skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things I find most striking when watching old movies is the general attitude of people toward tech.

If you look at movies from the 70s and 80s, conspicuous display of tech was common. Look at stereo systems of the time, and how people treated mobile phones (they were huge and conspicuously displayed). This partially echoes the "machine age" [1] of the early 20th century, a a time when tech was seen as "modern" and a force for progress.

Whereas these days, we want things to be light, invisible, and out of the way. That's a major change in attitude.

I actually feel we might see fewer "screens" in the next few years if the combination of voice and AI becomes powerful enough that most things can be done by voice or thought. I think more and more decision-making (things like which plane to book/flight to take/etc) will be made by automated systems that know our preferences and we'll be picking from fewer and fewer menus. Sort of like a human assistant, but available to the masses and more accurate. Google's Duplex is a big step in this direction. The key is ceding more decision-making authority to software.

In any case, I wouldn't be surprised if we all just have earphones, either over-the-ear, or implanted in our heads, in 15 years. The broader theme is that I think we'll want things to be invisible rather than visible.

I also think you're right that the rich will want less of this stuff. There's already a huge socioeconomic difference in how people use tech. Look at how a rich family eats in the US today vs. a poor family. Rich families put their phones away, poor families spend the entire dinner posting stuff on Snap. Just walk into a burger king vs. a fine dining restaurant to see that trend in action.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Age
Owning a car is hard in Japan. There is generally no parking on any roads so you need a garage at home and parking off-street at work. Also, culturally, it is not seen as weird or cheap for a CEO to cycle to work, even in large enterprise companies. In the West, we are a little more status-driven by our vehicles I think ;-)
have you tried fluticasone propionate (aka flonase)?
I had similar issues albeit alot less severe and it helps a lot.
This article comes at the perfect time for me, while I'm about to choose a tool to read Japanese sentences!
I think this is really a huge part of it. Right place, right time.

There are plenty of brilliant people with ideas actually executed very well that just go nowhere for whatever reason or other.

Also right team, right people, I mean, right circumstances in general. In those kinds of right circumstances, the dumb move would be not to capitalize on it.
I find it very hard to believe that we would give up the security of having cell phones for emergencies, but perhaps extremely simplified phones (several of which already exist but are not popular AFAICT) will abound.
> One of the main reasons is probably because once you are connected to someone, he/she can access your profile contact details including email and phone number. My guess is there are bots scraping the contacts to populate their spam databases.

I'd expect this is the case; I have a LinkedIn account with a dedicated email for name reservations purposes, but do not accept any connections, and have yet to receive any spam.
Because our current justice system never hands out false positive cards today.

The real question should be if this is better than the false positive rate we have today, though that’s probably unknowable. At least when AI fails, it fails spectacularly.
Maybe the relevant common factor is totalitarianism, rather than solely the economic model.
Said app developer (who's primary source for the quotes and claims) undermines the premise of the article:

> I’d like to think that there was an impact, but you can't see who votes for who. I think it played a big role, especially in bringing out folks that had not voted before.
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You might be able to talk to them on the phone and fax them a copy of the receipt you have.
This is only a slight exaggeration of real things that exist in products like SharePoint or Visual Studio Team Services
So you're calling (f.e.) Amazon a shack?
I'm not nearly old enough to remember prior to ATMs.

I am. When ATM's started to become a thing, we were told that with ATM's automating the basics, the bankers and tellers would have more time for more personalized service, Banks would lower fees through cost savings, and we'd all have higher interest rates on our savings because the banks would save so much money.

None of those things happened. Things just got worse.

A couple of years ago I tried to get a loan. A credit union I tried to approach wouldn't let ask questions of someone on the phone, or in a branch, until I'd cleared the computer's online pre-screening.

At another bank (Chase), a banker sat down with me, but was not able to discuss my finances in any way. All he could do was punch my information into his computer, and give me the same information I would have gotten by doing the same process online.

Citibank, at least, let me talk to someone in person who seemed interested in my business. But then I went on vacation, and by the time I returned two weeks later, the offer was no longer valid and I was referred to the web site.

Again, things have gotten worse not better. Just because you're too young to know that things were once better doesn't mean they're not worse.
Thoughts:
1. What tradition did you study?
2. I think a good teacher would make a difference if you studied a different tradition/line of teachers.
3. I'm interested to know what you are practicing.
4. As I mentioned before there are people doing private mentoring, but you have to look for them and find one that you like. We need to get a directory going, but that will take time. If you want, you can ping me here: ab@iw401fi.33mail.com
and I can try to help you find someone.
I expect the substantial difference is that Microsoft's share of the PC market was far closer to a monopoly than Apple's share of the smartphone market is now (about 40% in the U.S.)
>If you have a receipt from the court showing that the fine was settled, how can they be saying they never got the money?

