skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to dread having a package shipped LaserShip but I would gladly take LaserShip over delivery by Amazon. At least with LaserShip I knew that when the package said delivered when it wasn't the package would show up the next day at my door.

The majority of time Amazon delivers a package using their own service I have to spend 30 minutes figuring which neighbors front porch my package is sitting on in the picture provided in the Amazon app. Even worse is if the package is delivered in the evening because then the drivers just mark the package as handed directly to resident so they don't have to take the time for a picture. Then I have to blindly scour the block hoping to spot my package.
If that's the way you are thinking, probably spend most of that effort evaluating the entity that says it's gonna keep you frozen.
Have you looked into Solid, https://solid.inrupt.com/, for a distributed data store model? For annotations, have you looked at https://web.hypothes.is/ which uses the web annotations standard? These are both fairly large efforts and could be useful to build on
"All you have to do is eat less. Two words: Eat. Less. That's all you need to know about weight loss. Eat less, I guarantee you'll lose weight. It worked in Changi. It worked for Ghandi - no love handles on that man! But remember, eating less will not work unless you actually eat less." - Dr Rudi
Amazon Prime Moves Towards One-Day Delivery
Academia works the other way. The default is that you're fired, when your PhD scholarship/postdoc/research grant runs out. To keep your job, you have to get rehired every few years.

Some people have tenure, but some people win lotteries too.

The hiring process appears objective, what have you published and so on, but in reality it's set up for the bosses to game. When there's a letter to Nature, for example, it's very much up to the boss as to which student gets to be first author.
Photos of Russians Who Hunt Spent Soyuz Rockets for Scrap Metal in the Far North
A New Viewpoint to Multiplication Opens the Door to Better Quantum Computers
I wonder if any of them were involved in the Macbook Pro keyboard.
This will certainly simplify certain aspects of ridesharing. But there are downsides: drivers can't efficiently be matched with passengers who are heading in a particular direction (i.e., a driver could end up taking a passenger 20 miles in the "wrong direction" of where he lives); and passengers can't vet drivers and pass on a driver with a bad record.

I used to never do this, but recently I've found that drivers under 4.8 are often unsafe to ride with. I wouldn't want to lose the ability to pass on a driver who has a bad rating.
They need to increase the fine substantially for each repeated violation. After a few violations its going to be hard to justify a $50B fine to investors.
You only have, at most, 12 months to worry about... I don't think it will make much a difference.
I feel exactly the same way.
> It is that last bit where it gets sticky.

I understand we're doing thought experiments here, but I'd say the really tricky part is breaking the private key.
Japan's info protection panel considers protections for internet users' data
Smart contracts, stupid humans: major Ethereum ERC-20 token bugs (2018)
Splunking Yelp Reviews
"Windows 10 Mobile was a significant upgrade from WP8 in nearly every way" EXCEPT the UI — unfortunately the interface was the main reason Windows Phone fans took up the platform.

Riccardo Mori provides my go-to reference for illustrating the difference between 8 and 10: http://morrick.me/archives/8094

WP8 took on Apple-Android with a beautiful interface; its glance-ability is still unsurpassed. webOS took on Apple-Android with a powerful multitasking interface; its task fluidity is still unsurpassed. I willing used both until the phone hardware was abandoned and still prefer them to Apple-Android today.

KaiOS is a feature-phone OS and does NOT take on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly.
Don't forget that SASS lets you use sane single-line comments prefixed by a double-slash. Heck, I'd use it just to avoid the laughably terrible /* CSS comment syntax */.
Sell a tiny bit and then wait until it recovers. Rinse and repeat.
That is the entire point of their blog posts, you know. To make you feel like you want to work there. There's a little bit of SEO also but mostly it's a recruiting tool.

Does knowing you are being manipulated this way change your opinion?
Totally agree, at the third time there is really no excuse anymore to not bump this up to maybe even threaten the existence of an organization or it changes its behavior.

For FB this is the nth time. I don't even know what n is anymore.
Cautious rollout of the world’s first malaria vaccine, which is 39% effective
> So to prevent cheap housing in order to save the banks and prevent a depression ?

Not even just the banks -- all the dumb entities that had been holding toxic mortgaged-backed securities. This was everything from insurance companies (who then wouldn't have been able to pay claims) to pension funds.

> Isn't cheap housing an amazing thing, an historical opportunity to reduce poverty etc ?

It is -- that's the problem. Right now you have millions of people who have overpaid for a home. They paid $400K for something that should have cost $200K, and then over the past decade have paid more than $200K in just down payment and monthly payments, but still owe more than $200K of principal.

If you just reset housing prices and do nothing else, all of those people are wiped out -- they still owe more than their house is worth even though they've already paid enough that they should own it outright by now. Moreover, they would end up underwater and have no reason not to default, with all the downstream consequences of that.

