skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Years ago, we did a study to determine whether anyone at Google is particularly good at hiring. We looked at tens of thousands of interviews, and everyone who had done the interviews and what they scored the candidate, and how that person ultimately performed in their job. We found zero relationship. It’s a complete random mess, except for one guy who was highly predictive because he only interviewed people for a very specialized area, where he happened to be the world’s leading expert."

From the third paragraph of the first answer here: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-...
Any prepaid sim will let you roam, if you’re really worried get one from Three and it will work in the states too. Local calls will be routed back to the country where the sim came from, so actually using the phone for traditional voice calls will be pricey. Lebara UK has a cheap plan with 100 international minutes and a few gigs of data for like £10/30 days (last time I used it) and can be bought from any phone shop

edit I checked the Lebara data rates and it’s all included in the normal quota, except for Switzerland at £15/MB, so... maybe not
If a company actively lobbies/bribes the government to pass laws and tax policy at the expense of the general population, I think it's fair to call that company hostile.

Perhaps it's time consumers start to act like it.
A bit curious considering how closely they have collaborated with Broadcom so far, and with Broadcom not being a RISC-V member.

Though 2 of 3 founders of https://www.lowrisc.org/ worked on Raspberry PI, that is a common connection.
Not everything fits in the iso container format.

Even if it did, you still need to move rolling-stock from one rail system to another from time to time.

There's a rail ferry in my city [0], and a couple of link-spans to support rail ferries [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interislander
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkspan
Spin up a local Storj V3 Testnet (storj-sdk)
The sense I've gotten so far is that given a causal model with non-controversial causal assumptions, you can do algebra in some cases to come up with conclusions that otherwise (in the absence of do-calculus) would have required experimentation. And in other cases, you're still stuck.
I have a Chromecast Audio and I just choose "cast screen to device" from the Android system tray (the pull-down menu from the top of the screen) and it seems to work fine to stream any audio to the Chromecast
You mean to the Latin alphabet from the Arabic one, right?
Yep agreed about the livestream.

I meant just an accurate projection onto the windows of existing Google Maps data based on the location of the ISS.

Even if that weren't possible, there are some nice high resolution textures of the earth (Blue Marble??) that could perhaps be made to work.
See discussion on related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18881030
I would love an AirPlay 2 receiver equivalent of the Chromecast Audio. I know the ancient Airport Express can do it, but it's wireless capabilities are lacking (802.11n or g might be the best it can do.) Anyone know of one?
URL for the original article source: https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2018/12/27/dragon-boundary-...
A strange kind of data tracks the weather – and pirate ships
Hi all, I wrote up a walk through on running a test environment on the Storj network. The Storj test network (storj-sdk) enables you to run all the components of the Storj platform (Satellite, Uplink client, and storage nodes) and test them on your local machine.

It walks through the Minio GUI, Uplink CLI, and S3 Gateway and how to successfully upload/download data and stream a 4k video.

I built this guide for people who want to try out Storj's decentralized cloud storage platform, in a step-by-step, hand-held fashion and thought some folks here might like it.
Let me know what you think!
Brain teasers are only mentioned at the very end of the interview. The whole beginning section discusses (and supports) GP's earlier assertion.
I'd also love to see video games on mobile devices running through a browser with the same level of immersion and capability as, say, Infinity Blade, Gear.Club, Flatpack, or, heck, Minecraft.

I know I've only cited one category of mobile app, but it illustrates the point that anybody who tells you "xyz needs to die" might have a very myopic view of what xyz actually is.
I read it as more "students tend to prefer sitting at a real computer to learn".
Apparently yes. Visa/MasterCard pressure Patreon to drop users with views they don’t approve of. Most recently alt-right users. I think it’s important to protect free speech, especially the kind I don’t agree with.
Your completely right, where on Earth would criminals and scammers be able to get a credit card? /s

I am having a hard time understanding how more websites using https could possibly be a worse thing.
Quite a problem, yes.

They're trying to stay on the nice side of credit card and other financial companies so porn, speech that takes on controversial/flame/political/religious topics, being a dick or unsavory person, doing illegal things in $COUNTRY will get you banned from the platform. It's understandable from a staying in business point of view but it can feel hypocritical, heavy handed and disingenuous when you hear the CEO speaking about it and explaining the company's actions to users. He won't own up to what they're doing, which would allow people at least be able to empathize with him.

I don't use the platform and I don't support anyone on Patreon. Unless I've made a mistake explaining the situation I'd prefer not to expand this thread. It's serious flamebait.
“Supporting 32-bit time system calls after 2038” will serve future generations as an example of the lengths that developers are supposed to go to in order to ensure backwards compatibility, even in the face of apparent absurdity.

