skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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"I come from a C # background, this is my first Silverlight project, but I'm new to Windows."

Now that is comedy!
We will, though. Globalization and automation aren't going to stop, and we're going to end up with an entire class of people rendered surplus to requirements whose labor value in the marketplace will be zero or well below subsistence levels.

Trump's populist promises to keep the coal mines open and auto factories rolling and dial the American economy back to the 1950s won't work, the world has moved on. Reeducation and retraining won't work at scale, especially not in the US where education means an unpayable private debt in many cases.

So if not UBI, then what?
I'd argue yes.

It is identical data from ADS-B that we've had for days. People keep reiterating their "verified" line, but that had no basis when they said it, repeating it doesn't add to its legitimacy. The data today is the same data we had then.

It is essentially a way to ignore the data until it is politically expedient.
For most Googlers it's all they use...
Look, it is inevitable. How are you going to stop it? Forget AGI, even regular AI is too sweet to not develop.

This is a reference to Oppenheimer:

“However, it is my judgment in these things that when you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. I do not think anybody opposed making it; there were some debates about what to do with it after it was made. I cannot very well imagine if we had known in late 1949 what we got to know by early 1951 that the tone of our report would have been the same.”
> It's doesn't say that one can control people weigth using CI.

It absolutely says that. Absent other factors changing, a reduction in caloric intake will result in a weight loss. It does not disagree with there also being other inputs to CO.
As a medium sized FBA seller, 1.75M revenue last year, this is a ridiculous article. It conflicts with Amazon's and Bezo's core value of putting the customer first. If it's as suggested, Amazon would become no better than Ebay, and would cost them tons of customers.

FBA does shift a lot of costs onto Amazon but it also lets them completely manage the customer experience. You don't have to deal with some dumb shit seller who could give a crap about customer service. It conflicts with Amazon's plans of broadening their fulfillment network and logistics too. Why build all that capacity if your sellers are now responsible? And while Amazon does charge a single per unit fee, they also have monthly storage charges, long term storage charges, fees for handling refunds, etc, and combined, the fees have steadily increased each year to the tune of 5-10%. Oh, and you also get charged fees for Amazon to do any prep work on your products, etc.

FBA has been an unequivocal boon for Amazon, and I doubt will go away any time soon.

The shift to seller fulfillment is probably driven by sellers, not Amazon. FBA requires you to carefully manage inventory--you're penalized if you don't. It is infeasible for drop-shippers. You have to understand their reports, and reconcile them. You're giving up a large amount of control and introducing some risks, but for some incredible benefits.
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Great contribution. Allow me to expand.
The known world to you consists of various tribes of humans who all share rather similar physical phenotypes (white skin, soft, slightly curly to straight hair, similar facial features), with reasonably similar technology (metalworking, beasts of burden, farming, government of some sort, written language, the wheel) and suddenly you discover a group of beings with none of these things - no written language, no cultivated land, no domesticated animals, no wheel, no metalworking, and on top of all this, they look totally different from anyone you've ever seen.

The problem with this is that it is 100% incorrect. After 1492 (and to a lesser extent before then), Western Europeans were fully aware of African Civilization, particularly those in West Africa.. They traded with them. They wrote correspondences to them, see: "Letters to the King of Portugal" [0]. Africans obviously farmed, starting between the years 8000 and 6000 BCE [1], the metalworking of West Africans is and was well known [1]. During the Iron Age "A profitable trade had developed by which West Africans exported gold, cotton cloth, metal ornaments, and leather goods north across the trans-Saharan trade routes, in exchange for copper, horses, salt, textiles, and beads. Later, ivory, slaves, and kola nuts were also traded" [2]. They had governments obviously (see reference [0]). They had the wheel "Nubians from after about 400 BCE used wheels for spinning pottery and as water wheels. It is thought that Nubian waterwheels may have been ox-driven" [3]. Heck, even the largest university of the middle ages (12th century) was located in Mali, in West Africa, and it wasn't even something that was unknown to Europeans [4] & [5]. I could go on and on.

So all of what you are saying is based totally off of what _you_ think and not any facts, or even what Europeans that encountered Africans thought. What you are saying is entirely based off of your lack of knowledge of African and apparently even European history.

The inferiority idea developed later, specifically in America as a rationalization of the slave trade. It was literally something that was made up to justify what they were doing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_I_of_Kongo
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_West_Africa#Prehist...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_West_Africa#Iron_Ag...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel#History
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu#Education
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Timbuktu

--edited for clarity
You’re making a false equivalency. Freud’s books were once considered science and are, at a minimum, of historical value.

