skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be interested to learn how Indian and Indian-American HN members regard him.

Is he considered a source of pride within the community due to his accomplishments? Or is he an embarrassment due to decisions like Net Neutrality? Or, is it a complete no-op and the Indian/Indian-American community basically doesn't think about him either way?

Edit: I'm not sure why the downvotes. There are very few (if any?) Indian-Americans at that high and very visible level of government. It it a reasonable question to ask Indian-Americans whether they regard him in high or low-esteem, or neither, as a lone representative in an otherwise nearly all-white system.
That's written by Hannah Fry -- often seen on Numberphile on YouTube.
Micro-inverters are getting quite cheap now, each of my 20 solar panels have one. Out comes 120 volts, but still variable amperage.
...Also just pay them more.
So great. There actually are 16 NaNs in the Batman song!
If they’re cheap, then it’s somewhat expected that they are crap. Not so for expensive phones (if what you described is the case for expensive Android phones as well, then of course they’re even worse than Apple).
Assuming UBI is feasible and denominated in goods (i.e. you get an house, food, clothes, etc. rather than X dollars that may inflate), then I assume most or all people would not choose to work in an Amazon warehouse at the conditions described.
> It's no more of a travesty when "violence to the rule of law" is done against corporations than when it is committed against poor people.

This seems like a rather blatant false dichotomy.
Is it possible to build this use case: identifing the user using face recognition during checkout and processing payments based on his card stored in the system. Also is it possible to export the purchase data to other systems via API. So as to enable e-commerce style data analytics/customer engagement for brick and mortar retailers
Full automation is not necessary. That's one of the easiest oversights I've ever seen in the business world.

I was part of a team once that desperately needed to do quality assurance testing as quickly as possible on a massive influx of software product. They were about to outsource quality assurance testing - and for a 6 figure amount - because we couldn't fully automate it in house. When I pointed out that we could automate 75% and split the remaining work among our staff of 5 people, they treated that idea like it was ground-breaking when in reality it's just common sense. We ended up not spending a dime on testing, accomplished the goals with the 75% automation, and completed it with only 2 of our people doing manual work.
Eh I'm guessing it's just not interesting to most people. Your phone/laptop is also a very precise timepiece but it's a feature you get "for free" in a modern OS, so not usually worth mentioning.
>CA doesn't think twice about making laws that contradict federal laws

It's been my naive observation that state laws are, in some practical context, "allowed" to contradict federal laws, in the sense that perhaps they are simply given some de facto leeway. Am I totally off base? Does this reduce the hypocrisy?
aka a recount. Rules vary by jurisdiction. eg When a contest is close.

Some places already do partial recounts. It is expensive. Most jurisdictions don't have the budget.
An increase of minimum wage does kill jobs, so yes, if you want higher unemployment, it's the measure.
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Firefox has. It screws third party logins and integration (mainly google/facebook logins) and Google’s captchas, which will be way harder than when cookies are shared.
Does stripe has the world best designers? Just wow.
Firefox's Facebook Container was mentioned in the article, and they have a related tool "Multi-account Containers" [0] that I think was mentioned on HN a few days ago. (Haven't tried either of them myself.)

[0]:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
I find this stuff so incredibly fascinating that my hands are shaking...
And previously has used the case that they DON'T have regulatory power over the internet to roll back the 2015 FCC changes.

So much for the party that claims they back state rights.
Firefox containers attempts to solve this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
I'm sure they've thought about it. However, as others have found, getting through the amount of fraud out there with a margin less than the ~3% that credit card companies charge, is really hard. I mean if you were perfect that would be 3% profit. If your uncaught fraud rate is even a few percent higher than that of companies who have been doing this for a long time, you will be bleeding money.

Again, I'm sure they've thought of it, but the credit card companies are actually pretty good at a very hard task, which is enabling super-easy and quick payment verification without getting eaten alive by fraud.
> But you and I both stand from our positions and project these positions onto the future, inaccurately.

The difference being that the one further ahead can look back at what happened to them and understand the shifts. You're only trying to project forward. This is one of those "speaking from experience" deals.
I don't know id you're right or wrong about California's overreach. Can you give a few supporting examples?
I don't think the fees stack like that. The terminal page says 2.7% + $0.05 per transaction. I believe that Stripe Connect doesn't take an extra fee, at least not in my experience.
> It follows that only the federal government can set regulatory policy in this area. For if individual states like California regulate the Internet, this will directly impact citizens in other states.

-- Pai

Interesting argument. Could his reasoning be used to block attempts by states (NC, I'm looking at you!) to interfere with municipal broadband?
To be totally fair here, I think you'd probably have to establish a base rate of this. I'd bet that virtually all prior FCC commissioners end up with a gig like that, regardless of how they regulated the industry. It should be an easy question to answer though.

