skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh... I mean Google's entire business model is to essentially rent you out services in exchange for your personal information.

Also, I contend that Apple's "invention" has been to repackage computing in a premium package. Smart phones, music players, tablets all existed before Steve flashed them on stage, he just made you want to use them by making them sexy and cool, which wasn't that hard, because the early days of computing is about as unsexy as it gets.
Mattereum, my company — my co-founder Rob Knight is over
there — we are sitting there, doing the dog work of trying
to figure out exactly how to get control of physical assets
and intellectual property from a blockchain, so when you
transfer it a smart contract the court agrees it’s transferred…

What about when someone transfers it to a smart contract and then the court doesn't agree that it's transferred and orders that it be transferred back? Either your chain isn't tamper-proof (if admins can override the transfer) and you're right back to having to trust a centralized authority, or you're stuck in "anything I can steal I own forever"-land like in the cryptocurrency space today.

As always, the post reads better if you substitute "slow, expensive databases" for "blockchain" everywhere.
Unpopular opinion but I’m coming up pretty short on sympathy for someone trading stocks based on a few words in a tweet and then losing their shirt. These people are grownups and fully aware of the risks they are taking when they walk into the casino. Nobody is forcing them to read twitter or take it seriously as a source of investment advice.

The $420 thing didn’t hurt grandma’s pension fund or long term buy-and-holders. It hurt day traders, options traders, shorts, and other gamblers.
> I see a lot of uses for it.

No one is denying the use for it, it's just that it's literally not actually being used yet. Again, I'm waiting for someone to provide an answer to it actually being used, not "it could be used here".
In all lending situations both the borrower and lender have responsibilities and one side should not shoulder an undue amount of the ire. This view has nothing to do with my beliefs about higher education.
I have a Bluetooth keyboard, but it seems like a lot of apps are sandboxed in and limited. Or maybe I just wasn't able to find the right IDE.

Like you could do some math or make a web page, but lots of access was limited.

Also, a large external screen would help
Anchored and Uniform Paths
> OS fragmentation: doesn't apply if you're not a developer, just pick a phone that will have a reasonable amount of updates over its lifetime

Can you make a recommendation here? I am an iPhone user who might be inclined to switch to Android, but I still haven't found a phone that would satisfy this criterion. To clarify: "reasonable" for me means ~5 years, as this is how long I expect to keep using the same phone.
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The comment was, yes. First, it isn't a problem that is specific to women in any way, shape, or form. Second, it paints women as only existing to find a mate, and this is hampering that. Why should women be singled out in this? They should be able to explore their intellectual side as well.
I wouldn't say Google is stagnant... Apple users can thank them for forcing Apple to make their phone OS better (and vice-versa with regard to hardware).

Google's problem isn't innovation, it's supporting and following-through on their innovations past the honeymoon period.
Most of my friends growing up were way into music... not just playing in bands in their spare time, but high school band, marching band, jazz band, drumline, etc., as well as composing and producing digital music in their spare time.

A few of these friends pursued other careers in college but many of them went to the state college that's known for its music programs. There, they eventually came to realize the reality of the situation: if you want to continue pursuing music in a college capacity, you're looking at either education or performance. Performance is extremely demanding and unless you're the best of the best of the best... good luck finding work with that degree. If you go down the education route, then, being a state school, you're STRONGLY encouraged to teach at a school somewhere in the state... which has the lowest teacher wages in the country (correction: second-worst as of 2018, moving up!).

Many of my friends didn't fully realize the reality of the situation until they'd already got their degrees. One ended up a high school band teacher in our hometown and truly loves it. Another decided to purse computer science instead and just completed his degree in that (and is now realizing how hard it is to find work as a fresh grad with no internship). Another quickly got a business minor and is doing well in the banking industry. Another is a bouncer and photographer.

What I'm getting at is, these kids were all pushed into going to college and getting degrees in the thing they enjoyed doing in high school, without stopping to realize their career prospects with said degree. College is just a thing you do after high school, unless you're a loser (or you went to a trade school, which is "a step up but not college").

