skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we unconsciously demand AI should be better than average human performance.

Yeah I agree it's an unfair demand.

Especially given how much more powerful human brains are than computers we should perhaps be having a go a humans for not trying hard enough.

The wins of things like Go and Chess by computers has been down played because humans 'only' learned that stuff 100,000 years ago.

Personally I think that driverless cars work better as passive systems that augment humans for the moment rather than the dodgy crossover that is Autopilot. I think that car AIs can be trained to deal with extreme circumstances by running simulations of crashes millions of times over and then they're capable of taking over if the driver ever becomes unwell or hits black ice.

But this is all temporary, as soon as their vision systems match humans they will only ever improve over what we have. This Stanford self-driving car sliding between four perfect donuts is amazing [0].

[0]: https://youtu.be/LDprUza7yT4?t=31m38s
Right, which was why my point was that the collateral is probably going to be at least equal in value to whatever is borrowed.
Your post is optimistic to the point I choked on my coffee.

Our economy is predicated on consumer spending; we have a whole set of industries built on the backs of poor financial decision making and being near-broke (payday loans, credit cards, overdraft charge reordering, debt collectors, etc.) all of which pull power away from desperate people and give it to others (now your landlord/phone company/ISP/etc have legal grounds to kick you out, terminate your service, etc.) Never mind the difficulty of making use of a court system stacked against the poor...

> I hope voters and politicians recognize...

Actually, it appears that voters and politicians have zero interest in improving this situation, seeing as the current administration is making every effort to demoralize and defang the CFPB[0], which was literally created to do some of the things you're interested in.

I especially like how Mulvaney is moving everything into "financial education", as if an agency with 500M budget is going to make a dent against the billions spent on marketing related to financial "services".

[0] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cfpb-student-loans-201...
No, this is akin to building a protocol. The creators of HTTP are not in trouble when someone uses the web for illegal activities.
Spoken as someone well north of the poverty line.

The reason for some people not having the money around is undoubtedly poor decision making, but for a great many others they simply have no gainful employment, no prospects of obtaining gainful employment and are often trapped in debt spirals due to past financial desperation.

I'm real happy for you that you're so far removed from their situation that none of this occured to you.
I am in Japan, too
How to contact you?
I find this truly hard to believe. Half of the country is on the verge of homelessness and poverty? Bullshit. Get out of your bubble and go see other parts of the country. See the rampant consumerism and tell me this isn't fake news.
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct!
One thing I don't understand from the article: Is Hydrogen Sulfide something that is naturally coming from the geothermal wells? Or is HS a byproduct of lava interacting with the water coming from the wells?
Hey BeReADY, thanks for the awesome reply to this thread. I really appreciate your efforts to write a detailed and helpful response to the question. You guys are awesome and also your company. I must try to download your software and possibly make a blog out of it. Thanks.
>That'd be made-up for with one year of growth

Would it? Facebook has 2.2 billion users out of 7 billion people total, and not all of those users are worth the same to Facebook. The US and the EU have more valuable users solely because those users can spend more money and are more valuable to advertisers. A lot of people on the planet who arent on facebook anymore cant even run facebook.

Its not like everyone has a new flagship phone every year, and its not like everyone on the planet has internet access. China is also not gonna be an easy target for them to crack since China pushes their own countries industries first.

I really dont believe that facebook could just grow to paper over their loss of the entire EU at this point

>Watching the EU attempt to install Chinese style repression and censorship to limit what its people can access online, would be quite the comical circus.

I don't like China's censorship either, but if the other option is for foreign companies to come in and abuse your citizens, then blocking out those companies doesn't seem like a terrible idea
This is good for the rich in the long term (Because it avoids violent revolutions), but bad in the short term (What are the odds there's going to be a revolution next week? Pretty low!)
It gives the wealthy a pleasing sense of moral superiority to see the poor fail. Humans compete not only for resources but for status.

This alone is sufficient motivation to drive policies which ensure not just inequality, but humiliation of the losers.
> That is a situation that can only be achieved by poor decision making and a lack of personal responsibility.

Poor decision making or lack of personal responsibility are certainly sufficient to achieve such a situation... but they're not necessary. Unless you play with the definition of "poor decision making" to include things like "capable of making mistakes."

This could be a good time for everyone to review the concept of the Fundamental Attribution Error: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
Since launch, Google Pixels 2s can not connect to any OS over USB 3.0 a or C
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/70816510

Wanted to draw some attention to how absurd this issue is.

