skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe just publish what you've downloaded while charging. Much like most intensive things like say picture backups that often are done only on wifi and only when charging.
"In August, they began speaking to the chief observer at Sunspot, who said he found a laptop running in several empty offices over the last few months.

He told the feds what he found on the desktop was "not good," and that it appeared to be child porn.

The search warrant states the feds then monitored all the IP addresses and found the exact time child porn was being sent out.

It matched only one employee: a janitor.

Once that janitor realized his computer was no longer there, the director says he "feverishly started looking through the facility," started making comments about "lax security at the facility," said it was "only a matter of time before the facility got hit, and he "believed there was a serial killer in the area" and that killer might enter the facility and execute someone.

The director says that's when he became concerned for his personal safety, and along with the agencies that operate the facility decided to evaluate it and shut it down. "
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Plenty of native apps lag, for a variety of reasons. I do agree that RN apps have a greater probability of lagging though.
I'd actually prefer a use-it-or-lose-it system for copyright. Like paying a yearly fee of maybe $100 to keep it copyrighted after a particular time has passed. Let Disney keep all the shit they want but other works that aren't being monetized are free for the taking (and other monetization).
"No significant differences were found in the sociodemographic variables, as listed in Table 1"

Those include age, marital status, education, and employment status.

Now if you wanted to criticize the paper you might pick that the study is out of 76 dogs total recruited by snowball sampling, which actually explains the homogenity of the study population.

Which makes sense, because there are very few veterinary medicine studies with large samples, because we don't fund vet. med.
>It would be interesting to see if you could meaningfully execute a company with total transparency but I don't think it would survive contact with reality.

Entire countries manage it. Sweden, Finland and Norway publish all income tax returns.
The argument of this very long and technical paper seems to boil down to this:

Solomonoff induction is (in the limit) as good as any computable prediction method, which sounds pretty "universal". But it is not itself a computable prediction method (it's just semi-computable). And if you are satisfied with semi-computability in a predictor, then you should demand instead that a "universal" predictor always be as good as any semi- computable predictor, and it can't meet that more demanding requirement. And so on in infinite regress.

I find this kind of underwhelming. Solomonoff induction represents, in practice, an unattainable ideal that prediction systems can aspire to approximate. This argument shows that if you somehow could reach the ideal, there is an infinite regress of super-ideals beyond it. So what?
Not true! Play my game Falcross (https://www.falcross.com) on iOS or Android and tell me if you feel any lag. It's written in React Native. Less than 3% of the UI is native code.

You CAN make highly performant software, even games, with React Native. You just need to take the time to truly understand the platform, and you will reap massive benefits.
Would be interesting to see benchmarks vs performant options e.g Vertica and ClickHouse
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I'm not allowed to participate in government. :)
36 who reported behavior problems, and 40 who did not. Veterinary medicine generally has small studies, because there's absolutely no money in veterinary medicine.

The authors note that for most of the variables people are talking about, the groups were pretty balanced. Which isn't surprising given they used snowball sampling for their recruitment - that's good at getting homogeneous groups.
Your theory here being that Masha Gessen is collaborating with the Trump administration.
Yep that one is pure gold
My guess is that none of these things (including things like Mastadon) will become very popular. Then, one day, Amazon will create an AWS instance for it, and popularity will skyrocket.

And no, I’m not being sarcastic. I love the idea, but can’t for the life of me think what it will take to make something like this truly popular. (Though I wish I could!)
(Yeah, it's ants, anyway) I recently watched the 1974 movie Phase IV, about...

Due to an unknown cosmic event...ants have undergone rapid evolution and developed a hive mind. A scientific team begins investigating strange towers and geometrically perfect designs that ants have built in the desert. Except for one family, the local human population flees the strangely acting ants. [Two scientists] set up a computerized lab in a sealed dome located in an area of significant ant activity in Arizona. The ant colony and the scientific team... fight each other, though the ants are the more effective aggressors. (wikipedia)

It's actually intelligent and rather good, if low-budget. Lots of close-up footage of ants.

Unfortunately the producer removed the final 6 minutes of the movie, which seems crazy, as it's the best part, hallucinatory, a dreamlike vision of the future. It was thought lost but recently found again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beLpsWaUDNk

That ending is a must see - but not until after you see the movie. (The version of the movie I saw was the truncated official release one.) I don't want to give spoilers, but the lost ending contains themes very similar to some things in the article.

