skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was an Apple naysayer back in the 90's when they were on the ropes. I remember a having a discussion with a colleague where I exclaimed why doesn't Apple just give it up? They only have something like 2-3% of the PC market share. He quickly responded by pointing out that Apple was making $2 Billion in revenue and that we were working for a company that was making $70 Million in revenue. Should we just fold up shop? I've never forgotten that discussion or the profound impact it's had on my way of thinking since. So yeah, a $500 Million Apple Watch market is something I would kill for. Or any one of their myriad other "losing" propositions.

There's another lesson here as captured by the Harvard Business Review. Let's suppose you're a technology organization, especially an IT organization, and you want greater innovation. What path should you take? Should you focus on innovation or should you focus on execution? Counterintuitively, those organizations focusing on execution achieved greater innovation than those focusing on innovation. Execution is everything. Why do so many of us have all these great ideas yet aren't millionaires? Execution. So Tim Cook is focused on execution. Good.
I see this argument occasionally and it always blows my mind that people think there are careers that literally no one wants to do. With hundreds of millions of people suddenly free to do what they want to do, you're going to find a ton that will do every little job imaginable.

That said, UBI and working aren't mutually exclusive. It seems entirely reasonable to assume there will still be people working lower-end jobs to augment their UBI. If there aren't enough garbage workers, it seems only natural to also assume the pay for garbage workers would go up to entice more people to take the job.

I've always worked CS and CS-related jobs (but have volunteered at non-CS jobs), but I'd be very likely to take up some kind of monotonous-but-fulfilling service job like garbage collecting. Probably not full time, but I'd love to have the time to help out others more.

As a side note, there's probably also a lot of work to be done in transitioning these kinds of assumedly-low-interest jobs into a gig-based paradigm. I think more people would take up "shifts" in something new than committing to it as a career. Obviously there's a lot of logistical problems (training, accountability, insurance, etc) that need addressed, but that's part of the fun of figuring it all out. :)
I don’t think I broke any HN rules. Did I?
I'm in recovery for BPD. I did a shit load of emotional damage to my family because of it.

My BPD stems from childhood abandonment (absent father) and persistent emotional abuse from my likely NPD mother. I learned to doubt things I feel/thought and often reality sometimes. Real love and emotion connection were terrifying to me on a subconscious level. I never could trust anyone, not even myself (the only one to trust was my abuser). I developed so many coping mechanisms to protect myself from my mother that involve projection, distortion of reality and emotional manipulation. My brain learned all these horrible ways of protect myself from my abuser and I applied those behaviors to everyone around me.

It has taken years of unpacking my childhood trauma to get to like 90% remission of symptoms. Before that it was years of denial about my behaviors before I even started to entertain the fact I had BPD.

I'm sorry to hear BPD is effecting both you and your brother. There is hope but he has to be on board and it's a long road.
I automated all of my social media
It's wise just to disregard anything and everything he says.
The event that ended the relationship was: I was talking to her nice (edit: male) roommate about politics or something at about midnight while she went to bed apparently in a good mood. Turns out that was unacceptable, and she came back out of her room 20 minutes later, started berating me for it while I was confused, escalated to shouting at me for an hour while I remained calm, and finally threatened to call the cops on me. I walked a couple miles home at 2 AM through a snowstorm, while she sent me 10 desperate text messages. I never talked to her again, though I spent months agonizing about it (to the point of panic attacks), because I felt guilty that she desperately needed help and I thought I might be able to help her through continuing to patiently and reliably engage with her (it didn’t seem like anyone else was around to help her), and I liked and respected her as a person, but decided I couldn’t take it for my own mental health.

We only dated for a relatively short time, but it took me a move across the country and a year to sort out my feelings and start dating again.

YMMV.
Agreed. Even if I choose to have recording devices in my home, and then rent out on a temporary basis, it would be trivial for me to take them down before renting it out. Plus, I have the financial incentive to do so.