EDIT: It seems many of them go to this place: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/ (source: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/314248-fcc-chair-to-ta...). Not sure what to make of that.
Did you just call people who take the $14 bus ride from New Paltz to NYC "jet-setting tourists"?

Being born in NYC doesn't mean the city belongs to you. I'm a New Yorker too.
Why's what?

And probably also: Are you aware that the request to work in email somehow is a joke with about 90% certainty?
Minimum wage is simply a constraint that prohibits the creation of some jobs that are available to the most vulnerable members of society in economically depressed regions.

Therefore, making lower-paying jobs illegal just because their salary falls below an arbitrary threshold only stops or hinders those jobs from being created, at the expense of higher unemployment rates.

I'm sure people working on shitty minimum wage jobs would not stay in the same minimum wage job if there were better higher-paying alternatives available to them. If they have no better alternatives than those jobs I don't understand how eliminating them by arbitrarily raising the minimum legal salary limit would leave them better off.
I second this. Tried to switch for a while but, especially with the technical stuff, it always feels like you might be missing out on something. Maybe I will try again in a few years or find some sort of mixed solution with both search engines depending on what I'm searching for...
Ok not neccesarily throw away then, but, as someone else said, put them in the drawer or give them some non-phone function. For example, my iPhone 4, still perfectly functional but crippled with iOS update that made it too slow to be usable, is now a white noise machine near my bed.
>It makes it fun to write JavaScript with its quirkiness and "dynamic" nature. And once you master it you become a ninja.

Yes, a ninja of the "undefined is not a function" wars.
TBH it is hilarious we believe "net neutrality" exists in the first place. Peering agreements between ISP's at IPX's are rarely "fair or neuatral" as different ISP's have different carrying capacity, and will treat traffic from their own networks preferentially for technical reasons.

But since <5k people understand BGP routing configuration we pretend it is neutral.
Wharton professor says America should shorten the work day by 2 hours
Average Annual pay in New York City’s securities industry rose to $422,500
In New York State. I pay the exorbitant taxes which pay for, among other things, protecting the water from the huge city down the road that I'm apparently "damaging" by living there a few weeks out of the year.
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Its on the http://vanishingradient.net/ (now defunct), with the small "i"

ah okay you made it in latex. I always run my PDF's through Adobe Acrobat Pro X for OCR recognition. CTRL+F some words on there to see if it works. You want to ensure if it is OCR because it's going to be scraped for content through HR processors. That's why I recommended .docx format as well, granted that also let's headhunters delete your email address.

Pandoc has a latex to pdf converter, I imagine this is what you used

Also, you might want to change the resume name a bit differently. You wrote down "shankar_resume_cto.pdf". You might not be applying to a CTO position and might be taken as a threat to someone's existing CTO position.

By the way, you should really link your kaggle profile on there if you really are in the top 1%. Gives recruiters no doubt that you are actually what you say you are.
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This is not an interesting bet at all. Isn't that exactly what many people leaving government do?
What are the benefits of ketosis that you don’t get with 8-12 fast, lots of veggies, and low sugar diet?
This needn't be idle speculation - there's an opportunity coming to execute.

It's apparently still non-obvious unless you track the field in technical detail, but HMD's as a screen alternative are not far off. As in last-year-ish... modulo costing a few $k in parts, and no market, and patents, and the supply chain being bought up so even diy is problematic. But upbeat, there's also new human interface devices incoming.

Point is, there's a "Great Software Rewrite" coming. Comparable in scale to writing apps for phones. And thus the opportunity to do better this time.

I use React with Three.js. But... sigh. I miss DisplayPostScript. I'd love a richer type system than PureScript/Idris. A VM with JITed multiple-dispatch PICs. Dylan as it might have become. The shoemaker's children still have no shoes, and we're running out of window to make them. If we don't want another long march on bloody broken crippled gangrenous feet, now's the time to look to making better footware.

But getting the social and market dynamics right is just as important as the technical side. And thus the value of "unit[ing] frontend devs and designers". We have no clue what productive 3D work environments look like. October may see art-focused pen refreshes from both Microsoft and Apple. And maybe new dev machines from Apple. So Linux has work to do to stay competitive. But everyone will have some degree of linux-compatibility. And there seems opportunity to leverage "getting the representation right".
I read where if US reactors replaced their fuel rods with the new design from Lightbridge, that alone would up us electric generation by 2%. Which is about the same as the total share due to solar, although solar is rising quickly.
I don’t think his actions are representative of what Indian people think; they’re just proof of his own greed.
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/citizen-finedevice...

http://cfd.citizen.co.jp/english/prod-tech/product/pdf/datas...

This $0.79 (yes, 79 cents) quartz crystal is specified at 5 ppm (parts per million), or 0.432 spd.