Also seeing the massive 1974 computer they had in their lab and its pen printouts was interesting. One of the scientists is a number theory expert, recruited to learn the ants' language and try to communicate with them, and the movie shows a lot of him doing that.
Regarding "FREE THE MOUSE", Disney wouldn't even actually lose the rights to Mickey Mouse at all, right? I'm under the impression that Mickey Mouse is a trademark, and that the copyrighted work in question is the actual Steamboat Willie cartoon. So even if copyright was abolished entirely, Mickey would be just as safe as the Disney trademark itself. Am I wrong?
But why do those occupations pay less and why are women more often in them? Why do women have less experience? Why do they have less access to economic output after taking on the lion’s share of caregiving needed in society? That is the rest of the question. “There is no pay gap if you control for...” is not an explanation and doesn’t move the needle in terms of creating a more equitable work environment.
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I've found they've been extremely quiet for the whole year, or longer. They did recently send out an email talking about their progress and showed some demos, but I just skipped over the email actually, didn't look into it to see if they talked about their POS 'Proof of [stuff]'.

I just dug it up and they say Proof of Replication is going great. But don't show anything, they promise to open the code in the 'coming months' so people might see what progress has been done if any.

No progress was mentioned for Proof of Spacetime.

Edit: The link to their update, the only substantial one since the ICO last year I think... https://filecoin.io/blog/update-2018-q1-q2/
Another aspect is that, depending on your jurisdiction, salary is used as the base for calculating unemployment pay, parental leave, pensions, severance, and similar.

As an employee, if you're given the choice between salary increase and bonus, the salary increase is worth way more in the long run.
Are there any apps in the wild that I can install which use flutter? I'm curious to know how it feels from a user perspective.

Stats and benchmarks are neat but I'd really want to try it firsthand to know that it's "Fast".
Sure, IPFS isn't a great archive of uninteresting content that needs to be kept forever.

But imagine the normal thing is to give 1GB of cache to IPFS. Granted if a planet worth of 1GB cache's isn't enough to save your content then it's not interesting enough.
i only thinking about best case scenario. that's keep me happy and motivated.
I tried to avoid confusion by referring to the Wikipedia definition, which by my ethical framework pretty much always unethical, but should very rarely be outlawed. It would be a nightmare to validate.
Honestly so far "The Rust Programming Language" book proved to be the most useful resource.
Weren't people reporting that they were seeing BlackHawk helicopters around the installation.

A lot of military aircraft were relocated around the country because of the hurricane.

Plus, the average person couldn’t tell a Blackhawk helicopter from a Blackhawk hockey player.
If you believe that, do you also believe I have a right to take any code you ever write, regardless of how you've (heh) "licensed" it, and bake it into any closed source product I happen to want to use it in? If not, why not?
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People looking at the Automatiopocalypse as being the result of advanced AI and super high tech are missing the scary point: We don't need self-driving cars or Turing-test-passing chatbots to put 30% of the population out of work. We just need to finish the roll-out of bog standard dumb automation to supermarket checkouts, airport baggage drops, self-service kiosks, fast food restaurants etc. People at the low end of the market are already scratching for jobs and they're running out of higher land to run to.
A optimal theoretical contract for an employer is:

- If good outcome, pay a huge amount of money.

- If bad outcome, pay 0 (or even negative, by getting money from the employee).

This will incentivize workers for good outcomes. Of course this is unfeasible and difficult to measure, but bonuses make contracts closer to this theoretical contract.
Your first example is really poor one (although this is not your fault) because there is nothing to indicate that this outcome was a factor in executive decision-making, as opposed to an unexpected outcome at ground level. Let me recommend this article as a cynical but in-depth examination of the political and military calculus surrounding the incident: https://warontherocks.com/2018/07/the-puzzle-of-russian-beha...
Did a view source. How come the end tags have id on them? </body id> and </html id>
During my prior job hunt I interviewed with a large financial company. I was upfront about my salary requirements and every step of the way they aggressively negotiated the final amount lower and lower until it was barely more than what I had earned at my prior job and mind you I was already being paid below market rate.

Their direct reasoning for this was that the company offered strong end of year bonuses up to a ridiculous amount which in the fine print was dependent on a bunch of nebulous criteria. This was a company making money hand over fist.

Needless to say I ended up not going along with that offer. As you've mentioned companies likely do this because not only can they fluff up an offer letter to look better, but because they have multiple avenues to deny you the bonus and save even more money rather than paying candidates a proper amount.
You may find some here: https://flutter.io/showcase/
How confident can anyone be basing a core product on flutter given Google's history of abandonment?
And an obvious point: Russia wants important enemies to die slow, painful deaths, and to send a message that other enemies will suffer a similar fate. Killing Litvinenko or Skripal with a bullet to the head probably wouldn't have been satisfying or vengeful enough.
Aliens downloading child porn.
There’s a principle of OOP called the “uniform access principle” (articulated by Bertrand Meyer, among others) that holds that a class should not leak whether a value is computed or is just a field on the object. That way, you don’t need getters/setters because, if you want to change the storage of a class member, you can just change it from being a data member to a method of vice versa. This helps avoid the explosion of getters and setters that characterize a certain sort of Java project.
Respected Mathematician to unveil new proof of the Riemann Hypothesis
That's pretty cool, bro.
He's not wrong. But I think the biggest impact of all this restructuring will be underdeveloped economies which don't have natural resources to lean on. Economies with young and growing populations.