Allowing hosts to have cameras inside the rented space, regardless of recording state, seems like a bad policy indeed.

The only "legitimate" reason a host would want active cameras in the home is for protection against bad guests. This belies AirBnB's supposed "host guarantee" which should prevent this concern in the first place.
Satellite Startup Will Bring Broadband Internet to 20% of Alaskans Without It
> About that "free" healthcare in Sweden, etc...

This "free" in quotes is such a stale talking point. No one thinks it's literally free, it's free AT THE POINT OF USE, which is assumed anyone knows, but apparently not.
Its just a line from an old movie Office Space.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18923719
I'd argue that "recruiting" is a form of selling. Especially in the beginning, when you're selling the dream...
Imagine how much the conversation would shift if we instead focused on increasing tax revenue, rather than increasing tax rates.
Event Capture Framework with Node.js, TimescaleDB, PipelineDB, and Apache Kafka
Seriously! I usually try to avoid news-related articles, but this time I'll bite.

When are we going to stop striving for some utopian perfection that is not there and instead realize/accept that most codified valuation have a conjugate trade off that can't be messaged away.

I know I'm not saying anything interesting here, but it bears repeating, there is probably no set of laws that (1) has strong protections put in place to resist abuse (2) is going to truly champion free speech and (3) still have real world protections against fake news that can't be easily circumvented.

What's the difference between a interest-group paid authoritatively-toned opinion-piece and fake news? How much of the former are you willing to nondiscriminatory censor to ensure squashing the later? What is the social/economic blow-black for that censorship?

Said another way, at what point does omitting facts become misrepresentation? And how many people's livelihoods are you willing to bet on the quality of your distinction?

When it comes to fake news, I'm as disgusted as the next person, but not every misuse of free speech deserves the special legislation that we grant to hate speech.
I would argue its a bad logical technique but a good heuristic if you didn't want to invest a lot of time diving deep into the science.
> Dropping SSNs for natural persons would be a good idea.

It would but it isn't the SEC's decision to make and the Treasury Department & DOJ would never allow it. This is one of the primary means of investigating the flow of dirty money through the financial system.
That is a lame excuse for a blog with examples that are just bad engineering practices.

You surely don't have such examples with the other programming languages supported on the Google Cloud.
Assessing a $90 late fee on a $4 debt is something we would be livid about if it were a credit card company. The state is literally robbing people here because they are corrupt, bankrupt, and desperate. I think it's despicable.
Obligatory incredible reddit comment about crowd crush https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3pcvfb/saudi_arab...
Maybe Google Native Client support?

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/NativeClient
...oh brother. That types overviews describes, like, half my disorder arsenal.

Probably not a good idea, to self-diagnose online.
My favourite DAW. Think I am going to have to invest in a new DC coupled interface with lots of inputs and outputs now to drive the modular.
Hey Seth, I was wondering if you guys ever discussed the previous AWS vs GCP performance post that was on here a while back.
There was a really good episode of "Explained" on Netflix that talked about diets. They took a study group, and gave half of them low-carb, and the other half a low-fat diet.

Both groups lost weight equally. They didn't lose weight because of that particular diet, they lost weight because they made better decisions daily, stopped eating out, and stopped buying processed foods.
Redfin, Zillow, and Trulia Haven't Killed Off Real Estate Brokers
Good to know! Hard to tell from their map and I didn't remember any county-wide ordinances. Thanks.
SSN is often used as an account verification, which is a problem because social engineers can get your SSN pretty easily.

It's hard for a phone bank operator to ask for a photo ID.
> After all, there's no guarantee that "hybrid vigor" actually improves the metrics humans care about (such as yield), rather than causing some other traits (such as leaf size) to be expressed stronger.

I can assure you in strongest terms that, yes, hybrid vigor is unique in this regard. 'Solving' hybrid vigor in a way that you can capture the benefits in a stable inbred is a multi-billion dollar innovation.

