skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technologists are for hire. They get paid. They need to get paid for something. They do see the future it's creating, some of them build tools (for free) to counter what they or they peers are building.
If by analytics you mean something like a hit counter from the 90s, which doesn't require recording user sessions, then I agree with you. But if it's recording user sessions, I think it's a good idea to require consent for that.
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Why is Wechat missing on that list?
> I don't know why you are downvoted.

I don’t agree with the downvoters at all, but I think it’s fairly obvious why he’s being downvoted: either folks think he’s wrong that such a thing is possible, or folks think he’s right but don’t care (i.e., they think that the society he describes is desirable, or at worst neutral).

I don’t think that his described society is impossible, and indeed we already see a slow, less-regimented version of that playing out.

I cannot emotionally understand someone who would find such a society desirable, but intellectually it kind of makes sense: one needs to be just authoritarian enough to want to control non-violent behaviour, while just naïve enough not to realise that there are aspects of one’s own behaviour which would be controlled, too (i.e., every one of us disagrees with the majority on at least one or two items).
That idea is cool, but not new (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway)

That Chicago shows such a tunnel system may have surprising benefits:

”The tunnel company had a curious secondary business, namely air conditioning, which was accomplished by selling naturally cool tunnel air to theaters above the tunnels. The McVickers, Rialto and four other theaters owned by the same company used tunnel air. Tunnel air was also utilized in the winter, as heating this air required less energy than heating the often much colder outside air.”
Apple iPhone 12 Will Have 5G Connectivity and 5 Nm Processor
curious how do those apps know when you are having deep sleep? also seems that being exhausted works for me as well. thanks for mentioning.
Ask HN: How to find companies that remote ok hire?
Hello!

I’m working now on helping designers find remote work. I collect remote jobs from twenty popular job boards, Twitter, Facebook and Reddit. Sometimes I come across websites of companies that publish vacancies on the Career page, but I don’t understand how to systematically search for such sites and pages. It turns out to find about 15 vacancies in a day, but something tells me that there should be at least 3 times more of them.

Any ideas on how to find more remote jobs?
> Why not simply add an `is_closed` flag and throw an error if it is?

That's a way of doing it at runtime. The article describes catching the error at compile time.
>Microsoft (has or any other company) supports it by having their engineers contribute to it.

If project goes down and maintainers leave the project, Microsoft also loses money spent on their engineers contributing there. They will have to fork the project, put more people on it, waste a lot of time by re-learning code and start contributing. Money and time would be better spent by just donating to current main maintainers.
Silicon Valley Cynicism in the Age of Trump and Zuckerberg
In Germany recording folks without their consent is illegal (or at least not admissible in courts) in many contexts. It is possible to build incentives that don't lead towards mass surveillance.
As someone who heavily used IRC in his childhood I disagree. IRC is pretty much dead. If you want opensource instant messaging then go with Rocketchat or Matrix with Riot.
In my experience, Entheogens and money have a reluctant relationship. A 'psychedlic healing' business immediately sounds concerning to me. I can't find any convincing credentials beyond the author taking these substances at some point in her life. The author lambasts MBAs yet admits they themselves are a marketer. Not to mention, 'psychedelic industry' just sounds wrong.

What's the difference between psychedelics and anti depressants? Psychedelics have a religious component-- no, not the dogmatic, institutionalized sort you find in the likes of the roman catholic church; rather, the kind of spiritual experiences that help you come to terms with your existence, and your demise. More akin to a shaman than a pope.

While I think the world could use 'psychedelic churches' in a manner of speaking, I struggle to reconcile that with anything possesing a profit motive. lofty ideals alone will not lead to enlightenment.
And Vitamin D can help you get that "deep sleep":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWe-feh7Twg
How do you sign up without a phone number?
Bring out the big guns. Time you get you started on Lunesta.
Well, it's not puritanism on Facebook's part. FB would even allow live-casting suicides if it made them a profit without negative press.

But it is Facebook catering to the puritanism of the parents for marketing purposes.
I'm sorry if you feel life isn't working out. There are still many challenges. But the challenges we have are good and true -- most people have more freedom and opportunities than they think. The disadvantaged are often disadvantaged in optimism and confidence -- if we keep telling people that they are oppressed and the world is shit, they might believe it. It is helpful for young brown girls the world over to know that they've never had more opportunity, or more people rooting for their success.

