skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't compel labor, you don't print money.

vs two sentences later.

> And, yeah, at that point you have a bit of coercion

Which is it? Can you compel a poor peasant farmer to stay on the farmer and grow food because that's what society needs as a right?

> If a home doesn't, they're probably going to be in violation of some kind of law.

Law itself is coercion. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. The only reason we pay taxes for stuff we might not use, like the public education system and libraries, is forced by the threat of violence and imprisonment. Would you be going to jail if you didn't pay the portion of them that went to the military? What do you think happens when you refuse to go to prison?
> well, the business model of the utilities whose bills you pay (nor the bank's) shouldn't be based on advertising??

They shouldn't need it, but from their point of view why on earth wouldn't they sell their customers out at every opportunity if it means more money for them? Companies are amoral monsters who care about nothing but making money. If a company can do something that will make them more money you should expect them do it regardless of how ethical or legal it is.
Most people aren't completely partisan, when given multiple palatable choices. This is less relevant in the US, with its two-party system, but is quite relevant outside of it.
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If anyone in this thread wants to talk RPA, I'm happy to talk your ear off.

At this point, I've been doing it for... about 7 years?

It's been an interesting ride.

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Well, I have some good news for you! You may also be interested in literally every anime that came out after Eva with a city setting.

May I recommend Serial Experiments Lain for more power lines and cicadas goodness? As every Anime sound director knows, those obnoxious bugs are the only available auditory shorthand for "it's summer".
You should look at business operations analyst, UI Path training is on linkedin learning/lynda.com too. I think information management systems too?
Is this diversity not a positive thing in your mind, even in 2019?
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I checked it out, it says each satellite covers area with 550km diameter on the land. That's about a few countries at a time and possibly deep penetration into the larger ones.

They will have to turn off the sattelites over Austria to prevent connections in Turkey.
Me too, but this link works:
https://feld.com/archives/2019/10/whats-your-hobby.html
Even if we insist on preserving traditional hand-counting of counting paper ballots, for good or ill, couldn't we use electronic voting machines to fill out paper ballots?
Ah, but what will this look like from our light polluted cities?
Except permafrost melts into muskeg which is too expensive to farm or build roads on.
Thanks I clearly misunderstood. So it seems the icebergs provided support that the grounded ice did not. How is not exactly clear. Why would icebergs be more supportive than solid ground?
> That same argument gets used for, say, raising cattle, where the water used is quickly cycled out as organics (mostly urine). It doesn't produce the kind of toxic waste that something like a large fabric dyeing operation does.

Actually, it does.[1]

> The argument also doesn't distinguish what the water is used for. Even things like cooling get written off as water "consumed". It's an appeal to emotion, and reeks of fallacy.

The main reason you see all water use lumped together is because the water users do not collect or share figures on discrete uses. Environmentalists would love to have that data.

1. https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/publications/environment-natural-res...
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If instead of liability, you had a regulation mandating the implementation of specific guidelines, they'd use the ones produced by NIST, which until 2017 also recommended password rotation.
I think people do; it's popular enough that many people implement it, not just Tufte-CSS, it was one of the first things I added to gwern.net once I saw it demoed, I believe Medium also does it, and no one's complained to me that they really like the overlapping obscuration.
I wouldn't be so sure. My millionaire uncle built his fortune on medical software, and I have a friend who works in the field with a degree just for it (medical technologies).
To look at the metagame of learning, I highly, highly recommend the Coursera course Learning How To Learn by Barbara Oakley: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn. If you're more into books, she also has A Mind For Numbers, which covers essentially the same material.

For me, the biggest thing is practice, particularly deliberate practice and spaced repetition. For software, any timer will do for pomodoros, and Anki has been a godsend for spaced repetition. The iOS app is expensive at $25, but the ROI has been huge for me.
Let’s take this offline.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts about the current state of tech journalism?
I've been studying the media landscape a lot and 'testing the waters' by sharing articles from a variety of sources to see how people react. I've learned a lot about how people process the world and fact-check, also how people share articles to spread their beliefs.

Here is one example (related to climate instead of tech): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21317269
I can't help but feel that the real text would not be so difficult to guess if you did a Robo Carl Sagan or Robo Ursula LeGuin or Robo almost anyone whose English communication skills would be considered formidable.
What kind of bios or system ROM will it use? OpenFirmware?
So many of these people I knew by name but had no idea what they looked like or at best hadn't seen a photo of them in 20+ years (which is effectively the same thing).

