skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like AR would fit better inside of my company than VR. I imagine a day when we sit around a desk and create
"things" in a shared 3d space that we can all touch and interact with.

To be clear I am very much hoping AR can replace the white board.
This is not true for underwear and socks, which are replaced pretty regularly.
On a corporate network so it’s very likely the last option!
It's a tradeoff. I took a 11% paycut to become a 100% remote worker. Completely worth it for me. Microsoft likewise likely believes the loss of 12% of GitHub's revenue is worth it in exchange for advancing toward their bigger goals.
Wow. Since Microsoft bought them they’re doing a lot of really interesting things. If I was going to move my repos somewhere I’m not going to anymore.
This is great, I've been working on something that tries to do something similar among other things. ANSI's going to come back in a big way - I got a hunch!
ok... now bring us the Bugatti chiron!
You're not missing anything. The coins are literally worthless other than to those who trade them on crypto exchanges, to steal each other's lunch money. Plus, launching an attack isn't just a case of paying $30 per hour. You need to have a client able to perform whatever your aim is for the attack, which requires a level of coding knowledge. And dev's at that level of knowledge are probably earning real money for their time.
But it's very relevant. Steam provides a runtime so developers have a stable foundation across several distros.

If you fail to use their runtime properly, you're doomed to suffer from Linux fragmentation problems.
They're talking about putting a password on Grub to prevent booting into single user mode, not encryption
Ah ok, so you change Microsoft cloud for Google cloud... UAU... And what about PRs&c?

Sorry for being rude but for me is unacceptable to depend on tons of proprietary stuff from a handful of vendors. Even personal websites that use Google Fonts, some JS framework directly from the "project" CDN (too hard to keep it on your disk, up to date) etc...

We need to be interdependent or independent not dependent of few subjects that make money on us for witch us are puppets. How can we say "it's FOSS" if so? How can we have FOSS as the tip of a proprietary iceberg?
Wait until you find out that mens rea exists.
It seems to me that VR is, in some sense, inherently awkward in ways that AR isn't. In either, your real body is in the real world, but VR disables most of the mechanisms that you have built-in to cope with the real world. With VR it'll always be necessary to deal with interruptions from the real world, bumping in to things, looking like a flailing weirdo to Real or Augmented Reality participants... In contrast, AR lets you decide on the appropriate amount of virtual.

VR has been around longer simply because technology allowed for primitive VR long before AR became possible. That means we've collectively had longer to think about how it might develop, and so it is easier to imagine uses for VR than with the relatively new AR.

My bet is that AR will be bigger than VR, by approximately a factor of 904.
Sorry, but The Guardian is garbage. It’s not as obviously garbage as the DM et al, but they publish Laurie Penny. That’s pretty bad.
But that's not entirely tech giant's fault.

Former AI professor "gorged" by the "evil tech giants". Salary is twice less than the first salary a uni dropout gets in industry (mid-level assistant prof gets roughly 1k EUR/month after taxes). I live in a lovely post-communistic country in Europe.

There are two choices: work for X% of your time in the private sector or fund a startup with grant money. I chose to leave academia.

If academician's compensation went up to at least match a livable standard, people would stay.
WSJ links should get the paywall warning, shouldn't they?
This is very similar to what Citus Data and the like have been doing in recent months. Great job guys!
If windows, a software for which I pay money when I buy a laptop can have ads, I am pretty sure at some point Github will also have ads. Its very very tempting to leave free money on the table. Only time will tell (Even though you are the CEO).
OP here, the only open source drug discovery library/framework I’ve seen is DeepChem https://github.com/deepchem/deepchem
> Americans "don't buy" American sedans right now and so all American automotive manufacturing is focusing solely on SUVs, Trucks, and Cross-Overs as of 2018, again.

GM is keeping the electric Bolt, which is not an SUV, Truck, or Crossover.

The Volt, as a hybrid, doesn't fit their long term strategy, so wasn't spared the axe coming down due to the short-term situation with the sedan market.
Forgot to respond to this particular point:

> I think you're also wrong about its aims and methods.

I once again very well might be, but I should highlight the fact that "good intentions" alone are not enough to produce beneficial results, and my statements about peoples' aims were to reflect the mismatch between many of these peoples' intentions and the practical outcomes of their actions.

I recommend looking into the work of Paul Bloom to see the arguments for why such endeavors tend not to work out, and to get an idea of the possible implications of relying too heavily on methods/ideologies whose central goals tend to revolve around empathy and good intentions.
> perverse coalition of confused environmentalists

I actually don't see how environmentalist have had any impact on the cost of fission. Unless, of course, you're just considering all safety costs the result of "confused environmentalists".

