skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You just have to change the onboarding process to include a fee, and offer an incentive/rebate of the subscription price to match the cost to basically make it free. That way if they decide to change their mind and not give their data, you're still in the clear by removing the incentive and either charge their payment method or disable their service until they do (or reenable data sharing).

The problem is that then you cannot effectively offer a service level that is ad based. Say I want to offer some web services. I provide a free tier with ads (information gathering and selling) and a payed tier with no ads. This law says that I cannot charge more for the non-ads version. OK, so then I make both cost the same, either free or some fixed cost. If they are both free, what stops everyone from just using the non-ads version, it's free too. If both aren't free and cost money, what is the point of even providing the ad version, since people can pay the same and get the no-ads version. Not to mention, everyone that is fine giving their information in order to receive the service for "free" is now not able to do that.
It is a shame. I've done China, Cambodia and Vietnam. Highly recommend Vietnam, especially trekking in Sapa.

The Chinese government loves offering students here in Australia free brainwashing trips, all expenses paid. It's was actually a good trip minus the sermons about why Huawei should have built the national broadband network.
I wrote an intro to the Lucene scoring model with a python example:

https://github.com/avremel/lucene

Elastic/Solr is a very decent option. Last time I checked, Algolia and other SaaS were too expensive for small businesses.
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Yes. It requires a lot more (thermal) energy for synthesis, which can be readily provided by nuclear power.
Not the OP, but maybe, whatever his achievements (which mostly include suing his way into being listed as a founder of something he did not found), "pedo guy", as it were, shouldn't really be the most admired person, even among a crowd as sorely lacking in ethics as "tech professionals".
10ct on cigarette buds!
If only it was just shuffling money around. From another post today:

> in the three years since the signing of the Paris climate accord, which was designed to help the world shift away from fossil fuels, the banks’ lending to the [fossil fuels] industry has increased every year, and much of the money goes toward the most extreme forms of energy development. [0]

Also I wonder how much of that "dematerialization" is due to outsourcing manufacturing to other countries.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/money-is-the-ox...
Yeah, and to add to that, it appears that while airsoft guns are technically very restricted to the point of being non-practical in China, there is no reason to believe that the pellets themselves would be restricted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_in_airsoft#China
I’m a researcher working in this field. Believe me when I tell you that at least in the US we are very concerned with the nuisance these things may pose. If we do our job well, these will be no more of a nuisance than helicopters and airplanes today.
The DPMS prices are incredibly low. I’ve seen a DPMS AR for $399, almost 1/3 the cost of a Colt.
> If not energy, by what metric could the latter be described as "high powered"?

Well the Browning Hi-Power was so named for it's large magazine capacity. But I agree with the substance of what you're saying. 5.56 is not a "high power" rifle if that term is meant to distinguish it from other sorts of rifles. For magazine capacity, you can find 22lr magazines with larger capacities than your typical AR mag, but calling one of those high powered would be a bit silly.
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> They don't advance quickly. They are less then 1% of the worlds energy usage and are only projected to be around 3-4% in 2040.

Sigh. I thought I already beat you about the head over this nonsense. Look at the percentage improvement per time. It's massively better than anything nuclear has ever been able to achieve.

> They advance because of the political tailwind they have not because they are actual solutions.

Yeah, the factor of 200-300x improvement in the cost of solar since its invention is just "politics". The many billions of dollars being invested around the world is just "politics". The failure of nuclear to get the same result, even with 100% loan guarantees, must be because of a nefarious conspiracy.

Or maybe solar and wind are just winner technologies and nuclear is a loser technology. Have you considered not backing the loser?
> "Something" doesn't mean "anything". You can't offer your services in exchange for e.g. my body parts. Why are we willing to ban that but not our data?

Because if you were to run a survey over the general population the large majority is fine not having to pay for gmail, google search, maps and other "free" services while some data may be collected doing so while a much smaller percentage thinks it's OK to sell their organs for that?
This company will mess this up at some point (user data breach, or lost funds). Just wait until Bisq integrates with lightning at some point. Be patient, wait for, and if you can, contribute to, the open source version.
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I just traveled to China, and my Airbnb tour guide told me tourists from the US and North America are "way down this year".
Brin isn't of Polish descent, so "cz" would be an unusual transcription.
Since many of us have vastly different jobs in practice (no matter similar in principle), your continued insistence that people being burnt out by their jobs means that software is too hard for them is obnoxious and blatantly untrue.
So shor's algorithm for factoring primes get's a lot of press in the software community because it unravels chunks of encryption, but grover's algorithm for inverting functions is also pretty neat and it would have lots of constructive applications in engineering contexts where you're trying to find configurations that satisfy non-linear constraints.
Or computer sectors, where the product is information.
A great video I came across recently has a guy taking great photos with a $13 disposable camera:
https://youtu.be/TFVX0x0dCsU

