skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must be an outlier as well. When my children were small, I was doing the laundry for the household. Two adults, two kids. I certainly wasn't spending more than an hour a week folding clothes. (My total time doing laundry was much higher, of course, particularly when the kids were diaper-age).
"would save the economy about £1 million a year (approximately £20–30 million in today's money)"

Making the (I'm guessing safe) assumption that the UK Rhubarb industry is worth more than that. I wonder if this is an indication of just how much the economy has grown that that now seems like such a small sum (the £20-£30 million figure). Or if it's an example of the value of something increasing despite it becoming 'free'. Rhubarb is effectively now in the public domain, and it seems crazy (to me at least) that someone would try to maintain a monopoly on the plant. Although half way through writing this I remembered Monsanto...
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Appeal-to-authority arguments are always uncompelling, but they are especially uncompelling against Musk. Authorities said hydrogen fuel cells were the future. Authorities said EVs will never outperform gas cars. Authorities said batteries will always cost too much. Authorities said reusing rockets will never work.

With each of these breakthroughs, Musk presented a well-reasoned view that was highly contrarian against the authority consensus; and in each case, his view turned out to be not only correct, but so correct that it became the new authority consensus.

Maybe this time he is wrong and you are right. But if you are wondering why the market and the masses believe him, it's because he continues to provide reasonable explanations for what he's proposing, and he has a track record to back them up. If history predicts the future, then in a few years, we'll add "authorities said you needed LIDAR for self-driving" to the list above. This is already starting to play out in the SDC space, with Hotz of Comma.ai sharing Musk's views on vision, and Levandowski sharing his more generalized concern about LIDAR (the latter is more recent if you're not familiar):

> Levandowski contends that this “race” to deploy autonomous vehicles has yet to start in earnest largely due to shortcomings from “crutch technologies,” a descriptor he uses for hardware like LiDAR and HD maps. His position is that while these provide sensing and localization for the vehicle in the present moment, they have serious compromises and don’t produce the level of predictive ability required to commercially deploy autonomous vehicles.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/18/anthony-levandowski-pronto...

Karpathy was able to explain in very simple and understandable terms this week why Tesla's approach is advantageous. If the critics understand this domain so well, how come they can't provide a straightforward retort? If Feinman could do it with quantum physics, surely a machine learning expert can do it with neural networks. I would love to read/hear/watch such a retort if anybody is interested in presenting one.
Yes, that’s what I do — forbid the use of IDEs (they only become indispensable for large projects, and we don’t do anything large-scale yet).

This is an excellent gamified CTF to learn the ins and outs of UNIX command line: http://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/ . I usually require my students to reach at least level 10 to pass, and everybody liked it so far.
Conversation view on iOS will be coming soon as well!
Ah I didn't catch that you could score on any gate. Does the ball not change hands after a score?
This is exactly what I thought.

Being hit in the face (or genitalia) by a spherical football hurts a lot if the shooter knows how to shoot and you're relatively close. I don't want to imagine what it feels like to be hit by an ovoid ball.
Yes -- it's a simple and useful feature that's been missing from Inbox and Gmail Mobile for years. Thank you!
I wonder how it compares to even more workaholic countries like Japan or South Korea.
UK health minister leans on social media platforms to delete anti-vax content
Sure. But I don't know what's better.

A life of $10/day with dirt cheap healthcare or a life of $60/day with the constant fear of losing healthcare.

This is why PPP comparison matters.
I used to know the answer to that from relatives who had a meat packing plant in town. Tallow, according to the internet. If memory serves, any fat that is mishandled also goes off to make tallow.
Article has a confusing title, it not about saving your small local neighborhood store. It is about how supermarkets can compete with Amazon, Walmart and online. His idea sounds a lot like Whole Foods, and not a neighborhood store.

The store that resulted is called Harvest Market, which opened in 2016. It’s south of downtown Champaign, Illinois, out by the car dealerships and strip malls; 58,000 square feet of floor space mostly housed inside a huge, high-ceilinged glass barn.

Harvest Market is the anti-Amazon. It’s designed to excel at what e-commerce can’t do: convene people over the mouth-watering appeal of prize ingredients and freshly prepared food.

Since Amazon is Whole Foods, it doesn't sound at all like the anti-Amazon.
Most big blockbusters already have such generic, boring, inoffensive scores already that going to a computer won't be much of a stretch.
I wouldn't call having to keep it mostly level and centered at hip height robust in the slightest. Check out around 0:35 in that video where he starts moving it around once he rotates it just a little out of orientation (both directly towards the camera which seems very important and also the slight <20 degree rotation) that breaks the patch and YoLo figures out it's a person. Or again at 0:55 approx where it's moved slightly to the side it again breaks pretty immediately.
Anything in particular that you'd like to see on Android? Would love to get your feedback: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/.
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That is the point of the boy who cried wolf.

