skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For people don’t know: Press and hold back button on iOS safari helps in such circumstances.
I've had conversations with people on planes, I've never had groups of conversations though like I've had on trains.
What wonders me in this story is how many investors have been duped into this fallacy, without proper due diligence, checking the supposed contracts and so on.
If I was an investor in a VC fund, I would have sued the investment managers for negligence on their part.
Poor editing.
Normally I am bearish on this type of technology, given the number of previous similar attempts with similar marketing that all failed to deliver. This line gave me pause, though:

"Within just a few seconds, moving the cursor with thought became almost second nature, and I was able to steer it up, down, and to the left and write by thinking about moving — but not actually moving — my hand."

That's quite a strong statement. If true, I'd hop on that bandwagon.
I got 2 also with a night shift -- redshift -t 6500k:3900k
We sort of do for arxiv: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/
> hence why I always get downvoted or flagged),

Actually, I suspect this complaint itself that causes it. Especially combined with words and phrases that tend to inflame skepticism. It's a bit disingenuous to imply otherwise.
The article directly attributes the ability to scale content to not being locked down by time slots. A conventional network has only a few primetime time slots per weekday evening, and that fundamentally limits the number of new shows (and renewals of old shows) that an individual network can produce. Netflix isn't limited by time slots; if conventional network A shows a sci-fi show at 8 PM on Monday night and conventional network B shows a different sci-fi show at 8 PM on Monday night, they compete with each other for viewers. If Netflix releases both shows at the same time, viewers will stream one show and then stream the other show after they finish the first - not a competition, but a value-add. Neither A nor B can show both a drama and an action show at the same time on the same network, they would have to collude and share profits. Netflix can release both simultaneously to different audiences.

Netflix's streaming model is strictly better than the broadcast model. It has little to do with the revenue sourcing.
Hire for attitude, Train for skills - If you've good dedicated people that you can trust, I'm sure they can be trained for other positions.
Good people are always hard to come by, and they will be even more loyal if they will see that the company doesn't ditch them.
I'd argue that's the opposite. Python was the first dynamic language I learned. The scoping rules in Python didn't bother me because I didn't know any better, not because they're intuitive or well designed.
I use online chess tactics problems to assess how good my brain is that day. I estimate there's a 300+ ELO variance, perhaps even more, in my performance between when I'm tired and when I'm rested.

300 ELO points between 2 players means that the higher rates one wins about 9 out of 10 games against the lower rates one. A huge difference in performance.
Mexico and Canada would be hurt much more, prices would go up, meat would be more expensive in China, but...global starvation wouldn’t occur. There are plenty of net surplus exporters out there, and what they add are mostly luxuries.
> Lots of promise, eventually they had their place and now pretty much bygone.

It that really the case or is it an assumption only because we don't find a new blog post or article every few days? The SOAP specification is stable, and the frameworks for building SOAP web services are also "done" and stabilized. There is not very much new stuff to tell about SOAP.

> I feel the same about serverless. It just doesn't feel like it's really going to change things in a big way, but seems it will get some traction.

In my opinion it is only a way to give the cloud provider leverage.
We have cheap earplugs too. These are earbuds, as in they play music through them
Does anyone know much about the source, Daniel Gartenberg? The credentials in the article are not great for a "leading" scientist, but perhaps others know more:

"assistant adjunct professor ... at Penn State"

"one of the world’s most-talked-about sleep scientist" (emphasis added) - most talked about?

"entrepreneur who has launched several cognitive-behavioral-therapy apps"
> Then Larry [Ellison, Oracle’s co-founder] took notice of me, and I started working directly for him.

Wow, so much to potentially unpack here! Career advice-wise, I’d love to read the details of how one joins a company (presumably as a rank and file contributor) and all of a sudden the CEO “takes notice” of them and they are working directly for the CEO! How big was Oracle at the time? I can count on one hand how many companies I worked for where I even once met the CEO, and they were all very small indeed.
Ask HN: If it were safe to send JavaScript in email, what would you send?
Suspend any concern about security that comes to mind, there are so many. If you could email javascript, what would you email? What could your app email?

I would like to make useful interactive documents, data viz, and such with rich clients, but still decentralized and backwards compatible with any email system.

I cringe to think that such a hypothetical system would become a marketer's playground, even if other forms of security concerns were addressed.

Is this something worth building?
You're right, and both copyright and GDPR are pretty dumb ideas to be honest.

The real question is, how can we convince people to stop accepting this sort of thing?.
There is a reason they arnt using a model themselves
Anecdata: I too got a score of 0 on my first try (having never seen a test like this before) using the builtin LCD on my old ThinkPad X61.

