skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer seems straight forward. The term "authorities" comes with the assumption that they're the ones "leading". We've been taught for most of our lives the person up-front (parent, teacher, president) is always right and the vast majority of people won't question that.
Just for the sake of sharing what no one has ever been interested in hearing, Voeglin traced the concept of the "third age that will never end" back to Joachim of Flora's writings... and from what Wikipedia tells me, you likely know that already from reading Wilson!
So, basically you replace your phone every two years. That's the rhythm that Apple and cell providers generally aim for (time for new housing design and length of contract). What other expensive item are you replacing as frequently?
> When I wanted to learn programming, I always had to come to the keyboard with a purpose. I couldn’t just sit down and start writing code, I had to have built an idea of where I was going.

This 100%. There are a handful of things I want to learn out of curiosity, but I have no project ideas or uses for them (namely right now, Rust)
Patent: Toilet Paper Roll (1891)
This is very useful - thank you!
So I used to have a Fairphone 2 until recently, and have put that phone through a lot of abuse. As a result I did have to replace various modules at times (most often the bottom module, which is responsible for the charger and the microphone). Relative to the entire phone however replacing these small modules represent only a few percentages in terms of embodied energy and resources. The bulk of energy goes into the core module, IIRC.

In the end the core module also started becoming unstable (I have to emphasize though that the phone had endured a lot of physical abuse, as well as certain apps that probably overheated the CPU more than a few times) and I had to replace it two months ago. If the FP3 had been announced earlier I would have bought it instead of the phone I ended up replacing the FP2 with.
Feline learning – Nerf gun that detects cats
I’d say that Facebook’s feed is very difficult to use, and often finding an item that you were looking at earlier in a session can often be very difficult, if not impossible.
I really only want to read the story told by your bank accounts and use of cash. How else can I believe your criticism isn't funded by the intelligence agencies?
Integrating video and web content: Lessons in user interface design
Personally also hate the let’s charge extra for SSO but at least with Clubhouse I can login with Google (G Suite account) and use the free product, as that’s what I just did a couple of hours ago to kick the tires.
$20/gallon gas may be a "business opportunity" for some but it will have the vast majority of capitalists screaming at the top of their lungs.

If you want to combat capitalism and big corporate you directly hit it where it hurts, in their profits. Adding rules and regulations and outright bans just induces regulatory capture and ends up strengthening big corporations. A carbon tax is the most effective means for combating climate change because it's so straightforward and because it provides direct pressure on capitalism's precious markets.
The 2016+ 15" Macbook Pro is at least one very clear exception. Mine has had keyboard (which includes logic board) replaced several times. Screen replaced 3 times. Brand new replacement unit once. Now getting intermittent black screens every 5 mins or so. I paid for an Apple but I got a lemon.
Well, there is obvious bias but Fairphone itself has lots of articles about their research into their environmental impact:

https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/208539846

https://www.fairphone.com/en/research-resources/
The fall of coal, and its pollution-linked deaths, is boosting the economy
So that just means Uber won’t allow people to sign up to drive directly. Uber will contract with companies, who allow people to signup. Those companies will “employ” people at the same terrible rates Google contractors get with no medical or benefit of any kind.
I have seen this multiple times. It's almost certainly out of ignorance, and not intentional. Just someone trying to implement a slick UI without really thinking it through.
It’s PR to keep truck driving wages artificially suppressed.
Google Deepmind x The Royal Free hospital didn't quite go as planned, Information Governance wise.
I hope you do! I think simulations can be a powerful way to teach/learn and I would like to see this one.

I put a reminder to check back with you about this in a few months. Is Keybase your preferred contact method? I know it in name only, but I imagine I can figure it out.
Well you’re wrong so there’s that. You can’t give up your citizenship as a result of running for a foreign office.
Why should we accept less?

People throw away phones that work perfectly well except for one simple component. E.g. the body and all the electronics are sent to the landfill even if it's just the screen that's broken.
> Dorsey should sue and sue and sue and not settle and get these companies to unfuck themselves.

If you are a captain of a ship that sees an out of control oil tanker heading for it, the solution is not to sue the oil tanker owners, rather it is to get out of its way which in Jack's case should be ordering an immediate implementation of a non-SMS 2FA
Never understood they experimented with LSD, I would have though to unpredictable, something like scopolamine would have had better effects. It is often used in South America to control their victims as if all there free will is gone. It is highly effective in small doses (not LSD small but still quite small), the victim is often taking to the ATM and told to take out the money which they do willingly.

Never tried it myself, but the wife had it used on her when a student, luckily she had only about $15 in her bank account at the time, but says it is like being in a dazed / dream like state where you just go through the motions
It will probably come as a surprise to you (it did me several years ago), that it’s not simply up to you and the company hiring you if you are considered a freelancer.

