skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of those features are optional. So if you don't care about some functionality just uninstall the specific 'App'.

That's true, but unless there are new developers joining to create/support these apps the addition of these new features may spread the developers too thin. Personally I'd rather have a robust set of smaller features than a buggy implementation of a lot of features. The latter is okay if it's just a "for fun" type of project. But I use nextcloud to keep my calendar/contacts/file-sync, so it's really not okay if the core functionality is unstable. So while I can uninstall these apps, I personally worry that it means less attention will be paid to the core features.
Of course not.

You really can't even fathom any possible other meaning behind what I wrote than that?
That sounds obvious, but I kind of doubt it in this case. Arresting a citizen vs holding a piece of hardware up for sale (in one country) due to software issues that can (fairly easily) be corrected. It doesn't seem proportional. If it was a response, I think they would have gone further and be more proportional like they seem to with everything else.
Yes, but price doesn't matter since it's such tiny amounts. The gold price for each part is miniscule compared to other costs.
"Why Aren’t Hacker News Leaders Happy With the Karma They Have?"
When campaign financing stops depending on them not understanding it.
The Spanish football league app turns on the microphone to listen if a game is playing and reports back to La liga with the exact location to find bars and restaurants with pirate broadcasts.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/12/spanish-soccer-app-caught-...
Great point. This kind of arrangement assures that the exiting employee will be happy to cooperate with training their replacement in good faith.
I think it can be rational for an investor to forgo productive assets, even if they have no opinions about market timing. They might look at a company, estimate its lifespan, estimate its total inflation-adjusted earnings over that period, and find that it's less than the current market cap. In that case it's just not a good investment opportunity, irrespective of market timing.

Historically there has always been a shortage of capital, and plenty of productive enterprises competing for that capital, so investors have received a discount on expected future earnings. But I think the case can be made that in the current economy, there is no such discount. That appears to be Buffet's stance, judging from his public comments. He says that he doesn't practice market timing, but simply can't find many worthwhile investments.
It worked exactly as intended - to line their own pockets' and their buddies pockets. Mission accomplished, at the expense of the rest of us, again.
> This article is one good step above scare-mongering, but only one.

I agree. Could a moderator please change the title at the least?

"Prions, A Rare and Lethal Infection, ..." would be slightly better.
Well, after years without electricity, you may start thinking that people not bringing mixers is a symptom rather than a problem.
They just forked it form Owncloud, that's the reason.
This last presidential election was decided by several thousand votes in a few states. There were even closer local elections this year. One persons vote doesn’t ever decide things, but if you can’t see the absurdity of everyone taking that position, I don’t know what to say.
With apologies to Pascal[1]

You assume your vote doesn't matter. Then

If you are correct and you vote, nothing happens.

If you are correct and you don't vote, nothing happens.

If you are wrong but you vote, you help make change.

If you are wrong and you don't vote, you enable bad things to come about.

Game theory says to vote.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager
Tracked down the original source on that image, here are both versions:

Unedited https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/271503305283338250/...

Watermark edges https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/271503305283338250/...

The grid of noise in the highlighted edges is from the jpeg compression on the screenshot, if we had the full quality original to work from it'd look cleaner.
“On Shutting Down” isn’t a whole lot better!
For Hacker News, there's https://www.hackernewsletter.com/

The idea is that instead of reading HN every day, you get an e-mail once a week.

People apparently use it, because one article I wrote was selected for it, and I saw that it drove significant traffic.

I'd like something for the nytimes and similar outlets too.
The lack of jobs
This is at Chicago executive airport which is not major.
Honestly though, I'm surprised we haven't seen this from well known 'celebrity' accounts on Reddit.
Did the NYT think you worked for the Pentagon and that NDA stood for National Disclosure Agreement?
It occurs to me that undergraduate programs at universities at least try to make this distinction. It's fairly common to assign each student a general advisor who helps them pick courses and manage requirements, then pass them off to a departmental advisor once they choose a major.

Granted, it usually doesn't seem to work very well, which supports your uncertainty. My experience is that general advisors mostly help bureaucratically, by making sure undecided students progress towards graduation while they explore topics. Which is obviously a bit short on real-life analogues, since beyond food and shelter there aren't many predetermined 'requirements' shared across all goals. But it at least has me wondering about the possibility of seeking a different style of mentor. Perhaps someone who's moved through several fields, or someone in a potentially-interesting domain chosen less for excellence than for their ability to give you an efficient taste of the field? If you're as far as a tentative goal this becomes fairly easy, as with undergrads doing research work or prospective law students doing paralegal/law-office work.