The whole system is completely broken for modern society in my opinion, we need something to shake the whole thing up and turn it on its head.
It seems like stagnation eventually catches up to every company. Google got big on rapid innovation and emphasis on engineering, but by long observation we can see it becomes more and more difficult to do that in a large company, and todays heros on innovation seem to be tomorrows megacorps waiting for the upstarts to overtake them when some large event changes the market. Maybe it's a mix of pride, complaceny, internal politics, and large-corp culture.
It's also much harder to be a successful VC than it is to be a successful founder, so if you're at all successful there isn't much reason to switch sides unless you're just interested in corporate finance or something. Being a VC is like running a restaurant in NYC, where you're literally competing against people who are fine with losing money, and in some cases are even purposely trying to lose money.
I agree, there are still some good news sources in the traditional print media. It is unfortunate that US society has reached the point that they are all now seen by a large chunk of the population as partisan and untrustworthy.
Like other colorisers I've seen, it does seem to have non-uniform colouring of clothing, with bleed from surrounding areas into clothing being fairly common. That's seems slightly weird, as I am sure few training images would have that.
As far as I understand the German system has lots of limitations on freelancing though, to protect the employees. For example, as a developer you can't freelance for one client only, as the client company could be in hook for employer payments. You need at least two customers.

Not a German national, so I'm happy to be corrected.
I wonder if Stackexchange has moved everything to .Net Core and Linux along with ASP.Net 3.0?
With Google being forced to open up then platform, I expect the viruses and OS fragmentation to get worse as various manufacturers put out half baked software which they don't properly design with security in mind. While even Google has their problems but they do have a seriously strong security team.
I don't think something like the iphone specifically existed before its debut, but I could be wrong.
For anyone else wondering, the title and the article are not actually satire (as I initially thought it would be).

The author also makes a point with which I disagree - that this is the first time the internet is becoming privacy-friendly. No, the internet, with its pseudonyms, was basically making everyone "anonymous" until a decade or so ago, when both corporations and intelligence agencies started aggressively tracking and collecting as many pieces of data about internet users as they could.
It's sometimes peculiar how quick we are to aim to repeat history, blisteringly awful history, seemingly with no concern or regard for what we are doing. The Arab world was once near the top of the world in scholarship and academic pursuit. Algebra, for instance, being a reference to Ilm al-jabr wa'l-muḳābala, by Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī. Or there was the House of Wisdom in Baghdad where scholars were consigned with the responsibility of translating cultural and scientific works from across the world into Arabic.

But then in a shockingly short period of time that same Arab world started to place their selected social values above that of the truth, in and of itself. Perhaps one of the major catalysts for this was Al-Ghazali, and his very well received ideology laid out in "The Incoherence of the Philosophers." [1] Formerly a philosopher himself, that work is where Al-Ghazali began to deny all science and reality and replace it with religion. He declared that there was no such thing as causality. When a leaf catches fire it is not because it was exposed to fire - rather god chose to transit the fire from the torch to the leaf at that very moment. And again when it deteriorates into ash - that is once again not a natural process, but rather the explicit and active will of god acting at that very moment.

The implication of this is that there is no truth to be sought, there is no connection in nature, there is nothing except for god. The reason for this is because it answered any sort of inconvenient questions for religion, by attacking the questions (and those that pose them) directly. And in a short period of time the Arabic world was set on the path that sent it away from academic pursuit and knowledge and onto the path that's brought it to where it is today. Imagine what a different place the world would be today had they instead remained focused on the truth, and the golden age of Islam persisted indefinitely.

Social values must never take precedent over truth, no matter how undesirable the truth may be to hear, or how undesirable the speakers of said truth may be.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incoherence_of_the_Philoso...
Hardware AMA with YC Partner Eric Migicovsky
Self made is a stretch but he definitely earned billions from risky debt financing. Musk doesn't like media that disagrees with him, just look at what he said in this interview about the WSJ article.

