skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually kind of like the idea, and it smacks of a pigovian tax, which are generally quite fair. If something has a negative externality, taxing it to correct the negative externality makes sense. For example, taxing carbon emissions is hard, but taxing fuel is fairly easy, so gasoline and coal taxes make sense as a reasonably close approximation.

That being said, the question really is: is the tax fair (mostly affects the causers of the negative externality) and effective (does it actually reduce or fix the negative externality)? I haven't read the research to know the latter, but it seems the former isn't satisfied since there are legitimate uses for high capacity blank media. That being said, I'm not against it in principle.

My personal view is that IP protection is too generous, which results in larger IP owners having an unfair advantage. IP laws were intended to help protect smaller creators and encourage contributing to the public domain, but these days it seems to only help those who can afford to litigate. I think that by reducing IP protection terms, we can make progress on both fronts (ideally have extendable IP protections if the owner can prove they need more time to recoup their investment).
There is a lot to read here. So far as I can tell it's a mix of proven ideas (spaced repitition, need for sleep, exercise, etc) and speculation (everyone is better without heavily structured schooling).

My guess is we could use more customized, self-driven efforts in schools and intermingled age groups. Though I doubt his vision would be practical without devoting a lot more resources per child.
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Kybase
How do you split food into "luxury" and "basic" foods? A 1 pound loaf of bread is "basic", a 5 pound loaf is "luxury"? What an impossible task. Far easier to put the VAT on all food and then send a rebate check to everybody on the assumption that the average food spend is "basic" and anything above average food spend is "luxury". Same thing for home energy. Heating a 1000 square foot flat is "necessity", heating a 5000 square foot flat is "luxury"....
Great clickbait. The first sentence provides crucial context - Amazon wants to hire 30K. So they had, on average, about 7 applications for every job.

That actually doesn't seem so great.

It's even less impressive when it's incredibly easy to get a ton of low-quality matches when recruiting.

So if Amazon execs wanted to tout a big number of applications they could just advertise these positions in a wildly aggressive way so as to get a ton of poor quality matches. And I'm willing to bet this is exactly what they did.

This actually makes me a lot less inclined to work at Amazon - it seems like they're just playing a numbers game, not really trying to recruit for cultural fit.

I wonder how many of these people will be laid off within 3 years of being hired.
TLA+ is a formal specification language developed by Leslie Lamport. It is used to design, model, document, and verify concurrent systems. TLA+ has been described as exhaustively-testable pseudocode, and its use likened to drawing blueprints for software systems

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA%2B
The long-term plan for Rust is to treat its standard library (almost) like any other crate, so it could be recompiled with your custom compiler settings if necessary.

However, libstd is by necessity tied quite closely to the compiler, it's one of the oldest and most fundamental parts of the stack, and there are tons of little complications around making it "just" a crate, so changes to libstd/rustc/Cargo necessary to make that possible will take longer.

In the meantime, changing one problematic compiler flag seems like a sensible solution.
I think you are misunderstanding this feature. It's more like a "targeted ad" where the "target audience" is people who were in accidents and the "product" is free/easy acess to things like 911, help w/ insurance etc. I imagine there's going to some false positives (e.g. maybe the algorithm can't discern between an accident and being stuck in traffic), but the "have you been in an accident? yes/no" prompt is unobtrusive enough, all things considered.

The silent button thing you're thinking of actually sort of exists too, but it's somewhere else (in the Safety Center section of app): if the police dept of your city supports it, activating the 911 feature through the app sends your ride information to the police.

You can also use the "share my trip" feature and texting to get a family member or friend to call police for you
> I find marketing unethical

That’s a strange view. Taken to an extreme, that would be a restaurant without an exterior sign, menus, or even a waiter explaining the food. You would literally know nothing about any product or service without marketing. Marketing is the act of “bringing a product to market.” Marketing isn’t advertising. A farmer displaying tomatoes on a table at a farmers market is marketing. A farmer buying billboard space with a photo of his tomatoes is advertising. There isn’t anything unethical about either practice.

Communicating about the availability of a product shouldn’t be considered unethical. Lying about that product on the other hand..
What a ridiculous non-argument. What about your advertisement is even remotely similar to the context of the above quote from an iPhone 11 camera review? Pretty much nothing.
To use a word review, I expect at least an attempt to be objective. The article doesn't feel that way at all, even more if you actually shoot at least as a hobby, ie with some APS-C or fullframe.

Discussing whether he is just subjectively biased towards Apple or outright paid is already kind of moot point
Combine is only iOS-13 If you wanna support any OS before that you have to use RxSwift for that
A subscription service wants to be paid to cause me endless anxiety over a service that could not work when I want it because, for example, I'm in the wrong country or on the wrong network and could be withdrawn at any time and without notice.
As the archiver I first have to publish (once) the public part (key) of a Bitcoin address I own.

