skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, the IoT is better than AI, in that it enables broad control mediated by humans (with necessary tooling and programming educations). Whereas AI, on the contrary, deprives humans from the ability to control things.

My uninformed observations on the issue of IoT tech development:

* IoT, in order to be useful, needs to form a common infrastructure first. It's obviously useful for TVs to be able to talk to nearby smartphone directly, to offer rich control. However, if the protocol vary between TV, Micro Oven, Fridge, Washer & Dryer, etc. And each brands of these devices also vary. Apparently no one is going to appreciate the results.

Worse yet, if they are interfaced through smartphones, the sparse physical form factor offered through phones are going to confuse users all the time, even if they manage to build a common infrastructure and enabled a uniform experience. At the beginning, the experience would definitely be worse than the dedicated and well optimized interfaces offered by the individual devices nowadays (not saying they are satisfactory either).

* On the other hand, the manufacturers, in general, is not tech savvy. Nor they are ready to relinquish their hold on their own market segment.

And that worry is justified. Once the common infrastructure is built, they'll be at mercy to the ones who own the tech. As obviously, they are not going to be able to gain that capability themselves.

IMHO, this is also why IoT is often with 5G. As the 5G community is historically closer to the manufacturers, than the Internet community. And 5G is itself a fairly mature tech, and has even broader application than IoT, so presumably, they can ride the wave and make sure they are not commoditized in the process.
Housing prices have doubled in the past decade. Home ownership has declined in the past decade. Seems like inflation to me.
That’s getting close to cannabalism. Especially if some
Human cells start circulating around its bloodstream.
Pioneer could do a much better job of presenting the reality : experts are involved in picking the winners and the points earned in the tournament are also taken into account.

Another point I'd like to bring up : the home page says winners get $7000, but the offer page mentions that it's $1000 cash and $6000 worth of shitcoi...sorry, stellar lumens. Maybe there's a pattern here? Misleading marketing material that we typically expect from tone deaf big corps, does not inspire confidence in the team behind pioneer.

Another point : for some reason they see the need to display the age and country of the participant. Like, if you know anything about hackers, it's that they greatly value privacy. That's pretty much the only reason that kept me from participating when it launched and now I have zero interest even if personal details were not displayed publicly.
We've raised prices, or rather asked for annual prepayment of one of the higher plans. It's usually the customers who demand more complex billing arrangements and yearly chasing to get the next invoice approved. Anti-slavery amendments seems normal, one asking to boycott (not not boycott) we wouldn't sign, the extra long forms about security ("state how often you change the wifi password") we refused as over-binding.

Funniest was to agree to take down any content of erotic nature within X hours after notifications. We deal with geographic data (addresses) and there's many places around the world with "naughty" names. We can't remove those (facts) from our database just because a customer is offended.
Kevin Hale did a video on Startup Ideas and in it, he mentioned some of the business (wufoo, reddit, etc) that got into Y Combinator and/or received investment just with an idea without writing any code at all. So it does seem possible even if you're not an outlier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOtCl5PU8F0
The act of having a solution and looking for a problem isn't new or just crypto related. Angels and VCs are familiar with this, where entrepreneurs try to raise money by bringing novel algorithms/technologies/approaches to markets without product-market fit.

Uber for dog walkers. Slack for neighbourhoods. Etc.

However, crypto allows you bypass VCs entirely, allowing you to crowdfund. Naturally this results in a lot of exit scams, or stupid ideas with low probability getting funded where most experienced investors would have passed on.
Pioneer founder here. As noted by almost all commenters in this thread, we do rely on expert voting. It's in our FAQ. We take pride in that! I believe mixture of moderation _and_ quantitative metrics are the correct path towards accomplishing our goal.

We've all seen what happens when you let the algorithms run free.

We've got much to fix in terms of making the game more _fun_. Point systems are best when you _understand_ the underlying mechanism. There's a tension between that and moderation. Losing should feel educational, not frustrating. We've got some ideas on how to fix this, and we're burning the midnight oil implementing them.

