skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a very similar idea, except the machine you're referring to here is your phone. Once you restrict yourself to text and low-res pictures, your phone can be your server.

A single app would let you edit your profile and post items to a feed. This includes a web server. You can also use it to view friends' profiles and chronological updates from their feeds. All data lives on your phone, fetching updates happens by one phone connecting to another phone.

Downsides are that it probably needs some kind of centralized discoverability/listing. Bandwidth would be a problem for folks on crappy data plans, but maybe not so much - you're only serving text and low-res pictures to several dozen people. You can also do stuff like waiting to respond to requests when the phone goes on wifi.
GUTS Tickets powers “largest-ever Blockchain ticket sale to date”
You're forgetting the object is 3-D so it needs a much bigger picture (3282.8 degrees?), a firmness rating, a yet-to-be invented smell-o-vision attribute AND a complete update every hour.
This is also an area that is of great interest to me. I've been saying for the last couple years that the only way out of this mess is for "Can't be evil" to replace "Don't be evil".
Microsoft exec boasts Google developers using VS Code
Thank you for providing these links. I've been looking for an alternative to VBox for quite some time (I don't like anything that Oracle touches, as Oracle is a law firm with a tech problem); these help.
Kotlin for me too. It’s like the pinched the cool bits from other languages to boost java. Plus the power of java ecosystem. The tooling is amazing because obviously it’s Jetbrains’ baby. Gradle are on board as are the android team. Spring boot lot are going for it. It stands a good chance of getting a lot more mindshare than it has currently
What Is Emergence?
The question is: is the fabric of the Internet breathable?
Record API calls in the AWS Console
I've been interested in learning sales. Very cool to find a bootcamp for it. I'd be interested in taking this coarse if I could pay upfront instead of paying 10% of my income. Is there an option for this or will there be?
I haven't been to Whole Foods much in the last few years, but their produce used to be at least as good as other supermarkets, and usually better. What are you comparing it to? Have you noticed the quality go down over time, or have you always had issues with the produce? I agree though, their prices aren't great, and their store brand/off-brand items are often sub par.
expectation != intention
At the time of their development there were not many best practices yet. Microsoft promised a version 4.0 and in the process morphed that development into Asp .Net instead.
I have used recruiters on almost every job I have worked. I find it is easier if they have an existing relationship with the company and management. They can provide you with a better idea of what the people are like at the company in some cases.
We’ve had amazon orders where we specified they should ask about a replacement. They sent an in app message without notification asking if some not very related item was a good replacement. Less than 30 seconds later, the order was closed and sent out for delivery. Happened with 3+ out of stock items. To amazons credit we said we didn’t approve those replacements and they gave them to us for free.
Most scientific methodology tries very hard to exclude subjective experience by design. Well, if you do that then of course there will be a lack of evidence for subjective phenomena!

Just in case you're tempted to downplay science's blind spot here, consider that this also means science has next to nothing to say about 99+% of your life.

If you take a reductionist stance in this domain you actually have to philosophically ground it in a way that you don't have to worry about too much in other fields of study. Otherwise you'll end up with an embarrassing phlogistic theory of consciousness.
Jeff Dean didn't have a demonstrable expertise in AI before heading Google AI.
I think there's also a bug where the numbers don't account for "among those who mentioned [category]."
Duplicate post, originally posted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18721857
> What was the permission dialog like, really? Does anyone have a source for this?

There have been studies on Facebook's permission dialog and its lack of usability, and it's hard to escape the conclusion that it was deliberately designed to make it hard for users to understand. It has been improved several times over the years.

For example http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.183.... (from 2010) which discusses how permissions dialogs are not designed in a way that allows users to easily understand permissions (using Facebook as one example) https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2078843 (from 2011) which found that Facebook users were unaware of the extent of 3rd party apps' data access even after viewing the permissions screen.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/techftc/2015/05/usabil... discusses usability concerns around permissions dialog boxes in general so it's been on peoples' radar for a while as an issue.
You can configure it to use crypto that is ok (and then use it to sign software packages or encrypt backups, like I wrote above, especially when interaction with gpg is done by scripts, not manually by humans, and key distribution is out of band and PFS is not needed).

For back and forth messages between two or more people, lack of forward secrecy is a problem, integration with the email program is a problem, email metadata is a problem (not just to and from but also the subject line), teaching your confederates to not reply in the clear quoting the entire decrypted message you sent is a problem, etc.

