skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody sees the tip of the iceberg - the venture capitalists and the tech entrepreneurs, but once you dig deeper, there's a need for

* strong intellectual property protection, be it patents, trademarks, etc.

* minority shareholder protections

* some reasonable liquidity structure, allowing employee compensation to have an equity component without excessive tax burden

* legal protections around embezzlements, self-dealing and various other self-gratifying schemes which can be employed by management with a large bank account at their hand

Those issues don't come up very often in the US, because the rules of the game are quite known.
In Denmark they seem to be quite popular and being rolled out in schools.
Fair enough. There are indeed some very small towns where Uber hasn't changed anything. Despite that, I stand by my assertion that the company changed the world in a real way.

I also think they'll get the the Charles Town WVs of the world at some point.
Columbia Silences Its Marching Band
> Comparison is the mechanism by which competition drives a healthy economy.

I agree, and regulation of this type would most likely be quite beneficial.

But for many if not most of us, it won't actually make a difference to cable/internet "hidden fees," because there is no competition.
Neither did mine, but she both smoked like a chimney and ate garbage. That seems to be common.
We should never forget.

Any speculative fiction about the horrors of runaway AI or the supernatural or some form of extraterrestrial life pale in comparison to what our species has done to itself over the years.

Any horror you could possibly imagine, some wanker has probably already done it to someone else for real.
Something like this?
https://solarfoods.fi
Agenda-setting in politics seems to require some amount of crying wolf, paradoxically.
And they are not the only kind of reactors than can. Fast breeders can too, as well as MSR, while producing usable isotopes (e.g. medical).

Waste is a solvable problem.
Jack Barsky, IT specialist and former sleeper agent of the KGB
> there was at least one tech for each platform that did a good job

I think the problem is exactly the opposite: there used to be "at most one tech for each platform", but now there's too many choices. On top of that there's also Electron and many multi-platform widget libraries. This gives a lot of "analysis paralysis" to developers. There just isn't a silver bullet.

...I mean, except for MacOS, ironically, where only Cocoa matters (at least until Marzipan). Carbon has been a second-citizen from the start, and was deprecated in 2007.

On Windows there's UWP, WPF and WinForms, which are very productive, and are open source now, on top of that. The only problem IMO is that they're only "great" if you use C#. Writing windows apps with C++ is way too verbose.

On Linux it's more complicated (and I'm not familiar with it) but at least users are much more forgiving when it comes to desktop consistency.
"We do what we must because we can."
There is no consensus that seed oils are "terrible for us". Though as in all things nutrition it's easy to find a fringe voice that claims a position. Canola is considered a fairly healthy oil, obviously in moderation. Some fear-monger about hexane extraction however the Beyond Meat burger expressly uses pure pressed canola with no chemical extraction.

Having said that, by far the overwhelming position on the "non meat burgers" is of environmental/reduced animal suffering positions. I've seldom (actually never, thinking about it) heard it pushed for health reasons.
"There's nothing in the GPL about compensation or saying thanks."

Thank you. I think you may be helping me wrap my head around the notion of "cultural appropriation".

One of my besties beats me over the head with all sorts of things that I'm supposed to be upset about.

One example, we were looking at an art display with a bunch of those origami cranes. I quite liked it. Which is apparently the wrong answer. Because the artist is not Japanese. So that's cultural appropriation.

Here I've been thinking learning from each other, gleaning the best ideas, and putting one's own spin on it is the whole point.

But as a former publisher of my own shareware and public domain stuff, who was widely plagiarized, I do kinda get that lack of attribution, even a nod of the head in the general direction of the original works, feels rude somehow.

To wrap up, I'm now going to reread the GPLs, CC, BSD licenses, thru a lens of cultural appropriation, see if any of it makes more sense to me.

Thanks.
Did smartphones transform the world or were they just an emergent property of improved touchscreen and battery technology?

