skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a stupid article, it's like making a case that an author is not happy with their past works because they keep writing even after having a best seller. Or that a director is not happy with their movie after having a blockbuster and winning top industry awards because they keep creating.
On one side you have the finance companies.

They can lobby the government to change laws. They hire PHDs in the thousands develop attractive, tricky products. They hire million dollar marketing firms to influence us to buy.

On the other side you have busy people trying to get by in a confusing world. They dont hire anyone to help them, but they trust the rules that allowed their parents to get by (how credit is allocated). Many of them are essentially innumerate, especially when compared to a quant at a bank or even an engineer.

We’re talking about taking candy from a baby here. Is it the baby’s fault it can't defend itself?

We dont live in a fantasy of every human having 100% self reliance where every person can handle every tricky situation thrown against them. We need laws and moral standards- and when those are revoked it is not enough to understand the consequences as “the victim’s fault”
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Digital book burning
Stop trying to make the word "submarine" happen. It's not going to happen.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18259355
I have never clicked on an ad in my life, and contrary to the advertiser's intention, being forced to sit through their advertisement makes me actively dislike the advertiser. From my perspective, advertisers should be happy that I'm blocking their ads.

I'd pay for premium if I felt the compensation ratio was fairly balanced towards creators, but it isn't. Ironically, while I listen to most of my music on youtube, but when I really like something I buy it on bandcamp because they treat artists fairly.
True if you buy a car in a private sale. But if you buy a car from a regulated professional dealer and it turns out to be stolen then things get a little bit more complicated than just you have to give it back. I would expect in that situation that the dealer makes everyone good (and possibly goes to prison).
> An upload button alone is no user story, a story might be "As a user, I want to be able to import the Excel reports that I get from company $XY, so that I don't have to manually enter the data, and save a lot of time that way", ideally including a reason why that data needs to be there.

I think that practically this often ends up being "As a user, I would like to have an upload button", Of course, adding "As a user" to the beginning of a sentence does not a user story make.
There is only so much sun energy from the sub we get.
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> (You can get a full credit report 3X yearly by going to annualcreditreport.com ; this is probably overkill for most people who are not actively attempting to improve credit in advance of e.g. a mortgage application or because of catastrophic errors.)

You should pull your full credit report (from all 3 bureaus, that would be one "full report") at least once a year. It's very difficult to tell if someone has stolen your identity and opened loans in your name otherwise, and while in theory you're protected, you might be looking at a protracted legal battle.

Just like you get a physical at least once a year, you should do a credit checkup too.
Get a Raspberry Pi for her. The latest images of Raspbian come with a pre-installed Pi edition of Minecraft as well as Python libraries for modifying the game world on the fly and making mods. There's also a book by No Starch Press called "Coding with Minecraft" I've heard good things about.
John Romero has announced unofficial spiritual successor to DOOM's 4th episode
KLEAK: Practical Kernel Memory Disclosure Detection [pdf]
Well, this is the eternal debate between job and career, right? If a government "creates jobs" by investing in infrastructure then it's the same problem. When that road is paved or that park is built then those people face the same dilemma. So we just hope that the economy itself keeps going in a manner that we can have things cycle and people can switch jobs as needed.
Exposure triangle in photography
If I buy the goods in a big box retailer and the goods turn out to be stolen I assume that the retailer will make the original owner good.
Of Contribution margins and Profit
They are sufficient if you have other phones in the same vicinity at known locations.

If bobs phone is 10 meters higher than alex's phone, and they're in a 2 floor building, bob must be on the top floor and alex on the bottom.

This principle can be used at scale by people like apple and google.
I think it honestly depends. to make an admittedly weird example: suppose you go to a dealership to buy a used car. you decide on one that's going for close to the KBB value, do all the paperwork, and drive the car off the lot. a year later you find out the dealership owner is a shady guy and some of the cars he sold were somehow stolen. the business no longer exists and the guy is nowhere to be found. should you really be out $10k and your ride to work?

the case for returning the property in this situation is more practical than moral. that is, it's probably just easier to just find the guy with the car and take it than to extract money from a deadbeat car salesman who probably doesn't have it anymore. I find these sorts of legal things distasteful, but I guess I can see why we have them.

in an ideal world, I think there should be some sort of safe harbor protection for people who make a reasonable effort in good faith to check that a transaction is bona fide.
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I always wondered what the implications are for the "lack of privacy" in China, for the better or the worse. What I mean by this is something like WeChat. A lot of Americans do not understand the sheer size of data it collects. WeChat (by Tencent) is pretty much a conglomerate of all the top services we use here in the states (Google, Paypal, Facebook, Stripe, Venmo, Whatsapp, etc). Now imagine when the Chinese government starts dictating the development of AI through this data. I am not sure if there is another country that can collect and distribute data at this scale since there is not much public remorse for such actions.
For those still wondering: the word "pause" appears in the pop-up information window when you toggle off one of the activities and appears next to "paused" activities.
I see Ben Krasnoz I click
Qualcomm wins preliminary iPhone sales ban in China
> But there is nothing in 'Sally' or 'Bob' that is more descriptive than 'a' or 'b' in this case; in fact, using 'Sally' or 'Bob' implies that whatever you're talking about specifically involves people, however that is of course no the case.

