skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read your Medium post and was curious what you would think about Memrey https://www.memrey.com

With Memrey we offer our users 256 bit AES encryption. If a user encrypts their notepad not even we can decrypt the users data.

Also we plan to integrate PDF backups emailed to you on a monthly basis. Right now you can download a PDF backup of any notepad, but automatically emailing it every month would be a nice way of having it be worry free.

If you get a chance I would be curious to know if you think Memrey would solve your issues? It is one of the most advanced notebook products on the market.
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Bringing balance to the universe
Battery performance also degrades on time and in rare cases your car can go up flames. A tank stays a tank, you only replace the fuel. If the fuel is compressed hydrogen you're essentially transporting a bomb in the car. Hydrogen also burns with an invisible flame which makes matters worse. If this stuff really exists and is not flamable, then it has some advantages over both batteries and compressed hydrogen.
Laws made and lobbied to _ensure_ that the health tycoons can't be challenged and remain on top of the hill, crapping on all below.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/31/17629526/m...
Don't do that. The behavior is explicitly undefined in C. http://c-faq.com/expr/seqpoints.html
zlibWrapper seems useful if you're specifically using the low level zlib APIs already and don't want to change your code very much. But if you just use zopen() or similar, or are willing to make minor changes, I don't see much benefit.
(Especially given the performance gap vs native zstd APIs).

I have seen some fopencookie(3)-based zstd/zlib/xz/etc FILE-object wrappers floating around that make it pretty easy to work with any compression library's streaming APIs.
New redux-lightweight library to reduce redux boilerplate
My best guess is the package is buried in the truck and don't feel like digging it out.
https://outline.com/3rRR6K
> I would argue that it should only apply to businesses and inheritors, so that an author could still behest his IP as a worthy inheritance.

I see that I didn't write clearly what I meant to write, which was 35 years after the original copyright-holder's death.

> After all, it wouldn't be fair to tell a company they have to find an extra $22b per year from next January.

Copyright laws have already been changed with retroactive effect, so it's not as though any troublesome precedent would be set in that area.
A common sense
Would it shock you to find out that Cobol developers make almost as much as Java developers? And I'm pretty sure they don't need to constantly learn a new version of the language every few years.
Kalaari and Unilever Gets Shop101 a Top Up of $11 Mn
> This stuff is almost 100 years old. It was written for a society very different from our own.

Different, yet still the same in many important ways. If this means great things like Harold Lloyd's seminal comedy Safety Last! will now be freely available, we've all won something...
Bertelsmann India invests $14 in logistics aggregator LetsTransport
It’s time to take Dogecoin seriously
> while never leaving Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_May)

Hmm. The wikipedia article you linked describes him traveling to Sumatra, Egypt and North America.
I don't quite understand how that suggestion translates to a useful metric in terms of what is a reasonable estimate of the "real" market value of Facebook inc. is, though? (insofar as we can of course talk about "real" values).

This was not an investigation into "how much do you need to pay people to quit" (if it was, their methodology would have been _highly_ flawed).
It could happen but is so unlikely as to be not worth considering.
The neat little graph showing the rise in global yearly investments up to 2040 is amusing. Nassim Taleb has made me very wary of these things.

what's even the calculation behind a projection like that, it even has a little spike in 2035!
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> Hospitals are required to treat the uninsured

This is actually only a half truth. Emergency rooms are required to treat patients who need emergency care. They don't need to fix all ailments. If you have cancer they can turn you away, but if your organs are failing as the result of cancer they have to treat you. If you need a heart surgery they can turn you away, but if you're having a heart attack they need to treat you. For the most part, treatment is pretty much just making sure you're stable and can leave the hospital without immediately dying. This only applies to emergency rooms as well. Where you go to get surgeries is usually not the same place you go to treat an emergency condition. It might be affiliated with the same hospital, and might be attached to the emergency room, but it isn't itself an emergency room.
> Maybe it's just me, but "general purpose artificial intelligence system" sounds like, well, General Artificial Intelligence.

Well, it doesn't sound like that at all to me and I think the phrasing is fair. Also, it folds proteins.
"Why are amplitudes complex?" and "why should amplitudes have been complex numbers?" are not the same question as "Why do we choose to use complex numbers in our description of the universe?". Aaronson is using "amplitude" to refer to things out there in the external world. He explicitly refers to other ways the universe could have been: "quaternionic QM [i.e., QM with quaternion amplitudes] allows superluminal signaling".

I don't know what to tell you except to read more carefully. It's philosophy of physics.
This is an example of the Nirvana Fallacy: it's not perfect, so it's worthless.

