skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the data sharing is possibly a major problem-to-be in that Amazon probably getting a lot of info about me. A LOT. This is as I ramp down what I allow Google to know as I've taken steps to limit use of their products, particularly search. I think this should be people's primary concern with the rise of this service--especially as it now grows to include data on the foods you consume.

Presumably, Amazon will begin private labeling food products, which will put the company in direct line of choosing which farming practices to promote, what diets get discounted and other interesting capabilities. I want to believe this power will be used for good--such as Apple's stance toward Privacy. But benevolence can wax and wane.

I haven't heard Bezos talk about the importance of human health and the food chain, but I haven't gone looking for that yet either.

To me the delivery service via prime is still amazing. It does matter that products arrive within two days because I often put them into service the moment they are delivered.

It matters to me that the product catalog on Amazon is so expansive and has been combed over by previous buyers. The review system is not perfect, but largely I am happy with highly rated, well sold merchandise routed through Amazon's marketplace.

I also have been on the selling side of Prime and while it is expensive for sellers, it is an incredible to be able to address potential buyers using Prime with the branding and consistent experience of Amazon all over it. I'm able to sell unusual things with no reviews.

Regarding the issues you've had with that tissue delivery, I also had an issue once with a falsely advertised sizing of a ducting tube I needed for a swamp cooler a couple years back. I had to really get through to customer service to show that the product sold was not legit. They did take action on the seller after I spent the time.

That said, that was one out of many hundreds of product purchase experiences where I felt wronged and Amazon was involved.

I think we're still just getting started with the value prop of Amazon Prime.
A good never-falsifiable story, just like those made up by people who are trying to get and maintain an asylum visa to US.
Metal's supported on that card. Works on a GT650M too, from a 2012 rMBP.
What if the AI would find something we can’t see even under the bright light?
The easiest way to get a job in the US is via TN and a little harder than that is going through the H1B. The TN route is extremely simple, however you will need a degree in something related to what you plan on doing so in this case Computer science or computer engineering (a bootcamp will not be enough).

https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker...
The behaviour of these guys you observed is already implying something: They are a little bit special. If you have a few Chinese friends, ask them if they know about "独运轮". Ask a few, preferablly with no strong political opinions. The guys you met belong to "轮", the last group of the 3.

Together with other 2 groups, "轮" unintentionally built support to current Chinese govenment among oversea Chinese especially young students. If you happened to have chance to meet many oversea Chinese, you can test if it's valid.
Yes, this is what I thought probably happened, as well. The "us" referred to the support agencies, and they likely were no longer able to change canonical URLs (surprising they were allowed to do so to begin with).
How do you know it cannot be used for Venmo? It has a debit card and you can use debit cards for free on Venmo
Stocks are traded everywhere in the world. What’s this have to do with The American Dream!?
The solution shouldn't be "make all the apps work around Microsoft being anti-consumer". It should be "Make Microsoft stop being anti-consumer".
Migrating from Render Props to Hooks
It has only Amazon listings (among the dozens I checked) and all have the same affiliate tag (sp128-20). That's an odd definition of "community".
> Sadly for Branson the efforts of Musk/SpaceX have downsized the publicity potential for what has gone on here. That time that SpaceX landed two of the rocket boosters was one of the most exciting moments in space thus far, the Tesla 'Rocketman' was also quite crazy. This should have persuaded Branson to throw in the towel on his 'space' ambitions but we all have our pride.

That was the same trip, and probably more exciting than anything since Apollo. Seeing those two rockets landing together before cutting to a dummy in a car blasting out of orbit, all choreographed to David Bowie, it looked like something from a movie.

However back when spaceship-one went to space (not orbit obv) and back twice in 2003, it felt like space was just around the corner. It took over a decade before SpaceX successfully landed their rocket to surpass that feeling.
Not too mention the "Add-on" products, and the fact they are too dumb to just bundle them up with the next Prime delivery.
I’ve been getting into the habit of turning my phone off, putting it in a drawer, and leaving it there for as much time as possible.

It sounds absurd, but the results have been fantastic and similar to what I’ve experienced from meditation, long-distance running or similar activities. It’s best described as feeling “grounded”, as if I’m actually alive in the world and not just floating from one room to the next. I end up noticing more about my neighborhood as well, especially irrelevant little things like floor tile patterns or differences between plants on the sidewalk.

My best theory on the topic is: if you only speak one language, the vast majority of internet is essentially a fairly small, uniform, static entity. Whether you log on from Tokyo or Toronto, the software is the same - same colors on Google, same design on Facebook, etc. When you unplug, this uniformity largely disappears and you’re forced to really pay attention to the world around you. As a result, the world feels much bigger.
Is the viewer brought about as a result of the production of said images?
Products that serve ads and sell your user data should be free, see Facebook or Google Search.

