skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they charge a delivery fee

Convenience has a cost. Just like people who pay Amazon for Prime membership.

they come on their schedule

Having a service fill my car while I'm asleep is a lot better than waiting in a filthy gas station for 90 minutes while my EV charges.

leave your car accessible

Like in a parking lot, or a driveway. Crazy!

pop your gas cap

I had no idea they still made cars with gas caps that have to be "popped." My car's gas cap opens with one finger. I haven't had a car with a lockable gas cap since the 1980's.

go to your car when they arrive at whatever random time they choose.

Hmm... hanging around wasting time waiting for a car to be refueled. Sounds an awful lot like EV charging.
Identifying facial phenotypes of genetic disorders using deep learning
It's been true for hundreds of years, but we live in a civilization with higher expectations of stability now. People struggled but living conditions - and stability improved over those hundreds of years.

But if you look at the overall stats, we are going in reverse on stability. More and more people are falling out of a middle class existence - will there be more jobs yes. Will there be as many, allowing a higher than subsistence living? That is very unclear even now before even more automation comes.
Agree to this contract and I'll tell you.
Definitely possible at least since 10.10 (Yosemite). Not sure how SIP affects this, as I have it disabled.
It is not my intention to be dismissive. I admire the work Debian has done on the above but they are a project with many more maintainers and a lot more resources. We have some documentation for our process already under https://docs.brew.sh but ultimately if it's not good enough for you we need people who are willing to step up and do the work to do so.
You seemed to have ignored several of my points, which leads me to believe that you're not debatting in good faith.

> Germans don't have to learn about Turks

Why not? If they reside in the same country, mutual culteral understanding can be key for integration.

> Turks have to learn about Germans and blend in

We can have both, Germans learn a bit of Turkish, Turks learn German, where's the problem?

> If they can't, that's a very serious failure.

Where above is it indicated that Turks are failing to learn German?
I find the ethical questions raised more interesting than the work itself.
Of course Trump cites no evidence of alleged mismanagement. That's not to say there hasn't been, but thousands of people's lives have been destroyed and there are much more constructive ways of dealing with these issues rather than telling these people to get bent.
> More balanced than an article merely about the Tesla world.

I don't think that was the point given that the article has Tesla in its title.
In order to have less jobs, then people have to consume less stuff. Luckily, you don't have to wait for everyone to buy into this agenda, you can make that choice for yourself:

https://www.google.com/search?q=financial+independence+retir...

Not saying this is the right thing for everyone. Lots of people would hate it, and that's fine. The nice thing is that we all get to choose what's best for ourselves.
Ask HN: What challenges facing soceity seem the most pressing to you?
I've been reading a lot of books and watching a lot of documentaries about history, anthropology, archaeology lately. I've even started to play Civilization VI. Going back to school for this field is even on the table right now, it is that interesting to me.

Technology has been the engine that has driven civilization forward since the beginning with the application of fire to stay warm, ward off predators, cook meat. These factors drove brain development, the first cave paintings, eventually the extinction of many other competing apex species.

Now it's just us and everything and everyone is at our mercy it seems. Yet we are still working out a lot of our collective problems within ourselves and each other.

I read a Warren Buffet quote recently that really stood out to me for some reason. 'If we learn anything from history, it's that we don't learn from history.'

Anyways, I'd love to hear what you see when you look at the history of the world and where we are headed next.
If I were ever in such a position of power I would aggressively push for 32 hour work weeks by 2022. (Tapering down each year until then). I would loop most salaried (OT exempt) jobs into this category as well as I think a lot of "OT exempt" employees should not really be classified as such. (Including SW engineers and DevOps ppl)

32 hours a week.
Every hour after 32 and before 40 would be time and half.
Every hour after 40 and before 50 would be double.
Hours after 50 would be billed at triple the hourly rate.

I would only change the hours. Not rates, or anything else. Let the market settle out the rest.

I've been working as a SWE now at 35 hours a week for almost 4 years (admittedly at a lowend SWE salary [but still much higher than average, we live pretty comfortably]) and honestly I can't even imagine going back to 40+ hours a week (or 60+ when I was a fresh out of college kid at a start up) The extra time now I spend with my family, and just getting stuff done has been so much more valuable than I ever could have imagined.

It's something I wish I could spread to others. When I was at a startup I scoffed at people going home at 5-5:15. Considered them not "passionate about the product".

Oh how misguided I was...but I digress.
With sufficiently high-frequency gyroscope data, it is possible to infer what a user types in with moderate precision. In some cases, it has even been shown to be possible to recover coarse audio data from the surrounding environment.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=421691

Browsers have added rate limiting to mitigate this threat. (Prior to that, my former team in Google Ads added our own rate limiting to the gyroscope API we provided for ads.) The risk now seems pretty minor, but I wouldn't be shocked if someone clever still managed to find some way to abuse it.
No, linear regression does not imply separation.

