skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I want to choose when when I allow to abuse my private data and when not. I don't need any thirdparty that doesn't even know who I am to do it for me.

I think your view of the world is harmful for freedom I value very much.
Open the box and plug it in while in the states. Now it’s just property you brought along, not imported goods, so no duties to pay. I ain’t no lawyer though, and this is just advice I’ve been given in the past, so mileage may vary etc. (I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s entirely wrong, someone please correct me!)
> Guess what happens when rich people must send their kids to public schools

This was my greatest concerned, which unfortunately proved true, when we introduced private schools in Sweden: previously if your kid didn't get a good education you had to try to improve the school. So the efforts of the resourceful parents helped the kids with less resourceful parents. Now when people are unhappy with their kids education they just send them to a different school, leaving the disadvantaged kids behind in schools that no one cares about trying to improve.

And I understand from an American perspective that sounds normal. But for me that is no way to build a society.
Your friend of a friend lied to you. Comp is mostly based on level and performance and it's totally possible to have a higher level employee reporting to a lower level manager.
Kinda weird to even hint that the tool used to communicate would be the cause of the disaster. The same words could have been written in LaTeX and presented with a PostScript viewer running in Linux.
"Contingent on multiple tile loss thermal analysis", i.e. "we're running that model now and until we're done we're not sure, but the tests we did so far suggest that a tile loss should not prevent safe return".

It isn't really that unclear. There are formal words, but - unlike typical managerial presentations - there's also content behind them.
Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model
> Decentralization is not a feature for the end-user, it's a feature to developers.

On one hand you are right, it's a huge benefit to developers as they are able to create new services that leverage the strength of the existing network. Such as Peertube getting subscription and commenting features from other servers for free, and it “just works”. Imagine a youtube competitor wanting to leverage Twitter in the same way. Highly unlikely that it would be allowed, and even if it did, the integration would be Twitter-specific.

On the other hand, (at least some) end-users see decentralisation as a huge benefit, and at least in my case it gives me confidence that the whim of a single company can't ruin the experience for me, or even take away the platform altogether.

Most people may not consider this, but some people definitely do. And hopefully that number will increase over time.
I would assume it also depends on the emissions and fuel regulations in the country. The US has always had shitty diesel fuel at the pumps and it wasn't until around 10 years ago that you ultra-low sulfur diesel was ubiquitous everywhere. The 500ppm low sulfur diesel would screw up the catalysts. So the US answer was always to de-tune the vehicles, Germany had better configurations due to what I assume were higher fuel quality standards and less stringent emissions. Oh, I found a source confirming my suspicion: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2016/58733... check page 16 for an overview.
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Keep a percentage of gross to go towards a deposit and don't remit payment immediately on new accounts. Imagine a 1K deposit wherein only $200 was paid up front and the rest was paid in terms of 2% of sales.

Further if you spend a week selling counterfeits and as it turns out that you make 800 usd in scam sales. The 2% towards deposits might only be $16 + $200 deposit but if the seller hasn't been paid out yet its trivial to claim the entire $800 in sales as the forfeited deposit.

The seller instead of profiting $400-$600 is now out $200-$400 in inventory and $216 in deposit with nothing to show for it.

The deposit needn't be ruinous. Just enough to make being a bad actor not worth doing.
> So, if someone falls for a pyramid scheme they should be ashamed of themselves?

A little, yes.

Detecting 'too good to be true' is an important aspect of judgement. Blithely inculcating every claim when it aligns with self interest is at the root of many evils.

You can see it in the post; the test drive sold it. This isn't an anomaly. VW buyers cite that same observation over and over. They liked the performance; they were buying performance.

When some yob brings a gas powered V8 pony car home from the dealer we're all granted permission to sneer at the selfish fool. Yet somehow the millions of VW buyers that learned about the kick in the pants product with the respectable badge are all mysteriously exempt and entitled to absolution.

Not from me.
How do they analyze the traffic? Is it possible to get something from these actions?
In many places, road engineers deliberately obscure visibility of the roundabout from the approaches. So even if it is legally a 'yield', in practice, stopping is enforced by unaccountable manipulation.

Yet another example of LCD governance imposed by the crazy minority - in this case, those who would not yield correctly (see Skin In The Game, NNTaleb). Always remember that 50% of drivers are below average intelligence.
Also known as a Permalancer - who can also massively increase their take home pay and reduce their tax.
Only if you look at things deterministically, which is usually the incorrect approach. It was almost certainly wrong. But you are working with incomplete information.
There are major safety concerns if your car is taking anonymous, untrusted input on how it should drive. People could do anything from telling other cars to move out of their way to maliciously causing accidents.
> And they want users to trust that central service to decide who is who.