If I fork out money for a product, I expect to do what is says it does. To have Windows auto update and serve ads in the start bar or lock screen is just too much
There are many factors that go into what industries we cover and who within that industry we write for, but the biggest one is probably that they all make buying decisions for stuff that costs a lot of money: https://www.industrydive.com/industries/
Buddha floats away in a stream of water and cars
Sounds like we're talking about different levels of conceptual abstraction.

Here's an example: I need to generate a report where I need to cross-reference data from A and B. I need to know where A is going, where B is going, how to modify the schema of the events going into B to add a specific piece of data, where we can process inputs from A, how to do the join, and how to add the report into the dashboard.

On the one hand, I could ask the surface level question "how do I generate the report for ____?" but really there's a whole lot to unwrap, and what I need is the information to do the unwrapping. I don't need a course on statistics, I just need to understand our specific architecture.
Yeah, I'm aware. Can we frame the concept differently?

Why the projection of "alone with thoughts"? Why seed the concept of existential dread in the mind of the reader of the study results?

How do the researchers know that it was assuredly the terror of the subject's own mind, their internal monologue or what have you, which certainly provoked them to preoccupy themselves with pain?

Answer: they cannot know why the individuals shocked themselves, but only that the shock happened.
Someone, please invent an AI that can remove all automobiles from the street.
I'm no historian, but my best guess it that it's just correlation and that the main underlying cause of "civility" is wealth. When your citizens are struggling to survive, they (at least in their own minds) don't have time to think about women's rights, racial prejudice, etc. The progressive countries of the world just happen to be a few decades ahead on the technology timeline. There are obviously other factors, but I think that's the big one.
> Are financial firms likely to be bad at math?

No. But you don't have to be bad at maths to play exploitably.

Many years ago now I was a hand-to-mouth graduate student. New credit card companies wanted to attract customers so they offered an easy approval card with 0% finance for 18 months. Need to use some of your new credit on existing debts? Rather than figure out all the specifics they just included a cheque book with the product, just write a cheque to pay any debts and it goes on your 0% balance.

Everybody I knew took out a card, write the full credit amount on a cheque, paid it into a fixed term savings account.

Account term ends, you pay off the 0% card, keep the interest, cut the card in half and you're done. Free money.

The people who ran those new card companies knew this might happen, they just didn't guess it would happen often enough to ruin them. Not our problem. A few years later the deals on offer explicitly did not have a way to cash out. Lesson learned.
I am slowly working on it. I have a new baby, so I had to pause for a bit.

What is the best way to reach you when I have updates?
Well then this is quite simple for us to clear up then - Medium has mis-trained their customer-service team to think that they're not speaking for the company when they're speaking for the company. That can be fixed.
On its own this is a worthless hand wavy statement.

How do you accomplish this when you have a synchronous client (ie a user waiting in his web browser)? Should the browser poll for the result? How could you possibly implement something like this in the real world?
I've also benchmarked GCP vs. AWS [0], and, for the tests that I ran, found that GCP outperformed AWS by a factor of 3:1. Specifically, a GCP instance n1-highcpu-8 with a 256GB pd-ssd disk, clocked in at 11,728 IOPS vs an AWS c4.xlarge with a 256GB gp2 disk, clocking in at 3,634 IOPS.

To put that in context of the blog post, it means your setup can drastically affect your results. Using local NVMe disk, for example, yields excellent results at the expense of increased risk. Also, AWS's io1 disk is very expensive—after my first io1 bill from AWS, I never used that disk type again.

[0] http://engineering.pivotal.io/post/gobonniego_results/
I'm sure this work was groundbreaking , but let's not kid ourselves that imitation is some high and misunderstood form of intelligence.

Nor should we kid ourselves that this is new information. The adage "monkey see, monkey do" has been around for, what, centuries? Is it really that surprising that apes imitate things they see? Does it really reveal a paltry understanding of monkey cognition?
It’s “g”. “G” is the gravitanional constant.
The self-driving vans use radar, lidar and cameras to navigate, so they capture footage of all interactions that usually is clear enough to identify people and read license plates.

Oops! They also have GPS, so they have a timestamped location as well as pictures.
Perhaps evergreen blog posts are an oxymoron?

I don't see my computer going back in time and updating a file in /var/log - it's append only.

