skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Innocent until proven guilty is still a thing. If the judge is inclined to permit bail then the accused is likely not a danger to society. Bail is nothing more than incentive for the state to prosecute people for money.
Has Google spent billions on self driving cars? And, car manufacturers are still spending a ton of money into the same problem space.

Google does have R&D. It is just amusing to see that they made a division that they tried to give a new name to, that isn't living up to what they named it after. (At least, that is the point I got from the article.)
As far as I know making alcohol is much more work than growing weed though.
Doesn't it seem like somewhere out there is a company with a lot of data on people's walking speed, which could just bury these studies with orders of magnitude more data? Some smartphone app or similar device for counting steps, or maybe just Google Maps when you're using the pedestrian option to plot your path.
For some reason the screenshots are degraded on mobile, but work fine on desktop. Full resolution available on request.
This is fantastic!

I remember a talk Pranav Mistry (Director of Samsung Think Tank) gave at TED, which is what Soli turned out to be.
The German "sonder" referred to in this branch of the conversation (i.e. meaning special) is not a word on its own but a prefix for other words [0] (remember that germans like to build words from multiple separate parts and words).

While "sonder" itself is a word, it means something different when used on its own (without) [1].

0: https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Sonder_
1: https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/sonder
Shout out to massey.ac.nz which is one of the very first universities world wide to have serious 'extra mural' programme. They have decades of experience and everything is tuned for the working adult. For anybody in any country should seriously consider. They have extramural students from all over the world because you get world class staff, from a world class university, at NZ prices.

Anybody in US should seriously consider it an option for higher learning.

FYT i did a post graduate Diploma in QUality Assurance with specialty in software engineering through Massey with course work done 1993-95 and finally delivered my project in 1997 after changing countries and jobs. Cant praise them enough.
Do you eat breakfast in there somewhere?
While you can fool around endlessly with miniatures and terrain and whatnot if you wanna, setting up a game of D&D mostly consists of emptying out your bag of cool shiny polyhedral dice onto the table, throwing in a few bucks for pizza, and pulling out your character sheet.

Mostly it's just about making up a story with the other players, with a handful of rules and dice to put some randomness into the outcomes.
I’d rather they charge for it. They need some incentive to keep developing it, and parameter store is frankly atrocious.
Perhaps it’s weird but I don’t seem to have this issue. But I generally drink 1 standard drink per day max (actually weighed out on my little scale cause I am a huge dork) and only 5x per week probably. I basically feel a bit happier and a bit lazier after drinking some alcohol. Mildly more social.
I agree. The original statement was kind of silly. Vegans basically say "You don't need to eat meat" to which a population of meat-eaters say "But I like the way it tastes and feels" so vegans create this burger, and then a population of meat-eaters says "I wish you didn't just try to copy meat."
Geez, lighten up. Yes, some people definitely develop alcohol addiction but about 80% do not and are free to enjoy good quality drinks that not only give you a buzz, but also potentially taste great like good wine or whisky or mezcal.
VCs have a choice in whether or not to invest in unethical things. If they pay money to an unethical cause, that's them supporting it.
Indeed, precisely that is true.

The shocking conclusion of Gödel's incompleteness theorem is that the problem that our logical foundations are incomplete is inherently unfixable; any extended system of axioms will have new statements which are true but which it cannot prove.

(That said, there are certain sub-areas of mathematics where we can prove that every true result in one of these sub-areas is actually provable from a certain system of axioms adapted to the given sub-area. But there is no way around Gödel's incompleteness phenomenon if one wants to encompass all of mathematics (and even arithmetic with natural numbers suffices to yield the incompleteness phenomenon).)
Hopefully this pending legislation will pass:

H.R.6714 - Electronic Court Records Reform Act of 2018

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6714
I think gcc is still in base, right? They just added clang and set that as the default, AFAIK. I haven't kept up with FreeBSD much in the last few years, so not sure what the plans are to remove gcc.

Also, a quick look at the source tree shows there are still some other parts as well. GNU binutils, GNU diff, dialog is GPL, etc. See: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/master/contrib

In the kernel, I think there are some drivers that are based on the Linux GPL code, for example: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/1d6e4247415d264485ee... (just first hit from GitHub search for "gpl")

So yeah, looks like there's still plenty of GPL code in FreeBSD that's not trivially replaceable. The same applies to OpenBSD, although in general the OpenBSD people tend to be a bit more proactive in replacing GPL code.
I think walking around outside all day and not having to concentrate really hard sitting in front of a screen also helps a lot.
I don’t know since I am not the CEO or even in the industry.

Maybe open source IP model would fail to get critical mass. Maybe the best path forward is to get Burger King as an investor.

If they maximize profits while still being committed to an environmentaly friendly meat replacement, that doesn’t mean they are limiting their impact in any way. It’s just as likely they are maximizing their impact.