Yes, this is why we use regression, soft-margin SVM, etc. instead of hard-margin SVM. Because perfect linear separation is unrealistic.
wait... Descartes disemboweled live dogs?!?!
Eavesdrop on audio: https://www.wired.com/2014/08/gyroscope-listening-hack/

Know what you are typing: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128255-200-smartpho...
Or they might just scratch you and run off, then you get to have rabies treatments. Either way, no fun.
> the only time I had a short stress was while I went seeing Elon Musk in Paris because there were hundred of Teslas in the same area

That's the scenario in which mobile charging stations make a lot of sense. They allow for a temporary increase in charger availability for the duration of some popular event like a sports final or a concert:

https://forbes.com/sites/sebastianblanco/2018/12/27/vw-mobil...
Then what's the point? Low-key flex to try and attract talent?
Npm, Inc. Has a New CEO, Bryan Bogensberger
However, I can see one day where there are sufficiently few jobs such that I won’t be able to negotiate paid time off or enough income for healthcare or a predictable work schedule unless I am born to the right parents and receive the right education.

That time is now.
That's great advice. Especially if you get specific about the other ways and areas one an focus on. But what parent post said was, you'll never be a billionaire or literally Jackie Chan, so don't try. Seems (to me) like a waste of mental energy to even process that.
You didn't work since you weren't paid. You volunteered your time to aid in a transition period, help reduce workloads, and keep your skills sharp. However I'd probably not mention that as that could throw up warning signs that would attract the DoL as there are strict rules on what constitutes volunteer work.
Would love to talk to you more about this use case. Can you email me at george [at] stilllife [dot] studio
My thought exactly. Totally surprised me. I thought the only inputs a web site could get from me from hardware without asking permission is key presses and cursor movement.
I'm glad this story has gone viral recently. Hopefully there will be more pressure to stop this practice.

I've been using Android for a number of years now and between the handset manufacturers and the wireless providers, there has been undeletable crapware since the beginning. I've been slowly modifying my behavior in response. I stopped buying phones directly from the wireless providers (e.g. Verizon). This has noticeably improved my experience. Every time I upgrade my phone, I look into the Google flagship Android phones, but they always have some critical flaws that drive me to buy the Samsung Galaxy phones. The same thing happened a few months ago when I chose the Galaxy S9+ over the Pixel 3's. I also always think about switching to Apple iPhone, since I do think they take user experience and privacy more seriously than Google Android.

While I'm on the subject. Samsung, please get rid of Bixby and all of your crappy Samsung apps. I hate the feeling that there's two OS's loaded on my phone... the Android layer and the Samsung layer (which I never use but always get prompted for unless I figure out how to disable it).
Intel does avx512 at 30+% slower clockspeeds. AMD should be able to do an avx512 at full clockspeeds in double the cycles.

For equivalent architectures, you'd expect Intel to be faster at workloads that are only avx512. They'd be slower at mixed workloads (the avx unit slows down, but so do all the other ALUs executing in parallel along with the SMT thread).

Most importantly, 512 is 256 more sets of hardware which is a big addition to core size and power usage for what is a very fringe workload. Saving that while getting better performance in common workloads seems like a great tradeoff.
I’m happy to see npm in the ugly section. I wish the code security review pipeline got as much attention as the package deployment one.
Yes, there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754#Total-ordering_predic...

It is not something to use by default though. It is implemented in software and thus a lot slower than the hardware comparison.
> these days, people consider photos, music, videos, email, and similar to be core phone functions

Yes, which is why I want full freedom to choose clients and apps that would be doing this on my phone.
FWIW, Safari on iOS didn't ask me either. I'm actually kind of disappointed.
I bet the number of vegetarians would go up quite a bit if people had to slaughter animals themselves if they wanted meat. Our society is pretty good at hiding the dirty work from people.
Positive and Negative Data Engineering – The Prefect Blog – Medium
Ask HN: A viable approach for cell phone privacy?
Lately we've seen multiple stories about major carriers selling location information, spyware apps, etc.

Could the espionage principle of a "cut out" be used to protect cell phone privacy. It goes like this:

Customer A aims his phone number at a VoIP gateway controlled by company B. Company B gets a cell phone and plan in the name of Company B and leases it to Customer A. Some kind of relaying happens between the customers phone number and the actual phone so there is no connection between A's cell phone number or other personal information and the phone.

Presumably the phone is locked down and doesn't allow installing apps from open App Stores to prevent spyware from getting in.

Is anyone doing this now? Would Company B encounter insurmountable barriers in terms of doing this?
Writing an in-depth feature story in the New York Times isn't really comparable to making "the slightest critical comment".