But regardless, the switch to a non-blog format is correct.
No, but the content is brought about as a result of the production of said images.
Their primary revenue stream was, once upon a time, net interest income, but these days due to the extremely low interest environment and alternate sources of funding the revenue stream is more weighted towards fees

There are still banks who are trying to do this. You can rephrase it as, "lending money to winners." Even better if you can lend money to an underdog winner, enabling them to borrow even more in the future. Community banks are now left with only the underdog borrowers, as the low hanging fruit is swept up easily by the megacorporation banks.

Metacomment: geeks who believe they have outmathed a financial firm should ask themselves "Are financial firms likely to be bad at math?" and "Are financial firms incapable of hiring their own geeks?"

This is the POV of my wife, who manages underwriting: Community banks are having problems hiring the "A-Students" and "B-Students." This means that employees either make more mistakes, or need more rigorous support through custom software, which community banks can ill afford, and where the big megacorporation banks can handily outcompete them.
I'd imagine many would choose a fun LCOL over a boring HCOL such as the Bay Area.
A link to the academic paper about this research: https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
Now that I think about it, yeah, I think Microsoft is probably gonna land in some big trouble with GDPR because of this. There's not really a way out of it because of how little control they give the user. I think it's just going to take time, because there's so many high-profile GDPR cases going on right now.

Plus, it's not like the big companies can afford to get hit by GDPR in a way that small companies can't. GDPR fines are based off of the company's revenue, which works well for preventing Microsofts from making more money from doing it anyway and paying the fine.
Any question works for this:

• What's your favorite color?

• What are your weaknesses?

• What are your strengths?

• When's the last time you did something unethical?
Thank you very much! We agree that it would be helpful for staffing agencies to monitor key staff defections or openings.
Somewhat related "Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained neural network" https://github.com/minimaxir/person-blocker (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16720233 , 110 points, 8 months ago, 59 comments)
Ogg remember when tool didn't exist. People lived in moment. Now Ogg see plow tilling field and just shake head. What happened to working together for betterment of society? Now beast pull plow?
It's a standard expectation on mobile that all apps should work that way, and consumers seem to like that pattern better. So is it really anti-consumer to try and push app developers in that direction?
My claim is only that a single neurologist said if any cognitive training might help, then N-Back training would be it. I have no other evidence other than my friend's testimony. Say the neurologist did say this, what's the implication? That you have defeasible justification for trying N-Back training, on recently diagnosed dementia patients, if you've already made the decision that cognitive training is worth pursuing (along with other treatments).
There are some gems on there, like this one:

#127039 +(13215)- [X]
<wolf> 1. Save every Free Credit Card Offer you get, Put it in pile A

<wolf> 2. Save every Free Coupon You get, put that in pile B

<wolf> 3. Now open the credit card mail from pile A and find the Business
Reply Mail Envelope.

<wolf> 4. Take the coupons from pile B and stuff them in the envelope you hold
in your hand.

<wolf> 5. Drop the stuffed to the brim envelopes in your mail and walk away
whistling.

<wolf> I have now received two phone calls from the credit card companies
telling me that they received a stuffed envelope with coupons rather
then my application. They informed me that it they are not pleased that
they footed the bill for the crap I sent them. I reply with "It says
Business Reply Mail" I'm suggesting coupons to you to ensure that your
business is more successful. They promptly hang up on me.

<wolf> Now, I did this for about a month before it got boring, so I got an
added idea! I added exactly 33 cents worth of pennies to the envelope
so they paid EXTRA due to the weight. I got a call informing me about
the money, I said it was a mistake and I demanded my change back. After
yelling at the clerk and then to the supervisor they agreed to my
demands and cut me a check for the money. I hold in my hand at this
very moment a check from GTE Visa for exactly 33 cents.

[edit]: formatting
Not sure why you're speaking with so much authority. I regularly bike 50-100 miles per day. I rock climb 2-3 times weekly. I follow StrongLifts. I'm vegan and don't obsess over my diet. I simply make an effort to eat a lot of healthy, whole foods. I feel great. I have tons of energy. It's been five years without issue.

Further, from my reading on the topic the evidence supports the healthfulness of a WFPB diet. Eating this way isn't hard nor expensive. It can be socially inconvenient. It can take time to learn the ropes if you're transitioning to cooking and eating healthier. But it's worth it!
this has been known to be an issue on /r/thinkpad for a while now, i dont doubt there will be a fix very soon if there isnt one already
I live in a suburban oasis in North Orange County, with plenty of "empathy" and awareness for wealth "inequality".

Yet, at the most recent city council meeting, there were a large number of residents complaining about the personal cost of opening up supportive housing for homeless people. Not a financial cost, but a personally subjective "cost" of sharing their city with transients. This housing complex includes mental health services and employment services on-site and has support from the local city government. Instead of compromising and considering alternatives, these people advocated for removing the program entirely and passing the buck to the next city.