(BTW, we're very open to any product suggestions here! In case you're wondering what the ruckus is about: the Pioneer idea is to make an online game that rewards productive, creative behavior. Which beckons the question: how do you quantify productivity in different domains?)
G.H. Hardy – The Case Against the Mathematical Tripos
Rust with its macro system and explicit target of system programming seem like a perfect fit.
That discussion is settled. The lie that it isn’t, is continued to oppress and make public the female body to continue her unpaid labor in both reproducing the work force and her unpaid labor in managing her family for the benefit of the corporation.
True, I think lambda would be a better choice for new projects. However, for old monolith projects, this sounds like a great way to cut costs on dev/staging servers.
Despite the fact that you cannot get out of life alive, the evidence seems to be unclear on if nicotine is harmful or not and what, if any, effects it may have on the quality of a life that will end or the effects on the time of death.
> when animals are no longer required

maybe an impossible burger?
On reddit there is often talk about subtle corporate manipulation of front page content. Memes, "interesting facts", etc that are subtle references to some brand can be found quite often. Vaping memes were definitely big for awhile, and I would not be at all surprised if some of them were made by someone paid by an e-cigarette maker.
People forged judges’ signatures to trick Google into changing results
> What has also struck me about this modern fashion (which goes along with that for self-mutilation by piercing) is that it is almost free of any kind of criticism: on the contrary, there is an almost obsequious acceptance of it, as if to say that you found it aesthetically hideous and deeply savage were to declare yourself an Enemy of the People. ...

Trends with little to no mainstream opposition are fascinating. I'm thinking of things like smoking, disco, the real estate bubble, the dot com bubble, and hairbands. Suddenly, everywhere you look it's been normalized. Given enough time, they're all repudiated - strongly and viscerally.

I wonder if the tattoo will join their ranks.
> "After all many of them are hooked on excessive sugar consumption"

What did I specifically and kindly request that you not respond to me with? Whataboutism. You ignored my reasonable request so I need to ask you: are you fucking illiterate?
> You don't need to change existing software or infrastructure, and you don't need to install additional tools on your servers.

then

> Install Hakuna CLI

and

> Update the DNS

That certainly sounds like installing things and making changes to your infrastructure...

It sounds like a cool idea for sure and can be really helpful for a lot of companies but this seems like an outright lie.
The New York Times has a documented history of being a propaganda outlet for the US government: https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07/01/how-the-iraq-wa...

Just curious do you bring that up in every time someone quotes them as well?
Yeah, this is just sleazy advertorial, trying to make pesticides and chemical fertilizers sound good by calling them “clean.” Total trash.
I learned about it via a political science professor at the University of Virginia.

Even the Wikipedia on Dugin's older book says, "The book has had a large influence within the Russian military, police, and foreign policy elites[1] and it has been used as a textbook in the Academy of the General Staff of the Russian military.[1][2]"

The correlation between suggestions in the Fourth Political Theory book align a little too perfectly with recent events:

- Break GB from the EU [2]

- Heightened racial tension in the US [3]

- Annexation of Crimea and Ukraine

- etc.

Hard to ignore how much Russia operates "by the book".

Also in the Wikipedia for FPT I linked earlier, "The book has been cited as an inspiration for Russian policy in events such as the War in Donbass..."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...
that's an incredibly expensive and complex way to avoid some friction for some users. What about breaking changes to APIs? Do you end up with two completely separate backends and DBs to maintain as well? Do you just completely clone your entire product every time a big change happens -- and do you hire enough new people to handle that work?

Probably not, you probably just stretch existing engineers too far to maintain old stuff.

Seems better to only introduce breaking behavior changes when they're really necessary, and move the entire product to the new design. And if a new feature or a change in nav is enough to lose you customers, then your product might not be that compelling in the first place.
Thanks!!!! Looks cool!
Maybe. This is a bit of a cottage industry that shouldn't need to exist. It's so hard to get data and visibility into these things in AWS right now. Billing is hard, it's impossible to easily tell what is costing me what in every region, etc. AWS should do all this natively as part of their service, but everything is so poorly designed from a user standpoint that it's very time consuming to do, so third-party services like Hakuna pop up to take advantage of the inefficiency by saving some money. I'm halfway convinced AWS does this on purpose so you have to pay them for support or training for people new to cloud service providers, or AWS specifically, increasing their revenue.
Brain-eating amoeba kills man who went swimming at North Carolina water park
I'm currently ranked number 24 on the leaderboard. I was in the top 10 until they started picking winners. You can see from the chart in the article that I (DaveJ) have the largest negative "rank change since start" with -21. My feedback emails on my progress have been very positive.

It's all good though. I understand that they are looking for pioneering ideas (hard sciences, research projects, AI, etc.). Perhaps B2B SaaS is a little less pioneering. I'm definitely going to stick with Pioneer though. As a bootstrapped solo-founder, having a weekly progress report to submit to my peers helps keep me focused and motivated. If I win a prize then that would be amazing, and if not then my startup will still benefit from my consistent progress :-).

edit: By the way, I'm working on a self-service tool for converting web apps to desktop apps: https://www.todesktop.com/
It would be great to know if there were obvious lifestyle or diet changes that can help the natural mechanisms at work in possibly removing these cells.
Debugging requires an extremely thorough understanding of the project, so much that you can not only find each responsibility in the code, but anticipate their emergent properties, what mistakes might have been made, and how their interactions might go wrong. Debugging a system successfully is the culmination of successful on-boarding, not a starting point.