The most innovation in breeding is happening in maize. It's responsible for the most high-throughput sequencing, the most automated greenhouse metrology, the most funding in general (esp. in China). About 10-15 years ago any plant biologist was basically guaranteed funding if they put the words 'epigenetics' and 'heterosis' in their grants. Everyone figured that the recent understanding in DICER, the plant RNA Pols, DNA methylation and histone modifications, etc. would lead to a solid working model of heterosis.

It didn't happen.

Every conceivable growth and yield trait in maize has been analyzed. The qTLS have been found, the regulatory elements mapped, the chromatin environment understood, etc. It's very difficult to explain how well maize has been studied; in many ways the field is vastly ahead of any other model despite the absurd difficulty of doing genomics in such a repetitive and large genome.

The notion that leaf width/area hasn't been analyzed to death with regard to yield is laughable. Sidenote: the plant breeders have been wiping the floor with animal breeders because they naturally perform group selection in crop rows. Things like broad leaves are bad bad bad because they cost a lot and just end up shaded by their neighbors and higher leaves on the same plant. Animal breeders fail here and have been selecting for hyper-aggressive animals that fight and stress everything to all hell, much to their detriment.

The fact is that heterosis matters, and any high-performance inbred will be beat by even a moderate-performing hybrid by any reasonable metric.
Pioneering surgery restores movement to kids paralyzed by acute flaccid myelitis
Life is reinforcement learning, the reward signal is dopamine :)
It is supposed to change. The Social Security Administration explicitly allows people to obtain new SSNs in limited circumstances.
> I just can't wrap my mind around how they got 99% of the way there and then decided, 'hey lets just truncate this field, it's only the entire purpose of this dataset.'

I'm willing to bet this is because they haven't made any significant changes to the system since it was implemented in 1996.
NIN is rarely used in the UK. You need one for student financing... and later for your employer to correctly relay your taxes to HMRC. Certainly it's not needed for banks/credit cards/phones/brokerages/etc.
I have a 58 Historic Les Paul and a 58 reissue (AV) Tele, which is the brightest of the most accurate set of Tele reissues Fender ever made.

Plugged into the same amp/settings, the Les Paul is a bit brighter/more cutting than the Tele (this is generally true of the better vintage bursts w/ PAFs, they occupy tele territory), but the Tele is a fantastic and versatile guitar. The 52s are typically the ones favored by rock guitarists (most famously Keith Richards) and they're punchy as hell, but they are anything but bright with a high output lap steel pickup in the bridge and brass saddles.
You need to pay more attention... he is being sarcastic. That's exactly his point - people are wrong to believe the media and blame everything on Russia.
> I honestly would not be surprised if the difference in effectiveness of targeted vs untargeted advertisement turns out to be none, negligible or even unfavorable to targeted.

The devil in the detail is how well the targeting is done.

Is there a big difference between poor targeting & untargeted? Not really.

Is there a big difference between good targeting & untargeted? Massive amounts of data to say yes.
Since Slack changed default profile icons too, I recreated mine in CSS: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/VqNXXP
This does not surprise me. A few things that I know about the ad business:

- There are a lot of players in the market

- Most of them oversell their ability to actually target effectively; I actually know some sales people in this space. Bla bla, machine learning, bla bla bla algorithms, bla bla bla smoke and mirrors.

- Especially the smaller players tend to not have usable profiles on the vast majority of users for reasons of not having existed long enough or not having enough customers to have actually captured enough relevant data.

- Any new ad company has to fake it for quite some time until they actually have enough data. And with GDPR, that data is now a lot harder to come by legally.

- Some of ad companies are fraudulent in the sense that they overcharge their customers for clicks that never happened. E.g. bot traffic is a big revenue driver for ad providers and most of them conveniently can't tell the difference between a bot and a user they supposedly profiled.

So, what just happened is that the NYT cut off most of the worst offenders in this space and ended up with better quality ad providers with better conversions (even without profiling).

