skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't even advocate for the government writing research grants (though I do think it's a good idea). I tried (perhaps badly) to point out that "The thing that sucks trillions of dollars out of the economy" is a terribly silly characterization for the federal government.
Any idea if data is encrypted by default? I didn't see any mention of encryption... or, TBH, much of anything other than rather ludicrous marketing language, which is very disappointing from TBL
I think the issue can be explained without conspiracy theories. US military can't win against guerrilla, because US public cares about their image as the "good guys". And to be good guys you have to avoid any civilian casualties, which significantly raises the difficulty of all military operations.

The war against ISIS in Syria is a good example: Americans struggled for years, and then Russians came and pretty much ended the whole thing in 3 months. How? By bombarding civilians, including the hospitals, and (allegedly) using chemical weapons.

So, US have no problem winning the fight against guerillas, other than its own restraint.
Keep that in mind "easily" can be good for you, but not for your users---

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/tonyschr/2004/03/30/drivers...

Even if it's just restricted to the local machine, any application that seemingly should have nothing to do with the network is going to arouse plenty of unneeded suspicion if it starts listening on a port or creating connections. Several years ago I remember coming across an application written in Python that did something similar, and its forums had users complaining that their firewall had detected something or that it was otherwise not working. I downloaded the executable, analysed it to discover the above, and decided to find an alternative instead.
From what I quickly gathered, it's just a Key-Value storage mechanism.
- Facebook is not in a traditional 'monopoly'.

- The term 'monopoly' is conventially used in connection with the sale of traditional goods, like soft drinks and train services.

- It represents a boolean state, and was created to describe situations that arise in established economic models.

- The new trade in information, such as propagated by Facebook, does not follow many of the established rules of the trade of goods and services.

- The network effects of buying soda are weak. Maybe if my friends "prefer the taste of X" I will buy that too. But their choosing a given brand of soda does not preclude me from using a different brand of soda.

- The stakes are lower too. Notwithsanding the actual literal crimes committed by Coca-Cola, if people consume more of one brand than other, or Coca-Cola try a different formula, the worst harm that is done is some shareholders lose some money.

- If Facebook controls the flow of information, directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally, big social outcomes change. For example the election of the current president of the United States, and countless other decisions round the world.

- Many things are changing. Business models, societal models, communication models, user behaviour. Even the use of the word 'user' sheds light on the situation -- what we might have called "cizizens engaged in converstaion" is now "users on a platform" and, in some dominant sectors is the dominant platform for discussion.

- We need new vocabulary to talk about the effects that technology has brought about. No extant word is a perfect fit. That is not a good reason to not try to talk about them.
Same questions I have from reading "Build a Solid app in your lunch break", the app leverages the friends stored data but makes no mention of how the permissions system might work.
No one ever seriously suggested the latter. But reducing the size of black markets will reduce the revenue from them. I mean gangs are moving bootleg cigarettes around to get around taxes but it’s not major driver of violence.
IMO, happiness is just a side-effect, and shouldn't be optimized, just like the taste of good food.
What needs to be optimized are ways to sustain happiness, and one of those is finding meaning in life.
To me it looks like as another incarnation of semantic web stuff.
Context here: https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-l...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18101702
Yes, exactly. So while today on a slow connection you can find yourself waiting a long time for Gmail to load up and let you read your email, in the days of 300 baud your email would be downloaded in batch and your mail reader would come up instantly, letting you peruse and read your email at leisure.
Show HN: Data-generation/crowdsourcing platform, for building open datasets
-- Background --

https://metro.exchange

Metro allows data science projects to be powered by a crowd of people who self-generate the data for it. One of its primary uses is to create open datasets collaboratively, where every contributor is able to access all of the data.

I've been building it for the past few months and I want to gather some feedback! We can build a useful dataset of translations, and then we can start making new DataSources to power new datasets (labeled images, named entity recog.).

-- How it works --

Data generation happens on your computer, using "DataSources". A DataSource is a community-made, open-source plugin for Metro, which generates data for you.

You simply install the Metro browser extension and activate the DataSources which power the project. You'll also need to signup, which doesn't require email verification right now so it takes about 10 seconds.

-- Sentence Translation Project --

I made an Open Data project for gathering sentence-level translations in 7 languages, and I would you to try it out!

https://metro.exchange/projects/od-sentence-translations/

It's powered by a DataSource (https://metro.exchange/datasources/text-translation/) which allows you to highlight any text, right-click, press a "translate" button, and enter your translation.

You'll need to 1. sign up (https://metro.exchange/signup), 2. install the extension, and 3. activate the DataSource on the project page (https://metro.exchange/projects/od-sentence-translations/).

