skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its doesn't have any mining at all. You put your coins in a smart contract that allows you to get randomly selected to create blocks from time to time, if you do something wrong then some of your coins are taken from you, if you do everything right you get a portion of the fees and/or a bit of inflation. There are lots of slightly different variants of it though
> but it's one of those things that we can't just vote on and change the whole company salary structure.

I know you alone can’t do anything about this, but the longer this painful task is put off, the more difficult will be to rectify as Gitlab grows (more people = greater labor cost expense increase when the problem is addressed).

It’s peope ops debt.
On another note, if I get my data on the Chinese datacenter, does this mean my country's government is unable to extract this information from Apple?

If they send a notice to Apple for my data, will Apple refer them to China instead?
Bonus-centric compensation schemes are the norm in the financial industry. Discretionary income isn't a fake promise designed to trick employees, for many firms it represents the bulk of actual realized employee compensation. If you had an offer at a large company it should be pretty easy to dig around and figure out what the actual average bonus numbers are like.
It also puts all the risk on the employees. They showed up, can they did their work. Whether that resulted in money made is a management issue.
I have a hypothesis that the polonium poisoners weren't planning on being detected.

Polonium has no side effects other than radiation poisoning which can't be detected outside the body. To diagnose it, one would have to go looking for trace amounts in the body or in contaminated areas. If the poisoners weren't aware of the extreme sensitivity of alpha-particle detection -- reliably accurate to the single particle level -- they might have thought polonium would be undetectable and untraceable. Or they might of thought nobody would ever think to look for it. By some accounts, they almost didn't.
> People at the low end of the market are already scratching for jobs and they're running out of higher land to run to.

It just hit me that the Mythical Man Month might have entail pretty important consequences for the future of mass (un)employment.
Two resources:

1) http://oss.cash/

2) https://medium.com/open-consensus/
> Therefore, how can you argue that their testing for lowly penetrant poorly characterised ultra-rare risk loci (which means most of the positive tests will be errors, as in this case) is somehow a great benefit to humanity, if they don't offer by far the most common, clinically significant and life saving genetic test there is?

How can one thing be good if another thing is even gooder?

> As I said, the answer is of course that 23andMe are acting in their own interests. Anyone paying for the privilege to give away their genetic information to a private company should realise this.

It is not a negative-sum game. It is from the self-interest of the butcher we are able to buy dinner, not his benevolent regard for humanity. 23andMe can do a lot of good while seeking to do well.

> And testing for ultra rare lowly penetrant AD loci is more useful?

Apparently. Illumina and/or 23andMe chose to put it on the chip, so they apparently felt it was worthwhile.

> Your entirely tangential example from DeCODE makes no sense. DeCODE was not a user pays self-referred program. It was a research project.

My point there was a comparison of the regulatory regimes that genetics companies (DeCODE is not a 'research project', is a former NASDAQ-traded (DCGN)corporation which is now private post-bankruptcy, which did in fact use 'user pays self-referred programs' in addition to the national database they were hired for) are under such that even when they know with high accuracy about very serious mutations like BRCA, which you brought up as a huge dereliction, they may still not be allowed to tell people, which illustrates the incoherence and harm of the medical system in regards to genetic data; given the question about whether they would even be allowed to tell people (like you think they should not be allowed to tell people about AD loci), why would they spend resources testing for it?

> My comment specifically was 'Meanwhile 23andMe makes billions selling the data to pharma?', indicating that there is potential for them to make billions or that they are in the process, not yet complete, of making billions

Oh, so the rest of that paragraph where you were contrasting how 'Meanwhile 23andme makes billions' to things that had already happened or were happening were also just 'potential' too? I see. How very careless (not disingenuous) of me.
An original poem? Lovely :)
I used to think that too. But I also thought it would be shady to claim that options had no value when those same options can be traded for money, to lock in an untaxable transfer. That, however, is a key part of how options tax law works. So my current claim is just that intuition is not a good guide to what is or is not legal or ethical for options taxation.
Can we not differentiate these two, morally?

Is killing a civilian who uses words to critique a government not different than killing an enemy who is at war with a government?

Maybe drones are terrible way to accomplish the latter (too many civilian collateral damage).
I don't think it's accurate to say that it has no intrinsic value by definition. If you do a fundamental analysis on the options without reference to their market value, the Black Scholes formula will tell you that an option, even an option out of the money, is worth something. That is the definition of intrinsic value.

