skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a company that recently started trying to sell stocks at retail outlets (walmart, etc) -- basically you could pay $20 for some sort of placeholder card (much like you might buy Netflix credits or whatever) that were good for shares in a company. This reminds me of that in a bad way.

This is right up with the amount of pushing that is done for FX trading in japan -- it's hugely risky and really just a way to extract money from retail investors dumb enough to go for it. The information asymmetry, relationships, and access that institutional investors have versus the average retail investor is so stark that this is basically a trap for smart (but naive) people.

Nevermind how scammy IPOs can be -- your trades don't go as fast as the big guys, and that matters. The "pop"s are made by waves of dumb money while the smart money was basically already in (whether that means private equity or trades that executed earlier than retail).

This is obviously not about America, but I think it's relevant (with what I know about Japan living here for a few years):

https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/investment_manager.ht...

Japan's economy is similarly stratified, it's just that less people care/actually have time to do anything about it.
> reading the older sci-fi is painful when it comes to gender portrayals

A lot of old (and much new) SF is pretty terrible when in comes to any character portrait. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan, but it’s despite the depiction of characters.

Cardboard cutout characters are naturally going to be stereotypical, or wish fulfilment. And even when the characters have real depth, like in Dune, or The Left Hand of Darkness, they’re literally inhuman.
It seems conspicuous he doesn’t say he was unaware of the accusations.

He does say he was unaware of the evidence, and didn’t hear Epstein say anything about it.
Apple Pay et al work without signal. If the payment network is down then cards will also be declined.

Increasingly we’re seeing contactless ATMs (in Europe) too so that’s a last resort.
but who is Haberman? and why has a train station been named after him/her
See https://thatoneprivacysite.net/
I think the pre cut/wrapped apple slices and oranges and such are arguably for disabled people (or children, or convenience, and priced at a 5-10x premium) but the individually wrapped whole fruit, which are sold in much higher volumes, make less sense.
Considering the success of neural network image classifiers, it seems garbage sorting would be a slam dunk application for these reasons:

(1) the training data is readily available. there are human sorters who already are classifying everything in real-time as they pick stuff off the conveyor and move the item to the right bin. train cameras on the conveyor belt and the analyze which items are picked out and which bin they get tossed in.

(2) the NN doesn't have to be anywhere near as accurate as, say, a self-driving car. tune the classifier to minimize false positives. If the resulting NN can classify only 70% of the items, but accurately, that means 70% of the garbage stream can be automated and run 24/7. Humans can still go through the remaining 30% if it economically makes sense.
Get Soylent.
Yes please.
Still most apps don’t need access to the documents directory or the camera.

They want to “open a file” which’s means file open dialog

Or: upload your profile picture, which’s means a one time upload of a file. Right now you give access to the camera and it can be used for anything
I should hope it speaks of my expectations: can't run server workloads on it, worse to program for than OpenSPARC or M68000. I actually want a nice processor and server hardware to use it in to do work. RISC-V ISA and the hardware around it provide neither and yet here we are, it's constantly being paraded as the non-plus-ultra of central processing units.
It may be "work" but it's not the same work. Your boss is your family and its well-being when you do housework. It's not the same as someone who doesn't care about you.
Sit less and move more – all physical activity is beneficial for longevity
Remote work may influence this. Commuting to a workplace just to do the things you might as well do from home will be considered old-fashioned, inefficient and/or shameful in a few years, if my crystal ball is not lying.
Another thing is that there is virtually no time limit on the podcast interview. Sometimes they even go upto 3-4 hours long if need be. So, you don't feel like the interviewer is just trying to wrap up things. We get to listen to guests in more detail and guests also get the time to explain more complex things if need be (especially with Scientists and Mathematicians like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Sir Roger Penrose)
Apple warns you may permanently discolor your Apple Card if stored in leather
One cannot coercively distort the market with government power and expect that life will not, "uh, uh, find a way."

Great intentions do not always lead to great outcomes (often the opposite).
Presumably the generated water will be released immediately rather than being condensed to a holding tank, since weight is the enemy of all aircraft (c.f. airliners, which jettison condensate and "grey water" from sinks but hold the foul water from toilets). So there will be a continuous low-volume release of steam/warm water some hundreds of metres above the ground - in dry conditions it doesn't seem likely it will even reach the ground.
Aarti Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji Di ਆਰਤੀ ਸ਼੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ ਦੇਵ ਜੀ ਦੀ – Punjabi Video
The full title is "Ulf Ekelund and Thomas Yates: “Sit less—move more and more often”: all physical activity is beneficial for longevity", which shows this is a blog post that's discussing research.
It is somewhat common, but usually as a sub-packaging rather than the main e.g. chocolates are commonly individually wrapped in aluminium foil, it's also commonly used for meal trays (but I guess has become less common due to microwaves?).

