skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These collective goods must be paid for collectively, or the free-rider problem guarantees failure.

That’s close to the truth, but it ignores the efficacy of charities and churches — where many people can (and do) give generously to help others. When run well, those do far more good than even government programs.

I challenge anyone who cares about the poor and wants to make a big difference to give to, volunteer at, or even start one of these nonprofit community programs.

In my city there’s a charity that provides clothes to poor people at massive discounts. They don’t feel like they’re getting a handout, since they’re still paying (less than $1 per item) - hence they don’t lose any sense of dignity or “providing for their family”. It also reduces free-loading since you do have to pay. And store employees take time to help people with all sorts of things - job applications, government forms. If I’m bit mistaken, they also offer counseling, showers, and a cold weather shelter.
Yeah, you're right. The non-standard font is distracting from the main point.
Listen – Just the audio track of movies
The real thing they are selling is free, as in no vaccinations.
It's been done! A teenager built an M&M and Skittles sorting machine a few years ago. I expected this article to be based on that, but to my surprise, he counted them all manually.

https://hackaday.com/2017/02/06/mms-and-skittles-sorting-mac...

To the author's credit though, doing it manually probably made more sense in his situation. It would take a few months to build the auto-sorter, which would've had to be tweaked to handle the misshapen blobs. The collection of Skittles photos is impressive too, and hopefully will end up in a Maths classroom.
Somewhat more knowledgeable comments than many other places and interesting articles.

I do feel the place is less "hot" than it was say five or six years ago though. Not sure why.
She is a trained immunologist, but besides, her article is well reasoned and provides references for every fact she cites. Compare that to the PBS article in the root comment.

Attaching a moniker "quack" at will is no way to have a discussion.
"Store managers control merchandising, negotiating prices directly with suppliers"

This sounds like it ought to make scaling to different countries difficult. If you don't have a unique supply chain, then what advantage do you have over a mom and pop discount store?

Uniqlo, Muji, and Daiso (which is less well known but has quite a few US stores) seem to source centrally, just like other global retailers.
Here is the CDC's page for immunization schedules: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/index.html . They also have an adult vaccine assessment tool here: https://www2a.cdc.gov/nip/adultimmsched/ .
From this article written by the author [0], the overhead is very high. So I don't think you'll be seeing this implemented in your CPU any time soon. The usefulness seems to be that (1) it's a cool new piece of theory and (2) it's significant if you're doing computational work on ridiculously large numbers, like massive primes or something. Gaps between theoretically optimal and practically optimal algorithms are extremely common.

[0]: https://theconversation.com/weve-found-a-quicker-way-to-mult...
Hoarding is keeping worthless stuff without a plan for what to do with it. Google, OTOH, has a solid plan for what to do with this voice data. (Use it to train better models that do a better job of recognizing your voice.)
Don Quixote is infamous. Murakami (the other one) highlighted it in his long essay on Japan and pop culture, 'Earth in My Window', as emblematic of post-WWII Japanese consumerism: https://www.gwern.net/docs/eva/2005-murakami
Also, it's no secret that Zuckerberg has preferred stock, and anyone deciding to invest in FB goes in with their eyes open knowing that they will have no say in how the company is run.

It is indeed really difficult to sympathise with the shareholders.
Apparently finding the wallet will be one of the later clues.
Fukushima Final Costs Will Approach a Trillion Dollars Just for Nuclear Disaster
Iraq did a move like that in 2002. The United States demanded that Saddam Hussein let weapons inspectors in (to look for WMDs that, as it turns out, did not exist), and something, something, bullshit, something 9/11.

Saddam Hussein thought that telling the United States to go pound sand was the correct move. He thought that all the talk by the warhawks in the Bush administration was just bluster.

As it turns out, that talk was not bluster, telling the US to sod off was not the correct move, he got to dance the hemp fandango, and 16 years later, Iraq is still in the middle of a civil war.

These kinds of geopolitical failures happen when one country's leadership mispredicts how another country will react to its actions. This can happen in any year, be it 1939, 1941, 2002, or 2019.
Enough class-action lawyers became aware of it.
^ This! What is wrong with having reasonable discourse these days?

I most often see mass shaming instead of reasonable discourse. I guess the former is easier.