Pessimism has consequences -- and reality is what we make of it.
Misrepresentation is a good way to improve the training data sets for intelligence agencies.
If the title was less click-baity I probably wouldn't have read your article. The article itself was perfect. It was short enough, and it was informative enough. If you want to expand on a subject it's probably better to make a new URL and link to it, or if good articles already exist, link to those.
So I was thinking about something similar to this in the sense of a language where syntax was extendable but with making different choices. I was interested in forming some sort of base lingua franca with additional composable dialects that are available per translation unit. Imagine if you could take go know for sure you don't have any concurrency in a section or the memory management section is missing so no worries about memory management. Increasing expressiveness but also reducing cognitive load to the calling code and its interfaces and nowhere else. Want to run very complicated domain specific code and not have the guy who designs the webserver know anymore than what is nessecary to rout it great. Want to add hot code,io, complexity annotations in the code, Great(Obviously this isn't free you need good tooling and to do sampled profiling and for complexity you need to make choices about what code is complex, etc.But if we're dreaming why not dream big.). Metrics,Explicit resource bounds etc. In this context for the things most people would want i.e. concurrency you would have a readily available dialect that fits 80% of use cases which would be infrequently changed. I don't know if that makes much sense in what you have in mind but I did find what you're doing interesting.
I spoke to Google about their AI that can play at StarCraft 2 Grandmaster level
Most of the actions referred to in the article are mundane: you left your home, you got cash from the ATM, you used the subway, etc. I can't see how that can be used for anything against us.

The real problem is the internet: when we express our political interests online, when we visit certain sites, a profile is built for us about not what we do but what we believe in.
Additionally to the reasons other people cited: less sensible/profitable space.

Sure, it's not like there is no space, but you have to compete with other land use, and it should be sufficiently windy.
The cost/benefit ratio drops.
No, it is not, as far as I know.
To quote one Maciej Cegłowski, "Machine learning is money laundering for bias".
Yep, and it's all down to the squared/cubed law. The thrust that a rocket engine makes at a given operating pressure is proportional to the area of the bell, and so scales with the square of its linear size. The mass scales with the cube of the linear size, and so for a given shape of rocket, doubling the size will multiply the thrust/weight by a factor of 2^2 / 2^3 = 1/2.
Wow this is inspiring thanks for those words of wisdom.
That’s a valid point.

I understand what you are saying even though it is possible for me to nitpick on the semantics. But I get your point and will concede.
You quoted me saying that I'm not as good as them and then you say that my statement is wrong because I'm not as good as them. We seem to be in agreement. Maybe you misread? Anyway that was just a footnote to point towards my generalist nature, because I think that's a fundamental reason why I immediately see these things while for them it takes time to realize. Also to be even more fair towards them, my generalist knowledge around computer controlled gaming goes way beyond StarCraft II as I've written bots for many different games.

My main argument revolves around APM. Oriol Vinyals might be great, but I've also seen him make a statement on video in 2019 [1] how restricting the AI based on average APM during the whole game is reasonable. He has blindspots that someone like me can immediately spot.

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[1] https://www.twitch.tv/videos/369062832
White bread isn't less healthy than any other bread by the way

That's simply not true. Whole wheat bread retains the bran (fiber) and germ (vitamins), while the endosperm in white bread is mainly starch.
Reminds me of Clinkle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinkle
I doubt the methane concentration is high enough for that. The seas tend to be quite windy.
Not too much info in the article itself as it sounds like details for public view are still forthcoming but it's an interesting thing to watch for.
Thank you. A lot of what you have said resonates and you have made your points eloquently and patiently.
Yes you don't need const generics, after all that is what the entire post is about.

I was merely offering a perspective on how the const generics might offer an alternative way to express the same ideas, and possibly change the idiomatic way to write them. Type level values, especially enums, IMHO offer an intuitive way to encode what is going on.
There's no chance that automation will advance such that you only need one pilot. The pilots job is to babysit the machine, hardware and software. And you need two for the obvious reason that sometimes one is incapacitated. More complex software increases the need for two pilots.
Okay, but at this point it sounds pretty much the same as a traditional interview where the candidate discusses their prior experience.
You have it correct. Nearly every major US provider maintains some sort of online interface for law enforcement to submit requests. The level of information provided via these means varies, but they are obligated to respond to legitimate requests with wharever data they have on hand.