Western Europe, East Asia and the US will be much less affected than those whose natural populations have not stabilized. You can expect upheaval there from generations with no future either at home or abroad (if Yang's predictions come true).

What's surprising to me is that you have two different factions on the left: Traditional pro-labor camp who are worried about this possibility and the new technocratic progressive left which is trying to downplay the possibility.
Do you have your notary commission yet?
This may be a short-sighted policy for the employer.

Once-in-a-year bonuses give very little incentive to produce efficient work day-to-day. Because bonuses are given far in the future, employees have little to no rapid feedback on their work; and being far in the future some employees simply forget about them (or believe they might change jobs before bonuses are given so why work hard anyway).

Giving weekly or monthly bonus would give a rapid a powerful feedback to employees; and bonuses would be much connected to actual work than the corporate politics that happen just before the yearly bonus.

Another thing that employers risk with this policy is employees leaving en-masse as soon as the bonus is given.
Some consulting/audit companies give bonus after the summer, just before their busy season starts; and employers learn the hard way that giving the bonus as late as possible is not as smart as it first sounded.
I’ve convinced two friends (who were also disenchanted with their jobs) to do the same. They’ve never been happier.
The state supplies smart cards?!
Facebook may face a lawsuit over Uber ads exclusively targeted at men
Out of interest, how does one go about selling user contact info like that?
Over 1,300 taxi drivers in Portugal hold nationwide protest against ‘Uber Law’
That's not true. If I take the top 5 students based on performance in a test, and put them in a group. They will likely do worse the second time around. No need to know the mean.
Bitcoin is _not_ trying to go proof of stake because proof of work is the most secure consensus algorithm that exists. Proof of stake has some lingering unsolved problems, search for "nothing at stake problem" and "long range attack."

All the energy consumed by bitcoin is a feature, not a bug. The only way to defeat the immutability of the bitcoin blockchain and do naughty things would be to expend _more_ energy than is currently being used (or create a more effecient miner, mass produce it, set up mining farms, all without anybody finding out).
I'm been a proud vanilla-js programmer for over 2 decades.

The only in-built thing really lacking is customizable dialogs, such as HTML modal and modeless dialogs, and starred password input control dialogs.

All of the typical JS packages are available for vanilla-js, like calendar and color pickers.

What's funny is that other developers' ears usually perk up when you mention being a vanilla-js programmer, and often want a demo to see how you can do entire apps without jquery, etc.
You know I've got a shell on your system, right?
Yeah, ipns links are pretty slow compared to ipfs links.

The best practice is to have a domain using dnslink[0] which always points to the most recent IPFS hash on a gateway with the content already pinned. I believe this is what the IPFS team does for their blog, using a combination of a static site generator and web hooks.

[0]: https://github.com/ipfs/go-dnslink
The FBI shut down the entire site, which is made up of several buildings. There was a small post office in one of those buildings.
How do you even clean a toaster? Do you have to take that shit apart with a screwdriver or something? That’s a good thirty minute investment. Fourty-five, if you count the fifteen minutes it’d take me to find a screwdriver.

Toasters typically have a trap door on the bottom for emptying the crumbs and for ease of access for cleaning the inside.

Once you know how to do things, lots of things aren't that time consuming. Eating right is also vastly less time consuming than being sick all the time.
They're still doing that - this is an expansion, not a pivot. Vectordash Core (the ML service) is totally still a thing.
Love watching people cry about bitcoin miners increasing the overall efficacy of electricity use.

If you didn't want people moving in and using your cheap electricity, you shouldn't have made it so cheap! Price stabilization in action.
This is a great example of one of the pitfalls of iterating quickly if not done properly.
I completely agree, but in the universe of software demoscene is extremely rare.
You must feel dirty and have to take a shower after being compelled to defend a thug, piece of shit like Putin.
Are those SO popularity comparison numbers real? If they are, I feel they were somehow artificially inflated. I have nothing against Flutter, but I don't think at this point it's as widely used as Xamarin and React Native. For Angular numbers should be even higher.
I am talking about staffers. https://www.legistorm.com/salaries.html

More public salaries: https://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/Explore.aspx

It's doable.
Well, if you contract me to issue you a card, I'll intercept it myself. If you forget your PIN or whatever, I'm not issuing you a new one. I'll charge you for a new yubikey and and put the key on a new, reset card.
I have a mixed opinion on bonuses.