Options out of the money also clearly have a market value, for public companies at least.
Definitely aliens, this is a cover up
Well, if the IRS did it that way, probably nobody would be using stock options in the first place.
I'm Russian. For a while, I shared the mentality that my country was just in a bad spot, but it would dig itself out. Especially during and after the 2011 protests.

Then 2014 came. I was wrong. Russia is exactly what the majority of its citizens want it to be. And what they want it to be is something that others are afraid of.
There is an even greater cardinality of countless artists and authors who produce amazing content or research to spend their lives with at least a nagging background thought of regret in not pursuing something more profitable than holding on to a vapid dream of equivalent exchange between creative effort and financial or social success.

A reward system for content creation by definition has to be a pyramid scheme, due to the need for the general public to have examples of normalized contrasting quality in anchoring supposed worth as well as the need for the governance structures to have a well diversified orchard of luscious fruit ripe and especially bountiful enough to cherrypick which works are most applicable for promotion at any given time on the carousel wheel of policy.
I think Animats is referring to checkedc [1] which I can assure you Microsoft/MSVC is not moving towards.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/checked-c/
You should look up some writings on the topic by Freeman Dyson and Sir Roger Penrose.

They are among the most accomplished and respected theoretical physicists in the world, and both are practising Christians.
Reading the New South
I believe him, but i think it will be hard to win the popular with that platform. Voters are not known for planning ahead.
Am amused that the repeat posting of "extremely normal website" on twitter has, from here at least, made twitter the current top google result for "extremely normal website".

https://www.google.com/search?q=extremely+normal+website
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If no one votes or too many idiots are voting then you could say the process has become incompetent.

People forget that by not voting they are actually agreeing with every policy going forward. By actually voting you are saying that one side had better policies.

Disturbingly a lot of people who are unhappy with the outcome also didn’t vote and that is incompetence.

I’d still like to vote for policies rather than candidates. The successful candidate would then be chosen based on policy alignment etc.
if robots are going to push people out of work, then how will people earn money to buy the things that the expensive robots will make?

Its not zero sum.
People keep saying it could be coincidence because of the nearby military base, but the Sheriff himself was the one quoted, and you'd assume he'd know the difference between a random Blackhawk flying nearby because of the base, and one actually coming to the town?

> "There was a Black Hawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas and work crews on towers but nobody would tell us anything," Sheriff House explained

Not to mention, ELEVEN days because of a laptop seeding child porn?

I'm usually the first to assume the non-conspiracy option, but this doesn't even come close to passing the sniff test.
As a non-economist, all one can do is take a stab at an idea. The natural pops of mature economies are decreasing, which eases the pain, but that also means a smaller contributory pop. funding non-workers. Can basic income close the gap? Doubtful. That gap is huuuuge. Bernie is crazy if he thinks radical taxation can cover the gap.

Underdeveloped economies may or may not be able to achieve widespread affluence, if there is no natural ladder to climb in an economy. On the other hand their expectations are lower than that of the pops in mature economies. Still, it seems calamitous.

Still, if his prediction plays out, then pain lies ahead. If it's slow coming like the one Japan is virtually experiencing, it may be palatable, to a great degree.
Maybe it was aliens uploading child porn. To frame people who were trying to expose them. ~
Google products and Google technologies are historically managed very differently, especially if the tech is open source.
Something about this story does not add up. In the director's perspective the janitor should have been the problem and he could have called local police. Why FBI ?

Also if one janitor in our office acts weird are we going to send everyone home for 2 weeks ?
Earlier discussion (7 months ago, 37 points, over 30 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16354566
(Note that I am aware that for many pages you can, in fact, do this already. Downloading HTML is a thing. I just meant that since I can already do this, it would be nice if I could both do this and have it integrate seamlessly with my browser for navigating links and host those files for other people while on WiFi I was at it)
Yeah, that might be the only way to handle this reasonably in the short-term -- `if (window.IPFS) { fetch(revisionListFromAnIPNS).then(renderIt) }`... but my concern is that if the standard changes in the future and IPFS gets integrated into browsers/becomes `navigator.IPFS`/etc. -- then all those old, immutable pages are permanently going to check the wrong thing. Still, I guess that's a graceful degradation, because for people who don't have the extension today, they'd see the same behaviour.