I will trot out "it is standard pedagogical practice..."

If someone doesn't have an abstract mental framework (that mathematics and logic require for understanding) to hang stuff like this on, then it is very helpful to restate things in terms that they are familiar with.

Once they understand the specific, then its time to make it abstract: take what they now understand and generalize it - say from people, to predicates in general.

You gotta start where they're at.
We are verifying the results of our opaque brain processes. We cannot yet verify that our explanations of those processes are correct.
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I’ve been using RN since the beginning. I grokked Flutter / Dart in a couple days in September.

The development experience with Flutter is really excellent, I’ve found. Laying out UI is really nice and easy. I really like it.
I'd have to say OS/2. I remember vividly asking -- BEGGING! -- my parents to buy me a copy of OS/2 2.1 for Windows for Christmas when I was a teenager. (It was OS/2 that used a copy of Windows you provided, rather than its own internal Windows runtime) I thoroughly enjoyed running it on my PC, much more than I did Windows itself. A modern version of OS/2 -- one that focused heavily on user experience, security, and integrating cloud-based services -- could really give Windows, macOS, et al a run for their money.
A Ransomware Doctor Without a Cure
>> He ends the essay with "All I am saying is to give Ps (and Qs) a chance.". But who exactly is this aimed at?

It's a slightly garbled (and so not immediately recognisable, perhaps) pun on the verse "All that we're saying/ is give peace a chance" from John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance".

So it's not addressed to anyone- it's just his attempt at injecting a bit of levity in the debate.

EDIT:

>> If Ps (and Qs) is a better approach then do the research and publish the results.

Well, people have done that, yes. For example, the Evans and Grefenstette paper Marcus' article cites towards the end has shown in a very clear manner the power of combining symbolic with sub-symbolic approaches, as has the work of, off the top of my head, Artur D'avila Garcez (neuro-symbolic computation), Luciano Serafini (a differentiable logic), and many others.

And yet, my intuition at least is that most people who have heard about Deep Learning, haven't heard about that work.
This is not that. This is multiplexing and the purpose of it is to save i/o wires. If you film it with a high speed camera you will see something like one digit being lit at a time.
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I'm a UI/UX/Product designer with nearly 15 years of experience.
Can work as a single designer (and coordinate work of design contractors if necessary), as a part of a product team or manage a small team of designers (been a Head of Business Product Design of Acronis).

Helped companies design, build and launch products for Web/Desktop/Mobile, worked on a few IoT/hardware products.

The designer of DaisyDisk (https://www.daisydiskapp.com).

Now working on an iOS mobile app as a pet project (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G02IJaFemQE)

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I don't think it's fair to say that people who defaulted during the 2008 mortgage-backed securities crisis did so because they lacked sufficient macroeconomic knowledge to make prudent financial decisions. Some were offered loans (for a variety of bad reasons) that they could not repay if they encountered even the slightest setback in their current financial decisions. Those people should bear some responsibility for that poor choice as should those who offered them the loans for which they shouldn't really have qualified. Others exploited the process by strategically defaulting on mortgages after extracting money due to appreciation on the underlying property. IMO, that's unfair and borders on the fraudulent if they never intended to pay back the mortgages they took out.

There were other problems that contributed as well, but none of the causes are so easily characterized that anyone who lost money should expect to see someone jailed as a consequence of their misfortune.
Can the blockchain solve humanity's most pressing challenges?
Did this get pulled? I get a "We’re sorry, but we can’t find the page you’re looking for" when I follow the link.
Fabius was dictator after Trasimene, but before Cannae. Although his tactics were effective, the Romans cared more about virtus than effectiveness and replaced him with Varro and Paulus, who engaged with Hannibal directly at Cannae. The aim of ancient war was the demonstration of martial virtue, with victory as a relatively secondary concern. Because victory without the clash of arms was worth little to the Romans, Roman generals often had a hard time getting their armies to not engage when delaying would lead to circumstance more favorable to victory (c.f. Caesar at Gergovia).

