skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On his way out? I despise Trump and everything he stands for. Polls show his numbers only improving with every new controversy he starts. And he still has a lot of levers to pull leading up to the election that will hurt his opponents and expand his base.
> Have you been on a retreat? If so how was it and would you go again. If not and you are interested in one - what has prevented you thus far?

I haven't been on one. I'm not really interested in doing one so much as curious about why other folks do.

I mean, don't get me wrong -- meditation itself is an incredibly powerful, basic tool that a lot of people need. This is, it's kinda like a hammer or screw driver in that it's simplistic-but-essential.

I guess it sounds sorta like a book club to me -- like, why join a book club rather than just read your own selection of books whenever you want? And I guess it's because there's a social element to it that people enjoy, perhaps moreso than the actual activity itself?

That said, in a book club, people can talk about the contents of the book afterwards. What might people share of meditation, given that it's such a personal experience?

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To note it, I suspect that the answer to my question is that meditation retreats can help introduce people who don't normally meditate much to the basic practice, sorta like a quick-start class. But I'd be interested in what people've done them before have to say of what they took from it.
I primarily use Apple Maps and its directions and the accuracy of roads have always been great for me. But sometimes I can't find a POI and searching for POIs can be significantly worse than Google Maps.
Why?

Is there a correlation between size and value?

It would make it easier to steal all your packages though, as they could fit more packages in their van/car/bike.
>> That dies provide an interesting example

First off, ugh. I hate noticing typos in my comments after the edit period is over. I even emphasized this typo! :/

> First, Federal law prohibits the use of an SSN

Good point. It's always confused me how that's true and how it's used in taxes though. Is it sufficient if it's only part of an identifier (e.g. SSN + last name)?

> Second, a Corporation mechanical turking 1000's of people to datamine public records would not necessarily be easily caught by your system, especially since any body after collecting the data can disincorporate, and take the fruits of the operation with them to be reincorporated under another name; building larger and larger datasets each time.

That's why there would be disclaimers on the access page (Federal crime to access this data on the part of a third party without disclosing third party, so people don't do it) and a license included with the data as to how it is allowed to be used, which should survive any company change.

So, if turks think it's worth bypassing a clear message indicating they would be committing a crime, that's easily handled by the legal system. If a company thinks they can unincorporate and reincorporate to bypass a federal crime, I think they don't understand the legal system, and as long as the justice department pursues it, they'll likely have a hard time explaining where they got their data from (if they can even get people to supply their own SSNs to get it given clear indicators they would be committing a crime to do so).

Really, the thing I would be more worried about it identify theft profiles being used, but as long as there is clear indication in some manner (a letter once a week/month to the tax address on record of the SSN, if that's legal) then it either wouldn't be lucrative to use those identities in that manner or people might get a fairly early indication that their identity has been stolen.

It's an interesting thought experiment. If this were about anything other than pure information, then I think that would be entirely sufficient. Given we're talking about information that we're trying to control the flow of, and once it's entirely out (and in bulk) there's not much you can do, is it sufficient? I don't know. I think it's not really worse than just making it freely available though, some it's an alternative option given that we already see both ends of the spectrum in play right now in different places (e.g. nations that allow tax returns to be publicly seen with apparently little control other than logging, and nations that do not allow it).
Stone Story is an RPG animated entirely in ASCII symbols
Now waiting for another article on the camera bikes that get the images from the road. Most of their riders are retired pro cyclists who had transitioned into motorbikes for broadcasting the races all over the pro season. Field experience is necessary to anticipate rider's moves on every possible corner or hill, avoiding crashes and still making the most exciting footage you can expect.

Edited for grammar.
> Her day to day work is/was in the AI bias and ethics space, even within google.

Her manager apparently disagreed. I can easily imagine that the AI bias work could have been a 20% project which she spent way more than 20% time on, and now the manager decided that enough is enough.
What an odd video!
It's really location dependent.
Network effect? They could promote your newsletter to people who are already paying for something related.

If people are already registered on Substack and have payment method in place then onboarding is smooth.
Agreed, its not believable at all.

It feels like when FB told everyone that they would never data mine whatsapp, and then started mining like 18 months after acquisition.
I didn't even know that urban beekeeping was a thing outside of hotels and fancy restaurants until recently.