High costs of living exist regardless of "empathy" or awareness of "inequality". The problem is policy, not personality.
It’s hard to argue that you’ve left the atmosphere, when the craft you’re using is supported by it. Hence the Karman Line.

Tereshkova has a much better claim to being the first woman in space.
Your guess is as good as mine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

EDIT: Nope, looks like I'm shadowbanned--showdead should show my comments.
Or labor being more frugal and not spending every penny frivolously, then investing the difference.
I meant to add that those sites were just examples, I assumed it had been done before Imgur.

Slashdot seemed like a cool site back in the day...
... again? didn't they just fix an issue like that?
>I can't help but feel it's a bit of a fishing expedition to determine political alignment.

What's frustrating is that I like to get exposed to a variety of viewpoints, but YouTube very aggressively (as far as I can tell) puts users into left/right boxes, as opposed to just serving content that is historically or politically themed.

I'd be very surprised if it turned out YouTube was NOT intentionally pushing people to anger-addictive extremist content, especially right-wing content, because it's a product that encourages the viewing habits their metrics prioritize.
Nothing but a small set of scattered anecdotal evidence from people in the N-Back community. I would be interested in an actual study on this.
Because plastic is cheap!
It's at over 200k now.
In America, I don't think contactless matters that much currently.

It's really a crap shoot if any specific retailer supports contactless, no major metro system that I know of support direct debit / credit contactless cards and no major bank or credit card company issues contactless cards.

If you want to use contactless in america, you add the card to apple / google / samsung pay and use your phone for NFC payments. I get a feeling that america will do a 'leapfrog' in contactless and go directly to smartphone only contactless cards than ever issue a contactless card in the mass market.
I agree with you, but if they are going to pick one paradigm to build new features for, it is certainly going to be OOP (for better or worse).
I guess it's related to CGTN having had to register as foreign agents: https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-has-ordered-...

Presumably YouTube is also required to indicate that status.
Don't forget the moose! cm.org
That's sad to read, since Wiki was originally invented to create a simple user-editable document, to solve the problem of "just move on with your life once you find the answer you need, as you've already wasted enough time"
In addition to what the other commenter said, I think in practice, doing a chargeback is a lot less painful than calling you your bank and asking for your money back. Of course definitely depends on bank and credit card issuer.
guess the Telecoms or their lobbyists hired some small sketchy 3rd party PR/astroturfing firms to do this, and those people will take the fall but blow back to AT&T, Comcast, Verizon will be minimal. Eventually some judge will chastise the FCC in a ruling, while also doing nothing to overturn the policy change, but perhaps forcing some vague fixes for the commenting system going forward.
Debian updates its stable release repositories every two years (aside from pure bugfixes and the like, of course) because this is what it takes to have a rock-solid software release-- with a truly negligible amount of issues for the computer-naïve "average user" to be bitten by-- given the resources they have at present and the overall state of upstream software. If people want more frequent updates, coupled with the same overall reliability that Debian has always been known for (far more than many other Linux distributions), they're welcome to contribute.
There are distros not based on Debian out there, many of which update their packages more often than every two years
> what is happening instead is that small companies, starrups, etc. are getting fucked over by the sheer amount of "rules" they have to follow and implement

Nope. The GDPR is a European-style regulatory framework: it sets out principles and expects people to apply them in a reasonable and sensible way. The national regulating agencies are there to steer organisations into doing the right thing, rather than beating them up when they don't. I have literally telephoned the UK regulator and had a polite conversation when I needed a clarification of a particular point in their (most clearly written) online guidance.

The regulators do have strong powers so that large and well-funded companies can't just deploy lawyers to get away with things. Cambridge Analytica is one obvious case: they tried to play games with a GDPR regulator, and got a very hard smack-down.
Indeed, that's BF Skinner and associates talking about how creative behavior arises naturally from learned behavior.

And key here is that things like "the mirror test" are about testing animals for what humans naively believe are their unique traits. And this seems like it could be easily faulty if these naively human beliefs are false, which seems quite likely actually.

And also I'd view the focus on consciousness as a naive belief even if psychologists and philosophers have attempted to systematize it. At the same time, Skinner in particular as "behaviorist" seems to go from a lab where he's seeing most behavior mediated by stimulus to a position that seems to imply behavior coming mechanically from stimulus.
This sounds interesting, but doesn't help understand what you're trying to explain. At least not right now, at my computer. Are there any written explanations you could point us to?

edit: Google translates those three characters as "exclusive wheel"... the mystery continues