Profiling is actually only needed if you have lots of ads competing for the same space. If you reduce the number of ads, the need for profiling goes away. Also, you compensate for bad profiling this way since more (random) people will see your ad. So previously under-performing ads might actually benefit from being shown to random people as opposed to some silly algorithm that uses bad/incomplete profile data to take the wrong decisions.

So what the NYT figured out is that they are better served by a small number of high value ads shown to random people than a great many low quality ads from low quality providers targeted to a handful of their users.

Targeting still has a place in this market but it needs to be consensual; which is going to be a tough sell to end users.
We use unpatched langauge toolchains/runtimes for GCF and second-generation GAE. That means a drastically reduced time to release for new language versions. (Maintaining patched runtimes was a significant burden to making new versions of Go available on GAE.)

For long-term support of various languages, see the GCP deprecation policy: https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation

Especially this sentence: "excluding [...] support for a programming language version that is no longer publicly supported by, or receiving security updates from, the organization maintaining that programming language"

So, that means we're committed to supporting the two most recent major version releases of Go, as per the Go release policy: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Go-Release-Cycle#release-m...

Disclaimer: I work on GCP and used to work on Go language releases.
> Ultima Thule was a studied object, targeted by an serious AF NASA interplanetary mission...

It was targeted by New Horizons project well after the spacecraft lauched in 2006. Ultima Thule was only discovered in 2014 !!

Sadly for Oumuiamua, this thing was detected far too late to do intensive observations, it's on the way out of the solar system if I understand correctly.
If this unusual object were an artifact and our solar system wasn't it's destination the most positive evidence for it's artificial nature would be it's onward destination.

As yet I haven't seen any extrapolations of its post-encounter track.
Also, the card has zero anti-forgery technology built into it. Anybody with a printer can make a near-perfect fake.
How much would it cost to go grab this thing and plonk it onto the moon for studying, in the event the object is harboring a contagious disease? Could a private company accomplish this?
If there's a shred of truth to the story, I can only see two scenarios.

1 - The hiring manager had to put in a lot of effort budget-wise to make the flying in happen and when he found out it was more of a complete failure than a rubber stamp, he had to save face.

2 - The candidate dramatically misrepresented themselves and lied to get in the door. Especially in the case of a cash limited start up, that could hurt - even more so if the story about high air fares due to location is true.

Either way, I think it's a lie, or at minimum the candidate isn't being entirely up front.
Would be nice to finally get CNN and MSNBC off the air
The evidence suggests that the parent commenter was wrong when indicating that the last significant climate change happened 125000 years ago.
Isn't this AI in China video SCARY? Would you live there?
Not sure about the EFF but I know that MongoDB has submitted the SSPL to the OSI and has already taken feedback from that process.
Introducing WiFiman
I'm guessing they didn't have a lot of money at their disposal.
You're right but the investors and founders can't control for time.

so you optimize for the variables you CAN control.
If you wouldn't act that way with a high-level executive why act that way with your coworkers- do you respect them less?

It's as easy as saying "Do you mind if I take notes on my laptop while you answer your question" if you really have to.
The U.S. marginal tax rate in 1960 was 91%
I personally specialize in targeting small business owners through FB ads, average age of around 50 :)
Honestly, from my perspective the problem is more the timing. If MongoDB had always been licensed this way, companies could make informed decisions about what product to use. Instead, you pulled a license bait and switch -- attracted people with a free-as-in-freedom license, then switched it for one that was less free after adoption picked up. That's not behavior I'd personally support as someone who has a career because of free software, and I wouldn't support it professionally because of the immense risk a company takes on when adopting a piece of software for long-term use -- like a DB.
There’s one in Kenya https://basicincome.org/news/2017/03/us-kenya-new-study-publ...

Also concluded ones in Namibia and in India i think
You're likely aware of this already, but the expert sleepers ES-8 is a great way to interface the two worlds.
Anything's possible if the vendor secretly collaborates with a government to insert vulnerabilities and lies about it. But what we're talking about here is, given the way Apple has publicly declared how the system works[1], what can a government do with full server access.

