skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that, and most services throw that "we take your privacy very seriously" bit whether that is the case or not. I was simply wondering whether open-sourcing would prove that I actually do :)
You and dragonwriter both bring up the valid point about adverse selection issues with free riders not pulling their weight. I knew that was a problem but didn't know the name for it, so thanks for clearing that up for me.

I'm wondering if it might be solvable via an endowment. So for x dollars of UBI, the organization would need to invest roughly 10x in stocks/bonds/mutual funds/etc (assuming a 10% annual return). We'd have to decide if shortfalls due to inflation/taxes/fees would be made up by donations or if everything should be self-funded from the start (which might increase the multiplier).

I'd like to see a spreadsheet with projections on ROI and find out a typical multiplier. Obviously countless people would be on board if the multiplier is <= 1. But I'd like to see the formula for how much membership tapers off with increasing multiplier.

Personally I can see living on about $24,000 per year in my city (assuming I really could live mostly off my greenhouse and not have to commute to a day job), so that limits people here to a multiplier of perhaps 2-4x with $50k-$100k incomes. I think it's conceivable to barely live on $12,000 which would be 4-8x. A 10x or higher multiplier is probably unsustainable.

Which seems to suggest that UBI is not feasible until we have another 2-4x of GDP growth 30+ years from now, or redistribute income from the very wealthy to get us to where we'd be had income kept up with inflation. BUT that ignores economies of scale and the emergent effects of makers who are suddenly free to invent automated solutions for subsistence costs.

For example I've been meaning to build a $1500 electric-assist solar recumbent bicycle from https://www.goldenmotor.com parts that would largely negate all my transportation costs. But I'm too busy with work to ever do that, so the opportunity cost of having a job is at least $100 per month in fuel, insurance, repairs etc on my truck. Not to mention the 10 hours lost per day in preparation and commuting to work that I could be applying towards building apps that would earn me a passive income.
Mendeleevs Table
Fedora 30 Supplemental Wallpapers
Tim Cook: Product Pipeline Is "Full of Stuff"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2012/03/19/apple-ceo-...
I'd like to point out that in German, "der Hunden" doesn't exist.
I can't speak for US law but I'm pretty sure it is (it is in my country afaik).

However, I can imagine it's close to impossible to execute if you don't know who posted the material or it has been reposted like in the article.
Entire staffs at 3 Sonic locations quit after wages cut to '$4/hour plus tips'
Same boat. I like to take my "weekends" while everybody else is mostly "at work." A lot of things I enjoy doing are very busy on the weekends when a lot of people have the same day(s) off. For instance, going to the beach on a Tuesday is generally a lot better than a Saturday. A lot less traffic to/from, less crowded beaches and restaurants, etc.
I wrote https://tacoapp.com/info/privacy, so I’m biased, but it’s still the most user-centric privacy policy I’ve personally encountered.

It’s also tracked on GitHub to make changes easier to see: https://github.com/tacoapp/privacy-policy
I don't see "Automatic design of novel algorithms" in this list.

Can AutoML produce something as novel as a GAN, CapsNet, WaveNet, Transformer, Neural ODE, etc? Is that even considered to be one of its goals?

In my opinion, there's a clear separation between a group of people trying to improve AutoML so that it's more useful in doing all those tasks on the list, and a group of people trying to invent next gen ML algorithms or DL architectures.
If someone with more manufacturing capability likes your idea, they can freely copy, make, and sell. I don't see how that is a win. Perhaps that is why China is still called a Communist nation even with all the millionaires?
Well unfortunately we live in a world of imperfect bureaucrats instead of perfect ones.

If someone tells you there's a 1% chance that if you don't evacuate millions of people would be exposed to dangerous radiation, would you give the order? 10%? 50%? these are not easy questions
# diapers : "Traces of dangerous chemicals found in disposable nappies in France"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/23/france-traces-...

# children foods: "Weedkiller found in wide range of breakfast foods aimed at children"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/16/weedkill...
The New Bellwether for Enterprise IT
I guess in a way I was hoping that setting this up for oneself wouldn't be worth the 10-20$/m I would charge for access to it.

