skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment is so refreshing, could I email you some questions about starting a freelance/consultancy?
Could you expand on this? I'm anti-NIMBY but I don't understand your comment.

I don't think anti-NIMBY's are necessarily anti-trees or anti-parks?
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Why not sue Cisco for transiting the stolen data on routers they made?
During a gold rush the best way to make money is to sell shovels.
a lot, if you're e.g. depressed

though to be fair, I am (was?) too depressed to even set up the dash buttons
'Thank you' detection in customer support replies
Yeah, that was it. There's also a collection of many artpacks here:

https://artpacks.org/
The US Army Is Going All in on a High Powered Laser Weapon
Cheesy, but this reminds me of Captain America: Winter Soldier with the massive gunships that target anyone considered to be a “threat”.

The government seems to make the case that this is “necessary” to stopping crime. Is it? I’m sure it makes it really easy to catch criminals—but what’s wrong with increasing the police force/improving non-technological techniques/etc.?
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The apartment building I live in already has a business deal with Amazon. Not for appliances, but for an Amazon Hub Apartment Locker. https://www.amazon.com/b?node=17337376011

I get an email with a pickup code to the email address tied to my Amazon account whenever a package arrives that is too big for my mailbox, from any sender. This means that Amazon presumably has a profile about my package receiving habits, including size, frequency, and how long it takes me to pick up a package after it arrives.

My building installed the Hub after I moved in and I was given no choice in the matter.
That's called "indemnity insurance", and it very much exists. You get $x every time you need to see a doctor (capped to $y/year, or such). E.g. $3000/day if you're confined into a hospital.

It's tough to figure out the plan that works well for non-routine things. But then again, bigger operations are tough for everyone who doesn't have the best employer-based HMO/PPO plans.
How difficult would it be to gather all the software engineers who are Capital One customers and use Github, than have everyone cancel their account? It's not like their product is particularly unique.
Youtube has content moderators

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/13/17117554/youtube-content-...

And, if anything, github is almost all text, and most of the interesting stuff is structured. That should be relatively straightforward compared to raw video and freetext on Youtube.
You are about an hour from SB, which has more of the trappings of a city
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I can’t help but think of Bart Simpson sitting in the back of the car while driving down the highway - “cruise control my dude!” Right before the road turns off and he goes into a cornfield
Talk to your bank, you may be more qualified to buy a home than you know - stop renting.
While still being a horrible situation serfs had significantly more freedoms than Roman slaves. Serfs were able to hold possessions, work for themselves, and did not have an owner that had complete freedom over them including killing them.
Not only that, but you also had a limited selection of brands.
Not applauding his fraud (although a part of me always enjoys stories like this), but I bet it started like, “hmm I wonder if this would work,” on one package, and then a few hundred thousand dollars later...
The Systems Dynamics models make assumptions that simplify almost everything. They still predict collapse in the 2030-2050 time frame. Many people dismiss the forecast because, they say, mankind always has discovered a solutions in the nick of time, but that is neither guaranteed or likely in the case of global warming.
IANAL but acts of civil disobedience usually mean that you refuse to do something peacefully. I’m not sure that there’s a way to passively disarm something.
I wonder how Google could help with solving climate change... perhaps that would be a very profitable problem to solve without regulators trying to stop them (because public goodwill)
Bots being right 99.999% of the time and .0001% of cases having to be reviewed manually is much more practical than hiring an inordinate amount of manual viewers
"Convinced the US military"?? They filed a request for extradition, and local police arrested him.
Presumably not Jay Chandrasekhar.
I don't think it's exactly same. The MegaVideo case was about copyright. That is normally protected by DMCA, but they have some proof that MegaVideo employees uploaded copyrighted material themselves.

This case, on the hand, is not about copyright but privacy sensitive data.
"sell shovels during a gold rush"

if you like brevity
There's no guarantee that the chinese government would respect US copyright and patent law in a split up. It's just as likely the payments to US firms would end, and manufacture would continue.
I reject the premise that something simply being cheaper is an abusive situation.

This is the sort of thinking that leads people to state that (for example) smaller apartments shouldn't exist, because someone will be forced to live in them. A purely theoretical person, of course, no-one they actually know - some sort of downtrodden non-entity.

The entire economy is set up on the basis that negotiation is a thing that people can and will do. If you don't do it, you're setting yourself up to get shafted at every turn; this sort of thing is the least of your issues.

I wouldn't rent a flat like this because it sounds bloody stupid. It makes me think of American sponsored things. 123 North Street brought to you by Coca-Cola(tm) and Amazon(R). Weird unnecessary legalistic nonsense.
> While proof of stake does have a lot of advantages over PoW, it cannot handle more than 1/3 of the voiting power acting incorrectly.