I personally don’t care how much money they make, but I do care about the environment and animal rights.
Kinda tough to replicate the service of a nation(global)-wide cellular comms network when that's what everybody on the other end of your calls and texts are using...

One option might be to use a non-cellular device (like an iPod Touch) connecting to a cellular hotspot with a "burner phone" sim (with a useable data plan)? "They" could still track that cellular device, but it'd up the ante quite a bit, since it would be very hard for an attacker to know the number. It wouldn't be "Screw you NSA, I've 'gone dark'!!!" secure, but it's probably stop a repo man or malicious ex from paying a bounty hunter to track you.

If you're prepared to drop the "calls" but, and fall back to just text messaging - have a look here: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org - there doesn't seem to be _quite_ enough coverage where I live to get reliable connectivity out of that assuming 2-3km LoRa range (although it seems like if I put one in at my place it'd fill in a coverage gap quite nicely...)
Everyone who was living in the area that considered the land their homeland were welcome to stay, maintain their private property, and join the fledgling nation. Arabs who stayed and abided by the UN agreement were given first-class citizenship and many went on to become leaders, run successful businesses, and even serve as officers in the IDF. Unfortunately, many rejected the UN agreement and even rejected the terms for a second Palestinian state for the alternative of trusting the call of neighboring nations to flee and fight. Unfortunately those neighboring nations ended up reneging on their word after losing the wars that they started and were not so welcoming towards those who fled, setting the stage for the current quagmire.

To be fair, the people alive now were not in a decision-making position back during the formation of Israel, but I wanted to bring up the historical context since we're discussing the formation period.

More background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_supporters_of_Israel
Well, people who care enough about reading to pay money for a better reading experience will want your product. Now, who cares enough about reading? People who have to read and people who want to read.

One the side of people who want to read, you have an opportunity to show them how much better reading is with your product. How do you do that??! Things that come to mind:

- A collection of blog articles on how to read more with an upsell to try your product

- A free course on how to read more with your product.

- Be a guest on reading/book podcasts. This is usually low cost/cheap and it provides a way to show social proof on your site ("As featured on the $podcast").

- Online book communities.

- Writing communities.

On the side of people who have to read, you have an opportunity to sell a solution to their pain. Reaching them will mean you have to split it into verticals. You can simply focus in one vertical (law industry as an example), set a time/money goal, and if it doesnt work out move to another. Reaching them is a matter of leveraging linknedin's data. Things you can do are:

- Write/Offer white papers on how to declutter their text based work process.

- Provide free consultations on decluttering their text based work.

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It's all high effort. There are no shortcuts. You will have to be very honest with yourself and figure out if you really want to do these things. Best of luck.
You've worked the past 13 Thanksgivings too? My sympathies!
I dislike American copyright law and despise how it’s so broadly enforced around the world. Having said that I’m unmoved by the “Chinese company” argument. Practically speaking most companies are effectively stateless multinationals, and even state entities like Huawei do business around the world.

It’s not shocking that a country with the muscle to flex would say “If you want to do business with us, follow these rules.” No one forces a company of country X to do business in country Y, and they knew the score when they decided to expand to a given market. Add to that the fabric of treaties and obligations tying countries together and all told it’s a reality of a modern world which sought to avoid a Third World War. Sure it’s annoying when the US acts like a BSD on behalf of its moneyed interests, but the underlying structure of international obligation is better than the alternatives.
Doodle 4 Google 2018 – US Winner
Assuming you're OK with moving to an internet connection for replies, FLEX pagers are a reasonable way to receive alerts. You can even do something nutty like put an SMS/MMS gateway on an android phone, with notification or encrypted messages delivered 'last mile' over the pager network.

I dream of a device with WiFi, LTE, and FLEX, with the ability to power on/off each subsystem individually.
It really depends on your market and what you've learned. There are plenty of jobs that involve making things to put out on the web, which is what "web development" is. But they are all semi-specialised and very few people can make a living with just basic HTML/CSS/JS web development skills.

The bread and butter of alot of "Web Developers" is Wordpress. If you learn that inside and out, you can likely find a job somewhere in a decent market. There are other CMS you can learn instead, but once you pick up one, then the others shouldn't be that difficult.

Another path is to pick up a ton of client side javascript skills (ideally combining bootstrap with frameworks like Angular, Vue, etc) and become a "front end" developer. This is relatively easy to break into, but it's harder to muddle your way through as you have to know a wider variety of skills. If you have the aptitude it can pay very well, though.