I think most potential customers would be smart enough to realize Tesla's actions don't generalize from reporters to all customers.

Especially since the reporter describes it as a "wondercar with California dealer plates", which means Tesla lent him the car. I don't see anything wrong with Tesla going through the logs on their own car after they got it back.
If someone badmouths the product, they aren't satisfied. And even if they're engaged with it, odds are high they're looking for something better.

Besides, the only reason engagement became a thing is because the way people are paid is based on ad revenue instead of actual payment by the person using the product. Satisfaction is king when the user and the customer are the same person. Just ask any insurance company (for example).
Technology is exploding at a pace we've never seen before. Sure there will be a lot of new jobs, but we're on the verge of being able to wipe out entire industries. It will be like the industrial revolution except much much faster and even greater impact.
Nice analysis! Three things to consider:

I don’t think you can just look at insolation over a given area. Wind and even the cooling itself will cause the air over the area to redistribute with warmer dryer air that can continue picking up water.

Besides that it’s more important to consider how saturated the air in the region is. If it can hold more water it will.

Other things to consider

Some of the water would seep into the ground instead of waiting around to evaporate. Maybe there are ways to speed that up too.

Finally Another option is the spay the water into the air to speed up evaporation a bit.
Regarding the heme thing...

https://impossiblefoods.com/ is onto that
I'm disappointed (though not surprised) to see Marx so marginalised. In particular, Schumpeter was in massive debt to Marx, as is quite clear from reading Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. The whole idea of creative destruction, for example, which is popular up to the day, is basically lifted straight from Marx. Of course, the evolutionary economists who consider themselves in Schumpeters legacy, tend to ignore this link too.
You embody the death of our civilization. Have you ever felt gratitude for the systems which you count on to sustain you? “One worthless generation and done”...occurs seldom in history .
Granted, she admits to driving an older model Tesla that she rented

If my eight year old Leaf has that functionality, I'm confident that the skankiest of Model Ss will.
I'd maintain BSD is more arcane but there are less ways to shoot yourself in the foot with OpenBSD than with Linux. The design is coherent and still minimalist sticking to the UNIX design philosophy. BSD doesn't have systemd which suffers horribly from scope-creep (HTTP server for journal events (WTF), binary logformat, default to google resolvers[1] ...). All daemons of the base system are chrooted by default. Base systems has also really good hardening which is unmatched on Linux. (Linux has AppArmor or poorly managed SElinux out of the box). Also auditing. BSD code gets audited by people with a security mindset who I happened to follow and respect since a very long time. As a C developer myself I am confident to say they do know how to think in these terms, while the Linux maintainers are known for hurling abuse against anyone who raises an issue (if you're that lucky to be addressed more likely topics that require design considerations and not just fixes will get you ignored). It's miles apart in that sense.

All in all you need to be much more skilled to harden Linux (which gives plenty of opportunity to trip up). I could go on and on.

These are all security relevant issues imo.

On a more personal not it appeals to me because the community is incredibly knowledgeable. Like it was with Linux 10-15 years ago and before main-stream users clogged up the forums with "how to change my desktop". I know this sounds elitist but being strapped for time it really is refreshing not having to wade through hundreds of copy/paste blogs that are all outdated and obviously written by hamsters.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761658
I've done a fair bit of rust development and never found that to be an issue.

It probably helps that the only ways to introduce new variables are all very distinctive:

let [new variables] = [expr];

if/while let [new variables] = [expr] { [new variables scoped here] }

for [new variables] in expr { [new variables scoped here] }

fn name([new_variables]) { [new variables scoped here] }
Collecting gyroscope data is quite passive, though. It's easy to forget that an app/website has access to this.
Quoting remme.io:

> No more passwords — no more break-ins. REMME implements unbreakable, foolproof user authentication to protect your users, employees, and company’s data from cyber attacks.

This is laughable. Nothing is unbreakable. This is using a blockchain so I'd be willing to bet that it's vulnerable to the 51% attack.

This account's post history is also suspicious. They only post articles and links to this project, and do not have any comments (no community engagement).
People use LaTeX because they have to write equations —besides referencing and quoting them, such a pleasure without it— and the alternatives suck. If the author of this obtuse rant doesn't need equations in print and to begin with hasn't bothered to ask anybody about their reasons for using it before making assumptions, I don't understand what's interesting about his personal views on something he can't get.

Too bad, because making references/bibliographies in LaTeX also sucks less than the alternatives. Yeah, it's not WYSIWYG, if you need WYSIWYG use something else. I hate clicking for hours in WYSIWYG equation editors, I can say that because I've had to do it too many times and it's soul-crushing. BTW, your old Equation Editor objects can't be opened anymore using supported Microsoft products. There are millions or hundreds of millions of those out there but they couldn't care. This might teach us something etc.