I assume the payment did not triggered the right things to mark the fine as payed, or someone made a mistake a number somewhere and something failed. You should always keep your receipt for a while or forever (keep energy/phone bills for a few months)
Ceasescu’s fall was mostly caused by part of Romanian Securitate going against him, the same Securitate that was controlling the local police force. So much so that Ceausescu was still in power on December 21st 1989 when the local police was actively repressing the anti-Ceausescu street protests but had to escape by helicopter the following day once the same police force stopped fighting and killing the Romanian protesters.
Unfortunately sometimes it's just not worth the fight personally. But it's understandable.
Isn't the premise of this case, that Apple's "monopoly" on the app store and 30% toll on developers is effectively jacking up app prices for consumers, pretty hard to support with evidence? My impression is that the modern app store coincides with (if it didn't actually cause, which is possible as well) an industry-historic decline in software prices for consumers. Things we pay $0.99 today for used to cost $50.
The data we have isn't crime data. It's arrest data. Even when the programmers aren't trying to introduce bias, by training on arrest data from racist cops, the machine will learn the racist decisions as well.

And people trust it more because "computers can't be racist"
The parent was talking about GDPR, so presumably Europe.
This is why I dislike it when technical documentation itself becomes a goal. Detailed documentation never seems to be up to date in the real world. I've had far better experience with concise documention about high level concepts and structures and diving into the actual implementation for any details.
Population and construction costs are a loose correlation with housing prices, but I dont see any correlation with interest rates.

http://lenkiefer.com/2017/12/20/state-population-growth-and-...

Here is the graph showing QE vs housing prices.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=mbAe
Overfishing is a regulatory, not technical, problem.

Though I do think many of the hardest problems today are regulatory (climate, health, digital political advertising), not necessarily technical.
Love the idea! Execution could be much better:

1. Don't make people watch the generation of the maze. Why on god's green earth do I need to wait a full minute to play the game? It takes less time to solve the maze.

2. Allow for random matchmaking

3. Let me hold down a directional key to move multiple steps in the same direction. Feels like a lot of button mashing without this functionality.

Hope to see this grow!
Yep. That is most likely what happened. Really put a dent in plans but thankfully I can uber!
Microsoft had a monopoly on the desktop OS market, and so pushing IE was anti-competitive. Apple isn’t anywhere near having a monopoly in phones, in the US or anywhere else.

It’s not just the behavior that’s against the law, it’s the behavior plus the market position.
From the Why It Matters section:

The Council is able to publish the law better and faster than ever before. With the District’s previous codification contractor, updates to the DC Code were published three times a year, and there could be a five-to-seven month delay in seeing the latest laws. But the Open Law Library has shortened the publication process to about a week after a law is enacted.

It also means we’re all getting to see more of the actual law that governs us—not the law as it was months ago.
Yoga with Adrienne is legit, thanks for the recommendation.
yep. My sole focus is being able to travel home tomorrow (legally) and go to work. Else, I am going to get on a bus to go home and uber to and from work for the next few days while this is worked on.
Chrome is available on the App Store
for four seconds???
Here’s what I don’t get: in what sense is this a monopoly? Consumers have knowledge that the App Store is the only game in town on an iPhone, and they have the option to buy a different phone if they don’t want to use the App Store.

That’s like saying that the manufacturer of my vacuum has a monopoly on vacuum bags.
This is amazing, thanks for sharing it! A very useful feature that I always missed but never actually tough about.

I've had a hard time understanding the slices on the beginning will be very useful for troubleshooting bad images also while optimizing image sizes.

Can probably help to understand problems like the one bug where the image size got almost a 2x increase after a CHOWN, because the slice is added again with different owner ( I think ;) ) would be so much easier to see with this.

Ref for the old bug
https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/5505
I wish all governments did audits like this. Either the software would get less invasive, or we'd see Linux everywhere, wins all around.

How bad is it that not even governments can use windows without the data vacuum being turned on? And they need to commission these investigations to even figure out what that means?
How do you order foreign currency?

Honestly I had no idea people even used their bank to do this!

I do this all the time. Citibank has a service called World Wallet where you call a number, and they'll FedEx you whatever currency you want anywhere in the world in 24-48 hours.