The 1/3 bound is without any synchronicity assumptions; with strong synchronicity assumptions you can get to 1/2. This seems strictly better than PoW (no liveness at all in an asynchronous network, and 1/2 with synchronicity assumptions).
Retail giant Walmart is mulling a digital dollar-pegged currency
Spot on. It just needed a cheap LCD display with the basic info. They are remote terminals and need to provide standalone feedback for the experience.
ownership is one way to bypass half the emissions issue (of cars having to pick up and drop off rental scooters) as well as the associated shortened-life issue.

i own one of the xiaomi scooters initially deployed by bird and mentioned in the article, and for little round-trip errands, it's hard to beat the convenience. you can ride literally door-to-door, without even looking for parking, since you can bring it right into most businesses (even bikes don't have that convenience in most cases).
Travis-wait-enhanced – Prevent from thinking a long-running process has stalled
I don't understand the appeal behind ordering something without knowing the price.

The only thing I ever buy without knowing the cost is a drink in a pub, and that's some sort of strange anachronism.

And in that situation, if the bartender turns around and tells me 25 quid or whatever after pouring it, I'd just walk off.

The economy doesn't work properly if you just blindly pay whatever.
> I took my 4 year old to the ER because he had a 103 fever.

Alone, a fever under 104°F that isn't for an extended duration isn't something you should take an otherwise healthy four-year-old to the ER for.

If you go to an ER for a non-emergency, you are definitely going to overpay for what you get, by an even wider margin than you usually overpay because of the need for those customers that pay to subsidize the costs of those who skip out on bills.

In this day and age when most insurance companies and many primary care practices have 24-hour advice lines, most people have access to the internet, etc., the rate of people who otherwise have access to general healthcare using the ER for non-emergencies should be lower than it is.
How is it different than say, stripe issuing?

https://stripe.com/nz/issuing
Figuring out how to game those systems so you could connect without the ads was always fun
If you're scared, then give up your car, eat less meat, etc. You can be part of the problem or part of the solution. Your choice.

Vote. Individual behavioral changes are fine and good, but structural change is the only way to meaningfully address the magnitude of the crisis modern civilization faces.
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> Pour milk in coffee, and the eddies and tendrils of white soon fade to brown. In half an hour, the drink cools to room temperature. Left for days, the liquid evaporates. After centuries, the cup will disintegrate, and billions of years later, the entire planet, sun and solar system will disperse.

You can't go wrong with an article that moves along this quickly.

The topic at hand is something I got into just a few weeks ago in a Complexity Explorer course from Santa Fe Institute. Amazingly interesting stuff.

https://www.complexityexplorer.org/ for those who might be interested.
> Seeing a GP isn't necessarily a guarantee that you will get diagnosed properly.

so, because even the best make mistakes, that's a good reason to let under-trained (relative to an MD) people with even less skill make mistakes? Not following your logic here.
Then there's the issue of above-background extinction rates ... arguably already irreversible unless we're about to go all Jurassic-Park-style Pleistocene rewilding over here.

Lions have adapted to hunt seals and seabirds in Namibia, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/28/lions-ad...

India’s wild tiger population rises 33% in four years

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/29/india-wild-tig...

Science has identified some 2 million species of plants, animals and microbes on Earth, but scientists estimated there are millions more left to discover, and new species are constantly discovered and described.

https://www.livescience.com/topics/newfound-species

First wild polar-grizzly bear hybrid offspring discovered

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/first-wild...

New wolf coyote hybrid

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-new-wolf-coyote-hybr...

I posit that some of our hysteria is rooted in our egomaniacal fantasy that we already know everything. We don't.
Whoever wrote this doesn't know WTF a quorum is.
Retail is a dirty business.
When the time came to read Guns, Germs and Steel, I had bought into Plagues and Peoples (William McNeill) instead -- similar accounts, but more controlled in scope (which made it more trustworthy, imo); as a result, I guess I missed a very convenient confirmation :)
> it doesn't seem likely that wellbeing causes trees

Rich people have gardens. Poor people liver crammed together in city slums.

...is one story you can tell. These things are hopelessly intertwined with confounding factors, and I never pay attention to them. The ones interesting enough to go viral and show up in my feed are of course extra suspicious.
you keep backpedaling about bureaus, ignoring how 99% of the law in this nation is enforced. we can't have a conversation if you do contortions by reading the most implausible interpretation of everything I say.
I understand that you're trying to be constructive, but nothing here replies to anything in my comment.

> He made money from his content. His content included a recording of a copyrighted work. Therefore he made money from that recording. It’s that simple

That's your position; mine was that there are strong arguments against that claim (I listed several), and no apparent reason why a court wouldn't consider them.