I don't have any great answer here, though, and I'd really like one. There are several things I'm interested in which seem to either lack this sort of pre-entry mentorship or lack any experts at all. If my desired skill is "the intersection of X and Y", but I can only find experts in X or Y... it looks like I'm rather on my own.
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Indeed, there could have been some other critical shortage barring the way. (IIRC the soviet bomb-makers mined half their uranium in germany, but something else maybe.) But aggregate industrial capacity wasn't obviously a show-stopper, if they were able to fund another very high-tech high-cost project.
Only because confirmation bias is a thing, doesn't mean it's always the reason.
Thanks, I'm pretty sure that's what Stephenson mentioned in his essay / book.
6 years and still can't resize columns in FF Network Monitor
That's not risky, it's done by tons of funds.
Are patent holder obliged to license a patent?
> People are surprised when seeing the Activity section in Google's account details, then freak out about Google tracking their location.

For the curious:

https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
Meditations by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius is a must read as well. Another addition to your modern approach recommendation of the stoicism theme is Ryan Holiday's Ego is the Enemy.

PS - There's a really captivating lecture on stoicism in the context of the life of Marcus Aurelius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5897dMWJiSM
Regardless of what it says, that’s Best Buy’s store, Best Buy gets your money, and Best Buy gets your phone call or email if there’s a problem with the purchase. I’d call that “sold by Best Buy.”
I prefer to regard journalists as "pageview collectors"
Kanye interned at Fendi about 12 years ago - he's definitely pretty involved in fashion beyond just lending his name
Is it just as legally risky to go to a store with a little mechanical counter and count heads?
> Some people never learn

It's hard to learn when your sole source of news is Fox News.

It's not even that Fox News is an outlier, the fault is ad supported news media. What do you think will happen when a politician comes along that threatens the million dollar ad accounts from finance and health industries through policies that reduce those institutions influence? Chomsky was right (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent).
I like business news in general. You make money in finance by being right and people in the industry will gravitate towards accurate sources by definition. In general, business news tends to have the best qualified hosts as well, who can actually understand macroeconomic concepts.
Also worth saying...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMjPqr1s-cg

Are we now, this moment, coming to 5:15-5:34? I suspect, and hope, that the eulogist was pointing this toward ARPA and SRI and not me.
Hammer time: fixing the printer on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe
Camel K on Knative: agile integration becoming serverless
My perfect keyboard layout
I think the main difference is an imperfectly-replicated virus or bacteria might still be viable.

A prion only makes itself. Even if it replicated imperfectly, the odds of a slightly different misfolded protein becoming another prion are vanishingly small (otherwise we'd all be dead) because there probably just are very, very few configurations possible. The vast majority of misfolded proteins just do nothing.

There are several billion humans who are each replicating millions of copies of each of the 20,000 or so proteins during their lifetimes. It seems pretty unlikely that there are many misfolds that haven't occurred. It's just that only a handful become prions. And even if they do, prions are thankfully very hard to communicate (again, we'd all be dead if they weren't).
>Who is debating this? It seems pretty straightforward that creating new coins is inflationary.

It is enabling coins within a fixed supply of 21M - this is not the same as creating new coins with no upper bounds. It isn't my intention to debate terminology - as I said "whatever you call it, the point is..."

>Isn't anyone holding the currency incentivized to do the same? What does "at the top" matter?

Those with more wealth to lose are disproportionately incentivised to protect it, and those with more wealth are also disproportionately empowered to take action to protect it. I used the term "at the top" to allude to the original point about what geometric shape a reasonable person would be likely to use to pictorially represent such a scheme.
The company is laying off 10,400 employees. According to the article: The company said it had 152,300 employees at the end of the third-quarter ending Sept. 30.

That's a significant chunk of their workforce! I suspect Verizon will quietly be hiring thousands of people from places where they can legally pay them less than these 10+ thousand.
> for English speaker.

Almost all English speaker do not need these codes.

Also the complexity of the implementation is not trivial.
Might be mis-remembering, this was 4-5 years ago. Had to do some trickery to get it to see my network in the old version of Airport Utility.
It’s astounding to me that this same country with HIPAA laws protecting name, ethnicity, age, and any identifying information in hospital records has nothing on the books to guard that very same information which can easily be bought and sold if it came from anywhere other than a hospital.
>> My case against hardcoding some kind of symbolic logic within the architecture of an AI model is that there won't be a way to challenge the symbols as the brain does.

Who said anything about hardcoding anything? Marcus is advocating for the use of gradient descent to learn symbols- he even cites the DeepMind paper on θILP, a differentiable Inductive Logic Programming system that learns symbolic rules with deep learning.
Cut revenue, blame expenses.