That's its manufacturing tolerance by the way. With proper calibration, you can get it better than that. (Ex: a microcontroller tuned against an atomic clock, you can add / subtract cycles to get higher accuracy. Like, every million cycles, add or subtract a 5 cycle offset to correct for any manufacturing error).

The temperature turnover point is guaranteed to be 25C +/- 5C. Which means the crystal won't drift due to temperature somewhere in the 20C to 30C range.

Quartz crystal clocks from cheap Casio watches are basically all you need with modern technology. Low cost, low-drift, super cheap, high-reliability from manufacturing, cheap electronics (just a counter + a cycle offset if you calibrate), cheap calibration (atomic clock radio signals from any 1st world country is free).

32768 is the perfect number for 15-bit register. Move the second hand every 2^15 cycles (aka: every 15-bit overflow), possibly with a bit of offset if you have a calibration routine somewhere.
Hiya, I work at Stripe. We want to make sure that Stripe Terminal supports the major in-person payment methods in market. As you know, Interac is really important in Canada, and we're working on adding support for that. Stay tuned!
This only applies if you live a sedentary life with nothing to do all day. You can't draw any conclusions beyond that.
Nothing special, this game already started when you replaced your datasette with the floppy drive back in the days.
Uranium is very cheap now and that's why seawater extraction is not competitive, nor do we have good projections about the size of undiscovered deposits. According to WP "The cost of raw uranium contributes about $0.0015/kWh to the cost of nuclear electricity". This is not a big of the operating expenses, never mind the fact that the cost of nuclear power is dominated by capital expenses.

(Of course we're also projected to run out of many things at current consumption growth rates much sooner than 200 years. Such as oil and lithium and rainforests)
They still filter and curate search results though.

For example if you ddg "crimes committed by the fbi" you get a whitewashed and filtered response. So what other responses are modified?

Another good litmus test is to ddg something politically incorrect. Most of the time the response does not match the query.
Your bet will prove correct because he will be blacklisted, in a political sense, by other small businesses in that sector. Those small/medium sized businesses could not survive the shitstorm that would follow him. Only a company the size of verizon and comcast could absorb that kind of publicity without suffering from the social media outrage that would predictably ensue.

After his time in the FCC, if he doesn't continue working in government, he needs to work in the private sector, the only private sector business that he could even possibly work in after this, is Verizon/Comcast/ATT/GenericBigCorp, companies which would have some need/desire for his experiences and contacts in the government.

Whether or not you defend his actions, working anywhere else is untenable now...
I hate this guy so much
Yes. The human body has DNA repair mechanisms that work fine if not overwhelmed. There's also lots of data showing low cancer rates despite higher-than-normal radiation exposure; e.g. some cities have quite high naturally occurring radiation, but low cancer rates.
I think the country needs net neutrality. But the specific point he's making here is valid: it'll suck if there are 50 different sets of laws that ISPs have to conform to. From a technical point of view, routers everywhere in the country will have to know to treat traffic going to to California customers differently from Nevada customers.

We could hope to repeat the history of vehicle emissions controls, where CA introduced regulations and auto makers eventually found it cheaper to make one kind of vehicle than two. But the incentives for non-net-neutral policies are so large that if major states have different rules, we'll end up with a huge mess. And regulatory messes tend to favor large incumbents, because they can devote the resources to them. That's why, for example, we have no new banks (which are regulated by states.)
This makes it worse, not better.
And then answer 10 months later?
Look at the root cause of why. Parent comment nailed it.
In the sense that New Paltz is in New York State, sure, you are a New Yorker if you live in New Paltz. But you're not a resident of New York City, not because of where you were born but because you do not reside there.
Google AI Tool Identifies a Tumor's Mutations from an Image
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN.
I believe the entire purpose of passing that law was for California to say "come at me bro" to the Federal government, and force a showdown on the issue. I doubt the California lawmakers ever expected it to actually go into effect, and not get blocked by lawsuits the moment the ink is dry.
I've seen this exact question on my feed with 'sponsored' above, so it seems intentionally asked and answered as part of an advertising campaign.
My Chinese is a bit rusty.
>Which has better devtools, Firefox or Safari?

Firefox for sure. You can install dev tools extensions (like https://github.com/vuejs/vue-devtools) + Fx has more features to begin with
> As I've said before, coal is already on the way to be abolished also.

Not anytime soon.

> I also never stated that I support coal. Actually you'll probably find not many (if any at all) people who support coal over nuclear power (didn't you know that?).