If so, you should seriously consider if you have maybe adopted some sort of perverted scientism as a quasi-religion. Because in reality, there's essentially consensus regarding required safety measures within the community of actual nuclear scientists, who have always been the driving force behind improved safety–starting with Richard Feynman during the Manhattan Project.
I believe it is no business of corporations to dictate how we bring up children. Period.
Webinar: Don't dive into the hype. The skills that matter
Is this link working for folks? It wouldn't load for me :(
Is that happiness, or just pleasure? They're different things. Pleasure is transient, fleeting. Happiness is a stable state.
The equivalent "modern" workflow is written, owned and optimized by build brainiacs with turnover on the order of weeks. I'd say that maintenance of "crude shell scripts" is much less difficult and expensive than keeping up with the latest webdev "standard practice".
Fair, but most stacks including the previous infamous ones are two or three lightweight installs away. The VSCode/Atom/Sublime generation of IDE replacements made that possible.

I come from an environment (.NET) where setup was a day or two of work but now is a matter of 10 or less minutes).
What Does Diversity Have to Do with Science?
I think there's a difference between corruption and unaccountability. Due to the way the justice system is set up in the USA plus the history of using police forces to subdue to population prosecutors have generally little to gain/incentive/motivation to prosecute law enforcement even in the most infamous cases.
The viewport can handle lines of 80 characters. The problem is that HN indents so far and even truncates on the right so you’re working with like 40 chars visible.
>2) "especially on the right, but also the left" is wrong. All media organisations are routinely wrong on all issues - there was an anecdotal named law for this but I've forgotten the name of it, where if the media reports on something that the viewer understands it is obvious all the reporting is wrong, but then the viewer assumes that reporting on subjects they know nothing about is correct. One subgroup can't be more wrong when all of the group is basically all wrong - there is news that is wrong the way the consensus is wrong and then there is news that is wrong in radical new ways.

What you are referring to here I believe is the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect [0] cited by Michael Crichton.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Good. On witch cloud? Google? Amazon? Microsoft?

When I was a bit younger I read that "internet" was a fantastic decentralized infrastructure explicitly design to being fault-tolerant and unlockable as possible to survive any critical scenario... Now it seems more a deep substrate of a modern mainframe... So deep that only few subject can really access it, all others are in their own hand...
For 2), I think you're thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

EDIT: Looks like a sibling comment beat me to it
Nice writeup. Would be great to have a traditional blog-like version of it, the twitter feed is somewhat painful to read.
>Why not the US, Canada, etc?

English law tends to be incorporated into contracts that are made among countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and parts of the Caribbean. However, contracts made between US entities and other entities frequently incorporate the law of the State of New York and even refer all disputes to courts in the City and County of New York so venue is locked down. There's also an increasing tendency for contracts (other than those for services) to incorporate as a legal framework the "United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods" [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_C...
There are some cool things you can do with blockchains, they’re just a little over hyped. It’s pretty neat to send funds to someone without going via a 3rd party, it’s cool to run code on a global computer, it’s awesome to have digital assets that can’t be doled out on a whim by a central authority.
Intent is also an element of murder, so I guess that's criminalization of thought, too.
I just assumed it was a false flag put out by Wikileaks, but what is their motive?

What is Assange’s motivation for not releasing proof of the signing key, because he can’t, but keeping that a secret?
Exactly, it's not worth the time. And once the attack is underway, it'll be detected and everyone can simply increase the number of confirmations needed before finalising.
From my experience with power banks, Anker makes the most reliable. RAVPower and Aukey will offer similar capacity or form factor for less, but from my years of use, the Anker ones maintain quality over a long period of time much better than the other brands. The cheaper ones tend to charge more slowly or seem to lose capacity as they age. I have one in my commuter bag that's a few years old and only supports QC2, but I see no reason to upgrade it because it's in great shape and charges quickly enough for my needs.

If you're always chasing the latest hotness and need a power bank that does QC4/USB-PD right now, then Aukey and RAVPower will probably work well enough. But I've started pushing my family to get Anker (or buying for them as stocking stuffers) simply so that they all have something they can hold onto without having to worry about having to rotate out every year.
so to be safe, an exchange should require more confirmations depending on size of deposit. Basically the number of confirmations you could finance an attack for with the deposit.
You won't find any disagreement from me that there is a LOT of garbage out there using blockchains and cryptocurrency tech inappropriately.

The extreme vast majority is trash, manipulative, and awful in most every way. Not to mention the charlatans and fanboys that hype it as able to do everything and anything perfectly.

But the few that use it well are doing fairly well, and innovation is happening. You shouldn't loop the entire ecosystem as one big unit making terrible choices together.
Do you have plans to publish a versioned release with support for Subresource Integrity?

Also, is there somewhere that the following is documented?