Like...I get what you are saying and I agree that something like Uber was inevitable. But someone still has to go out and do it.
Yes, I mean, I just read it.
The craziest fee I saw was with Verizon where they charged you ground rent for the poles they had at the side of the road.

FWIW, keeping just Comcast internet leads to no fees. Not sure how that's managed to stay that way.
There's at least a federal law on the books that allows for a $200-500 claim against each unsolicited fax.

It was a good enough deterrent for decades, until the recent age of spoofed caller ID. Also, it would be more effective if the claim could be made against the benefactor, not just the sender.
The progressive / regressive terminology takes it for granted that income is the right denominator to measure against, rather than consumption, which is not obvious in my opinion.
Yes. Lord Krishna said that to Arjuna that you might fight because it's your "duty". The death blow Arjuna deals to one of his enemy is that that enemy's "karma". Arjuna is merely an instrument/tool of God/Lord Krishna. That enemy is already "dead" whether by Arjuna's hands or another's.

That's why Lord Krishna said to Arjuna "Whatever you do, do unto Me." You're not the "doer", the "Doer" is Creation/God/shaki/energy/consciousness that's flowing within your body powering it through power of will.

I wouldn't say "society" has assigned to you but more like what Life is has placed.

"Why were you were at that exact time and place?"

"Why did you encounter every single moment at that time and/or place?"

"Why have you met the people you have throughout your life?"

Cause-Effect (Karma)

Even non-action is action which has its effect. That's why Lord Krishna chastised Arjuna for not fighting(non-action) because his ego didn't want to fight.
The people that borrowed to get them were greedy speculators too, and they just aren't talking about it.

They just forgot that “when your taxi driver is talking about investing, its time to sell” and they were the literal taxi drivers in the adage.

The blunt reason is because they are the bottom/edge of society’s universe of investors, so there is nobody else to sell an asset to at a higher price.

The same result would have happened eventually, the arrival of Uber & Lyft exacerbated the outcome much faster.
I grew up with this toaster, and it is not anywhere near as dangerous as you make it out to be. We never had anything like the issues you describe, and personally I think your situations (leaving flammable material where it can fall on the toaster, leaving the toaster plugged in all the time) are downright dangerous regardless of the type of toaster in question.
Did you also not read the 90 page research paper on the topic that was linked on the page?

Do you have a source on how "Processed" clearly relates to adverse health effects.
Most of these regulations are due to the EU so come 10/31 then you will be freed of those burdensome EU rules and regulations once and for all.
Great problem OP.

1 - As some people have already clarified for other commenters, it indeed makes no difference how Player 1 picks their numbers. They can pick them from some distribution of their own, or in an adversarial manner. The probability of winning by following the strategy in the paper is still strictly greater than 1/2.

2 - In fact, even if Player 1 can read Player 2's mind and knows their strategy and even the exact distribution they will sample from (but can't see into the future to see the sample from the distribution), the probability is still strictly greater than 1/2.

3 - Since it isn't actually included in the paper or any of the comments, for the sake of completeness I'll write down the computation.

Let P(E) denote the probability of an event E, and W be the event that Player 2 wins by following the strategy suggested in the paper. Let a, b be the smaller, larger number respectively. A is the event that Player 2 picked a, B is the event that Player 2 picked b. Then summing over disjoint events,

P(W) = P(A and W) + P(B and W) = P(W | A)P(A) + P(W | B)P(B)

We have P(A) = P(B) = 1/2. Now let x be the result of Player 2 sampling from their distribution. Given that they picked A, they win if and only if a <= x, so P(W | A) = P(a <= x). Given that they picked B, they win if and only if x < b, so P(W | B) = P(x < b). Therefore,

P(W) = (1/2) [P(a <= x) + P(x < b)] = (1/2) [1 + P( x in [a,b) )]

4 - If I were to show this problem to someone else, I may try to emphasize the potentially adversarial nature of Player 1 and the odds seemingly being stacked against Player 2 by phrasing it like this (although this may be _over_ exaggerated):

*
Player 1 gets to write down any two distinct real numbers on two pieces of paper, and then flips a coin. Player 2 gets to see the number on the left if the coin lands on Heads, the number on the right if the coin lands on Tails. After seeing the number, Player 2 must declare whether they are seeing the smaller or larger number. If Player 2 guesses correctly, they win $1 from Player 1. Otherwise, Player 2 pays $1 to Player 1.