As a photographer, it's always nice to see black&white photos. They have a power and charm that is so different from color.
New Gene-Editing Tool Could Fix Genetic Defects–With Fewer Unwanted Effects
I was similarly thinking of other civilizations. It seems incredible that you could scan your eyes over a few degrees of sky and see a hundred billion other stars, of which some must have life-supportable planets [1].

So my thought process was: have their scientists realized that the Milky Way is going to collide with them in 4B years? Are they already sharing pictures of what it will look like?
More details can be found in Biogen's Aducanumab Update released today:

https://investors.biogen.com/static-files/5a31a1e3-4fbb-4165...
Glad to hear the issue is on Amazon's side. Our team panicked and tried to find every way to resolve this thinking it was possibly a misconfiguration at our end. I hope it's resolved soon. We're receiving complains from many users who are unable to upload their work due to this issue, I will let them know Amazon is on it.
I hope that this pressures companies like Comcast and Verizon where I live, to offer reasonable prices.
Didn't this change in recent years? Hence why Firefox is not distributed via the Mozilla.org domain instead of the .com?
The 18- ad 36-bit architectures weren't esoteric at the time! Though may of them also had bad (outdated, and not-obviously bad at the time) ideas like one's complement arithmetic. Machines like the PDP-10 were a pleasure to program in assembly, but I haven't written a line of assembly code in over a decade.

But I agree the world is full of "slap it together and if it runs once, ship it" software -- that's what gave us Y2K. Time to re-read worse is better.
For me, it was pretty good. I was working at a medical devices company on a new product. Upper management was all too aware of what was happening out in the .com world. They didn't want to risk losing the core developers to .com riches, so a few of us got "shhh, don't tell anyone else" retention bonuses to make it less likely that we'd quit.

It was nice getting free money with no strings attached for a few years while still doing a job I loved. Kinda sucked when the gravy train stopped, though.
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This is exactly the same reason why the International Organization for Standardization is ISO.

Both are unofficial backronyms now: International Standards Organization, Universal Time Coordinates.
Brains not brawn, matter most in the next war and we aren't being smart about it
I work on hCaptcha -- we pay websites for providing data labeling via our captcha. We also provide a mechanism to accept privacypass as a bypass.

There are three major categories of bots:
1) a combinatoric attack hoping to get lucky with an answer
2) employ some amount of smarts to fool the captcha (fetching lots of images without answering anything until they are sure of the answer, replay attacks to mimic human behavior, perceptual hashing of images etc)
3) Anti-Captcha (using people to solve captchas).

We can mostly recognize the first two kinds of attacks, but it is very difficult to stop the anti-captcha humans -- especially without tracking as many features as possible. One of the chief issues with most captchas is that they do not provide epidemic analysis and a webhook/endpoint to inform sites about a user after the initial sign-up. This also requires some amount of user tracking to recognize malicious behavior and retroactively tag and act upon it. Monetizing human activity can somewhat offset costs associated with dealing with these networks of bad accounts later and using privacypass gives the user a mechanism to bypass tracking their activity while also pricing out malicious account signup using anti-captcha.

A privacy-respecting captcha used for monetization also opens up an entirely different opportunity for publishers, offering a lower friction experience for users who want to support online content without privacy invasive advertisements and paywalls.
The textbook case studies would be the break up of Bell Telephone Company [1] or Standard Oil [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil_Co._of_New_Jersey...
You may be interested to know that FPAAs are a thing that does exist.
https://www.anadigm.com/_doc/DS030100-U006.pdf
If it were able to be used via the web, that would be fantastic. In your experience, were most of the quotes as convincing as the ones in the article, or were there some duds to filter out?

Edit: never mind, you answered this question elsewhere in the thread :)
It's not their software that's breaking. It's software that hasn't been updated that's breaking.
I agree but podcasting services often track users now - podcasters use services like ACast to generate unique targeted versions of the podcast mp3 on-download when people use feed managers to download.

When I download a few different podcasts, I get an mp3 with targeted ads inserted in it, and they're presumably connecting IP geolocation info.
> a new Harold Lloyd is unthinkable because physical comedy depends on the proximity and possibility of death

I don't agree with that.

Gwyneth Paltrow is amazing at physical comedy. I can't remember the movie but there's a scene where she's getting out of a cab and she just falls over and it's friggin' hilarious. No death in sight.

Certainly death, properly appreciated, is funny. The only thing more absurd than death is sex.

The reason physical comedy is so physically dangerous is that, generally, it's only funny if you go for it and that naturally causes injuries. Like playing football, or WWE wrestling. Half-assing it isn't going to be entertaining.
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> ML for healthcare.