These are not scientific. They are not necessary for historical purposes or archiving. They are purely malicious words made to ruin people’s lives for profit...
> "we as laymen should refrain from coming to conclusions until after a thorough investigation has been completed"

People say this, but why? It seems to go against human nature. People love to speculate based on limited information and/or understanding.
I'll never understand why people continually fall into the proprietary closed source app trap for things as important and sensitive as voice and txt chat...

I have run a mumble/murmur server for years, but I had some life things happen and dropped it for a while and most of my online friends moved to discord and I see nothing but annoyance with it, not to mention privacy and security concerns for days.
> Maybe they assumed Spain was like other Latin American countries where they could operate freely.

Spain is a European country.
Opportunity cost.

It’s important to have grounded expectations in terms of your equity lottery ticket ever paying off. If it does, it often only brings you back to the same level of compensation you would have received at FAANG during that time.

i.e. Receiving a $1M equity payout (sounds like a lot, right?) after 5 years of hard work at below market salary at your startup annualized is equivalent to making the same amount of money guaranteed liquid and risk less at Google.

In this current bubble cycle, so far, there has only been one Facebook.
Ask HN: How do you visualize your personal robot chef
After the 25k robot barista, I have been thinking about a robot chef at home. Here are some thoughts:

1. A robot chef would mean that the kitchen itself is a ‘robot’ which means appliances are plotted and the whole space is an automaton. (I struggle to articulate this. Please indicate if this makes sense or if I need to clarify with more words)

2. Obviously there would be a cloud component to ‘feed’ family recipes to the cooking arm. Maybe a weekly input or a rotating library of recipes and preferences.

3. Dishes from the bot can be rated and offered suggestions.

4. The cooking arm is connected to the ‘smart’ pantry and the ‘smart’ fridge. This would enable the kitchen intelligence to figure what’s running low and what needs to be refilled.

5. The smart pantry and smart fridge can be connected to a local grocery stores or online where it can make its orders.

6. I really like the idea of a hydroponic kitchen unit..like a fridge or a pantry shelf where the bot can tend to growing herbs or greens when it’s not cooking.

7. Maybe it’s not one robotic cooking arm but a set of kitchen arms(for heat, for washing etc).

8. The pantry containers will also likely have to be customized as will be the shelves.

9. This will be great for large kitchens or institutional kitchens too. Perfect for people with allergies and food intolerances.

10. How do we make it learn? Perhaps the ‘chef’ arm has to stare down a 10 lb bag of rice and 5 lb of beans and have to feed the family for a month. I also like the kitchen intelligence to make up its own recipes because the human side can control nutrition. No more than 10 lbs of Rice for a month. And so much protein per week. The combinations of nutrients can be the variable recipes. It’s a good way to track and control personal nutrition.

11. This is all hypothetical as a scenario from a story or something. All inputs welcome except something like it’s not going to be economical or who would do it when you can buy frozen food and heat it up etc. this is more like a meandering product/concept visualization.
On the subject of thinking carefully... are you being forced to accept Amazon's assessment?
Well, there are plenty of other languages that are just as capable as Java, they just came later.

I just feel like I've been lied to in University. Java was presented as the silver bullet in University. "It runs anywhere and models the real world". "In Java, you can't compare apples and oranges!". Turns out you can, if someone implements an AppleOrangeComparator. Great.

I'm just venting at this point, don't mind me.
Very cool.

I wrote a similar script to copy the source URL to the file "comments" field so it's viewable/sortable in Finder.

How did you package your script as an .app like that? Platypus perhaps?
Sure, you shouldn't, but everyone does - just like they trust Facebook, Google, et al. The only difference in this instance is they're telling you how they influenced your experience. Mostly they just do it quietly. :)
"However, I worry in the long term that we are normalizing censorship of ideas"

You can stop worrying. Silicon Valley/FAANG has simply come out on the "censorship" side, strongly and unambiguously. It's not "long term", it's here, now.

Always they have reasons. Sometimes even good reasons. But the censorship debate has never been about whether or not someone thinks they have good reasons to censor something. That's always been just taken as a given, because it's so obviously true.
Sounds pretty comparable to Christian iconoclasts tearing down images of saints. I.e. it was the "right thing to do" and they probably thought Jesus would be horrified to be part of an idolatrous image.
I would much prefer if amazon was neutral middleman and the question whether something should be censored or not is decided by law.
> I enjoy Rust's choice

As a Scala user, I agree it really is the best

val a = if (t) a() else b()
Reason becomes dangerous when you have an agenda to push because. It mandates that there is a source and authority of that reason. Corrupt religion is a very interesting (and true example, because while vocally, a source of reason is acknowledged (God), the control freakishness of corrupt religion, or anything else, makes plain that they have no unwavering trust in anything besides themselves and power. Non-corrupt religion does not display these failings.
> They still have to pay for CPC on Amazon, but it is much more effective at generating sales than AdWords or Facebook on a brand-owned site.

amazon ad network is useless if you are not selling trhu amanzon itself. unless you can compete on price, then since your ad will be show to someone who just bought a product in most of the case, maybe you can hope they will cancel the amazon order and buy on your d2c site.
>> EVs do not have significant advantages over ICE

Disagree.