Further, now knowing the rules of the game, both players can choose any particular strategy of playing the game. However, whatever Player 2 chooses as their strategy, they must inform Player 1 of their strategy and not deviate from it when the game is played. Player 1 is allowed to adjust their strategy after hearing Player 2s strategy. Would you prefer to be Player 1 or Player 2?
*

I think worded like that, many peoples first guess might even be Player 1. Then their next answer would be that it doesn't matter, and then they're in for a treat when they see that they should choose to be Player 2!
Looks like OP's colleagues that made an account just to comment, not bots.
But that cost isn’t shouldered on the public, every driver is required to carry insurance and most people also have personal liability in addition to that.

Driving carries risk and at scale that risk will 100% every time manifest as real harm. It’s not about whether the risk is there but whether the gain is worth it. A less politically charged example, ordering your steak rare. There is real risk, and people get sick, a smaller subset get really sick. And yet we do it constantly.
Replying to you and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21166029

It is, and most places that set it up typically require a voided check. I was working as a contractor for a large legacy big data company a couple summers ago and getting paid through their contracting agency. Said contracting agency sent me a check image (of my own check) by email TWICE [0].

I was pissed, had to close that account and re-set-up a bunch of banking stuff, and told them they were going to pay me by check because they clearly hadn't the faintest idea how to handle an account number securely.

Having a system where you can do this yourself online or with an app without sending check images around is so obviously superior it's laughable that we still do it this way in the US.

Lacking a superior system, it's preferable to use a system that doesn't involve trusting a bank account number in an electronic form to a (possibly incompetent) third party.

[0] I'd faxed it to them originally along with my I-9 docs. They couldn't read my passport, so they emailed me the image that also included the check. Nevermind that I'd told them that I would not, under any circumstances, be emailing them that data. Sigh.
I think the laravel upgrade guide is better, you see what might actually break or cause unintended behavior and there's a release notes page with a list of new stuff you can choose to use.

https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/upgrade
There is no evidence at all suggesting it is correct.
I think it's more of a challenge when you have someone who is more skilled as a subject matter expert than as a programmer, which may be the case when you're the tech person or even founder of a small business.

That person may not be doing good unit testing, they might not use the best tools, and find that supporting different configurations may require a lot more manual work rather than maintaining some carefully crafted #ifdefs.

And maybe one person could do it, but one salary they can't justify based on the demand may as well be 100 programmers.
> If you’re not doing a great deal of debugging, it is better to set this to ‘Optimize for Speed’. This will eventually reduce the build time as the compiler will omit the steps of attaching values to the debugger thread.

I would expect this to increase build times.
Citation needed. Feels like a deathtrap sometimes.
money! money! money!

very few of the citations are scientific in nature
Some nice intuitive explanations in there.
Pretty much every country has a standardized form to issue a payment request (e.g. see for example this mobile phone bill from Swiss mobile provider: https://www.salt.ch/media/filer_public/95/7c/957cfb3f-ce55-4... - the orange part).

The payee issues filled out form (it contains name, bank account number and reference) number to whoever needs to pay. The payer then can then go to a kiosk, post office, bank, or mobile bank to scan the form and pay the requested amount. He also gets a receipt automatically.
This is effectively just a normal bank transfer just with a bit more paper trail.

