skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love Philip Dick but I wouldn't recommend emulating his writing style. None of his accomplishments are a result of his prose. His character/plot development, dialog, scene... they're all just mediocre imho. However, his ability to touch a contemporary nerve with a concept or plot device is singular, although I think Mary Shelly comes close.
It's not so much that voters are voting down income tax as progressive income taxes are illegal in the state of washington[1]. Though Seattle has tried[2]. You are right though that in some cases the voters have voted down income tax initiatives [3].

[1] https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/local-i...

[2] https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/11/22/25581262/superio...

[3] http://www.theolympian.com/news/politics-government/election...
I have placed 106 Amazon orders in the last 6 months.

Recently I have had more returns than normal. Why? The products I am receiving are broken or not as advertised or the quality is just very poor.

I returned a screen protector because it just would not stick to the screen of my phone.

I returned an iPad case because it wouldn't close all the way even though it was for my iPad size.

I returned a laser pointer and goggles because I couldn't see the beam.

I wonder too how much I am being penalized by Amazon's internal systems for these.
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30%? That would be huge.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jsr.12712

Summary of the paper this mashable post is based around
Ask HN: EU VAT rate change alert?
Is there any such service?
Why bother creating these fakes? Saying something loud and often enough is all you need. Throwing money at social media is far more effective than creating deepfakes. Also, if the US military did spot a deep fake, do they have the trust for people to believe them? They are picking an uphill fight.
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Technical breakdown at https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/05/VPNFilter.html - "While the list may not be complete, the known devices affected by VPNFilter are Linksys, MikroTik, NETGEAR and TP-Link networking equipment in the small and home office (SOHO) space, as well at QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices."
Agree with with you about the best way re distributing costs - that's why Fread tried to figure out a way to make micropayments work. Since this problem is institutional, it is taking time. With Unlimited, Fread are trying to put out a product that people will use to prove the unit economics on a per article basis - which no one in the industry wants to discuss.

Fread operates a MoviePass model - where we fund each user’s subscription cost for every publisher, in full. The publisher gets a full price subscription per user.

In 97% of cases, these users have answered a questionnaire saying that they do not have an existing subscription - so they are generating publishers surplus revenue in these cases.

How they make money - they don’t, they lose it per user. A lot.
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The 2nd YouTube-8M Video Understanding Challenge
Hopefully you see this

This is a question I'm sure many have: how feasible would it be to get DMC++ emitting Linux code?

D uses the same backend, in theory, but I'm not sure how much divergence there is between the D backend and this code.

Perhaps you could get Hello World to build, make a gigantic list of everything that's broken, and see how much traction (hopefully) appears out of thin air :)

I love tcc for its "oh it already finished" compilation time (300ms :D), even (and especially) on older hardware. I wish there was something out there to compare it with; it's quite unfortunate it sits on its own, because it hasn't had an official release in in 4 or so years.
Stripe has made it possible to accept Alipay on their processing platform:

https://stripe.com/docs/sources/alipay
Any Deepfake detection tool would also be a GAN sparring partner for the Deepfake makers.
I think you're conflating cash meaning the physical currency and cash meaning the liquid asset here?

A cashless society is about the former, and as far as I know, the 10% limit is about the latter?

(EDIT: I believe in some systems the banks do technically have physical currency in the form of special high value notes, but they're not really cash in any practical sense)
Seattle mostly. If they built HQ2 here, I'd expect that recruiting would switch to be for jobs at HQ2 (and get a lot more successful, since no relocation required).
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How they make money - they don’t, they lose it per user. A lot.

I think the non-technical founder does most of the front end work in Wix to free up the very small development team to work on the rest of the stack. Something about a lean startup.
You're casting a pretty wide net there, mister. The EU (if you want to just consider one "entity") is big enough to counter all those except for well, the GDPR :p

And regarding the food culture, you'd get many, many bewildered stares from my French and Italian colleagues with that statement :)
Wario Land 3 was a great game. Hmm, makes me want to find that old GBC I have lying around somewhere
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If it is an attack rather than an accident, then after the Skripal poisoning, Russia should be the #1 suspect. There is only one country in the world that is brazen enough to attack a US consulate in China.
Hint: it's not easy to do
I don't know, but I guess the answer is "yes". Can't hurt to ask during the application process.
I still don't understand why palm-pressing[1] the Ctrl key in Emacs is not a thing. No pain, no stretching, and you can make use of both left and right Ctrl. Lately I'm even using a Ctrl+Shift combination, both pressed with the palm at the same time. Xah Lee was not wrong about it. It was actually the most important thing I've learned from his website. Take it, use it, learn it and I promise you, after a month or two, it's muscle memory, it's natural and pain free.