- Required origins for each type of content so that this can be compatible with a Content-Security-Policy

- Required use of browser features so that this can be made compatible with a Feature-Policy

- Commitments from yourself that the lists of required origins/features will not be added to without prior notice, in order to give time for blog operators to update their headers accordingly

Thanks
I have spent my whole career writing C or C++. While it is true that I write code at a different layer of the stack than is common for languages like C#, I wouldn't say it is particularly admirable. There are intermittent cool things that I get to write in C (data structures, protocol stacks, etc.), but for the most part it is just plumbing. There are lots of cool things that people get to implement higher up the stack too.
So it's just a specification?
How would the doctor know that a document is missing?
I've seen people decry Face ID as a toy in this post. The people who think Face ID is a toy are people who haven't used Face ID. Yes, it has its problems, but it's no toy.
I'm pretty sure I've downloaded (non-fiction) books newer than 1923 from the IA before --- in fact I just checked one and it's from 1953. Is it just because those are not actually public domain, and no one has bothered to issue a takedown notice for them (yet)?
600 miles is equal to about 10 hours of driving (very roughly). There are very few people who would do that trip without stopping at least a few times (bathroom, food, stretch, etc...) and if charging infrastructure is common enough (which it will be) than a good chunk of those 60 minutes can be done in concert with those stops. And compared to ICE vehicles, most would need about 2 re-fueling stops to make that trip[1]. So an aggressive ICE trip would still result in about 10-20 minutes of re-fueling time.

Another thing to consider, it is much more likely that we will see 400mi range electrics sooner and/or easier than we could roll out a large network of battery swap stations. I think the concept of battery swap is solid. Most batteries have BMS systems that prevent over/under charging and any physical damage can be detected. Plus the battery would likely be owned by a third party, so it would not be a big deal if you got stuck with a bad battery, you would just swap it out for another one. The main issue is logistics. Much harder to build a network of battery swap stations then it is to put some fast chargers in parking lots. And if we can get the range up to 400 miles, then a 600 mile trip could be done with 20-30 minutes of super charging.

[1] Assuming a ~300 mile ICE range, you need to fill up at the start, at the middle, and at the end (although one could wait till the next morning, but I think it should still count). Whereas electric, you start full (because you plugged in overnight prior to departure), and you end full (assuming you can plug in overnight at your destination). These are rough assumptions, but I think 2 fuel stops is a good approximation, but many would need 3 (including my own ICE car, which gets ~250 miles per tank).
I appreciate that HN is more cosmopolitan then people think :-). People from different countries often bring great perspective to things that I wouldn't have come up with on my own. Another argument for the benefit of diversity, I'd say.
I'm not sure that this does encourage native Linux game development. Why bother putting in the porting work for 0.1% of potential users when someone else might do the work for me via Wine/Proton.
From (the mathematician) Gian-Carlo Rota's Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught:

"...I remembered an MIT colloquium that took place in the late fifties; it was one of the first I attended at MIT. The speaker was Eugenio Calabi. Sitting in the front row of the audience were Norbert Wiener, asleep as usual until the time came to applaud, and Dirk Struik who had been one of Calabi's teachers when Calabi was an undergraduate at MIT in the forties. The subject of the lecture was beyond my competence. After the first five minutes I was completely lost. At the end of the lecture, an arcane dialogue took place between the speaker and some members of the audience, Ambrose and Singer if I remember correctly. There followed a period of tense silence. Professor Struik broke the ice. He raised his hand and said: "Give us something to take home!" Calabi obliged, and in the next five minutes he explained in beautiful simple terms the gist of his lecture. Everybody filed out with a feeling of satisfaction.

Dirk Struik was right: a speaker should try to give his audience something they can take home. But what? ..."

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/gian-carlo-rota-10-le...
Related, there's a strong push to increase the minimum wage; while I agree that those on the bottom should have a higher quality of living I feel the effects of this first hand.

Increasing the minimum wage does nothing to increase the quality of life on the bottom, but does VERY WELL increase the cost of living (which rises to meet the new 'market will bear' level) and decrease everyone who pays rent rather than "earns" rent.

I feel that real world observation can confirm that raising the minimum wage mostly has the effects I describe above and that there are different approaches which should be tried (probably in combination).

* Actually tax the super-rich *1
* Tax passive income higher than "active" (work for living) income (maybe 2-3x rate?).
* Land Value based tax (re-development) on a trend (20 year median?) basis.
* Define "poverty" as 1.2 * (rent + healthy food + healthcare + other typical costs) per area.
* Supply side price controls.
* Anyone in poverty or out of work should instead be eligible for the New New Deal*.

* 1(taxes) High rates for those earning 10X the median income, and approaching 49% for those earning 20X.

