skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how about not-tech-specific rules around data sharing transparency

Such as... a General Data Protection Regulation?
GDPR is not "tech-specific", it applies to technical solutions, yes, but also to business requirements and administration, and non-technical data collection. One non-tech consequence here is that stores are encouraged not to ask your SSID equivalent, since that exposes deeply personal information to others nearby.

> Just require details on what's shared and with whom for those seeking it

That's a big part of GDPR, actually. You're allowed to collect data, with certain rules about transparency and anonymization, and as long as there are reasonable motivators for collecting it. Within reason and with exceptions, I'm sure, but nonetheless, that's a big part of it.

> You're gonna find most people don't care anyways

I'm willing to bet few people cared about regulations on traffic safety and alcohol as well. That doesn't mean that regulations to hold bad actors responsible aren't necessary, as has been proven countless times through leaks, sometimes very large or sensitive leaks.

> And please please learn from EU mistakes and establish enforcement mechanisms.

What do you mean by this? What "mistake" has the EU made? They have enforcement mechanisms in place to target companies for violations of GDPR. It will take time to work out the details and establish case law, but I don't see anyway around that. Even if you introduce "small" regulations, companies will fight the charges or fines that you bring to establish precedent.

> If we all have to hire lawyers and/or compliance assistance, then the first step is too large.

You all don't. Larger corporations probably do, but that's unavoidable. GDPR was announced something like two years before implementation, and published in a lot of different ways beforehand. There were compliance consultants, yes, but there were also PSAs, education, advertisement, easy-to-read summaries and tons and tons of material to read up on.

> heavy-handed government regulations on the internet bring more bad than good

The view of pre-GDPR internet as something free of regulation, or free from government involvement, or as nothing but a land of milk and honey seems to me like a pretty severe case of rose-tinted glasses, especially if we're talking the last 10-15 years.

There have been a lot of issues with the internet, even without mentioning all the severe privacy breaches, or breaches that are a concern for national security.
Yeah, I have no intuition with this. The telescope they used was 8.2m and they used 300-400 second exposures (with spectral filters). I guess it comes down to space being really really dark and cyrogenically-cooled CCDs having pretty good noise floors.

The authors had this to say about it:

Surprisingly, like 2012 VP113, 2015 TG387 is relatively bright compared to the limiting magnitude of most of the survey fields. The Subaru observations generally go deeper than 25.5 mags, making 2015 TG387 about 1.5 mags brighter than the limiting magnitude of the disocovery survey fields it was found in.
Not to mention legacy inertia - things get harder to change in existing libraries when they have loads of users. Even if the change make sense in a vacuum.
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Yes. The most notable are https://www.aihitdata.com and https://www.happygrumpy.com
First crawls corporate websites (~25 millions) and extracts key information such as people, contacts, etc.
Second is a sentiment analysis tool.
promising website, super simple design and cool graphics... didn't analyzed in detail but market data seems accurate.. good luck !
Right. I didn't see that you could interpret it that way. Apologies for not stating that assumption.
As long as headlines start with a nameless woman instead of her name, Donna Strickland, it is still a long way for woman in STEM/Physics.

Why not "Donna Strickland becomes third woman to receive Nobel Prize in Physics since Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963) and Marie Curie (1903)" or similar (maybe a bit shorter)?
Cut the hyperbole, there is nothing dangerous about underfunding the IRS. Overfunding the military, that's another story.
Exactly...housing, like stocks, are in bubbles due to unrestricted printing of money.
I think the simplicity of the proofs were somewhat overstated.
As with every law, we will see how it's actually used in practice but on my case I did not have much doubts about how it's supposed to be applied, I never understood it as an equivalent on the French one. For me, one of the goals here is when you delete your Facebook account, the data is actually deleted unlike what probably happens now.
Amazon raises minimum wage for US and UK employees
Because then many wouldn't read the article.. HOOKS are called that just for this reason......
Fuzzy logic is just theory of vagueness. It's just one example of many-valued logic and reasoning involving predicates that are vague in nature.

Kimhi's ideas seem to be deeper than that.
So, silly question, can we see / photograph the Apollo lander?