Like you say, equipment is only a small fraction of the equation.
Yes, and even the "why downvote" comment got yet another downvote.
Certain psychedelics can and do have a profoundly life-changing effect on people, which can be a positive, affirming experience in an appropriate/safe context. It is essentially impossible to describe their effects in any meaningful way, but the most succinct explanation might be something like "spiritual awakening", which is probably unfathomable. Many of the ancient world religions describe some sort of mysterious plant or concoction that is integral to ritual/rite/worship, but over time these religions or their practices have gone extinct, underground, or been co-opted or replaced. It is no longer a fringe opinion that many of our ancestors were engaged in some form of "mind expansion" based on entheogenic substances/mixtures discovered in nature; to this day there are shamans who practice millenia-old divination with the assistance of medicinal plants (they have a worldview too, which is probably quite different from yours). Terrence McKenna has hypothesized that the very emergence of language (as a precursor to civilization) was a result of novel neural stimulation exacted by these substances; it is, at least, without question that the class of drugs we call "psychedelics" make people think and feel in ways they've never before imagined. We have this notion of "bad drugs" vs. "good drugs". And we have a whole pharmacopeia of government-approved drugs to alter our emotional state (anti-depressant, anti-anxiety, anti-psychotic), so we've decided it's ok to administer drugs to alter emotions. We are now, finally, entering an era of renewed exploration in the previously-demonized "psychedelic drugs" in therapeutic contexts. Why? Because these substances can elicit profound changes in the mental state of their users. They are extremely powerful medicines that facilitate unique mental processes at low doses. Why do we find these substances throughout nature? By pure coincidence? Maybe. Or maybe our own evolution is somehow tied to them (all evolution is tied together, right?). At the very least, they are incredibly interesting from any perspective (scientific, spiritual, historical, social, legal). Psychedelics are perhaps the most interesting substances on the planet.
I vacationed in China! I was so curious to see the country whose GPD will overtake the USA. Also I was politically curious. The food is amazing and the culture is very different. It was a great - and mind opening trip. That said it made me very proud to be an American!
This is not the case. Overall production is not down, and dematerialization can be seen even if you restrict to particular sector that is not finance. OP discusses the case of agriculture for example.
I think if beavers were intelligent and capable enough to have other ways of surviving, and could talk to each other about it, I think it would be pretty reasonable for them to discuss possible ways to reduce and/or isolate their impact on the environment.
Or entertainment sectors, where the product is [most frequently digitized] art.
Not even theoretically, the bindings for the runtime are out there [1] with some nifty helper macros.

[1] https://github.com/SSheldon/rust-objc
Taiwan seems pretty good though, probably the best alternative right now
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So, with a few exceptions, making a few billions of dollars through some less than ethical shenanigans makes you admired by the Hired crowd.

Good to know.
He was transporting the IN to Hong Kong, I can understand that being a sensitive topic right now
Or just UAS, since the UAM air taxis that are coming and are largely being lumped in with these deliveries aren’t very small at all.

For what it’s worth, at NASA the official term is (s)UAS, but we use that and UAV, drone, etc interchangeably has in day to day conversation. As long as it’s clear what you’re talking about, the exact word is really not that important.
From the perspective of a consumer, the difference is totally irrelevant. Why should the particulars of the exchange between the shill and the company matter to me? They don't.
I'm calling it now. New bubble.
Among the developed country tourist spots China has always been down on the list. The top spots are Japan, Thailand, South Korea, and Taiwan.

But probably the biggest hurdle to China tourism is that you have to apply for a Visa whereas all those places offer Visa-waivers to most developed countries.
That is not how logs work. Did you reply to the right comment?

Exemplify is gating database records from surfacing through their UI. These records still exist in the database and are admin accessible. The act of knowing if clustering the data is too much still requires knowing the data - i.e. the data existing.
Sadly no, I’ve only ever heard it all spelled out.
If only they cared that much about the illicit fentanyl production in their country. Oh wait, it isn't illicit, it is state-sanctioned.
Why are you still pushing Gutenberg though? The reviews continue to be negative: https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/#reviews
There must be something more than habitat loss or pesticides.

Outside of Central Asia sparrows are introduced species, adapted to live on remains of our towns. Urban environments is the natural habitat of sparrows, like rats with wings. They don't belong to the wilderness. If sparrows are also disappearing then the loss of natural habitat is not the only answer.

Edit: from this graph [0] it seems that the loss is concentrated on introduced species (such as sparrows), shorebirds and insectivores.

[0]https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silent-skies-bill...
Musk is the closest we have to a trump-like personality in tech. Some similarities between them include but are not limited to those below. And I can expand on each of them.