I may have leaned around a little to take advantage of the slight vertical color shifting in this particular LCD but that was about it.
Haven’t followed the link in the article but I guess those are noise canceling.
Normally the car notifies the driver that there's a battery problem, and that they should pull over and exit the car.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil_(cryptography)

Specifically that your post is essentially security through obscurity. If your implementation is found then the fact that you use some bogus scheme will not help you.
I lived in basically a one room (there were no walls) but the bed room was a corridor away from the living/kitchen area apartment. I made sure to create seperate zones where I did things, although I would often violate the point of these zones (i.e. work on my couch watching TV, rather than at my desk. I feel as long as you keep the areas mentally separately, even if you can't physically seperate the areas you should be okay.
What phone?
What about other automation solutions, like UIPath Studio (which has a free community edition)?
There is no justification for copyrights and patents any more than there is for any other monopoly.

However if we get rid of them there is a need to socialise creative production so that artists of all shapes and hues in all creative fields can still afford to live simply doing what they love to do.

It's a fair trade. Producers can copy and extend whatever any human has created but in return they have to produce enough to look after them.
I agree with you as I've binged many a TV show, but Netflix's algorithm doesn't feel right, just yet, though from the article, it seems like overall the data isn't the driver, just a guide, and it definitely helps put me on the right direction to look.
They seem to be focusing on the personal side of viewing, instead of just broad assumptions. And they even seem to be aware of the fact that we're often different personas depending on the day of the week or time of day (example: I've been watching the Andy Griffith Show at night to wind down for bed, and after a certain time at night, my Continue Watching list places Andy Griffith first ahead of the last TV show I watched), so while I think it could lead to a lot of tropes and send ups of the same basic show, at least according to the article and my own anecdota, they do seem to culturally realize that the data should lead to better personal viewing preferences.
I'm assuming twofold; engineering for scale and marketing.

Once you've sort of proven something in research you need to develop processes for manufacturing at scale. Those processes are often radically different than the one used during initial development. 10X rule applies. Take ten times the resources to bring something into production than to just design it. And worse with batteries you're dealing with primary materials. You may have needs for material inputs that simply do not exist at scale. No one makes material X in 100 metric ton quantities. The only source is a post doc making 100 gram batches. Sometimes the batches are bad for reasons unknown.
> We'll need "commerical astronomers" to help find promising asteroids.

Isn't that what Planetary Resources are doing?

https://www.planetaryresources.com/
We’re in the process of moving our infrastructure to Azure. Being the public sector we take things relatively slow, but we’ve already fully embraced Azure ad as well as office 365, one drive for business, planner and all those other things.

The next step is our servers, they are already virtual and hosted in our own cloud, but moving our database cluster to a commercial cloud is still a big step politically.

Anyway, you retrain your employees. You may need fewer in the long run, but finding people who are actually professional at stuff like setting up on-premise security inside Azure hasn’t been easy for us. We’ve had 3 very highly regarded consultant agencies to help us, and they quite honestly didn’t know anything but tech-book Azure. More than once we’ve had to send consultants home because it became obvious they knew less about this stuff than our people.

Azure has also opened up for a range of automation through services, but that’s not really automatic either. We’ve had to retrain our people in powershell, and now we’re running a lot of stuff through the orchestra service. So right now, we’ve actually not needed fewer people, just better trained ones.

I image you could replace Azure with Aws or any such service and it be the same story.
It's an expensive location for an office. It doesn't much matter for the story, and regardless the fact may be lost on people who don't know NYC.
For a related example of a recompiler, see http://cvs.schmorp.de/vt102/vt102 - this JITs the vt102 ROM into Perl which is then eval'd.

Yup; hack. Illustrative.
Perpetuate themselves by making random changes? Or the changes are not quite random? Software simulations of the former do not lead to much intelligence, and the latter hints at some higher order.

I'm not an evolutionary biologist, so this is just a layman's pondering...
> Tests are written by people who talk a certain way, in a way that is easier to process for people who talk the same way.

So have your test writers distributed in a way that matches the general population. Don't just blindly try and force the population of VLSI design engineers or whatever to mimic the city's demographics.
Having been in this situation, I'd recommend against borrowing money. Only family and friends will lend it to you, and you know you can't pay them back anytime soon. Unpaid debt puts a strain on any relationship, and OP is gonna need all the support they can get.
Maybe I'm just jittery, but the description of this technique made me strongly recall "There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence" by Eliezer Yudkowsky[1]. This feels like (smells like?) smoke, like a distinct leap in the functionality of artificial learning. It sounds like they've discovered something much more general than a way to solve this particular puzzle.

