skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When anyone does the math with these gig jobs, they leave out risk. That's the difference. GrubHub is pushing the risk of long term disability, and other things like unemployment due to business slowdown, entirely onto you. As well as other risks they are free from if you are not an employee.

It's generally quite the opposite. It's employer regulations hiding the cost of insurance from you. There is nothing stopping you as an individual from buying disability or unemployment insurance.

But insurance typically has a negative expected value. With perfect efficiency the expected value is zero; probability of claim times payout from receiving claim equals average premium. Then you add the costs of administration and insurance fraud and it goes into the red. Whether the peace of mind from having the insurance is worth that cost to you is your own decision.

Requiring employers to provide it does two things. The first is that it hides the cost from you. The employer is a corporation and corporations don't really pay for anything, employees, customers and investors do. It'd be nice to think the investors are paying for it, but the kind of employers who hire unskilled workers are typically not in high margin industries. In practice it's generally going to be the workers and customers. And then people ask for more and more things like that, thinking someone else is paying for it when it's really still them.

Which leads to the second problem, which is that when it's required you can't decline it. If some double digit percentage of the people on unemployment are committing insurance fraud, you may be better off to just put the money you would have paid in premiums into a brokerage account to rely on if you lose your job, but you no longer have that option. You no longer even realize its cost, because you never receive a bill for unjustifiably high insurance premiums, you just get paid that much less or pay more when you buy stuff.
Did they try to cover up the fact that Marc was living in the treehouse, then at the end inadvertently reveal he was the inhabitant all along?
I am yet to encounter projects that require this skill, hence not well-versed in this. I will look this up.Thanks.
I will open source this – let's hope people will create customized cards/decks!
That time sharing thing is cool. I wonder how long it takes for them to synchronize and how they do the synchronization
I suppose it's just me, but I find this "music in the shower" use-case a bit mystifying. Do you take such long showers that whatever you started playing before you got in will finish and you'll need to manually start something else? Or are you unable to just relax for a few minutes in relative quiet, with nothing but the noise of the hot water cascading over you?
Voluntary delegation is different than involuntary delegation.

This is a hard thing for people to get over, and I don't really understand why. As an analogy, think about Right to Repair: I can simultaneously say that I want consumers to have the ability to control their devices, install custom firmware, and crack them open to repair them if they break, without making an assertion that every single consumer is qualified to do so.

With Right to Repair, I don't lose the ability to let someone qualified make decisions about my device, or to set device policies. It doesn't require a massive amount of faith in ordinary people, just an acknowledgement that a single company making those decisions for everyone is overall bad for the market.

And the fact that some individuals will make bad decisions and hand their iPad to Uncle Joe to fix with his power tools is an acceptable tradeoff, given that it means we're not forced to solve the much harder problem of deciding for everyone which modifications and usage is "correct" for every device.

The reason people go in so hard on individual freedom isn't because individuals are amazing -- individuals are flawed as heck. It's that it is extremely difficult to figure out when someone is fit to take over someone else's decision power, and that getting it wrong comes with massive risks. Given that we don't have an easy formula to tell when delegation is the right choice, or even to define what happiness is, or even to define whether or not happiness should be a universal goal, we (when possible) leave it up to individuals to make their own decisions or voluntarily delegate their decisions to another person.

Individual freedoms allow us to practice Defense in Depth on a societal level, at the cost of making us more vulnerable to some manipulations and allowing individuals to make some bad decisions about who they delegate their thinking to.

It's not perfect, but it is terribly practical, and nobody that I know of has come up with a better scheme yet.
I will add a chat which will show game log..and probably a optional turn "token" too
Very fascinating, thanks. Do you have any reading resources I could peruse about these kinds of topics? I read The Power Broker and thought it was an amazing insight into the nuances of politics and media.
It doesn't need to be a negative, condescending thing. Taking the time to ask "What problem are you trying to solve?" can alleviate quite a bit of frustration and wasted time. It's a simple question. It's not assuming they don't really know what they want or shaming them—You're trying to better understand the problem they're solving so you can give them a better, more holistic solution.
You're absolutely wrong and the shit you're parroting is basic Wikipedia crap.

Future projections are based on past results. Thats how projections work. Whether fundamental or technical analysis.

Manipulating that, especially for Bezos since he's a Wall Street elite, doesn't take but the slightest of changes. Only reason the Stock is priced so high is supply and demand which has been artificially created by Bezos' institutional connections. It will be called Capital Gains fraud in the future.
They do not. It's just a co-marketing partnership.
China no longer enforces one child policy in most places.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy?wprov=sfla1

Abortion is not murder.
Nope.