Alternately, it will serve as a joke about how scared everyone was of breaking things written with our primitive and brittle 21st century programming techniques.
On the other hand, an app that was further developed and maintained might have been used more. The app, as it is, probably shouldn't have existed in the first place. There's room for an app at Udacity, but not what they made.
Aha, the real reason behind the 2008 crisis!
I really, really sympathize with the goals here but when I read through these proposals a few months ago I literally facepalmed. They seem about as realistic as praying for some kind of deus ex machina.

Ultimately I think there are technical solutions to making the decentralized web more attractive than the walled gardens, but at this point they will need to be ridiculously polished and shiny to even get a look, and this stuff... is not. Going forward it gets even worse, they're going to be opposed at every step by corporations with more money than most nations.

The internet was originally decentralized because the government wanted to make it that way, and I think the only way to get back there is going to require a gigantic, economically unattractive investment. There are at least a few governments that may have the capability but I can't name one that would have the motivation. Hopefully some billionaire's charity will decide saving the internet is a worthy legacy.
"Spending is reported in 2016 dollars"
I’d always assumed they must be connected to support the ability of fire engines to setup route plans or the central traffic management teams to be able to override light sequences.

I see now there are other novel ways of supporting preemption for emergency vehicles, although I’m still unconvinced that’s what our city uses as the lights often preempt several minutes in advance and from over a kilometre away.
Great question, because it is basically the most ignored problem in the Semantic Web community and thus the one that we are spending quite a lot of time on.

So, basically, there is one data model, RDF, but RDF does not require the same set of fields, to the contrary you are free to write your own. Obviously, you wouldn't get good interoperability if you do. So, there are several things you can do:

1) Adopt what others are using
2) Map your "fields" (we're more for calling it vocabularies), to the stuff others are doing, and rely on apps to figure out interop using reasoners.
3) Don't care, your app will work fine for you.

I mean, 3) is fine, it is just that you'd be missing out. 2) also works, kinda, but reasoners aren't all that easy to use, so I'd mostly like to see people go for 1).

So, we need to make it really easy to find existing stuff. You could go for the big one, i.e. https://schema.org/ or you could go more in detail and look at https://lov.linkeddata.es/dataset/lov/ . The former has a lot of traction, the latter is real decentralized, so I kinda prefer that.

Then, we have to make it real easy to author new stuff when you can't find existing stuff, because that will happen. Then, we need to make it easy for others to find yours, so that they can start using it too for similar applications. And, I'm thinking that it will be kind of a graduation process, where you first look for existing stuff, and when failing to find anything, you just mint your own without thinking about others, just to get something that works up and running. Once your app starts gaining traction, you tighten it up, and if then something other gets popular, you can migrate to that with little disruption.

So, we're not there yet, but we're thinking and working on it a lot.
I disagree; his speech seems normal to me.

However, I have been thinking about the unique speech patterns of some accomplished individuals. My uninformed guess is that some people develop neural connections differently depending on what they do in their formative years. Feynman, in a video [1], talks about how he was able to keep accurate time while reading but not talking, whereas his friend John Tukey could keep time while talking but not reading.

If someone doesn't talk much as a kid because they spent most of their time reading or solving math problems, it might be reasonable to expect that their speech will be underdeveloped.

I have nothing but anecdotal evidence. I, for instance, cannot talk and think (perform simple arithmetic or recall something from memory or even think about the next sentence) at the same time. If I'm talking, I have to pause shortly, think and structure what I'm going to say, and then say it, and after saying it I might notice I missed something and then I rephrase it. I've recorded myself and my speech pattern is almost the same as the one in Knuth's videos. I attribute the speech pattern to not having to talk much during my formative years.

[1]: http://generallythinking.com/richard-feynman-on-thinking-pro...
Most recently alt-right users.

Most prominently, recently, a center-left commentator whose opinions certain executives don't like.
In my life, I have consumed alcohol and I have consumed sugar. I do not find them to be comparable, in most cases.

Where can I learn more about `refined sugar` causing

> All the negative effects on the body of alcohol
I can set the date on my microwave. I just set it to 2040 and it seems to be working fine, so I guess if anyone's really worried about this buy a Kenmore Elite while you still can.
SpaceX will reduce its workforce by 10 percent
This. Before we disappear down the HN antidepressant conspiracy rabbit hole, ever actually seen a commercial with either of those themes? You haven't - FDA would shut 'em down in a heartbeat because that's not in the label.
We know that things like refined sugar cause dopamine spikes that cause people to crave them and consume more. We also know that sugary drinks like soda allow people to consume a large amount of calories quickly. Those are well established and studied behaviors.

What we also know, is that consuming refined sugar as opposed to any other source of calories is not very different outside of lack of nutrition etc. This is long established fact in both human and animal studies for many decades. Which means if there is a difference, it is likely not very pronounced.