I bought a pixel shortly after launch, and it has never been able to use it's USB 3.0 Connection to transfer data to any device. Can use use 2.0 cables/ports only. OSX/Linux/Windows

Google has been aware of this issue over 6 months and has not made a fix for its flagship phone.
Govt inflation numbers represent a portfolio consisting of all commodities in equal quantity. But if you hold a portfolio of iPhones, Toyotas, and etc (assuming they are non depreciating assets) that number would double very easily.
Why go grayscale? Is there any data to support the claims made by the extension? (see below)

The extension linked says:

> Can't stop surfing the web? You may not realize it, but all of that color is designed to hijack your brain and keep you browsing.

> You'll soon find that time wasting sites hold your attention less, and this will hopefully help you focus on whatever it is you really need to be doing.
Fuck you vile Silicon Valley nigger monkey
I have yet to see a UBI proposal that provided non-trivial amounts of money and yet was not simply financially impossible.

For example, there are over 300M (300,000,000) people in the US. To provide $1000 per year would require $300B. But that's less than $100/month. If you're homeless, that might be enough that you don't starve. But it's not enough that you can go to a doctor and eat. It's sure not enough that you can pay rent so you can get off the street.

If you make it $1000/month, now it's enough money to actually help people. But it also costs $3 trillion a year. That's twice the current Federal budget. So either taxes have to be three times as high, or they have to be twice as high while we eliminate every other thing that the Federal government currently does.

I don't think raising taxes to that level is possible, politically.

The usual answer to this objection is that the government can simply print money. Yes, they can. So could Venezuela's, but that didn't work out very well...

I think the solution is going to have to come from a change in society, not from a change in government programs. I think the rich are more often blissfully ignorant than they are evil oppressors. Things may start to change when the rich actually know some poor people, and can see the way society's structure looks through their eyes - when they can feel the pain it causes to people that they know.
Are triggers really that slow in Postgres?
How Russians Trolls Won American Hearts and Minds
> This makes it clear why our current capitalism doesn't work. The ruling class / rich and wealth people and businesses could extract more wealth out of the middle and lower classes than they do now, if the lower classes were more stable and secure.

The goal is not to maximize wealth, but to maximize power over others. Insecurity in the working class does not increase the maximum extractable wealth for the capitalists, but it does increase the power that the capitalists can exert over the working classes because security creates the practical freedom to not knuckle under.
In the historical long run, few people have ever had financial security until the 20th century. People have much more financial security now than in, for example, the 19th century when there was no welfare safety net or bank deposit insurance.

Yes, it sucks to have trouble coming up with $400 for an emergency. But it's not a serious threat to the ongoing stability of society.
There are many paths you can take if it's a human touch that you are after but none of those will get you there for $500. If you think Atlas could better explain that then I agree with your comment but I never once got the impression that there'd be any hand-holding along the way.
What exactly about being black and in a ghetto prevents you from gathering $400? I have worked multiple minimum wage jobs before without even being on any social welfare. If you are on social welfare, receiving food stamps, affordable housing, etc, you absolutely have the capability to provide yourself with an emergency buffer, even on minimum wage.
I've wowed "normal" people at outdoor parties by "showing" them the ISS, they knew about the it but have never seen it. If I were more charming and better prepared I could also claim I'm an alien, and my spaceship is up there, here let me turn on the headlights, timing it to an Iridium flare.

But people usually say isn't that (the ISS) a plane? And you'd have to explain that plane lights blink.
I'm still angry (ish) at google for killing google reader, it met my RSS needs really nicely.

I use feedly now. Which is pretty good. For me having it has a web site is most useful, rather than a device oriented thing that manages feeds.
Because it's common to write you script with the shebang "/usr/bin/env python3" or equivalent [1], and this behaviour can cause syntax errors when going from one system to another.

[1] https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22%2Fusr%2Fbin%2...
Not sure why you got downvoted. Upvoted
Those aren't luxuries as the word is often used.

> For its part, the Deutsche Bank report explicitly defined luxuries as goods or services consumed in greater proportions as a person’s income increases and necessities as those goods or services that make up a smaller proportion of spending as a person’s income increases.

> It’s worth noting that by the specialized nomenclature of the dismal science, even eating at McDonald’s is a luxury — that is, we do it more as our incomes rise — while smoking and lottery-ticket buying are categorized as necessities.
Lenovo yoga 370
i have a lenovo thinkpad yoga 370 and i cant access the bios and it wont even start up it asks for superviser password and date a time any info would help thanks
+1 for a fast response, although I'm kindof surprised that this was even a problems.

I'm also wondering, how is a Tesla owner able to keep track of what parts of the car (hardware and software) are currently out-of-date? I assume that updates brakes would also be applied to the Model 3s currently in the field.
If facebook does not submit to the law, then the EU's options are to either block facebook and seize their assets or let everyone know that its a free for all and laws dont matter. If you want a solid rule of law, you cant just let people openly flaunt it
Same way that PyPI.org (Warehouse) replaced the old pypi.python.org codebase?