It always struck me as a really nice response to anyone being silly about fake landings.
Ask HN: Modern, ideally hosted wiki engine for small-ish community?
Apparently it's hard to find a software for a small community's knowledge database. I guess wiki-like engine is ideal, but which one? Confluence is very complex and enterprise-oriented, wikia is all ads and doesn't have any access control as far as I know. Everything else I found is either expensive or abandoned. What would you use to host common knowledge of a small community (think sports club)?
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A fragment of email that was sent to CERN emploees:
We have therefore decided to remove the slides from Indico, in line with our Code of Conduct that does not tolerate personal attacks and insults.
Diversity is a strong reality at CERN, and is also one of the core values underpinning our Code of Conduct. The Organization is fully committed to promoting diversity and equality at all levels.
this app does one thing I like—it launches with the keyboard active. at least sometimes. I use Drafts specifically because it has this feature. Firefox Focus does too. I wish the Google app would always launch with the keyboard up.
No, that's precisely what the original question is trying to address: Why not keep using WebGL since the bottleneck in a graphical application running in Javascript is likely NOT going to be WebGL, but Javascript itself.
That would require someone to pay the US patent office to do their jobs.

I believe paying for government services is considered a contentious issue in the USA.
This changed in iOS 8.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/new-chrome-for-ios-i...
Yes, so? We're not automatons that only speak with citations and meta-studies, nor it is prudent to do so.

Empirical personal observation will always be very important.
Been done. Doesn't seem to faze the loonies.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.htm...
Wonderful! Now I can boil my soup from a higher class of shoe.
Physics Nobel won by laser wizardry – laureates include first woman in 55 years
Because it's small and exists in darkness in the outer realms. Also, it's just great marketing. Who the hell wouldn't want to read about a goblin planet? Made me click on the link.
TicTacToe in SQL (Postgres)
I could go many ways with that but I guess it depends how much we assume about the a.i.

However, although the card game came out after the video game, I actually have thought about this pokemon a.i. a fair amount and I think its fair to same that the video game is in many ways a visualization of a card game and the traversing of the map isn't as critical as it seems.

We know that the video game can't be beat without collecting x amount of Pokemon, so my thoughts on which heuristic would be to start there before even worrying about the battle system. Consider how a game of starcraft works, is a pokemon battle system more advanced than starcraft a.i.? I don't think so but open to being convinced otherwise.
Opera Touch released
> There are enforcement mechanism in the GDPR. IMO they also are quite good.

Based on my research into the lax enforcement of GDPR predecessors and GDPR leveraging those same enforcement bodies, I disagree. This is why I advocate an incremental approach; so you can prove you are adept at implementing the measures you write down lest it become just words, or worse, an economic warfare tool to subjectively apply on a whim. Sometimes you even have to temper those words knowing your enforcement mechanisms aren't yet prepared. Nobody's asking for going after all offenders, just reasonable attempts at equitable large-scale enforcement.
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> the cancer that is called advertising

In these conversations "advertising" is a very loaded term, not all advertising is tracking, not all advertising is invasive and not all advertising is served by shady clickbait companies.

With a little stretch even a review of a movie or a game is advertising. The GDPR might push toward a more sustainable advertising model and honestly I cannot see anything negative in that.

(also not all advertising is fake news and product discovery is a hard problem for both sellers and buyers)
But for many of us, the aspect of having a NSA backdoored US product is probably more scary.
All of my history is in Firefox, so I use Firefox on iOS as well, since it syncs with the desktop. I use Firefox for other reasons too, e.g. I like its UI for being friendly to multiple search engines.

And I use apps that behave well. For example I use an email reader that can open links in Firefox.

That apps open links in Safary is not true. From this point of view the iOS ecosystem is a clusterfuck as most apps, most notably Facebook, Twitter and Gmail, open links in their own shitty webview.

Gmail on iOS is even disingenuous about it. It has a configuration option allowing you to choose Chrome as an alternative (no Firefox of course), but what they call "Safari" is their own webview, not actual Safari and this matters because it doesn't share session data of course.
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Wikimatrix.org provides a comparison of solutions. Here are hosted solutions that support wysiwyg, your own domain and custom branding (minus Wikia):

https://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/BrainKeeper%2BCentralDesk...

Use the wizard to narrow down choices.