The argument is only ever between better or worse, not perfection and nothingness.
How are these differences? You can do this in either case.
Yep, this is a common complaint and it's starting to be addressed. An example is Lexus have introduced Lexus Plus which is a program that offers zero negotiation and a single point of contact. Problem is there's a non-significant portion of the customer base that wants to negotiate and enjoys the experience of going around between different people in a dealership. For a big purchase like a car they want to feel like they're being given options and a say in the price. Retaining the experience they enjoy, but providing the opposite for others is a challenge.
If only they had a ball-pit to offer us extra time in as well!

Very glad I left Robinhood months ago after reddit posts showed how horrible their risk management policies were.

I wouldn't trust them with my money and their platform is no longer the most convenient for me.
I am probably the last person but I do everything in asp classic vbscript and SQL Server full time since 1998.

Internet development can't just be for people with expensive cs degrees.
> quite rationally and of their own free will

Is this the magic phrase that means "free market" to you? Because the word "free" is in it?

We could say that the USSR, quite rationally and of its own free will, sent millions to the gulags and forced labor camps to create widgets. Cute, right? Hey, they did it quite rationally (after all, the labor is way cheaper when you're using prison camps) and of their own free will, therefore it's the free market!
I've had different experiences from you. My experience in the UK was wait 90 minutes in a waiting room and when it was finally close to my turn I was told I could only see a nurse and she wasn't allowed to proscribe any medicine so if I wanted to see a doctor I should go down the street to the private doctor. This was in London near Soho.

In Japan the first time I went to a doctor it was for stomach pain. He gave me on ultrasound and declared I had hepatitis. My personel department at my company decided to take me to another doctor. Had to weight 2.5 hours in a room with around 250 other sick people. Was finally told I had food poisoning.

I am not defending the USA system but both the UK system and the Japanese system have issues as well. I've spent the most time in the Japanese system. What I like is it's easy to see a doctor and relatively cheap. Prices are apparently set by the government. Conversely a large percentage of Japanese doctors are quacks and would be unqualified to practice in the USA. It's a common topic of conversation for foreigners here to tell their horror stories of all the crazy experiences they've had with doctors here. Also, top doctors, or rather surgeons are known to require bribes in the $XXXX-$XXXXX range beyond the decided on fees.
It is distopian for there to be bait packages that help catch thieves?
H1Bs don’t work at startups. They work at BigCo doing Boring Stuff.
There’s also other things that tie into this like knowing what to want. Many people will find that most of the things they think they want do not bring them happiness once they have them. They had some work left to do on solving for the denominator as well
Research can tell you current effort fall far short. Research can tell you current efforts are moving incrementally towards the goal, even. But research won't you when something we don't understand will happen. "A long time" but overall, it seems like the kind of situation where probably as such isn't particularly applicable.
I am an Indian, living in US for the last 8 years, my I-140 was approved 7 years ago and I am at least another 10 years away from my green card. I don't to be working on H1B for the next 10 years worrying about my immigration status.

I want to start my own company, I thought H4EAD would work out for me to do my startup. But for the last 2 years I could not risk move into H4EAD because the administration keeps saying they will cancel it "soon".

I am looking to move to Canada in 2019 (scheduled my IELTS and getting educational credentials evaluated for applying for Canadian PR). I love living in the bay area, but unfortunately things are not working out for us.

Thanks to the economic boom, the money I saved up over these years should help our family settle down in Canada when we move.
The EU claims that's not how it works. Everyone else claims that is how it works. It's highly unlikely that the EU will actually be able to enforce it globally.
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> use of cookies on and off Facebook

So an accidental interaction when trying to navigate away after seeing your cookie policy opts me into your cookie policy.

You bastards are full on assholes, huh?
You can check what permissions are granted to any app if your settings.
And if they don't comply, what then? None of the penalties can actually be enforced if they have no presence in Europe, unless the US decides to cooperate, which seems unlikely.
>> The US is doing great. The rest of the world not so much.

These are going to be famous last words. The US is going to be doing horribly over the next decade, precisely because of how "great" the last decade has been. If I borrowed (or pseudo-borrowed a.k.a "printed money" because of reserve currency status) a trillion dollars and enjoyed a commensurate lifestyle, neither my awesome lifestyle nor the fact that there have been a lot of suckers to sponsor it is any indication of what the future will hold.

Soon, US will not be able to borrow any more money and sustain its quality of life. Potential lenders will spurn them: "Why, so you can borrow the money to sponsor your lavish lifestyle, and then turn around and conduct trade wars and actual wars with us? No thank you!"

China will probably do worse, because its greatest borrower, and source of economic prosperity, is going to massively default.