Both Musk and Trump are great at playing to what their base wants and have made themselves look like heroes to their supporters.
The idea is to have a conversation with someone who's read as much of the same things you have as possible? What do you learn from this?
no, just no. It is not enlightened to become isolated to pure math rules, it is automaton. Integration with a living, active world is not optional. Read Minsky yourself, minus the hero-worship... very similar response to Kurzweil and a few others, btw.
My friend at work will never stop talking about Nix and NixOS. The entire world would be a better place if we all just stopped using Docker and Chef and switched to Nix. Every package you could want is in Nix, and it's all on Github. Anything your tool can do, Nix can do it better, except it's congruent instead of convergent.

My rebuttal has always been that NixOS has been out for awhile and we still haven't seen mainstream adoption despite how supposedly great it is. I don't know of any high profile companies using Nix. It appears to be as hobbyist as Haskell.
Great points. Bloomberg has been consistently dropping the ball on good journalism lately.
SuperComputer from the Top500 list is a rack if not a room full of many of thousands of pounds of computers.

SuperComputer in this case is more akin to a "really powerful desktop"

30x from iPhoneX to really powerful desktop seems reasonable?
> pre-ACA options

Pre-ACA, I was denied coverage at 30 with a wife and kid, with no pre-existing conditions and from the same companies I had health insurance from when working fulltime. This was in 2011, it was scary and I felt the system was broken. I was healthy and had no idea why it happened, both BCBS, Aetna and other large private insurers hate individuals and small companies because they group by company not across everyone and individuals are riskier to them with that system. Aetna and BCBS are employer focused rather than individual/consumer focused.

Post-ACA pre-existing conditions are covered and everyone has to be approved for coverage, breaking healthcare from employers as the customer and making them focus on consumers is key and ACA started that movement and better private markets even if it was a rocky start.

Healthcare is the riskiest part of freelancing/contracting and now at least you can get it guaranteed with ACA.

If we removed it from employers entirely and made individuals/families the customers rather than get it through the job, it would help people change jobs, start businesses, travel, reduce ageism and allow us to compete better with countries that do have single payer/universal or healthcare not attached to employers over consumers, it may also fix pricing when it is closer to the consumer or there is a public Medicare for all option for competition that the individual can choose.

Employers don't want to pay for healthcare and people shouldn't want employers knowing their private health, nor choosing the service for them. Employers don't get your auto or home insurance, nor should they, why healthcare?

Private insurance or public options like Medicare for all will make business easier and healthcare more consumer focused, it is a pro-business way to set it up, right now we have anti-business healthcare legacy systems and it is making US companies less competitive because they are expected to offer it. They can pay more for employees to go get their own, they don't need to choose and manage it. That will also help reduce the 'real compensation' parasitic leech that healthcare costs are hiding under, sucking up raises and wage increases into 'real compensation' for healthcare benefits rather than actual wage increases.
I wasn't talking about Tailwind, I was talking about vanilla HTML and CSS. I assumed the question asked of me ("what's wrong with"...) was asked in that context.
The .NET Core runtime (for a specific platform) can be bundled with the application so the user doesn't need to install it, and every application can ship with the exact version it prefers.

This wasn't possible with the .NET Framework, it needed a global install and, from 4.0, it upgraded in-place only.
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Sure, but it feeds the outrage machine and leads to more ad views. Win-win!
Canadian actually. And the "hard exam" was just which type of math I graduated highschool with and it only decided if I could go in engineering or had to settle for something else. The people working at McDonald are doing it part time while in college to pay rent and the ramen noodles.

But yes, I've lived in the US long enough now to know that in the current political context, people's expectations of what the Government should provide are not realistic or in line with the reality the country is in.