The more interesting period politically is the ascent of the Gracchi, who consistently violated unwritten political norms. The response of the establishment was to murder them, as there was no institutional mechanism to reign them in.
If I were to describe a scheme that disproportionately rewards early adopters[0] and requires a constant addition of new adopters just to sustain the price[1] - would an ordinary reasonable person[2] think "the future of money" or "traditional pyramid scheme"? And then if I were to describe a second scheme extending the first scheme where the main attraction is the supposedly constant pressure for buying into that scheme in order to participate in other new schemes launched with that scheme[3] - would an ordinary reasonable person think "new financial paradigm" or "traditional ponzi scheme"? And then if I was to describe those new schemes based on the second scheme based on the first scheme...

[0] Both via difficulty adjustments every 2 weeks (mostly increasing) and rewards halving every 4 years

[1] To counteract the deflationary nature of new coin generation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person

[3] i.e. buying into the "platform" in order to "invest" in tokens for subschemes issued with the "platform" (no one advertised that the subschemes would eventually have to dump their "shares" of the platform afterwards)
MacOS still is certified UNIX: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register.
you can start with getting NetGuard - a no-root firewall that can be used to prevent apps from connecting to unnecessary domains. It's from the same developer who made xPrivacy.

If you can achieve root, you will have much greater controls over privacy. Unfortunately, it seems cellphone manufacturers are moving away from giving users control over their devices.
I am agreed on gameplay, not meaning to be critical and certainly not wanting to hurt feelings. But it feels more like some game that comes in a Christmas cracker than something with any long term value. I did manage to complete the original Trivial Pursuit in one turn, 'blue' squares (geography) being the big help. How come that was so compelling? People actually wanted to play it, at the time you would have more players than places at the table, having to double up into teams.

The rewards on this game are not there, there is no compelling secret sauce.

Graphics are certainly not the be-all and end-all. I spent 24 hours (or was it 36) without sleep playing Universal Paperclips to the end when that came out, this is a text only interface:

http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

I bought the T-shirt too!

Geography trivia is very much my thing, I knew the capital cities of every country and all the U.S. state capitals when I was aged 10. This knowledge has actually been incredibly useful as when I meet anyone from any part of the world I have something positive to say about where they are from even if I have never been there.

If I had to refactor this game then that is what I would try and instil - 'quality trivia' that can't be instantly Googled. I think the key to it is to have highly unusual trivia, e.g. how it is that so many people have swimming pools in Harare. Sometimes 'facts' might not be 'fact based', e.g. how the finest pastries in the world happen to be in Hungary. In an age when information can be Googled there needs to be more, an understanding with story narrative. All of this requires time to research and write, not good if you want to churn out an app, but essential if you want to deliver a transformative experience as per 'Universal Paperclips'.
Yeah, I am also noticing the same trend. A heavy push for flutter everywhere. It makes me wary, curious to try it but however to take it with a grain of salt.
I don't know.

Seems like astro-turfing to me.

Dart isn't much better than JS (as TS or Reason are) so switching doesn't give you too much gains, but a smaller eco-system.

Also, the canvas approach of Flutter feels kinda backwards.

I think it's artifically hyped by Google.

React will be much simpler with hooks and the RN updates will improve native inter-op.

But yeah, that's just my take and I'm often wrong with predictions xD
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Right, all money ever buys you is time. The big problem most people have is that they are miserable money or not. The best advice is to find something to be involved in, find a hobby to master, find a cause to support. There is such power in a supportive community of similarly focused people working for the same end.
NURBS for the win... You know all the patents on NURBS have run out by now...
The comparison is that a fund run in contravention of the law has been at least partially unwound, with investors who are out of pocket being reimbursed.

If some of the larger ICOS are found to have been in contravention of the law, it's possible some sort of unwinding via lawsuit could occur.

What some ICOs have done, and what many more may be found to have done in future, is sell illegal unregistered securities.
The judicial process focuses on how “purely” what you did was harmful, rather than the overall impact. Otherwise, no one could scale any project: you’d do too much harm right away.

What kills the most people around the world are more likely treatments for common, dangerous disease, cures that have known secondary effects (most likely chemotherapy). Pharmacists who develop those know that and test them against the (considerable) harm that would happen without it; those with a seemingly positive balance are approved, not those that are the least toxic.

Same thing: the bank that does the most terrible decisions is probably the one with the most customers, not the one built with nothing but criminal intent. Otherwise: you are probably right, but it’s not relevant to judge banks overall.

If you find clusters of bad behaviour (even in large banks) you probably want to focus on those, but not blame the whole institution right away: people, companies still need banks, and you wouldn’t find an honest banker if your criteria is “no harm at all”.
Yeah I'd say it's easier to travel these days in many ways. Airfares are lower as a percent of income and the internet is everywhere. On the other hand it doesn't feel quite as exotic and the price differential between the west and cheap countries isn't as big on the whole. Some countries are kind of closed like Afganistan and Iran but on the other hand ones like China and Myanmar are more open than they were.
Show HN: Goodreads for fanfiction built in Elixir/Phoenix
‘Start-up nation’: a symptom, but of what?
Hey HN - here's my side project from the past three months. I'm a closeted fanfic reader, and I wanted a better way of figuring out what fanfics are worth my time. Also, happily funemployed at the moment, so I wanted to stretch my coding brain and learn some Elixir/Phoenix before it fully atrophied.