1) Picking fights and raising conspiracy theories on Twitter, just like trump. This is bad since Twitter enhances mob mentality even more than fb does, by having a vocal monitory drive all communication. Elon musk constantly gaslights his fanbase against big oil, malicious shorts, stealerships, sabotage against SpaceX, and encourages them to dox skeptics.

2) He personally participates in such activities. He personally had the doxxed skeptic threatened about losing his job. He also called the British diver who helped rescue Thai kids a pedophile, then doubled down on it while emailing a journalist, and then bet a signed dollar on it.

3) He also lies constantly, just like trump. In the case against musk by the diver, he claims that he used pedo only to call him an old person, and didn't mean the opposite. Inspite of the fact that he doubled down and bet on it.

4) Calling news he doesn't like as fake instead, just like trump. Elon musk literally said that and proposed a journalist ranking system called Pravda. When a website like electrek criticizes Tesla, he blames the author to be suspiciously biased against Tesla.

5) Behavior not suitable to his position, just like trump. It may be "4 Ford CEO in 3 years", or "420$ funding secured. Short burn of the century!"(oh another lie), Or just smoking weed on a podcast.

6) Constant stream of lies about capabilities and over-exaggeration in general, just like trump. Self driving was apparently solved in 2015, and we were going to have cross country summon in 2016. Then coast to coast autonomous drive in 2017. Then fsd with driverless taxis in 2018. Where are we now? Will they ever own up to false marketing and the shortcomings of autopilot?
This extends beyond Tesla to SpaceX, boring company, neuralink, openai, and well anything Elon musk touches.

7) And finally the cult around his geniusness, just like trump. Ironman personified! The Tesla of our generation! He's never wrong. Let's dump public transit because it's costly (60 billion for high speed train), because Elon musk said he can make high speed trains in a vaccum tube for 6 billion! Sometimes, this fanbase is just pathetically stupid.
The Paris Accord was just another UN attempt to strangle the autonomy from the US via Article 6 of the Constitution.

Let it go.
You used the first person pronoun a lot there. Do you yourself actually feel that you are short-sighted and that you consistently underestimate the value of your data? Or are you putting yourself in the place of a hypothetical other person?
This page is listed in the unified hosts, why is that?
China doesn’t want guns, knives, or BB pellets in Hong Kong? I wonder why? Those of you who would abolish the second amendment should heed this as a warning.
Yes. It shows cached ads for about a week after turning airplane mode and then just stays on a default Kindle ad screen indefinitely.
That's ambiguous about whether demand for all AR-15s is down, or just for Colt's AR-15. Seems like just Colt's, which means this doesn't seem to matter a lot.
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Are they including the carbon footprints of their employees and all products including of their vendors? And if not, how meaningful is it?

> The commerce giant will seek to meet its goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2040
In 2006 a “drone” carried hellfire missiles. At some point in the last decade, that shifted and now a drone is a small hobby quad-copter. Language is funny.
Living in rural Illinois I can attest that bugs have pretty much vanished. You used to be eaten alive outside, not so much near any crop fields (i.e. most of the state). I never even get bit at night.

I’m sure that is the largest impact on birds, no food.
True. That said, U.S. military service is generally a matter of public record, e.g.:

https://www.altus.af.mil/News/Art/igphoto/2001074536/
Too bad LLVM doesn't have a first-class Fortran, then noalias would actually work.
I'm seeing a lot of inflation. Maybe not in the things used to measure it?
Demand for AR-15s is high. Demand for Colt AR-15s is not.

Colt makes a perfectly ok rifle, but the premium they charge is not justified, and buyers know it.
DUP
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21014714
And failing that linkedIn.
Yes, because I don't focus on addressing nitpicky pedantry I am a troll.

You can find a counterexample to just about anything. But in the end, you're left to make up your fucking mind about something.

So why bother addressing every possible edge case and "what if"?

This is why software engineers are so good at being mindless drones. They focus on the meaningless details without seeing the big picture. You know, the one where you've spent the best years of your life working on an app called Sploink that's used by teens to send hook up nudes, and otherwise exists to rape users' privacy. You didn't think about it because you were too busy arguing about the merits of type safety in JavaScript. Who needs to argue when your fancy ML approach increased CTR by 2.2%?

And hey, on top of everything else, your dumb ass app was featured on PH.
Exactly. I spent $20 on a video game that so far I have got 160 hours of entertainment out of. I can afford $20 but that doesn't mean I think it's worth it.
If too many people started burning wood and it began to pollute the environment, then a law would be passed banning it. And in fact, that's exactly what happened. There are burn bans happening all the time all over the world -- especially on the west coast.

https://forums.jlconline.com/forums/forum/jlc-online-peer-to...

The USA and other modern countries found that too many people not paying creators for their work caused problems and passed laws against doing it.