Probably the hardest to break into, but maybe the most stable, is to learn about databases and how the server works, and then go into server-side programming using PHP, Java, or javascript using node.js. I think this would involve some serious time commitment, and may be something you pick up after you get your foot in the door.
It's not just that. 4e greatly simplified the rules, which made it far more accessible and playable, but it made many classes feel very much the same; every class had daily powers, encounter powers, and at-will powers. 5e managed to make every class feel unique again, and brought many of the classic D&D players back.
Creating a “Hello World” kernel
Go to a store nearby.

Buy something.

Put it on Ebay.

Sell it.

Tinker with the product description and price and measure results.

Rinse and repeat.

You will learn more than many wanna bes.
The word for "when an idea that seems obvious in retrospect" is "hindsight bias"

That's generally not a useful bias to base beliefs off of :)
You do realize the fugitives in question voluntarily entered into a contract with the bondsman right? Frankly, getting driven to the court appearance is a mild and totally appropriate response to the default. It’s way better for the fugitive than having the marshals called in.
Pandemic Legacy is some of the most fun a person can have!
Indian households have the largest private gold holdings in the world, standing at an estimated 24,000 metric tons. That figure surpasses the combined official gold reserves of the United States, Germany, Italy, France, China and Russia.

So you'll have to convince a billion+ humans that gold is only worth it value as a metal before it loses 99.9% of it's value.
Interesting. Thanks. On first impressions QML looks more suited toward multimedia applications than CRUD or business applications. But, we can test that theory...
I personally know of at least 5 people that started playing D&D because of Stranger Things of all things.
> But Indian cuisine is the only cuisine I'm aware of where being vegetarian isn't a compromise in the creativity, quality, and sheer flavors available to you.

Of course it is. Vegetarian food is a strict subset of all food.
Another favorite of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18861388
Indeed, unlike the axiom of choice, which is routinely used by most working mathematicians, the continuum hypothesis is not. (In fact, most working mathematicians can probably not even state this hypothesis precisely, as they're concerned with different areas of mathematics and haven't received the necessary training in logics or set theory; and among set theorists, consequences of CH are explored just as often as consequences of !CH are. (CH does simplify several things, such as arithmetic with infinite cardinal numbers, but the point still stands.))

Yes, the P=NP problem is not yet proven to be independent of ZFC. It's certainly a possibility, and to be honest a quite intriguing and fun one, but we shouldn't make the mistake to think that any hard open problem is independent of ZFC. (I know that you didn't state that, I'm just writing this for the record.) Sometimes hard open problems are simply hard open problems.
FWIW: Pathfinder didn't win because it didn't have the name. The game itself is fine. But there can be only one D&D, and once WotC managed to figure out that the edition upgrade mill was a death trap and released a streamlined 5e, there wasn't much niche left for Pathfinder to fill.

Given a "Pathfinder" vs. "D&D" choice, and no overwhelming community consensus either way (the community rejection of the fourth edition is the reason Pathfinder exists as a commercial product at all), everyone's going to buy the game with the famous name.
Google voice works fine for that... I do the same. It's wonderful.
China’s Nreal raises $15M to shrink augmented headsets to size of sunglasses
The university has an incentive to value your early salary _above all else_. This may be dangerous (hence my question). The article clearly shows some potential issues by pointing to several very useful but not very well paid profession (eg: nurses) who will have trouble finding lessons in this model.

Closer to our trade you might see stuff like :

- We don't offer design lessons because backend developers earn more than designers, so go study Rust, it's so hot right now !

- Marketing ? Heck no, salaries are only soaring later in your career, we can't get break even with that

- Your idea of a quantum computing course seems interesting but we don't believe there is a big enough market for people in that field at the moment, it's more of a research subject right now (weather that's true or false is up to the reader to decide).

- ...

Since the university is exclusively paid by your future salary, every second that you spend in class must be immediately translated in extra $$$ in you first compensation package. If your goal is to make as much money as soon as you get out of school, your incentive are aligned. Otherwise they are not, and that can be dangerous. Steve Jobs is a notorious example of someone who took some lessons that did not seem really useful not so high profile at the time, and only later proved to be critical in his success.

At a much smaller scale, 7 years after graduating, I am rediscovering some skill/knowledge I acquired at uni that did not seem to matter a lot when I started working (and that definitely were not taken into account in my first job interviews). I believe they makes me a better/more productive engineer. I fear that under that new system I might have never learned them in favour of something hotter and more marketable.
The Future of Suburbia
You're putting the cart before the horse; until you change the government and thus the bail system, we need bondsman. Making bounties illegal won't stop judges from setting bails people can't afford and is thus not a valid solution.
Site is down for me. Here's a link to what seems to be the same paper on arxiv:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08603
> But that was a very important choice. Do you understand why?

I'm sure you have your reasons for doing so, and I'm glad that it's working well for you.

I'm not having a go at you for making Red run on Rebol. But I am having a go at you for having a go at Clojure for running on the JVM, while claiming that Red is built "from the ground up".