Sealed packets are also commonly foiled though mixed with plastic (for e.g. quick-close bits). Dunno how that works out for recycling, just burn out the plastic?
V for Vaporware. Creator is either fully aware of the scam hes pulling off or is beyond delusional. Just check the sourcecode for the "compiler" (really just a bad C transpiler) and see the atrocities within. Paths hardcoded to his machine, raw C output string concatenation, no AST, it honestly shocks me just how easy it is to pull the wool over the eyes of modern day developers
Show HN: Weekly mail digests for personal Reddit custom feeds
Both Fang "a communications professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong" and Xiao who "teaches at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information and runs a bilingual Web site called China Digital Times" (a great resource) are commenting on general issues regarding Chinese journalism / media propaganda apparatus doesn't meaningfully elucidate divergent perspectives of netizens on College Daily. The article doesn't deviate from generic all Chinese media is state controlled narrative which while true omits the fact that Chinese student diaspora doesn't exclusive derive information from Chinese sources or even trust Chinese sources, specifically in reference to College Daily which I've seen even die-hard /r/sino tankies dismiss. Instead condescendingly portraying Chinese media readers as "conditioned" to propaganda, "dissociated from truth", "one of the melon-eating masses", "passive onlooker with neither the means nor the interest to know what’s truly going on", deserving of "sympathy" because they're not even deplorable enough like western fringe opinion holders who had the freedom to form their own worldview. A brainwashed monolith.

The headline is accurate in the sense that's it's not factually wrong, but that's the nature of propaganda via omission. Repeat such pattern over many articles and it gives credence to the "rebuttal" that identifies the piece as one of many designed to "orchestrate a defamatory campaign" against China and in particular increasing politically active Chinese students in context of current political climate. I'm going to end my contributions here, but thank you for the discussion.
Programmers Should Curb Their Enthusiasm, Thinking About Computational Thinking
That's exactly what I'm writing about, progress. RISC-V is not an advancement. What is opposite of advancement? In a system, it's either regression or retardation.

And expecting people outside of the Puritan U. S. to abide by the same political correctness norms is extremely rude, inconsiderate and exclusionist -- using those same politically correct norms no less, which is to say, the U. S. should ban political correctness, and do so yesterday for the benefit of everyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki

Sometimes, they kill citizens and then effectively say shit happens.
The very first sentence in the article is

>People are excited about running WebAssembly outside the browser.

This article isn't about the internet. Read through it with a mindset of webassembly outside of web. It's an interesting article.
This reminds me of early versions of Microsoft Word.

Edit: And more generally, DOS, FAT and CHKDSK.

You never knew, when there was a power interruption -- or when the system just crashed for whatever mysterious reason -- just how bad it would be. NTFS was such an improvement.
How to play planning poker Badass Mode
IANAL but if we allow software patents that should be valid.

It may not take a genius to do what they did (Apple's point) but:

- There are the first to do it.

- They are using it commercially in their own products, they are not just trolls.

- They didn't just patent an idea. They built a whole system around it. REDCODE is not just a compression algorithm. It is a compression algorithm optimized for a certain type of professional movie camera, one that they invented.
Is this one also a marketing term, then? Would calling a video codec "lossy" have any bad consequences for the product?
Do you mean like parental instinct? When you are in 'father mode', you physically and mentally geared up and ready to take up the role.
Thank you. I am in a right to work state and in fact I have never signed a contract with my employer.
well put. They'll do anything to cling to power.
The 40h a day week and modern-day work contracts come as a direct evolution of medieval servitude, with little modification.

This explains the system of values that revolve around it, such as for example the notion that it's somewhat something to be ashamed of for an employee to leave its employer, while it's perfectly OK for the employer to terminate the employee at any time.

The servant was not expected to leave its master, that was not OK.

Or that you are expected to be available at all times, even though the contract only mentions 40h, and that is perfectly OK and even interiorized as acceptable by most people, which will even go to the extent of defending that state of affairs.

What I see in the workforce is a desperate need for people to continuously prove the need for their own role, as automation and informatization eat away more an more jobs.

It's a game of face time, who sends most emails past midnight, and who is willing to sell more of their personal life and squeeze other people out of theirs, often to do "important" tasks that are often completely unnecessary.

I had a couple of jobs where I was working overtime, running for deadlines all the time, sending emails left an right, meetings, you name it. One day I had enough and I left, and to my surprise, I was never replaced :-)
If today's computers did things a million times better, or did a million more things than 25 years ago, I'd agree with you, but from a user perspective a modern computer is not really all that different from a Windows 3.11 machine. The screens are bigger and we have Internet now, but the experience of, e.g., writing a letter in Word is basically the same.
Distribution of Zip Code Population
Hi!