Mind you this would include DBs, servers to keep the data up-to-date, GraphQL servers to serve the data, etc. I guess it would be akin to the ElasticSearch model where one can set it up by themselves where for simple usage one would end up spending less time and money if they were to pay for my hosted solution.
Intel Xe Graphics Card: Rumors, News, and Release Date
> feel far more native

I don't see how emulated native controls can feel more native than actual native controls.
Gnome 3.32 Lands Long-Awaited Fractional Scaling Support
At 50, I have noticeable fast and slow periods. But when everything is firing correctly the correlations and ability to quickly see the forest for the trees is better than at any other time in my life. People are also more interesting and I tend to enjoy each nice day a little more than the last. Most importantly for professional work I now know when to give up and move on or dig in and finish.
Arm Sharpens Its Edge with the “Helios” Neoverse E1
That being said I see your point, my market wouldn't be limited to the techie type but rather people that wouldn't be able to read my code let alone verify the lack of tracking.
I do believe that the SourceHut project is investigating ways of simplifying the process of self-hosting email, for the purpose of using it to power a self-hosted forge platform. I feel like there's a decent chance of a large overlap in needed features and goals. The SourceHut folks are highly reachable on Freenode in #srht and other places.
MS Finally Enables Retpolines for Windows 10 Version 1809, Windows Server 2019
SpaceX set to launch critical Dragon demonstration mission tonight
What a terrible combination. First you have 5G, which, for the purposes of this conversation is high band 5G and not simply massive MIMO on the normal low bands (which would only increase thoroughput by about 15-20%).

High band 5G has terrible, absolutely terrible, propagation properties. It's absorbed by everything, basically only line of sight, and falls of as 1/r^2 in terms of wavelengths when the wavelengths are absolutely tiny (ie, millimeters).

I can think of no worse (modern) RF technology to try to use to provide broadband internet to rural areas.
Oh ok. I was confused by the use of the word "free", which you've used as well. Perhaps it means something different to Amazon customers.
Tom Lehrer made mention of the elements of the ancient world. If compiled into a periodic table of elements, it would be:

Earth, Air, Fire, & Water
Intel's Clear Linux Already Forging Plans to Land GCC 9 and LLVM 8
> Then again, it really begs the question, why don't we use any software that comes out of east Asia? Or let's say you buy into sales and profit and economics and mom-and-pop artisanal crafts and whatever as being in and of themselves valuable. It's not happening in Shenzhen with respect to software.

Because the approach that Shenzhen uses for hardware is rarely the same approach that they use with software, and their software approach is generally not something to be emulated.

We may get a lot of wacky gizmos out of China, but the vast majority of them run unmodified or craptastically modified Android/Linux/vendor BSP.

The software model that's closest to what Bunnie describes in Shenzhen is the plain old open-source model. To get good quality software, you need to put significant time and resources into these open-source projects, and let people modify or fork them as they see fit.

Really, the goals are just different. The goal of the Shenzhen model is diversity - "there are so many products out there, what should I make that's a little bit different?" The goal of most software is arguably quality and reliability. There's no shortage of software with silly features, and it's usually easy to add a silly feature to an open-source project if you really want something specific. This is often the kind of software modification I associate with the Shenzhen model.

What's difficult is forking a project over an architectural disagreement and then fixing it, because you have to understand a lot more about how the software works before you can do that, and whatever documentation exists is likely to be in English.
How would a service provider verify your age (without doing nasty things like forcing accounts to be linked to real identities)?
Seconded!
Those episodes totally floored me when I first saw them, made me fall in love with the series.

In fact at the time they made me think if I ever wrote a Sci Fi arc that I’d plan the whole thing out like that in painstaking detail.

Turns out the YA Sci Fi novel draft I’m working on now (my first novel) was primarily pantsed and not plotted. Go figure :-)
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Tesla driver again dies in crash with trailer, Autopilot not yet ruled out
>Sure, (most) people survive it.

Not only do they survive it, it leaves it's mark on generations.
Linkability is a really big deal. You can get it with IRC if you keep public logs, but getting a link is definitely harder than if you have a fully-integrated system like Zulip, as there’s no standard way for the client to sort it out.

At FastMail with our group email system Topicbox, we put a link to the archives for the current email in the mailing list footer, and that’s the favourite feature of quite a few of us in the company, and we’ve heard similar from our customers too. (Not sure why Mailman doesn’t do this, it’s super useful.) This gets around the need for a single frontend. Something IRC-like could work that way if each line sent included a URL, e.g. in JSON {"speaker": …, "url": …, "time": …, "text": …}. I have no idea at all if the likes of Matrix can or do work that way.