Security practitioners basically believe email cannot be saved, it cannot be used securely by regular people and its only use is to bootstrap something else.
Re: point 3, I was reading Kevin Murphy's book on Machine Learning recently and in it he says that roughly 20% of Google search queries that come in everyday have never been seen before. Reminds me of that report about Russian election interference campaigns that included the tidbit about Google being able to pinpoint the exact search queries that members of some GRU unit (Fancy Bear, maybe? idk) made.
From what I've heard it is much harder at Apple to use your user data non-anonymized i.e they focus more on Privacy vs Google, Amazon etc where any team can use your data to do experiments and run A/B tests, ultimately what this means is that the quality of AI will be poorer. Developers of the $30 Google Home puck uses your data without thinking of the privacy consequences (internal bad actor), and hence is way better. This is what I've heard from developers/spokespeople of Apple. Has anyone else heard the same excuse ?
You're saying that Jesse Eisenberg matching the mannerisms and manner of speaking is a good way to determine how smart Mark Zuckerberg is?
Gatwick Airport closed for 24 hours now as drones keep breaking perimeter
> then that's their duty, so yes, face the fine, take it to the Supreme Court

No, it's definitely not. What's with the hyperbole? Do you consider every single person and company in the US unpatriotic and unethical then because these sanctions exist?

We need less corporate involvement in politics. If you don't like the laws then you are free and welcome to participate in the government to change them but expecting a private company to go to the Supreme Court (!) over sanctions is just ridiculous.
We don't really know that BC the OP doesn't say whether or not he / she makes it to the onsite or how he / she did on code challenges, technical questions, etc. We only know that "take home project was good." If the rejection came right after the take home project, I would be inclined to say it was not good enough. But again, we don't know if there was an onsite, and if so, how did that go?

These kinds of posts can't really be objectively answered anyway. It's just someone blowing off steam and wanting to he heard.
Hi,

I just went through the same process - moving to London from New Zealand. I found that I had the most success when I directly applied to companies that I had a very very close fit with, rather than the more generic jobs. My feeling for more general jobs was that the companies weren't really interested in putting the time in if they couldn't meet me in person - but for jobs where I was a good fit they went out of their way to make it easy for me to interview.

I would recommend just picking a random company and putting some effort into an application for them, then rinse and repeat.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18723091
This is really awesome, thank you for doing this!
> For example, the 8 quarks correspond to 8 lie algebra elements of SU(3).

Um, what? Last I checked, there are 6 quarks, not 8.
What would be a good use case for diskless computing? RAM is very expensive even when compared with top of line NVME SSD drives.
Well, I don't speak Greek and understand the historical meaning of Greek terms even less, but I think Jaynes' thesis is that every term we now associate with the mind and with inner emotions was meant in the Illiad to be more like a physical or even an external command of "the Gods" (see his discussion of psyche and thumos).

That is, while it's now obvious to us these were emotions, the authors of the Illiad didn't perceive them as such -- or so I understand Jaynes argued -- and instead they thought they were either physical things (much like a stomach ache) or a command of "the Gods".

If you speak Greek, what's the exact term for "rage" as written in the Illiad?

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edit: ok, found it. Jaynes claims this:

"Even the poem itself is not wrought by men in our sense. Its first three words are Menin aedie Thea, 'Of wrath sing, O Goddess!' And the entire epic which follows is the song of the goddess which the entranced bard 'heard' and chanted to his iron-age listeners among the ruins of Agamemnon's world."

I find it a bit disappointing because even if the singer didn't ascribe feelings to men, he must at least understand the meaning of "wrath" itself. And it seems to me it must be hard to understand this emotion unless you can feel it.
The problem with Uncle Pearl and Grandma Bob is that you're trying to deliver advanced features AND ease of use. That does require large centralized apps such as facebook.

If you ditch either of those requirements, you can probably deliver a solid product.
I am not convinced of anything.

The risk of the throw away device uploading my audio is significantly lower than a device powered in my home, with dedicated fast internet.
When were you born? I'm not trying to be insulting or snarky, it's just that this state of mind is so different from mine and I'm curious. I think even a lot of people who lived before smartphones and home computers have forgotten what it's like.
Tens of thousands of passengers stranded by Gatwick airport drones
I would highly recommend reading the short book The Coaching Habit. The seven questions and their discussion have been instrumental in improving the 1 on 1s I have with my team of developers.
Or use a cell phone radio and send data over the internet.
> A free market police system cannot work, because the police use force against people, which is not allowed by the free market.

The "free market" (in a libertarian sense) does not permit the initiation of force against people who have not resorted to force themselves. If that is a significant restriction on your police department's activities then there is something seriously wrong with your police department.

> Worse, the police aren't going to arrest people who pay them.