The nominal cost they're paying for housing is already sunk -- it was set at the time they bought the house. The only way to reduce it for all of those people is for the real cost of housing to decline without changing the nominal cost.

In other words, there needs to be inflation, so that nominal housing prices stay where they are and people don't end up underwater, but wages and everything else rise to catch up to them. And then people can pay back their existing mortgage more easily.

That's what QE was intended to do, but it only did half the job. It kept nominal housing prices up but it didn't result in wage growth because the money went into the housing and bond markets rather than into the pockets of regular people, and that in turn drove investors from the bond market into the stock market. So now we've got a housing bubble and a stock bubble. Whee.

And again, the way to deflate either of them without a big depression-inducing pop is to let their nominal prices stay where they are while adopting policies to raise nominal wages and the nominal prices of everything else back to parity.
This seemed inevitable for a long time. Tether is very important for maintaining the price of bitcoin, and yet the stablecoin’s financial condition has been an unanswered question. The company has raised every red flag and in a rational market, tether would have been priced at pennies in the dollar, with a corresponding markdown for bitcoin with the loss of “convertibility” to dollars.

And I honestly am surprised how pedestrian the fraud was. It sounds like they had the cash to back tether and just flat out stole it to cover for a trading loss. This has happened countless times before.
Never have I seen someone so angry that a college student gave a vague talk, a startup made some exaggerated claims, and a university research project wasn’t completed.

I hope he doesn’t read hacker news. The vague talks, exaggerated claims, and unfinished research projects here would give him an aneurism!
It's a shell to a real os. It's not based on Android. Someone needs to build it into a device image (i.e. distro) before you can use it, though.
I check my email once (or zero times) a day, slack 2 or 3 times.

People bug me about not getting their emails occasionally, but I'm busy actually getting shit done.

My team knows if it's important, than can just interrupt me. We all work right next to each other -- open office -- it's not a big deal.

I don't know how anyone could get a lot of work done, while responding to dozens of messages and emails promptly. That's a full time job in and of itself.
Things have changed a lot since 2012. The Keto/Paleo/LCHF movement has definitely increased demand for new cooking oils, including animal fats. At Whole Foods, I regularly see beef and duck tallow + pork (lard) prominently displayed now.
So this relates to their practice of ransacking all your email contacts without your consent, engaging in data theft as they upload them and analyze them for subsequent actions. And of course Linked In is also notorious for engaging in this criminal vile privacy raping practice.

I remember maybe 8 years ago it was here on HN that a company was found to be doing this and it was shocking to some. But an executive of that company showed up here and said that "everybody does it" and it's "standard practice" and for some years after that anyone complaining about the practice here was not only downvoted but sometimes warned by our glorious compromised moderators.

In my opinion the practice of contact list ransacking should never be allowed, is clearly unethical, and anyone defending it is an enemy of humanity who should be locked away in order to protect society.
If you are waiting at your desk for a reply and are truly blocked have you considered getting out of your desk to ask in person or similarly phoning them?

If you truly aren’t blocked then what’s the problem waiting a few hours?
The person I was replying to actually did not know that. The irony is was that bank deposits are also a ponzi scheme like Tether. Deposits are backed by taxpayer bailouts in some countries. In New Zealand we have fractional reserve banking without the deposit insurance. It's a well regulated ponzi scheme but not guaranteed against a bank run.
Your grasp of the research is out of date.

From the 1998 meta-analysis

> The most well-known conclusion from this research is that for hiring employees without previous experience in the job the most valid predictor of future performance and learning is general mental ability ([G M A ], i.e., intelligence or general cognitive ability; Hunter & Hunter, 1984; Ree & Earles, 1992).

> Work sample measures are slightly more valid but are much more costly and can be used only with applicants who already know the job or have been trained for the occupation or job.

http://www.flume.com.br/pdf/Scmidt_The_validity_and_utility....

From the 2016 meta-analysis by the same author.

> Overall, the two combinations with the highest multivariate validity and utility for predicting job performance were GMA plus an integrity test (mean validity of .78) and GMA plus a structured interview (mean validity of .76)

Work sample tests do not work as well as the old research suggests

Table with effects linked below

https://m.imgur.com/jULz7RE

More recent paper

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi1...
After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows to Carry On
They settled a class action lawsuite I think, but if I remember there was some form of consent involved that emails will be leveraged (probably not obvious either, and shouldn't be done). In Facebook's case it has clearly been misleading, possibly intentionally multiple times now (email, phone numbers,...).
Okay, let’s see: how does that benefit me in real, tangible terms? What risks does it have - for example, do users take on responsibility for fraud risk?
Put Another Zero on Facebook’s Fine. Then We Can Talk.
> And I honestly am surprised how pedestrian the fraud was. It sounds like they had the cash to back tether and just flat out stole it to cover for a trading loss. This has happened countless times before.