-- Future --

I want Metro to be able to support open-data generation of any scale and eventually be the backbone for startups powered by ethical, self-generated data because it provides access to data from any platform on the internet while giving users true autonomy over their data.

Any feedback, help, or just usage of the system is really useful for trying to improve the problems that I just can't see yet.

Thank you!
OLD NEWS, this has been happening quite a while, I watched a VICE documentary about it.
> If faculty bonuses

Oy. Faculty don't get meaningful bonuses. Like, a $100 gift card to the university book store is a really nice gesture for someone who really went above and beyond. True story.

Not only do they not get bonuses, but even their base salaries are often 1/2 or less of base salaries in industry. Meaning total comp can be as low as 1/3rd or even 1/5th for competitive applicants (100k vs. 300k is a pretty common spread in CS. The spread gets even larger for top-tier candidates because academia has a hard ceiling but industry is more than happy to throw 400+ and top-tier fresh phds...).

>... included a mix of pass rates, success in subsequent classes, AND textbook cost, this problem would go away.

It consistently amazes me that people underestimate the difficulty of perfectly projecting a high-dimensional approximation of an inherently unknowable quantity onto a single scalar.

If it were actually possible to do what you prescribe, to reduce good teaching down to a measurable combination of measurable variables, then why on earth wouldn't we just replace all teaching with a reinforcement learning algorithm?

Oh, and BTW, things like MyMathLab aren't even saving professors' time. They are saving graduate TA time. Those TA's are making 20k-30k a year.

The reason that auto-grading software can charge a lot of money is that even horrendously underpaid graduate TA labor is extremely expensive compared to a software license.

So, I think subjecting faculty to teaching metrics is probably a terrible idea, especially in STEM at lower tier universities. Recruiting is already hard enough. Doing so is not going to have the intended effect and might even cause a brain drain.

Projects like this pilot are a much better idea. We should also have pilot programs for open-sourced auto-grading software and small NSF grants (e.g., $8k over 3 months -- a princely some for a grad TA!) to cover the cost of refreshing the question banks every few years.
Which part of the battery tech is Panasonic and which part is Tesla? Does Panasonic hold the patent and Tesla makes them in the giga factory?
This seems to be the case for most Google services. I use Google DoubleClick, AdSense, and Analytics, and they seem to get slower, and more clunky with every update. I was using DoubleClick yesterday, and I was waiting about 10 seconds for every page to load. Then I searched for help on a topic and I was sent to the Google product forums, which nearly offered an equally poor experience. The frustration reminded me of my years with dial-up, even though it's 20 years in the future, and I have an 80 Mb/s internet connection. And of course the most basic features don't always work correctly with Google services now, such as being able to open a link in a new window, or being able to navigate without the back button breaking in some way.

Without question, Google services are the worst I currently use in my daily life. I would honestly be embarrassed to have my name attached to many of their products.
> Why is no one addressing the seemingly obvious truth that the entire world is nothing but a complex corrupt criminal system of lies?

It isn't.

> Or am I just far too cynical?

Yes.
A company of some respected people it seems: https://www.inrupt.com/meet-the-inrupters/
I think this is the most sage advice of all. There's a TED talk that also says the same based on an extensive study: "What makes a good life?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkKuTCFvzI
iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max not charging when cable is plugged in
I can turn my monitor down so it's dimmer than a sheet of white paper on my desk. If I aim a desk lamp directly at the paper I can make it brighter than the monitor on full brightness. There's no standard brightness for monitor or paper.
Show HN: Open source tool to quickly transfer files via a neat web interface
HN is just a news forum (this one!) so clearly you're talking about the YC batch for next year. But what's not clear is which emails should be coming through. Can you clarify?

Edit: I asked someone at YC and they found error messages in the logs ("No MX" for your domain), so it looks like your mail server DNS may be configured incorrectly.
May be, but most anyone who has ever been economically disadvantaged can tell you that it's damn sure the practical reality if you aim to participate in contemporary industrial civilization.

When you're home-insecure, health-vulnerable, and have a family depending on you, income starts to dwarf things like ideals in one's value schema.

Which is more sad, the people who debase themselves in order to provide for their family, or the ones who go run off to live in the canyon pines or in an art squat and leave their family to fend for themselves?
The private sector also has strict regulatory compliance, taxation and legal systems to deal with. The accuracy and quality of work was vastly better than anything I saw in academia, which I continue to be shocked by in how sloppy much of it is. Companies can be fined huge sums and the perpetrators jailed etc., which most academic staff don't have to think about.
UnQLite reads and writes directly to ordinary disk files
Is there such a thing as effectively massaging yourself? Or do you mean that your partner went to masseuse school while you developed a habit of running? :p
Very much depends on the concept of ownership, doesn't it? ;)

I mean, you own it, but so does everyone else. I think the traditional(?) concept of ownership you are referring to, that allows people to "delete" information is very unnatural and feels akin to trying to reverse entropy. You can't unring a bell, and you can't delete data from the world.
Yeah, but he wasn’t actually going private. He did not follow any procedure to do that (casual talks without firm agreements don’t count).

