skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont see how there is a difference to not sharing needles. The addiction argument is the same there and even people at the end of their line managed to follow that rule during the periods in history where the war on drugs included syringes as drug paraphernalia. Its simply not an option to break that rule. No ifs or buts.
It's not a conspiracy per se, but it fits into a realm where virtually every single documentary about space these days are making overt or not-so-overt claims that it's absolutely real and we're not even considering other possibilities. Of course we are, but that's not how it gets presented by the vast majority of "television physicists" and I find most documentaries about space completely unwatchable these days. Usually it's presented with unwavering faith that dark matter and energy exist, if only we could detect it. The more humble approach would be "95% of the universe is Dark Matter and Energy, unless one of our assumptions is wrong and we just don't know which one yet". That's honesty you just don't find much in media for public consumption, and if it's wrong (I'm not saying it is), then millions of bright minds are being led down the wrong path. I'm just hoping for more honesty about what we actually observe or what we desperately want to observe in popular (scientific) culture.
The point of the article is to dissuade people from pursuing careers in day trading based on marketing that it's an easy way to earn money (from people whose business is selling instructional materials... not day trading). If there were lots of people selling courses on "Become a WTA Tour Player, make millions winning tennis tournaments!" the same type of paper might be warranted for tennis playing.
Same. Either gaming or on mIRC, flirting. Very few created anything or even knew more than the basics about computers.
It is when you count in influence, "the old boys club", prestige, and "being a financial center" . I have no doubt that over the long haul that would be cheap. One more nail in the West's coffin from the point of view of Asia.
I think that this doesn't protect you and you would just end up over drafting your account, resulting in fees.
> The US public does not want this

A majority does, in fact, want this.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/03/most-contin...
HAHAHA, tell the people in your workspace I said hi.
The results are fairly obvious to anyone who has read "A Random Walk Down Wall Street".

Day traders rely on technical analysis which is the equivalent of astrology in the financial sector.
GPU Accelerated Cryo-EM, from Workstation to Supercomputer
Seems ok reading in my mobile safari, not even using reader mode.
That, along with peoples’ actual experiences with their government. The NYC MTA is better funded than London’s or Paris’s transit systems, yet has on the brink of system failure. Amtrak is similarly funded (adjusted for differences in passenger volume) to European rail systems. Yet it offers decrepit equipment and unreliable service. We spend more per student on education than all but a couple of other countries (like Switzerland), but our test scores are at the bottom of the pack. American cities like Baltimore and San Francisco are full of crime, homelessness, and drug use, even though they’ve been controlled by “the other major party” for decades.

It should also be noted that, with the notable exception of healthcare, most of Western Europe has followed the trend of privatization, deregulation, and reliance on market mechanisms. Macron is talking about privatizing SNCF—not even Trump is talking about privatizing Amtrak.
I came here to recommend somethingawful. Lowtax is a gift to the internet with his commitment to keep the board going and not sell out... even while he is in poor health.
Infinite scrolling depends on Javascript. NoScript prevents it.

FaceTwitGram may depend on IS; I don't know, I've never used a FaceTwitGram account. Reddit seems to work fine without Javascript.

If I'm forced to enable Javascript for some specific site, I enable it for that site, then (if that's not enough) for it's companion sites, CDN and so on. By this time the site has already caused me resentment.

If that's not enough, then usually I've already gone somewhere else.

Way too many sites will give you a blank screen just because JS is disabled. But if you insist that I totally drop my pants and enable ALL scripts, you really have to have a compelling reason (e.g. buy product unavailable elsewhere, um err can't think of any other compelling reason; luckily neither my bank nor the taxman mandate 3rd-party scripts).

Some UI gimmick such as infinite scrolling is certainly not a compelling reason.

The purpose of infinite scrolling is to retain the eyeballs of mobile users - to stop them navigating away from your site. I am old, my eyes are dim, and my fingers are shaky; I use my mobile phone primarily as a phone, and never as a browser. Younger folk may have a different experience.
The City of London Corporation (note not council) is indeed within Greater London, but still has some weird hangovers from the medieval era, including the Temples and a strange and unique electoral system. It's the Corporation that is the main body administering the region.

It is organised differently to anywhere else in the UK, and distinctly odd. The rest of the UK got rid of those few last remnants of the Middle Ages in the 50s through 70s, though nowhere had kept around as many as the City.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London#Governance
Sucks you had the sign up date prior to the announcement. When I read the announcement I immediately signed up for a keybase, HN and Github account and then find out I cant be included because I signed up on 9/9/2019. You would think that would be the incentive to at least give a little buffer for people to join in that were not aware.
The reason being an anti-vaxxer is bad is because of a concept called "herd immunity." There is no analog, here. I think that not only do you not understand much about kids, but you also don't understand the analogy you're trying to use.
In America, you have to work until you die. The major thing the gig economy takes from people is health care. It's insanely expensive, and the Affordable Care Act is a terrible shamble of broken policy. I spent time outside of the US and came back to find health care worse than when I left it:

https://fightthefuture.org/article/returning-to-america-and-...