Advantage 1: EV can be charged virtually everywhere with access to electricity (like parking lots), no gas stations, no gas transportation necessary.

Advantage 2: low maintenance costs. Electrically powered engines are simpler with fewer mechanical elements

Advantage 3: EVs are very quiet, so lower noise pollution

Some disadvantages are short driving range and long recharge time.
Holy shit, Google editorializes the content of your own personal photos? I'm obviously way out the loop with my gapps-less LineageOS phone, because the Overton window has clearly moved a long way.
They don't pay you 2x to work at a dream job. It's 2x because it's "thalidomide for your soul". Be careful.
You just can't win.

Nope. You think you just need to win the argument about vaccinations. No, you need to win the argument about how to think like a rational adult, whether you're thinking about breakfast or whether to vaccinate your kids.

Personally, I don't know how I feel about normalizing censorship.

I know how I feel about stores that refuse to sell what they feel are defective products.
this could be the biggest class action lawsuit in modern history. If the PCU fault is partially responsible for recent troubles, and the fact that boeing was able to cover it up for such a long time to avoid paying huge compensation...but I feel this isn't just boeing but the whole system that protects this type of kamikaze capitalism
Not having 4k streaming is a big one.
When I bring up Smalltalk, I get an all-in-one environment from the image I load. Its live and any code I add goes into that image. Now I can use code control and build specific images, but it pretty much is a one image at a time world.

What I'm talking about is loading up multiple images into the same IDE and run them like fully separate images with maybe some plumbing for communication and code loading between them. You can sorta pull that stunt by, as stcredzero mentioned, running Smalltalk in Smalltalk, ut I want separate images.
> Why should I trust Amazon's assessment of whether or not those books constituted "ignorance"?

Why do you have to trust Amazon's assessment? You don't have to trust my assessment of anything, either. Nor I yours. So why are you debating whether or not you should trust Amazon's?

I don't agree with plenty of things corporations do. I'm confused on what point you're trying to make?

edit: This is a question if it's not clear. Please answer.
I don't think that last argument is true. Yes, Netflix has a shotgun approach to picking content. But Netflix has core prestige series that hold their own against HBO, and HBO has middling series that go nowhere; the only difference is that Netflix has more stuff.
I have made an app for iOS, and it is about helping children between on the ages 4-8 read. It took me 1 second to decide "free with ads" vs "0.99". It costs 0.99, and I don't regret the 'small' sales. I prefer that people's children are not tracked by advertisers, facebook (that bloody ping on 31.13.x.x) and other trackers.
Wouldn't the incentives go the other way? I'd imagine Google wants people to get to sites that serve ads from Google so they can collect fees.
Creating a HBO Now account can be done through the web at https://hbonow.com/

You need a web browser.
Some ads are intrusive in the way that they highjack my thought processes. I'm reading about hard-drives, I don't want to think about science fiction right now, and vice versa. So unobtrusive also means matching the content in spirit. (I might be fine with related tech, for example.)

At that point there shouldn't even be any point in user preference tracking any more. I even click these ads on occasion if they seem trustworthy (another important point - there is still too many 'You won a car!'/'Lose weight with one simple trick!'/'Doctors hate him!' kind of ads).
Exactly. And it makes perfect sense honestly. Brands get to control their pricing, Amazon gets probably better margins than they otherwise would (up to 15%), and Amazon no longer has the risks associated with owning the inventory.
Phones are a lot easier to manufacture than cars. There are so many more factors that need to get straightened out in the process.
The root motivation may very well be greed - I'm not attempting to go that deep. And whether or not they should or shouldn't suffer consequences is also a different issue.
Then maybe we should cancel big television or news networks.

Nowadays, every one of them are not even pretending they are unbiased, how is that better than take down 2 books selling pseudo science? And do we need a democratic process to decide whether certain treatment is acceptable?

That smells suspiciously close to the anti-vaxxer argument.
I can sell my physical copy of the book or lend it to my friends once I am done reading. Where as the ebook is just a license for me to access its content which if the seller dies I lose access to that content. I personally would have lost $3-400 worth of ebooks that I had paid for if I didn't have the foresight to remove the drm and archive. I understand if the ebook is kept at hardback prices till the paperback comes out but charging more than the paperback is a bit much.
Aren’t most European trains already electric?
Right, after adding tags and answers, comments need to be added as well...
"E.g. the reason the 747 was decommissioned from passenger flight in the US when it was is because they flew it right up to the day that the FAA mandated that they couldn't fly it anymore."