I'm kind of apprehensive about this advancement. There's many ways to mess this up, from intentional dataset poisoning (to encourage patients to get unnecessary procedure) to just terrible errors made with just a shift in data capture methodology. This paper has a lot of detail on how such systems can fail (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.05296.pdf).
I feel that the reason IRV was repealed in Burlington, was because an independent won, which was not palatable to either the Democrat, or the Republican political machines.

The system worked exactly as intended, the people who usually hold power felt threatened by it, and engaged their political machinery to restore that power.
As long as I stuck to prompts related to politics and things Trump has talked about, it was scary good. I'd imagine fine-tuning on a much larger Trump dataset would continue to improve it.
There is no reason why regulatory bodies cannot be up-to-date with the latest developments.
I agree you should email the site, but i would be careful not to suggest the site is vulnerable unless you have clear evidence of that or you risk not being taken seriously. Just be honest about it. The devs might not want that shit on their sites either, but were told they had to include them in which case they'd probably love to have something to show it's causing users problems.
You are a useless shitbag.
Some usability testing by FairVote suggests that the most usable ranked ballot design usable with existing scanning machines looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/oiBMZ22.jpg
There are some aspects of violence that can come from culture and perhaps aspects of racism or attitudes, as you mentioned in your other link. But its a vast overgeneratlization in my opinion to say that genetics is a core reason. Europeans who came to the us and owned slaves adopted ideas of racism to justify slavery that were different than what europeans chose to do. Britain has a different idea about black people as a whole than the us today, yet they have significant genetic imprint on us. The attitude of white people in certain groups today in the us (like where I'm from, the us south) who have racist attitudes about black people is different than our genetic cousins in europe.

In my background in the south, people want to justify their racism so they just say "I'm not racist, I am just making observations of people's behavior". That's just an excuse for being racist.
“What has been will be again, / what has been done will be done again; / there is nothing new under the sun.”

Ecclesiastes 1:9
Just a quick comment here:

In scale, mobile apps in 2010 and vlogging in 2014 are nothing like social media in 2004.

You can compare social media in 2004 to web searching in 1998 if you know what I mean...
How do you find people who need these things?
Discontent amongst world populations is growing, with wildfire riots increasingly breaking out. The root cause of this discontent is the gross inequality encouraged by (amongst other forces) contrepreneur culture. The near-term world is not going to be hospitable to the uber-rich, fortunately in my view. The world's masses are coming after them.
Can you give an example of an untested tool you have in mind?
Sure, but people were thinking artifact smugglers and shady dealers and Obbink looking the other way, not theft from collections under his own care. Obbink is famous and well-known. He has published some of the most important papyri of the last decade. This is pretty brazen, if true.
We could lower the speed limit in front of every intersection, or we could use light timings that fit the designed speed limit of the road.

One of these is really stupid, and one isn't.
It seems like we might sterilize the Earth ourselves long before the Sun has a chance to.
for our purpose i have two distinct email domains and fwd to both addresses and process which ever hits my servers first.
That might happen, sure, but the point was rather that you just need to look like you're gonna be something to get paid. This will make everyone who wants to start a business at least tempted to spend more time building a facade than an actual business.
They're also noise-sensitive, hard to calibrate, hard to reprogram, and only suitable for a fairly small range of problems. But nevertheless very cool devices.
Yes, you misunderstood the comment to which you were replying. Public roadways serve more than just the properties adjacent to them.

People should not be downvoting your comment.
I work at https://www.agrigateone.com/

We aggregate data for growers and buyers of fresh perishables to better facilitate trades.

Must say agri / food is a fascinating industry to work in.

The tech problems don't seem to be well known or often solved when compared to other industries I've worked in...which is both awesome and frustrating haha
That's fascinating. Now I want to hear Trump talk about spaces vs. tabs
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It's true. I've painted every bike shed on Mars, but none of the ones on Earth
But you also have to consider that most people don't understand it because it's currently not relevant to them. If the system was put in place, I would imagine people who hear a lot more about that strategy.
It's possible to hold an election in which voters write numbers on the ballot papers, next to the candidates' names. The votes can still be counted by computer; that's how Scotland holds elections under Single Transferable Vote.
I worked as a poll worker in San Francisco during the 2016 elections. I answered so many questions about ranked choice voting that I got tired of it by the end of the day. I would guess that more than 50% of voters were somewhat confused. Some of them were so confused that they botched the ballot twice, and had to return to the desk to pick up new ballots. Other times, the voter thought they had filled it out correctly only to have it rejected at the voting machine. These problems definitely increased queue times and size of the waiting line.