Where do you see anything like that? The report says that their funds were frozen by Crypto Capital as the result of (claimed) seizure by governments. The funds were borrowed from the Tether reserves to cover that shortfall. AFAIK, nowhere does it state that there was any trading loss.
Ireland: Europe's Texas.
I work in Europe in a city of startups, Berlin. I can tell you most of the startups here have no concept of or simply don't care about hiring great candidates. A great number of them run on selecting for candidates who are most willing to bend over to exploitation.

Screening tests and "case studies"/homework that takes 10-20 hours of time are abundant to weed out anyone who might be a pain to manage. They don't want independent thinkers or challengers who think out of the box, they just want 'doers' who will follow every twist and turn of senior management 'vision'.

As a non-German or non-EU, they then offer you a craptastic package of maybe 40-60k EUR before taxes (local Germans will get anywhere from 60-90k for a similar position). If you say no, congrats, they've succeeded in weeding out the next group of annoyances: anyone who wants to be compensated fairly.

The result is startups get the exact kind of workers they love - the kind that is easily exploited both in terms of work quantity and financially.

European startups like to whine about "shortage of talent" but what they're really complaining about is the lack of total naive locals and foreign talent willing to move to be exploited. Also startups in Europe usually DO NOT adhere to the "EU work life balance" that is parroted around the internet. You get worked like you're in America, minus the American salaries.
I’m going to refer every libertarian who argues for the abolishment of all forms of regulation to your comment and this post.
Consensus certainly is.
Lard pie crusts > butter pie crusts. My mom still uses lard (in the Midwest). When I’ve gotten it here in DC, it’s sometimes been a tinge rancid.
What are you talking? You know how effing suspicious it is that you need to create a Pinterest account to see those bullshit, third-party stolen images? Yeah, nothing suspicious at all.
unless you can spend the bitcoin, raw, then you now have two intermediaries: the currency-bitcoin on your end and the bitcoin-currency on the other end.
Thanks for the reply sytse.

I don't think it's fair to say that GitHub has more simply because it has less built-in functionality as compared to GitLab.

I agree that GitLab has broader functionality than GitHub, but it isn't so broad as to cover the breadth of functionality provided by all of GitHub's integrations combined.

Code Climate is a good example - yes you're right you have builtin quality reports, but setting it up is significantly more complex than on GitHub, and as an example serves to illustrate what I see as the very different attitudes and approaches towards building an eco-system.

Referring to your docs on code quality[1], you need to edit the CI configuration file, understand what a docker-in-docker executor is on runners etc.

Compare this to GitHub's Code Climate integration[2]: single button "Set up a plan" that guides you through s small number of screens and links your account and presto done.

Things that successful marketplaces like Heroku, GitHub, Atlassian, Slack etc get right are the ease with which to add integrations and the seamlessness of the experience.

Single button provisioning, combined billing, single sign-on etc. Just the way GitLab position the idea of integrations makes it seem to me that creating a platform isn't a priority for you (which is totally fine obviously, you're focusing on your priorities, and clearly doing pretty damn well doing so).

GitHub makes their marketplace and integrations front and centre, have extensive developer guides, etc. GitLab's are a bit more... spartan. They're lacking any real spark, they're not inviting. Compare your overview[3] page to the best equivalent I think I could find on GitHub[4]. They're chalk and cheese.

Again this isn't to say GitLab's approach is wrong, its just a different focus.

More specific feedback (and this may have changed since we evaluated it a year ago) a GitLab integration could only perform API actions as a real user of a GitLab account. We wanted to build an integration that would add comments to merge requests, but not be attributed to a real user, but a bot user for the integration. That wasn't (or at least wasn't easily discoverable) possible back then, and was a show stopper for our integration.

1: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/examples/code_quality.html
2: https://github.com/marketplace/code-climate
3: https://about.gitlab.com/partners/integrate/
4: https://developer.github.com/
> Multiple fiat-currency crypto exchanges are not sustainable due to this dynamic.

And yet, multiple-fiat-currency exchanges are, for some reason, sustainable.
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Regulatory capture might be an understatement. How about "regulatory innovation?" That will confuse people and make it look like the corporations aren't running yet another banana republic.
Because they offer consensus among multiple organizations.

Also is good for supply chain tracking.

But I understand why people avoid the blockchain space altogether. There was so many bad projects that were not suitable for the tech when all the hype was going on. Not to mention all the cryptocurrency scams. Fortunately a lot of the private blockchain tech has nothing to do with cryptocurrencies.
I am looking into doing some small projects for those I work with... Am seriously considering going to either text only (as in you have to ssh to a Linux server and run the app) or using Zenity and shell scripts for the front end.
Or something as human as, "I'm tired of designing laptops, phones, and peripherals. I want to try designing something very different for a while."

