skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
new in the sense that he's pushed the refinement of the technology

That's what I understood as well. For example there's a mutlitude of practical problems with current in-brain electrodes, ranging from limits in the amount of them, their lifetime, lifetime of connectors, surgeries being quite difficult, possible problems with infections etc. None of them are extremely hard to solve but it basically requires a ton of money being thrown at and that seems to be Musk's plan, allowing to get like 3000 electrodes with the preamp/digitizer stage implanted subcutaneously.
This is GREAT. It's been long overdue that these stores should not be monopolies imposed on device owners. Besides these things can stand perfectly fine on their own if users have choice. There are plenty of people that will still want to purchase from various app stores, but it shouldn't be required.
Last 12 months

1) Took a mini-retirement.

2) Spent a lot of time with my son (who is 12 now).Shared with him passion for reading books. Knowing languages.

3) Found out that I am not as tough as I thought myself to be.

4) Learned to understand a lot of layers in the ongoing conversations. (Earlier I only heard what was told on surface. I may be overdoing layers now)

5) I strongly believed that I will exercise once I have enough time on my hand. Guess what? Even after having all the time in the world I wasted most of it without working on reduing my weight. (obesity)

6) I wanted to taste the theory that you will not die of starvation (not in todays world). This is true. Even if you do not earn money you still can manage to have twice a day meal. (I am well educated MBA Engg et al)

7) When I saw the UNDP SDG Goals #1 Noone will be left behind. I constantly wondered if the opposite can be the case. Now I think its the government which is getting left behind. (They are so slow to adopt anything new)

8)I did a 1-year diploma in Disaster Management from Disaster management Institute. (I was in Bhopal when the worst Industrial disaster took place of Union Carbide). I learnt very little of value from classes but a lot more from educational MOOC courses.

9) Social life goes for a topsy-turn when you do not have an answer to question "What do you do for a living ?" I told them I just live, Most people did not believe me.Eventually they started distancing from me and then I found a totally new set of friends who lived nearby but had totally different value system. ( I kept my living extremely frugal)

10) These days I work with young minds and try to ignite the spark of innovation by telling them stories and work with them on the small time projects.
I don't really understand the main argument of this comment. Can someone help me out?
> only if the environment is given financial value will things change.

Or maybe we should try to help people understand that it's futile to see in terms of human concepts (like profit) the entity which literally created our species. Perhaps financialization of literally everything we should hold dear is the problem? The value of human life itself has at times been boiled down to a dollar amount, but that doesn't mean you can go around killing as many people as you want as long as your bank account is big enough (oh, unless you're a corporation of course).
Eh.. just charge people more money to use Uber. Yeah they would lose a lot of regular riders but will those people really go back to using cabs? Uber could double their prices and I would still use them over taxis 9/10 times.
A pedant might argue, and cogently one might add, that Uber's unsustainable business model is what will destroy Uber's unsustainable business model.
I effectively did ask for it. You're no less useless than the other person. I recommend you stop wasting people's time on this board, and learn to be helpful when help is asked.
I'm a bit flabberghasted that so many commenters in this thread are apparently in favor of committing blatant theft.
To better understand antipathy towards unions in the US, do a google search for "new york rubber room". Tens of millions of dollars a year spent on salaries for teachers who had to be pulled from classrooms but couldn't be fired. Due to the backlog of arbiters, they sit around doing nothing at all. It's bad for them, bad for the schools, and bad for the public.

It's an extreme example, to be sure, but it is also one that had gotten a fair amount of media attention. No-one wants to work hard when they see someone else taking it easy, knowing that their next pay raise is more closely tied to seniority than it is to on the job performance.

Another example is the number of states where unions arranged "votes" to force "home health care workers" to unionize. That is, if you are taking care of a family member who recieves certain kinds of disability welfare, you are automatically deemed a union member, and the dues are taken from the welfare payments.