This small project grew out of the fact that I'm notoriously bad at checking out my custom feeds ("multireddits"), but I have a couple that I'm honestly really interested in and that have really good content. A mail digest with the top posts every week solved it fairly nicely for me.

Let me know what you think! I'd really love to hear if you decide to use it or have any problems or feedback!
Who Will Guard the Guards
There's a weird bar for confidence, to be frank. Most often I've found that people disregard studies with people who have "golden ears" because they're not average ears, or that studies find that only those with "golden ears" can find a difference, and the audience tends to feel they're in that range.

For example, there was a study a few years ago at McGill with trained listeners on the effects of bitrate with mp3 and m4a audio encoding that found that only a slim number of mastering engineers preferred lossless over lossy encoded audio (interestingly enough, some professional mixers and musicians found lossy encodings preferable to lossless even for jazz and classical music). But trying to convince audiophiles that those codecs are comparable to lossless is a losing battle.
You've reinvented the HOSTS file, which used to be manually updated by John Postel or someone and passed around the internet before DNS was invented.
Front End Engineer Role – Propeller
A fantastic vehicle for the rich to dismantle all protections organized labor made in the last century. Super cheap at a billion bucks a month if you consider the colossal amount of savings can be made on paying people if they are deemed contractors vs payroll.

Various businesspeople tried propaganda , buying politicians and so forth, this "gig economy" is the newest effort, it is going well. For them. Recommended reading: https://www.wwnorton.co.uk/books/9780393337662-invisible-han...
Is there not diminishing returns though?

Does the millionth lucky penny feel as special as the first? If you gave Jeff Bezos a million $ would he even notice, let alone feel happier.

I feel that most happiness is gained from being able to feed and house your family, not having your children die from disease. Anything much beyond that is a rounding error and based on standards of the day.
There are bets stacked on top of bets. Let’s say that Tesla does deliver a viable self-driver, something presently only seen in sci-fi, like fusion power has been just around the corner for 50 years. Why would they cede the relationship to Uber when they already own the relationship with the end users? They already bypassed conventional dealer networks. Other car makers in this space do own their own dealers. Companies like Hertz own customer relationships and have experience managing fleets. Where does Uber fit into this world? They don’t.
How to Get in the Flow
Full Stack Engineer – Propeller
I think this is true for the vast majority of us technically inclined. There are definitely outliers that can code their way to success, Linus, Carmack and many more. But they represent the very few.

We have to contend that most systems that are worth acquiring revenue are systems that require groups of people. Once we're at groups of people, social interactions really matter whether we like it or not.

I've known engineers who are perfectly great in their technical skill, but ideologies of perfection to syntax, build systems vs the rest of the team started becoming friction points. Soon it led to full on mediation sessions with threats of formal complaint.

Understanding that some things are not worth souring relationships over or how to deliver feedback in a firm by helpful way without creating needless friction are very important tools.

So I agree, soft skills are worth developing.
Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap
Uno uses DOM bindings, not WebGL.
Ask HN: What's up with all the WeWork posts lately?
What is all the fuss about WeWork recently? A lot of seemingly unimportant points about WeWork, whether it's a tech company or not. All the fuss about their IPO, not giving equity to an early employee, and so forth.

Why everyone is so obsessed about this company all of a sudden?

Is this an American thing?
Avoiding weird solutions by adding appropriate constraints is extremely important to people who solve optimization problems in practice. The classic example from the inventor of linear programming is the diet problem [1], where the naive LP suggested to eat nothing but bouillon cubes or drink 500 gallons of vinegar.

[1]https://resources.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/d1/teaching/ws1...
It's quite different to the first kid so I don't think the same translations work with most other kids.
>>>I never understood why there is this tendency to make military leaders into heroes. They are not better and not worse than leaders in any other area. The top leaders most likely are just very good politicians.

Historically, casualties in war were far higher than they've been lately, so successful military leaders USUALLY were lauded for their ability to not bring home friendly troops in bodybags repeatedly. Now, I'm not even sure we've seen them accomplish that. With a few exceptions they are mostly energetic, charismatic, yes-men who deliver mediocre results.[1]

Having worked in a 3-star headquarters....flag officers are definitely cut from a different cloth, personality-wise, even compared to many of the Colonels I've worked for directly under them.

>>>If we want heroes then it should be the poor guys who have to go to battle for no payoff and often loss of life or limb.