[1] http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_pinky.html
GP mentioned:

>free transfers between bank accounts

does it really matter if it was done through some third party service?
In the comments on the page someone linked the actual talk he gave.

http://www.unz.com/print/Encounter-1963aug-00043a02/
And now they’d just send a drone after they obtained your gps coordinates. The labor of hunting classes of people down has dropped dramatically.
Yeah, but US immigration policy should be constructed for maximum benefit to the US, not to the rest of the world minus China + India.

And I would go one step further and say that it is probably in the best long term interest to the US to have a large population of ethnic Chinese, for the same reason that Israel has benefitted so greatly by the US having a large and influential Jewish population.
I assume they meant it as ‘the first CD console, like the PlayStation was’.

I agree though, it’s misleading.
If you consider this a two sided game, then you can have the fakes quickly become so good that hardly anyone can tell.

And I'm not just talking about image fakes. You can have MCTS find the best arguments for ludicrous statements, and other paths to justify fake things that look just like real arguments.
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Thanks, learned something new today.
My dad was a marketing exec at Philips back in the ‘90s, so I had a couple of CD-I units at home, and a ton of games. I even had an infrared gun controller and a really, really low-quality VR headset driven by dark little CRTs (I think?). Most of my discs had simple white labels, and I’m pretty sure many of them were never actually released. I wish I still had them.

At the time, my dad had told me the CD-I’s primary market was commercial, e.g., interactive training, demo kiosks, media stations in libraries, etc. I don’t know whether that was the original vision or a pivot based on lousy sales. It was probably a smart move, though, considering the only other person I knew with a CD-I at home was the daughter of the VP overseeing that division.

I used to have a CD-I infomercial on VHS featuring a giant, talking screen called “The Wall”. I wonder if I can track that down on the interwebs.

Fun aside: a CD-I video disc of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan was my first exposure to Trek. Other fond memories include The Wacky World of Miniature Golf (sooo much fun), Escape from Cyber City, Mad Dog McCree, and Laser Lords (never did make much progress in that game).
Would the GDPR have any effect if an anonymous 3rd party installed personal info into the blockchain against the wishes of people who now want it to be forgotten?
The anxiety probably stems from the scale of wechat pay; you can pay basically everywhere with it now. Even in places that do not officially accept it, the store clerk will usually just accept on his private phone and put money in the till for you.
Went through a similar phase about 15 years ago. Was burned out from IT. It was a struggle to get up to go to work everyday and I dreaded my job even though it was a great job. I finally built up enough to quit, move to another state, and find a job completely unrelated to IT. I loved it. I had a renewed energy and after about 2-3 years I started easing myself back in doing small consulting roles. After about 8 years I was ready to make the jump back. Haven't looked back since.

One note, during the entire time I was sure to keep up on emerging technologies, even if at just a high level. Made my jump back a little easier, however, I still had a slight learning curve.
Encarta, Carmen Sandiego, Kids Typing, and Gizmos & Gadgets. It was the perfect confluence of events - I spent hours of time on these and might have actually learned something.
>It’s that if you’re allowed to have cameras everywhere, why would you limit useful processing of the data?

Because what matters is what the result of that processing is. This is not some abstract concept; what's actually being done with the data matters.

>How do you regulate it? If you can’t hire Amazon to do LPR or facial recognition, can you pay a guy to recognize people walking down the street and note their patterns?

That's a silly analogy and I think you know it. Again, this is not some academic debate. The difference between being able to process TB order data automatically and hiring a guy to watch a corner and take notes is the difference between the Hubble telescope and me in my backyard with a pair of binoculars.
California high-speed rail has not exploded 5x.

When originally approved in 2008 the estimate was $40 billion.[1] The 2018 estimate for both phases is, I think, roughly $100 - $120 billion (low and high).[2] That's 2.5x - 3x.[3] These numbers are actually in line with opposition figures[4], and for other reasons it's reasonable to expect these are solid upper limits unless people continue to sabotage the project.

It's also worth pointing out that $120 billion is still significantly less than estimated costs for the alternative of expanding the highways and airports--$156-186 billion.[5] Note that those alternative costs are likely optimistic like the original HSR costs, particularly airport expansion and urban highway expansion.

One of the biggest reasons for the cost inflation is the political opposition. Some of the construction contracts have actually come in significantly under budget.[6] The real killer so far is land acquisition.[7] The authority is effectively trying to bribe farmers with huge payouts (clearly beyond market prices) in order to mitigate political pressure in Sacramento. All the political and legal fighting causes expensive delays. (Time is very costly in construction because there are fixed costs in keeping labor and equipment mobilized, plus huge costs in having to re-orchestrate schedules. Lots of interdependent moving parts.) But political pressure wouldn't be so strong if discourse was more honest and less tribal.