But they'd disappear the dwindling people that still have the courage (in the face of almost certain death) who shared the story on WeChat etc shortly afterward.
There are absolutely times where hard work is a grind and not fun or all that rewarding. However I have had experiences where hard work is so fun and fulfilling that I almost hesitate to call it work. Being a consultant has given me both sides of the spectrum.
Probably because they feel safer when there's a person around.
That's actually something I've already tested out, so probably coming soon! Hit test + long-press-and-drag should do it!
I agree. For a period a several years ago I was tasked to oversee this in a museum alongside an occulus rift early dev kit and some other tech curiosities. The leap motion almost never worked, and people would usually end up disappointed. The kinect seemed to achieve everything it was trying to do but better and for the whole body.

The occulus rift dev kit comparatively despite being a prototype, stood up amazingly well to the general public, even if I didn't feel it was that impressive, it was awesome to give the first view of VR to so many members of the public.
They literally have 100s of millions of dollars in cash. What else should they do with that money besides polish their product?
That's weird. It might've had a bug. Now enhanced a lot and should work so much better!
I will leave this great Tweet series by Justin Owings here:

https://twitter.com/justinowings/status/1134423782314192897
I completely agree. We just happened to do it first.
Trained dogs help conservationists find rare Iowa turtles
I wish there was a better model for the news industry but I haven't been able to think of one.
What else is intended by the capitalization? To me it means shouting and I don't do that unless I'm mad.
Not a luxury, neither a necessity, just a nice affordable thing to have that greatly improves nearly everybody’s quality of life, especially if you have children.
Op here, I am using Disqus for comments. This is very easy to setup. My template even supports this out-of-the-box. Google Analytics is even easier - the only thing you have to do is set your analytics ID in your hugo site configuration.
Speech2Face: Learn the Face Behind a Voice
I've noticed a shift in coverage over the last year or so as well, I suspect all the news organizations finally got their act together about how to cover these stories without causing more damage.
> or you will just go missing to be found in separate body parts a month later.

My communist ancestors would call this "getting swallowed by the night"
At a certain level, if you don't trust someone, you can't do anything.

Let's say you have the source code. You have the source code audited. You have reproducible builds, so you know that the source code is what was used to generate that set of binaries.

How do you know that the platform vendor isn't substituting some other code at runtime? How do you know that the hardware doesn't have a back door? How do you know that the compiler isn't inserting malicious code into the app?

At the end of the day, the only way to prove that something is doing the right thing is to watch what it does. Everything else is an educated guess.

People have built third-party WhatsApp clients, even as Facebook has tried to combat them. What Whatsapp does has been observed to the point where people are able to interact with the server at various points in time. There have been vulnerabilities reported in WhatsApp; no software is perfect, and WhatsApp has made the choice to collect more metadata than, for instance, Signal.

But up until now, nobody has found any evidence that WhatsApp is not end-to-end encrypted as it claims to be. And there are ways for people to find that out, and a lot of incentives for people to do so. Nothing is perfect, and at some point you have to decide to trust someone. I understand that trusting Facebook is fraught. But there are people with good reputations who do good work, like Moxie and tptacek, who do have expertise and can recommend WhatsApp (with an important list of caveats). Whatsapp is not perfect, but most of the options out there are much, much worse.
The easy way to achieve this is get the other party to travel toward you at .99c. Slightly more seriously, it's always interesting to think about how you can have the universe expanding faster than c, and so you can't see it all. You can also approach someone else at faster closing speed than c if both parties are traveling where the sum of their velocities toward each other is greater than c (like both are going at .6c).
This is probably the most alarming post I've seen in HN in a while. Are you seriously arguing against freedom right now?

Worse yet, you're not calling it freedom, you're calling it "agency." Likely because you know this opinion is utterly despicable, so you're trying to deceive people into agreeing with it by using coded language.
I think that what you are missing is that this is not an option, this is a reality, Cambridge analytica already happened and since then they have moved into manufacturing consent in many other countries elections

For a long time, marketing and political propaganda have gone hand in hand

Manufacture of consent is something that has been happening for a long time now

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tTBWfkE7BXU

The difference now is that it can be done far cheaper, and on a bigger scale and more effectively than ever before, I would indeed recommend you to check out the planet money podcast at the least