You get bonus marks on a feature like this if it includes meaningful content in the URL, e.g. Zulip’s URLs, although a tad ugly, include the stream (a slug) and topic (slightly weirdly encoded rather than slugified, but still present and readable). That way I can look at a URL and have a fair idea what I’m getting myself into. (URLs are definitely UI.)
Have you seen React Native Windows (https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows) and react-native-macos (https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos)? I haven't used either, but they both look very popular, 5k-10k stars on Github.
I was hoping it was going to be about a loophole in wheat futures that let you claim ownership of the wheat field.
Sounds interesting but why do you have to sign up for this?
I feel my ability to think quickly and see intuitive connections has decreased, but on the other hand I've become more logical and rational in my thinking. I think the latter has become more valuable to me, because it is key for communicating with others. And clear communication is much more useful right now than rapid thought.
I hear you. But consider this. So you're making a case that you can exercise muscles and cardiovascular system, so therefore you can exercise the brain.

But what about other organs? Can you keep skin youthful through exercising it? What about hair? Eyes?

I think it's equally as plausible that no, you can't exercise the brain just by using it well. (though I don't personally believe this)
Do you know the size of the Russian economy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia

How many individual US states have an economy larger than Russia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_U.S._states...

And the size of the PR industry? https://www.statista.com/topics/3521/public-relations/

We invented the modern PR industry, AI, and social media. That's our bailiwick.

You think Russia outclassed us at our own game, at home on our own platforms, on the biggest stage, in the highest stakes game of all?

That would be like the Russian basketball team [0] beating the US Dream Team [1] in all of our major sports at once. Not gonna happen.

[0] Russian Basketball
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_national_basketball_tea...

[1] US Dream Team https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_States_men%27s_Oly...
I once was able to confirm (with reasonable certainty) that the caller was using Twilio, because the message they left was a verbatim text from a Twilio example[1] for detecting whether a human answered:

"You did not reveal yourself to be human. Goodbye!"

Since then I've filed Twilio alongside Cogent in the "doesn't ask too many questions about who uses its services and for what" category.

[1] https://www.twilio.com/blog/2016/02/tracking-call-status-how...
If people start buying Intel instead of Nvidia GPUs, that's good news for Linux and BSD.
Think about this:

How many times in the past 24 hours did you unconsciously check your email, browse Facebook, visit a website, or check some other app?

Do you ever find yourself looking at your phone, and not remember consciously deciding to look at it?

If you're like 90% of smart phone users, this happens to you all the time.

Sure, you can be like the 10% that doesn't fall victim to the "slot machine" psychology of the modern internet. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean the other 90% aren't going to impact your life.

I feel the quality of conversations has vastly decreased, on average, because of the intense level of smart-phone addiction that is so common now. Even if nobody is looking at their phone. ("Attention residue" is a real thing.)
Database schema changes are hard (2017)
Are there any structures that kids can get involved with (or the family) that will provide some of "complex society" feel?
I do plan on adding social logins but it’s incredibly expensive to run ML and NLP models in the cloud so I end up charging after 30 articles per month.
> Cool -- thank you for keeping the pie rolling!

Chances are pretty high I found some of your code laying around on the interwebs and used that to figure out how it all works so you probably deserve most of the credit;) Matt Ebb did a C prototype way back when and gave me his code but it was too complicated to help out with the python one I ended up writing.

Honestly I haven't been keeping up with what blender is doing since I can't even open the new version due to my videocard being too old. I'd be nice to get back to blender hacking (have some ideas on compiling down the node trees using partial evaluation) but can't see a new computer happening anytime in the near future.
Amazon’s Project Zero will let brands remove fake product listings
React is competing with web components which is a much better way of achieving what you're talking about https://www.webcomponents.org
Ask HN: I taught myself to code and got a SWE internship, what's next?
I got an undegrad degree in Microbiology. I was always fascinated with programming and software engineering, so I took some online courses and taught myself to code which led me to get an internship in software engineering at my current company. My question is how do I set myself apart from applicants with a CS degree and get a full time job in software engineering?
Thanks :) That was a very informative thread.

And an off-topic question. I've always been struck by the apparent inversion of terms for deities between the Hindus and Persians.

Hindus: benevolent Devas and their ~enemies Asuras

Persians: good gods Ahuras vs bad gods Daevas

Then we have the term "devil", which sounds a lot like "deva/daeva". And maybe even "asura/ahura" to "angel"?

Am I just tripping, or is there something to that?
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This discussion seems as good as any to post this related tweet: https://twitter.com/megtra/status/1101294091214573568

> Hey @YouTube you just booted me out of my youtube & all my google accounts for "impersonating" someone. My legal name IS Meghan Trainor. My website: http://meghantrainor.com with several decades of articles about my work. I can't even access the form to correct this! Help!