The opposition is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy, particularly with the hyperbole and sabotage. By all means fight for transparency, but civic responsibility means we all need to check ourselves.

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Propositio...

[2] https://sf.curbed.com/2018/1/29/16946576/san-jose-mercury-hi... and http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/about/business_plans/Draft_2018_B...

[3] I think both numbers are year-of-expenditure, which means each sub-project is separately inflation adjusted to the midpoint year of scheduled construction.

[4] https://reason.org/wp-content/uploads/files/california_high_...

[5] http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/about/business_plans/BPlan_2012Co...

[6] http://www.cahsrblog.com/2013/04/chsra-selects-tutor-perini-...

[7] https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/17/worst-case-scenario-h...
The trick here seems to be boiling these messages down to a digestable bit for non-tehnical audiences without oversimplying. In my experience very few people want to hear my thoughts on last mile infrastructure in the US but do care when they find out thier location is being sold.
House builders are told (unless they're literally building just one or two homes) to call BT at the start. For any large site, or where it's no trouble anyway, BT will run fibre to the new builds for IIRC free, the builder needs to make sure there are the right ducts etcetera in the ground, then a van shows up and blows fibre.

But guess how many people in house building remember to do that?

So instead they have the houses mostly finished and the sparky asks OK where do these phone points connect to? So that's when BT is called. And then BT will shrug and say you can pay our normal fee, you get copper cables, we can't promise how good the Internet service will be.

The part that's sad is people will stand there, talking to a sales person about their £350k house, checking things on their phone, and not think to ask - wait, this does have high speed internet - right? You aren't trying to sell me a brand new house that lacks Internet access are you?
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This notion of an educated workforce seems very ambiguous and abstract. How about a concrete example -- what education is the guy driving a cement truck lacking?
Always impressed by people who complete things. I've had terrible luck actually FINISHING a project. I guess maybe it's ADD... or my interest in rather boring device drivers and the like. I've been able to modify large projects with many thousands of lines, but when it comes to write one from scratch it really is a lot of work. Props!
The first time I ever saw the Hidebburg footage was from a postage stamp sized video on a CD encyclopedia (not Encarta) that came with our CD drive.
Come on. If you’re not making enough money they would probably not even bother with a 1000. If you do however, and the main reason to have a business is to make money as I remember - then they will most certainly come for you anyway.

You’re trying to lawyer your way out of an oppressive government. It doesn’t end well generally.
A simple live webchat on the dashboard would go a long way, for example. If you haven't done this before (and know the pitfalls of wrong decisions at this stage), the process seems deceivingly easy. A good example on how to do this right might be Credit Karma's Tax product - amazing (& proactive) guidance along the process.
Wow - incredible design polish. Thanks for making this tool!
> The effect of air resistance can be modeled by a different force. It is typically modeled as a linear function of velocity rather than mass [...]

That's the key. The air resistance force is a function of velocity [1], and it is not a function of mass. Two bodies that are aerodynamically identical (same shape, size, same boundary interactions with the air) experience the same air resistance force at a given velocity, regardless of their masses.

As you note, the falling body has two opposing forces. Gravity, which is proportional to the mass of the body, and air resistance, which depends on velocity and does not depend on mass. The motion of the body is determined by the net force.

The net force on the ball is mg + D(v), where m is the mass of the ball, g is 9.81 m/s^2, and D(v) is the function that gives air resistance of the ball at velocity v. (Note: I'm using a coordinate system where balls fall in the positive direction. In this system D(v) will be negative).

The net acceleration on the ball is net force divided by mass. This is g + D(v)/m.

Note the effect of varying the mass, leaving all else the same. Remember, D(v) is negative, so the effect of the D(v)/m term is to reduce the net acceleration the ball feels. In other words, it is to make the ball fall slower.

If we raise the mass, we reduce the magnitude of D(v)/m. We reduce the amount that air resistance slows down the ball. If we lower the mass, the opposite happens. Air resistance slows down the ball more.

For a given ball, as it falls and picks up speed, the air resistance goes up, becoming more and more effective at countering the gravitation force. This puts an upper limit on how fast the ball can fall--the so-called "terminal velocity". This is the velocity where D(v) = -gm. Note that for balls with larger mass, terminal velocity will be higher.