All this posting about how Red is better than all other languages, and that people, who use those other ones, are stuck in their ways or not smart enough, and defensively lashing out at people who point out limitations of Red, it just comes across as megalomaniacal. Being implemented in Rebol2 apparently also "has a cost" for Red, namely that Rebol2 is abandoned, and that there's no 64-bit support, and that a otherwise free/libre programming language has non-free dependencies, and you might be in a pickle if you want to include newer versions of libraries that are presumably statically compiled into the Rebol2 binary blob, especially your SSL library... but apparently, from what I read about Rebol[0], it's only the "pro" version of Rebol that has SSL-support, so what about Red?

Do you understand those issues? It's too hand-wavy to say that I'm not looking at Red "on its own terms", especially because those terms include being a "good fit for any task!"[1]

[0]: https://www.freax.be/2017/03/19/rebol/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_(programming_language)
If you mean from the inside that’s a question of contrast. Look at a tv in a dark room through one side of a t-shirt a few inches from your face and it’s a non issue. Try the same while the side facing you is well lit and it does not work.

Under some situations you can see through thin cloth blinds like this from the outside, but that’s mostly poor blind choices.
Here’s a few google results, but I haven’t checked them for accuracy:

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/01/world/iraq-sanctions-kill...

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/magazine/were-sanctions-r...

This one looks promising:

https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/report/57jqa...
A proof-of-work fork is an unstable situation, resolved when more work is applied to one side vs the other, which inevitably happens without active intervention. A proof-of-stake fork is permanent--someone new to the network has no built-in mechanism for deciding which side to prefer: they both seem equally valid.

A properly constructed proof-of-work mechanism has no built-in mechanism for a malicious minority hash power to take control of the protocol, shutting out the higher hash rate majority from mining blocks.
In the Clean episode of "How we got to now" with Steven Johnson, Steven states that the beer-brewing process kills disease. Although no-one realises this in the middle of the 19th century, it means if you live in an unclean environment,
beer is a very sensible drink.

>> https://subsaga.com/bbc/documentaries/science/how-we-got-to-...
as long as you're OK with all the news you get being subject to the whims of a few billionaires

This as always been true for the big news / media companies.

Independents have always struggled, and their struggle hasn't gotten particularly worse in the online age - in fact, it's probably better because they were able to use 'digital' to decrease costs whilst increasing readership (although not necessarily increasing revenue).

This is a classic case of the Internet making a more level playing field, and the old monopolies being unable to react.

The problem is that "popular news" is so accessible that anyone who can type can become a publisher. Clickbait. Which is worthless anyway. People can get their clickbait "news" fix online for free, so they don't need a subscription to a newspaper anymore. People, in general, don't care about real issues, they care about "puppy saved from storm drain" or "fat person needed crane to be taken to hospital" stories. Find a stock photo, write a fictional story to match photo, publish. There's one more newspaper subscription not renewed - and if that's the case, then it was a subscription the newspaper was lucky to have in the first place.
>Is this not generally true? I like to hike, but a lot of times climbing a mountain is absolutely miserable, and I might be sore for some time afterword.

I'm a strength athlete. Minor injuries are the norm, serious injuries are a guarantee if you lift long enough. I tore my meniscus a 14 months ago and kept on lifting and I have numerous friends that have delayed surgeries so that they could still compete in specific competitions.

It tears us up, it's miserable, but man it's worth every second of discomfort, every little bit of pain.
My advice, as a full-stack dev (laravel on backend, vue(mostly) on frontend) -- learn and become a javascript master. Learn react and vue. Learn everything there is to know about es6+. Learn to use react native and/or nativescript to build mobile apps as well.

There are a lot of php/laravel jobs still, but JS seems to pay more, and it's everywhere - the # of jobs out there for frontend or full-stack js devs is crazy. Plus with JS you can do backend and frontend.

One thing you might do to get started is find a mentor, or partner with someone and just start building stuff. Tutorials are shit (except when you need them to solve a problem). You can't just learn to code following a book or guide or video. You've got to get your hands dirty and 'tinker' with things. When you try to do something and can't figure out how, then you'll go and watch tutorials or read stackoverflow threads.

Everytime you break through these 'walls', is when you level up your skills and reach new heights as a developer. I've been doing laravel since 2013, and Vue since 2016 and I'm still learning every day.

Every time I see older code I wrote even 3 or 4 months earlier, I cringe at how ugly it is and could be improved with what I now know. You have to love learning though to be a good dev, because you'll be learning/googling your way out of problems for the rest of your life or until you build an app that brings in residual income and lets you retire.
The solution to traffic jams is naturally ‘more roads’!
"Celiac disease" is not an allergy. It's an autoimmune response.

https://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/celiac-disease
This headline is a bit like 'Man plans to crash after falling 126 stories'