skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like something that should be blocked by California's own proposed privacy legislation...

Also, who on earth would choose this over a plate of screen-printed metal for $699 with a monthly fee...?
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This mischaracterizes a more complex situation and conflates several things. While simple unwillingness to pay a market clearing price is the cause in some cases, I would assert it is a small minority of cases in practice. Some other important causes of labor shortages:

- Labor intensive, low margin industries typically have long-term financial structures that don't allow for high wage volatility. Most workers also dislike wage volatility, so this arrangement works. However, this means that there is limited ability by the business to address labor shortages by increasing wages.

- There is an actual labor shortage. If the market needs 1,000 neurosurgeons and there are only 800 in the world, no wage level will make that shortage disappear and it may be many years before the market can adapt. This is painfully evident at the high-end of the software engineering market. Paying higher wages doesn't eliminate the shortage, it just moves it around.

- Individual wages are capped by value produced. Companies that can pay the highest wages are those where employees produce the most value. The value produced by employees is finite so at some wage they are effectively unemployable; the market has to clear in the other direction as well.

- Spatiotemporal latency and distribution i.e. the required skills are trainable but do not exist when and where you need them. This is increasingly challenging as businesses are required to adapt on shorter timeframes; human populations change and migrate at relatively slow rates.

- Local monopsony for labor sets an economically optimal clearing price for the buyer. This creates a synthetic "labor shortage" of sorts in company towns and similar; market clearing, but in a skewed market. This is not the situation for the vast majority of Americans.

Most labor markets are some combination of all these, and the first four reasons are common in most American labor markets. None of those real labor shortages can be reasonably addressed simply by "paying more". That isn't how markets work.
Outperforming the brain is different from making poor assumptions regarding data collection, isn't it? It sounds like in your example the model is not winning because of inaccurate setup but at the end you're conceding that humans might just be innately better than the model.
Show HN: A minimal working native WebRTC app for iOS with audio and video calls
Not the OP, and I've only watched ~8 of those videos, but it seems pretty safe to say they are non-swimmers. Is there a reason you think I'm jumping to that conclusion?
But can't you see it's just part of the plan of the really wealthy to distract attention to themselves? "Don't blame us; blame your neighbor who has a bit more than you do".
So I was wondering, what is the easiest way to implement WebRTC into an iOS app, after some research it looks like the WebRTC native API is great and can be easily implemented in any app.

This demo app is of course the bare minimum and to achieve production ready video/audio calling you will probably need much more effort
I have read a few articles recently on BBC.com where I've felt, well, puzzled over which site I'm on.

It seems they are using more freelance writers and writing more of this kind of content (dare I say content marketing). Googling this writer shows she's done a lot elsewhere.

The type of writing in this article is lacking. It feels like trying to reach a word count, lacks depth and more importantly the local flavour of reporting there is in, for example, the excellent 'From our own correspondent' series.
Or if the humans took rail?
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> I don't disagree exactly about missing a control for the placebo, but I think a control for a placebo is logically impossible, and therefore nobody has ever, or can ever, measured a placebo effect.

The control for a placebo is no intervention, and not only has placebo effect been measured, but differential placebo effects by administration method have been measured (a placebo treatment that involves piercing the skin, for instance, has a bigger effect than a pill.) This is why a valid placebo needs to match administration method of the intervention being tested.
US and EU again at odds over Airbus subsidies at WTO
That video is crazy. It looks surreal on my 4k monitor.
Wow, so far not a single troll saying C is shit and Rust is awesome. Remarkable for hackernews.
You only have to prove "innocence" if your users doubt your statements about PII handling, are so annoyed about your doing that they inform the supervisory authority and that authority has sufficient doubt that they open an investigation. It must be a tricky/dirty/spammy business you're in if you really fear that your users will call the authorities in droves about your procedures.

Even for user requests the law states that the user must show that he has a valid reason to act, repeated requests just for the fun of it don't need to be honored and the user can charged for thus a behaviour.