Actually, no, the whole point of Keybase is that you don't have to trust the central server, and can verify all the proofs yourself. The CLI does this automatically.
The reason why Google is pulling out is because they tried nano trenching the fiber into the street and sealing over the top of it with a rubber like sealer and they had major problems with that sealer bonding to the road. It would peel up and get destroyed as cars went over it. Google is backing out because their existing plan all needs to be removed and replaced and the road surface needs to be fixed. Giving a WISP access to that fiber would just be a cop out for Google to avoid fixing the issues that they caused.
It’s easy to get scammed SELLING on eBay. Buying is not much if a problem as you can get a refund easily as a buyer.
My friend (expat) living in the US condenses this phenomenon to "people in the US are sissies". Note that the English language does not always have the punching power of nice alternative languages with ample swear words.

If you are not worrying about the first few layers of Maslo's pyramid, then this sort of perpetual politicking becomes a real risk.
Wow, works like magic ! Actually Swedish drivers are somewhat more obedient and indeed traffic problems are due to road hazards are on average less severe.

For example when Swedes sees a lower speed sign or even just a warning before a road block they will slow and stay in one long lane, while in the mid eastern country I live in until recently everyone just speeds up trying to be first to pass the blocking. The results ? smoother flow and shorter queues, guess where ?
This is a fantastic perspective on managing ignorance. It is told from a personal perspective, but there are fascinating applications of this at an organizational scale.

My initial thought was that the primary challenge here (which the author addresses in part) is in estimating the time it takes to complete a task. If you already 'know' how much time something is going to take then is there really uncertainty? How much uncertainty? The author seems to be going in the right direction, but there seems to be something more here about sources of ignorance that touches on the number of special cases in the problem space, or something of that nature. I wonder if there is any work trying to infer the number of special cases, or 'practical realities' of a problem space (maybe a kind of roughness, inhomogeneity, or irregularity?) that will ultimately be the major time cost.

Another thought is that 'bad' negative results don't have the provenance required to rule anything out, but if you know exactly what was done then you have much stronger evidence about where the problems might lie.

Finally this is deeply connected to another issue which is that sometimes we don't have the resources to devote to solving the really big problems so we never even try. The economics of cutting edge research only serves to drive us further from the hardest questions because we don't have anywhere to start because we haven't the faintest idea why we fail.

Somehow this reminds me of my first play-through of Darksouls -- the only thing that kept me going was the belief that it could be completed. My repeated failures were required for me to slowly gather enough information to see where I was going wrong. Funding basic research that is truly at the edge of the unknown is like only funding noobs that have never played before, or maybe more like funding good players from one game that come to another, they'll get there eventually, but they have to be able fail, and if you make them play Ironman mode then we might as well give up -- the game is too hard.
Money doesn't matter, you don't get it. When only 1 in 5 phones is an iphone then keeping imessage.. you know what, I'm not wasting the effort.
I don't think so. I think the whole point is that the OS provides time protection in the same manner it provides memory protection: completely transparent to the application. Just like your typical user-mode application does not need to worry about virtual vs physical addresses, I'd say the typical user-mode application would not need to worry about the effect of time as well.
Yeah... about that: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/business/volkswagen-diese...
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https://youtu.be/HO2zVYB1TMc is some fun research, simulating an intersection where autonomous vehicles self-synchronize their paths.
so here is something interesting for you.

I work for a mining company that has autonomous and human driven trucks on the site (open pit mining).

after running the stats on efficiencies and wear and tear on the trucks we found that:

In the mornings (or start of shift) humans are far more efficient and cause less wear and tear on the trucks, towards the end of the shift the autonomous trucks are more efficient and wear the trucks out less.

At the beginning of the swing ( 8 days on 6 days off ) the human driven trucks are far more efficient and cause less wear and tear. Towards the end of a swing the Autonomous trucks are more efficient and less wearing on the trucks.

In wet weather humans are far more efficient and less wearing on the trucks, on hot dry days autonomous trucks are more efficient and wear less on the trucks.

At the end of the day, autonomous are more consistent but humans are always better but they wear out themselves or get board or get lazy and take shortcuts when its nearing end of swing or end of shift or when the conditions are hot and dusty.

I cant see why this wouldn't be replicated on open roads by every day humans and every day autonomous vehicles.
The GDPR is precisely trying to give you that choice. It was the website in question that has chosen to block you, not the EU.
I’ve seen the version of that where one individual does the phone interview, and a different one shows up on-site.