Mass shaming, at least to me, signals the shamers have the weaker argument. Whereas articulate and even handed communication signals great strength.
most useful tools:
- Little Snitch
- Firefox with lots of privacy settings + umatrix + decentraleyes

I use them more for privacy, but security is an added benefit.
How is it up to the website? Can they put a URL in their signed package for the browser to display that won't load the same content if you copy it and paste it into a new location field?
Such broad dismissal does not sound entirely reasonable either.
Maintaining checklists in documentation for software design reduces mistakes dramatically. Writing step-by-step exacting build instructions for one of our core products reduced the annoying requests for help I got dramatically.
If I assume everything I read is an advertisement
If I assume everything I read from a news source is an advertisement how close would I be to the truth. The article about sharks just before a shark movie is released; the article about medical practice that conveniently mentions a book; the story on a cyber attack just as you notice more cyber security solution google ads popping up. How close would I be?
Well yeah, it’s a few Core Graphics calls, just like it has been from Objective C since OS X was born. This is something CG has built-in, not a feature of Swift.
Yeah, at the time I was deluded to think that if I just build something -> "people will come". It did not happen. Then removed the homepage but forgot to delete the blog page.
Irrelevant question, but did you go to Monta Vista a few years ago? I remember your name from there sometime ago.
>If you want to bring up map and reduce, what's their genealogy? Did the imperative world get the idea from ALGOL? Maybe they did, but I'd be surprised.

Genealogy is that it's a pattern from the functional world. It's usually unused in procedural languages because they have special syntax for it like the for loop. However there is no restriction to implement map using a for loop. Therefore it is not part of the paradigm similar to how using functions in a procedural language does not mean you are doing functional programming from a stylistic perspective.

>To avoid stepping outside the paradigm, you have to be willing to curry every function that needs multiple parameters

For compose yes you are correct, it has to be done.

>And I don't know what that recursion is doing there

The recursion is doing x^y. That is the meaning of the function name.

2^3 = 8
3^2 = 9
xToY(2)(3) = 8
xToY(3)(2) = 9

>but it seems to me that the entire body of `xToYPower` could be replaced with `return y => x y`

x y with a space inbetween looks like a syntax error. I don't think it will even run.
You can just declare all members of the structure as vars. The structure will still be immutable.
How to make a simple 'vintage' HTML website but that will work on mobile?
How to make a simple 'vintage' html website but that will work on mobile?

I enjoy that static websites from the early web. I don't need anymore, don't want anymore.

How do I make one that works well on a mobile phone?

What are the best resources to read to do such a simple task?

Best standards for creating a simple static website of today?
Interesting; I thought that a common criticism of Japanese-style education was that it's based to a large extent on rote memorization, whereas the West tends to focus more on concepts and creative thinking. Can you speak to that? Is the conventional wisdom wrong, or am I just wrong about what the conventional wisdom is?
Facebook says it uploaded 1.5 M people's email contacts without their consent
I hear this a lot but this website right here is full of professionals reading news articles about their area of expertise and besides the occasional accusation of sensationalism most articles are treated as accurate.
I'll tell you what. You provide a decent science-based argument for antivaccine beliefs that's not trivially falsifiable with 5 minutes of research, and I'll change my mind.
Where do you work, so that I know to avoid it? Documentation needs updating as things change.
100 Car2go Mercedes hijacked in Chicago crime spree
I think the fastest and most accurate process would be to:

* empty a pack of skittles onto white paper and take a photo

* use some existing image recognition libraries to count each color

* export to csv or smn and do excel magic
Citing an FBI statistic doesn't make it safe. Just because those cities have a lower crime rate doesn't mean that a crime problem does not exist.
Gov. Tony Evers wants to renegotiate Foxconn deal, says company won't employ 13K
As an ardent anti-anti-vaxxer (and supporter of the California laws for schools), I'm pretty sure we want to be very careful about how far we want to go down the path of provide a complete set of vaccination records (or a validated medical exemption) or you get a big A tattooed on your forehead (or digital equivalent) and aren't allowed to be employed or to travel.
Don't you see certain hypocrisy in this? Aren't we told that vaccines are safe?

The whole reason that the liability shield exists was a reaction to the DTP vaccine debacle. Which was eventually taken off the market in many countries including the US.
I have a 2080Ti at home I can throw at it for a few days, if you're willing to share the hashes with me? I'm the same username on reddit if you're interested in DM-ing me.
It absolutely makes sense to compare. Because the comparison is generally made in the context of using Google services or hosting your own or going with a much smaller provider. One could easily host their own email or other similar service for a very small org and likely have better uptime.
Investors can still voice their displeasure, and sometimes it works (see: Uber)
They have those now? Finally! How much does it cost?
Trillions - and we're not even counting the inevitable situation of the nuclear mutant lizard that will grow beyond control and storm Tokyo.

Seriously though, I just finished reading and article about how nuclear power was the safest and best thing since sliced bread. I was supremely down voted for respectfully suggesting otherwise in a comment.
Made indie game with no code
This is absolutely incredible!

Does anyone know if this can help GSD? My cousin has it and it’s an absolutely horrible disease, her childhood was robbed and her parents' lives upended https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen_storage_disease
>Although I value privacy and obscurity

Yeah me too, but I like free services that everyone uses.