This is not a matter of billable vs guaranteed hours. It’s a classification based on employee control over the person in question.

In fact, if you were micro directing the people you paid 1099, you may have had what the state of NY would consider an employee. Yes you’ll probably never get found out, but that doesn’t negate the fact.
Right, most of them just take it as an axiom. But the MWI explicitly rejects the Born rule as an axiom, insisting that the Schrödinger equation is all the actual physics there is.
Flying robo-taxis eyed for Bay Area commuters
No, but I would expect it to contain "npm install launchpad" :-p
The problem is that you can't always opt out of someone else's decisions.

Example: Doorbell Cams taking video of you walking by, uploading it to a corporate database, identifying you using photo recognition algorithms and your location using the home's address, and using that information to sell you things.
Same, still have mine since release. My only issue is the battery but that's cheaply replaced. I'm still deciding if i should upgrade or try to push another year or two with it.
Going on title and comments only, sorry, but why does "it's genetic" count as an explanation for anything?

An explanation for this would need ecology. Why is it beneficial for some of us to need less sleep, but not for all of us? What are the trade-offs? It seems like needing less sleep has no downsides. Is it a novel, all-beneficial mutation that just didn't have the time yet to sweep the population? Or do short sleepers experience serious downsides?

There is no explanation in "we found a gene for it". Pretty much every personality difference is genetic, that doesn't explain why such differences evolved, or persist.
It was slightly tongue in cheek, but the point relates to fixed versus marginal environmental costs of production.

It’s sort of a backwards way of thinking about the “Marginal Abatement Cost Function” (MAC) which is non-linear at the point you decide to go from producing 1 unit of output to shuttering the factory entirely.

At the point where you are producing 36 million phones, the marginal economic cost is at its lowest. The marginal economic cost of your first unit, by comparison, is a massive step function.

Which is why I started by saying it’s a morose way of looking at things, because you get stuck in a local minimum that way.
Our models of human learning are crude at best. Some programs attempt to approximate those models. But it resembles how humans learn the same way a stuffed animal chicken resembles a T-Rex.
The device claims to be a "Vasco DigiPass". It has lots of other identifying marks but those might be secret (even if they weren't supposed to be, disclosing them might inadvertently reveal a secret)

I am not required to carry it, but my understanding is that most features of my online banking don't work if I tell the system I don't have it with me. I store it with other valuable identity items like my birth certificate in my home, I do not take it with me when I travel.

This bank offers excellent 24/7 phone service, if I was away from home I would call them if I needed anything. All conceivable transactions can be concluded by phone, indeed I've mentioned to HN before that it turns out very high value financial transactions (literally buying a home in my case) can't be done online at all. The web site just tells me to call them instead to complete the transaction.

The institution is not especially geared to High Net Worth individuals, but it doesn't offer any products geared to people focused on being thrifty/ economical. It doesn't offer zero fee current account banking, it doesn't pay great interest on savings, it doesn't have "cash back" features on credit cards, it's just a very well run bank. If I needed £10 more than I need a bank I can rely on, I would leave.
Lambdas for C – sort of
Using Java to Orchestrate Robot Swarms
I'm sad that Every frame a painting stopped making new videos. But at least we still got all the content they've produced.
encryption by default and privacy as an intrinsic good have been pervasive if subtle shifts in the culture
California industry revolutionizes businesses, California government ruins them.
This is the second time I've heard that, but I see no evidence from here in Japan that they are doing anything with hydrogen these days. Can you point me to some references?

Edit: I should point out as well that they are actually building EV cars right now. They have a joint venture with several other Japan car manufacturers. They will start selling for the 2020 sales year (which I expect will start pretty soon).
I see how that can be true, but won't you agree that specific numbers would help you make that case?
Los Angeles Says “Yes” to a Record-Cheap Solar Plus Storage Power Plant
Your comment made me research what happened to Google glasses and I found this:

https://www.google.com/glass/tech-specs/

Why are these not available to the public?!? Because of the Google glass PR disaster?

I think that's probably the reason Apple decided not to take a risk with their version:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-ar-glasses-cancel...
There is some cross tolerance between all tryptamines and phenethylamines, but I have still managed to take them near daily for months on end without having to increase the dose by an absurd amount.
> The main difference is that the MWI has trouble explaining the Born rule.

To re-phrase, the claim in that article is that once MWI has done away with the Born rule, it has to deal with how the probabilities that we find in experiment are calculated under MWI.

.. Which is not obvious at first glance, because MWI seems to suggest everything happens with probability = 1.

Carroll acknowledges it is one of the challenges against MWI that needs to be answered.