To willfully ignore hard scientific fact to a point where a person needs to adamantly declare that sugar is akin to alcohol in the damage it does to the body, is a sign of something out of the norm in a person.

The second half of my comment was to see if there were studies about people who have this behavior as I find it interesting. This is one of the topics on HN which seem to get comments with extreme views and I was simply asking if people had research on this type of obsession.

What is it specifically about diet and nutrition that causes such a visceral, irrational, reaction out of a small subset of people? I am genuinely curious.
I have faith in freedom. China still has a long way to go. The Soviet Union sent the first man-made satellite and the first Human being into space before anyone else. However, Soviet Union collapsed eventually. China has not reached the height of Soviet Union in terms of scientific achievements yet.
Some kind of elaborate blackmail?
Google Maps – New Improved Version
The one I'm aware of is Sargon of Akkad, who I'd certainly consider to be alt-right. Who are you referring to?
This is why carbon needs to be priced so you could have facts about the magnitude of the problem (spoiler: probably pretty small) instead of trying to make qualitative tradeoffs (is it worth destroying society to save the environment?)
FWIW I started a Google Fi competitor focused on providing competent service quickly: CommunityPhone.org
Not really, it is pretty much the other way around. :-) We're basically building the simplest thing that could possibly work, they are rebuilding a lot of infrastructure that they have to use, but we can use where it makes sense. So, they are kinda trying to implement the Web, which is a much bigger task than adding access control and identity... :-) There's also been quite a lot of overlap between people working on Solid and working on Blockchains in the past, so we know it well. But we're not really in competition, we'd be fine coexisting.
Bitter people dislike sugar.
That's not at all how argumentation works :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18886753
Computationally and Statistically Efficient Model Fitting Techniques [pdf]
You can’t function as a citizen of a country without identity documents. Passport national ID cards, in my opinion, the optimal solution to the problem. Issuance can be streamlined, and cost can be absorbed for those who can’t afford it.

Society requires foundations.
Only a problem for mirrorless cameras.
I use `f6f6ef`, which matches the background.
Pearl's causal model is a decent didactic tool, but it seems to have little relevance when it comes to trying to figure out real-world problems. (If any actual scientific breakthroughs have come from Pearl's approach, I'd love to hear about them. I don't think there are any.) I believe the disagreement between Gelman and Pearl may come down to the fact that Gelman often deals with actual estimation problems where you have to find causal parameters using scanty and imperfect data, with no strong theory to guide decisions, while Pearl is focused on toy models where all the limitations and uncertainties of real problems are assumed away.

Donald Rubin has said, surely correctly, that design trumps analysis in causal inference. Pearl's approach seems to be the opposite--all focus is on the analytical details. For practicing scientists, I think this article this article provides a much more useful model for causal inference: https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/45/6/1787/2617188 See Textbox 3 where different approaches to studying the relation between smoking and low birthweight are described. The various approaches rely on different assumptions and any one study design may not be convincing by itself, but the way their results converge ("triangulation") is very convincing. AFAIK, none of the studies used DAGs, yet the causal evidence provided is stronger than any DAG could provide.
We wrote an article describing how this can be done, we file complaints with the FCC for our customers against their former carriers all the time: https://www.communityphone.org/2018-08-07-how-to-file-a-comp...
Important to note that this is the guy who was actually running the fraud - the artist creating the forgeries served 4 months in prison and now makes an apparently successful living painting reproductions and original works.

http://www.johnmyatt.com/
I doubt they'll design their own chip, but I wouldn't be shocked to find that they joined to try to steer other partners and development into the areas they'd need to make a board comparable with a RISC-V cpu and some kind of GPU.
Yes, I urgently need to migrate; same with Disqus, needs to become Solid.
Yup. I virtually never drink soda, but I DEFINITELY never drink the 'diet' garbage.
Yeah, huge shout out to Initech specifically for their amazing work in that field.

;)
Fitch warns an extended shutdown could hurt the U.S. credit rating
> even a well-intentioned agent doesn’t get the same answer from the “security department” twice

So you've gotten agents fired? Or does the security department flip flop with a different answer each time?

I've thankfully never had to deal with Google support, so I'm curious about your experiences.
At the time I played, Brave had a better auth/sso system than the top 10 web property I was employed by.
Lot's of activity in these censorship-free alternatives to popular applications.

Interesting to see if this is just a fad or are these going to make any impact incumbents.
I think I am flagged as a profitable customer with T-Mobile because I never have to wait on hold and I always get excellent service.
> You can’t function as a citizen of a country without identity documents.

Sure you can. Identity documents exist more to prevent (the “wrong") people from functioning as citizens than to enable people to do so.
What's needed is an app that lets people donate in a low friction way. I had been using Patreon as a poor man's micropayments. I'd like to see (or make) a "pay them somehow" web app, that keeps tabs on creator's payment methods, and after some judicious setup, takes care of all the rigamarole of donating for you. Crypto, Paypal, etc. Such a system could even cut checks and mail them, if needed. (For some extra fees.)