To archive something I keep a copy (file) of it (it may be an archive storing many files), calculate some digest (let's say SHA512) of the file, then immediately publish the file on my archive-webserver, and its size (amount of octets) and digest an the existing and active blockchain (in this case: Bitcoin).

As a courtesy I can let the source know that I archived.

At publishing time everyone can check that I (and no one else) archived the exact material published by the source. If I distorted the published material I cannot deny it, thanks to the timestamped digest stored in the blockchain.

Later everyone can be quite sure of the publication date and integrity of the archive, once again thanks to the timestamped digest.

Doesn't this method cover all needs? Is releasing another key necessary, which one and why?
In my experience, a lot of biologists learning bioinformatics/genomics tend to learn a specific set of general tools (HMMs, multiple hypothesis testing, PCA, etc.) and then learn some specific statistical tools that apply to their data (e.g negative binomial GLMs for RNAseq).
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I believe it does replace RxSwift other then some operators that the Combine doesn't have currently can be easily added.
Millennials love Bitcoin, still don’t trust or understand it: survey
Yeah, I get the sense that this guy attached himself to a topic in the early 80s and has been on a self-directed tangent ever since. He makes a lot of unfounded claims, peppering in just enough references to sound credible.

I’m sure he believes everything he says wholeheartedly, but self-directed learning without guidance can lead you to pick up some weird ideas before having the context to understand why they’re “weird”. I don’t think he’s entirely off-base with his criticisms of the school system, but I also don’t think he presents any arguments that aren’t well-established already.

The question of which sources to trust (and thus learn from) is the biggest reason not to go entirely self-directed with learning. One is equally likely to end up with a theological argument as a scientific one depending on which sources you were introduced to first.
Thanks for taking the time to explain this: it does indeed seem clear that they are just doing username and password detection for access.

A followup question: I have lived in Europe and have accounts in banks in Ireland. For those accounts, actually executing any financial transaction requires entering a one time token generated by a device that uses your debit card and PIN.

Like so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOEQzC8-Fc

Do the banks you tested have a similar setup?

Just trying to find out if these specific banks have chosen to control view transactions with just the username / password but require some other additional authentication for actual financial transactions.
Cameras and chips are identical, however the Pro gives you the Telephoto lens. (That’s the “third” lens on Pro.)
What are the developments that have made solar and wind so much cheaper over the last 15 years? I am hoping HN has an expert lurking about who can unpack this.
That 5% rate applies to all sources of energy for heating and power, and a good chunk of our electricity comes from solar and wind. it also currently applies to the cost of domestic solar and wind installations and insulation retrofits, though that's going to have to change soon due to EU rules.
This is so awesome. I need to play with this.
I don't know why you keep talking about migration. It's not really relevant, in the grand scheme of things it's a rounding error.
I think you’re right that that is the primary reason today. In their marketing material I think they always use the term “reoptimize”, of course, that can mean for size.

Thanks for the correction.
Both you and the OP are right in your own ways. It's worth remembering that bioinformatics, computational biology and other inter-disciplinary fields like these (mathematical oncology comes to mind) are relatively new and the proportion of biological sciences graduates doing these are dwarfed by the number that go through a "conventional" (as probably alluded to by the OP) biological sciences curriculum. Mathematical modeling in biological sciences is incredibly hard because of the sheer complexity in the many layers that comprise our knowledge of biology (cell layer. molecular biology layer, tissue layer etc) and I generally agree with the sentiment that more investments in research at the math-biology intersection will further our ability to understand biology better.
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Yev here -> Ah, that's a very good question. Staying in business > being hip in most cases ;-) The nice thing about being bootstrapped is that we don't have that many investors, and they're chill with just seeing how this goes. We actually do have on "traditional VC" that invested, but they are very relaxed about the whole thing and don't have a board seat, just an observer role - so they're like, if you eventually are profitable enough, just pay us back at some multiplayer and we're good - otherwise we'll wait for an exit. Nice folks! :D
This has all the makings of a political clusterfuck and/or disaster instead of a unified approach to the solution of a difficult problem. Parties are sniping at one another through their congresscritters to maximize their piece of the pie regardless of what makes scientific and engineering sense. At the end, this program will either be canceled due to the exorbitant costs incurred or we're going to experience a massive failure on par with the Challenger disaster where the pre-mature launch was caused by corporate and political pressure.
Have to read more to be able to comment meaningfully, but an early red flag is distilled in this statement:

"I am looking for a formula for mass-production of little Nobel Prize winners, researchers, engineers, and creative problem solvers"

There are many potential educational systems that would do better for the top [1|5|10]% of learners, while doing far worse for the remainder of the bell curve (however it is defined). One has to be upfront and honest with themselves, and audience, if the goals and proposals will benefit all overall, or select few. I am not yet convinced that less-structured approach will provide clear benefits for everybody :-/
If the society knowingly pays the difference between market price and actual price, that effectively is a subsidy.