And yet, you're making comments about coal killing a "handful" of people, while nuclear fallout is "ridiculous". Also, I'd rather prefer if you didn't belittle me. I don't particularly care personally, but it's not adding anything to the argument so it's just extra stuff I need to read.
How do you define sinecure? I’m not a fan of Pai, but it’s hard for me to tell what you’re trying to prove.
For someone acting in bad faith (e.g. trolling, deceptive agenda) insults are probably justified. On the other hand, this is probably the actors who are not really deterred by insults, so I wonder how constructive it is.
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Couldn't the receipt of votes be an encrypted result derived from the voter's key for which only the government/district has the private key ? It would not show the vote but only guarantee that your vote has not been modified. You could go to the government to get the vote confirmed privately.

Ideally, assuming you would be voting with a key linked to your identity (SIN), both the IDs of voters and their votes could be entirely public and on your receipt.

The act of counting votes would be for a set of parties to be work with only the public list and given the private key(s) to generate results. The trust there should be similar to counting paper ballots, especially if independent parties combine subsets and arrive at the same result.
Google ‘Accidentally’ Changed Android Phone Settings Remotely Without Permission
Hmm, I'm right handed, but hold the phone in the left.
Not if it means having to turn into a bank. The repercussions on their business will be draconian. Although I would be surprised if they haven't already explored or fully gone through a money transmitter license for a subsidiary.
In the early days of StackOverflow (mostly during the beta) there was encouragement to ask intelligent questions which hadn't been asked yet. This was a way to seed the site with better content.

I can see the same strategy being useful to Quora who rely on search engine traffic. Sadly, the low signal/noise ratio of Quora, and encouragement of opinions (not that many SO answers aren't!) makes the content even more subjective.
If anything the states could use the same argument against the city -- that state law supersedes the city law.
Huh. That actually makes a lot of sense. It’s the inverse of “build muscle to burn more calories”.
> After all, broadband is an interstate service; Internet traffic doesn't recognize state lines.

Hum, it either recognizes both state and nation-state lines, or neither. Since the FCC can regulate ISPs, then it clearly recognizes nation-state lines, and thus state lines.
10 years ago the odds were good you'd say you'd always love comic books and actions figures and hated girls, and that wasn't ever going to change. Mind you, puberty is a drastic change and has a neat way or realigning your priorities, but so does a lot of things.
Well they thumb their nose at the constitution when it comes to the 2A and they thumb their nose at the federal government itself when it comes to weed for starters.

Some of their policies regarding illegal aliens (though this is more of a city by city thing) are arguably in direct contradiction with federal law.

A lot of the rulings the 9th circuit has come up with over the years look like they came out of left field with regard to the constitution and the precedent being set.

I can dig up specific examples if you want.

I'm not passing a value judgement here, just saying that CA likes to interpret the constitution rather freely, for better or worse.
No, they would need to become money transmitters according to what you wrote above. AFAIK they aren't money transmitters yet.
Ask HN: What skills should a 13 year old be learning right now?
What the most important skills a 13 year old should be working on right now?
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption
Fasting has a time limit.
> In general what you are talking about is a Bill of Attainder and it is unconstitutional.

That's highly debatable. Does "attainder" as used in the constitution apply to corporations? To a large extent that depends on whether corporations are persons in the context of that prohibition, but there are other concerns as well. You're assuming that the answer to all such questions can be answered in favor of corporations, but that's hardly settled.
I will clarify my question, since that is not what I was wondering.
Not so. It would be the equivalent of a cop pulling you over in an unmarked vehicle and without identifying himself as a police officer.
> slightly creative and fun

In my experience, code that is "slightly creative and fun" is unreadable and not actually useful for creating working products as a part of a team.
Ah, the hypocrisy of the "States Rights" crowd: They're all for it, until they don't like what a state wants to do.
A beautiful piece of work in every sense. The blog entry is elegantly written, the game concept and design are refreshing, and as a bonus the game plays on my iPad. Thrillingly executed all the way around.
Cargo ships that ‘liquefy’ (2018)
i would imagine konsole could be of interest as it's the default in KDE and not using libvte.
having chrome installed is pretty bad even if you don't use it, because google has binaries running at all times on you computer if you do.
The first radiation exposure related death was reported a few weeks ago from one of the plant's workers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-45423575

Still, your point that nuclear is significantly safer from a community health perspective is correct.
Traffic congestion is only relevant for people driving a car. More people use maps for routing than just drivers. I too live in Eastern/Central Europe like the OP, and when I am looking for a place on my phone, I am typically on foot, on my bike, or I am searching for suitable public transportation between me and my destination.
"The true optimists are the conspiracy theorists, because they believe the people in charge actually have a plan."
bangs are a dumb way to solve a problem, because you're basically telling the user they must use terminal or command line synthax to interact with a search engine.

once you start !banging, you are not far from -dashing and that is --not -a "good user experience".
> If they own the physical end points, will they eventually cut out credit card companies?

I seem to recall a story on HN around 6 months ago about Mastercard (might have been Visa) becoming an investor in Stripe, so I they'll do whatever they need to to keep Stripe in check.