Ideally, I could do something like set my monthly expenditure at something like $40, and I could nominate a list of creators, and they could all just get $1 per month.
It's not in your imagination.

My SO works at a consumer packaging agency. They hosted a seminar on the rise of the vegan food industry a few months back. Moreover, here's another relevant graph:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
Hmmm, I have never heard of that guy, are alt-right people just pure white supremacist nazis or just people on the right wing of politics?

Seems to me that Sargon person is one of those but can't tell.
Serious question... is there a list of Google created products vs products they purchased?

The only two successful Google consumer products are gmail and maps... almost everything else they acquired.
I might just be a "nerd" on hacker news but I'm also the guy who just made the decision on which cloud service, email provider, and document sharing service to use at my job.

Guess which company didn't get the contract.
"The only way" you are suggesting is not the only way.

Changing people's thinking and behavior, especially that of highly misguided characters in power, requires as Psychologist Marshall Rosenberg would say, choosing between Violence and Compassion.

Ideally for progress we want people to change the way they think about what they are doing, not spend their time defending it or how to get away with it. The latter being what we manage to keep doing.

This is where the choice of approach we take makes a huge difference.

Our Natural instinct is to choose violence, punishment, judgement, name and shame etc. We want to see heads role for suffering caused.

But this approach takes the focus off the suffering of the victim, and puts focus on how to cause pain to the perpetrator. It doesn't get perpetrators to change the way they think - to reflect. Instead they react - play defense, and spend their time and resources on avoiding and skirting punishment.

Think about this. Think about what Gandhi, MLK, Mandala did by not choosing this route. They didn't allow perpetrators to play that game. They showed us there is a big difference in outcomes when we tell a man - look at the pain you have caused VS you are <LABEL> and will be punished for the pain you have caused.

This ledger of harms concept is great, because it keeps focus on the suffering produced. It makes people in power squirm and reflect. Which is what plants the seeds of change. They will feel the need to change, just as the British Empire, US Govt or the South African govts did.

But as soon as you add punishment to each issue their focus will shift to self defense at all cost.
Last I checked, Windows is still the OS of choice for consumers, businesses, the space station (check the recent HN post and zoom in on one of the ThinkPads), etc. So MSFT still has a good chokehold on modern computing.
Lots of immigrants don’t like it. I personally know many who don’t.

Some stay and complain about “their ways” and how it’s better “back home”. Generally it’s older people, who are now stuck. They can never go back.

Others actually go back.

I know of a whole family who moved to Canada, not once, but twice! And eventually still went back to Eastern Europe. And this was mid-2000s, post-war country. Kids finished university and they were gone.

I know of 3 younger people who were proper immigrants, not edu visa, had finished their education and were offered/found good opportunities back in their countries and moved.

One friend of mine lived in Canada almost 20 years. Went to Moscow following his gf (she got a job as an English teacher). He loves it there and he stayed permanently.

I know many more stories like that. Life in Canada is good. It’s safe and peaceful. Almost complacent. Not everyone enjoys that lifestyle though.
https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ESRS/HDEV/
You don’t need a card to keep using the apps you’ve purchased.

You don’t need a card to maintain or get an Apple ID (unlike implied bythe default user flow, it’s possible to get w/o one).

You don’t need a card on an Apple ID to download free apps.

You even don’t need a card on an old account to use apps from that old account on the same device as apps from a new account, you just need to be able to provide valid credentials for both (seems like triggers when the device is trying to update the apps in question).
Chromecast Audio is the same as Chromecast built-in. There are tons of devices, this ecosystem is not gonna die anytime soon. Doesn't matter if Google ships their own hardware or not.
This is the problem with quickie SSL cert issuance from "Let's Encrypt". If it took 10 days of consistent domain resolution to get an SSL cert, this wouldn't be happening.
It's going to be really easy to search for how to something in a language called "beta" . . . . . .
Oh, but Solid isn't just a social network. True, social networks have really powerful network effects, so it is a key to success, but not the only key. We're separating data from apps, which enables permissionless innovation. That means a lot of people can start writing cool things that they just can't now, because they are constrained by those platform companies. We're doing that too. And once people start doing that, every useful app that comes to Solid will grow the platform, first probably as small communities here and there, and then those communities get new connections, and boom, disruption! :-)
In Germany, they want your passport and an address to register a SIM. It's not one of the worst countries for buying a SIM, but it's not one of the best. Last time it took me trips to 3 or 4 stores and at least 90 minutes to get a SIM.
Worldwide, most people access the internet via mobile devices. They don't own or use desktops. Beyond that, many don't have internet to the home. They just use their phones.