It was nothing more than a blatant money grab when it happened where I lived, and I can assure you that these peope got far less from their "representation" than they got in dues, since they were never technically employees in the first place and no bargaining or contact to begin with.

Yes, there are better ways that unions can operate. There are some good unions out there. There is also plenty to criticise too, and pretending that they are a universal good isn't helping anyone.

Edit: perhaps the biggest complaint is that the unions are too powerful. Even leaving is hard; the New Haven firefighters had to file a lawsuit to stop the former parent union fron sending their members to collections agencies for their dues after they left. https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/New-Haven-firefighte...
You properly encrypt it and regularly send data (like in a VPN). Done.
I absolutely hope that’s the outcome of this whole thing. Unfortunately beyond the actual security vulnerability, companies often view these things as a “brand” or “PR” issue. I sincerely wish Kevin the best & hope this results positively as an internship or bug bounty.
Kind of like computers back in the day?
In the same way as taking more than one's fair share of pie is desirable to most.
What about the reverse of that. When I load a website, I expect it to load the normal information of the page in question (for an article about something, that article). I do _not_ want or grant permission for it to display ads. As such, their host sending ads to my machine is "exceeding authorized access".

I'm curious if it would be feasible to sue a company over sending ads. They have just as much information about what you want displayed on your computer as you have about how they want you to use their apis.
The easy solution for sites that need revenue is to abandon this stupid arms race and do two things:

1. Force their ad networks to police ads for malware, movies, tracking code, and slow-loading crap.

2. Stop sharing private user data with others.

I would turn off my ad blocker and incognito mode tomorrow if e.g. the Washington Post would take these steps.
The physics of air travel make clean energy not super useful. At best, we could try to figure out a carbon-neutral way to create combustible fuel, like biofuels.

You're right that in general people don't like government policies that potentially lower people's standards of living. Gas taxes are usually very unpopular. But I think "hope everyone becomes more environmentally conscious" is more possible than you think. This is very much a generational issue and I think as the negative effects of climate change become more apparent, the public will begin to see the light.

In the US, it would not take a huge change in public opinion to make truly effective environmental policy more tenable. With the current trend, it may only take another decade for over 60% of Americans to believe that climate change should be a top priority: 44% already claim to prioritize it, up from 26% in 2010. Of course, some of these people may not actually like how environment-focused policies affect their lifestyles, but that may change as well.
previously (a year ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16501630

tl;dr his claims are widely known. he is trying to sell books.
Also: learn to run properly. It's insane how many people simply don't know how to run and slowly injure themselves.

https://www.runnersworld.com/beginner/a20811257/proper-runni...
Reddit Keith Thurman
https://medium.com/@can2019live/tv-live-free-manny-pacquiao-vs-keith-thurman-live-full-fight-event-d078333f61dd

https://www.reddit.com/r/PacquiaoThurmanTV/comments/cfnjry/matchthread_manny_pacquiao_vs_keith_thurman_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PacquiaoThurmanTV/comments/cfnjs7/matchthread_manny_pacquiao_vs_keith_thurman_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PacquiaoThurmanTV/comments/cfnjsd/matchthread_thurman_vs_pacquiao_live_streams/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PacquiaoThurmanTV/comments/cfnjss/matchthread_keith_thurman_vs_manny_pacquiao_fight/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PacquiaoThurmanTV/comments/cfnjvz/manny_pacquiao_vs_keith_thurman_live_stream/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PacquiaoThurmanTV/comments/cfnkt3/pacquiao_vs_thurman_live_fightreddit/
So I know that everything sounds cooler in Japanese (which is why anime characters call out their ultimate attack names in English), but is there a reason we can't use the perfectly cromulent English word "vocation" with a bit of explanatory text differentiating it from "passion"?
Many sites ask for your phone just to simplify the "forgot my credentials, help me" customer support calls. Some, especially money-related, want to know your phone as a separate confirmation of your state-controlled identity, in countries where buying a SIM card required legal identification (which likely can be retrieved by a court order if need be).