Eventually you end up with an anemic government that overspends on things that don't work and ignores all the social programs that the government put in place to prevent history from repeating.
yeah, it does sound a bit like that, but when you factor in the reasons why a free market has never (and in my opinion should never) exist there starts to be a difference. Things like regulatory capture, monopolies, and exploitation of any possible resource are all systemic effects of capitalism. When capital (power) begets more capital (power), it should be no surprise that tactics that are underhanded but ultimately grant more capital (power) are the ones chose and that the system tends towards a consolidation of power in those that have more of it already. It's not saying anybody with money or power will automatically do those things, just that the system is set up to encourage that, so somebody probably will at some point.

To me, it's similar to looking at a voting system like first past the post and identifying that the system tends towards two parties as a fundamental nature of the system. Underlying motives and strategies of individuals within the system will produce this effect.

I'm not commention on the validity of the "no real communism" statement here, just the comparison of it to the "no real free market"
Actually this might be the best argument I've read against this line of reasoning. Thank you.
Isn't it more absurd to say that "everyone" would take that position?

Plus consider that if you increased the number of voters by the margin of victory, what are the odds that 100% of those new voters would vote alike and swing the election?
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It's not always as easy, as each country, and sometimes each embassy has their own structure on their respective website. This service has a lot of merit, especially if used as directory to links of the original source of information. Try finding out whether a Bangladeshi citizen traveling to Saudi Arabia can travel without visa, with visa, with visa on arrival or not at all from a google search.
On iOS it takes forever. Days. The upload rate is slow as hell.
They classify patterns, not their own ability to classify patterns.
6 month reserve is not 6 months of income. It's 6 months of making basic expenses; and is much easier than most people think.

- We (US) loose about 1/3rd of our income to taxes. These aren't paid when you have no income.*
- A certain portion of income goes to retirement and saving for a rainy day... Well, you don't save for a rainy day when it's a rainy day.
- Major purchases can be deferred
- Major expenses, like vacations, can be skipped.
- Some banks will let you switch to interest-only in hard times
- ect

So, roughly speaking, 6 months of reserve is much less than 6 months of pre-tax income.

* If you have the misfortune of an extended unemployment, it will shift your tax bracket and you pay even lower taxes.
No not a thing about that. I am intrigued. He made us do everything in the fume cupboard though because we nearly blew ourselves up trying to make picric acid from the Jolly Roger cookbook :)
I scanned the article, but this mostly sounds like they are painting this as an application behavior. It isn't true. There are tons of companies that use RAW location data that you cannot opt out of.

https://airsage.com/
The version number is cool.
Tax cuts aren't even a year old and were sold on the premise of job growth.
Fixing the percentile seems akin to the gambler's fallacy: since losses below a certain point don't matter, you just have to bet everything when you fall off, like you would if you thought after a big loss streak you were "owed" a win.
If, in an alternative universe, the Chinese court rules in favor of Apple, China must be retaliating the US by green lighting the IP theft of Qualcomm.
This is the title of the New York Times article and as posted here before it was edited.
They can induce correctly-folded proteins to misfold, effectively replicating.
Artificial intelligence: a detailed explainer, with a human point of view
Actor-Based Authentication: An Alternative Way to Think About Secrets
So Person X makes off as a pure winner in the clawback (doesn't lose Fund Y profits, gets "made whole" of direct losses in clawback) Not "fair" but "legal". Yay!

In real-world experience, rather than 10th-grade story problems, the devil is in the details. Dates are important (you're eligible for recovery of losses from date range, you're liable for recovery from other date range), and Person A is likely to be vulnerable to clawback of earlier profits, even if reinvested and later lost. The profits from the scheme are separate transactions from the later losses in the same scheme. In this case, your simple math would be more fair, but probably not how the legal system would work. Yay!

You can see examples of this in capital gains taxes on people who made and lost a lot in cryptocurrency boom/bust cycles. Arbiters may have a lot of discretion in evaluating claims in these big cases, but I'd rather have the law on my side than relying on the discretion of an arbiter.
Thanks for sharing. Very touching.

Added it to the notebook

https://colab.research.google.com/gist/ontouchstart/c538817e...

It is best to be watched after watching a few minutes of this cell:

https://colab.research.google.com/gist/ontouchstart/c538817e...
Full-time employment is up by 2.7 million since the tax cuts went into effect.

Michigan's unemployment is the lowest it's been since records have been kept: https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/21325
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Unity is an excellent place to start.

I took this Udemy course on Unity to get started, and enjoyed it quite a bit.
https://www.udemy.com/unitycourse2/learn/v4/overview. The coding parts go by a bit too slowly if you can stare at a C# function and get the gist despite not knowing C#, but the graphical portions are exciting. Meanwhile, if videos or paid courseware aren't your thing, I've seen several great free tutorials online.

I was also helped out by a casual background in Blender (from 3D printing and modeling) so messing around with Blender is a great to wrap your head around asset creation, rigging for animation, and scene design. If you end up liking Blender a lot, there's a python scripting engine you can use for designing the entire game with Blender (personally I prefer the whole-package experience within Unity more, despite being a Python developer by day).

