skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a completely anecdotal story of how I found the price of my privacy recently. I self identify as a privacy nut. I don’t Facebook, I don’t use google. I’ll pay for privacy conscious services vs. using so called ‘free’ services, but I recently had an experience that gave me a bit of a different viewpoint.

My wife also doesn’t have Facebook, for her it’s more of a time suck then privacy reasons. For the most part she hears me talking about privacy, knows it’s something I care a lot about, and is happy to go along with me. However, she recently learned about a couple apps that give you money back. Walmart pay and iboutta. Without a doubt these apps are tracking all sorts of things and building profiles and selling our information. I’m totally against it... but she loves getting the money back. “Oh you know that yogurt we got from Walmart? Turns out Kroger had it on sell for 50 cents off and we got reimbursed $5!” It really makes her happy. I’m thinking to myself that I would have rather spent that $5 and had kept my privacy, but I end up keeping that to myself. It’s something she really enjoys.

On the other side, it does get into a more devious side of privacy issues. You don’t need everyone to give up their privacy rights- you just need a few to give up the privacy of everyone they know.
I'm pretty sure that if YouTube did not "comply if its own volition" for these kinds of claims, they would be in violation of DMCA.
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Must be nice to be an immortal corporation that can just spin off any debts you don't want to pay, while mere mortals with finite lifespans and education debt and medical debt and credit card debt cannot unless we die.
That assumes that the desire for health care is unbounded like other consumables.

In reality most healthy individuals want a limited amount of care, sick individuals want the least amount of care required to return them to health - and there are fundamental limits on the amount of care that can be provided to those who are beyond the help of current technology.

As such you would expect a finite level of demand from the economy as a whole if everyone was allowed as much healthcare as they desired. Any attempt at rationing care will both reduce efficiency, and constrain supply - driving up prices. The most market oriented system would leave supply unconstrained and provide universal and automatic coverage allowing more suppliers to enter the market until supply outstrips demand and "prices" naturally fall.
I like the sentiment, but it's unconstitutional under the equal protections clause of the 14th amendment.
> I wonder if it will take legislation to solve.

We can barely get common-sense prison-reform (or anti-surveillance) legislation on the US for fear of being labelled soft on criminals; imagine the terror of being the legislator who made cars less safe (without even winning favour from the auto manufacturers for doing so).
Not an unreasonable policy in the abstract but open channels for free software projects should be publicly and permanently logged, same as mailing lists. Private channels, sure. Other than that, the project should have public logs, at which point it doesn't matter if a for-profit company wants to see those logs because literally anyone can—or could have just joined in the first place.

(Debian also has a policy that you may not publicly log its IRC channels, and I also think it's wrong.)
Sooo.... It's the hospital's fault healthcare is expensive! (Mostly joking)
If AGI is possible, it already happened. If even AI experts put it a 100-1000 years out, where some human monkeys banging on digital typewriters could eventually create it, then, in the vastness of space, time, military contracts, alien intelligences, and random Boltzmann brains, it must have been reality multiple times already.

If AGI is impossible, it will never happen. We already know that perfectly intelligent AGI's are not physically possible: Per DeepMind's foundational theoretical framework, optimal compression is non-computable, and besides that, it is not possible for an inference machine to know all of its universe (unless it is bigger than the universe by at least 1 bit, AKA it is the universe).

Remains being more intelligent than all of humanity. To accomplish that, by Shannon's own estimates, there is currently not enough information available in datasets and the internet. Chinese efforts to artificially increase the intelligence of babies is still in its infancy too (the substrate of AGI is irrelevant for computationalism, unless it absolutely needs to run on the IBM 5100).

So until that time travels, we will have to make due with being smarter than/indistinguishable from a human on all economic tasks. We're already there for some subset of humanity, you may even be a part of that subset, if you believed this post was written by a human.
Microsoft could have contributed to coreboot instead if they claim to be so opensource-friendly. Or wrote firmware in safer language like Rust. Tradional UEFI code is a total mess, from programming practices view and from security/safety point of view too. For a long time they stuck with Python 2 only for their tooling, C89 compatibility, non-standard types, etc.