It turns out there are over 400 registered beekeepers and over 1,700 hives in the Chicago area: https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2019/06/27/city-has-a-be...
Is there any site that doesn't allow for unilateral terms of use updates? I'm not being snarky; I genuinely haven't seen one, and I'm not sure what the alternative would be. "We're changing our terms of use, but if you don't agree with our changes, you can keep following the old rules you originally agreed to" sounds like it'd be a nightmare to keep track of in practice.
If you want Google Maps then you can use !gmap.
I think that's why he used the word "likely".
It's hardly a stretch.
Let's not be naive.
If the Google research in China is anything significant I'd say it's almost a certainty.
It could be the most complete business model they've defined - that and interest on Libra deposits. Surely, the value of creating a new global financial payments platform and being the incumbent/biggest player will be fully realized in yet-to-be-imagined ways, but it would obviously sound bad for them to say that in a Senate hearing.
I wanted to give this a shot a long time ago, but putting dark mode behind a paywall was the only thing keeping me from using it. I do not enjoy getting my eyeballs fried every time I go to home.
I don't know. Thiel will probably be around a lot longer than Trump. Maybe he doesn't need the respect of anyone in SV, but it might end up limiting opportunities. Also, it seems like the chaotic nature of the Trump administration limits its value as an active ally. That is, what is it worth for Trump to be listening to you if nothing turns into a policy or legislation?
Deep learning algorithm solves Rubik’s Cube faster than any human
Or:

1) Make an educated guess about what the URL will be and put it in the video.

2) Upload.

3) If you were wrong, delete it and go to 1).

I'm half joking, but that's basically what they did for a git utility that would let you edit histories so that messages could refer (by partial hash) to later commits. I forget the name, though, and couldn't find it on a quick search.
I dunno but to me a bio weapon in the form of Lyme disease is a pretty lame weapon. I mean, what, hope like a few percent of Soviets would get infected and decades later have a disease develop in the infected people?

Lyme is a terrible disease to have, but what value would it have as a weapon?
Like to work with background noise? It could be boosting your performance
Repost. See KISS launcher on F-Droid for a good alternative.
> You're right, if you click around in the Maps app (desktop or mobile) it takes you straight to the shady source (yelp.com).

Apple Maps doesn't use Yelp as a primary data source. It's used to add extra information (like reviews and photos) to existing points of interest, but the points of interest themselves are catalogued by Apple or their data providers. If you click around in Apple Maps a bit, you'll find that not all POIs have Yelp data.

> Edit: Also this: [a lawsuit about social features in the Yelp app]

I'm not sure how this is relevant.
Building an Agent Assistant for Customer Service with Deep Learning
Another way to achieve this would be to make a video which flashes each possible digit of the YouTube video ID alphabet once for each digit, then use YouTube's video editor to cut out all the incorrect digits.
"I vow to ship with -1 Carbon Emission by 40312." - me

In case the sarcasm is too hidden: Now they won't. 2050 is way too far in the future. The problem isn't if but how anyways. This article shouldn't be on the front page.
I have, and I enjoyed it, but I like the essays more and they have stayed with me more.
wow - incredible artwork
You're composing a bit of a motte-and-bailey argument here. From your replies downthread, it seems clear that you have issues with the underlying concerns of the protests. But your opening bid for the argument is "politics don't belong in the workplace".

If you were up-front about this, you'd say "harassment and discrimination are political issues that shouldn't be organized around". Of course, that argument wouldn't carry well here. But it'd be more intellectually honest.
Click the information button "i" and then "Report an Issue".
The converse is also true: in an environment where random strangers take perverse pleasure in using any record in which you may appear to provide the worse possible representation, where you have no way of controlling this potential invasion of your privacy, where the record will endure _forever_ (and other groups will go to great lengths to ensure access to these records by anyone on the planet who happens to be curious), and where your ability to contextualize an event in which you happen to appear will be drowned out by whatever outrage machine has the biggest megaphone and fastest meme team, there is a strong case to be argued that there should be significant and prohibitive barriers to public access.
If I recall correctly it was when I was a bartender and someone paid using one.
It’s an integrated solution. Patreon does bring a blog but this one is much better IMHO. It’s very well done.
Open Street Map is not remotely usable in many parts of the country. Picking largely at random:

South Minneapolis is pretty much unpopulated other than parks/schools/churches:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/44.9256/-93.2303

Same in a good chunk of Memphis:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/35.1364/-89.9691

and some major suburbs of Atlanta:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/33.7077/-84.2708