On the one hand as engineers get more senior it becomes more possible for them to 'move the needle' in the parlance and do something really impactful for the company. Its also possible that they might do something really great one year and nothing notable for the next four years. So bonuses allow you to reward for work done "above an beyond" without a long term salary expense hit that might not be as justified in later years. So in that regard I think making more of the pay variable as you get more senior makes a lot of sense.

But then bonuses can also be used as tools by managers to foster unhealthy behavior. When they are a 'beauty contest' (basically people who the manager likes get good bonuses unrelated to their contribution) then they are demoralizing to the group and promote sycophantic behavior over outstanding technical contribution.

When I was at Google they tried to have their cake and eat it too, on the one hand they said your bonus was all algorithmic (personal multiplier, company multiplier, salary) but they refused to tell you what your personal multiplier was. So your manager could give you a really happy sounding review and a personal multiplier of .1 or something and you had no way of knowing if what you did was really useful or if they were just blowing smoke. It was pretty clear that management reverted to what managers do, which is lean the rewards toward people that supported their agenda and away from people who didn't, regardless of "impact" (positive or negative!) to the company.

Bonus plans that work are ones where you establish clear measurable goals for the year which can be objectively adjudicated. If you make all the goals you get the full promised bonus, you make a fraction of them, you get the prorated bonus. Weak managers will push back on those because they don't have the tools to evaluate the difficulty of the goals. Something I suggested at Google could be peer reviewed (they still didn't like it).

I don't have any magic bullets here, having experienced no less than six differently structured bonus programs they all seemed to leave some folks feeling they were treated unfairly.
Rest assured this project too will be abandoned eventually.
You all do great work! Love the NYPL :)
Sounds fun, Frank Herbert's "The Green Brain" is on very similar themes. Is also an excellent book. I suspect it would be much better known, if it wasn't so overshadowed by his Dune series.
I am especially nervous about Flutter since they don't even have to abandon it. If they don't keep pace with new OS releases, there is no great way to recoup your investment in Flutter. You are just stuck without an outdated looking app or forced to do a full rewrite in the native frameworks.
stage 2 proposal for pipeline operator will also let you call functions without parens.

'hello world' |> console.log
Google has abandoned products, but has it abandoned technologies?
Oh, that's pretty neat! I hadn't seen that before. Does dnslink work with browsers at all?
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Your CEO has a nice boat on order. The money has to come from somewhere :-)
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I just installed ipfs and noticed this as well - ipns performance is pretty terrible. I tried loading a page that was created (and therefore stored) on my node, and it takes a good 10 seconds to load).

edit: looks like this might be relevant: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3860
"if we achieve our goal, you will get part of it as a reward".

And next year the goal post gets raised. That's how it works at my company.
Serious question: How are you keeping body and soul together?
You're right I am. I was attempting to place extra emphasis on the sections of the post I thought helped highlight my post. I'm sorry I wasn't doing it properly. I took the entirety of the post in a different light you did, which I think is my fault and against the HN guidelines.
Yeah, this is the kind of stuff I'd seen that had made me reluctant to talk about FileCoin as "IPFS has found a way to..."

They wrote a paper describing a plausible system that - if it existed - could do a thing. They've been much less successful actually finding a way to implement it.
Can you be a little more specific?
That article is really strange to me. On one hand, he's probably 100% right. There's no other way to avoid rumors and jokes like that. On the other hand, that's a completely unacceptable excuse to bar women from something. Can someone refuse to hire a female secretary out of respect for their wife?
I keep reading Mastadon in HN, but the real name is Mastodon. Where did you get "Mastadon" from ?
direct deposit works fine in AU. If what you are actually doing is cash to a person. Then you can stay electronic.
Isn’t the site pretty remote? Maybe it’s just an expedient method for traveling there.
No idea. Where did they get those?

Flutter doesn't appear in SO Trends
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends
"backdated" is the stinkiest of legal smells.
We know Russia was called, during and before the battle, so at a minimum, we know there was high level DoD involvement, almost certainly Mattis and McMaster. We also know Trump bragged about it afterwards.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-reportedly-bragged-abo...

It doesn't suggest someone beholden to Russia.
I spent quite a few months comparing this with React Native.

Flutter has done cross-platform right. And it's somewhat sad and counter-intuitive but pretending to be native is a lot better than actually being native. iOS and Android are just too dissimilar in areas to provide a common layer on top of. In particular routing which is a mess with React Native.

Flutter also has the best development experience period. Nothing comes close. Compilation is fast. The reload cycle is instant. The tooling is excellent. It is really polished.

I just wish it had not come from Google because you always get that niggling feeling like it's going to abandoned. Which would be a real shame.
I mainly do it this way to reduce the chance of my code panicking, not specifically for any performance reasons.