Newsom may have other motives but I don't think his explanation is disingenuous.

Edited: "confused" -> "somewhat confused"
Ooh, I had not idea this had a name and people were working on it. Super promising, I agree, though I think a lot of it depends on the expressiveness of the functional primitives, the practical efficiency of partial updates, and the amount of caching that actually gets used in updates when the program is complex.

The big idea that convinced me of its worth is the interface being "build your derived state from scratch". The user never modifies something after-the-fact, it's all versioned "source data" and immutable derived state.

That's the magic that makes Docker and Redux work, in addition to the aforementioned React.
Seeing the same thing
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The first gravitational waves we observed are believed to have been caused by two massive black holes merging.
There is no difference between a black hole of a certain mass and a star of the same mass, gravitationally.

Stars can only get so massive, but black holes can get much much more massive.

But even with supermassive black holes, it doesn’t change the odds of colliding solar systems that much.

There is just way too much space in between to matter.
On the off-chance that humans are around in a billion years, I would hope we'd have learned to manage a planet-sized climate by then, so preventing Earth from turning into Venus should be manageable. Certainly more manageable than surviving another billion years, at least.
Let's start with Community-adjusted EBITDA as far as the more egregious ones go. That was the alarm bell for me.
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Forcing companies to offer stock to employees is not "bestowing collective ownership of private capital". Stock is private ownership by definition. Using that logic the minimum wage is socialism because it enforces a wealth transfer to low-skilled employees.
Facebook uses feature flags all over the place, and I'm excited to see them appear in React's release workflow.

For those who are curious, you can see the feature flags here: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/packages/share...

It looks like the current "experimental" flags relate to a recent change in concurrent mode API, and options to enable server-side rendering with suspense. (Including a feature called "selective hydration", which I'm super curious about..)
My recollection is that PowerPC, like ARM, can be either big or little endian. But, that most OS implementations use little endian. Is that correct?
according to this argument, anyone whose main activiy consists in criticizing the US, is a Russian tool. Alright, then.
For groups of individuals, it is quite possible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_paradox
Infarm https://infarm.com/ offer indoor farming to restaurants and supermarkets. They are opening a lot of new locations in Europe right now (mainly in Germany).
The easiest way to start would be introducing an invisible form field [0] and on submission, checking if it is not empty. Give this form field a random name so that it wouldn't be populated by password managers.

You can take it one step further and check how fast the form was submitted. If it is below the predefined threshold, it is probably a bot.

[0] To hide the form field, you can use one of these snippets, interchangeably:

"display:none;"
"position:absolute!important;top:-9999px;left:-9999px;"
"position:absolute!important;height:1px;width:1px;overflow:hidden;"
> Analog computers making a comeback ? you never know.

Analogue processing may be a superior alternative to GPGPU for implementing neural networks.
> So not only is reform on it's own nearly impossible, it seems impossible to ask reform of people whom got in to power with FPTP.

I mean, it's similar to the problem of reforming a system where the winner of an election gets to pick the winner of the next election.

It's not going to happen, without divine intervention.
Looks like this is 64-bit but big endian. Weird choice when a) POWER has gone little-endian and b) this a system whose form factor implies running a Web browser and the Web requires little-endian ArrayBuffer behavior these days, so not running on a natively little-endian CPU seems inefficient.
> “I feel like that’s maybe one of the reasons I didn’t get it: I spoke a little too naturally. Maybe I didn’t use enough big, fancy words. I used ‘conglomerate’ one time.”

One of the bad outcomes will be if people imagine ways of gaming the system (like using big words, or smiling broadly), and then cargo-cult those into real life.

People are already prone to this, especially when applying for jobs with vague criteria for success like investment banking.

I think if you told people they're being judged by an AI, and then simply decided randomly, they would cook up no end of stories about how it works and what it's looking for.
Native PiP and fullscreen video playback are both available in developer edition on Windows for me and the former has been around for at least a month. I've had fullscreen video playback for years so I'm not sure what the deal is with that one...
Hopefully mac users get both.
Author here. I appreciate that it can seem silly but it is a very real thing I see happening.

I tried to illustrate with some concrete examples. Like being asked about pods and ingress in interviews, which are kubernetes specific. Experience with docker doesn't help much here, gotta keep up with Kubernetes. You could de-facto fail the interview if the interviewer realizes you didn't work with kubernetes but docker alone.

Companies are super biased toward kubernetes. They're really looking for the unicorn with years of kubernetes experience in production.