If you lie enough times, you lose all credibility and even good actions will be received with a massive amount of scepticism.

They dug their own grave and now they have to lie in it. (in the sense of their reputation among the populace)
So did I, but we live in 2019 now. The optimal path for productive coding looks different these days.
The problem is that there is almost no barrier to entry for nanodegrees.
It's midi. It's meant to be notation, not a realistic composition. I suppose the background "machine gun" piano notes would be a bassy synth combined with 90s electronic music drums. So please do not focus that much on the audio or performance part of it, but on the composition part of it.

I do agree they could have trained it about the importance of velocity though. (That neural net, and most young music students out there too, heh)
The left swipe doesn't work on my android phone, I have to click the icons. Does that only work on the iPhone?
Has anyone wire-analyzed the McDonalds app? It seems likely they're trusting the app to provide "customer ID" and people are just using a mitmproxy to hack in random customer IDs, based on classical failures in this space. (I haven't been to a McDonalds in years, nor am I in Canada, so this isn't something I can analyze.)
My neighbor, on the other hand, had buyers beating down the door and sold his house in a week for more than the asking price. It did seem that real estate stagnated over the winter, but it's back in force now, at least where I live.
And even if they do spend 75 hours at their workplace, they're probably spending far less than 40 actually working.

(says the guy posting on HN instead of actually working).
Try opening a few local app on Android and watch the logs.

You'll see connections to Facebook, Google and ad networks.

Pihole and diversion are essential for privacy.

My Android TV when in sleep mode DRILLS Netflix and calls home.
This was literally a plot point in the last episode of American Gods.

So the turn-around time from sci-fi to reality is... less than a week now?
What I don't get is: How much of this was created by AI, and how much is human intervention?

How does the AI judge what is a good game versus a bad game?
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Would you mind sending a ticket to support so we can look into this? https://protonmail.com/support-form
I know that residential ISPs block outgoing port 25 because of the spam issue. Is it common for them to block it incoming as well? You don't really need outgoing port 25 to run your own mail server.
I tried proton with my own domain... its a hasle, and how about address book sync and calendar?
I think the negative signal is that they think it's worth mentioning. It's like if you go on a date with someone and say "you know, I have to tell you, I've kissed someone before." They're probably going to be concerned that this is notable information.
App idea – person location/floorplan view app
Lets you request others location. Location is not shared until requested and then granted. If denied, you can include a reply. Locations can also be public, private, granted access only. Locations can be scanned, edited and verified by users with acces to that location. *Only on request does it record or share your location.

More ideas here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mW8Zaeg1oDVU9SOGF9t33hoKcpe2axUBPYKARXeSEYc/edit?usp=sharing or https://goo.gl/J70iC8
With the rise in popularity of the ketogenic diet I would imagine producers/sellers of lard should be seeing a significant increase in demand for their product. Make it fair-trade, free-range, and organic and you sell for 3x... everyone wins!
Can you explain to me how an entirely gas-phase refrigeration cycle would work? The phase change is the whole purpose of the system in a traditional refrigeration cycle.
Make it fun. I've taught millions.
Reminds me of this Calvin and Hobbes: https://i.redd.it/5k0uft6n3bcz.jpg
When I was living in the US, the thing I hated the most and that stressed me out the most was that I had to drive everywhere. You can't walk places. Well, you can but it's not fun. And no decent public transport. No bike lanes (well a few but you still had to ride on roads without any).

I have never owned a car in Germany. I can walk to a supermarket or a bakery. I find it so much more pleasant than having to drive everywhere.
This is a layoff affecting approximately 2% of their workforce. I don't see why it's even in the news.
I completed the self-driving car nanodegree last year and currently doing the computer vision one. I did not seek a job at the end of the SDC one but I learned a lot and that could be helpful in the near future, either for my startup or if I decide to look for a new job.
I'm well aware that RT is widely regarded as highly slanted, and regard it so myself, however it's the only news posting of this I can find, information is breaking and largely in Spanish.

My original source is a Spanish-language tweet by Podemos:
https://twitter.com/juanmalpr/status/1120459372994420736?s=1...

Via Mastodon:

https://social.weho.st/@anarcat/101988237614581646

It's quite possible that any moderation/censorship by Whatsapp/Facebook and/or the response are elements of the epistemic battle here, and the full picture is not clear as of this writing.
Have you tried the Bridge recently? We've been doing a lot of development there. Last update should fix a bunch of issues.
Print it on a shirt, and you have the thing William Gibson dreamed up in "Zero History":

"What’s that?" she asked.