Once you're decent in Unity, it's a pretty employable skill and you could get a job working in game development or with something else (interactives for museums, flight training module design, and web interactives are all examples of fields where friends use Unity). That could be a good way to get paid to learn.

Finally, consider the non-technical skills necessary to create a game (particularly in a small studio). Music, artwork, storyboarding, UI design, etc are all important parts of the process, particularly at a smaller studio that may not have teams of teams to handle every little task. Picking up a few of those can't hurt, and will be necessary if you'd like to make games for yourself.
When was the last time a country reduced the duration of copyright?

With very few exceptions, the profit a work brings falls quickly after publishing. So copyright isn't being extended so much to preserve the profits from existing works - it's to keep those works from competing with new ones. Literally taking from the public to create demand.
Regardless of you want to code your engine from scratch, I recommend you to watch at least 1 Unity training video, that will reveal the current state of the industry.
> The UI as it stands is technically functional and easy to understand, but not exactly effortless or convenient to use. In particular, there's quite a jarring difference between the modes during switch, making comparison impossible.

Agreed about the jarringness. I actually had a section about how jarring it felt (I'm the author of the blog post) but scrapped it because I was spending too much time on the post :D

> An inline UI next to/within the content, with some logic to ensure the nearest content to the control stays at the same scroll-position during change would help a lot with this.

Cool ideas. I initially wrote off the UI idea as low ROI (as you can see in the post) but maybe my opinion would change if I saw someone really nail this feature. Also, the low ROI comment only applies if we have to manually markup the content. If we can automate that side of it, then that changes the ROI equation.
Adding to this, DLNA from Linux (pulseaudio-dlna) to a Raspberry PI is also a lot slower than the using AirPlay in the way you described… :|

(By "slower" I mean that there's a significant delay.)
The part about the possibility of contracting these from your doctor's equipment when you go in for an eye exam is truly scary:

"Undiagnosed CJD patients may seek testing. And the diagnostic equipment used to test them may then become contaminated, the authors write. They recommend single-use instruments or the adoption of new decontamination procedures for opthalmological equipment with better effectiveness on prions."
Hot reload is such a productive feature for anything related to app/GUI development. Been playing around with a project called Fabulous (F# cross-platform app development)[0] and it's been a ton of fun. Here's a cool example of the hot-reloading in action[1].

[0] https://fsprojects.github.io/Fabulous/

[1] https://twitter.com/JasonImison/status/1072074268333228032
I'm curious, given your feelings, what motivates your (fairly active) participation in the comments section?

Not trying to be snarky, just want to know what people are truly looking for in the comments, because I happen to have a different view of the comments (maybe it's just in the sampling of topics I'm interested in).
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When did the "I'll just examine 1 word and be overly pedantic to win an argument" thing start and why?
So they're offsetting the Capex of their 5G rollout by eliminating employees that helped make Verizon 3G and 4G rollouts a success and the company a ton of cash? That seems like a pretty bad precedent if so.

Also why would a brand new network deployment require any less head count? I assume they will just hire new workers when the uptake in 5G begins in earnest?
How do you as a lowly employee "negotiate" severance benefits. You have no power. If they say "No" what are you going to do?
I don't know Aaron at all, but I'm curious about what kind of bonafides you must have to be a Partner at YC. Do they mean partner in the financial sense (ie: he bought into it) or in an operational sense? If it's the latter, at first glance there's a bit of strange optics to have someone in that role whose only notable experience to my knowledge in the startup world ended in failure.
I don't understand how a company can think like this with unemployment as low as it is. They don't have much room to be calling labor's bluffs.
Cool! I'll update the "Prior work" section.
$541M Dollars Printed Everyday. How Come I Don’t Get Any?
What do you advise for a baseline DAC+Amplifier?
Others have noted ambiguous character, but an equally important factor was to avoid swear words in all the languages that use the Latin alphabet (or have a latinized form like Russian, Chinese and others)

It is almost impossible to make words out of the allowed characters
The brilliance of having Canada do the arrest is actually breathtaking. This way the US still gets to fire a shot across the bow of the PRC while Canada (my country) suffers the "grave consequences" with a trading partner we can't afford to piss off.

If we blink, it's grounds for messing with us in the ongoing NAFTA revision debacle, and if not, then China takes a chunk away.

Either outcome makes us more pliant on issues ranging from cannabis laws, immigration, trade, LGBTQ rights, etc.
> take the money and run

its their money though. its the government taking the money.
most (all? Idk) corporate office workers are not in the union. People who drive around putting boxes in peoples houses and climbing poles are in the union.
Oh, so they're not greedy because they hold our retirement funds? I guess that makes it all OK then?

You keep voting for those corporate tax cuts. I won't.