If they aren't willing to arrest anyone who pays them then no one will bother to pay them. Resolving disputes between two paying customers is part of their job description, and they won't retain customers if they're seen as biased or corrupt.
Not true in other countries.
CompuServe had internet?

(72167,3530 here!)
Ask HN: Are There GPL-Like Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, etc for Webapps?
If I wanted to release a software package, I can use the MIT/BSD/GPL/some FLOSS license with a strong warranty disclaimer in it to cover my butt from legal problems. Is there a similar solution for web applications? It seems that as soon as I accept any data from the user I have to worry about data security regulations, privacy laws like CA's Consumer Privacy Act or GPDR in europe, child protection laws like COPPA, DMCA if I want user submitted content, etc. etc.

I'm not going to have a lawyer draft legal documents for each side project I want to put up. Googling shows a bunch of options, I can't tell which templates are any good for protecting me against liability. My greatest fear is some legal troll taking everything I own because of some side project. Any thoughts/advice?
Yes, there is currently a $5k upfront option. Most of our graduates earn 2x their current income in their new tech sales roles (>$75k or more) in year 1.

We charge a fraction of what comparable intense, live coding bootcamps charge. There are apprenticeship options for sales, but real training there is minimal, and you're not learning from experts, or able to fail safely. In many respects they're glorified staffing companies.

Sales reps are amongst the best paid in tech. Investing in the training to be the best is what we focus on.
It's not the 2nd worst in the world, it's not behind Italy, and it's below historic highs.
As far as I could understand by talking with other women they can feel when other men look at them in “that” way, and they can feel if they should be frightened or not, and that “way” can look the more frightening the more those men haven’t had regular and normal interactions with women, no matter those men’s religion, that’s what my friend was afraid about. And yes, men that don’t have frequent and especially normal interactions with women do look more frightening to women, and it so happens that certain religions do impose (for whatever reasons) that men and women should live almost separate lives.
Association of Autonomous Astronauts
No one here has mentioned Solid yet, which I find odd given the topic and the volume of replies. It has some technical problems still (like 500 friends of friends requiring 500 separate http requests) but it really promises to solve what the author is complaining about. I was skeptical of TBL after the DRM debacle but he really does seem to be trying to do right with this proposal and I wish more people would pay attention.
If they said that, lawmakers would need to deal with the problem, and Facebook would be out of their revenue stream.
Off topic question: is there a word or phrase for this conversation?

Something to describe arguing about the issue at hand completely through the metaphor and not directly referring to the issue at hand.
Wow this is sick! Excited to give it a try. Why don't more people know about y'all?
Amazon’s grovery deliveries use far too much plastic for my taste. Every onion, green pepper, etc is wrapped in its own thing, and then the bag has some keep-cool-foam that I’m sure doesn’t recycle.
Slack doesn't really offer much more than could be offered over existing IRC with an updated client and some bots on a network.
I actually think if you said "closest" or "nearest" and Siri just gives you a list, then Siri has missed out on useful information. You can also say "Nearby McDonald's" to Google and get a list, versus "Go to the nearest McDonalds" and you'll get navigation.

There are all sorts of ways to handle this request, but Siri's is the laziest, and in doing so asks more of the user's attention. If you just say "McDonalds" to either voice assistant, you also get a list. From that perspective, it's as if Siri ignores any information that might be gleaned from the rest of your sentence.

Siri learns from us but we also learn from Siri, and we might find that some words don't matter. You mind as well just say "McDonalds" if Siri is going to ignore the rest.
It’s very much a smear campaign. This is a common tactic that their detractors use to great effect. It was also used to get Damore fired from Google. A lot of outrage and false headlines, not many people actually reading the document that he wrote. They tried to get everyone to make up their mind that he was an evil to be destroyed before even listening to or engaging his ideas.
Steve was not thinking this through. I can batch compress chunks of audio and lazy upload them when I think nobody is around. A listening device could probably even guess when you are not going to be using your internet connection.
Hopefully very little! With work on a windows port, os x support, and emerging encryption support - we might finally have a modern, nice, solid cross platform read-write-safe fs beyond fat32!

Encryption support should be on 0.8 (next) release:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/milestone/12
Having recently discovered Adam Curtis (from other HN posts), I'd highly recommend watching his documentaries. All of them. Absolutely riveting stuff.

HyperNormalization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh2cDKyFdyU

Bitter Lake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRbq63r7rys

The Trap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y97Ywl7RtUw&list=PLsGiHTmHVD...

The Power of Nightmares: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTg4qnyUGxg&list=PLtPP_-rkrT...

The Mayfair Set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuqYbohCLFM&list=PLtPP_-rkrT...

