Again, forgot where I saw this, but Google takes great precaution to protect your data from human inspection, but being used in the corpus is fair game.
This could be an interesting application for machine learning. Train it to notice what defines an "interesting" geometrical pattern and then have it graph prime numbers in thousands of different ways and see what it finds. You could even apply it to things like colors, waveforms, etc.
Well I guess if people still want to continue on to the product, why not get some zero-cost kickback? :)
I wonder if they detect that and solve whatever task it is directly then.
> " it's just too unlikely to have originated completely independently twice."

Unlikely, but not absolutely impossible. Correct?

Editorial: This is where Science / science loses me. It makes absolute statements that aren't in fact truly absolute.

The point being, __if__ there was a chance identical mutation that changes (a lot?) of things. Truth be told, life coming into being has to be a couple orders of magnitude coincidental than some gene mutation. In that context, "too unlikely" starts to feel much less so, yes?
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>I am someone who believes the world would be better off without these companies. My argument generally goes like this:

>Credit existed before reporting agencies

So, you like credit reporting, but not credit reporting agencies? Can you see how I might have missed this subtlety, since you never even tried to justify it?

Upon examination, your position isn't even against "credit reporting agencies", but "having wrong credit information". Great, everyone agrees, but it's unclear what you're saying should be different from the current system, now that you say you like "credit reporting".

>Also, I have no idea what you are talking about with Church things. I never mentioned Church or basing lending on social ties.

Or you forgot already. The Church came up because I pointed out that, yes, lending did exist before credit reporting agencies, but only based on these informal social cues, like whether someone "seems like a good Christian man" (gender intended) or whether your went to the same church (yes, church specifically). Then we had this exchange:

>>[lending was based on] whether the banker knows you from church as a good C̶h̶r̶i̶s̶t̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶m̶a̶n̶ person

>Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

Now you're acting like none of that happened, and also calling me a troll.

If there's a clear argument, I'd like to engage with it, but I can't discern what it is from your comments.
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The alternative, in this case, is the "god created everything" theory that was previously popular opinion. Refusing to continue considering that 'alternative' is not being closed minded, it's being progressive.

It's as if, after discovering the Earth is a sphere, continuing to entertain discussion that the Earth might be flat. It's a waste of time.
I'd say sometimes not crossing that bridge, which leads to a common meeting place, and instead insisting that everyone caters to your side is self-centered, but I just recognized that the exact same argument can be used against my position that most websites should be usable without JavaScript... Oh the irony.
Real world privacy stealing in realtime.

Who want google to spy in they life ?
Why did you bring in "Jokes about abortion, rape, race, sexual orientation, etc, etc,". When the joke was actually about censorship?
The most inefficient API you could design!
I am far more afraid of technology we can't control that works for an ad company, not for us, than moving technology forward a little bit slower.

We need to be able to trust our communication, and we're moving away from that at light speed. Where a company whose entire business model is to subtly influence you in the directions profitable to them is the middleman in all of our communications.

I am terrified of this. I am not sure I've ever seen a presentation that terrified me more that wasn't out of a science fiction movie.
It's really just an audio version of a loading bar or spinner - users get really uncomfortable if the UI becomes unresponsive for even a few hundred milliseconds, but they'll wait for several seconds if it looks like something is happening.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_noise
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So? The entire promise of computers is programability. If you can't make it do what you want it to do, you might as well just get an old nokia.
Analogies are just analogies. Online communities are their own thing. Also, my analogies act to highlight the morality of what companies are doing, which you are evidently disturbed by.

Where people have reach, and you actively degrade that reach after the fact, the action is immorally censorious. Where an audience seeks a particular message, and where another party seeks to deny their access, particularly through underhanded and non-transparent means, the action is immorally censorious. I suspect you just find those actions desirable because they are (for now) aimed at your ideological opponents.
Sure did! Looks like you already have a reply from Ferrer :) but I will chime in to say the department is doing as well as ever. I graduated a couple years ago and was also surprised with how strong my CS background was going into industry. It's definitely served me well.

It's still a small department - I think there were <10 people in my class - but has seen an uptick in growth the last few years. They've made some really great hires recently - obviously Brent, as well as Mark. Both are great teachers and Hendrix is lucky to have them.
The "um" isn't a deficiency, but the slow response is. If the response is artificially delayed to give the appearance of slow thinking, and an "um" added to fill the artificially long silence, that's an artificial deficiency.
>Apple holds the keys

Unless you live in China, in which case Apple and the Chinese government hold the keys.
Do we know what the Kubernetes' team's official plan for fixing the ingress situation is?

My opinion is that ingress portability isn't really that useful in practice. You want implementation lock-in at the ingress level, since the implementation matters. If I need to target platforms in a generic way (e.g. make something that works on both AWS and GKE), I can use Helm or some other templating solution to generate the right manifests with the right settings.

So "KongIngress" isn't a problem for me, and rather than struggle with today's situation on GKE, I'd much rather have a "GoogleIngress" with all the GLBC bells and whistles (well, there aren't many, but at least timeouts and a CDN toggle!) and not care about it being portable.
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It seems that criteria for the outcome is rather loosely defined: what if he uploads to the computer cluster (which is more likely, since upload to android also requires miniaturization of brain-simulating hardware)?
I think our only realistic hope is actually various non-profit foundations and such.

When you think about it, I can download (for zero cost), a high-quality operating system and attendant applications which would have cost hundreds of dollars 20 years ago, and would have cost a fortune 40 years ago. Ditto for educational materials, entertainment, etc.

In that sense, we are quite wealthy in comparison to previous generations. If charitable organizations can leverage the automation of the future to help people, we might then see all humans across the planet lifted out of poverty.