Yes, SMS can easily be diverted so it's not great for 2FA purposes; a voice call is often an option, and is harder to spoof.

Sites that actually care about your security would go for things like TOTP, or SSH key, or a certificate. These forms do not map easily to your legal identity, but are more reliable proofs of knowing a secret.
>Unless they can hold out until property values rise and they can sell for a profit.

Sure, if they've got piles of cash sitting around to pay for the loan, insurance and real estate taxes.

Here's another tidbit people don't understand. If the property has more than 4 units, the value of the property is determined almost entirely by the revenue it generates.[1][2] The bank who will provide the loan to the buyer will look at those numbers, and the buyer will look at those numbers. In particular, what people will not look at are the comps (the value of nearby properties). So a "Let's lose money until the property values go up" strategy won't work there.

[1] https://theresabradleybanta.com/value-a-multi-unit-property/
[2] https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/2016-07-06-multifamily-re...
My Compliments to the Chef, Er, Robot
In a free country you shouldn't have to prove you didn't commit a crime. The burden is on the state to prove you did.
Mathematically, does regenerating the code make a lot of difference?

You can simulate that by running a loop that generates a random 4-digit number in each iteration and randomly guessing it.

On average, you will guess the number after 10,000 iterations. It doesn't help that you regenerate the number each time. Your chance is still 1/10,000.
If you live in a culture where musical ability isn't ubiquitous, such as the western world decades after the invention of recorded music, this may seem obvious, but it's not. The 20th century saw a precipitous decline in musical ability in the general population of the western world.

Being a musician isn't an issue of talent but of training. Very, very few people lack the ability to play music. Most people who claim they can't carry a tune are simply missing a few foundational skills such as pitch matching.
Working with Data on the Command Line (With Clojure Closh)
But since when a language need to looks attractive?

First of all, "attractive" is simply your way to say "familiar to me".

Then, a language need to be just powerful enough to express it's semantic and no more.

This critique is quite hollow and noisy.
No, I'm saying that supporting punishment for drug users does not mean that one doesn't use drugs themselves.
The crappy supportnfor tabs is what made me go back to regular firefox and chrome, but I hear that they're bringing focus style features into the new firefox (or vice versa) and I'm excited to see how it plays out.
It doesn't need to be a completely custom protocol. HTTPS can handle a very large percentage of anyone's communication needs these days.
Where I live, Uber managed to force taxi services to evolve and embrace technology like mobile apps and GPS and flat estimates. And now the local taxi is much better than Uber, in my opinion.

I'm not sure what the free market textbook says about this but as a consumer it's a huge win.
Still available on the GitLab instance linked from the home page: https://gitlab.potatofrom.space/kevin/potatofrom.space/blob/...
We can’t because what some low paid contractors call “rights” others call “burden”. Self employment has its perks for those of us that have enough bargaining power
I’d love for a way to write nix expressions that easily lead to reproducible builds. Of course this is possible right now next, but requires substantial legwork to pin Nixpkgs version or add SHA for every tarball. Especially now as the machine learning story for NixOS is becoming strong, it would be awesome to have fully reproducible model training using such a system. This highlights a difference from docker or nvidia-docker, which do not control driver version.
@HN admin I think it’s a good idea to remove this post. The author fucked up, I think it’s worth doing what we can to prevent further collateral damage to them.
It’s not the modern version of slavery though. The modern version of slavery is indentured workers in Dubai, prisoners is the U.S., sex trafficking victims.
Only that fluoride in the water were in fact a really bad idea ..

Not healthy for your organs and also not really helping with teeth.
What you're describing (someone entering your property, having their lunch in your garden and cleaning up before leaving) meets all the elements of physical trespass if the owner of the property didn't grant permission, and is unlawful. Now, the damages might be minimal, but it's still unlawful.