I've open sourced the code here: https://gitlab.com/makeitrein/ficdb_veil

I decided to give Elixir/Phoenix a go in building this - here are some thoughts...

- Pipe syntax and with macro makes for very grokable code... with macro especially is the cleanest pattern I've come across to date for handling the "happy" path with a clearly defined escape chute.

- https://unpoly.com/ was a great tool for speeding up my site by prefetching data on hover of any link and replacing only specific content on a page - highly recommended for making your Rails/Phoneix app more SPA-like.

- Ecto is the one true ORM. Doesn't try to redo SQL, lets you compose queries in an incredibly straightforward manner, and provides these things called changesets to help validate data and insert associations. Two thumbs up, addresses a lot of my problems with ActiveRecord and Node ORMs. Check out https://gitlab.com/makeitrein/ficdb_veil/blob/master/lib/fic... for an example of my fanfic schema + filtration queries

- I still have no idea how to use OTP/GenServer - Phoenix is an abstraction above the Erlang fundamentals, and I feel like this will bite me down the line

- I used https://gigalixir.com/ to handle deployments - it's Heroku for Elixir... great service, but it does cost minimum $35/month for a basic site, which is painful for a side project... if I knew more dev ops, I would try to wing this myself on AWS

- There's this underlying tension of whether to switch out the front-end for React or not. Phoenix templates are super speedy and play nicely with the rest of the ecosystem, but parts of the code base have now turned into brittle Jquery soup. Don't know how I'm going to handle this going forward.

- Elixir community is strong and welcoming, but library selection is still a fraction of the Javascript/Rails community. That being said, the libraries are usually of a higher quality then what you'd expect.

---

Ficdb is nowhere close to world domination, but it's cool to see 400+ users submit 800+ fanfics and leave just as many reviews in the last two weeks. I'd like to continue promoting this project on the side, see where it goes. Let me know what you think!
Only if the post-apocalyptic world still has sliced bread.
Where I live there are consumer protection state agencies that handle the suing for you, if the case is strong enough. You just have to file a complaint and I've had great success in the past.

And GDPR is taken seriously, the EU requiring and sponsoring agencies that check for compliance in all EU countries.

Don't know how it is in the U.S. but I imagine that at the very least you can group with others in class action lawsuits, such that the effort of any one individual will be lower.

As long as it is illegal of course, otherwise you don't have a case. I heard California is adopting something similar to the GDPR too.
It would make for a interesting study, but the example that I heard in one lecture on multi social groups was a janitor (low rank work position) gaining health benefits from being the leader of a chess club. I view it as completely plausible that Internet social points to be very similar to that of chess club social points.

That said, perception can quickly change and it very possible that the distance that Internet has makes it more vulnerable to collapsing. In an other lecture on stress it was pointed out that few things cause more harm than when false hope is found to be misplaced, so it very possible that if a individual perceive themselves as high ranked only to be proven wrong, then that can cause major health related issues. It was something that stress studies found out the hard way.
While I don't disagree with your reasoning, I haven't read this author. However another user describes this author as "what Paulo Coelho was back in the 1990s, but adapted to the #metoo and gender politics momentum."

Now when I saw the heavy handedness of my comment's downvoting, I was surprised. Having further looked into this, I now find the root of the rot of modern discourse: the censorship of gender politics. So I stand by all my comments in this thread and I consider your well reasoned market analysis entirely immaterial to this discussion.
I always wondered how large federal lawsuit helped the actual victims.
It’s a bit odd that the author did not seem to take on Quora’s legitimate concern over a writer’s ability to edit or remove content from Quora and to then see that reflected in Archive. There are consequences to that, sure. But honestly that makes me want to contribute to Quora more.
You're forgetting rental stores. My local grocery store had a rental section for $2/movie, and the selection was way better than Redbox, and the titles didn't rotate out as quickly as Netflix. I would typically watch 4-5 movies a month (one a week), which would cost me ~$10/month.

Now, I spend ~$10 per service for access to streaming content, and the selection is still worse than my grocery store was. Yes, there are more titles, but fewer good titles, especially since I'm not really into long series. I pay twice as much for half the quality.

So now my choices are only watch relatively new releases at Redbox (selection sucks), pay a ton to "rent" online (who thought $5/movie was a good idea?), or sign up for "unlimited" service(s) with mediocre selection.

Maybe I'm being nostalgic, but it seems we've moved backwards since moving on from video rental places.