(Note that I'm not claiming the arguments against your claim are correct - I haven't even watched the video. I'm saying that whether infringement occurred is not a simple matter that can be determined by algorithms, as you've presented it. It's a nontrivial legal question that a court would need to rule on.)

> He could have: [removed the audio various ways]

I don't know why you've argued this. Of course he could have removed the audio, but what does that have to do with fair use?
Your answer is insane and shocking.
> technology is going to make mass surveillance relatively easy

> a la Gestapo

In 2013 Tom Scott made an incredibly prescient sketch of our grim surveillance-state future. It absolutely terrifying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIuf1V1FhpY

It's terrifying because it's the power of Stasi-style informants modernized into a simple Uber-like app. No more scary clandestine meetings, now you can inform on your friends, family, and neighbors with one click from the comfort of your own home.

Similar to the "social credit" system, Tom's "Oversight" could work, because they both efficiently incentivize close peers against each other. "You should stop spending time with your friend John. I heard him talking like a dissident recently... that could damage your Social Credit rating!"

> enters with their phone

Which is exactly why I follow Dan Geer's advice[1] and don't carry around a tracking device. He's been trying to warn us for years[2], and we still aren't listening[3].

[1] https://www.wired.com/brandlab/2015/06/cia-cybersecurity-gur...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI (transcript: http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt )

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbDEbfijxNY (transcript: http://www.bsidesdc.org/history/geer.html )
Great comment. Have an internet point.
Atlassian is a bunch of clowns.
The most important thing you can do is put your body in the way of the machine. Sure, writing persuasive letters is good, but what actually moves the needle is showing up at public meetings, making noise, engaging in civil disobedience, and risking arrest or worse. Reasoned argument is unfortunately not an effective political lever unless you have some sort of power (eg political, financial, military) with which to bear down upon it.
As this is Hacker News, Paul Graham's comments on Yahoo during the .com bubble are particularly relevant:

By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in. When I realized this one day, sitting in my cubicle, I jumped up like Archimedes in his bathtub, except instead of "Eureka!" I was shouting "Sell!"

http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
Not to mention that it's unbearably slow.
> Related: A hardware "Dash" button made more sense in a time when mobile smart devices were not ubiquitous

Dash buttons were introduced in 2015, which was hardly the pre-ubiquitous-smart-device dark ages.
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Well, this is extremely disturbing.

We're reaching a point where we're going to have to start realizing we cannot systematically apply our own laws due to the ramifications of total awareness.

The availability of information will quickly outstrip the capacity of the system to crank through it.

Just today I was discussing with colleagues that it's positively mortifying the way people have trivialized their own children's privacy through things like smartphones with tracking software, and hidden camera's everywhere.

I don't understand how much our societal fabric has decayed that anyone could be even remotely comfortable with the magnitude of advancement in and propagation of surveillance technology, and the relative lack of progress in other verticals, or other facets of civil life.

To what end? Why do this? Why enable such avenues capable of completely undermining society's capability to evolve? Once you have the capacity to track minority faction movements perfectly, the stage is set for violent suppression of politically disruptive movements.

It is one thing to not have the capability to do so; it is completely another to have the capability to do so and to not use it. One can survive the overly ambitious being in a position of power. The other can't.

I don't know as the path our society is going down will be even remotely feasible to course correct. One can only hope.
Although I think this is an overreaction to a branding change, it just goes to show how toxic the Facebook brand has become.
Hope it doesn't get hit by a train
this would clearly have an income effect where instead of paying $x on stuff i would normally buy elsewhere i would pay $quota at amazon. Down the road, after plenty of competition has been destroyed, they can raise their prices and quotas to their best needs, not mine. It’s the sort of thing that starts out OK and winds up abusive.
During setup of the dash button you tell amazon what you want the button to purchase. When setting up the button you get a few choices to choose and you pick one to link, so whenever the button is pressed it will order that exact product. When you pick the product you’re also told the price.
^ CTO now, but thanks :D
GitHub is a touch more difficult I’d think though. How can GitHub monitor for things like credit card numbers, addresses and SSN (as the complaint alleges they were obligated) when there are legitimate reasons for a repo to have completely benign seed data belonging to no one that would constantly trip those “filters.” Even if GitHub were alerted to the data they would have no way of knowing whether they’ve identified criminal activity or practice data.
Weak pound boosting UK tourism industry
I feel like this will all be seen as “the dark days” before regulation at some point in the future. I hope...
Driver facing camera has to become standard for systems like autopilot that are still 80% solutions so they can disengage when drivers invariably start leaning on the system too much and start using it inappropriately.
I'm aware of those but realistically, what's the percentage of youtube videos really reviewed by moderators? I'd put it in the single digit percentage in the best case scenario. To me it's more a legal excuse of "we are doing something" than actually impacting videos.
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I didn't mean it as "you're a dope", therefore "you are inferior to me". I meant it as "you are a dope if you believe everything the government tells you, especially in regard to inflation figures". Subtle difference.
Those CueCat scanners were a great way to scan used textbooks when I was selling them in college. They just magically spit out a text string followed by a <CR> when scanning a barcode. They were going for dirt cheap on eBay for a number of years.