And to be honest: Blocking access casts more doubt than being open and ask for consent.
Phusion Passenger has some intelligent routing to balance requests so you don't end up with one process idle and one process serving two requests using 2 threads.
I think you're misunderstanding the difference between sobriety checks and these inland boarder checks. In a sobriety check, you retain all of your rights as a citizen. In these boarder stops, you are treated the same as someone entering the country who does not enjoy the rights of a citizen in the country.
As far as I can see it doesn't do the heart rate monitoring - the only thing on the features list a smartphone can't do. What I really want (writing it here just in hope somebody might know a suitable model) of a hackable fitness device is to supply reasonably precise real-time heart rate data letting my DIY Android app react on its change.
Yup, there's about 10 million millionaire households in US
Therapists of nonimproved patients looking back on their work
The cost for Dash is listed as $11,291, and that's assuming there is enough hash power available via NiceHash (there isn't). These attacks are only possible for coins where the last column is > 100%.
I'm also okay with it but I think this was posted about 6 or so weeks ago.
noob question: how do I paste those symbols in say Notepad++?
My TV at home plays long aerial shots like this of Dubai and Hong Kong when there's no signal. It's actually quite pleasant.
I think it does. Otherwise it would be simple to just skip Facebook. But if skipping is no option (and no alternative payment method is available), the whole 'analyze my behavior, values and believes' until you learnt how to influence me effectively becomes a problem (at least for those who don't want that Facebook or one of their partners can effectively influence their mind).
Are we seeing the outline of a new class struggle? Rentiers owning platforms that allow the gig economy to function being organised against on whatsapp?
Why Health Insurers Don't Care About Big Bills
Any press freedom list that would place the UK above the US is broken. The UK just arrested a reporter, then ordered a ban on all news coverage of the incident. Sweden being up at #2 is laughable nonsense. Germany should also be much lower.

I think we can dismiss this one, sorry.
"... If falsehood had, like truth, but one face only, we should be upon better terms; for we should then take for certain the contrary to what the liar says: but the reverse of truth has a hundred thousand forms, and a field indefinite, without bound or limit. The Pythagoreans make good to be certain and finite, and evil, infinite and uncertain. There are a thousand ways to miss the white, there is only one to hit it. ..." -- Montaigne
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/montaigne/michel/essays/boo...
After my 3rd LA delivery, I didn’t think it was that bad. But I also didn’t drive during rush hour.

Grapevine sucks big time on a heavy load. Siskiyous can be scary when you are super green. Cabbage over in Oregon, first downhill route, oh god, I nearly shit myself because the fog... I’m sorry, the clouds because you’re so damn high up, came in, at night.
Google's (now public) PageRank algorithm isn't that complicated, and it brought an astounding improvement in our ability to find what we wanted. There might in fact be a simple algorithm for determining who to trust -- but a closed-source algorithm seems like it cannot by definition go very far to improve media transparency.

If we had more kinds of metadata publicly available -- "[person] trusts [person]", "[person] found [article] helpful for understanding [topic]", "[person] testifies that [person] wrote a good PhD dissertation on [topic]", etc. -- we could publicly experiment with algorithms like, "restrict results to people whose writings have been contradicted fewer times than they have been endorsed", or "to people trusted by people I trust," or "to persons X for whom at least 50 other persons Y testify that X helped them understand [topic]," or whatever.

Hypergraph databases (e.g. Grakn, HypergraphDb) and logic programming languages (e.g. Datalog) already let us express arbitrary metadata -- anything expressible, as far as I am aware.

Getting ordinary users to state their thoughts (and their search queries over those thoughts) in an easily machine-readable manner might be tough. For that purpose I wrote a language[1,2], extremely close to natural language, that allows such machine-readable expression of higher-order relationship information.

[1] Why use Hash: https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/digraphs-with-text/b...

[2] How to use Hash: https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/digraphs-with-text/b...
The thing is, the more I work with network based reactive systems, the more a GC seems like an inefficient hack in an application, arising from the fact that we had nothing better at the time it was invented and grew big.

I mean a reactive application needs three things:

- a fast network connection to persistence. If you can't talk quickly to your database, latency eats your response time no matter what you do.

- Maybe some LRU caches across requests, but caches inside an application tend to become a maintenance nightmare quickly. Stales reads are fun, and stalled cache writes are too.

- And beyond that, it should be possible to handle most request data by stack allocation/deallocation with references to a cache version if you have a cache with little overhead, depending on your security requirements.

I understand the ease of use and simplicity of a GC'd language, especially given the time GC'd languages came around big time. But I've always been wondering if you really need a GC if you think properly about request and object lifetimes.
I advocate for platform cooperativism and workers self-organization and this article is still terrible. Every single technical reference is wrong and the level of confidence in the blockchain is way beyond what is reasonable at this time.

At some point I was expecting some comment on Comrade Elon Musk, the Lord and Saviour of the proletariat.
Certainly not. If you are missing the code to specifically handle a null value, you hope you get a noisy explosion, not a runaway train in your program's logic. Fail-fast is a virtue.

This (anti-)pattern has a Wikipedia page, complete with Criticism section.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Null_object_patte...

Incidentally, Objective-C does something like this out-of-the-box. Unlike Java, where invoking a method on null causes an exception to be thrown, or C++, where you just get good old undefined behaviour, Objective-C 'defaults' to doing nothing. This is described in the Wikipedia article. Strikes me as a very bad idea.
High frequency calculation for Humans!
Ooo... I think we have a BBC bot. The submitter 'MiriamWeiner' only submits from BBC.com and does so about once a day. Never comments.