The Century of the Self: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s
Amazon is integrating with WF inventory systems so that information should be real time soon.
And for the privilege of providing Amazon with all that data about you in exchange for the best discount, you get to pay them $120/year.
Rather than thinking like a train company, wondering how to protect or move the tracks, what if they thought like a transportation company, and figured out how to move the same and projected number of people?

Although if climate inaction generally prevails, eventually the area won't be viable for that many people to live, work and commute. Problem solved.
>It's just unbelievable to me that the company sitting on a quarter trillion dollars is unwilling to spend a small fraction of that hoard to hire the best of the best

Their current B people do hire the best of the best ... of B people. It like my current BigCo (we are straight C people) feels no talent shortage even right now in the Bay Area while also supposedly hiring only the best people - there is no shortage of C people. We enjoy our work/life balance while of course we can't even dream of producing anything even just slightly resembling Siri.
This example took a life of its own.

Just wanted to clarify an irrelevant point to this discussion - Length of the pregnancy isn't 9 months.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777570/
I use and love Universe regularly, thanks Joe!
sure, bitlocker is a major pain on my dual boot device.

But isn't that IMPROVED by open sourcing the implementation? It exposes that kind of stupid behavior, and for the implementation to be useful, that stuff can't be in there anyway. Maybe I'm completely misunderstanding what's being open sourced?
> existing hardware random number generator chips -- which are available on the market for tens of cents

Bit of a tangent but do you have any particular devices in mind? I did a cursory search, and found only Microchip (nee Atmel) ATSHA204A and the related family of products, but those are full-blown fat crypto processors. Are there some cheaper/simpler plain TRNG chips available somewhere?
#1 is solvable through dynamic pricing. Why do you need to pick out your pieces of produce individually? You're assessing the quality, using your human senses. We just need quantitative measures of quality (high, medium, low) and discount the lower quality produce.
I was curious what the number would be for Washington, DC, but it seems that the scraper couldn't distinguish between DC and Washington state.
From the Hyperlink to the Stream: Hossein Derakshan’s Critique of the Internet
This makes it to the top 3 most interesting news of the year for me. Someone has been able to fly some kind of heavy duty drone over the runway for 24 hours now. They called in the army but not only they can't arrest him, they are unable to stop those incursions too.

He must be flying from several kilometers away and the airport is already expecting disruptions most of tomorrow, so I would argue they already tried a GPS/ISM jammer and it must have been ineffective. Is this guy using some kind of inertial navigation system?

So basically a skilled someone managed to destroy the holidays of hundreds of thousands of people.
I would not be surprised to find out that Amazon's interest in purchasing WF was to make it a platform for financial engineering on expirable products.
Hey, I know where that's coming from!

Awhile ago I was digging through Pinterest on topics related to blogging, finance, online business, etc.

A lot of these pins target millennials and moms (wow, especially moms).

The point of most of these sites is affiliate marketing; they've got deals with hostgator, bluehost, godaddy, whatever, and get kickbacks when users sign up.

So all these pinboardss about blogs about blogging advocate for the VPS route because it's how they make cash.
China hacked HPE, IBM and then attacked clients – sources
I think there was a platform several years ago - maybe App.Net - that tried this but had to eventually close. Perhaps the climate nowadays might be more suited to support a pay model? Small though it might be, I'm sure there would be a portion of the population that would pay for this. The trick is in the marketing and in triggering the network effect.
The Road to Tannu Tuva(from episilontheory dot com)
Getting the wire through isn't the problem, it's controlling it afterward. Not surprisingly, the 90 minute video you linked didn't find time to show that part.
I posted in r/GEB asking about the book and he just offered to send me a copy. It was surreal and beyond inspiring.
Yes that's totally wrong. The OSMF (now) has about 1,000 members, and OpenStreetMap has ~4,200,000 registered accounts.
> If by consciousness you mean what everybody means by consciousness there are no well-founded claims about it because it's not observable.

It is observable, but not externally verifiable; it literally encompasses the entirety of the category of things for which that is true.
I wrote this a little bit ago:

https://austingwalters.com/the-last-free-generation/

It's amazing to me that people are actively seeking to erode society as greatly as they are. The fact is, it's not better to have these systems long term. So what if it saves you even 10 minutes a day (which I highly doubt), if eventually someone comes to power that will decide to kill you and your families based on your prior beliefs.

Today we are seeing a more subtle manipulation of politics using all the data these large companies collect. I can't imagine what would happen if there was a concerted effort to "weed out" bad eggs.
Fortnite keeps stealing dances – and no one knows if it’s illegal
Same kind of issue for us Canadians. Search for remote: "remote us only"
Musings from the 2nd Annual MolochON