P.S. Note, that most of the UEFI is not open source - so called PI code (Platform Initialization), which performs real platform booting is closed source in almost any board. Coreboot is targeting this stage too.
check out ALIX routers based on AMD APU. I have a few running arch doing double-duty as wired/wireless routers and fileservers:

https://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm
America: where hospitals advertise on the radio.
Not exactly coreboot/uBoot, but it already is:

https://fwupd.org/

https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd

It's integrated into recent distros, seamlessly shipping firmwares for supported vendors (Dell came first, HP arrived soon after, and I think I read Lenovo was being worked on) like this MS project does, or Apple has been doing for years.
>equality of outcome

See that’s where you lost me.
What has IARC excluded from causing cancer?
One prevalent issue is that even if on youtube the situation is solved easily (i.e. the counter claim is reviewed and everything put back in place in a timely manner) the channel will usualy have missed most of its monetization window. Especialy if the case goes viral and and everyone looks at some side loaded video in the meantime, almost nobody will go back to watch ads on the restored video.

In that sense just claiming ownership of a track will deter most other creators to make money from it, even if they can use it. Actualy I think during the time the copyright claim is upheld any ad money done at that point goes to the alegde owner and is not reversed even if the claim is debunked, but I might be wrong.
Indian technology talent is flocking to Canada
> Stealing an unmanned vehicle-- and getting away with it-- should be very difficult.

As witnessed by the difficulty people have dealing with package thieves, "getting caught doing it" is unfortunately different from "not getting away with it", even when 'it' is illegal.
A Practical Theory of Programming
Where are the molten salts coming from?
Feeding America
EFF
Plus several local nonprofits:
Grand rapids red project
Grand rapids pride center
(Others I forget)
Pipeline is very cool but very quickly hit roadblock due to different supports from plugin. To my knowledge, it's up to plugin to support pipeline.

1 years ago, it doesn't even have a support way to call `scm checkout` and get revision. You have to go all way around by calling out to shell to get `git rev` write to a file and read it back. Groovy DSL supports it now but given backthen I feel like even Jenkins team didn't push Jenkins hard enough.

Configure Pull Request Builder, Github Hook Trigger and Build Context are a hit or miss with Groovy DSL too :(.

I think in 2019, it has no reason to continue use Jenkins other than we are too familiar with it and don't want other approach. Concourse CI has a steep learning curve but it's way better and a right approach to me. At least, you don't have a UI where people go in and trigger build. Jenkins make it easier to be messed up.
Amazon was certainly unprofitable for their first 15 years or so. As recently as 2009 they had negative retained earnings on their balance sheet.
Ask HN: Why does HN lean to the alt-right?
Pathetic group here if you ask me. Queue the alt-right HN haters below.
Byuu, the author of Higan, has been quite critical[1] of the claim that the Super NT is as accurate as stated. It may be tempting to assume "FPGA = hardware recreation = perfect", but we don't have access to the original SNES schematics, so anything we recreate involves some level of guesswork.

Higan has been in development for more than a decade, and literally every first party SNES game has been tested to ensure 100% compatibility. By contrast, since the Super NT was released, its creators have issued multiple patches to fix game-specific issues that were discovered. As is expected in the development of any emulator, it is likely that these patches have created new problems in other games, which haven't been discovered yet.

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[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uHa892...

Sidenote, the above link is using Google's cache. Byuu appears to have not only deleted all the articles from his site, but also prevented the Wayback Machine from preserving copies of them.

Byuu, please don't do this! You've spent your life making sure old video games are preserved for future generations! The Internet Archive should be allowed to preserve your work as well.
I doubt it would have gotten announced w/o the approval of their giant army of lawyers.
Ask HN: Why was Meetup.com allowed to trademark the word “meetup”?
There are numerous examples of companies such as Hotels.com that tried to trademark their domain name, and were unsuccessful.