Doing the actual code changes to fix a bug which has already been analyzed and localized to one or a few sites in the codebase is a bit more reasonable.
Yes, but that is true for a lot of substances, like again, caffeine.

All we know is that we have yet to find evidence that nicotine is especially harmful, and that’s just how it works in the biological sciences. If everything required proof of no harm, we would simply die of starvation.
Unfortunately I already have too much work remaining on my existing projects to take this on, but maybe in a year or two if no one else has done it by then.
1. There are not blacklists of "political" query completions, as I explained extensively in this other thread. The policy is to not show "sensitive and disparaging terms associated with names" in autocomplete. This applies uniformly, and there's nothing political about it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20530414

2. I can't speak to YouTube's policies, but there isn't any evidence there that this was designed to favor either side, rather than just to avoid the issue entirely.

3. The guidelines that Google uses to assess the quality of websites are public. You can read them here: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...
Do you have any source for this? I've not heard of any issues with Viveport that'd count as "scummy", just being an inferior app store to Steam. A search for "viveport controversy" finds nothing either.
Japan still has the same royal succession and still denies the atrocities committed during the rape of Nanking... while obviously it’s different, there’s still a problematic and long lasting connection to the Japan of the 40s.
Plus 3K euros/year for nothing at INPS. Plus 2k/year for an accountant

I did the math already.
> That said, subscriptions can be canceled.

Ideally. Assuming you haven't bought into a contract, and assuming the company... you know... stops charging you once you stop using their product and "cancel" using the mechanism they provide. That second problem can be mitigated with single-use credit cards, like what privacy.com offers, but if that gets to be too common, I can imagine companies requiring you not use those as a condition of service.
For most countries, biometric passport data is only stored inside the passport's chip and not in a (national or otherwise) database. It's to be used by border control (of other countries) to compare the person presenting the passport with the (signed) data.
Data isn't the new oil, it's the new CO₂
And replaced it with...?
Everything Announced at the 3rd Google for Nigeria
They stated one of the reasons was increased liquidity. But if you look at the jobs - they’re hiring pretty intensely at the moment - it looks like they’ll increase their workforce by around 7%.
It should say "or equivalent working experience" which is what the job descriptions on the careers page say.
https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Square/743999692210768

I work for Square, we just hired a self-taught engineer on our team. There's no concrete degree requirement. :)
According to the Scottish Crannog Centre, they have found artifacts at the site that came from Turkey around 500 BC. They also believe the crannogs may have served as floating trading outposts. The hills surrounding the Crannog Centre were apparently filled with 10's of thousands of people, and there was a local industry, though I forget what it was. It's a lovely site with great recreations of ancient technology and villages, and nearby towns are quaint.
Swipe to go back is one of the unexpected improvements in iOS 7 that I think many people would immediately miss when going back.
> If you want to know if an economy is only benefiting the already wealthy, look at black people.

Why not look at hispanic households?

The vast majority of the current US hispanic population didn't exist in the US just 30-40 years ago. Their wealth started from almost nothing. Most hispanic immigration to the US has been low skill labor, from extremely poor nations. In four decades, hispanics have become the second largest demographic and have become richer than black households.

From 2013 to 2016, the median hispanic household net wealth soared 45%, versus 18% for white households, and 30% for black households. As the larger demographic, I'd argue hispanic households are a better representation of if the economy is only benefiting the already wealthy. Hispanics (75% under 54 years old) are also a far younger demographic than whites (majority over 55 years old), and a moderately younger demographic than blacks. As a far younger demographic hispanics are less likely to have age-accumulated wealth. So that also gives you an excellent indicator on new wealth creation.

Finally, hispanics are far less likely to have a high school level education. 36% of hispanics in the US do not, versus 17% for blacks and 8% for whites. That's another item in favor of hispanic households being a stronger indicator to watch for your premise.
I started smoking as a teen and quit smoking regularly over a decade ago. If I so much as smell a cigarette I immediately want one, if I see people smoking in a movie or real life I want one, and hell, if I'm just having a shit day I want one. Thinking about it just now makes me want one.

So yes, puberty does things to you, but they tend to be temporary. The cognitive triggers of nicotine addiction stay long after you "quit".
Assuming Reddit keeps IP logs this should be easy to verify and could be powerful evidence in court.
Housing and health insurance are the largest portion of many family budgets but for some reason don't seem to significantly enter into the inflation calculations.
Yes, but the point is that if you load it over HTTPS they will redirect to HTTP. So if you type https://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180905-the-cargo-ships-th... in your web browser url bar, you will end up at http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180905-the-cargo-ships-tha... instead. That's the somewhat-surprising part.
And how much space do you need to grow all of that for 2 people for 365 days in a year considering that only some of it can grow year round in many places.
You mean the South Park references that add no contribution to this scientific article? Or people broadcasting their moral opinions into the void?