It's not like we ignore them, almost all medals for valor are awarded to junior ranks (enlisted guys and a few junior officers). As a rough estimate, look at the living Medal of Honor recipients from Iraq & Afghanistan[2]. The only exception in recent memory is maybe the field-grade Marine officer who organized the defense of Camp Bastion[3], and he was given a much lower medal (still, a Silver Star is very impressive).

[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/general...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_living_Medal_of_Honor_...
[3]https://www.stripes.com/news/marine-awarded-silver-star-for-...
@mtgx your account has been shadowbanned you may want to contact YC to sort it out (hn@ycombinator.com).
REDs patent might not be valid according to this video [1]. Also red continues to label its products as "Made in the USA" when they are not qualifying the requirements set to be allowed to do so. In fact they may not even qualify to label the products "Assembled in the USA"

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ20yQhMYx4
The original intent wasn't even that the president was democratically elected. In most states today the electoral college members aren't bound by law to vote for the winner of the state's general election. The original intent was that each state government sent their chosen electoral college members and then it was up to them to figure out who to vote for from that point onwards.
No, but not all parts of std run on all supported platforms.

To clarify, there are different levels of support on different platforms.
Countries where it's normal for both parents to work rely on a serf class, usually of immigrant women, to care for their children at terrible wages so both parents can work. I wonder how long this can be sustainable.
I guess you could make it more intuitive by thinking about the system in terms of the units of your feedback (e.g. force on an actuator like a bicycle handle bar in your example) rather than the deeper, underlying physics. In the end it doesn't matter which you use as long as it works.
It basically boils down to deleting a bunch of files on disk. The fact that it is distributed doesn't affect efficiency too much; it is basically a delete sent to all nodes, followed by a two-phase commit.

The upside of deleting entire tables (chunks) like this is that you don't pay the same PostgreSQL vacuuming cost normally associated with row-by-row deletes.
summary: containers have no security story without SELinux.
Probably worth mentioning that there was a anthology of stories released in 2010 called "Machine of Death" [1] that gives a science-fictional take on such a blood testing machine that could predict your death.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_of_Death
When the DNS blockchain forks, your browser just opens two new tabs instead of one and you get to visit both sites. Simple!
I’ve piled on the weight since our second was born. I attribute it to the reasons mentioned here and also that I’ve not been cycling to work for the last several months. We bought a new home and don’t currently have a place to store my bike so it’s been languishing in my office. So I take the bus because owning two cars is prohibitively expensive here in Europe. The bus is slower than car and bike so I’m rushing out without breakfast and eating junk when I get to work. On the bust home I’ll often snack on more junk.

All that changes today as we’re finally getting a garden shed and I’ll be back in the saddle.
Access to opportunities for more income also didn't exist either. The article specifically references serfs(!!!), possibly the most difficult economic class to escape, as the example.

Cars, computers, phones, and health insurance also didn't exist back then, and neither did social mobility.

Give people visible improvements to quality of living and also the opportunities to attain them and it seems logical to me that people on average would work more, not less.

Note that I am one of those people who would predict that UBI would not reduce people propensity to work because it just doesn't make sense economically. I think most people's utility curves want the benefits of extra income OVER the benefit of leisure. It's security over enjoyment, which is not out of the ordinary for human value functions.
Plenty countries where both parents normally work and there are no servants.
When you have a central bank that can control rates, no alternative money, and the bank can set rates negative, the equilibrium is for the government to own almost all assets. I'm not kidding. You will end up with communism, only via government regulation of rates, unless something breaks this up.
Anonymous mode? Alternatively, this URL has the exact same text: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/11/survival-of-the-richest-the-...
I agree with you that we likely won't see this feature used much in the real world. I always tell Firefox to deny knowing which device model I have if asked. None of your damn business.

For personal accounts at least my experience was that a very large transfer (hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single transaction) required talking to two random employees. The first was a random call center worker who answered my call & the second was randomly chosen by the bank to run the whole process with me again to confirm. The web UI was clear that I would not be able to perform my transaction without talking to a human. Using two at random defuses the risk of internal collusion to defraud a customer. But I did use my good bank, maybe a mediocre bank would accept something a bit less stringent.
What you're really getting at by suggesting we poll people on Stallman, I think, is that they're uninformed, and AnthonyMouse is dead-on where he suggests rephrasing what it means to own your high-tech stuff so that it's comprehensible to the general public.
I think it's a threat to everyone. As much as people, myself included, have problems with American imperialism, just wait until we get a taste of Chinese imperialism with their millions in concentration camps, dictator for life, ethno-state, and social credit system creating a permanent under class. The further they spread their power, the worse it will be.
Story AI: a GUI for the the GPT-2 774M model released by OpenAI