Why is Meetup.com allowed to have ownership rights of a very common English word that simply describes the service they provide?

According to Meetup.com's trademark guidelines, 'The word "Meetup" and the other Meetup Marks, such as our Logos, designs, slogans and names are registered trademarks or trademarks of Meetup, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.'

IANAL, but to me, this seems highly anti-competitive because it suggests they could sue anyone who uses the word "meetup" to describe a... meetup. Or sue a competitor that called themselves "FantasticMeetups.com" for example.

See:

1. http://www.mbbp.com/news/generic-trademark

2. https://help.meetup.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001655932-Meetup-Trademark-Guidelines
> my private FB messages are one of the most sensitive data streams, period.

So you are still trusting FB with your most sensitive data.

The mind boggles at the sheer lack of self-respect from FB users.

Sorry but I have no sympathy for those who are handing over their data to FB and then bitching about FB abusing it.

To me, all FB users are like Trump supporters - they continue to support him even after all that has happened in last 4 years. FB users keep using it even after FB is abusing their data from the day ut started
The correct response is to tell the customer that it has been deleted from the main server, and that it MAY be recoverable with escalation to the dev team. Why would you even consider telling them anything else, if that is not the truth?
Well every book I did a report on in highschool was either provided by the school or taken out from the library. If it was a book the entire class was expected to do, we would be provided copies. If we got to choose it was up to us to get them. I was poor and couldn't buy books for school. The library always worked for me. I did alright.
Its funny how the article keeps repeating “people had to explicitly sign in” to give access. Well that should not be enough let 3rd party apps read my messages.
When should you start meeting with developers? Show don’t tell
That the voxels are each a solid color and are expected to be displayed at between 1x1 and 4x4 screen pixels per voxel. Definitely not minecraft-style, for example.
Vancouver / Canada and Toronto / Canada for senior software engineers who have been in the company for a long time.

Entry Senior would be around 120k base in a good company, yearly raises will get you there.

P.S: Talking in CAD not USD.
that's exactly correct. YOu only need to make a hard drive once and it's good for tons of computation. Not so with DNA.
Oh cool! Thanks! Yeah, I think I need to make that more clear. Do you think having a 30 second explainer video would help?
I'm curious what percentage of costs were covered by insurance. I recently had some genetic testing done and they were pretty open that they charge one lower price if I paid out of pocket and another higher price if insurance covered it. My hunch is that some of the price variation is just from providers magically increasing prices to match whatever the insurer is willing to pay.
Yes, but YouTube is being absolutely overzealous for no legal reason. Rather, I think it serves the double purpose of keeping the government (and regulation) very far away, while pandering to big content producers at the same time.
We banned leaded fuel instead of taxing it, and it worked pretty well. Even if there’s a lot of loopholes, you can still cut most of the pollution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_generator
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Poor, ancient VBScript! Oh, how you would benefit from Raymond Chen's time machine...
Water became a product via added plastic
Can confirm and the upside is that cost of living is still manageable.
Tumblr's Porn Filter Flags Its Own Examples of 'Permitted' Nudity
You're probably thinking about Yahoo Pipes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes
I've pointed out in the past that the Anglosphere drinks coffee and tea, while the rest of the world takes naps and siestas and so on. Protestant work ethic cultural imperialism!
Ah the inevitable, "it's all Google's fault" reply.
You mean O(2), which is isomorphic to U(1). O(1) is a discrete group.

You're mistaken that the existence of this U(1) is the reason that charge is conserved. The U(1) you're talking about is the group of units of the complex numbers. It acts trivially in all quantum mechanical calculations, essentially because quantum mechanical states are actually rays in a Hilbert space.