Perhaps it's best to provide a link to a revision list as the default behaviour, with the window.IPFS test as a mildly nicer progressive enhancement. Cheers :).
In India this is exactly what happened with me. It was GS. Eventually I choose a startup (one of the large ones) as the GS team I was supposed to get into had a true legacy code and complete focus was maintaining the old, not at all brining in something new.

They were offering me monthly salary which was a lot lower than what the startup offered (the one I eventually joined which was CTC = 95% fixed + 5% bonus). I tried to strike a balance with GS HRs but they were adamant and low monthly salary and an insane year end bonus. It was simple take it or leave it. I declined. I think it was a good call. That year that team got fried and bonus was low and there were firings too (knew some people in that team).

From my experience I have noticed something that goes on in almost every company - your yearly bonus is dependent directly on your final rating and your final rating, love it or hate it, is almost entirely decided by the last few months and god help you if your manager changes towards the end.
Vapid: an intentionally simple CMS
EDIT: formatting

Almost everyone here talks about abandonment. It's become a sad Google reality, but I'd hazard that some people are posting from Google Chrome, which would defeat the point about worrying.

I use Flutter, I've released an app that's been in prod for about 5 months now. Flutter runs on Dart, which is a Google-bred language. From my little knowledge, most/some of the people working on Dart are the team in Aarhus that work(ed) on V8. Our Vyacheslav Egorov (mraleph) being first that comes to mind.

Is Google going to abandon Flutter, what about Dart? Should I not learn Go because they'll also abandon it? Heck, should I not develop for Android because they'll abandon it too?

The fearmongering is a bit excessive. I'd think Google has a better track record with software platforms. I separate Google into:

- Products - come for free, can be abandoned any time

- APIs - come for free, don't build your business around them in case MapsGate price surges come your way. Or, if you rely on them out of being "free", always have contingency plans to switch. After all, if they build a market then destroy it, it's a good space for smaller players to join in.

- Software & Platform Tools - feels safer, unless very experimental.

___

Flutter allowed me to do in a few days what Java/Kotlin was taking me weeks. Why? It makes developing UIs much easier. As one can see from the RP2 announcement, background execution looks hairy, app size is improved but the build process still lacks what native has (e.g. updates to an app result in user downloading whole apk).

Will I have to rewrite my app again when Flutter is abandoned? Sure, but it won't be an overnight rewrite. I'll probably be able to get away with a 1-2 year window (if I need one) before the last supported Google Play Services becomes obsolete.

For me, I'm willing to take that upfront benefit. Yes, downside's learning yet another new language. I learnt Dart, and it was about 80% similar to the langs that I already know.
You don’t have to whitelist all of reddit, just gateway.reddit.com. Unless something has changed, this still blocks ads. Blame the filter lists.
Pay the robots a wage. Robots will buy things. /s
Newbie question : Why did Google do their Dev Days in Shangai instead of bay area ? Is it that Dev Days is not really an important event ?
> yeah, most civilians don't know the difference between a Bradley fighting vehicle and a tank

Most ancient Jews couldn’t have told you the difference between whales and fish, either. Some distinctions just don’t matter most of the time:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-mad...
Pkgtree – Show dependency tree of node project
Exactly this. I don't understand why this is being thrown about like it's a bad thing; I gladly pinned all of Wikipedia, but it's also a huge amount of data and I made sure I was prepared to follow through before I asked my IPFS node to do it. If there's content out there that has earned my respect, I'll pin it gladly just to help the authors out, especially if they ask me politely.

To be fair, some of this is automated. If you browse using your own node, it does maintain a small cache, which helps with the load distribution when something gets really popular. This blog post is a good example; despite literally being the #1 item on HN, it's still up; that's the global IPFS cache at work. It's slower than the average site, sure, but it didn't outright vanish, even though the author clearly is using minimal resources to actually host it. I think that's awesome.
Thank you so much for posting this. Did you write about your work anywhere? There are tradeoffs to picking frameworks like React Native & co. but there just aren't enough people writing about their usecases and the performances they saw/tuning they were able to do.