These options look like the highlights to me:

Zoho Wiki: https://www.zoho.eu/wiki/pricing.html

PBwiki: https://www.pbworks.com/wikis.html
We can see the shadow of it. The neat part is you can see the disturbed ground that the astronauts left while they moved around on the surface.

NOTE: these were taken from lunar orbit, not earth-based telescopes.

(shadow) https://www.space.com/6997-photos-reveal-apollo-11-moon-land...

(large-ish, descent stage, rover tracks) https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/584392main_M...
A lot of the example sentences seem barely better than Markov chain gibberish: "A ski lift business for the last time the train was already being darkened and the street was already there"

This sounds like a lousy book and I doubt anyone will read it. But hey, props to this guy for getting Google to pay for his fun road trip.
I mean the blue collars sitting with other developers at lunch. We can pretend there is a meritocracy out there, but that's simply not true.

Sure, in theory it might be possible to progress as a developer but in practice the roi of putting in enormous effort is simply laughable compared to the alternatives. A few percent raise realistically. Getting to the top? Not a chance.
Some people think the inequality has gone down significantly (I'm in that camp), but others point out to things like Bezos and a few others owning more assets than 80% of the world combined.

Regardless, AI is bound to increase inequality. Just yesterday we discussed this book [1] on probabilistic programming here on HN [2]. That book is, by all definitions, an advanced book about AI. How many people without a PhD can read that? How many people with a PhD can read it? Well, guess what, people who can and do read this book earn more than people who don't. That's AI driving inequality. Before AI will create the mythical HAL or other self-aware machines, it will enable humongous productivity for the top 0.01% most highly educated engineers.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10756

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18109260
The Remarkable Persistence of 24x36
As JetBlue joins race to airfare bottom, what's needed is a Netflix of the skies
>Being a CEO is hard

Much easier than many other jobs, from mining and nursing to jobs that single mothers do in 2 shifts.

And with much more perks, respect, personal influence, and earnings...
Chinese "leaders" are in way over their head trying to direct the economy. Now they don't know what the people really know. Something tells me that clear and open information is the best choice but they have already gone down the rabbit hole.
I would disagree and say that Elon Musk has repeatedly cited working twice as hard as everyone else as the key to his success. But the trick he seems to be following is that if you work flat-out on difficult problems until exhaustion, you spend a lot of time in flow state and consequently learn a lot faster than someone who isn't pushing themselves.
> The practical effect of GDPR seems to me that I have to click away about half a dozen consent popups every day. Sometimes a cookie warning in addition to that.

At this point I just want those consent forms to be standardized via ARIA tags or whatever so that some extension can click the "yea, sure, whatever" button for me.
Thank you for sharing this. I’ve donated (small amounts of) money to Mozilla and Wikipedia in the past. Your post makes me consider donating to archive.org this year.

Edit: typo
having read the whole presentation, I'm very surprised to read the article. What's on the slides doesn't match the content of the article.

Also, I find it ironic that he mentions people fired because of similar opinions on the slide 24, and then gets suspended for the same reason. Could we at least have an honest, open discussion about the content rather than silencing the (currently) non-mainstream views?
Mcafee: Kim Kardashian most dangerous celeb to search for online
Fore: thinner Android view layers
>but I can't think of a CEO job that isn't hard. It's always fraught with political risk, changing times, etc. etc

That makes it volatile, not hard. And the stakes are much less for volatility when you already have several cool million in the bank...
Is the battle system much different than playing blackjack with your own deck?

Imagine a world where someone can buy and trade towards a deck with 90% aces going up a person with 80% aces.
Why Are Enterprises So Slow?
HL was very interesting it took the BBS concept and moved it into the internet age. It felt very much like the old BBS dial-ups. HL brought that back for a while and I loved it as well. definitely a trip down memory lane.
Another one failing to comprehend that different languages have different application domains. Sad.
Wish an establishment like the bbc chose better
Hard to get right is different than hard to do (physiologically, in the way it affects the mind and the body).

And even hard to get right matters little if you have a golden parachute (as many CEOs do). You can drive a company (or an entire sector) to the ground and still get your nice bonus.
What a digital country could look like
No. Corruption of blood is a constitutional term that specifically means penalising children for the crimes of their parents. It's related to crimes. Racking up the national debt is a bad thing to do but it's not a crime, and it's something that affects everyone equally, not specific individuals or subgroups.