This is pretty much how you pay most of the things - rent, operator bills, expensive item purchases, etc.
> address blacklisting

You need another human to make use of any kind of money. This human will be subject to some governments regulations, so it's entirely possible to implement some form of address blacklisting (in the form of some "due diligence" requirement when receiving money) without a technical solution. No cryptocurrency can escape government control.
It's not regulation that's needed but competition. A good start would be to separate the infrastructure from the data delivery portion of the service like is done for Electricity and Gas. Introducing competition for the delivery portion will drive down rates.
Zurich, a city of 400k, has suburbs housing another 1.2M [1]. People in there also don't use cars: you can have a commute via a bus, train and two trams and nobody will bat an eye.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurich_metropolitan_area?wpr...
I nominate you for HN comment of the day!
From what I gathered talking to Chinese fellas I worked with (in Canada), this is one of the main reasons why Chinese still strongly dislike Japanese people. In a stereotype sort of way.

They also really don’t like discussing this topic and will answer with much hesitation and only if pressed. So it appears to be a wound that didn’t quite heal yet.
filthy
Seems spurious. Could be talented people move to cities with high earning potential—which happen to be walkable. Do the authors control for that?
I worked for a startup that was based on the east coast but trying to build their presence on the west coast. We looked into a lot of options including visiting several WeWork offices to look into having a virtual office or a mailing address at the very least.

We wanted to use WeWork but it was too expensive to be practical for us, and we ended up getting a deal with a local coworking space. I imagine this was the case for most startups looking to start an office out of WeWork.

So I'm inclined to agree with you that the demand was there, but the execution was poor.
> We license hairdressers

I'm broadly in favor of more regulation, as a way to protect consumers. However, this is absolutely not the example I'd choose. Hairdressing licenses (and a lot of similar laws) are overwhelmingly bad regulations which exists to protect a minority of incumbents.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/06/22/155596305/epis...
Whenever I see stuff like

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21164686

I think of

> If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

-- George Orwell

Similar for "brain/machine interface to help paralyzed people", to be perfectly blunt. I don't mean it's all just a cute narrative to get the tech going, but the thought that the same centers of power and wealth, that have no problem bombing people so they're dead or paralyzed or whatever_we_dont_actually_care_besides_PR_fallout, might truly care about helping the paralyzed... I can't buy that, or anything like it.

Most individual researchers, all but very few, have benign intentions and awesome aspirations, I'm sure, but overall, reading and writing the mind is just too temping to not override all the nice words and hopes when it gets within reach and push comes to shove.

I'd say it's a very old desire, which simply hasn't let up. It's not restricted to the US governments or governments in general either, any small cult does it, every abuser in a relationship does, in a low-tech way.
FYI Flutter basically works like a game engine.
Given the high prices in stores, shoplifting is a natural free market alternative. Can you buy shoplifting insurance?
Yes, Uber did use VC to undercut the market. Yes, they went around taxi regulations and labor laws.

But Uber was the first to successfully deliver taxi via app, which did actually transform the world.
One example doesn’t strike me as a glib dismissal, particularly since this study was done in the United States.
> The standard American household with 2.3 kids has everything on the counter near the toaster.

I always, and have always, pulled my toaster out on to a clear portion of the counter before using it, to make sure nothing is too close when it operates.

> And plug it back in every morning? That'd be unnecessarily annoying.

Again, that's how I have always done it.

Growing up, both of these things were considered Toaster Safety 101.
U.S. agency reviews whether 2k Teslas should have been recalled
Worth pointing out that Catalina hasn’t been released yet. There’s a good chance the problem(s) won’t be fixed by then, but it’s a little OTT to gripe about beta software.
This is not an either/or decision. You need to simultaneously prepare for war while pushing diplomacy as far you can take it. The carrot does not work without the stick and the stick shouldn't be used without trying the carrot first.

Sadly, diplomacy can only go so far, and some actors will require being neutralized to solve to problem (see Hitler).