I suppose its nice I have nothing to hide. I genuinely feel bad for people who do.
It sounds like the problems are mostly shame and self-selection, which could perhaps be iterated on, for instance with some sort of automatic dynamic pricing. For instance, it's a lousy first idea, but I wonder if credit card terminals can tell how close you are to your credit limit, and if you're close it'll automatically adjust your price downward.
It is really funny that some people spend months preparing for a job interview though it is equally morbid because they gotta be a bit insane to do it, and those are the people that will end up working on the next AI surveillance/manipulation technology.
Co-Star raises $5M to bring its astrology app to Android
I did! I graduated two years ago.
As far as I know (and can find online) DU group and Xiaomi are unrelated. However, this is a really interesting discovery in it's own right. I am a Xiaomi phone owner and have the App MiFit.

Would it be possible for me to reproduce what you have found? and if so, how can I do so?
Show HN: MerkleX, a non-custodial cryptocurrency exchange
And personhood denial.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/pro-lif...
Bingo.

So long as asset value inflates, it's good for cash via loans. The moreso if asset inflation > nominal interest rates.
Genuinely productive people are pretty rare (1 in 100 type numbers). I can't claim to know exactly what a debate opponent is thinking, but usually I assume:

1) Most people are more involved with the famous and common 'bullshit jobs' instead of the much fewer super-productive jobs - like a couple of farmers who can feed orders of magnitude more people than just themselves. Maybe they haven't interacted with the parts of the economy that do genuine wealth-creation and don't understand it.

2) They don't accept that incentives matter more than inherent nature, so they believe the productive will continue producing even if the incentives to do so are reduced, so resources can be redirected to 'those with needs'.

The second is a pretty defensible position, although obviously I disagree most of the explicit and implicit assumptions.

As an aside, this has already become one of my fastest down-voted comments. Could someone stop by and explain what they don't like about it? I didn't think it was very inflammatory.
> I get vilified by both camps because neither can tolerate a moderate position, which suggests to me they are both basically equally crazy. A reasonable person is aware that exceptions exist and that you have to have a system that makes allowances for that reality.

Let's say I'm in a discussion with two people. One insists that broccoli is delicious and nutritious and otherwise a banal vegetable. The other insists that broccoli is sentient and plotting to take over the country. Does staking out a moderate position between the two make me more correct than either of them?
I continue to be amazed by the level of nearly complete indifference that the general populace still has towards privacy. I don't think the politicians are going to do much of consequence until their constituents think it is important. Those who understand the danger of what is happening should take every opportunity to help others become aware. Possibly the biggest challenge of this is how to avoid coming across as a total paranoid wacko.
There's something much worse than investors who don't have more control over Facebook. It's that I don't own any Facebook stock.

The reason for that is that I didn't buy any. Shouldn't I get some for free? Maybe other people are willing to pay just like maybe other investors are on board with his ownership structure. But that doesn't give me any Facebook stock.

Maybe the government could step in? How can we fix this situation?

Anyone have any ideas?
And yet the US is still way more entrepreneurial.
>The company is not profitable, but it is "ramen profitable" according to http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html. Without getting into details, the bank balance goes down a little each month since we pay hosting and for four fulltime employees (we have about 2 years of runway). However, we're close to profitable.

Are you drawing a salary out of this?
But "fill bags with random colors" is already basing your simulation on the assumption that the colors are uniformly distributed. And in fact, that seems to be one of the things he found incorrect in his actual experiment.
> But I wonder if he had the resource he needed would he make the same choice?

If I had the resources I needed, I definitely would not have made the same choice. Though I enjoy somewhat working on sync protocols, databases, etc., it is only a means to an end. Mathematics software is much deeper and more interesting me. If I had sufficient resources a few years ago, I absolutely would have instead built a team to work fulltime on Sage, similar to how John Cannon successfully built an amazing team around Magma, partly leveraging that Magma is closed source and commercial -- https://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/.
I think you missed the point of my original comment and fixated on the word "duopoly" for some reason.
If we take the paragraph at its word, Google had already “found” fake ad clicking, with a high enough level of confidence that they both “confirmed” it to a journalist and banned the apps from ad products. It was reasonable to wonder why the same level of confidence was not enough to remove the apps. There are some potential valid answers to that question, to be sure (e.g. want to be more careful before taking actions that affect users), but also potential invalid ones (they just didn’t care much about ad fraud and only removed the apps due to the pressure).
No Resume Needed (Software Development)
What you you think about the no resume needed, just show us your github account job posts. I think its a bit new age and refreshing but I'd like to think that experience does count for something these days.
Using dynamic libraries in static Go binaries
These look like a more corporate version of your regular "百貨公司".
Yes. See for example:

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/8/2/45
With the ongoing automation revolution I still don't understand the desire to bring low skilled workers into the country.
I did submit a variant of the comment (to fit their character requirements), but I don't think it got approved because quite a few new comments have been posted since then. Perhaps they have a particularly long backlog, though; it's only been about two hours so I don't want to jump to any conclusions yet.