In comparison, this correction will mean the rest of the world is probably going do better, unless they foolishly allow themselves to be dragged into a war which one of these countries will almost certainly start as a last resort to placate any internal discontent.
DragonflyBSD Hammer2 filesystem all of a sudden looks way more appealing.

Kind of ironic given DragonflyBSD roots in FreeBSD
My experience matches.

The lazy jerks running 6th and Market let one of the two elevators sit broken for months. Free 20 minute break mid-day to get downstairs and again to get back upstairs! Who doesn't want takeout to take over an hour every day! The wework folks renting 6 floors just acted like there was nothing at all they could do to get the building to have sufficient working elevators.

And the noise. Hard wood floors. No carpets. Glass walls. One woman wearing heels goes clack-clack-clack up and down the hall.

Bathrooms with no vent fans.

Running a remodel of the floor above us while we were supposed to be working in the office. So much noise you could feel the vibrations.

Same fight for phone rooms.

It was utterly awful. But hey, free beer!

We moved out when employees threatened to quit.
And there was an entire thread about how those regulated monopolies are not working well. In particular PG&E in California.

I think it was this one

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18690916
Bitcoin: Time Compression, Causation, and Feedback Loops
> If Slack has to comply with the export control law, they also need to comply with GDPR.

Slack is an American company, GDPR is a EU law and OP is Iranian. That’s not how this works... Sure companies that operate within the EU have created tools to export your data automatically (they still have contact points to request the same data if you don’t have an account or were banned so can’t use the automated tools) so they opened those tools up to everyone not just those within the EU. But that doesn’t mean you are covered by the EU law and can demand your data. Only thing I would suggest is to lookup the GDPR email for slack and manually request the data. Though I wouldn’t expect anything.

US companies are forbidden from doing business with Iran, US company discovered it was, closed down the account and refuses to continue that business relationship by handing over data.

So sounds like standard policy to me. It would be like me getting banned off a game because I broke TOS (because OP did break TOS, it’s pretty much boilerplate and they have experienced this before so it’s not like they were not aware) and getting pissed off that I can not access my chat history any longer.

OP was on borrowed time from the beginning.

Does it suck? Sure it does. But what else you going to expect? For them to explicitly break the law after they discovered they were already in violation and took the steps needed to come under compliance because you didn’t read ToS, or (with them admitting this isn’t the first time they have got dinged by this law, probably the more likely) wilfully choose to ignore them.
Probably because it's obvious to everyone in this instance that this is not a super powerful person.

Lots of people have a weak moral compass and get away with it. It comes down to power, not the weak moral compass.
The problem is not the data. The problem is the need for high quality data. Current ML is data driven statistical learning. ML tries to learn a model that describes the distribution. It's impossible to get similar performance as the best reference implementation (human brain) using this approach. https://i.redd.it/kvvgv6zzhtp11.png

Think of 16 year old human:

* it has received less than 400 million wakeful seconds of data + 100 millions seconds of sleep,

* it has made only few million high level cognitive decisions where feedback is important and delay is tens of second or several minutes (say few thousand per day). From just few million samples it has learned to behave in the society like a human and do human things.

* Assuming 50 ms learning rate at average, at the lowest level there is at most 10 billion iterations per neuron (Short-term synaptic plasticity acts on a timescale of tens of milliseconds to a few minutes.)

Humans generate very detailed model of their environment with very little data and even less feedback. They can learn complex concept from one example. For example you need only one example of pickpocket to understand the whole concept.
Yup, I think I covered that in the first sentence of the comment you are replying to.
That’s UPS, and more specifically the UPS driver who made that delivery. Our neighborhood is very safe, but has apparently been flagged as a “don’t leave packages” zone in UPS’ system. Our regular drivers know to leave them, but whenever we get a sub or a fill-in around the holidays, we have to deal with trying to convince them to just drop it at the door.
Just 6 months of walking may reverse cognitive decline, study says
The reason we don’t have universal healthcare is mostly racism and male supremacy. Racist white people dont want anyone with dark skin getting a “free ride”. And, supporters of patriarchy don’t want their stay-at-home wives to be able to get healthcare without going through them because it undermines the husband’s power and control. They will use the language of “personal responsibility” or “free markets” to describe it, but the same people who don’t want universal healthcare also wave confederate flags and think that a woman’s place is in the home.
You can make a lot of that back with the difference in efficiency between an internal combustion engine (theoretical max of 50%, and only under ideal conditions)
vs the efficiency of an electric motor (90% or better) and associated losses from the motor controller and the fuel cell.
> Did partners get access to messages?

> Yes.