Dont like it? Go with a security-minded service like signal. Or, better yet, something totally severless and open source.
DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS Resolver and Forwarder
If we end up Mad Max there likely is no government to take it, or give bonds. Far more chance of having options with a cabin and some land to cultivate deep in the woods, than a bitcoin account somewhere on the internet that thanks to Mad Max no longer actually exists - well technically exists but no one gives a shit about data centres any more...
> the state is a political structure (...) mostly recognized by other states as being such, and with the legitimate recourse to the use of force

What makes it legitimate, except that other states will recognize it? The status quo.

This is why China can crack down on HK, or Spain on Catalonia.

In a sense, it is not much different from organized crime: gangs recognize each other, sometimes fight but most of the time stay within their borders, and exert violence to punish their members that deviated from the rules. The gang members recognize that the use of violence to punish fellow members is legitimate.
Ask HN: How do you choose the best idea to focus on?
I have 4 different ideas in 4 different niches that can disturb those spaces. I'm testing it through customer development and pre-selling it. How do you manage to be focused only on one idea if you see 'sweet spots' in other ones too?
I don’t know why you were downvoted. You are right. I have found this to be true in Japan too.

Homogenous populace = low conflict.
This approach creates a mismatch between singleplayer and multiplayer modes - this means that playing against a computer opponent rewards/requires different strategies than a human; a challenging computer opponent has more income and units but poor usage of them, while a similarly challenging human opponent has less income and units but uses them very differently; so playing against challenging computer opponents doesn't help you improve against other players but possibly is even counterproductive as you learn to adopt strategies that are bad in the other environment.
Then let's work on making IRC better instead of eagerly jumping on a closed, corporate-controlled walled garden.
It is so nice to see this on here. I started frab way back for FrOSCon, a german free and open source software conference (which you should totally attend if you can make it!).

I stopped contributing when I stopped organizing FrOSCon, but thankfully Mario, the current maintainer, has picked it up and he does a tremendous job ever since. Also a big thank you to all contributors.
Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign Should Abandon Facebook Altogether
It’s amazing how useful a tool this is arising from a simple wrapper around a clever data structure. This is an absolutely brilliant example of how reducing a tool to its bare minimum can make it powerful without being difficult. Kudos!
Pros and cons of building your own AI stack
Curious to see more examples
Bitcoin exchange BitMEX leaked thousands of user emails, say reports
Labs64 NetLicensing for GitHub Students
It's not required of me to do so and I'm happy doing it because of my investment in the work. I guess I just want it all - how do I get that please?
What's working for me right now is 'running' up hills. Running not in the 'fast' sense yet but it works.
I found a nice route, 7-8km, 250m up and the same down in three climbs and descents each and will keep running it for now. As I can always increase speed to make it more demanding, it will be fine for a long time most likely.
People donating time often donate other resources too, some of them cost hard cash.
Nice suggestion and something we have been looking into more and more.
Data Dictatorships: The Arms Race to Hack Humankind
Just because people don't write tests and use tooling doesn't mean it doesn't exist!

When I write pipelines I write unit tests for the business logic and integration tests for the overall process.

Whether you use SSIS, Alteryx, Spark whatever you can write tests and you can debug using known inputs, rather than running an entire pipeline to see that is works!

These are my typical thoughts on ETL testing:

https://the.agilesql.club/2019/07/how-do-we-test-etl-pipelin...

https://the.agilesql.club/2019/08/how-do-we-prove-our-etl-pr...

https://the.agilesql.club/2019/09/how-do-test-the-upstream-d...

https://the.agilesql.club/2019/10/how-to-test-etl-processes-...

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Yes - a graph database implemented in Prolog and Rust (the storage layer - better for nitty-gritty bit manipulation). We think it's a great general purpose DB with all sorts of interesting features. Cool stuff coming on the platform, so keep an eye out!
Mobile app marketing: how to do it right in Apple Search Ads
Executing your elected mandate is not embezzlement. Calling a spade a fish does not make it a fish, <i>even if the courts of law in your state agree with you</i>. If the government of Catalonia was not competent to hold a referendum, they should have been dismissed. (The central government in Spain retains that authority.)

If it was not politically possible to dismiss them, then spending public resources on a policy which is the raison d'etre for the governing parties but which is outside the competence of that government should merely be considered a cost of the distribution of power.

Other democracies constantly have disputes about whether such a use of funds is within the competence of a specific government. And they find that, no, it is not within the competence of a specific government. And they manage to cope without charging anyone with embezzlement despite the money having been irrecoverably spent.