Mostly transparently?
The overhead margin of basic life costs are much higher when one is poor then one is wealthy. It's an even higher overhead when trying to access our ever shrinking safety net with its perverse incentives and a high time and hassle factor. Blaming the victim for being poor is both ridiculous and counterproductive. You should wonder instead why basic personal finance skills aren't on any National education curriculum if its such a basic needed skill. (and I agree it is!)
This hack underscores the need for formal modeling systems like TLA+ or Coq. Essentially, you define successor state axioms, where:

1. start with a seed state.

2. non-deterministically choose the next step (e.g. submit a tx)

3. ask the system to prove the inverse of an invariant you want to check (e.g. hash power cannot fall below X% of total network power.)

Decentralized protocols have bugs; trust only what you can prove.
Does anybody remember when a default install of Oracle RDBMS also installed ask.com? It was at that point that I realised that a significant part of Oracle Corporation no longer cared about how disreputable they appeared. I can't even imagine that they got all that much money from ask.com, on the scale of their total revenue.
Unfortunately if we did this we would be in a much deeper hole than the great depression. The economy only works because people have been trained for 80 years to buy things they don't need, throw them out when they shouldn't and replace them with pretty much exactly the same thing they got rid of.

This might be a bad state of affairs to be in, but before we go trying to change people we need to change the system. Else we will be looking at Hitler as a moderate who had some reasonable national policies.
The populace really doesn't sign up for the vast majority of policy.
It's an interesting observation, particularly for the fact that according to those charts UK's left party has been for the past decades a right-wing party, both on the economics and the liberal/authoritarian axes.

However, I'm not British and I've never followed the politics of any British party, nor my political views have changed substantially in the past few years, so I don't think my perception of the turn to the right of the Guardian in international politics might have been influenced by the shift in Labour's position.
You mean the fact that aggregators like The Old Reader just download the RSS file from the website periodically, and then serve up cached copies to their many user? True, although this is another way of saying that some of the value added by aggregators only exists by virtue of the terrible design of RSS.
Shortcut Win + Ctrl + C. I've known a couple people accidentally press it and think their display is broken! Use it quite often for quick visibility testing.
Yeah that's not too big of a change. Medical expenses, at least measured by national health expenditure per capita, have grown about 17% since then [1]. An additional 17% on $400 would be ~ $468. That number could be enough to account for some of the difference. Of course, medical expenses are by no means the only type of emergency expense, and what you've said about inflation as a whole is still true.

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/184955/us-national-healt...
Sad news. Hopefully a replacement will fill its place and provide comprehensive public access to our government broadcasting network's archives.
>The bigger problem is American’s terrible spending habits not lack of real income.

Maybe terrible spending habits cause no lack of real income, and if everybody became responsible the economy would tank.
Being trapped in a debt spiral due to past financial desperation is just a way of iterating forward in the loop of bad decision making. What I am saying is that to enter financial desperation in the United States is not actually possible if you utilize the available social safety net and make proper decisions.
You make it sound like poorer Americans are blowing their paychecks on designer handbags, but the article makes it clear that that's not what's happening. "Luxury goods" as economists define them are not what you'd expect. To quote the article:

> It’s worth noting that by the specialized nomenclature of the dismal science, even eating at McDonald’s is a luxury — that is, we do it more as our incomes rise — while smoking and lottery-ticket buying are categorized as necessities.
Ask HN: Book about incentives?
Hey HN, I remember hearing about a book that talks about system design through the lense of incentives. In order to transform a system requires an analysis and design of incentive structure.
What is the book called?
My understanding of the current situation is that statistically it appears that nearly every star has planets, but smaller stars are more common and longer-lived than medium and large stars, and that planetary formation models suggest they should be more likely to have rocky planets in the habitable zone. So, the presumption is based more on statistics and models than observations, although of course observations still stand a chance to obliterate the models when we have better instruments to find exoplanets.

But I am not an astronomer, would love to see some data on this.
Question: why am I constantly hearing about RSS and never Atom? Isn't Atom newer and supposedly better? Are the two basically interchangeable, or did Atom never catch on enough that people want to revive it?
Does it necessarily follow that a solo dev, working on a project in their spare time, will accrue massive technical debt? I'm honestly asking, as a solo dev that works on projects in my spare time. If it is the natural progression, how can it be avoided?
Racism mostly.
OK, but, like, what if some people are just actually bad at making decisions? Unless you have a plan for that you’re just moralizing toward no practical end.
The Enterprise was a flagship Starship, the people aboard were the best of the Starfleet Academy, aboard for a limited duration pseudo-military expedition.