[1]https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BEtzRE2M5m9YEAQpX/there-s-no...
Sure, what’s the problem?
Suppose we even abolished all patents. Would it even make a difference in the software world? The selfish already got their new tool - online services. Not only you never have to release any source code, the user doesn't even run the compiled version himself. All he gets is output. The code running his computations may or may not be patented, he'll never know. I don't think licences like Aferro GPL can realistically be enforced.
You're taking the marketing approach as opposed to coming up with real solutions -- think critically about the business need, investigate the cost savings and make a transition plan for those who actually add value to the organization.

1) Consider if your organization has a future strategic value for having the org capability in house (is this datacenter simply a necessary evil or does your organization deploy new technologies to new locations for any part of its business)?

If so, you may be outsourcing a core part of your organization's capability (consider it). If not (e.g. these are all simply HR and other general business systems [ or services which do not depend on anything physical], you should proceed to evaluating costs

2) By the thought that you would outsource the majority of jobs means that you probably shouldn't have had the employees in the first place (in the Fortune 50 I know, we mostly used contractors with a quarter dozen employees). Hence I would evaluate if there are other business units which might benefit from their skill (power related, analyst related et al) and offer training per the previous notes.

A good decision to be a part of and my hope is that your answers here inspire the right questions (to allow for the right transition plan for your organization and company as a whole).
Organic, huh?

The other parts of your argument I doubt many would disapprove of. More vegetables, eat less meat. But any argument that start's with 'freshly picked organic vegetables' screams prejudice and ignorance.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/should-you-go...

"While organic foods have fewer synthetic pesticides and fertilizers and are free of hormones and antibiotics, they don't appear to have a nutritional advantage over their conventional counterparts. "There've been a number of studies examining the macro- and micronutrient content, but whether organically or conventionally grown, the foods are really similar for vitamins, minerals, and carbohydrates," says McManus."
You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform
You can fuse anything lighter than iron and it will release energy. The process with tritium is just easier. Stars can extract the nuclear potential energy from hydrogen and oxygen just fine.
Yep, hijacking the back button is rarely useful if ever. I would never think to click back to go one slide back.
'buying time' ... while raising capital from investors, for a fraudulent technology.

Seems like a sort of ponzi scheme where the 'financial instrument' is a 'technology vision'.

Would not be surprised if Holmes pay anything to the earlier investors, with the money of the new ones...

Her life's work, in her words, was 'redefining the paradigm of diagnosis' ( https://youtu.be/5tEeSHy1x98?t=1m19s )

Very 'Silicon Valey' lingo in her speech: 'Reinventing / Redefining / Reimagining XYZ'. With a portfolio of groundbreaking patents...
I don't think either is completely dumb idea. It is just seems very hard to produce a reasonable law on control of information. Both laws seem more of a transplant from physical property laws.

However there is always very hard question behind all of this. What are goals of the laws in terms of society - what are we trying to optimize. Which is a very subjective thing.
The Michelson-Morely experiment is a famous experiment that pretty conclusively falsified the theory about aether.

The experiment originally set out to detect and confirm the existence of the aether, but ended up falsifying the theory instead.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_e...
Well, if you'd like to be upvoted, maybe find a couple of those study links.

I looked into water fasting several years ago because a friend's father went on a 40 day water fast to address cancer. Everything I found at that time was that it was dangerous.

He made it through the fast and the cancer didn't get any worse, but it didn't do any good. My friend was just relieved that he didn't badly hurt himself. He subsequently went on chemo, which worked.
Patents laws were in place before the industrial revolution, in the UK long before, and in the US around mid 19th century.

So most industrial growth happened after patents were part of commercial practice.

I suggest patents are less important now than they were then at least for what they are supposed to be used for ... patents may be increasing in terms of corporate importance, but more as a general legal asset than anything. Trademarks and copyrights is a whole other thing.
Billions season finale: how Showtime’s drama went from dull to dazzling
Had a problem at a previous apartment with people breaking into the physical mailbox and stealing credit cards, then activating and using them for a day before I caught it. Happened a few times to my and a few times to another resident that I talked to about it. Apartment complex is huge (~35 buildings with ~30 units per building) and owned by an even bigger company with dozens of properties around the country. Got the actual mail fraud investigator people to come out and yell at the apartment management about having an improperly-secured mailbox after my talking to them had no effect. The mailboxes were wall-mount indoor units where one big swing-open panel gave access to ~40 mailboxes; the locking mechanism was just a padlock and a slider bar. The slider bar was mounted to drywall with drywall anchors, so to break in, they used a claw hammer or crowbar to just rip the locking mechanism out of the wall, left the door open, threw ripped-open mail everywhere... the apartment maintenance people just filled the holes with drywall filler, then put the drywall anchors back into that. You could pull it out with your fingers, and it looks like that was exactly what happened on subsequent thefts.