If this is too much for Spain, then Spain should remove the statutes of autonomy.
Chase Bank shuts down prominent conservatives https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/chase-bank-conservati...

AirBnB seeks out and blocks people going to the American Renaissance conference https://gizmodo.com/airbnb-doesnt-want-extremists-on-its-pla...

Credit cards cancel payments to "hate" groups https://nypost.com/2017/08/16/credit-cards-are-clamping-down...

These are all political censorship against people or groups that aren't doing anything illegal, and the standards are applied differently based on ideology rather than any objective standard.
Driving license tests just got smarter in India with Microsoft’s AI project
QR codes can also encode binary data. With structured append it's even possible to encode larger amounts of data as a series of QR codes. Open source decoders don't seem to support these features though. Could've been a great way to transfer small files.
We actually have a rather poor understanding of long term effects of radiation. We have decent models for amounts of radiation that kill you over weeks, but long term low dose exposure is poorly understood.
Perhaps you could speak of a Jewish nation, which is defined mostly by religion? But I don't think it's done in general: Catholics in Canada and the Netherlands aren't considered members of the same nation, they just happen to share a religion.
> But if we are nearly as observed and documented as any person in history, our situation is a prison that, although it has no walls, bars, or wardens, is difficult to escape.

The defining characteristic of a prison is a loss of freedom. What is it that you want to do that these technologies are preventing you from doing?

It's unlikely that we're going to put the technology genie back in the bottle. Instead we need to preserve freedom by sharply curtailing government and corporate power, and demanding radical transparency from any organization that is collecting data.
I don't use WhatsApp. But if they have an official backdoor, then it's not really e2e encrypted. Until now I thought, at least the official statement was, WhatsApp is truly e2e encrypted. Just that.
>Population growth is vital for the world economy.

This is silly. As long as income per capita is good and people are happy does it matter if there are few less?
I Tried to Transplant the Musical Heart of Apocalypse Now (2015)
Speak and Spell is the first educational toy I remember using as a child. There was also a Speak & Math that I was lucky enough to own too.

In hindsight, it was probably my first introduction to basic computing and programming. I now run a software development company.

The guys who decided to pursue the creation of these devices positively impacted the lives of so many children. What a lovely story.
Even 'Goldilocks' exoplanets need a well-behaved star
This is affecting our GKE nodes - all nodes created in the last 8 hours don't have any network connectivity.

Anyone found a workaround? It's crazy there has been no real update yet (other than saying Our engineering team still investigating the issue. every hour)
Universities with Technical Writing Programs
Sorcerer's apprentice mode and busting ghosts
I should clarify: The fan was broken.
MySQL Workbench Review
Maybe not everyone will know this but Typestate was one of the original 'headline features' of Rust when Graydon Hoare started it. It was based on the Strom/Yemeni paper[0] for the NIL language. There's a mention of in this SO answer from 2010[1] and in the LtU discussion[2].
I'm not sure why it was de-emphasised, I think it didn't work as well as anticipated in the 'real world'

[0]: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/papers/classic/tse12-typestat...

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3210025/what-is-typestat...

[2]: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4009
> Tip bar staff [...] Scan and shop anywhere [...] digital public transportation cards

The thing that surprises me here isn't the success of QR codes, but the failure of NFC (and to a lesser extent Bluetooth) which was practically designed for paying with your phone.

How did NFC lose out to QR codes at the application it was designed for? Was it a reliability problem? Were the APIs too locked-down for anyone to be able to work with them?
Microsoft's censorship of GitHub will affect Bitcoin
Will it be a Python project that will take the prize of EUR 5000 in 45 days?
What throughput do you think you could attain with manual scan ?
YouTube’s algorithm helped a Chinese propaganda video on Hong Kong go viral
They do not offer e2e encryption and as we all know, China government does not believe in privacy.
RIP TypeScript Playground
I like the idea but I think it would be more useful it it was more reliable. Ignore all types of speed requirements and make it super reliable then it could actually be useful in special circumstances.

Receiving the audible sound did not work at all in any browser.

Receiving the ultrasonic (that is not very ultrasonic at all clearly hearable) did work in chrome and firefox.

Sometimes it figured out that there had been a message but not what it was. (saying missing packets)

Sending worked from all browsers.
Transcript of Peter Thiel's Landmark Speech at the NCC in July 2019
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:N_mJxa0TR94J:https://americanmind.org/essays/the-star-trek-computer-is-not-enough/