Very irregular pattern for a human, although perhaps not for a happy license-fee payer.
Yep. Seems like things visually change a lot by proper material and lightning choosing.
Yes that is true to an extent. As an oldish person I know what the failings are of my generation. Having said that I don't hate people of my generation.
Would love to - feel free to reach out, @xur17 on twitter, or my email is in my profile.
Wow that's a relatively small list. I was surprised to see Australia not on it, especially considering we have our special E3 visa, and other countries like UK and Singapore are on it.

The UK has a similar program, Registered Traveller [1], which has a more exhaustive country list. Having an Australian passport, I often get curious looks when I use the smart gates, but I'm always able to go through (though I am always nervous it won't work and ill look like a silly foreigner for going I the wrong queue).

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/registered-traveller/eligibility
Truck driving ticks boxes 2, 5, and arguably 3.

That said, if it paid $200k/yr (median or even 75th percentile), the shortage would disappear post haste. The vast majorly of other jobs that pay that much tick boxes 1, 4, or both and are thus logistically out of reach of at least half the population.
to an outsider, web development looks like hacks upon hacks upon hacks upon hacks upon ......
> In that case, 3 companies will realize they don't actually need those workers afterall, not for the salary they're demanding. They'll find another way to do business without hiring them, or they might even go out of business, which is fine and normal in a well functioning economy.

Absolutely that could happen. But it's funny how you refuse to acknowledge that there may be a "labor shortage" and instead you present it as a "abundance of jobs", as if they aren't two sides of the same coin.

Your second point is just ridiculous, I agree.
Power efficiency is mostly down to firmware, not the hardware itself. For example, using the synthesized low-frequency clock (like the article does) will increase current consumption tenfold.
I have a hard time believing that any technological solution can really help with budgeting. At the end of the day, it's about choosing how you want to spend your money.

Either you know where your money is going or you don't. If you don't, then maybe a few months of tracking expenses will tell you, but once you do, it then becomes about the internal struggle of telling yourself not to spend money you really shouldn't be spending, and this battle can't be fought with an app.

Maybe if you made a ton of money and it didn't make personal sense to track it all. I can see maybe a personal accounting app that involved actual people logging into your bank accounts and actually looking at what you're spending maybe being a thing, but that's called hiring an accountant and has been a thing for centuries.

Difficult to see this problem yielding to any kind of tech solution. I say this as somebody who maintained his own expense tracking app for months before dumping it. Nowadays I just look at my bank statements if I'm confused. Doesn't take long to find out what I need to know.
TFA was about instinctive drowning response [1], which seems (to my amateur eye) to be what’s happening in that video.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinctive_drowning_response
Serious conflict of interest with this story given that the Post is owned by Bezos and Amazon is highly reliant on the trucking industry and trying to grow their own logistics.
Is there something like this that can use a real data set to validate all the statements against instead of a set of hand-written formal assumptions?
You can already run NetBSD in userland (rump kernel).
Couldn't you,

-Give people an effective drug tell them so.

-Give people a placebo tell them its a real drug.

-Give people a real drug tell them it may be placebo.

-Give them a placebo tell them it may be placebo.

It would certainly tell us something about the placebo.
Thanks for the data points.

As a Canadian, I know we have legal DD stops and I'm thankful for them, as society went from a period of 'DD was normal' to 'not ok'. It took a while, it was a real social problem.

I guess we (Canadians?) just view public safety a little differently, it's usually a matter of 'what makes sense' not so much a thing about constitutionality. That said, our cops are way, way more low key than US cops.

I have no problem with being randomly pulled over for a reasonable reason by reasonable cops.

I guess it gets more complicated when a) cops abuse power b) the randomness is not random c) when there's an underlying political tension d) you can be charged with 'anything' almost ...
What she describes at the start is really common when you speak a new language. Some examples I know of:

An immigrant invited his entire church to have dinner at his home so they could "all be in a family way together," not realizing this is a euphemism for pregnancy.

In both German and French, douche means shower. In English, it is a word used for cleaning female genitals, often with some medicinal purpose. I have known a German woman who couldn't understand how a vinegar and water douche was supposed to help with her vaginal yeast infection. She also wanted the doctor to explain how you get your shower to put out a mix of vinegar and water.

A tiny little French teacher of mine did a year of study in Paris. At some big dinner as everyone passed around one course after another, she reached a point where she was too full to eat another bite. She translated "I'm full" into French (Je sui pleine) and all conversation at the table came to a dead halt as this is a very vulgar expression for pregnancy along the lines of "I'm knocked up." Then they realized it was a weird Americanism and moved on.
I've used two Thinkpads. I'm currently on an X1 5th gen running Debian stable and it's the most blissful computer experience I've ever had. Everything works, the damn thing is fast, 12 hours of battery life and it's so light. I don't understand this magic but I'm glad it's there.