I have a friend who has been fighting brain cancer for over a year. The small company he was working for let him go (although they wouldn't admit it; it was likely over his condition) and his wife has to constant fight her own company's insurance company/policy to get treatments covered (and she is a lawyer; who literally works for a law firm doing mostly corporate liability cases).

In any EU country, you get a terminal illness, you can take time off and live your life. Will you get the same level of treatment as you would in the US? Who cares. You get treatment, and you can spent time with the people you love and appreciate things until you get better or your friends say goodbye. In America, if you do not have a spouse, you just have to keep working until you can't any more .. and then you die.
This sounds awfully similar how Western governments singled out the so called communists. If you don't support war and actively protest against in the Middle East does not make you an agent for isis or Muslim brotherhood.

If he was an agent the Muller investigation would have revealed it. It doesn't say so in the paper that is public, I actually read the whole thing.

You're an agent if you get orders from Kremlin, people's interests align often with different people, hence the world and politics is complicated.
"In Brazil"
Well that's your problem...
If you want faster adoption, have a repo that demonstrates solutions for 57 exercises: https://pragprog.com/book/bhwb/exercises-for-programmers
It seems good practice not to assume there are no other ways to id/fingerprint a device then by mac address..
Yes, and if you don't bank with one of the big banks (BofA, Wells Fargo etc) you'll be fine (those bigger banks deal with so many screwups that they'll just debit a different one of your accounts assuming it was a mistake). Or use two different banks if you can move money back and forth easily and for free.

If you have a company it's really important to create a special account solely for auto debits and move money in there manually. This saved my bacon when ADP mis-debited a couple of hundred $K from a payroll run once.
I don’t know. They mention that they allow them to text and message friends from their tablet when at home. Essentially it is merely avoiding distraction at school.
wow .. this seems like a horrendous news ..
That document shows that as algorithms might decay, you can swap out the datasets to out-perform. They also conducted a year long study on the results.
If you examine what Ed Snowden leaked, it’s clear he was trying to do significant damage to the NSA. Much or most of what he stole and was leaked was unrelated to domestic surveillance. Much of it revealed our overseas activity. It’s difficult to see how any of it was to the benefit of Western interests.
They are also trading on a small account most likely. If you have $500k to trade with making $300 a day is much easier.
We've been moving fast trying to get SimpleID in as many hands as possible, but we absolutely want to support other blockchains. More in-depth Ethereum support is next up, then we want to look at adding support for blockchains like EOS, Steem, and more. It'd be great to get feedback from others on what blockchains to support!
The imagined scenario is economic warfare by the Chinese government forcing HKEX to just stop trading on the British stock market. Given how important the stock market is to a modern economy it'd be a powerful hit even if it only stayed off for a few days.
Obligatory joke about the three scientists visiting Scotland in the first time:

Biologist: "Whoa, you see that in the distance? That's amazing! All cows in Scotland are brown!"

Physicist: "Hold on -- all we know at this point is that there's a population of cows in Scotland that's brown."

Mathematician: "No, all we know is, there exists at least one cow in Scotland such that this side is brown."

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With that said, I agree that it's an excessively narrow sample for the kind of conclusion they're trying to draw.
That 100% assurance that no one can day trade seems a bit, ever seems like a bold declaration. I'm sure there are prodigies that can, but the other 99% of us suck at it over time.
Speaking of things I wish were real, whatever happened to the DNA-based computer I was promised 30 years ago? Or the memristors that would allow instantly booting back to the state my computer was in when I turned it off last night?
Correction on Resident non-Indian being eligible for Aadhaar duly noted.

Ironically, Aadhaar could indeed prevent SIM swapping attacks in certain cases for those who have updated their Aadhaar number to their service provider. If the Aadhaar number is available at the service provider, it needs to be authenticated (via Biometric and SMS OTP) before swapping SIM.

I wonder if the mobile is lost, whether at-least biometric part of the Aadhaar authentication is required to get the new SIM. Also, say if Aadhaar OTP needs to be entered in their internal service; bribing might not be possible.
> And while it's impossible to say what is a lot or a little of a continuous quantity like time, 8 is not a lot of something. If you had a handful of 8 peanuts, or a shelf of 8 books to choose from, the quantity would definitely seem limited, no matter what your lifespan was.