I used to just use the American Express offices when I traveled, but as my travel got more interesting, AmEx outlets became less common. Also, AmEx started only stocking popular currencies, while the Citi service delivers pretty much any currency that's legal where you are.
I just downloaded Firefox and Chrome from App Store. Do I miss something?
Spanking isn't uncommon. However, its commonality doesn't make it any less traumatic. The data shows it's about 75% as bad as outright using fists and implements.
Top 16 Books on Docker and Kubernetes Topics
This is exactly why the role of the state, in general, needs a much closer examination.
How do you know this is legit? Does the yellow pages verify every listing? If a company neglects to register a yellow pages slot, how hard is it for someone else to register it? Genuine questions (and I'd guess it changes by country); Google does a fair bit of effort to get business owner to claim their property on Google (again, probably changes by country); if they don't do so, then how different is it to someone neglecting to put their yellow pages entry in?
A Rundown of Israeli Spy Firms and Surveillance Outfits
I hope I'm not a crackpot, but I have a really pessimistic outlook.

The increase in wealth disparity coupled with centralization of corporate power will cause a proportionally large increase in poverty. You'll either be fortunate enough to have a job (where your hours will rise, due to heavier competition - those at the top will say to hell with the research claiming productivity has an optimum with respect to hours devoted, just like we say to hell with the research claiming we're destroying the planet) or be forced to forage or pillage for your meals.

On another note, marriage rates will continue to decline, divorce rates will continue to rise. The "nuclear family" will therefore become increasingly rare (Why settle when you can swipe?). Suicide rates will increase. Maybe this keeps overpopulation in check. Maybe there will just be more single-parent "households". At any rate, I predict that there will be a much higher incidence of "many unrelated members of the same sex uncomfortably sharing a living space."

Those are both kind of high level, but as far as daily life goes, I think a "social credit system" will either exist globally or see increased adoption outside of the current canonical example(s).

I honestly hope I'm wrong. I hope that the internet dating paradigm doesn't ruin our species. I hope that we can maintain steady employment rates and keep the population at a healthy rate. That's just not what my first guess would be.
I'm not so sure about that - I see a lot of labia here.
sorry, I have no idea what you're trying to say.
Those are both Safari based on iOS. Specifically, they can't use their real rendering engine - they have to use the safari one.
I use the Google Maps GPS to navigate, and have contributed by moving a couple of locations that had misleading coordinates (for example, out in a field instead of pointing to the parking log). Purely for my own convenience next time I'm navigating to these place.
If you include the military in the definition of "police," then just Google "failed coup" and take your pick.
And is Safari based on iOS
Well, they're getting flagged now, how ironic:

> We're sorry. You can't access this item because it is in violation of our Terms of Service.

Tried to view a subset, because as this comment pointed out, NSFW is subjective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18526170

And if NSFW is subjective, the most offendable person gets to dictate what is NSFW (as we are already seeing happening in other areas).
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It's a huge conceit to suggest that "internet companies" have not got a "real" location.

They are registered companies. They have head offices. They have regional offices. They own entire datacentres. They are traded on stock exchanges. They trade for money with customers in countries all over the world. They are not above the law.

Legally, is Facebook any different than say, 3M or IBM? Both are US corporations with offices, manufacturing and distribution facilities in the UK. They are obviously subject to UK law. The precise location of particular data stored by the company, and servers accessing the data, seems a very odd criterion upon which to argue that the company is not subject to the rule of law. The company exists as a legal entity in the UK, it has offices and employees, and customers. It does have a presence. And it should absolutely be required to obey the law of the land.

(A few years ago, I might have had a slightly different view. But companies like Facebook and Google have taken such gross liberties with the law, and even the fundamental functioning of democracy itself, that I think there's an urgent need for them to be reigned in, harshly. They brought it entirely upon themselves.)
I am pretty sure it has a direct mechanical nervous system stimulus.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog...

It also hits your HRV. My Garmin watch (Fenix 5X) has a deep breathing timer (relax timer). It will definitely increase my HRV when I do it (lowering the watches real time stress score, which is measuring HRV). So it is physiological and psychological.
He didn’t undermine himself. He’s reminding the interviewer that the app/tech isn’t a magic window that allows him to know how voters voted. The full quote which you excerpted makes clear that he thinks there was a “big role”:

> After we won, we looked back, and Reach accounted for about 10 percent of our total positive IDs, or in other words, pledged voters. Reach was only deployed in the last three weeks before the primary. And the difference in the number of votes between Crowley and Ocasio was about 15 percent. So, I’d like to think that there was an impact, but you can't see who votes for who. I think it played a big role, especially in bringing out folks that had not voted before.

Keep in mind that ACO was seen as a massive underdog to the incumbent. A 10 percent increase in identified pledged voters is huge in a primary.
I used to “draw” ER/Flow/Activity/Sequence diagrams through various DSLs that would output PNG files with Graphviz but for quite a while now I like to marry “hand-drawn” ASCII diagrams with a README-driven-design-and-development process.

Embracing the constraints of a simple README for particular sub-systems lets me also put together general systems overview documents very easily after.

That said pencil & paper / whiteboard almost always comes first of course.