What it does do is establish a plausible motive for stock manipulation, which is a problem for a jury trial.
Models for electronic identification
Can we agree that "mafia" related violence levels are much, much higher in MX?

Mexican cartels have the infrastructure already in place: "Miguel, get 25 guys and hijack the fuel trucks"...or rob armored trucks. That infrastructure, including manpower, political protection etc was built and is probably maintained with drug money.
It is well documented that the judges in Mexico are openly corrupt and more than 80% of narco kingpin arrests are "pay offs" and they are released. One Mexico President acted "astounded" when he learned this . . .
The title says NoSQL and the first paragraph on the page confirms that it's more than just a KV store:

> UnQLite is a in-process software library which implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional NoSQL database engine. UnQLite is a document store database similar to MongoDB, Redis, CouchDB etc. as well a standard Key/Value store similar to BerkeleyDB, LevelDB, etc.
I went into my degree thinking the same thing, and I learned very little, because I generally knew more than the tutors. The biggest win from my college time was from the library and access to books on compiler theory, my real interest.

Now, decades later, I despair at how poorly new and many not so new developers we hire really understand complexity theory. Complexity theory is the single biggest thing you can learn that you might not learn self-taught, but so very few developers internalize it. They write code that does network calls and database calls with abandon, never mentally multiplying out the complexity. And as the gap between testing environments and production environments grows (i.e. a lot more data in production), the cost increases. (I had learned and internalized complexity theory at 15, from a chance book found in a bookshop. This was before the web made such information easy to find.)
Theranos had an impressive collection of names, too.
Is shittier than you think. We have certificates that are shittier shares that have harsh rules. Like you can only buy or sell in one month a year, unless you get fired the company has to buy them back for the last going rate.

It was nice when people could buy in for cents. A lot of long timers have quite a nice chunk of change that they can't get rid of because there are no people wanting to buy at close to 50 bucks a certificate.
You are also required to have certain amount of shares if you want to get into management. And the CEO owns most of it anyway.
Maybe I've been programming too long, and I saw Solid POD and I read "a solid pile of data." Perhaps that was the intended play on words. I never saw the english word "pod".
> I can contribute some.

So please do, then?

> How else would I know that at the root ...

Just read a few books on algorithms and data structures? Is that a problem? Or do you say CS degree course gives you access to books you otherwise cannot get?

I got my first, quite a decent one[1], for my 12th birthday. I slept with it. Like, seriously, kept it next to my pillow. At first, I didn't understand anything. A year later, the book was in a rather tattered shape, but my understanding was quite decent, except for some of the "AI" algorithms (the book was from '95, so what it called AI was rather different from today). About half a year into reading it I finally saved enough money to buy the least expensive version of Visual C++, and I could finally start coding the exercises. Before that, I just imagined what they would look like, how they would work; I borrowed Stroustrup's "The C++ Language", read it and wrote C++ code in my biology notebooks. I sorted playing cards, laying on the carpet in my room, and was overjoyed when they indeed became sorted. It was incredibly exciting. You know what uni was when I entered it years later? Anything but.

> Additionally it opens the world of acidemia to you by teaching you the conventions and tools you need to read and make sense of comp sci papers

By the time I actually needed them, the papers were mostly accessible to anyone, academia or not - but that was many years later.

Before that, though, I learned most of the "tools" from - again - books. There were great books on math in my high school library and my maths teacher was happy to help with things I struggled with, even though they were unrelated to the actual course she taught. My first animated, rotating cube implementation was thanks to her. She told me that what matters is the curiosity to find problems and persistence in attacking them. She never once told me that about having a degree.

> You don't know what you don't know

What? You try to implement something. It doesn't work. Here, that's what you don't know. Now go learn it.

It's really that simple. If you're a person who "tries to implement something" on your own once in a blue moon, then sure, school is good for you. It forces you to try things and helps you accomplish them. If you're not, though, it's just going to slow you down and suck all the pleasure out of learning (because it will force you to try things you don't want or need at that point - instead of an exciting adventure, learning becomes more like a job due to this. It's dreadful. Horrible. And most of all: counterproductive.)

> but you can go it alone of you want.

Well, some of us can, others don't. It's important to know two things: a) which kind of person you are; and b) you don't have to be ashamed of being either. Your post sounded a bit condescending to me, hence the lengthy response - I just wanted to offer a perspective of someone from the other group.