"The ugliest T-shirt in the world," he said… "So ugly that digital cameras forget they’ve seen it."
LOL. After the way people rioted when they touch-ified just the F keys? I don't even mind that but I would mind this. This would totally kill MacBooks for programmers.
They were just trying to do the American thing...
Some Americans are helping out illegals, others are trying to help people who are more familar. I'm just saying that Americans care, and America has a system where people can do things voluntarily but it takes a lot of conviction and agreement to force people to do things, and our current social safety net reflects that Americans are generally unwilling to help ingrates and people who are not really like themselves.
That was pretty impressive though it's still on a rigid surface which gives you a fixed relationship between the shape and the pattern.
Visual studio compiler option "/clr": https://www.visualcplusdotnet.com/visualcplusdotnet1.html

There's a bunch of language extensions which let you access C# heap, string types etc from C++. You may want to define a "shim" layer to do the translation, but the bulk of your existing C++ can just compile straight across.
As opposed to entropy decreasing as you travel, say, toward the galactic north? It's a good question. One answer could be the mostly spatially uniform initial conditions of the big bang.

Also, a spatial entropy gradient would gradually diffuse over time to become uniform again.

But in general, the arrow of time is a consequence of systems that store a memory of their pasts, which is possible because the past is lower entropy than the future. (The past can be more accurately predicted by querying the state of the data in memory than the future can). You could probably set up a carefully designed system with a spatial entropy gradient, and somehow get a memory where the arrangement of atoms on the left always "remembers" the arrangement of atoms on the right, but not the other way around. Maybe there are even systems like this found in nature? Interesting to think about.
>> The problem is that there is almost no barrier to entry for nanodegrees.

I'm a hiring manager and have also been in senior manager roles (directing overall department build-outs) and I dont see it as a negative. It is a slight positive for me:

- Barrier 1: Interest (positive)

- Barrier 2: Sufficient motivation to complete, however easy (positive)

This said, I've encountered some managers who see it as a negative because they think individuals who sharpen their saw are 1. more likely to progress and move on and 2. distracted from working 24/7 on the job. I think this is positive -- you probably want to filter out such managers anyway!
It is a quirk of American culture. In many parts of the world, society expects people to be unremarkably average in some sense, and there isn't much room for unfettered ambition. American culture, by contrast, has an expectation that everyone can be exceptional and should strive for that, even though the reality is that most people have little capacity to be exceptional in any meaningful sense. I think attempting to live up to this standard of American culture is the root cause of a lot of uniquely American stress. You even see this difference in the startup cultures between the US and Europe. The flip side is that in some sense I think Americans feel like they achieve self-actualization more often.

I don't think you can change this part of American culture, it is deeply embedded part of the American identity, and it does come with real benefits as a society in addition to the obvious downsides. Individuals can choose to opt out but there is always pressure to spurn that option.
I, on the other hand, treat it as a positive signal, albeit a weak one. But at the end of the day, for me at least, a hiring decision is never about any one feature on a resume... you have to look at the whole thing holistically and try to get a complete picture of the candidate.

Somebody with just a nano-degree maybe doesn't impress so much. Somebody with a couple of interesting open source projects, a nano-degree, and some other miscellaneous education may well impress me depending on the details.

But really, it (should) all come down to the ability to demonstrate competence in your claimed skills, regardless of where/how you acquired the skills you claim.
Seriously. The MacBook would no longer be a real option for most professionals and developers if this happened.

The title of this article almost seems like satire.
He did once but it broken the patch and YoLo correctly labelled his torso so he put it back down. They say directly in the paper that it's quite sensitive to the position of the patch relative to the bounding box of the detected object.
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That Wikipedia article is horrible and incorrectly states the common misconceptions about the Protestant work ethic. Worse still, it cites Leland Ryken in its second reference who makes precisely the same point about the common misunderstandings of the Protestant work ethic:

> The Puritans never conceived of work apart from a spiritual and moral context of service to God and man. Richard Nixon's much-quoted Labor Day message of 1971 probably summed up the popular conception of the "Puritan work ethic," but if so, it is an inaccurate picture:

>"The 'work ethic' holds that labor is good in itself; that a man or woman becomes a better person by virtue of the act of working. America's competitive spirit, the 'work ethic' of this people... the value of achievement, the morality of self-reliance-- none of these is going out of style. (Nixon)"

>I trust that I have shown that the Puritans would not have been content with such a theory of work. Their ideals were obedience to God, service to humanity, and reliance on God's grace. In the Puritan ethic, the virtue of work depended almost wholly on the motives with which people performed it.
I checked out your profile. Are you referring to Satellite Beach as the old location? I've been researching moving to exactly that area myself, and found a lot of folks specifically complaining about lack of activity in Brevard County. Compounded by cancer risks apparently from the AF base, I read.