It appears to be a usability/functionality tradeoff. Apple Maps isn't perfect in privacy nor accuracy/completeness, but OSM is useless for many people.
What you said is true, but Project DragonFly is a real thing and its quite likely DragonFly has state-sponsored spies working on it. (Possibly without google's knowledge)
It is cool that they are actually planning for "Zero Emissions" as opposed to just "Carbon Neutral" (which is also on their roadmap, but for 2030).
Not just that, the title seems to falsely imply they use the product in question when in reality each rolled their own.
What's the significance of this line?
This looks like the way to go for people like me who have used everything from uninstalling apps (then resorting to the browser) to installing usage trackers.
Just eliminating the ability to do anything but the minimal.
You seem to know weird subsets of people at different companies. If we weren't ostensibly in the same field, I wouldn't comment (because of course two random people on HN would know different people at Google). But we are, and the Google security people I talk to are more supportive of the protests; several are now on the job market because of it.

I feel pretty comfortable with how representative the people I talk to are of Google product security and vulnerability research, for whatever that's worth to you.
I actually got on Liz's block list for suggesting that Google the company "wasn't worth saving", when Liz was still at Google organizing employee action to try and "fix" it.

I get the impression we'd agree on that point much more today than we did then.
Do you have a primary care doctor you like? Not all doctors accept all insurance plans, so sometimes it’s helpful to work backwards from that. You can call their office and ask for a list of accepted plans.
I like this idea. I went looking for an Android launcher for this purpose. I settled on "niagra". It doesn't really limit anything, but it allows me to hide the app menu visually. I just have 7 apps on my main screen. And there's no "recommended" or "recently used" apps, and there's no google search bar and no browser on my main screen. I like it. I've simply forgotten about a lot of apps over time. Out of sight out of mind.

Another interesting thing that I do: I use uBlock Origin to gimp websites and hide recommendations to limit my browsing, without limiting my use of the actual website.

I want all my actions to be purposeful, no aimless browsing, no recommendations.
I didn't know how they did SSH either. Content marketing pieces are not ads. There is good information here.
Excellent, this explains it. The YouTube video you shared says the trick is to create a resumable upload using YouTube API. The steps involved :

1. create a resumable session (here we specify video length in bytes)

2. YouTube returns a session URI which contains the upload ID

3. create a video with the upload ID baked in (edit video to match length from step 1)

4. upload video to the session URI

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/using_resuma...
Practices and Tools That Make for a Good Project
Cute timing wrt Whittaker’s departure, considering Peter Thiel’s diatribe against Google just yesterday regarding Google’s involvement in proceedings with China. [1]

Meanwhile, Facebook assumes widespread immunity in ethical ontology within Thiel’s (goofy) narrative, all being quite selectively convenient given Thiel sits on FB’s board.

Both stories were initially broken by Bloomberg, which is also charmingly harmonic, temporally. Thiel likely pushed to collate onto Whittaker’s thunder is my (mere) immediate speculation.

Disclaimer: Worked as an engineer at Bloomberg 8+ years (now in academic scientific research), I doubt Bloomberg consciously coordinated the stories but anything’s possible, I suppose. (as mentioned, more likely the stories coordinated themselves in alignment to Bloomberg publication - if anything).

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20447055
Climate apocalypse.
I did a few of 10-day silent retreats a few years ago. I really enjoyed them and I've been wanting to do another. I think they helped give me a different perspective on the world and see some of my issues in a different light.

But I had significant difficulty incorporating the practice and those lessons into my everyday life. It's just hard to get anything useful out of daily practice when I'm subjected to work, phone, tv, internet, etc. I just end up to scatterbrained. I wish I understood how to live in the modern world with some of the clarity that I had during the retreats.
Which apparently wouldn't be such a crisis if their other abundant water sources weren't too polluted to use, based on what I read in the article.
I hope they can get this sorted out.

Of course everyone's seen the oversize boxes containing a relatively thimble-sized object, but I've pretty much had to stop buying books at Amazon - especially hardcovers for gifts. Nearly EVERY time, they just toss the book(s) in an oversize box, with zero or token padding. Of course the books arrive with the corners crunched and dust jacket torn. Usually not terribly, but more than enough that it is no longer a new book or suitable for a gift. They've gotten a lot of returns.

Very occasionally, rarely enough that it may be the book printers themselves doing it, I get a (usually paperback) book shrink-wrapped in to a larger cardboard, placed in a larger box. These arrive perfect every time, but obviously use more packaging & labor. Still, seems like less than 2-4x return/reship cycles trying to get a good one.