There is a different U(1) which is related to charge conservation. It appears in models where one can defined a charge, and acts via $e^{iq}$ on the subspace of states of charge $q$. Note that the action of this group on Hilbert space is non-trivial! It acts differently on different subspaces. In models where this group is a symmetry, by definition, time evolution doesn't alter the charge eigenstates, hence charge is conserved.
Okay, but once there are competing possible uses of "extra" electricity, it's going to have a price, and if the price is high enough, then high energy losses will result in some of the alternatives being uneconomical.

I think it's going to be hard to pick winners, even if you do some of the math.
Yes, it is called the "chargemaster":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18722182
So he robbed his client, not his employer.
The rightsholders still have to be proactive about marketing to maintain the popularity of the work and hire lawyers for enforcement. There's a lot of copyrighted work from the late 20th century on YouTube where apparently nobody is doing the work on either front because the videos have been up for years and have like 900 views. But I guess if something suddenly became a cult hit, it could be worthwhile to sue whoever instigated/profited from it.

Unfortunately the rightsholders tend to be publishing companies, not the kids, so the kids would still only get pennies on the dollar in royalties, if that. And technology is gradually making it easier for publishers to enforce their "rights" on even the stupidest, least popular works.
Few Questions:

* Who's https://twitter.com/ephtracy? Why did you create this? How are you using it this days? Are you making any games with this?

* How do you produce images like this? [1] Is the Ray Tracer to do that built in or do you have to import the models in a second software?

* What kind of support is there for the vox file format? (where/how to render outside the app).

1: http://ephtracy.github.io/image/snap2016-07-02-17-16-08.png

2: https://github.com/ephtracy/voxel-model
PS of course, in order to pad, you don't need to transform (copy into a new, wider array) - you can use the wider array in the first place.
In California the cheapest plan is about $450/month from the Obamacare marketplace, so I'm not sure $1000/month is going to be that outstanding. And as I understand it, $450/month is about the minimum a plan can cost, since Obamacare outlawed the old high-deductible catastrophic insurance.

Also, I doubt that the average family has $12,0000 of medical bills a year, and would be better off paying out of pocket except for that fact that bills can be randomly expensive.
Eurgh, you've just put another blemish on this world's karma with that sad affair of manipulating structured data as indiscriminate mess of letters. If keys in your input contain dots, what will grep and awk do to help you out?

Meanwhile, the JQ tool could do your greppings and awkings but preserving and perusing the structure of the document notwithstanding its idiosyncrasies.

(A possible problem with JQ, though, is that it may be difficult to query a structure which varies, i.e. use entries on a nesting level that isn't known in advance.)
These procedures don't actually cost as much as they're billing. The amount becomes much lower when you can collectively negotiate.
In India, people may prefer to get these delivered at work. For those who give their home address but aren't available there, usually what happens is that the delivery/courier person calls the recipient and figures out what to do (come back later or hand it over to building security or leave it with a neighbor, etc.). In some cases, the courier delivery person may not call, and then the package may just go back to the sender, involving lengthy processes to get it shipped back.
The problem is we collectively employ the logic of "punish them or subsidize them with bail outs". A free market, without a lender of last resort or FDIC, will effectively punish those responsible for financial crises.
This sort of reads like an advertisement.

>Using a standard sized fuel tank, the Electriq system would, according to modeling, cost less than half the equivalent gasoline price to fill up, and it would deliver around twice the range, while being completely emissions-free – at least, back to the fuel production plant.

Huge if true, but I'd like to see their methods.
Looks like you know for a fact that an App on Android is somehow granted more permission compared to the same App in ios - without users knowing it.

Care to prove your blatant lie with some evidence, or you are just going to bash Google/Android because it's the thing to do on HN?
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"The value users get from Facebook is almost totally unrelated to profits generated, and therefore to the stock price."

They are definitely related.

FB creates some kind of value - some goes to them in terms of profit, some goes to the user in consumer surplus.

As FB shows more ads, the consumer surplus goes down.