[1] first ed. of https://ksiegarnia.pwn.pl/Algorytmy-struktury-danych-i-techn...
Not so obviously, as you can see here. If people keep on saying "let's decentralize Git", they clearly can't mean what you just said.
This doesn't sound right. I've always paid exactly what the app told me the ride would be when I ordered. It looks like Uber covers the delta if the price goes above the quote when you order. https://www.uber.com/ride/how-uber-works/upfront-pricing/
I believe Panasonic makes the cells, but Tesla handles pretty much everything else from battery management to installation.
Here's some more information about the app experience. I'm sure this is a very very early test to see how many people are interested.

I, for 1 and super excited to take back my data.

https://www.inrupt.com/our-work/
In Europe electric bicycles limited to 25km/h. Electric scooters going 45km/h are a good alternative with similar versatility. Both bicycles and scooters are much more space efficient than cars and great for moving quickly inside a city (European cities are much denser than America's Suburbia). So it's useful for the user of the scooter because they can move faster, and better for everyone else because you can fit more of them on a street than the same people in cars.

I'm not sure how electric scooters are inferior, the solve a lot of pain points of gas scooters. They can have much better acceleration and start much more reliably. Range isn't a big issue because you wouldn't want to take a trip longer than an hour or so with a scooter anyways.
it wasn't france - it was the intellectual "elites" of the late 18th century, which included intellectuals of french, italian, german, and many other origins. the same people who made the enlightment, the encyclopedia, and the french revolution. the fact that some groups of people (notably, the descendants of the english imperialists) are still debating these things today only serves as proof of their (maybe subconscious) racism, or just insularism.
There are plenty of people who are managing that without making any money at all, despite all sorts of prolonged efforts to turn their way of living into hell.

Integrity, being surrounded by loving people, being in good health, having the freedom to be all that you are. Those are all more important from my perspective.

We've been carefully conditioned to believe that this game is the only alternative, it's not.
"Academic politics is so vicious because the stakes are so low" - Henry Kissinger
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099217
That's just an idea for future releases, though it needs a much wider user base to make any sense...
fwiw, I'm retweeting a bunch of stuff referencing the Joplin Union Depot with #saveJoplinUnionDepot

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
isn't there something about if you wait to launch until you have a basic well-polished example you launched too late?
I haven’t, I don’t really trust it for some reason I can’t quite tell.
But the denser you are and the more mixed-use areas you have, the less road mileage you need per resident.
Lots of the commands work in many macOS GUI apps as well.
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I am developing https://jivesearch.com/, which is basically an open source version of DDG. We've got that right underneath the search results. Defaults to !g, !b, !a, and !yt but you can change it to whatever !bangs you want by passing in the b url parameter (eg "https://jivesearch.com/?q=bob+marley&b=w"). Would love your feedback!
These would make a great wristwatch, so you can get perpetual display of time with virtually zero power, and should get long battery life.
Russia can probably control their mafia. At least convince them not to touch "civilians": Meh, just a bunch on mafiosi killing each other.

But if 12 headless people are found hanging from the town's main bridge, that's different, people will be scared.
I don’t know anything about you and haven’t I indicated a belief about where you are. All I’m doing is tellling you what the phrase “college algebra” refers to in the context of the U.S. higher education system. In a nutshell all I’m saying is that if you buy a textbook with the phrase “college algebra” in it's title and it's from an American publisher it's not going to contain information on the Sylow Theorems.

I’m just trying to save you possible future heartache. I would feel bad if you bought a College Algebra textbook in the U.S. expecting it to be about ring theory or group theory. Whatever the merits of the course are or the lack of insight I possess just keep in mind to check the table of contents to make sure the book's content matches what you think its title should mean.
My worry is that E-Ink Monitors will never reach the "minimum quality" point at which they are adopted by a sufficient number of people to get the ball rolling.

I don't suffer from any medical reason to use one, but, I would absolutely purchase one this second (any pay a lot for it) if it worked well. Unfortunately, what I've seen so far from the Dasung and the Onyx, isn't worth $800. I just hope these companies have enough runway to continue improving the product such that early adopters like myself, will jump in.
Yep! I fell out of the exercise habit for an extended period and it was awful in all regards. Finally got back in the groove with moderate weights, bodyweight exercise, and kettlebell at home. Like the man said, 'mens sana in corpore sano'
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099305, since that article looks like it has more info.
Between then and now, that problem was solved – you send autoreplies to the Return-Path header, which is protected by SPF.
There was a large discussion about this work earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16291272

A related article is https://phys.org/news/2018-09-unprecedented-massive-scale-lo... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097425).