In college, on finals week I'd get $100-200 cash and go to the bookstore. I'd hear they were buying back certain popular textbooks for next to nothing. I'd offer the seller $10 cash right there on the spot. "Sell to them or sell to me, it's the same price. Here's a $10 bill."
After getting a stack of those (or when profs were cleaning out their bookshelves), I'd lug them home, scan with my CueCat and sell them for a substantial markup on half.com (RIP).
One semester I found a stack of books outside faculty offices labeled "free" - sold those for $500 that weekend.
I rarely game. But after hearing about Stadia, I thought now I would like to try out some games. I am just excited to see how it turns out in the end (all if them: Microsoft, etc)
It is hard to imagine the horror of exploring a new place and coming across Tzompantli made from children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzompantli
High power laser on a technical vehicle.
It seems to square with the recommendations from the Mayo Clinic: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/fever/symptom...
I fully realize that. However, it's entirely possible that they are using the same banking partners to issue the margin loans and handle their deposit accounts. Even if they are not, the larger point is that there's a nice spread between what they are paying on the savings account and what they are making in margin interest -- and the margin account is extremely well-collateralized with liquid assets deposited in the borrower's Wealthfront account. The GP poster intimated that WF had to be losing money on their savings rate, and I'm just pointing out that it's entirely sustainable.
What did you ultimately end up doing for a line of credit for the business? That's obviously a very tight threshold of max credit to run a $1.8m sales business on. At the time did you consider trying to get a private line of credit (private as in from an individual)?
By this logic, everything is brilliant until it's not. That's not a good way to define "brilliant". Actions that eventually net undesirable consequences are stupid, not brilliant.

E.g. Being a petty armed bank robber isn't brilliant until you get caught.
It may be just a name, but Facebook is clearly moving to consolidate/make interoperable Facebook messenger, Instagram direct and WhatsApp. And also bring WhatsApp and Instagram direct into the advertising products it currently has available on Facebook messages like ads, and also the ability to opt into advertiser conversations via those platforms. This is the first step towards those coming changes. They are also merging (or have already maybe partially merged) the infrastructure powering their 3 messaging platforms. So yeah, it’s a name, but these properties are worth many billions of dollars and are only partially monetized right now. So this is a big step toward unlocking the value in instagram and WhatsApp. So yeah, it’s kind of a big deal.
was refering to nestle, kraft.

even the most hipster eco hand made brands in wholefoods are most likely an off brand of nestle or uses their products as main ingredient and doesn't list it as such.
The price changes.
BODMAS.

is

BRACKETS then OF then DIVISION then MULTIPLICATION Then ADDITION then SUBTRACTION

8 / 2(2 + 2)

8 / 2(4)

8 / 8

= 1

> Surprisingly I've seen an older Casio scientific calculator given an incorrect answer of 1

LOL.

The brackets bind tighter than the division sign. It's a trick question.

What the 16 proponents are seeing is

(8/2) x (2+2)

(4) x (4)

(16)

What the brackets are doing though is

(8) / (2 x (2 +2))

(8) / (2 x 4)

(8) / (8)

(1)
No mention of mods, the audio counterpart to the visual side?

https://modarchive.org/
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You also have automated filters to some extent. Anything featuring 9-11 towers crash for example is automatically demonetized and hidden from the suggestions regardless of the context.
I think it's naive to expect a showdown between the FAA and the Pentagon, doubly so one where the FAA wins.
You choose to engage in it.

I would personally stay far away from any rental agreement that had weird corporate subscriptions going on.
Once it's at a collections stage don't pay it. The status change of paying it causes the time until it expires off your report to reset.

You instead send them a letter that asks for proof you owe the debt, and ask them to only contact you in writing. Often they won't have their paperwork in order and it will be removed.
Reminds me of the time our security team tried to add a hook preventing any high-entropy strings from being pushed to git. It lasted half a day, since they forgot about public keys, UUIDs, hex codes...
No thanks, as a casual gamer, I have no interest in those games (I prefer single player ones and RPGs) and stadia sounds nice since I don't have to invest in gaming hardware while still being able to play a game every once in a while when one comes out that I like while still being able to have good graphics.

Also, I will be presumably able to play it on mobile, TV, and any laptop I have (I actually played it on a chromebook during the beta) which is super convenient.