In the U.S., property law is about the right to control access and use -- harm is a secondary concern.
From the market’s perspective it’s the ratio of units managed by each type that matters.

Hypothetically, if 1 company managed 1,000 units and 1,000 people managed 1 unit then that outlier owns 50% of the market while representing 0.1% of the land lords.
Let’s talk about peeing in space
Half the time in New York you get a cab with their meter off when you call Uber.
If Lyft and Uber both raise their prices by say 50% around the same time. And they can get away with however that would be achieved then yeah I agree with you completely.

They’d def lose riders. But not close to 50% of rides. Not even half that. For myself, I’d ride a bit less. Probably not do 1 in 4 rides I’d normally do. But when I need a ride back from the train station or I’m late to something and public transit will take too long. I’m not gonna take a cab. I’m going to still use them.

They could also both increase or add loyalty programs. Uber’s currently is pretty crappy as a casual rider. Im guessing doubling the loyalty program payouts wouldn’t cut into the 50% increase too much but could stop some of the ridership decrease bleeding.
The 1920 flu pandemic?
I did actually give coc-nvim a try, and while it was effective for JS and Vue (the primary things I use VSCode for), I’m yet to find anything that can convince me to drop PhpStorm or Xcode for their respective specialties. So unfortunately it only solved about 1/3 of my problem.
If you'd like a more believable "just so" legend, try the toothpaste box story.

https://cs.txstate.edu/~br02/cs1428/ShortStoryForEngineers.h...
Because that reveals that you are talking to the NSA right now. Sometimes the volume of chatter is useful information in its own right. Sure, you could script something to make the data rate constant, but that might be undesirably expensive and if you do everything over Tor then your video chat with HQ looks indistinguishable from you bit torrenting pirate episodes of My Little Pony.
As I stated I am agnostic on the matter because I don't think we are close to understanding the mind well enough to give any particular theory of mind much credence. I only raised the theories of neutral monism, emergentism and dualism to advert to the fact that physicalism isn't the only possible way of understanding the mind, and that the person to whom I was talking cannot simply assume that free will is an illusion.

My sense of what you have said is that you're simply making a distinction between two kinds of physical causation, one which is predictable and one which is not. Saying that any theory of mind must conform to one of these two modes of explanation simply begs the question: the question is whether our normal understanding of causation based on the physical world applies to the mind in the first place.
Where do you live? This seems like an anomaly.
These sorts of technicalities don't play well with juries, but neither do large airlines or ~phone companies charging $15 for two hours of 1Mbps internet.
Like I said, if you can get over this and assume that you may be wrong it's a great place for discussions. If you engage them you will notice, that most of the stuff you see there is perfectly rational. You're just trapped in a filter bubble and possibly uncomfortable to find out your gay, to use a weird proverb.
But they aren't employees. I still dont understand why people who get to work on demand whenever they want without a boss to report to or set hours are employees. The company doesn't get the benefits of having employees (schedule them in for rush hours, reliable controllable labor base), so why should drivers get the perks of becoming an employee without having to give up their flexibility and everything?
spoken like a real champ! You show'em! to those fat cats!!!
Given that the US still prosecutes people for slavery, it's easy to argue that modern day slavery exists, and this is not it.
> soon you have to feed every third grade company with it

Many payments on the web are done by handing over payment card details and trusting the merchant to bill the correct amount.

The alternative is to use a middle-man like PayPal.

It's absurd that the banks and credit card companies haven't come up with a better solution than handing over your card details and taking it on trust, but here we are, and online sales are doing fine.
It’s relevant because it effects their “brand” and also culture plays a role in how they may perceive the situation. I have no idea if this even registers on their radar and it’s pure speculation on my part. Certainly not a sleeping bear I would poke.
Well, that was intended to be implied by the "not everyone" part, but re-reading, I should have say "you may only need a solution that covers the devices you actually have."