There's also a fish story about the reasons for arXiv requiring LaTeX back then: besides looking nice it really is a crackpot filter.
reminds me of Lee's story from my time period...same HongKong hellhole but he got out at an early age
Thank you for calling me out on this (admitted) bit of bullshit in me. ;)

I guess I am comfortable with my cognitive dissonance in this area. FOR NOW.

(But seemingly no other areas. I memorized just about all the informal fallacies mostly so I can Correct People's Bad Thinking On The Internet, sigh...)

I'm also waiting for companies like https://impossiblefoods.com/ to do their thing. I tried their impossible burger, and it was amazingly indistinguishable from the real thing. If they come up with impossible bacon and impossible chicken, I'd definitely be able to pull off vegetarianism or pescatarianism. In the meantime, I unfortunately love my chicken and eggs, milk, cheese, ice cream (all in moderation). Also, although I do eat eggs, I check this site to make sure they're ethically obtained: https://www.cornucopia.org/scorecard/eggs/ And I ONLY buy eggs from the highly-ranked producers. I pay extra for this, of course.

Also I think fish/clams/oysters/shellfish are sort of the exception for most people, all signs point to them being only dimly conscious with extremely tiny brains. Given their nutritional value, it's arguably ethical to kill them for food (but not unsustainably to the point of drastic population decrease, which I think we're currently doing with bluefin tuna...) This doesn't include octopi and whales/dolphins and other obviously-intelligent creatures, of course.

What is your position on humane painless animal death after living a full life? (given that every being has to die, anyway)? What about lab-grown muscle fiber?

Again, I honestly appreciate the fact that you have a low tolerance for hypocrisy/cognitive-dissonance (at least in this area), and I fully admit this is a dissonance I am actively maintaining. I'm... trying to get out of it.

Self-honesty turns out to be the most difficult honesty...
The twist is that you have to do it that way to get the jobs done that nobody would do if UBI were available.
Reading the story, there's lots of possible reasons here:

1. He was being told something was important, and it simply wasn't. They lied to him to make him feel good. Probably not?

2. He was doing something that was important to other people, and those people incorrectly believed they were important. Given that the department was closed, this might go several levels up.

3. The approach of the department or group was misaligned. "Misaligned" being a way to say that either (a) it wasn't a very good approach when the full picture was taken into account (the picture from an altitude higher than the department), or (b) it was a good approach, but someone else was able to convince people higher up that it wasn't.

4. It was important, and whoever cancelled it didn't realize it. The chickens may eventually come to roost.

5. It was an important thing embedded in an unimportant thing. Maybe the department really was ready to be disbanded, dispersed, eliminated. It's likely that the department had many duties. Did someone actually look carefully at each one, and decide where they all should go?

6. Someone needed the project (or whatever larger project his project was embedded in), but didn't know it. This is a danger of a proactive project: if the person who gets the value from it isn't asking for the thing, they might not appreciate the value of the thing itself.

7. It's a valuable project, but the cost (real or perceived) of carrying it through other organizational change is considered excessive.

8. Management was simply too lazy to decide if it was important. Maybe they didn't have the resource leeway to keep it running without a fight, which makes it easier to be lazy.

And there's yet more possibilities than that.

I'm thinking about this right now, as I'm in the process of tearing down a large amount of my own work. I could believe it's just a sunk cost, a failed investment... but I'm pretty sure it's not. It might be the right choice to throw stuff away. Strategies change. Old theories work themselves out until they don't seem to offer much potential, and then everything based on the old theory is in question. We've never really known what the underlying ROI on anything is, though we're throwing it away so we can make room for other similar things; the organization is trading a known unknown for an unknown unknown. And none of us will really know what the right decision was. If I was making the decision, I wouldn't know either.
Canadian astronomers discover 2nd mysterious repeating fast radio burst
And that's all that's wrong with engagement in a nutshell. You prioritize your needs over the user's needs. It's not about trailing or leading indicators, it's about not burning down the rest of the world just to benefit yourself.

"I may not give a crap how 'happy' you are if you're still engaging" - you've really put it succinctly. That's the mentality of a drug pusher.
The foos can all have different types which is not possible with mutation.
Why have humans never found aliens? – Where is everybody? (2018)
Presumably hughes is just making a knee-jerk comment about how 99% of PoW systems are doing useless work. Personally I am very skeptical of any system that tries to do proof of useful work like transcoding; it seems vulnerable to cheating.
Yeah, I agree it makes sense that certain apps shouldn't be easy to get rid of, though in comparison Android does let users disable apps such as the default gallery, browser, and even app store. I think the stock dialer and SMS apps are the main exceptions.

If deleted built-in apps aren't restored even after resetting an iOS 12 device, it's a good thing some apps aren't removable. I wish I'd thought to check before trading in my old iPad.