At least in my area of the midwest, housing still seems strong. Good luck selling your house!
What matters to developers is not the same as what matters to users.
Users: Does it run and do the things I want and It's obvious how to access it?

PWA's are a sandboxed environment, where devs do not have control of browser version, cannot modify chromium, and cannot bundle necessary binary code. Even Spotify bundles in faster JSON parsers, and probably a number of other things.
https://n8.to/ that's a brand new app still in development, but I think it's worth seeing what it's capable of
Do you think there was enough velocity info in the training corpus?
Not sure if the upper atmosphere has something similar to Fata Morgana, but at least in the lower atmosphere it can deceive the location of objects in the distance.
I have heard variations of that most of my life. I always wanted to get into the Unix shell business on the coast so that the following would be true: "Chris Sells sells C-shells by the sea shore." Alas, another dream unrealized...
Facebook at it again!
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I'm not sure whether you are aware that you changed the argument. Op was describing the effect of colonialisation on DRC. S/He wasn't discussing the impact of slavery.

There were also different kinds of colonies and different ways of looking at things. Sure the US turned out fine. Other countries in the region less so. But also it's the US if today that's doing fine and you seem to overlook the rather great effect colonialisation in North America had on the natives there. They were all but wiped out and certainly, overall, are not in a great spot today.

It's easy to find many different things today. The direct and still clearly visible effects of colonisation are without doubt one of the many factors that kept much of Africa in the suffering state that we still see today. There is no denying this fact and no matter how many other reasons you find, colonialism is still one of the most significant reasons for the African misery, as it set in motion many horrible things.
Ask HN: How do you find and manage influencers for your startup?
I run a company who is looking to hire micro-influencers (x<100,000 followers). How do you find and manage those influencers?
Your scope might be too broad; the US is a large place. Germany is not so small either. In many cities in the US cars are not a necessity and public transit is adequate.
Fun fact - Tim O'Reilly tweeted that this tool came about from a discussion at one of his FOO Camps.
For anyone learning to build and train neural nets, this is a fantastic cheat sheet; Andrej is top-notch at explaining these kinds of things. The other posts on this blog are definitely worth a read as well!
That argument is not very cogent because the idea of owning a person is too outrageous.

But if you change it sligthly to owning copyright over some dog breed, that emotional objection would dissipate in my opinion.

So if someone were to cross two or three breeds of dogs and make a stable, new breed, can that someone patent it and own it?

What about every single pup that is eventually born? Can the breeder claim intellectual property rights over it?

Of course this is nonsense, but some companies will try and are trying their luck.
It's a strange balance between our desire to get informed and the need of the media to monetize that desire.
Thanks for your feedback! We do have quite a few issues open to improve snippets that you can look at here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?label_name=sn...

(although if you don't see an issue that asks for what you're wanting, I'd strongly suggest opening one so we can look into it)
Yes, it’s damage. He torched the NSA to the ground. Comparison to a church doesn’t make sense.
I know the author focused on Nim, but I wonder how Lazarus (or Delphi I guess) would fare.

Sadly it's FreePascal, but it really does look like the less bullshit platform to make cross-platform desktop applications.
Hence some of the dysfunction in medicine.
We’re past the point of debating whether to regulate the Internet. That ship has sailed. It’s painfully obvious that the ease with which a nation-state actor can spread propaganda necessitates some form of regulation for security purposes.

Because the Internet doesn’t belong to one nation, there are many different ideas as to what that regulation needs to look like. The biggest problem in the “everything should be free!” viewpoint is the assumption that all cultures around the world will converge on western democratic values. That‘s honestly a pretty arrogant assumption (though shared by many in the west).

There absolutely needs to be some framework — I’m just not sure the author proposes is the right one. I normally like Ben Thompson’s frameworks, but the categories he proposes are not MECE and very hand-wavy. It’s a good start to thinking about the problem, but there are a lot of business models aside from ad-supported that drive problematic behavior as well.
ProtonMail employee here:

Are they encrypting incoming mail with recipient keys and throwing away the original?

Yes we do. This mainly protects against service level requests for data in the future.

Can I get similar security properties by periodically downloading my email and deleting it off the server (assuming the deletion is actually happening)?

Yup, assuming you want to deal with that. ProtonMail is designed to give you a privacy focused option for email.
Close Your Eyes and I’ll Scan You: Chinese Face Payment System Vulnerabilities
Gold jewellery is still prized as an asset that will help young girls to get a "good" husband.