Lastly, just because you see the value of mental agency and thought liberty, it doesn't mean that other people will value it the same way you do, or as much as you do. Psychographics is also a thing, and used to great effect when it come to manipulating people this way
While it is true about contract law and international arbitration, it would be inadequate to compare courts of early Soviet Union and today. As stated in the article, these agreements were meant to be privately handled between Adolf and Stalin, meaning there would be no overseeing court body to interpret the legality of their proposal. If anything, this agreement was their blueprint to lay a foundation for their own court system with them being their own judge and executioner.
Also, think about the fact that there is a Wikipedia list for mass shooting in one country this year. Most countries don't even have a list of mass shootings, let alone one for each year. The Utrecht tram shooting was for weeks in the media all around Europe (even in the US) and only 3 people died. This was an unprecedented event in the Netherlands. However, this year, the US had 20 shootings with the same number of fatalities or more
This graphic has become a recently popular meme on social media, showing how excessive coverage of extreme black swan-type events has influenced the public conciousness: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/05/Causes-of-death-i...
> I have no faith that those people would respect my rights of free speech at all. It is explicitly not part of their ideology.

Sure, that isn't unlikely. However, does that make it okay for the left to be the first to disrespect their free speech rights? "Our opponents would oppress at us as soon as they get the chance so we'll do our best to oppress them first"? Clearly, that's not right.

> In my view, believing that if you defend free speech hard enough the forces of fascism and hate will become interested in "hearing all perspectives" is incredibly naive.

Again, true, the true believers will never be convinced by any amount of debate or evidence. But that tends to be a relatively small group in any movement. It's the undecided silent majority that needs to be kept on your side and taking the moral low road is sure to alienate them, with disastrous consequences.
Depending on how broadly you want to define "hash a physical object", there is a trick that was described by this memorable HN comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18138699
Likewise, please post retorts with actual substance rather than simple and useless attacks on character or knowledge. I do not indeed agree that this man has 'no knowledge of the subject' and I am inclined to agree with the one who clearly and articulately outlines his view points rather than the one who proclaims to have the only truth while providing very little in the way of evidence to that fact.

You seem very sure of yourself, like you're unwilling to listen to any opinion that doesn't immediately conform to your own. And maybe this is a very difficult topic, charge with such intense emotion that it nearly hurts to hear someone so contrary. However, the man who proclaims the one truth will never learn again.
Airlines' tech investments pay off in customer satisfaction scores
Not sure what you think you understood while at Yahoo, but Yahoo never used PageRank. Inlink-based signals, obviously, but never PageRank. Also, to state the obvious: Google's own execution of PageRank is orders of magnitude more complicated than what's been published. I fully agree with the greater point you are making however. Google is still at heart an engineering excellence company.
Digital Ocean killed our compqny
> Note that the axle of the planet gear is tied to the axle of the sun gear by a link that freely rotates around the axis of the sun gear and keeps the planet gear engaged with the sun gear but does not contribute to the drive torque. This link appears, at first sight, to be similar to a crank but the drive is not transmitted through it. Thus, it did not contravene the crank patent.

Pretty interesting stuff. Although visually similar it is actually a different principle. And we can readily tell that the arm doesn't contribute to the drive as the sun is rotating faster than the arm would drive it.
No offense, as I'm sure this has been hard, but a screwup like this publicly demonstrates DO is not ready for prime time competition against AWS, Azure, GCP and the like.

I'd gladly do whatever it takes to KYC, send you my business license, tax returns, EIN, invoice billing, etc so you know there is someone behind my account.

We spend thousands of hours eliminating single points of failure. If an automated system can undermine that work, DO is not an option for us to host anymore.
> limos, shuttles, buses, trucks, ambulances, construction vehicles

You realise they all require a more expensive, more limited and different form of driving license, one that usually requires many thousands of dollars to acquire, right?
> insurance typically has a negative expected value

Only if you ignore externalities, like uninsured permanently disabled people begging on the streets or starving to death.
Why SD card when USB boot is available for Raspberry Pi 3BX& RPi 2B v1.2[1]. SD cards are the abomination of single board computers, I understand that it is a choice taken to limit cost and I'm grateful for that but SD cards are not designed to run OS.

One might argue that USB 2.0 interface of RPi doesn't add much value when a USB SSD is connected to it, but benchmarks show that it adds at-least double the performance[2].

[1]:https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

[2]:https://jamesachambers.com/raspberry-pi-storage-benchmarks/
I wonder what would happen if the US made a requirement that to get a student visa to study here, applicants from China have to take and pass a history course about Tiananmen Square and the subsequent efforts to cover it up?

There are around 360k Chinese students in the US. If China didn't do anything to counter it, that would be a lot of educated young people eventually returning to China to take influential jobs who are aware of Tiananmen.

Would China go so far as to stop allowing their students to study in the US to stop that? Or would they just to to convince the students that the US is lying?
As a Polish person who had Russian and German (English also :)) in school, so I can read those documents, I would say you Brits should get interested about it in 1939 not now.