[1] a linear function at very low speed with no turbulence, a quadratic function in most situations we normally encounter in everyday life. The quadratic is 1/2 p Cd A v^2, where p is the density of the air, Cd is the drag coefficient (0.47 for a sphere), A is the cross sectional area, and v is the speed relative to the air.
The safest part of the day for most people is likely the time they spend asleep in bed. If the baseline is 16hrs of consciousness, an extra 2hrs of it every day presents a ~12% increase in opportunities to off yourself accidentally. That's exacerbated by the side effects of loss of sleep of course, but there's a fundamental there that you're not likely to erase.
For me it was rock climbing. I had been suffering for a couple of years. I had been to the doctor a couple of times, but I wasn't really getting much out of the exercises he prescribed or the medication. I happened to start doing indoor rock climbing and I noticed my symptoms slowly becoming less frequent. I climbed for about 2 years and during that time my symptoms got much better.
Simplest explanation to me seems like some equipment we are using to protect US consulates is interfering with the brains of these employees. For example, isn't it common to use cell phone jamming devices at these places? what effects if any do they have on our brain? We have never studied these effects in detail.
While there is no guarantee by law, these companies do cover fraud with their vast reserves. Ofcourse an economic downturn could change that.
It will take 2 years to get a temporary Green Card. Even after that it take 2+ years to get Permanent Green Card, and it depends on a third party creating and maintaining jobs. So starting now doesn't help in the immediate term :( And too much uncertainty for longer term.
These fakes are just another tool like social media. Social media alone might be effective, but add in these "deep fakes" and it becomes even more.
> You learn the hard way to immediately carve 30% of your income to a savings account that you don't touch that goes straight to quarterly tax payments.

Yes, and if you avoid paying quarterly taxes or underpay by accident (because you made more than you thought you would have), you get hit with a huge penalty.

Also it's really brutal that certain things have no effect on your "small business tax" of about 13%.

For example, let's say you make 100k and you had 50k in medical bills for an emergency.

For most people, this is easy. About 90% of that can be written off your income tax. So you'll get taxed at 65k income instead of 100k.

If you run your own business, you'll get that same income tax write off (65k effective income), however you'll need to pay an extra 13% on 100k not 65k. You're on the hook for the full "small business tax" on your total income in this case.

It's complete bs because most medical emergencies (regardless of cost) are things that render you unable to work or do anything. Insurance doesn't even help either because there's a million loop holes to allow insurance companies to deny you coverage on certain things.
I worked as a sysadmin at DNA sequencing and analysis company for a while, and one of the things the boss was adamant about was how important in all factors the microbiome was, and he was repeatedly proven correct. For example, we were doing some work with a leading Chrons researcher... and doing microbiome sequencing was leading to some very promising progress. This happened in many fields, for example wound recovery biofilm.

I am very happy to have gotten the opportunity to work there, and sometimes I wish I hadn't left. My non-compete is finally up at least!
What is the absolute worst?

[ ] the greengrocer's apostrophe

[ ] people willing to debate standard comma versus Oxford comma

[ ] typos not caught by spell check, because they are also valid words

[ ] a homophone or near-homophone incorrectly replacing a word that would otherwise be valid

[ ] an obvious dearth of proofreading or copy editing
Answer: Yes, but people are on the fence on whether it's a bad thing.
Anybody qualified to summarize Serverboards vs Grafana?
The critical difference is that in China, the apps effectively are the banks, whereas in the US, regulatory capture ensures that the banks stay the banks and it's the app's problem to figure out how to interface with them.

The reason the banks are scared is not because "banks" are not involved. They're scared because these apps have successfully vertically integrated to become banks. This is the logical next step for Apple / Google Pay and I'm sure it has consumer banks shaking in their boots, because there's no way they can outcompete those companies in tech. So instead they focus on regulatory capture and making it as difficult as possible for tech companies to play in their sandbox without banker supervision.

One only needs to look at the adoption rate of Apple Pay outside the US to see this system at work. In parts of Europe and the UK it's extremely popular because the banking systems have much friendlier regulations and fewer integration points. In the US the uptake has been slow because the integration is so cumbersome and the banks / payment networks control the entire cycle from point-of-sale to deposit.
Mindmaze. That's all I have to say.
TiVo was really the first product that came close to fulfilling the dream of “asynchronous TV”, which is now fully realized thanks to streaming.

Anyone else remember reading that chapter in Bill Gates’ book “The Road Ahead” back in the ‘90s?
Slight tangent, but let me just say that "deepfakes" is the perfect sci-fi terminology for the technology.

I could imagine an entire series (or part of a series) about "deepfakes".

I hope the name sticks, as the technology inevitably becomes more common.
My issue with Blockchain and "information laws" (not just GDPR, but any law which prohibits or controls information) is that you ("you" being the creator/maintainer of the blockchain) can never mess up.

If someone puts "illegal information" directly in your blockchain, you either need a way to roll-back the change (which removes most/all of the benefits of an append-only structure like a blockchain), or you need to be okay with breaking the law.

That someone could be a blackhat that wanted to publish a bunch of personal info, a disgruntled employee, or just regular users if you allow arbitrary input.

I don't know of any kind of real solution, and at some point someone is going to push the limits and make it obvious that "illegal information" is on a blockchain, and we (as society) will have to come up with a way to deal with it.