But yeah, I don't expect corporations to do this. And it seems unlikely that most governments will either.
There is a lot of confusion in this discussion (and in the original paper) about what "genes" are, and what "novelty" means. Human genes and shark genes (the DNA sequences) are not nearly identical, in fact, the DNA sequences that encode human and D. rerio (zebrafish, closer than a shark) hemoglobin share about 67% identity over about 2/3 of the mRNA coding length, which is which is quite statistically significant (expected 1 in 10^-30 by chance). But hemoglobin "genes" (the DNA) encode hemoglobin protein, and the human and D. rerio protein sequences share more than 50% identity over the entire length of the protein; a level of similarity expected by chance once in 10^45 searches (these low probabilities would be much much lower for an average length protein of 400 amino acid, globins are much shorter -- 145 aa -- so they have excess similarity or statistical significance). In the protein world, sequences with less than 30% identity often have very high statistical significance. As several writers mention, when the amount of similarity is so high that the odds of it occurring by chance are very low, the simplest explanation is that the similar sequences diverged from a common ancestor.

Let me reassure you that computational biologists who do these kinds of analysis are very aware that evolution is not linear (hence the many methods for building evolutionary trees), and that similar mutations could (and do) occur in different branches of a tree. The argument being made here is that something new has appeared -- there are many new trees that emerged about 650 million years ago. (In the protein world, 650 million years is a relatively short time, so evolutionary relationships at that distance should be detected.)

That said, it is very dangerous to talk about "novel genes" or "novel proteins" without being very clear about the nature of the novelty. Just as protein sequence comparison is more sensitive (has a longer evolutionary look-back time) than DNA sequence comparison, there are methods (not used in this paper) that can look back even farther, and we know that there are ancient evolutionary relationships that are difficult to recognize using sequence comparison, the approach used here. Moreover, many proteins are build from modules (called domains) that can be rearranged, so even though the module might be old, the particular arrangement might be newer. After a quick scan of the paper, it was unclear to me whether the authors are claiming that there are a large number of genuinely novel domains (unlikely), or simply arrangements (more likely), or perhaps simply duplications of existing genes (very likely, but not very novel).
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I think the concentration of fake reviews varies a lot with the product, so for some products, they are essentially useless.
People have learned that the spinner is non-progress, though. The progress bar still has some life in it, except that those are often fake, not measuring progress.
Google home's speech recognition can't even reliably turn my lights on and off every time, why would I trust it to book a restaurant reservation? I'd expect to tell it to book a 6pm table for 2 and wind up with an 8pm table for 10.
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Tax and legal issues for example in the UK (one of the more friendly countries to the idea of employee stock ownership) there are rules about how an approved share option schemes work- main one is no multiple share classes.

Whilst you can offer on approved schemes - you might have to offer people in the uk more options to cover this which might make local (US employees) jealous
Hi,

co-founder of OpenCage here.

It depends heavily on what your use case is: forward or reverse, which part of the world, what level of granularity, etc. Google offers a great geocoding service, no doubt. But you also have to pay their price, and obey their terms and conditions. Their great service is overkill for many very common use cases, at least those that we see from our customers.

Anyone who wants to try us out, our demo page is here: https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/demo
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Because a browser User-Agent string is almost unique.
Credit card companies have already solved this problem by publishing a well-known 1-800 number that their customers can call back to verify the intent of an unexpected caller.

Google Duplex can do the same thing - without even staffing a call center.
I do too. Gets you back messages in the browser as a bonus!
I get the sense that Google isn't completely sincere with its Digital Wellbeing campaign. Rather than tally up your usage statistics on a dashboard, why not confront the addictive technologies (social media apps, clickbait/sensationalist styles of speaking) head on? Surely they have the data on what addicts people on a deeper level.

One example that comes to mind is "Hey, you've used social media X times today. Here are some websites you may like that would increase your attention span."
The reason we didn't adopt Kubernetes Ingresses for Ambassador (https://getambassador.io) is more or less the same reason you cite in your first bullet. The interface is too simple and while it may work for the simple case of configuring a reverse proxy it rapidly falls apart in the face of things like advanced API capabilities such as rate limiting, shadow traffic, canaries etc. It turns out these are things people really care about.
If your client pays with a credit card, you either pay the fees yourself or add them to the customers bill. You always pay this, just the % amount changes.
There are plenty of places in my town that don't have online ordering or booking...this would (potentially) help with that...but really, I'd rather there be more tech be built around enabling theses companies to "be online" such as an online ordering or booking system. When I find a hair cut place, why can't I just book an appointment right from the Google Maps search? I'd rather have that type of convenience instead. Ironically they may add that at some point, and Duplex just calls on my behalf without me even knowing.
No one would buy or make your low margin low cost phone, that’s why it doesn’t exist.

Almost like Apple has probably evaluated the business case of an open ecosystem low margin low cost phone, and then immediately went back to printing money.
I think if you are a (paid?) enterprise user, they do not do this.

On the other hand, sussing out what is and is not fair game is quite a lot easier with a service such as Fastmail.
But backwards compatible!
I agree with this comment except for the keep going part. It seems you've spent a lot of time building this but not a lot of time considering the value proposition. I think there is nobility in stopping projects, and this one seems liable to eat another year of your life if you continue as you have.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post on HN to
> ask or tell us something.
> Instead, please send it to
> hn@ycombinator.com

However, you can post something, or comment on something, logout, then see if you can still see your post or comment.

But I can see you question, so what makes you think something is wrong?
Why the inverse trust in companies regarding laptops?
They actually seemed to have touched on something like that briefly, saying they'd come back to it in their android segment. Still not sure if it's sincere but if it is, it's a good set of steps.
That's the opposite of what parent and other commenters are saying. Users prefer the loading animations, according to the growth hackers.