Edit: Given the large stream of comments that have now been posted on the article I think I can safely conclude mine didn't pass the manual approval process. So much for "welcoming on-topic commentary, criticism and expertise."
> Are you drawing a salary out of this?

Yes, though it is currently significantly less than UW paid me.
I would find it acceptable if side loading apps was allowed by default but sideloaded apps are blocked from the dangerous permissions like device admin and draw over screen. Apps that really do require this have to be checked by a maintainer or require the device to be in developer mode.

This way almost everyone is happy because most apps don't really require anything other than internet, camera and GPS which can be denied by the user.
If the ad fraud runs in the background as claimed, it harms the user by wasting their battery.
For a person who put management as an algorithm, these computer professional nouns can not remember, and did not deliberately to learn.

The common data structure or algorithm questions to do the test content, can only recruit people who memorize by rote.

I think only need to give the initial data status and final data status, the candidate is required to write pseudo-code (or schematic).

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
Cheaper labor, I suppose.

I bet Eastern Europe is also represented.
Ethics Alone Can't Fix Big Tech
When you choose to not vaccinate, you're no longer talking about just your life. You're talking about the lives of those around you.

You cannot frame the argument solely in terms of 'your own life' unless we're talking about vaccinations for diseases that don't spread across the population. The flu may be milder than most diseases, but the flu can and does kill people. Including those that are young and healthy.

People give you absolute hell for it because it's a selfish line of thought if you don't actually have a good excuse for not vaccinating. And the anti-vaxx movement more often than not does not have a good excuse.
I am told thses software repos are super useful for the 3rd world because phone stores can run a local app repo and people can download apps without using their very limited internet data. Fdroid also allows local app transfers to people near you.
It’s almost as if it costs money to transport goods or something.
> There’s also just nothing comparable to the benefits of being a tenured professor in the modern labor market short of winning the lottery.

Having a few million dollars in the bank is comparable to being a tenured professor, at least in terms of guaranteed income. (Of course, I don't have millions of dollars in the bank.) Maybe that's what you meant by "winning the lottery", e.g., that phrase is sometimes used to refer to startup founders who sell their company.
I don't know what to make of MiFit copying all such information. I had assumed they copy it to show notifications on the watch. Does Lumen reveal that Xiaomi is sending that data to their own servers?
There are several app categories which become breeding ground for malware.

- battery booster
- phone cleaner
- anti virus
- note taking app
- file manager
- ···

For risk management from getting banned, those adware companies, will usually register multiple accounts, with offshore address in Hong Kong or Singapore.

This is a good starting move by Google, but not enough still. We still see companies like Cheetah mobile, Du group being active in Google Play Store.

Those companies (and their associated accounts which distributes malware) who caught red-handed, should be banned permanently.
So, I can totally believe that this particular idea didn't work well. I can totally agree that we should learn from it, perhaps that people want to give $ to feed the poor only when they don't have to sit next to them, or that people on lunch break don't want to have to tackle a moral quandary just then.

But, the article seemed needlessly negative. So, the CEO of Panera tried something, put his business experience to work seeing if this idea would succeed, and when it didn't, after giving it a fair shot, he shut it down. I don't think that's a reason to hate on him for trying it, or that anyone who thought it was worth a try should have known better. Just a reason for solving hunger in a different way (perhaps the simpler one of just giving food-insecure people some lunch money).
The Parker “51” (2018)
That's because you are a total fucking faggot.
It’s very wide. A small org has 100% uptime due to good fortune, period. Big ones get close to that because of process and engineering.
According to the Stack Overflow survey, the median age of a professional developer is 30.

The tech industry has been growing rapidly, so a low median age isn't evidence of age discrimination (I'm not claiming there isn't any - just pointing out that a low median age is what you'd expect to see even in the absence of discrimination).

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#key-results
> My friend put it to me this way- The government wants me to vaccinate my kids, but doesn’t want me to have public health insurance, paternity leave, etc. If they really cared about health, why are they not pushing vitamins or organic vegetables?

vaccines are a (roughly) one-time cost. you can be vaccinated faster than you can eat an organic carrot, and with wildly less infrastructural overhead than paying for everyone's health care.

the benefit : cost ratio for vaccines is astronomical compared to the benefit : cost ratio of any of those other things, even if they had the benefits ascribed to them.
It would not have been practical to design a simulation of a Skittles packaging machine, as the design of those machines is not public information.