I'm sorry, what? Do you have a source?
This sounds like just inferior Storj.
I think the classic "shareware demo" model is a good one, have some free stuff to introduce the user and make sure they like the game, then give them a wall and tell them to pay if they want more. It's fair to them and fair to you. It doesn't violate their privacy, it makes sure your customers actually want to be your customers (reducing chargebacks because the game has an issue for someone) and you get paid without polluting your art.
You're not under any obligation to. Amazon isn't really a monopoly. The only "sin" they've committed is refusing to cooperate with the implications and consequences of listing pseudoscience on their own best seller list amid a public health crisis rooted in populist ignorance.
> Those with just one 5 star rating in front of the one with 300 reviews and a 4.8 avg. Annoying.

That's easy enough to solve with a bayesian average. The problem is many developers and product managers don't know much or anything about stats.
Yes. Natural selection does not end when biology does. Anything that has scarcity and variation will have selection effects:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

And should AI go wrong, Theil's bunker will not save him.
Open source, open hardware? What a joke. Neither are resistant to chip/compiler level attacks such as https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/adding_backdo... and https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html

That's all assuming the voting machine is actually running the software/hardware they tell you - how would a voter check?

The article briefly mentions "That receipt does not permit you to prove anything about how you voted, but does permit you to prove that the system accurately captured your intent and your vote is in the final tally,". But if that receipt doesn't let you prove anything about how you voted, how can you tell from it that your vote was captured 'correctly'? The machine can print anything on the receipt!

Then there is the question - what problem is e-voting trying to solve? Hand-counting scales perfectly and is extremely difficult to covertly tamper with. So the only 'problem' e-voting solves is that of being unable to covertly and fully subvert elections.
You can use a modern web browser to play the content. Safari works without issues for me.

No need for a extra device of any sort.
But parent alleges that the 747 is outside of certification requirements, which is demonstrably false.
> and also does a year-end Pazz-and-Jopp-style roundup of critic top 10 lists; here's 2018's:

A ranking based on how many paid-for critics are talking about a TV show? Huh? That's like saying "this startup is better than another because they've gotten more press on TechCrunch/Wired/WSJ/etc". IMDB is imperfect, but it's a better proxy for what consumers enjoy.
I played with Arango a few years ago to prototype some graph stuff. Super fun to play with and it was awesome being able to traverse the graph so easily.

We were playing with data to make it easy to go from a specific analyte that was generated all the way up through its protein, DNA, chromosome, disease, and phenotype via the graph. I'm sad the project never went anywhere, but even back then Arango was great.

Congrats to the team!
Using Godot 3.0 right now, Godot has been great and amazing considering its open source game engine. I'm amazed at what the developers have been able to do. Great job guys!
I think most people want to answer "Don't buy from Amazon".
Seems unlikely - if they're running adblock they won't notice that you added ads.
IIRC the stats from the last time I published a mobile game, iPhone users were significantly more likely to actually pay for things so it's probably ok to just charge money. Personally, I did ads with paid feature unlock and ad removal because I was publishing on Android.
Tip of the iceberg. I just searched Amazon for "cure for cancer" and the first result is "Curing Cancer with Carrots." The cover features a carrot wearing a lab coat and stethoscope, and it has 168 customer reviews, 89% of them 5 star.

Almost all of the nonfiction books and videos on the first search result page promote similar "cures," with only one book based on medical research at spot #8 (The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer) and a book about the engineer who invented the universal microscope (The Cancer Cure That Worked: 50 Years of Suppression)

People should be able to share their personal stories, but Amazon and other tech companies have a responsibility to society, too. Claims like these can have real life and death outcomes. It's not enough to shrug and blame the algorithm because more people click on a book with a carrot on the front cover.
You are making a straw-man argument. Nobody here is claiming Amazon should be forced to sell a Book. The concern is whether it is a right thing for Amazon to do, not whether Amazon has the Right to do it.
I really don't like the idea that media distribution companies like Amazon are expected to promote some ideas and censor others. All the books have a review/synopsis on their page selected by Amazon. They can simply put a review there that the book is pseudoscience.

https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/William-Tyndale-Bu...
This is an important sentiment that I want to respond to. Because on one level, I absolutely agree. But the nature of the web is different. HTTP is not software that you "buy and run". It's a back and forth communication, request / response.

Analytics in this context is a kind of self-awareness. I'm not spying on you the user, I'm listening to our conversation, so that I can improve where I make mistakes, and help serve you, the customer/user/visitor better.

Now if I stick a cookie in your pocket that keeps listening after you've left, or I let 3rd parties listen in to our conversation, then absolutely, that's spying.