(o_O;

...and every time I think FB can't get any worse, it does.

Serious Q: is there a way to find out what services I've ever authorized into using my Facebook account, and nuke those links/permissions? I haven't done that in years, but who knows how many of these there are still lying around.
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>Roads widened -> traffic increased.

This is only true when there is unmet demand. I have a lot of roads to show you in Western Nebraska that won’t get increased traffic no matter how big they get.
Public services are often incentivized to create more work to protect their jobs. Famous examples include whatever department was enforcing prohihbition in the 20s to find other things to prohibit when alcohol prohibition was repealed. In Japan it's common to see unneeded road work because if the entire budget it not spent it will be reduced.
If it's such a free market, I implore HNers to explain what it might take to start your own free market hospital in the United States. Let me know what regulations you'll need to meet. Compare to opening a cafe.

And I'm not saying a hospital or a cafe ought to be at all similar. That's not the point. The point is how odd it is to pretend that health care is a "free market" in the current state as some rhetorical device to associate these surprise fees with free markets.

At a cafe, you don't get charged for using a stirrer or spoon or napkins. A cafe doesn't charge you for sitting on a stool. Free market health care would operate in the same way, if it existed. You get charged for your operation, they don't add in fees for specific items that you needed that would reasonably be expected as part of the process (a Tylenol pill, using a tissue, the gloves your surgeon wore). And again, I'm not suggesting this is how it ought to be, but let's not be disingenuous and pretend that absurd, opaque prices are somehow a result of a free market.
> Like you write a simple looking query and it turns out to have O^2 complexity

Or you have a simple fast query with a lovely plan until the database engine decides that because you now have 75 records in the middle table instead of 74, the indexes are suddenly made of lava and now you're table-scanning the big tables and your plan looks like an eldritch horror.

[Not looking at MySQL in particular, oh no.]
Superman and Batman too are old enough to enter the PD, or at least the old comic books are.
I tried posting the very critical The Concourse article about this (https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/visionary-brain-genius-elo...) and it kept saying it was already posted even though there's no result for it. Does HN blacklist certain sites?
We still use it for a few services, like creating xml on our scanners that store who scanned a document so it can be automatically filed.

Moving data dumps onto and from SFTPs.

Emptying outlook mailboxes and storing their content so our SSIS/SSAS services can use it.

Stuff like that. We could use other things I suppose but, and it is slowly getting replaced, but VBScript is the only language everyone knows, from the IT technician to the developers and that had been really valuable to us.
This is just more NYT slander to finish off their biggest advertising rival. Nothing about this was out of the ordinary or hidden from the user. The next article will be the NYT saying Zuck broke the public’s trust because Facebook had this thing called an API which is totally evil and corrupt. It probably stands for Anti-Privacy Interface.
I think "a better set of inputs" is the real world or much better simulators to train our RL agents. François Chollet (author of Keras) was saying a similar thing - focusing too much on architectures and algorithms we forget the importance of the environment, an agent can only become as smart as the hardest problem it has to solve in its environment, and depends on the richness of said environment for learning. Humans are not general intelligences either, we're just good at being human (surviving in our environment). We'd be much smarter in a richer environment, too.

https://intelligence.org/2017/12/06/chollet/
I just wish the ZFS could be more tightly integrated into Linux than it can (due to licensing). Would be nice to not have two implementations of a crypto system, a raid parity computation system, block caching, allocation, etc. Oh well...
> I'd say SQL is easy in the same way that Git is easy: you can get away with using just 5% of it, but you'll still need to consult an expert to sort things out when things go sideways.

Mongo and Javascript don't solve that either. In fact you get additional problems by virtue of not being able to do a variety of joins. For extra points, you're going to need to go well beyond javascript with mongo if you want performance. 10gen invented this whole "aggregation framework" to sidestep the performance penalty that javascript brings to the table.

On the other side, the postgresql documentation is second to none. SQL isn't necessarily easy but the postgres documentation gives you an excellent starting point.
> DragonflyBSD Hammer2 filesystem all of a sudden looks way more appealing.

Why? Existing FreeBSD ZFS users can and in all probability will continue to use it. Why does a less mature FS on a less widely used BSD derivative suddenly look appealing to you?
But does it make sense to exclude coverage based on ability-to-pay or some other criteria?

Say, medical necessity and probable benefit?

We're a long way from those particular decision criteria, presently.
Similar logic also works the other way. If someone really offered all Facebook users $1000 to quit for a year, almost everyone would quit because even those who currently value it above $1000 know that it won't be worth that much after most of their network quits. The actual cost to get, say, 50% of users to quit is probably much less than $1000 apiece.