Life is fleeting. Go start new careers every 5-10 years if you have the luxury of that option. You decide what "career" means. Maybe you go become a stand up comedian. Maybe you just go program something different than you have been.
Headline should read "after funding cut, scientists look for new funding". Not quite as clickbaity though...

ETA: I used to work at a government lab. I've never heard a contractor say "they made the right choice. My work is obsolete/irrelevant/a waste of money." At the end of the day, people have livelihoods to maintain. Their work is always "needed now more than ever". Some of it actually is. Some of it isn't.
Care to explain that hand-wavy downside?
> How's that working out for you?

It's a slow process, for exactly the reasons you describe- in fact, I've quoted that exact same line of reasoning many times myself.

The reason to work in this area regardless is because there are definitely large opportunities long term.
Lately I've been boiling up cheap bones and offcuts. You get a few L of stock and a few hundred mL of fat – enough to last the week unless you're deep frying.
> The FDIC is more a feel-good measure

No, it isn't. If the FDIC busts, the government would step in to back it up. Moreover, the FDIC's oversight keeps bank failures to a tiny fraction of the alternative, which we can now measure in the massive rates of fraud and failure around cryptocurrencies.
At the same time, you have to ask yourself if your customizations are so important that it's worth maintaining your own CSS. There are obvious trade-offs there. CSS files often incur irreversible complexity without someone dedicated to fight it. Forgoing a CSS framework completely has its own large costs like eternal vigilance, organization, and documenting some sort of strategy for other developers to follow (since they can't just read a framework's docs anymore).
Google used to have this feature (the ability to specify sites not to show in their search results), but removed it for some reason. I cannot remember if they gave a reason why.

They did provide a replacement as a browser plugin (mentioned close-by in this thread), and I am sure that there are other similar plugins available.
As a parent of two kids, the older of whom is still a pain in the ass and woke us up 6 times last night and the younger of whom slept through from the start, every child is different and any blanket statements about children based on your own parenting experience (other than "they're all different") are wrong for most other parents.
Do you think regulated financial institutions don't cause massive societal harm? Have you seen the big short?

Systems have holes people will go through them
"Discovery" is a big word. Egypt is currently in full-dig mode, because of the political and economic situation. I'm not a scholar, but I bet there are dozens of sites like this that are already well-known, and are simply waiting to be "opened up" when local authorities need some good press and/or a shot of foreign cash to "protect priceless artefacts". This is, coincidentally, one of those times. And guess what, surprise surprise, "foreign dignitaries" are given little tours - I bet a metaphorical hat was passed at the end.

In the end, the question is always how well this stuff can be preserved once unearthed. In a country like Egypt, even the ground is not safe - once a place is marked, the risk of illegal digging happening is fairly high. But showering them with money comes with strings attached (including the chance of large portions ending up in someone's pocket). Sigh.
Where do you think did I not address the things I quoted?

Quote: "People know what they need to do" - your response to that: ignore it, don't address it.

Quote: "that knowledge doesn’t change behavior" - your response to that: ignore knowledge entirely, state that "smarts" changes behaviour.

Quote: "Humans are hard-wired to conserve energy (citation)" - your response to that: don't address it, implicitly dismiss it, state that willpower overcomes hardware (no citation).

Quote: "prefer foods that are fatty, salty, and sugary." - your response: ignore it.

Quote: "This suggests that pharmaceutical interventions that block inflammation may be necessary" - your response: "really?" doesn't particularly address it. Yes, apparently, really.

Quote: "to check the global epidemic of non-communicable disease", your response to global epidemic of disease: "why don't people WORK HARD to be SMARTER, they're ill because they're dumb", i.e. dismiss it as trivial and uninteresting with a throwaway intelligence worship quip.

Hard-Wiring implies software can't change it. This is the fundamental point, if you're to address the things you quoted, you need to address why you think it's not hard-wired in the face of a claim that it is, or why the claim is unsupported. The world's population has become more overweight and obese over the past hundred years - is your explanation that it has become dumber since stopping working to be smart?

If you addressed the things you'd quoted, your comment would have included things like: why you don't think people "know what they should do", why you think people are not hard wired to conserve energy, why you think taste for high energy food is learned or is changeable and not innate, why you think "work to be smart" is a plausible way to address a global disease epidemic and what you think that work would involve, and how it could be taught to the world. Why you think it's possible that work can improve "smart"ness, is there anything to suggest that's true? AND/OR why those claims shouldn't be accepted.

Instead, "nah bro, just work at being smart" is the same quality of reply as "global disease epidemic of cancer may need chemotherapy" "really? why not work on raising your astral frequencies?". It's a feel-good non-solution that doesn't relate to what was said.