This is all working exactly how it is supposed to, so yeah, the "If everyone did that" is exactly compelling.

The opposite is true, you know. If people paid for more of what is good, pick up litter, and be nice to people, then the world would get better. If everyone reduced their carbon foot print, imagine how many more species would still exist today!
That or maybe some of this other evidence about him easily findable on Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97WBHOXOSZU https://www.altus.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/619843...
Surely some of it is US outsourcing relatively material-heavy manufacturing and concentrating on relatively material-light manufacturing (US manufacturing is up, it's not total outsourcing of manufacturing), but that doesn't explain the case of global dematerialization of paper for example. For the case of, say, substitution of paper book with ebook, dematerialization does seem to be happening.
Just so we're clear, HN users find a story about China temporarily detaining a US pilot to be top-of-front-page relevant, but the story about the US bombing 30 innocent farmers in Afghanistan gets flagged to death.
> If you're intending to serve any product to an entire planet composed of nations, states, societies all pulling from different experiences, different cultural attitudes, I think expecting a completely friction-free experience in doing so is more than a little unreasonable.

Is it so unreasonable? Given that the Internet essentially solves the problem of technically doing this, perhaps it is in fact the laws which are unreasonable.

Your statement isn't so different from saying "it's unreasonable to expect to be able to have a nearly-instant audio conversation with virtually anyone on the planet for very little cost." I would give the same response: that no, that's really not that unreasonable given that the technical problems are essentially solved, and if there are laws preventing that, perhaps the laws are unreasonable.
> More the reason to switch to a new processor like Stripe.

For a lot of merchants it's not a matter of switching to Stripe.

It's using Stripe but also including PayPal as an option because a huge percentage of buyers want to use it to pay for things -- especially 1 time purchases of digital goods.

About 40% of my course sales are through PayPal.

By the way if anyone reading is curious, that new PayPal refund policy goes into effect October 11th 2019 (you probably got the User Agreement email to notify you of this too if you're a merchant).
just curious how you're hosting this? The cheapest GCP GPU instance is $0.5/hr, which is pretty expensive long-term.
They prefer when protesters can be slaughtered.
You can still have ads you just can’t sell the users data to get them. Which means you either have to target ads yourself or you have to use non targeted ads. So you can still have an ad supported free level.
Those bans have been drastically watered down by the gun lobbies. Those advocating bans on assault style weapons want much, much more included in them.
That's nice virtue signalling, but at what point would finance's share of US GDP be alarming to you? Should 1 in 10 people really be working to allocate resources?

In another industry, healthcare, people complain passionately about the costs but never about the fact that while technology, efficiencies have improved there has been a 100-fold increase in the number of healthcare administrators per capita. A lot of our economy is just shuffling people and money around -- not actually efficiently allocating resources to produce useful goods and services--oh about that abnormal growth in the people who are supposed to be responsible for that?
Except I didn't say that.

I said that if maintaining software burns you out, then maybe software is too hard for you.

So the only blatantly untrue and obnoxious comments right now are yours. Seems like this might be hitting too close to home!
Because every place that did implement socialism did SUCH a great job of preventing pollution and protecting nature!

As they say, the only thing History teaches us is that History teaches us nothing.
> Added the ability to Safari for macOS to share your screen with others using only web technologies. Plug-ins are no longer required.

This is a nice enhancement. I previously used the Screen Sharing feature that was buried in Messages, which somehow stuck around from when it was iChat.
Can get a higher multiple from VCs probably.
It's not the people's fault the government sucks. And the Chinese culture is very interesting.
Yes, I replied to the right comment, you're getting hung up on an irrelevant detail.

I'm saying that the thought they put into anonymizing the data they surfaced through their UI, that same amount of thought should be put into the data we all store.

If the data can't be clustered in a way that preserves anonymity, it should be deleted (after the desired aggregate statistics are computed). Emplify probably isn't required to, and so they probably don't. I'm saying they should be required to.
Airbnb needs to undergo the same legal scrutiny with local zoning law compliance as Amazon did with sales tax.

Until then, they aren't worth shit as an IPO.
A water-bucket trap can kill dozens of rodents in a single night. Your cat is not that effective.
> But...I think most of us can all agree that consumer data protections are highly lacking.

Yup. Especially here in the U.S.
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Good way to make sure all companies support scrubbing of evidence of crimes so wikileaks or government investigators can't get at the evidence.

Basically Hillary's private email server getting bleachbitted, but for everyone now. Makes running an organized crime gang, political corruption graft ring or chinese espionage ring much easier. Same with banning facial recognition. Makes getting away with crime a lot easier than it would otherwise be. If you are a corrupt politician, this is really important stuff.
Thanks for the tip! Updated my profile with my email address.
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