Apple states "All of the user’s registered devices display an alert message when a new device, phone number, or email address is added." So no, it's not correct to say key management is out of your visibility.

[1] https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide....
Can't speak for big war machines in general, but aircraft carriers specifically are a relic of the cold war and have only maintained relevance in recent decades because the US has only ever been involved in massively asymmetrical conflicts.

In a modern open battle between evenly matched opponents, the carriers would all be on the bottom of the ocean by the end of the second day.

EDIT to add— found the article I was looking for, about the economics and battle realities of carriers:

"Soviet Adm. Sergei Gorchakov reportedly held the view that the U.S. had made a strategic miscalculation by relying on large and increasingly vulnerable aircraft carriers. The influential U.S. Adm. Hyman Rickover shared this view. In a 1982 congressional hearing, legislators asked him how long American carriers would survive in an actual war.

Rickover’s response? “Forty-eight hours,” he said."

Source: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-u-s-navys-big-mistake-b...
Reserves Vs reserves recoverable are different in addition it's boe ie gas reserves also converted to oil. So N* 70 won't work. Wall Street ain't dumb when it comes to estimating stock prices. ExxonMobil RRR has been struggling for a while
A couple of things; time and circumstances.

First we know there are many ways in which life on the planet can be eradicated that are not yet preventable by humans. Asteroid impact, solar flare, volcanic eruption, and climate change, while humans also can kill ourselves off with a large exchange of nuclear weapons. So if you plot the chance of our existing over time, as long as we stay a single planet species that plot heads to zero long before Voyager interacts with another star system.

Then we have Voyager, which will take 17 thousand years (and some change) to go one light year. Nearest star system is Alpha Centauri at just over 4 light years away so conservatively 80 thousand years before Voyager gets there (assuming it is on a path that takes it to Alpha Centauri)

Doing the math, the probability that humans exist in 80 Kyrs versus human ability to travel at a significant speed (say > 0.5c) between the stars vs human nature to retain artifacts when they can from historic events.

It is a thought exercise, which I doubt we'll live to see any affirmative answer to :-)
Make people fill out proof-of-right-to-work-in-the-country paperwork when they get employed and proof-of-right-to-live-in-the-country paperwork when they rent or buy housing. That's essentially what most countries do. Border security is definitely helpful--especially if you want to deter outright criminals from trafficking drugs and human beings--but it's not sufficient, because if you enter the country on a time-limited visa and your visa expires, you still need a mechanism for that.

Literally not enforcing the Irish border and relying on everyone having their paperwork in order when they deliver truckloads of goods or apply for jobs or whatever isn't a completely insane idea. There's a moderate risk of UK tariffs and trade barriers being circumvented by people smuggling Czech stereo systems across the Irish border in an unmarked van and selling them on the streets of Liverpool, but maybe that's okay.
Thank you. I'll read it.
I have heard multiple interviews of Loeb on youtube.[0] I like that he doesn't hide away the potential for wonder in astrology/cosmology. In that way he reminds me of Sagan a great deal. Sagan faced some ridicule as well in his time, so go figure.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz3qvETKooktNgCvvheuQDw/vid...
I don't think scientific definition strictly matters, in this context.

We're not meticulously trying to catalogue life on Earth.

You know... It's a case of is tomato a fruit or a vegetable.
We don't require a full set of fingerprints to renew your driver's license, but we do require proof of citizenship and residence. As a practical matter, for most people that means birth certificate and a utility bill with their address on it.

I assume the fingerprints thing is for future crime solving?
No, it's not related to this. GOOS=linux and GOARCH=amd64 for GCF deployments. The sandboxing technology used is based on gVisor.

We're working on arbitrary binary deployments, you can sign up for that here:
g.co/serverlesscontainers

Disclaimer: I work on GCP.