Obviously corps are the one paying, but value to consumers does matter.
I should have been more clear: not language choice, but since it is distributed computing, I figured, perhaps incorrectly, that using one of these OTP/Beam languages would help with fault tolerance, and more efficient distribution across the peer-to-peer system. I am not a distributed computing expert, so my question was to gain an understanding, and your remark will spark me to look into this. Thanks.
I'm many US states, loss of flexibility is the likely outcome. For example, in California you cannot pay someone for a shift lasting less than two hours. You can send them home if there's no work, but you still owe them at least two, if not four hours worth of pay. So if a driver wants to knock out a few trips while he/she has some time to kill, that would functionally be illegal due to the cost burden. Current employment law assumes scheduled shifts, so the "drive when you want" option would likely fall apart when Uber is given the legal right to dictate that X number of drivers will be working peak hours.
I have delivered thousands of packages through the Amazon Flex program; I am quite well-versed in their policies. There is no such incentive policy to return undeliverable packages as he claims. If you are out making deliveries, and you can’t deliver a package for whatever reason, you mark it as undeliverable in the app and return it to the station after your route is complete. That’s just part of the gig. It sucks because you might have to go out of your way to bring back the packages to the station (using your own gas and time), so the real incentive is to deliver the package, even if it’s risky.

This guy is just a lying thief. There is no such program.

Edit: I should add that Amazon keeps track of your delivery metrics, including the percent that are undelivered/late/reported missing (DNR, did not receive)/etc. If you drop below some threshold you get kicked off the app. You get a weekly email with a summary of your stats. I think I had a couple DNRs out of the thousands of things I delivered, and was paranoid they were going to kick me off for them.
I've heard an argument it's more about Winnie-the-Pooh.

There's definitely a market for books, cartoons and merchandise directly adapted from Milne's original book, especially if they're cheaper than Disney's material.
I gave a social network all my private information and am now shocked they’ve been using it in social ways. —Every Facebook user ever
Feminism’s Dependency Trap
I started using Go in 2008, but I get your point.

Still, I think my and my parent's point is that: it would have been better if they'd just said nothing.
Small town?
Yes. Roads widened -> traffic increased.

Also: when you drive, you probably schedule a bunch of errands to do on the one trip. Soon, you mightn't bother arranging to avoid this bother. Corollary: Then, why collocate businesses? This could be the beginning of the end of the mall.
It's worth reading.

"But, while I remain less than 100% satisfied about “why the complex numbers? why not just the reals?,” there’s one conclusion that my recent circling-back to these questions has made me fully confident about. Namely: quantum mechanics over the quaternions is a flaming garbage fire, which would’ve been rejected at an extremely early stage of God and the angels’ deliberations about how to construct our universe."
> As the recession deepens

Deepens? We're not in a recession, and we haven't been for nearly a decade.

It's true that, by historical standards, we're arguably overdue for a recession, but the word "recession" is precisely defined, and the US unambiguously does not meet the criteria for being in one.
If energy is free or nearly free and it’s being wasted currently, then how much does the efficiency really matter?
It keeps going

* hard -> firm -> soft -> wet ware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetware_(brain)

Although this one is usually just referred to as the "user" ;)
Bogner Ecstasy Red and Blue pedals, which aim to duplicate the Red and Blue channels (and the various sub-modes) of the corresponding amps, and do a pretty good job.
Agree your point.
thanks
You make it sound irrational or somehow wrong. When driving on public roads I give up a lot of liberty -- hundreds of rules, fees, mandatory insurance but it's well worth it. Not just because driving itself provides a lot of value but because driving is better for everyone, and in particular me being part of that everyone, with less freedom.

Even in the extreme case like HOAs that enforce lawn height requirements. Yes it's a little insane but it's what keeps the neighborhood valuable and your property value appreciating.

The average person is pretty darn rational. Who wouldn't trade away liberty if they're better off having done so?