Personally, I only need Dropbox for Scrivener syncing at this point, because my current workplace (and my previous one, IIRC) is standardized on Google Drive for document sharing -- and I don't share work documents to my personal devices.
>Share buybacks are just a more efficient way of returning profits back to investors than dividends

True, but the effect on share prices is very different. If you compare the S&P 500 with an index (a price index, not a total return index) comprising companies that use dividends instead of buybacks, you get a distorted picture of relative economic success.

>Most companies are demand limited which limits their investment opportunities.

How do you reconcile lack of demand with the historically tight labor market?

>If a companies best investment opportunity gives a return of a measly 2% a year when the market is doing 7%, than you should not do it and instead return that money to investors so they can divert their investments to companies with higher returns.

I do agree with that in principle (provided you account for risk as well), but I'm starting to wonder if there is a self reinforcing element at play that's driving buybacks right now. Shareholders see stock markets rise. They demand buybacks based on your (fundamentally sound) logic. Management feels pressured to buy back stocks, which makes markets rise even more...
Your organization is unmanageable
I see red baseball caps in FiDi.

I don't see them anywhere else.
Deflation also hurts the poor, because the remaining debt balance they have stays the same while the price they are paid for the fruits of their labor decreases, and it also encourages those with money to sit on it instead of spending or investing.

The populist policy in 19th century America was to ditch gold for a more inflationary silver standard.
It will replace nix channels? Looks like a big change!
Judge told Tesla to release evidence in trial. Instead, Tesla dropped the case
>I see “modern day slavery” and I stop reading. There are no whips. No rape. No families torn apart. No slave ships. Grow up people.

You stopped reading because there were no practices of old school slavery in the so called modern day slavery?
I don't think that anyone credits Wittgenstein with inventing the term 'private language'. Rather for the arguments/observations relating to the idea. He would not have agreed with the Humboldt remark you quoted.
The thing is, it depends greatly on how much Boeing ends up poisoning the well.

If, for example, people started circulating this whole MAX travesty enough as evidence that Boeing in it's current form is toxic; any political goodwill to grant contracts may legitimately dry up. The company may end up getting disintegrated, essentially rolling back the McDonnell Douglas merger. Regardless of the fact that pretty much does nothing to undo the toxicity inherent to government procurement.

Boeing honestly had to do only one thing to stay healthy. Don't screw up civilian aviation. A flub up anywhere else could be efficiently hidden. Not so, however, in Civil Aviation.
> Accept gay people

That completely misses the point. The episode is about men not being able to connect with each other except through gaming.
> That's pretty plainly not theft.

There's not a matter of perception or culture as the candy was intentionally left out for a trick or treater to take. And since it's a well known holiday, the intent has been communicated.
And my favorite story about him:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2856567
> 1. Is a piece of paper torn in half really cryptography?

The "crypt" in "cryptography" means "hidden" (e.g. we hide dead bodies away in a "crypt"). Certainly if you don't know what's on the other side it
s literally hidden from you.

The tear itself is a key. Depending on your level of technology you could make a matching part by inspection of the part you have, but consider the tearing a somewhat random process given the influence of the medium (paper money will be more random than polymer). It's a quick way to exclude candidates for the match.

The actual authentication then is through the completion of the text which is presumably a harder problem. You could make some text that matches, but it's presumably hard -- not perhaps has hard as finding a hash collision.
Philosophers and programmers both take hazy cultural ideas and turn them into rulesets.
> If Lyft and Uber both raise their prices by say 50% around the same time.

And there's the rub. They're playing investor-bonfire chicken.

More strictly: it's prisoner's dilemma. Defection is the dominant strategy.
$190m.

Better source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/04/quadrigac...
The guy is in high school. They should offer him an internship, not throw the stupid book at him.
I think the argument is that the treatment is inhumane because of the demographics involved.
The reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework [pdf]
This app uses a burner credit card to automatically cancel free trials