Those French guys also should chip in earlier.

Don't take it personally it is a just historical joke!
I believe the documentary you're referring to is "The Secret Life of the Cat" which fitted cats with tracking devices and cameras. It's available online [0].

[0] https://vimeo.com/84794829
https://i.imgur.com/sm7mrJi.jpg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169
Isn't it a common practice to not identify minors in the news?
> And he did so in his capacity as a private citizen, not by exercising his influence at Google. By the way, we are quite far afield from the initial claim that Google employees wrote software for a particular political campaign.

Google has been providing free services to campaigns it wants to help for over a decade, in the open. This started when Schmidt was CEO.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118489524982572543

The Obama campaign was the first to really realize the importance of IT infrastructure, _and_ their whole shtick (more or less neoliberalism with a friendly face) aligns really well with Google's political goals.

I'm not really sure why you seem to think that this is some conspiracy theory, when everyone involved is openly talking about it.
I'm not super interested in debating 'zimmerfrei but for everyone else: no, I don't think you should use a library that randomly slaps copyright headers of the fork author on source files [0] and introduces C implementations of MD5 in 2018 [1]. I do think it's ironic that they suggest sticking to RFC'd specs with many competing implementations while defending a project with no mandatory code review, mostly 1 author, and currently failing CI :)

[0]: https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome/commit/8675e6f03fc...
[1]: https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome/commit/87c2d6aedb3...

The number of cryptographers willing to do hours and hours of free, often thankless, open source work is pretty small, so no, I'm also not going to write up a disclaimer every time I tell someone to use a library. Of course I'm going to work on the projects that I think are doing the right thing.
Having been a developer of multiple custom engines (including but not limited to engines intended for external licensing in AAA game development), I can confirm that the problems that must be solved for small scale projects are dramatically different from the problems encountered at medium and large scale.

If Amethyst is intended to be a tool for single-developer, small game development, that's great. Carry on with what you are doing.

If you want it to be used for bigger projects, you won't know what you don't know until you actually try to make that big project.

(I assume that Forrest is posting here because he sees potential in your technology, and wants to encourage you to reach that potential. The internet is littered with the remains of game engines with big potential that didn't survive because they didn't take this lesson into account.)
The students that make it to the USA mostly know things like that already. Their ideological positions, one way or the other, are not influenced much by ignorance.
>It's that it is extremely difficult to figure out when someone is fit to take over someone else's decision power

"It's difficult" doesn't mean it's a task that should be completely abandoned because of some ideological notion.
I can't wait until we get to the point where news broadcasts are basically "bad things happened, but we think it would be best to not get into the ugly specifics. In the meantime here are some photographs of people who could use your prayers."
>Agency is the only option.

This is the problem, agency is dead, or at least in the grand scales, manufacture of consent has been a thing for a long, long, long time now and it won't go away simply because some people are afraid of looking into the reality of things

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tTBWfkE7BXU

Also, not sure if you saw the provided podcast, but most of the things you mention are addressed there
This is important. I hate how it had became standard for companies to screw their customers unless they are online-shamed.

The response email even read like a giant polite FUCK YOU (we locked your account, no further action required by you)

You bet I will have further action!

And it is after the shaming that you get an "I am sorry for this situation". Which sounds more like saying "I'm sorry we got caught".

My frustration is not with DO specifically, as they do exactly what every other company does.

But, what of the other thousands of people that got screwed and did not put it on twitter?

It is the equivalent of when you are in a restaurant and get screwed: It is the loudest person that complains more the one that gets the reward, while all the others silently swallow the injustice.
Naive question, since I'm not familiar with the aircraft parts marketplace: Can the elements of the paper trail be hashed and published publicly, and can then those hashes be factored into the blockchain?
So. I, person A, am putting a part up for sail with "omitted details like final prices or provenance documents." How does blockchain solve this problem?

I, person B, am buying that part. Then I'm putting it up for sale again with a different set of details and provenance documents (because I'm a fraud or because I don't have any other documents). How does blockchain solve this problem?
Not much happened except, you know, a measles outbreak that’s killed several people. But nbd, right, Zuck?
Migrating from Jekyll HPSTR to HPSTR Hugo
There's no such thing as jock, nerd, goth, rebel etc anymore. Today's teens are actually pretty different than the generations that came before. Some things don't change though. There is still such a thing as asshole and douchebag.
I did a single search on Google back in the '90s and never left. The quality gap was enormous, and it has stayed like this ever since. What world do you live in ?
That's a far cry from "just the facts" reporting. Is that sort of editorializing in reporting really a step in the right direction?