And yet if you had a handful of 8 loaves of bread, it would be a lot of bread, if you had 8 luxurious chocolate truffles it would be more than you want to eat in one go. If you had 8 shelves of books the quantity would still "seem limited". If you stepped outside and there were 8 cars on your driveway, that would be a lot of cars and a long driveway, if none of them started and you had to walk 8 miles to the train station, that would be a long walk, if you went to the dentist and needed 8 fillings that would be a lot of fillings, and if there was a creature as tall as 8 humans, that would be a long horse.

Just choosing that the units of measure are peanuts and books, is not enough to establish that 8 is a small quantity, objectively and unquestionably. Everything is relative, everything is viewed in comparison to something different. Peanuts compared to how filling they are, books compared to .. how much choice you feel you deserve, outside of reading time. 8 books is quite a lot of reading time.

If you decide that 8 Christmasses is a paucity of Christmas, where did that decision come from? Why is it not enough, and how many would be enough? (and is the answer an eternal "just one more"?) If you have $8 but you want to spend $10 then $8 is not much money. If you have $8 but you want things which are ten a penny, $8 is a lot of things.

If we can't control how much we have, but we can choose what we want, why do we so often choose to want more than we have, then feel annoyed at the disinterested universe for being so mean to us?
yes i think twitter must be more healty
This is what fascinates me about machine learning. You can train an algorithm self adjust in ways that a human doesn't have the capacity to understand, which can then perform human like tasks.

If we get good at allowing programs to generate programs that find new ways of learning. Is it still behaving in a way that humans program them, or has it shifted to a law of nature that is fundamentally out of our control.

When it's all said and done, we decide if it was us, or a force beyond humans.
My firm uses a similar system that hedges long and short baskets and can confirm that hedging is really the only way to swing trade profitably in the long term.
ACH reversals are horrible when they mistakenly happen. They really are a selling point for getting paid in cryptocurrency.
Here's a quote from David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality":

"When I introduced tangible and shadow photons I apparently distinguished them by saying that we can see the former, but not the latter. But who are ‘we’? While I was writing that, hosts of shadow Davids were writing it too. They too drew a distinction between tangible and shadow photons; but the photons they called ‘shadow’ include the ones I called ‘tangible’, and the photons they called ‘tangible’ are among those I called ‘shadow’.

Not only do none of the copies of an object have any privileged position in the explanation of shadows that I have just outlined, neither do they have a privileged position in the full mathematical explanation provided by quantum theory. I may feel subjectively that I am distinguished among the copies as the ‘tangible’ one, because I can directly perceive myself and not the others, but I must come to terms with the fact that all the others feel the same about themselves.

Many of those Davids are at this moment writing these very words. Some are putting it better. Others have gone for a cup of tea."

And his summary:

"the whole of physical reality, the multiverse, contains vast numbers of parallel universes"

So no, Deutsch, who is arguably the leading advocate of MWI, does not consider parallel universes to be a "metaphor/model/aid to understanding". He insists that they are real. He even defends this position at extraordinary length in chapter 10 of TFOR.
Agreed. If the sample was California-based day traders specializing in SAAS software stocks between 2016 and 2018, would the sub-headline be that 97% of traders made great profits?
You can make a lightweight blog with no ads which looks good on mobile by making a linked list of github gists. https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/1106b185f8b34ae0e36a...
Interesting, and a bit frightening about the lack of security.

I have had to work with the equivalent process for payments in the UK - we where fixing up a problem when the accounts receivable system would not cut the BACS tape for 6 months!

Submitting a BACS Tape required the use of onetime codes and a physical device and this was in the late 80's
One thing that's always interested me is that the recent history of breakthroughs doesn't tell you when the next one will arrive. For instance reconciling quantum mechanics and gravity, we don't know if we're within 11 years, 110 years, or even 1100 years!
Looks like some kind of bizarre Korean knock-off
I love that Trump's DoJ hounding Assange into British custody and unsealing a huge indictment against him has done nothing to shake many Democrats' faith that Assange is some kind of Trump/Putin stooge.
Parent of toddlers here. Not even really thinking about it because I'm sure things will be completely different by the time they're teenagers anyway.

That said, I would consider giving a young teen or pre-teen a cell phone to start teaching them how to use it in a healthy way rather than deny them entirely. Very many adults have addictive phone habits and you can't keep your kids from making their own choices forever.
Very impressive and readable. Congratulations!!!
Thanks! We went back and forth on the site design for a while. We actually just released the new website last night.
Based on the very large revenue from foreign patients who come to America to get cancer treatment on their own dime, those patients and their families care about getting the best treatment.
It's not about having the device, it's about the social apps/internet culture that goes with it. Arguably the most popular content for kids last year was Fortnite YouTubers, even just being left out of that.. it's difficult to fit in when you have no connection to what's being talked about.
> No one knows what Brexit actually is though.