I don't see any good comments downvoted.
Thanks for the advice.

And not to be argumentative, but I think it's fair to say that neither you nor anyone else on the planet knows with certainty the full range of possible benefits and detriments to exercise, psilocybin (particularly, in no small part because it is illegal to even formally study for the most part), or anything else for that matter.
Walking in NYC: Madison Avenue, Upper East Side from 59th Street to 86th Street
I'm no security expert, and maybe one can explain this to me, but why can't we just inspect the data before it is encrypted? Like isn't it gathered in some way, encrypted, then sent? And on the receiving end it has to decrypt, so we look at that (naively what files change). Unless this is all stored as encrypted I don't see why you can't do this. I mean this should prevent mitm attacks but also let those controlling devices inspect packets. Right? Or am I missing something (if so I'm legitimately interested. Lots of this stuff just seems like black box to me, and I'm sure others)
You can accept payments via paypal as a person too. Check if there is a threshold of income/year up to which you don't need to register as a sole entrepreneur or company in your country.
Why are Sonos speakers instead of simply receivers that your speakers plug in to?
But that isn't the null. The null is that these are "black swans" and unpredictable. And I also did not pick the sources randomly. I am not talking about "fringey characters"...I am talking about the Fed, the BoE, the Economist (both in 2004 and the 1870s). More to the point though: you can verify for yourself whether a prediction is accurate. I am not sure why people need to make sweeping generalisations: go back, check if a prediction was accurate, look at the reasons behind it...why is that so intolerable?

And the null also isn't that these companies aren't fundamentally "changing the world" and so the bubble won't burst. If you actually went back and looked at history, you would see that a tiny minority of firms do survive (and are responsible for close to 100% of the positive returns for equities as an asset class). No-one has disputed this, the quantitative evidence is clear. But the quantitative evidence is also that the majority of firms go out of business. I also wouldn't use the Industrial Revolution as an argument...the exact same thing happened then. Comparatively, the innovations we are seeing now are very limited.

If you think being a contrarian is fun, I would take up investing. When you are just a guy typing at a computer or some economist making predictions, maybe it is fun. When you have something on the line, it is quite different (again, that is why bubbles occur).

I am not sure why this is even controversial for some people. Human nature hasn't changed in two centuries. Capital cycles haven't changed in two centuries. This doesn't need to be hard.
We keep waiting and waiting for these companies to finally start making a profit. And those companies keep making up new narratives about how those profits are coming soon.

Are we in a new age? Is there a chance investors will keep waiting forever? In a age where interest rates are near permanently 0 and people invest in bitcoin ( a currency that has no real value other than the faith people have in it ~ as a store of value), perhaps people will keep investing tesla, uber, etc even if profits never really come.
It beats organlegging (which is a real thing now) but we should be able to regrow our own organs and limbs.

Becker, "The Body Electric" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Electric_(book)

But then he died and most research dried up, but now there's Levin: https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/
Might be. But it is quite different from iPhone manufacturing. It actually could more dangerous than nukes. West will just buy this you say, but why it is not possible now to just buy several intercontinental ballistic missiles? There are people with enough money and desire to buy this.
And sometimes with modern p-hacking and big corp sponsored studies, it's still not technically science. We should all be wary of the "this one study proves everything" attitude. Confirmation studies are both underfunded and the real rubber meets the road science.
> Inflation is extremely low

Consumer price inflation is low. Given the scale of money creation, it is likely that 'real' non-consumer prices are not completely real and are actually experiencing inflation, but for some reason the people claiming the money are competing for financial assets rather than consumer resources.
There's a fairly recent Nature article out of Belgium that did a pretty good job of showing vaping nicotine screws up the cardiovascular system just like conventional cigarettes. It can get a bit technical at times but overall should be somewhat understandable to most people. If nothing else, please skim the discussion section. To quote: "Nicotine exerts pharmacologic effects that could contribute to acute cardiovascular events and accelerated atherogenesis experienced by cigarette smokers." Atherogenesis = plaque formation in the arteries = lots and lots of bad stuff.
Installing the CLI is optional.

"npm install @hakuna.cloud/cli -g and you are ready to go. Or use the web dashboard!"
Put cyanide in them and get rid of the stupid twats. Its about time we stopped allowing the dregs of the gene pool to survive and procreate
CSS famous for simplicity? Surely you jest.
Certainly possible, but I would not be surprised if they were "organic" either.
In my defense, it's not really my area.