I also strooooongly believe in everyone (who is part of the system through one of the many legitimate methods) having a right to equal opportunity, but not necessarily a right to equal outcome. That is also very, very difficult in the US because of its history as well as its current political climate, for both some good and some bad reasons.
There's a risk of lawsuit from either side though (sexual harrassment/workplace safety vs wrongful termination).
Yes, all the interruptions, and trying to lead to the answers she wants to hear. Pretty cringeworthy.
Unfortunately her hands are grey. Otherwise, it is very good.
Can an AI Tool from Google Spot Cancer “Better Than Doctors”?
A great looking KDE distribution, I'm very impressed. Great job!
My first smart phone was an iPhone, because it was the cool thing to do and nicely integrated everything, but I wanted to dip into app programming and couldn't justify $99/year for experimentation, so when my iPhone died, I just swapped to Android. If it had been more open and at least let me easily program for my own phone at the time, I probably never would have switched.
I also have been very happy with KDE Neon on my Dell Latitude 7370. The only downside is when I plug in a 4k and 1080p monitor, the system doesn't handle the multi-dpi setup.
A convinent source of information about this is going to be Simon Tatham's excellent puzzle suite. Most the puzzles are built to ensure a solution without guessing.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/doc/min...

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

They're all open source and I believe available on iOS as well as android for free for mobile users too.
Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme
Supermarkets exist in urban areas without nuking the city with parking lots. The parking lots are only necessary because we've created this requirement to drive. In fact this is how most of the world does their grocery shopping.

I walk half a mile with two grocery bags, and that's pretty much enough for a week's worth of groceries. Granted, certain bulk items are more annoying and I have to make special trips for them (like a bag of rice) but those are more the exception than the norm.

> Kids need to be watched. Elderly and obese people have trouble carrying groceries for 1900 feet.

For the elderly and obese, they make personal folding shopping carts, which are not an uncommon sight in urban areas.

Suburban Americans also helicopter parent their kids much more aggressively than the norm; when I was a child in New York City, my parents trusted me to not burn down the house if they were gone for half an hour, and once I was attending school it wasn't uncommon for me to fetch something for them from the store. And if you bring kids with you to the store it's basically free labor for walking back with groceries.
Through reading bug reports, I found out that the FF reviewers for the decentraleyes extension have a custom script to check that all copied scripts are actually identical to the CDN versions. I found that step in the review interesting and positive.
I'm sorry but this kind of thinking is so dangerous. Pumping hurts anyone who buys it after the pump, including grandma's pension fund, because now they're buying it at an artificial value.

Traders have a right to accurate information from the officers of the company, which is the whole reason we have regulations in the first place.
To me the Seneca native's skin on the hand seems a bit to reddish. I find these photos to have very high saturation. I think this could be adjusted and get subtler effects. It's still amazing that this is possible with no human intervention but at the same time, from a different perspective, I find that the originals have their own charm that I would leave it like that.
"I think people in the mainstream media just don't understand innovation cycles."

I think this very article shows the author understands this phenomenon well, he just doesn't use terms like "S curve" to describe it.
Weird. I recently moved from Android to iOS, for privacy reasons as well as wanting a phone that would be supported with software updates for a long time.

I've really really enjoyed the switch. Admittedly, it helped that I got the iPhone SE which hadn't been discontinued yet; I might have been less happy with the newer X-series phones, particularly given the sticker price.
I look at Tesla as the next Apple. There's not much room for fast innovation in the smart phone space, but cars are outdated, and self driving / electric cars with better robotic manufacturing methods give an opportunity for new entrants to appear. It's too late for Apple though at this point to manufacture the full hardware (and also behind Waymo in self driving software).
The only people to whom that is a "competing theory" have an exceptionally high probability of being viewers of whatever the local equivalent to Fox News is.
Security at the package manager level is closing the barn door after the horse has gone. As far as I can see you can't have a useful system and be able to install malware safely. The best choice continues to be curation.

Testing is logically discrete from package management its entirely possible to test well or poorly with any system.

For several other points nix also featured on the front page right now seems interesting.