Previously I was on an x250 also on Debian stable which also worked flawlessly until I dropped it hard. It was just a little heavier and a little slower than my current X1.

On the topic of Macs being stable; I've seen my coworkers experience a lot of grief during the past few months with some macOS updates.

I'm not saying that the experience is in general better with one setup or another, just that mine has been good. I'm sure your experiences are valid too.
Well done! I wonder if you can get better speeds by implementing the search in C/C++ - I did so with my 2048 bot (https://github.com/nneonneo/2048-ai) and was able to go from a few hundred thousand moves per second with Python, up to 10,000,000 moves per second with C++.

I'm curious to know what happens at 1000 moves. I'd play the game myself but I'm worried about dropping into a productivity black hole - as evidenced by my previous experience with 2048!
Show HN: Ghorg – Quickly clone all repos from a GitHub org
`From our own correspondent` is absolutely superb - and a perfect antidote to clickbait and shallow, substanceless journalism. Real stories with real depth, told masterfully and sensitively - definitely worth tuning in for.
One of Jacques Cousteau’s book, A World Without Sun, I think it was, was one of the most fascinating books I read as a young teenager. It made a huge impression on me. It made me believe a person with a vision and drive can make a difference.
Another milestone for android – Reach 2B monthly active android devices
I remember experiencing exactly that failure mode as a kid-- slipping off of a floatie in the deep end before I was a confident swimmer and needing to be rescued.
RediSQL reach v0.5.0, improves performance, runs on older platforms and TRIAL
And contrast again with Erlang's approach, where each process (actor) keeps its own heap, which can just be thrown away once the request handling process is done. Simple and clean, and requires no proofs, barriers or other juju... :)
Relatively few people who've not been on a competitive team have ever taken enough swimming lessons to be good for a few brisk laps of the pool. Where I come from every school child gets probably 20 hours or so of swim lessons in public school, spread out over several years. In my experience this sort of background is typically enough to be able to tread water and move around, but not with correct form. And without correct form they will quickly fatigue.

It's certainly possible for a autodidact swimmer with such a background to go to the Y pool and start doing laps until they figure out out on their own, but that's pretty uncommon. And it's also possible for somebody to pay for enough private lessons to become a competent swimmer, but that's also fairly uncommon. In my experience every licensed lifeguard I've ever met was currently or formerly a competitive swimmer; that's not a requirement but realistically only competitive swimmers could accomplish the 300 yard perquisite swim required to qualify you to receive training. (As for selection bias, in my training course there were several without competitive swimming backgrounds who tried, but failed.)

(In some outlying situations, perhaps such as a coastal community where surfing is common, the above might not necessarily be true. But for your typical community I'd say it's a good bet that anybody who hasn't swam competitively will, if they're able to swim at all, have poor form and fatigue quickly.)
Show HN: Trump News Today – Recent Trump headlines across the political spectrum
Correcting mistakes on a pen is labourious, same with a typewriter. I find Notepad severely limiting too when it comes editing text (how do I set a mark? how do I kill the current line? or what about just the current word? how do I access the kill ring?) not to mention that all of the keybindings are wrong.

I can use something other than Emacs if I have to, but it all feels like I'm tying both arms behind my back and writing with a pen held in my teeth.
I don't care about class competition, nor do I need a "lot" (by the standards of the wealthy) of things to be happy in life. But I like things (art, collectibles) that wouldn't exist except for social competition of the rich, regardless of whether I will ever own them. I like that they exist. When people won't shut up about how terrible possessions and competition are, it tells me they are so torn up and conflicted about their own desires for money, possessions, and power, that they can't appreciate beautiful things.[1]

[1]https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1941-packard-120-convertib...
I completely agree that there are regulations that enforce a somewhat honest economy. But look at 2008. A bunch of cheaters and the only people penalized were the ones who believed in it the most, such as homebuyers at the time. Bitcoin is much more chaotic, but that has its advantages too. For example, it is not tied to a single country's government.
Surgeons reach their peak in their late 40s and decline. If the level the surgeon got to was very high then they may well still be very good, if not as good as they were when younger.

I do agree that you don't want to be one of a younger surgeons learning cases.
The popular narratives that 5th generation computing, expert systems, etc failed to deliver because it was the 'wrong path' to take is bs, basically the hardware designers weren't used to non-turing architectures, it was hard to find (and hire) programmers that fully understood both non-imperative paradigms and hardware integration, and government funded science (outside of black budget defense and intelligence projects) education and research started taking a nosedive during the 80s.
Using PGP keyservers for decentralised file storage