The consulting agency was prospecting for enterprise clients who would not pay attention close enough to such details.
1: They claim the integration is needed because people are too dumb to copy&paste a string.

2: The whole user interface is set up so users believe in what they see in the web interfaces.

And you want to tell me with a straight face that users will do their own crypto foo instead and validate hashes?

Even if the users used that CLI, that does not help. As we saw with Ethereum. They simply pushed out new code that rewrote history.
Bouman's 2014 PhD thesis is refreshingly readable:

https://people.csail.mit.edu/klbouman/pw/papers_and_presenta...

Everybody can understand, at least the introduction. The author treats two related problems. The first is the well-known (today) integration of data from several separate antennae. The second is the problem of recovering an image of an object from the light reflected on a white wall. They are formally quite close, and the underlying math is, at many points, the same.
I did the same, using vkeyboard on Linux, which simulates a MIDI device.

Another benefit of the Axis49 is the pressure sensitivity, of course. My infant daughter loves it, too :-)

For live performances, there are also keyboards with custom layouts (although 1-dimensional) by http://www.verticalkeyboards.com
Clickbaity title doesn't mention that the treatment is specific to retinitis pigmentosa.
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Maybe you're ok with apple's limitations, I'm not. That's ok because I'm not you and I'm not asking/forcing you to change anything. So what exactly is your point? Choice is a wonderful thing.
Another interesting offering is from Habana Labs: https://habana.ai/

I eagerly wait for MLPerf https://mlperf.org/ Inference benchmark. Both Habana Labs and Wave Computing are MLPerf members.
But first, a word from our sponsor.

("SK:
Before I bring you Hillel, a quick message from our sponsor." That's actually in the article.)
To say this has been a bit of a storm would be an understatement. People are understandably pissed off, because there's been a lot of smoke and mirrors.

Paragon Chat is led by a lot of the same people behind the private server where they admitted that they used it as cover for their fully fledged server. Additionally they've been behaving in generally scummy ways, deleting posts, taking down any references to the private server and more. On many of the City of Heroes communities they had members of the mod team seek out and delete any comments that might've even slightly hinted at the server's existence.

It's like the strangest conspiracy theory but it's over a dead MMO.
It doesn't excuse shitty behaviour.

But if you start from the realistic premise that some actors are bad, the market feedback loop immediately rewards them - which forces other actors to make a choice between acting in similarly unethical ways or being punished for non-compliance.

The real shitty behaviour is Amazon's. It has ultimate control over this fiasco but Bezos clearly has no interest in stopping it - and it can easily be argued that's an example of the same systemic problem with market fundamentalism, but at a higher level.
If you took the straw from a Big Gulp (1/4 inch in diameter) and made the straw 20,000 miles long, then looked at the sky through that straw, the patch of sky you'd see would be the size of the shadow of the M87 black hole.
Which society has collapsed because of this? I minored in history, and I can’t think of a single one.

Even modern America was largely born out of giants of industry serving their own self interest and fucking everyone else including the climate over.

Governments are build by people who serve a greater good, and they typically get replaced once they become too corrupt, but they become corrupt exactly because society as a whole is typically very self-serving.
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Better. Cold Fusion is always 10 years away.

And even better it is partially work and kill a few ...
Disposable applications and the future-proofing myth
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It's not a somewhat higher risk of dying, it's 35 times higher.
I'm pretty sure that's legally fraud, but yes, there's a good chance you'd get away with it.
Also, you are looking at a piece of the sky the size of 5 atoms at armslength.
Same reason for switching for me. The projects at my work needed 2 minutes for a single regex search, with ripgrep it went to 3 seconds.
Yep, politics is the key contribution to our intellectual dark ages.
Apple's market share in India is about 2% while in China it's about 7 percent. Apple's profit margin is generally about 30%.

The import tax in India is now 20%. Lets suppose Apple could increase market share in India to match that in China by reducing prices by the 20% tax, and compare that to keeping the 20% as extra profit but not increasing market share.

2% market share on 50% profit margin (existing 30% margin plus tax margin of 20%) sounds pretty good. However 30% profits on 7% market share yields more than double the overall profits.

Finally, all the arguments you make for charging more apply equally well anywhere in the world. So why doesn't Apple charge India prices everywhere in the world already? A simple argument that increased profit margin always beats higher sales implies that the perfect price point is infinity. At some point this strategy must yield diminishing returns.
> A simpler solution would be to install electronic wiring on the roads themselves to guide the cars and I daresay we would have self-driving cars within a month of installation.