Supply side price controls, a baseline offer in critical services for the private sector to (try to) beat, for ALL core public infrastructure: security (mil/'peace officers'), roads, water, sewer, education, healthcare, electricity, communications. Yes, this should focus on mostly covering natural monopolies and often provide a market framework for services on top of that infrastructure. Similar to how public roads enable many delivery services to compete.

New New Deal:

* free room/board/basic public food kitchen
* yearly aptitude assessment
* training for the job area of their choice out among aptitude matches/society needs
* arranged part time apprenticeship work with at least minimum wage per hour
In short, because they don't know that the chain they saw first is the chain that other nodes saw first (especially if they weren't online at the time). At least in theory, an attacker can exploit this to permanently fork the chain.
Yeah, not gonna happen. Forget safety. It's just too expensive.

Batteries + large grids averaging out weather and load fluctuations, plus smart grids, plus electric car batteries as buffers when the car isn't needed, plus efficiency gains lowering demand, plus some gravity storage, plus some natural gas.

Nuclear power is actually quite useless, because it's not baseload that's needed when you want to quickly react to changing weather conditions or load, it's peakers (i. e. gas)
IBM Began Buying Red Hat 20 Years Ago – Linux Journal
I agree that a politician's Facebook Page should be treated as a public forum... but disruptive folks are kicked out of in-person public forums on a regular basis. Seems odd that you wouldn't be able to do the same on the Internet.
To be fair, as someone who is cynical and lived through the turn of the century dot-com crash we needed a few high profile failures after the pets.com sock puppet, myspace and cue-cats almost 20 years ago.... Thank goodness for Amazon...

But honestly I missed the crypto currency expansion completely. Bitcoin when I noticed it at $50, bah.... It hasn't lived up to its promise of an alternative form of payment, but it certainly increased in value rapidly. But I wouldn't count it out completely, there may be a use case that in hindsight is obvious, that we aren't seeing yet. I doubt it but it is possible (my track record is good but mixed. I was the proud owner of buy.com stock.. that didn't work out so well.. )

Plus the algorithms are kind of interesting, and the fact it works at all is kind of miraculous.
History of the Internet Part 14: Google and AJAX Apps
Yes, I agree. I was assuming "pre-market fit" "few or no customers." In this case, 0.1% is hardly worth the risk.
A ton of these new D2C brands are just OEM wrappers - don't know if meundies is one of them but I would not be surprised
The Ultrarich's dirty secret: not paying taxes
If you force anyone to pay for it, it's no longer FOSS.

If you force anyone who owns a copy of the software to pay for the source code, it's no longer FOSS. You absolutely can charge for said software.
Also I believe they are the only option that offers free build agents on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Besides, Microsoft had already been offering free unlimited private repos through VSOnline for years. It's not a change for them, they are just extending it to their Github acquisition.
US spies want to know how to identify compromised AI
Fitness app idea feedback?
So they're public fora when someone wants to criticize a politician, but private companies with no duty to allow people to say unpopular things when the company wants to kick them off the platform. Got it.

Also, does this mean all politicians ought to be obliged to have social media pages?
They are not obliged to provide examples or proofs, but I am also not obliged to believe their claims. If you want, I "offered" my "viewpoint" that the support of their argument was insufficient.

Moreover, I am ENTITLED to having doubts. Isn't that what the modern world (and also the article here) is all about? Entitlement?

In general, more double-blind studies would be a good thing, so what is your point?
Unless the porn actors can actually touch you, there's not a lot of difference between VR porn and "just" 2D TV/computer-screen porn...
Something mentioned in the article - the social security administration is required by law to double-check half of all approvals, but not denials. So the incentive is definitely to deny as quickly as possible - if you approve everyone you'll be caught, but if you deny everyone that's far less likely.
I still bounce between physical notebooks, and Laverna. I spend regular time consolidating stuff into stack order I can follow up on.
I can't upvote this comment enough. The bottomline for risk keen candidates is to get in with founder's equity and risk averse (and experienced, of course) to work with a headhunter to maximize your chances of building wealth.
Neat idea, but how would you choose who qualifies to join?
I slightly dislike that his opening paragraphs are wrong. The statement "The group with treatment X had significantly less disease (p = 1%)" does not mean "treatment X it will prevent disease." It only means that there were less disease with a significant probability of being true. IOW, the study might be 99% sure it reduces the disease by 5%.
I would hesitate to draw conclusions about the general ability of the processor from a browser interactivity benchmark running on two differing OS's, with two likely differing browser builds, etc. Apple obviously spends a lot of time optimizing graphical interactivity/safari performance on the iphone and its shown for years. It might be interesting to try the same version of firefox on both platforms... or just a broader set of benchmarks.

Its really too bad that no one has managed to get a stock linux running on an iphone....
Blockchains are just another datastructure. A poor implementation of one doesn't necessarily mean the whole idea is fundamentally useleas.