Eventually I'd like to make an example app in ~3 of the alternatives (native, nativescript, flutter) and use appium to do comparisons and various timing.
No, not really. IPFS is a storage platform. Cloudflare is fundamentally a compute platform (servers in hundreds of cities to which you can deploy arbitrary code and trust that it is executed faithfully). These two things are complementary, not competitive, which is why we decided it would be interesting to integrate with IPFS.

(Disclosure: I work for Cloudflare.)
Even if the data is not retained, it's possible that the trained model can leak information about the training examples. The field of differential privacy explores ways to make sure this doesn't happen.
> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”

> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile.

> “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”

Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...
Things that are interesting about this to me:

1. In Russia, nobody really knows or cares about pussy riot. The western fascination with them is a kind of exoticism. Nadya Tolokonnikova can fill a 1000-5000 seat lecture hall in a major american city, but in Moscow it'd be a surprise if 100 people showed up. This isn't out of fear or anything like that; think what kind of attendance a young, white, American punk woman doing art pranks in America would draw on the American speaking circuit. It's the same in Russia, to most people they're just not that interesting.

2. In Russia, nobody knows or cares about zona.media. This article says "...Media Zone quickly established itself as one of the country’s most reliable sources of information," but it's basically the modern Russian equivalent of IndyMedia: a protest calendar that only a very small contingent of activists pay attention to with the normal levels of radical infighting and articles written for the echo chamber. Nobody "on the street" has even heard of it.

3. Putin has a slight growing problem with young people who didn't experience the "before" and "after" of his taking power in the 90s, but for the most part nobody cares about these stories. If you ask people "on the street" whether they think Putin was responsible for the apartment building bombings referenced here, most will straight up say "even if he was, I don't care, he's still amazing." There was even a podcast (radiolab?) that actually did these interviews.

However, I am very prepared to believe that the Russian state poisoned Pyotr. What I never understand about these recent actions, though, is why? Why go out of your way to poison a no-name activist that operates in fringe circles for researching a story that nobody would care about, even if Putin were to confess live on TV channel 1?
Thanks for the clarification. Using 'number of views' would seem to be a valid metric, so now I'm not so sure about which graph is more realistic.
Article gets it backwards. There is currently no copyright on sound recordings made before 1972. Under the new legislation, such sound recordings would disappear from the public domain and retroactively get a 95-year copyright term.
This would only be 3 axis sound right? I don't think you can get full 6 axis reproduction with this, can you?
Back in the 70s computers were going to put all the clerk's out of work, yet here we are 40 years later, computers are everywhere, and yet we have more information workers than ever before. There are more people sitting at computer terminals today than there were people pushing pencils back before the computer revolution. The whole conspiracy to eliminate all those jobs completely backfired, we just kept finding new things to do.
Thanks for the kind comments! I'm one of the product managers on the Flutter team, so you're welcome to apply suitable skepticism to anything I might say in response to your last point, but I will say that Flutter is already being used in many strategic projects here at Google, as well as for many customer apps, some of which already have tens of millions of users. For example, Alibaba are using it to build one of their big apps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtYk3gWRSw0

I don't know if this is helpful in assuaging your concerns?
This protocol seems pretty cool, and the application, Briar[0], is pretty neat.

I just installed it, and it wants to do a physical key exchange with a contact.

Time for a keysigning party!

[0] https://briarproject.org/
If it were a google product, I wouldn’t trust it for a second. It seems that very few consumer facing products from Google are safe from being cut these days.

If google is using it internally, the risks change. After the Angular 2.0 debacle I’d fear Google Just up and changing everything and not providing a smooth migration pathway because they can. They probably won’t cut it, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t inadvertently hurt you really badly
Was Wave a product or a technology? Both, I guess.

That said, Wave doesn't seem comparable. Maybe GWT? If so, I'd be perfectly happy if Flutter has the lifespan of GWT, which is some 12 years old now and still viable (if perhaps a little crusty). 12 years is a phenomenal run for a piece of frontend tech.
I think there are 2 main problems with working on universal prediction:

1. getting all the information to the program in a usable, computational format.

2. Defining the requirements (old problem but a good one). How would you actually design an algorithm to predict something completely unknown. ML works well here, as it is fairly narrow and 'easily' definable

It certainly is the most interesting problem though, and I'd love to see more research attempted.
That's true. And irrelevant. The point is that we have statements that may not be reliable.