Carroll offers "self-location uncertainty" as a way to recover the probabilities predicted by the Born Rule despite the determinism of the Schrodinger Equation

> But even if both people know the wave function of the universe, there is now something they don’t know: which branch of the wave function they are on. There will inevitably be a period of time after branching occurs but before the observers find out what outcome was obtained on their branch. They don’t know where they are in the wave function. That’s self-locating uncertainty, as first emphasized in the quantum context by the physicist Lev Vaidman. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20927410)

* edit - OP's post was edited but i'm leaving this post as-is.

> MWI insists that experiments have multiple outcomes in point of metaphysical fact.

That doesn't seem right. under MWI there is only one Wafefunction and one big quantum state. There are not additional 'worlds'
I Won’t Buy My Teenagers Smartphones
4,500 / 3,500,000 = 0.1% decline in truck drivers.

The industry probably has outsized exposure to the escalating trade wars and increasing tariffs.
ADP does this all for you for the low price of about $20/month/employee. It's even cheaper once you have more employees.

There are dozens of other major competing payroll services providers.

Why do people on HN expect others to learn PC or Internet security but themselves throw in the towel trying to learn relatively simple tasks?
>>But these types of controls are often not the right tool for the problem.

1- Do you believe Uber/Lyft/etc exploit any part their labor for corporate gain?
2-What do you believe is the correct control to prevent labor exploitation by Uber/Lyft/ect, assuming your answer to 1 is true?
No but they cannot see depth very well because they can't use stereoscopic vision (triangulate). However, there are other cues that are used to infer for depth such as covered edges(if one object partially covers another then it is closer to you), perspective (if two objects that you know are similar in size but one appears smaller then it is farther) etc.

A friend of mine who cannot see with one eye and yet he is a painter. One thing I know he cannot do is drive a car.
Bjorn Lomborg being reported in "Reason" magazine

I think together there might just be some degree of bias, when it comes to this issue.

But in any case, the real issue is not just about greenhouse emissions, and in particular not just about economics (typically, economic projections are linear, whereas reality is full of collapses and blossomings).

It's also about land-use, biodiversity, the health of the entire ecosystem, etc. We should not be clearing ancient tropical rainforest to raise beef.
I don't think UK will approve this.
If they were employees, Uber(and the others) would just be another taxi company and wouldn't have the same market share/investment levels they do.
unless they have a college degree
>the idea of having a meaningful certificate in something like history is sort of ridiculous.

I totally agree. But tell that to the universities.

>or are you suggesting that we create hundreds of government history certification agencies?

I’m suggesting that this is what we already have, because universities are tax-exempt, so on a fundamental level all professors already do work for the government. We could just keep all the history professors employed, but in the service of a more meritocratic rubber-stamp than the current rubber-stamp game which is based on prestige and SAT scores and various other bullshit factors.
Few hours a week? How would anyone, other than students, make that work?
You're not describing thinking with many of these, you're describing memorization. And I think you'll find that it's a skill to speak well enough for the speech recognition to figure out what you want, and I object to the idea that "google the right way" was a valuable skill - it was a necessity. You're just describing necessities for their time. I'm sure someone somewhere would be annoyed you don't know how to make a poultice to apply to an infected wound, or don't actively grind your own wheat. You certainly don't know how to hunt mammoth, and that would disappoint the hell outta Grug the caveman.

> Before Google, students would need to learn about the world.

What does that even mean? Read it in encyclopedias? Travel? If it's travel, then there's your answer - most people couldn't, and if it's encyclopedia's - how is that any better than Google?
i think it should be expensive, if youre not willing to save up that much to have a kid then where do you expect to find the funds to support them?
I don’t think Reddit fits the criteria of “social media” as most users don’t know the people they interact with in real life. I think of it more as a news aggregator as it’s easy to get current events linked from different sources in a single UI.

I routinely bounce back and forth between Reddit & CNN to get updates.
This is great news. At Exoscale we are now using Clubhouse but keep tracking product descriptions and design documents + ADRs outside of it. Tying these to the in-flight epics would be a very welcome change.

One can only hope it will remain engineer friendly and allow for reviews and good text formats.
That's why you go to the lecture at all. But if you didn't read about the subject, your knowledge is all a gap, and you get no benefit from interacting with the teacher.
Has US intelligence actually claimed Snowden is a Russian agent? People keep saying he is a traitor, but not whether he was always a spy or had been recruited directly by the Kremlin. All that is being fueled by media speculation.

There is also the likely possibility he didn't expect to be awarded a medal for uncovering the US governments own surveillance program on its citizens.
Thanks for clarifying this. This article completely missed this point and hand-waved over this, although this should have been the most important message: Twitter should not allow SMS as a single factor.