I think the classic example of this is the UK in World War II. They honestly did everything they could to prevent WWII with Hitler including making concessions they probably shouldn't have in the diplomacy phase before resigning themselves that they would have to kill him to solve the problem.
"See George Lakoff’s work in framing. It’s essential in environment of heavy propaganda."

A bit late but thanks for suggesting Lakoff. I'm 1/3 through the video linked by another user and am loving it; it should be dubbed in other languages and spread around.
* Screenflow
Bosun Tijani talks about their acquisition of Kenya's iHub
I am highly skeptical of what this piece is claiming. I doubt it will be as radical as what industrialization did to agriculture a 100 years ago.

I also doubt that it will be 5 times cheaper for the consumer. When you include all the costs, not just productions, but government incentives and environmental costs for examples, one might claim that it will be socially cheaper, eventually... One can hope. It will also be easier to transport the system to another planet.

But, this is very speculative, and the 5-10 years milestone is very very optimistic and probably takes into account some fairy magic dust here and there.
Yeah but has iTunes ever done that to you for music you bought? Streaming catalogues aren’t the same thing.
openmarketcap.com only shows reputable exchanges but there is still a lot of legitimate volume on Chinese exchanges faking their volume such as Okex or Huobi. The real volume is somewhat more than what is reported there on the spot market but not more than double.

In addition to that, one could add the volume on the futures markets which dwarfs the spot market.
I heard a story about a guy who setup a fax machine in the 90's and used it to print money. He would just wait for spam faxes to come in and then he would research the company and send a form letter he had commissioned from his lawyer. It explained the fee the sender would get from the FCC and offered to settle for half that amount. Rumor is that he lived off of the proceeds for a while.
A hard copy for your filing cabinet.
username scotch_drinker :/
In the UK you can get someone's account number (8 digits) and sort code (6 digits) and send them the money electronically. It's convenient but there are several disadvantages compared to a cheque:

* No checksum or other checking possible. If you get a single digit wrong the money will end up in someone else's account and be impossible to recover. If it's a repeat payment then this is somewhat mitigated because your bank will remember the details from last time, and you cannot transfer money to closed or non-existent accounts. Usually for large amounts people transfer a token sum first and ask the receiver to verify it got through. The banks have been asked to set up a system where you get to see the receiver's surname before doing the transfer, but have so far failed to implement it (for years). Not coincidentally, the banks are not liable if you screw up a payment by getting the digits wrong.

* There's a certain amount of fraud associated with it. A common one is the receiver's email account is compromised and you get an email saying to send the money to another account instead (which is the fraudster's account).
What's a 'gentleperson'? You mean 'gentleman'?
The Swedish company Husqvarna used to make toasters that would carefully lower your bred, close the lid, and then carefully bring it back up much like the toaster in the video.

Unfortunately, Ic an't a video of it, or even proper product descriptions (it looks like they discontinued toasters). And yeah, it wasn't as consistent :)
The McKenzie Method can help you say goodbye to back and neck pain
> Visa won't stop your card over a nude Pic on Facebook

Member banks of VISA can. Remember that VISA is a limited-liability partnership founded by banks.
It's longitudinal tax data.

>We 1st identified the relationship between walkability and upward mobility using tax data from approximately 10 million Americans born between 1980 and 1982.
Letter to a friend who just made a lot of money
I think they meant it backwards. Have the hosts file so that wikipedia.org points to the same IP as 0wikipedia.org.
That's technically correct but it misses the whole picture.

For an extreme example--it's a lot easier to gain weight if you regularly stop by the convience store and pick up cookies, chips and a bottle of coke for dinner than if you cook lean chicken and roast vegetables.

Sure you could eat a similar calorie portion of both.
> So, you start out with a system that’s very plastic but not very efficient, and that turns into a system that’s very efficient and not very plastic and flexible.

> It’s interesting that that isn’t an architecture that’s typically been used in AI.

No? That sounds exactly like training a model, then applying the trained model.