(Meghan Trainor is also the name of a popular singer/songwriter)

To YouTube's credit, they are responding via that Twitter (after 12+ hours). Amusingly they ask her to "send us a link to your channel URL or a video that you've posted in the past" and she can't because her Google account was also apparently suspended.
High-speed cameras capture how bouncing rain spreads crop disease
Give it a shot before you knock it, Flutter uses its own Native rendering engine written in C++. It is very fast and responsive.
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Striking study finds a climate tipping point in clouds
It is more common now. The parent post is probably referring to the 90's where this was ground breaking. I was in kindergarten while this was on the air and a friend of my parents would tape it for us. My parents would allow me to stay up to watch these episodes. My first true science fiction love along with Star trek TNG. Babylon 5 has a lot of concepts that have stuck with me over the years.

Season 1 is slow and terrible in some places. Particularly the CRT monitors look very dated along with the clothing which is supposed to be futuristic but screams 80's. The rest is good from the plot to many of the actors (Garabaldi, G'kar, Londo, and Delenn) come to mind, but many others were also great.

I think Delenn sells a female powerhouse role so much better than any other actress I've seen in science fiction. She is intelligent, thoughtful, funny, a master politician, and even a little scary at times even though on the whole the character reflects serenity. Her arc is great too. There are so many good Delenn scenes that depict her character's wit and badassery that it is hard to choose a favorite (dealing with G'kar early in season 1, defending the station on a Minbari battle cruiser, challenging a military dictator on her homeworld).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UYloWBP79ro

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qC1nW9D1_OM
In reverse order:

2. Yup! Companies are limited to choosing 8 values. They're also forced to rank them in order of importance. As you can see, not all companies select Impressive Team Members.

1. Pretty much every other job board / recruiting tool out there filters on compensation. If you're optimizing for comp, you have plenty of places to go! However, there's no place to discover companies that share your values. There's no place to learn about the team or what your day-to-day might look like before jumping through all of the other hoops (cover letters, apps, take-home tests, whiteboarding questions...). Not until Key Values that is. This is the space I'm working to fill.

Additionally, I'd argue that constraining your job search based on comp is a mistake. After some level of $$$, an additional $10k-$20k/year means a lot less than everything else. Value alignment (aka your happiness) is worth so much more.

As a not-so-extreme example: you couldn't pay me a $300k/year to work w/ people I hated.
Cooking is enjoyable. Pushing card in a crowded store is not. You either feel annoyed that you're blocked by someone's, or feel awkward that yours is blocking others. From that perspective not having carts is beneficial to the store as well, since customers now can enjoy lingering in the store longer.
Medieval illuminated manuscripts are now available online
I make more money than a waitress. We both don't have unions. That's pretty good evidence, no?
Self-driving cars may be more likely to hit you if you have dark skin
I don't see any claim in either article that men are inferior or lazy. One can just as easily interpret issues regarding male performance in school as being cultural or societal, or even systemic - that both men and women are being "set up to fail" in different ways. Even the New York Times article linked to in the other HN thread (and the thread itself) suggests not that male students are lazy or inferior, but that the incentives created by the way genders are socialized lead to those different outcomes.

You claim to want to have a serious discussion about gender outcomes, but rather than doing so, you're just complaining about the way people treat you from behind a throwaway account and, in my opinion, a "narrative bias" that exists more in your interpretation than the actual text.

Do you believe these articles are outright lying? That male students don't underperform versus female students, or that male students don't study abroad less often than female students? If you believe the sociological trends exist as described, to what do you attribute them, and what solutions do you feel might best address them?
New Data: High-Speed Fibre Makes Up 1/4 of Fixed Internet in OECD Countries
Thanks for building this! I will definitely use your site when scouting for my next role.
Proof collective action works. The PR was so bad, corporate stepped in and and exercised their right to forcibly acquire the locations in question back from the franchisee. The workers have been offered their jobs back as well.

“Additionally, with the ownership change, employees may now have their paycheck direct deposited and general managers are now eligible for a new bonus program, among other benefits.”
> Why not require the watcher to enable a webcam & mic while watching videos containing children and create an algorithm to detect wanking?

Just how far are we willing to go to make our selves feel safer?! If you think that recording viewers is an acceptable and proportional solution to this issue, then your sicker than the creeps who get off videos of children.

I sincerely hope you're joking.