This is akin to saying "humans on board the IIS are monitored intensely, do they feel spied upon? Therefore we should all be willing and able to live for a lifetime with that level of monitoring".

And not taking into account that IIS visits are undertaken by very unusual, pre-selected people, for limited durations, being monitored by a single organization, mostly for the purposes of research and protecting their investment.

Which is completely not anything like reality for most people, where things are operated by goodness knows who, for goodness knows what reasons, and barely or not at all regulated against potential abuse.
It’s a better definition of luxuries.

If someone is spending more on food, clothing, electronics as their income rise those things are clearly discretionary.
Modern day slavery. Wow, never did I see it like this before.
You're right. Some poor people have bad spending habits, and some have unfortunate life situations, and some have both.
No surprise that low income consumers choose to consume rather than save as saving account with a low balance has no direct impact on generating additional wealth.
This was a particularly interesting bit though and I was hoping some people might explain/comment more about it.

It seems that getting your crypto-currency hacked gives publicity and boosts value! See also: the Experian hack.
Yes, that’s what I had in mind, thank you. Tried to simplify for mobile view.
This makes me think of a good thinking talk, with a quote I pull out from time to time:

> I hate code, and I want as little of it as possible in our product.

http://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2012/stop-writing-classes.html
Ask HN: What is the most absurd tab/space policy you have ever seen?
Alternating tabs and spaces on the same line is the worst I have ever seen. Bonus points for starting lines with different tabs/spaces based on C++ context:

https://github.com/compiz-reloaded/compiz/blob/master/src/object.c#L122
I'd appreciate it if someone knows about YouTube videos where these types of violins are used.
Government inflation numbers don't work like that at all. They are based on the Consumer Price Index, which uses a market basket of consumer goods and services.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/
It is very difficult to work multiple part time, minimum wage jobs these days because of the scheduling unreliability and availability requirements of the jobs. If you aren't available for ad-hoc hours, then your hours get dropped...
So does race do we include that? So do other factors like politics. Should we say if you are black you should pay more? A trump fan gets to pay less until he leaves office.

We create groups based on anything to assign costs to other people.

Everyone should be paying the same general rate with personal factors like accident history, or tickets.
So they declare ownership over all FB assets in their nation and the data of their citizens.

Really though, I think maybe the act of combining data to form contiguous blocks of PII tied to online personas may need to be made illegal outside of some official, state database. Ie the government gives you a citizen entry and only they may produce such information. So you simply may not have access to certain PII.
How about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus?
Renault Twizy?
It is horribly inefficient and takes way too long. Even if a judge decides something, people may simply appeal to a higher court. This can go on and on until they run out of either courts or money. I've read about legal cases that began in 2002 and only finished in 2013. It is likely that the defendant will be free during this time. Also, prison sentences are 30 years maximum.

American legal system seems to move much faster. They apparently encourage people to make deals and bargains rather than risk legal defeat.
Every second teenager is carrying iPhone - are you sure? [Citation needed]

Problem is that most US population is not educated/smart and easy to manipulate into crazy consumption - conspicuous consumption: a fault that can be levied far wider than just the US. The US has a well documented and understood education system and their unis are respected across the world.

You need to understand that middle class is gone. - Wot?

2-5% of highly specialised STEM workers everyone else job is already subsidized. - On the face of it, an economy cannot function like that. Are you saying that the 2-5% are subsidising the other 95-98%?

(You write in English extremely well but you quite consistently miss the indef/def. articles out.
For example: the US is an incredible ... an iPhone ... the yearly ... The problem is ... most of the US population ... the middle class)
> go see other parts of the country. See the rampant consumerism

How does that dispute the article at all?
Does it? What's the thing that forces it to eventually go to charity, as opposed to laying around in limbo for ever?
The ALL or NOTHING Cyber Security Paradox
"Average price data for select utility, automotive fuel, and food items are also available."

All of these are commodities. And every single product derived is based on commodity. Most commodities can be traded on commodity markets.
This seems to me like this should be a non-profit. This company's revenue growth is misaligned with their customer's goals. Total success would be for the company to have 100% churn from successful rehab, the better they are at what they do the higher their churn rate should be. I guess this is a common issue in the health industry, an area that I haven't the slightest clue about.
As long as the process had been that the only way to get a pull request for a bugfix accepted is by proving the bugfix worked with an automated regression test, then you can change the code as much as you want...
He is also the only person who has ever written an entire C++ compiler on their own, in addition to the first direct-from-C++ compiler. Cfront was a transpiler.
Does “disrespectful” instead of “offensive” satisfy your need to play semantics?