Arguing, as so many people on HN unfortunately do, that white men deserve to be dumped on because in times gone by some other white men did something the speaker did not like, is a lot closer to the original concept of corruption of blood, even though it's not exactly the same thing as what the constitution is talking about.

But I don't understand why you dragged us down this irrelevant tangent. My point was that explicitly penalising people for things their ancestors did or supposedly did is bad and wrong. Yes, I am also a supporter of balanced budgets because making children pay for the mistakes of their parents is also bad. This has nothing to do with the general principle of tax - it's just a logical fallacy wrapped inside a straw man. Governments can easily tax and spend whilst also not borrowing.
Not sure if "recent" is the correct attribute for DSLs in Ruby.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2007/06/dsl-or-not
site -> sight

Teaching, not nit-picking:
"shoot on sight" is the idiom here, meaning shoot as soon as target is visually confirmed. Whereas "on site" relates to location.
With the bayesian mesh you could arbitrarily apply heuristics over what otherwise looks pretty similar to a simple coordinate map.

If you happen to die near a certain node you could add an ajacent node of "scary" or whatever. Reverse idea for nodes where you get free food and pokemon.
> The jabs at gender studies near the end were somewhat misplaced in my opinion

Maybe, maybe not. I have several female friends who went on to study soft sciences and regret it. Some say this out loud, some give non-verbal clues. They clearly prefer their daughters to choose STEM careers. The paradox here is that these kids are just not interested in STEM that much, just as my friends themselves are not. They treat STEM as a way of making money, not something interesting to discover. If you don't have this internal curiosity in you, it's hard to pass it on to your kids.
A duvet that costs $15,000
Not really- "releasing" implies a regular person could buy it... No human being outside of Theranos was ever allowed to be in the same room as an Edison machine.
If information that would typically be widespread was prevented from becoming widespread, then censorship has taken place and succeeded.

If a newsworthy event has taken place but is not reported on mainstream media because of government intervention, that is censorship.

The main purpose of censorship is not to completely stop all access to some information, it is to prevent that information from reaching a majority of its target audience.

This is what happened here. You're shrugging it off with 'ehhh but you can still find the information if you know to look for it in the first place, where most people would not look'. This apologist attitude is why you're being downvoted. You are using the Chinese government 'approved' definition of censorship with is contradictory to the definition outside of china.
The big challenge here isn't the tech side, it's getting the games that people want to play. Many, many companies fail to compete with the likes of Steam for instance because they can't attract enough interest from developers and publishers, meaning their libraries are lacking.

Google partnering with Ubisoft is promising here, but the question will be whether they could get the likes of Activision, EA, Square Enix, Capcom, Konami, Take Two, etc to work with this service as well. If they can't, they'll end up with the streaming equivalent of Origin or what not, while whoever does get everyone on board will take the market.
Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anybody'” (1996)
If you trace the path of individual photons it seems implausible. That somehow a photon leaves the sun, travels possibly weeks until it strikes some nanoscopic face of a crystal on the surface of this object, which is rotating and travelling tangentially at several km/sec, and departs at such a resolved and precise an angle that it makes it almost all the way back to the sun, passes through the atmosphere of an orbiting body travelling 30km/sec, lands on a finely curated layer of aluminum where it is reflected yet again and lands on a square likely smaller than an index card.
Steelmanning the NIMBYs
Land a major deal or create a new product line that doubles revenue? You're getting to the top.

Be in charge of the department/team that "lands a major deal or create a new product line that doubles revenue" and you're on your way to the top. Being the person who was in the office until 3 am working out the final details of that deal or fixing the show stopping bugs that let you actually launch the product won't get you anywhere.
Who are these tax incentivised angels in the UK??
Given the results obtained by the OpenAI in Dota[1] (with asymmetrical teams nonetheless) I am pretty confident RL could be used to train a pretty efficient pokemon pvp agent. From my experiences the nuances and mindgames/predictions in a pokemon battle are much simpler than those in a high level chess/go game.

I would say the model isn't as straightforward as the Mario or Sonic AI players, but is still achievable. Actually, I wish I had more time because this is definetly a project I would like to tackle.

[1] https://blog.openai.com/openai-five/