Many billions of dollars have gone into developing self-driving car tech. But carving up our entire road network to install signaling equipment? That would cost trillions.
Hard to walk when you're born in concrete shoes, though.
> like a weak pointer that work with unique_ptr, but I do not think it is possible to do this while preserving zero overhead implementation

I think the type of pointer you're asking for basically does exist. First, you want to distinguish the cases when you want a "full featured" weak pointer that can gracefully handle the destruction of its target object [1] (rarely the case), or you just want a non-owning pointer that detects when the prorammer screws up and lets the target object be destroyed prematurely [2].

The latter is essentially just a non-owning reference counting pointer. The optimizer should be able to discard matching increments and decrements of the reference counter in many cases.

> This will have overhead, but it could be worth it for the security gains.

The performance cost of avoiding "unsafe" C++ elements is measurable, but reasonably modest [3].

[1] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus#registered-...

[2] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus#norad-point...

[3] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus-BenchmarksG...
There's also sandboxing. You shouldn't load untrusted DLL, but loading potentially untrusted WASM is a design goal of WebAssembly.
Perhaps Obama was "just following orders" himself.
Whilst I appreciate your views, for many/most the idea that no party can affect or take down the content is a negative.

"Nobody can censor us!"

is absolutely, unfortunately equivalent to -

"Nobody can take down race hatred, online harassment, child abuse images or other evil shit"

And we've adequate evidence now to show that humans will use such platforms to post exactly that sort of stuff. For instance one of the bitcoin forks that allows larger data payloads had child abuse images uploaded to it, in an immutable, permanent way. Many/most people are not OK with that.

I'm not yet seeing a way to balance these concerns.
Services like GitLab and GitHub already host these sites for you for free.
It's funny to me that many of the comments here are bagging on astrology and this article... when I'm pretty confident the author agrees with you on the first count.

> “Sure!” I typed into the app. It was just vague enough that if I did a little mental backbend, I could find examples to support her conclusions.

And at the end...

> It felt like a convenient conclusion, given her company’s interest in getting me to write a story. Then again, who was I to argue with the stars? With my blood? It felt absurd, but also just satisfying and amusing enough that I did not reject the suggestion. Instead, I said, “Sure!”
We're being a bit sloppy about whether we're comparing rent to buy directly or rent+invest to buy.

There are great reasons to rent, you've mentioned some, but comparing them directly, not talking about external investments, buying has to be cheaper than renting for one simple reason: when I rent, I'm paying a buyer.

The overall costs are the same either way, they have to be. To rent is to pay extra to not have to pay a lump sum, not have to fix things, and be able to stop anytime. Renters pay for maintenance and improvements one way or another. Inflation and real-estate prices affect renters and buyers equally in the long run. Renting must cost more than buying, on average. The rent system cannot work unless that's true.

So for me, the only remaining question is whether a down payment invested elsewhere can yield a return that offsets rent reliably, and how.

> In both cases you sign up for ongoing sunk costs and for an investment.

That's a suggestive symmetry, but not comparing renting to buying directly, it's assuming an unspecified optional investment only for the renter. And rent is a known, fixed, high ongoing sunk cost. Buying might not be, considering the future sale. Whether costs are sunk when buying depends on many things. In my case, I put tens of thousands into a house, and it all came back when I sold.

> It doesn't seem that easy and I think the fact that you don't think they need backing up tips your hand.

Not sure what you mean, but I can see multiple sites saying the underwater mortgage rate is ~10% nationally, and an article about Chicago being highest in the nation at ~15%. So is it fair to say at least 85% of people are not under water? Foreclosure rate was just under 0.5% in the US in 2018. That's the number of people who experienced a total loss of a partially paid mortgage. I stand by my claim for now.

> If you simply look at home sales you will miss all of the people who are not selling

I don't think that's true. Today's home sales includes all the people who waited until now, and tomorrow's home sales will include the people who are waiting today. Anyway, I ran with the assumption made by the calculator you linked to, and that most people experience: that you sell your house after some time for a moderate positive return against the purchase price of the house.

> A few booming places can hide thousands of cities that are underwater.

Underwater means the house is, at some instant in time, worth less than the principal, not that you lose everything, right? And yes, sure, many people definitely hang on to avoid being underwater, perhaps sometimes just as unreasonably as they avoid investing in the stock market.

Underwater is different than rent, which is always sunk. Underwater might be a total -20% return post sale for some number of people, where rent is always a -100% return for all renters.
I can’t stand watching people do the add print statement —> compile —> run loop over and over. You can save so much time just stepping through and printing things in the REPL. It’s like you’re gonna be in this industry a long time, learn the damn tools.

Sometimes if I’m writing a complicated piece of logic I’ll even jump straight to the debugger on first run just to look at all the values and make sure the assumptions were correct.