Edit: That money is actually spent, though indirectly through health care etc.
Java Modules: Why and How?
Brain implant restores visual perception to the blind
My workplace recently started tying yearly bonuses to "performance goals" which are set throughout the year. I think the intention was to get employees more "invested" in their performance and value contributions. However, all it's done is make goal setting another set of hoops to jump through for HR. You can pretty set any goal you want, and as long as you have something on paper, management sees it as "good enough" and you still get your bonus.

I really loathe hr-mandated performance/improvement goals. Tying it to bonuses just created another level of stress to the whole process, and doesn't really add any value for anyone.
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Great question! I'm a local and I don't know either..
The low-level tools team consistently reports bugs against the upstream projects. I have no doubt that they did so during the course of this project.
Mine is similar, but only does one cd command - to allow better use of `cd -`

up() {
local ups="."
for((i=0;i<${1:-1};i++)); do
ups="${ups}/.."
done
builtin cd "$ups"
}
If you received a load of erroneous and accidental negative reviews, would you honestly just ignore it hoping and assuming that it'll be levelled out by the erroneous and accidental positive reviews?
Of course Apple did provide the phone. it’s not in stores yet.

And of course he gets ‘paid’. If not directly by Apple in dollars, but by Apple in exposure of his name and thus his business. He does this (great) PR piece pre-launch for Apple, we all learn his name, some will want him to be their photographer of choice and thus the cycle closes.
You coordinate with your coworkers and figure out who is willing to work when. The employer is responsible for providing sufficient compensation to make someone willing to work on those days. Not everyone celebrates Christmas or Thanksgiving or any particular holiday so having that day off may be less valuable to some than to others.
The drops are the storm. Ok, we're stretching the analogy now, but if people are unwilling to make sacrifices for themselves, why would they be willing to vote for policies that negatively impact them? And you know what? From the election results what people base their political decision making on it seems that they won't.

If you actually, truly give a damn instead of just using it a some kind of virtue signaling then you should be willing to make sacrifices. Demonstrate that you care instead of just talking.
>5. Torrents are more convenient.

I miss watching videos outside the service-branded players. I get that the floor is lower, but the ceiling is at the floor. None of them are special beyond making the DRM work, their UIs are at best rebranding of the good ideas they steal from the youtube player.

Sometimes I just want the flexibility to watch their video with a feature I know a different player has. Or without uninterrupted access to high-throughput internet connectivity. Like, in the car, the wilderness, or anywhere that the home network is administrated by a normie.
> ) and speculation (everyone is better without heavily structured schooling).

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/20/grammar-sc...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-are-finlands-s...

This isn't speculation. Some of the best performing primary schools in the world are in Scandinavian countries, and they have a heavily unstructured "structure" if you want to call it that, day consisting of mostly playtime and activities, no standardized tests (even when there are testing, the results aren't publicized).

A far-cry from some of the rigor and structure our kids face here in the US, where the primary objective seems to have been to raise obedient subservient factory workers rather than inspire dreams, aspirations, and creativity and teaching children how to truly learn, rather than simply perform a task.
The problem is the older camera companies are camera hardware companies first. Software has eaten the world, and the old guard companies struggle in the software department. Sony is probably the best in this regard right now, but it's really a tallest person in the land of midgets. The Nikon software is atrociously bad, and the Sony's is just bad (I've only used Nikon and Sony).

I dream of Apple putting an A13 processor in a Nikon mirrorless body running iOS. Or, somehow attaching my Nikon glass to the end of my iPhone.
And you can do all of this with an ILC too and will profit from the fact that it has far less technical limitations.

Basically most of the really "cool" applications center around using the electronic shutter which up to 2-3years ago none of the ILC-companies dared to offer for the masses because it has some shortcomings which the "hey I can finally shoot in the dark"-crowd might not notice/care about, but people buying an ILC will, even if they're not technical enough to understand that it's their own problem...
One of the services they are providing is to future historians.
I believe China is commiting a huge amount of effort to building more pumped stored power, which should be coming online in the next few years [0]. If they keep up with building out a large amount of solar, this could work very well.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pumped-storage_hydroel...
An Exclusive Look Inside Apple's A13 Bionic Chip
The title is asking what is the "Best Way to Learn Coding" out of those options. You may learn other things as well but that's not the question the article asked. On that basis it isn't a false comparison - it's a limited comparison.
> Bartleby is clearly depressed, as many of us are in these times. He’s broken, not committed to repair. And he’s encouraged to stay that way, in part, because no one really knows what the hell to do with him.