Anyway, the apartment management people basically told the USPS inspectors “new mailboxes cost money” and that was that. I moved out a few months later and mentioned that this incident was partially the cause. USPS recommended that I use a post office box to ensure that my mail wouldn’t get stolen, which I understand, but at the same time is pretty ridiculous IMO.

TL;DR USPS was very responsive and sympathetic to my situation, but ultimately couldn’t actually make my huge apartment company secure their mailboxes.
> they tend to ignore issues such as Americans refusing to work in certain labor sectors that illegal immigrants tend to work (and be abused without employers being punished, see: farm work)

That argument is akin to the argument that we need slaves. Illegal immigrants are second class citizens, they don't enjoy nearly as many rights that legal immigrants does. They can be paid less than minimum wage, be worked harder than legally allowed etc. Of course the low skill sector loves having them, who wouldn't want to hire slaves who can't fight back when you abuse them?

But I argue that California have no need for slaves. If a job can't be filled with legal workers then you raise the wages and conditions. If you can't afford that then the job obviously wasn't critical to our economy and we should let it disappear.
Today was the first time I ever complained about getting downvoted because I know it triggers HNers instantly.
I used the same method, got the same result(s).
Mostly because prices are fixed so it’s hard to raise then higher like airlines can do with their tickets.
It isn’t. You are correct. This is useful to support the underlying hash function but at that point you might as well just improve that and take the power of two, bitmask approach.
MyPhone pocket
If you plan on being „cloud agnostic“, not using the services they offer like databases, you might as well stay in your own DC.
I posted my account above, but in my case, USPS cared very much, but was ultimately unable to get my awful apartment company to install more secure mailboxes since they kept getting broken into.
The then Federal Industrial Property Agency officially came into existence on 15 November 1888. This was as a result of the Patents Act of 29 June 1888 and the Industrial Designs and Models Act of 21 December 1888. These two new laws required a new federal office to assume the associated tasks.

https://www.ige.ch/en/about-us/the-history-of-the-ipi.html

Maybe what changed in 1907 was that French patents were protected as well?
Sounds similar to this article about 8 years ago.

https://m.phys.org/news/2010-09-miracle-tree-basis-low-cost-...
The systems in Germany, Switzerland and Austria are only cheap if you get a discount card or book tickets ahead of time. Once you have a discount card they are very cheap though.
The problem is even though we have gotten miraculously stable lithium batteries, they still aren't 'bulletproof' enough that explosion and fire risks are negligible. Add 3x more energy to it and it starts becoming a really big problem. This is what has kept 99.9% of these miraculous battery technologies we always hear about, too dangerous to use in consumer devices.

If it is as stable, or preferably more stable, than current tech, great! If it is anything less, you will never see it except in maybe industrial applications.
DeepMind’s AI can ‘imagine’ a world based on a single picture
I mean for(x=0;x<10;x++).

This stands out like a sore thumb in a language famous for its brevity and frictionless syntax. There should be a better way.
If you're remembered primarily for doing great philanthropic things in a few decades I'll buy it. Til then you're just a billionaire who went to India and likes to say stuff, in my books.
Awesome, as someone who goes on ProductHunt everyday and who has at least 7+ prospecting tools bookmarked, this pitch really strikes a chord with me on a pricing level!

How does it work, and how do you source the verified leads? The landing page seems a bit sparse
Between the DCs they use 18 wheelers; they’re then taken on a smaller truck to a local site and take to the end user by a truck or handcart.

It’s partially because of different relative distribution of supply and demand and partially because infrastructural technology is just better here. (Random customer visible example: high-end apartments in Tokyo generally have an on-site package locker so that companies can drop off packages even when the recipient isn’t home, which is a major convenience and avoids unnecessary redeliveries.)
Resilience and ingenuity – a Tajik hydroelectric station made from scraps
Perfect score and I am supposedly slightly colorblind in the blue/green range.
also an interesting effect with psychedelics
man, do i have a funny...

despite being a genius i just couldn't do skool. Eventually i concluded that the topics just bored me. It just now struck me that they bored me because i barely slept before school. in the weekends i would sleep 14 hours then did things mentally that blew my own mind. to borrow an example from the discussion: i could look at a chessboard and explore openings without moving a piece, all the way to the end game then the next variation. there was this huge inconsistency with my one ear in other ear out school performance.
On the contrary... I feel a much closer connection to my current 1BR apt than I felt to a 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 3 story townhouse. It’s small enough that I can remember exactly where I keep shit(Smaller RAM). It’s less space to vacuum so I do that often.
Artificial intelligence senses people through walls
They mention that 0 is the perfect score, though I'm not sure how the highest and lowest they mention relate to one another (let alone how someones score could be that far off), but I also got a score of 2 and also in Night Shift mode. My weakest area was 17 (a greenish-teal like slice of the spectrum), which would make some sense in how yellow/orange relate to the colors green and blue.