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-devel...

https://monodraw.helftone.com

http://asciiflow.com

Good non-ASCII alternative (for hyperlinked sharing in wikis etc):

https://www.lucidchart.com
There has been a lot of research on on the "zoo" of biometrics. Doddington's zoo or the biometric menagerie make reasonable search terms.

The idea is that you have a few classes of errors in any calibrated heuristic system, and biometrics fall prey to the same ones. The individuals that trigger these errors were given animal names.

Given a large enough population, most of the population will be "sheep" - the system works as intended for these.

Some individuals will be prone to false positives. They will pass the system even though they should fail. We'll call these wolves.

Others will be prone to false negatives - they will fail even when they should pass. Goats.

Lambs are a group that is easy to mimic - so others will be mistaken for them once they are in the system, so they sort of perpetuate wolves by having a really generic set of distinguishing traits.

I think this zoo was extended for other unique cases and other animals, but I'm having trouble finding links to the most popular research papers in this series.

The research prompting the posted article seems to be about identifying "wolves" - a good demonstration of the validity of Doddington's theories.

* Wolves are technically just good mimickers, I'm simplifying a bit above.
Ugh the mindset that everything in the universe needs a previous citation in a scientific journal for it to be possible. barf
It's good that some famous person is getting hit with this.maybe it will create doubt within the court system that we all may benefit from.
but don't they? i think a more apt analogy would be your trash can manufacturer having a monopoly on trash bags. You shouldn't really expect that to be the case at all.
NOTE: not specifically about jaywalking, but about fines/fees being disproportionate punishment in general

Jail disproportionately punishes those who are working. (they lose their income source, then they can't pay bills, then their house gets foreclosed, etc.)

Ditching punishment entirely means free-for-all anarchy until somebody takes that opportunity to impose a government with punishments.

What options are left? Torture? Execution? Ignoring the masochists and the suicidal, those don't disproportionately punish people.
Awesome! I'm a huge mapping and avalanche nerd, too. I didn't have much time to read through the sources of data you are using, but would it be possible/feasible to expand the covered area to places other than Norway?

-edit-
Sorry, I didn't see the part at the top about requesting new coverage areas!
Yes, I know. I was just telling GP that they are mistaken. :)
> The police said they have upgraded their tech to avoid issues like this in the future.

if (person_id == "Dong Mingzhu") {
// TODO: generalise this
return false
}
Ohio Becomes First State to Start Accepting Bitcon for Taxes
That old maxim rings true:
Fake it till you make it.
So the evidence this article is based on is...a Reddit thread? Excuse me?

Somebody is certainly winging it without knowing what they're doing.
LinkedIn is using 18M email addresses of the non-members
Google has support?
Employee perks can never go too far. Anything that helps an employee feel more comfortable in their working environment is a plus and will contribute to creativity & productivity.
After over a decade of vim, I’m hooked on Emacs
Yes, the author does write a lot of scientific code and is in the habit of using SciPy. -- the author :)
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." [1]

~ Albert Einstein

[1] - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
What sort of meeting though
RobotFX
Fascinating comments, thanks for expanding. I thought your original comments on German weapon superiority were about ww2 not 1.
RIP Ricky Jay, Master of the Sleight of Hand Card Trick
I've always found udacity courses to be well designed. I wish the nanodegrees didn't have those fixed start times though, and I wish it was pay by course rather than pay by month. Still, very good experiences.
I’m personally not OK with a system that enables a single individual (the "lawyer" in the article) to declare modification to a law as insubstantial, then modify the law.

Some review process needs to be there, and frankly, even a typo correction IMO needs to be run by the Mayor because she/he signed one thing into law and this process changes what they signed. We cannot ever assume we know the intent of the Chief Executive, even when “obviously” in error.

OTOH, a diff system for law is awesome. California uses a similar system but it is cumbersome to do things like “show me how this section evolved over time”.
What's worse is that in practice what this means is that those family members will badger other passengers to swap seats with them in order to sit together which can frequently lead to disgruntlement and argument.
Really all they do is ask a group of local guides if the title is correct. If a certain threshold say yes the change applies. I’m sure they have some other filters in place though.
No. Sometimes AI fails spectacularly, and sometimes it fails banally (not to be confused with benignly). But when it fails spectacularly it makes the papers. When it fails banally you never hear about it.

Today society has a healthy skepticism of AI because it's new and untried. But some day that will change. AI will get better, and the spectacular failures in particular will be reigned in. Nonetheless, it will still fail some times. Society may forget that if we don't have the spectacular failures to remind us.

> our current justice system never hands out false positive cards today.

Of course it does. The difference is that we know that humans are fallible. At the moment we still know this about machines too. My concern is what happens when the machines start to appear infallible, but still aren't.