As Szasz points out, this is the basic attitude of modern psychiatry. "What the hell do we do with these depressed people? They should repair themselves and get lively in the world (that we have miserably abused)."
> In terms of practical mobile development, the asynchronicity you're dealing with is mostly network operations which execute exactly once per page.

Absolutely not true, I have been dealing with a lot of "simple" apps and always once you start introducing stuff like Push Notifications that trigger actions, websockets that send and receive messages and other "unexpected" messages to handle the traditional MVC methods just fall apart.

Having said that you can do pretty similar stuff without introducing RxSwift into your application.

With or without it, getting these entangled multi-source event handling mechanisms to work well takes a really disciplined approach.
>> To minimize the effects of noise, the duo realized, the two controller molecules must have a very specific relationship: They have to bind to each other and neutralize each other’s biological activity. One must be the antithesis of the other.

One more thing they may want to add. A way to break down all these neutralized pairs and clear them out. Depending that these molecules look like there may already be something in place to do that, then it's more a matter of ensuring compatibility rather than making a new clearing mechanism.
"To that end, as we reviewed our hiring process, we realized that the demographics of people we attract to apply are not inline with the demographics of the people we hope to hire."

If that's there attitude then fuck them. You can guess which demographic they are talking about.
I just wanted to add I'd be very interested in your shell-based package manager as well!
No expert, but I would imagine that decreased cost to manufacture (as factories are getting built and established), improvements in its total output (and generally the technology behind them), and longevity/durability.
At least some of that was, in fact, hard cash subsidies.

The US spends around $35 billion/year in actual subsidies on fossil fuels.[1] (About $20 billion to producers, and about $15 billion to consumers.

Further more, the cost of not charging the fossil fuel industry for carbon emissions should absolutely be counted as a real subsidy, although its value is harder to calculate. But we force industries to clean up other pollutants, or we otherwise regulate their environmental impact, which costs them. If we gave one industry a pass on those regulations, that would be uncontroversially a subsidy.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
> Don’t look to government to solve problems — the strength of this country is in its people.

I’ve been reading One-Storied America[0], a book from 1935 by two Soviet humorists visiting the United States. The book echos this perspective on every page.

[0] you can find a good 1937 translation online under the title Little Golden America by Charles Malamuth.
And when following the rule of thirds, how many quadrants should one divide their photo into?
"Battery systems" encompass all of the above methods of "energy storage connected to the grid". My personal favorite "so crazy it might work" idea is stacking concrete blocks on top of each other.

Li-ion batteries keep coming down in price, and they can be scaled to basically any size. Pumped hydro is generally considered the best if you have access to it. Compressed air storage works well if you've got a huge, airtight cavern (generally an old salt mine). But any cheap energy storage we can get is gonna be useful.
"As someone who owned the LG G3 years ago, and absolutely loved the wide-angle lens on that phone, most of these pictures would look identical"

They wouldn't look remotely alike. Many of those simple shots are incredibly complex dynamic range scenes were the results are quite spectacular. With a lesser device the results would have been a blah photo, which is the point of the amazing progress that is happening in computational photography and the hardware that feeds it (focus pixels, secondary depth analysis, and sensors that have much better dynamic range than they did -- even current SLRs have much better dynamic range than a few years ago).

As to print outs, almost no one actually prints out anything. Most photography is for social media, your own camera roll, etc.

"As much as everyone loves to hate on DSLRs these days, you are going to get much cleaner images in these light starved environments with a large sensor and good lens."

This is a strawman. No one is hating on DSLRs, and I can't find a single comment claiming that they're superior to DSLRs, beyond in the computational photography realm. But yes, smartphones are good enough that we often leave our DSLR at home, and when we do bring it there are many situations where the smarts of the smartphone yield usable to excellent photos where the DSLR will stumble. All things being equal a larger sensor is ideal, though things get more debatable on the lens side (larger lenses equal a longer focal length equal a much shallower depth of field, which while beneficial for bokeh, in many situations because a serious hindrance rather than benefit).
That’s not really abuse then if so many people want to work there. They know what they’re getting themselves into.
Beer Brewery’s CLI Website – Desktop Only
Burger King is giving up on free plastic toys for kids – when will others follow
Good to know the page is still available. Could have sworn it was gone the last time I looked for it. Am using this client since getting a cease-and-desist letter many years ago.

Sadly it's quite shitty and I don't see a way to improve it, since recent versions are closed source and well obfuscated.