It just seems ironic that Amazon started out selling & shipping books, has become a technology leader in multiple fields, yet still cannot get it right how to ship a book.
> The company already has cut emissions substantially, at the cost of $1 billion so far. And it has an intermediate goal to cut emissions by 60% (relative to 2008 levels) by 2030.

> While 2050 might sound a long way away, ships are built to last for 20 to 30 years. That means container ships that will be in service in 2050 will be hitting the oceans in just a few years.

These quotes from the article make it seem like there needs to be some fairly drastic action in the short term which would demonstrate how serious they are. The main suggestion for "how" seems to be biofuels.
It's undeniably true that accessibility is a basic necessity rather than a feature. But is it fair to expect accessible features on an experimental technology?
It's painfully obvious FB will data mine Libra to the max and monetize it via even more targeted ads. Why would anyone believe otherwise?
I'm not sure how this is relevant.

Apple Maps steers you pretty hard towards the Yelp app if you want any business info.
When I worked on an electronic medical record, the system had a concept called "break the glass". Any record could be accessed, but if that access was not whitelisted as normal for a particular time, place, person, and purpose, the user would be presented with a warning that their access would be recorded and flagged for subsequent auditing, to determine if it was appropriate or not. They could then click through to access the record.

If a care team needed to know right now whether a patient was allergic to medication X, the computer nurse would click through. If someone was just trying to look at the inpatient dietary orders of a celebrity, the warning would likely scare them off and protect patient privacy.

But the important difference there is that the person accessing was not given a digital copy of the record they were accessing, unless they photographed the screen with their phone.

If you release one thing over the web to one person, you permanently lose all access control over that thing. If the system records that one person looked up all the records, well now you know who to go to when you want to look at the records anonymously.
I'm not sure where you're getting that from, but it's not correct. If you're in google, I'm happy to source what I'm saying more specifically.
> The atmospheric pressure and temperature on Venus are far too high for it to be habitable.

Which is why the video proposes floating cities. I agree with GP, Venus deserves more consideration.
Apple Maps doesn’t do bike routes which is reason enough not to use it.

Google Maps does a very nice job for bikes. If I should wish something of Google Maps it would be “I bring my bike on the train” routes, which is a very common and nice way to get around here in Denmark at least.
Good read, I was not aware of that. I still feel it is somehow apt.
Here's a guess: upload from a browser running on Linux, and create a FUSE filesystem that blocks read() calls until you've generated the video.

I tried it with a named pipe ("mknod /tmp/foo.mp4 p") and it gave me an error, but before the error, the web page blocked during upload, but it showed me the URL that will be used (before I gave it a single byte of data).
The Economics of Private Jets [video]
This seems to be an internet meme, because it's repeated in every discussion on this topic but I never see any citation for it.

It also doesn't seem to hold up to scrutiny - even if the initial packing of the vehicle holds everything in place, what happens once a few packages are removed?
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I think Thiel is more neutral than evil.

But of course that does not make him less awful. Like the saying goes, all that is required for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing.

And he’s both enabling and profiting.
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>No, it's not

Indeed. Any stock Supersport 600 bike will do 10.5 right out of the showroom.
How concepts are communicated matters a great deal, because one of the primary obstacles is simply lack of awareness and education about the graveness of the threat facing humanity. We have decades worth of very good physical evidence that hasn't changed much yet on its own. Disinformation tactics have been very effective so far. I'm sure people will start paying attention more when the northern ice cap goes away (though since we live in an age where flat earth theories are gaining followers, it's easy to dismiss anything as fake for some conspiracy nuts). However, waiting at all for more dramatic physical manifestations is far too long. There are also many solid plans being worked on that simply need money and support. So again, what matters is how the concepts are conveyed to the lay public. Politicians are not going to fix this until they're afraid of losing elections over it. And even then it's more likely that they'll make token gestures such as declaring emergencies without making any real, drastic changes.
I had blueshield ca for a while as self-employee, but I wouldn’t call it “good”. It certainly was expensive. Family of 5, 20% copay, $5000 deductible for over $1000 a month. That was two years ago. It’s probably worse now.

To be frank, I don’t think such a thing as good “health insurance for the self employed” exists in CA.

Aside from the scammy ones you mention, you can get with one of the big guys and pay an arm and a leg, or roll the dice with one of these startups with new business models you see popping up.