Lots of account take-overs could have been prevented if they had added this obvious security measure.
I got (mostly) rid of the brain fog when I bought a better mattress. Which was rather a surprise as I thought feeling like that was simply one of the things you have to get used to when getting older.
> In reality, just 21% of the public supports abolishing private insurance (which single-payer healthcare necessarily would require)

This is 100% false. I know this for a fact.

> There is a rhetorical tendency to blame American public policy on conspiracies rather than honestly attempting to figure out why people vote the way they do...snip...

Or maybe they just think that single-payer means having to get rid of private insurance, which is not true.

> There is, in fact, good evidence that those factors, rather than "rich people" and "party donors" are responsible.

So, considering what you have said is not true, those factors are in fact lies and misinformation.

> There is, in fact, good evidence that those factors

So, if your premise you started off on is 100% false, and you have "evidence" to support that premise, than by definition, that evidence is not good.

> Maybe Americans aren't irrational.

Your comment demonstrates they are misinformed.
> There is a rhetorical tendency to blame American public policy on conspiracies rather than honestly attempting to figure out why people vote the way they do.

Poor incentive structures and feedback loops can create and perpetuate bad systems far more effectively than any quid pro quo conspiracy could ever dream of. There is no conspiracy required if the system rewards unethical behavior.

Basically this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/14/does-class-warfare-hav...

and

this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
Most of these opt-outs are nearly useless because they require so much effort. (And of course this is by design.) I personally prefer just using uBlock Origin and a DNS black hole. It's less effort, and it's more likely to prevent abusive behavior. (And it also cleanses the internet of most advertising.)
That kinda sucks the air out of this whole thread. "that's not entirely accurate" is a bit of an understatement. But, don't let facts get in the way of a good rant!

Mattermost has been rock solid for the last couple of years for my team BTW.
UC San Diego Health’s CIO spoke his mind about Epic’s core offerings in 2017.

https://healthitanalytics.com/features/epic-systems-machine-...

Epic sat on its hands too long and missed whatever calling it had in this space.
I'd like to argue that it's rather the extreme connection density and feedback loops that connect all these different concepts. Taken on their own, each of these models that the brain (and perhaps artificial neural networks) construct are weak predictors. This is compensated for by their sheer number and the plasticity of the feedback loops between them.

As you say, when a human observes a plastic bag, a vast number of different models and transformations aggregate their predictions in a highly nonlinear fashion:

The bag has a plasticky look, it seems to be flopping around, it is slightly see-through, it produces a certain sound that implies a hollow cavity etc... these primary observations are processed by the sensory neurons, which do a first pass filter to remove noise completely subconsciously. If they don't get enough feedback, perhaps it was just a mirage of a bag - not real - and you do a double take and realize it was just a play of shadows.

But let's assume first pass feedback confirms that it is likely a real sensation. The primary inputs are then confirmed by secondary predictions:

The bag is carried by the wind, implying low density, the sound it makes is common for empty thin plastic materials, it has a matte surface that lets through some amount of light, etc... the subconscious thus makes the conclusion that it is indeed probably made of thin plastic and therefore of low density and low hardness and therefore not a threat in terms of high velocity impact. Your swerve reflex thus doesn't kick in and you drive straight.

But this reasoning requires an in-depth model of the world. It isn't enough to just recognize the shape of a bag, because that could be a myriad of other things. Only by having a model and thus understanding of all these different aspects of reality can one make a prediction as robustly as a human. And that is not a high bar, because humans are not good at predictions, let alone on short timescales. We are prone to biases, sensory errors, local minima from past bad experiences, basically the lot.
Learning the Hard Way: Microservices
4 Techniques You Must Know for Natural Language Processing on iOS
The UK is not permitted to conduct trade negotiations with third countries while it remains a member of the EU.
Not a single one of these things is a bug. Design decisions, workarounds for hardware limitations, etc. But not bugs.
In the Western Cape in South Africa ours is not quite as dramatic but grape vines from farm that was active 35 years ago became visible during the recent drought. The vines and farm usually submerged.

https://www.traveller24.com/Explore/watch-ghostly-vineyard-h...
The other reason only 21% of people are against abolishing private insurance is that lots of people are insured through their employer, and thus the true cost of their healthcare coverage is hidden from them. If they really knew how much it was costing them (because benefits are part of “total compensation”), they would sing a different tune.
Good question. There are probably similar psychological mechanisms at play when you try to explain to smokers why their habits are bad.
don't be so obtuse.
The "freedom" to monopolize capital is not a meaningful freedom, any more than the freedom to starve in a ditch is a real freedom.
They should add Nuclear Gandhi from the Civilization games as one of the most amusing examples of this.
4500? That's almost noise level. Certainly it's not anything close to a bloodbath. Truck drivers are the #1 job in the US, @ 3.5mm drivers.

But then again, it's BI so ...
What a headline. Should someone talk to the author, make sure they're doing ok?