Then you can't make the claim that the pound will continue to devalue. The pound is volatile, but you can't make predictions about the long term value with certainty.
Indeed.

No one in hacker news is a senior or retirée knowing how uber changed their austere lives, for the better.

Or riders for that matter. To my 80yr old mother, using uber has been a godsend. Its the only app she uses in her mobile. I dont even have uber on my phone. Somehow she figured out how to instal it and run it.

She does not drive due to her age and she cant wait outside due to the cold at bus stops.

Now thanks to this, either pricing will skyrocket, or availability will fall.

No one in HN is a senior, so they are oblivious to it all.

And this is 1 example. I'm sure there are others of families not having to do transportation juggling to move kids around, all of which is helped by ubers.

But to the wage justice warriors of HN, it matters little that less people are earning, and less customers benefit. Or that elderly people that qualify for Medicaid like my mother , can free themselves from the chain of lack of transport... What matters to the wage warrior is that they can show "liveable wages" for the limited few.

Disgusting
Now, make an hybrid system merging this text generator with the classic symbolic AI called CYC from Doug Lenat.

It could be able to generate all our news articles in whatever style we prefer.

Bye bye freelancer writers.
Clone, then upvote :)
Unfortunately Twitter is getting worse in every way.
Does anybody spend a lot of time on a Discourse forum? Our team is working on building one out, and trying to figure out the magic formula for engagement.
You can tell someone to "do this work". You can only tell an employee to "do this work, at this desk, using this computer, for 8 hours between 8 AM and 6 PM every weekday".

You can tell someone to "get it done by the first of the month or suffer a penalty". You can only tell an employee to "get 5% of it done every workday and send me your status metrics by 10AM every morning or you're fired".

You can tell the carpenter what the work is that must be done, and provide detailed specifications, but if there are multiple ways to get that work done, you can only mandate those details for an employee. To some extent, building codes establish a minimum standard that everyone should be satisfied with, and you could tell an employee to do the minimum amount of work required by the building codes to get the job done, but you can't stop a contractor from carving Mayan-inspired engravings into every stud if they feel like that's what the job requires, or from using glue and joinery where most people would just put framing nails. As long as the work meets the specs, the contractor can get there by any route they please, no matter how much or how little actual effort is required.

Uber can tell its driver to "to collect this fare, get this passenger to this location". When they start saying what kind of vehicle they have to use to do that, they are starting to move into employee territory. Clearly, a passenger can be moved from A to B by a restored and retrofitted tie-dye-painted 1970 VW minibus as effectively as a nearly-new factory-stock black 2018 Toyota Corolla, so when Uber is making requirements that speak more to their company's brand identity than to the reasonable requirements of the job, those are employee-like requirements.

It isn't always clear whether a requirement is directed more towards the means or the ends, because specifying an end result precisely enough may dictate that the only practical means to that end be used. So California has decided to resolve this exploitable ambiguity in favor of assuming certain types of worker are employees unless a minimum degree of autonomy can be demonstrated.
I use to (ab)use their Outlook Social Connector (OSC) from the now gone API (https://outlook.linkedinlabs.com/osc/people/details), they stopped it in 2015. I used it just to get names and profile images for easy onboarding (like gravatar).

There was a LSC-Signature header that was a sha1_hmac("POST%2Fosc%2Fpeople%2Fdetails$auth_token$unix_timestamp", "aa15bd5f089eb93a5b2b4a0e11443cb78e44f34d"); which I reversed from the Social Connector DLL, I never found it posted online, but others must have done the same.
Lens scratching over time?
My daughter's iPhone 5s is 6 years old, still gets well over 24 hours battery life and the screen is perfect and never been replaced.
> I would think every one of those advocates would also agree with what I wrote.

No, they wouldn't. They don't. See my response to lmm here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20941803

> "MWI insists that experiments have multiple outcomes in point of metaphysical fact." It's a fairly moot point at this point since that statement was removed.

I'll stand by that with one minor modification: contemporary advocates of MWI insist that experiments have multiple outcomes in point of metaphysical fact.
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doi for the paper https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11690-z

relevant passage

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That's the point, the behavior doesn't seem different, but the levels of scrutiny aren't even comparable, that's the question.
Does the behavior matter as much as the size of the market in which the actor is in. Do people care because, apple is large, because the addressable app market is large, because politicians have iphones but don't give a toss about a mario game?